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20090101817 | CHARGED PARTICLE APPLICATION APPARATUS - The present invention provides a highly sensitive, thin detector useful for observing low-voltage, high-resolution SEM images, and provides a charged particle beam application apparatus based on such a detector. The charged particle beam application apparatus includes a charged particle irradiation source, a charged particle optics for irradiating a sample with a charged particle beam emitted from the charged particle irradiation source, and an electron detection section for detecting electrons that are secondarily generated from the sample. The electron detection section includes a diode device that is a combination of a phosphor layer, which converts the electrons to an optical signal, and a device for converting the optical signal to electrons and subjecting the electrons to avalanche multiplication, or includes a diode device having an electron absorption region that is composed of at least a wide-gap semiconductor substrate with a bandgap greater than 2 eV. | 04-23-2009 |
20120155301 | Wireless Network System and Wireless Communication Device - A wireless communication device includes a sensor processing unit that generates sensor data including a measurement result acquired by a sensor; a communication measurement unit that generates communication quality data including a communication state for transmitting a packet; a compression determination unit that determines compression rates of first sensor data and first communication quality data according to the contents of the first sensor data including the transmitted sensor data and the generated sensor data or the contents of the first communication quality data including the transmitted sensor data and the generated communication quality data; a compression unit that compresses the first sensor data and the first communication quality data according to the determined compression rates; and a wireless communication unit that transmits a packet including the compressed first sensor data and the compressed first communication quality data to another wireless communication device or the access point. | 06-21-2012 |
20120257653 | ANTENNA BEAM SCAN UNIT AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING ANTENNA BEAM SCAN UNIT - An antenna beam scan unit includes: a Rotman lens that performs power division and synthesis between plural antenna ports and three or more beam ports; plural antenna elements which are connected to the respective antenna ports and to or from which radio waves are inputted or outputted; plural amplifiers that are connected to the respective beam ports of the Rotman lens and perform amplitude modulation on a signal; input paths for a transmission signal disposed in association with the amplifiers; switches for switching the input paths; and a beam control unit. The input paths include first paths and second paths on which a signal that is out of phase with a signal on the first paths is produced. The beam control unit selects two adjoining beam ports, and can switch the first paths and second paths as the input paths for the two beam ports. | 10-11-2012 |
20130333617 | PLASMA PROCESSING APPARATUS - A plasma processing apparatus is provided in which film formation to a part other than a process target is suppressed, and a film formation process to the process target can be uniformly performed. The plasma processing apparatus includes a high-frequency power supply for plasma generation, a surface discharge type discharge electrode including two kinds of electrodes in one dielectric surface of a dielectric layer. The process target is brought into close contact with a discharge-surface-side surface of the discharge electrode, and a plasma is generated in a vicinity of a front surface of the process target. When a height of a surface of the dielectric layer just above the electrode is H2, and a height of a surface of the dielectric layer between the electrode and the electrode is H1, H1>H2 is established. | 12-19-2013 |
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20090015622 | Liquid property detection device, liquid container, image forming device, and liquid property detection method - A liquid property detection device includes: an electromotive force obtaining unit that obtains an electromotive force which is generated between two electrodes in a liquid container, the two electrodes formed by metals having respectively different ionization tendencies, and the liquid container containing a liquid so that the liquid is in contact with the two electrodes; a storage unit that stores a table showing correspondence between a property of the liquid contained in the liquid container and the electromotive force; a property determination unit that determines the property of the liquid contained in the liquid container on the basis of the electromotive force obtained by the electromotive force obtaining unit and the table stored in the storage unit; and an output unit that outputs information corresponding to the property determined by the property determination unit. | 01-15-2009 |
20110018554 | INCLINATION DETECTION METHOD AND INCLINATION DETECTION APPARATUS - An inclination detection method is disclosed, which uses a pair of electrodes placed so as to face each other and having a fixed positional relation and an electric conductor which can move between the pair of electrodes, wherein the pair of electrodes is in either a conducting state or a nonconducting state depending on the position of the movable electric conductor, the conducting state in a predetermined period is expressed as any one of a plurality of level values, and a movement state of the pair of electrodes is estimated based on which of the plurality of level values the conducting state takes on. | 01-27-2011 |
20110098979 | DETECTING METHOD AND DETECTING APPARATUS - A detecting method employing a first sensor and a second sensor, includes: first processing for detecting, on the basis of an output value of the first sensor, a predetermined state defined in advance; second processing for starting the second sensor according to the detection of the predetermined state; and third processing for generating interpolation data from an output value of the first sensor in a predetermined time until the second sensor becomes capable of outputting a measurement value after being started. | 04-28-2011 |
20110196626 | MOTION STATE DETECTING METHOD AND MOTION STATE DETECTING APPARATUS - A motion state detecting method using a detector, detecting one of a conducting state and a non-conducting state according to a movement of an object, includes: first processing to measure either a first number of times, indicating the number of times of change from the conducting state to the non-conducting state per unit time or a second number of times that is the number of times of change from the non-conducting state to the conducting state per the unit time; and second processing to regard either the first number of times or the second number of times as a change determination value and change a length of the unit time based on the change determination value; wherein a proportion of time of the conducting state per the unit time or the non-conducting state per the unit time is changed by changing the length of the unit time. | 08-11-2011 |
20110202304 | MOTION STATE DETECTION METHOD AND MOTION STATE DETECTOR - A motion state detection method which uses a pair of electrodes, facing each other to fix mutual positional relationship, and a movable spherical conductor disposed between the pair of electrodes, putting the pair of electrodes into either a conduction state or a non-conduction state, includes: defining a plurality of level values determined by the proportion of a duration of the conduction state in a unit time period and calculating a level value in the unit time period among the plurality of level values as a first level value; adding a second predetermined value to the first level value to calculate a second level value; and calculating the sum of squares of a plurality of first level values in a plurality of consecutive unit time periods as a first detection value and calculating the sum of squares of a plurality of second level values as a second detection value. | 08-18-2011 |
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20080240722 | COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - A transmission device that includes: a radio signal transmission processing section that transmits a radio carrier wave overlaid with transmitting information after being modulated by pulse position modulation; an optical signal transmission processing section that transmits an optical carrier wave overlaid with the transmitting information after being modulated by the pulse position modulation; and a baseband processing section that modulates the transmitting information in accordance with the pulse position modulation of shared use with the radio signal transmission processing section and the optical signal transmission processing section. | 10-02-2008 |
20130033707 | POLARIZATION STATE MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND POLARIZATION STATE MEASUREMENT METHOD - An optical apparatus has a light detecting section which detects light and emits transmitted light where linearly polarized light, which is converted by a polarizing section, is transmitted through a subject. In addition, the optical apparatus has an orthogonal separating section which orthogonally separates the emitted light from the light detecting section and a light reception section which receives light which is orthogonally separated by the orthogonal separating section. A calculation apparatus outputs a rotation control signal to a rotation apparatus and rotation controls the light detecting section so that the rotation plane is orthogonal with regard to an optical path of the transmitted light. Then, the calculation apparatus measures the polarization state of the transmitted light, which is transmitted through the subject S using the intensity with which the light, is received by the light receiving section. | 02-07-2013 |
20150177068 | LIGHT MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND LIGHT MEASUREMENT METHOD - A light measurement apparatus includes a polarizing optical element, an orthogonal separating section, a light reception section, a rotation control section and a polarization state measuring section. The polarizing optical element converts detection light to linearly polarized light. The orthogonal separating section orthogonally separates the linearly polarized light into orthogonally separated lights. The light reception section receives the orthogonally separated lights. The rotation control section rotates the polarizing optical element so that a rotation axis extends along an optical path of the detection light. The polarization state measuring section measures a polarization state of the detection light using intensities of the orthogonally separated lights. | 06-25-2015 |
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20140038829 | SUPERCONDUCTING THIN FILM MATERIAL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - A superconducting thin film material exhibiting excellent superconducting properties and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. A superconducting thin film material includes a substrate, and a superconducting film formed on the substrate. The superconducting film includes an MOD layer formed by an MOD process, and a gas-phase-formed layer formed on the MOD layer by a gas-phase process. Since the MOD layer is formed first and then the gas-phase-formed layer is formed in this manner, degradation of the properties of the gas-phase-formed layer due to heat treatment in the step of forming the MOD layer (heat treatment in the MOD process) can be prevented. | 02-06-2014 |
20150105261 | OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTING THIN FILM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An oxide superconducting thin film wherein nanoparticles functioning as flux pins are dispersed in the film is provided. The oxide superconducting thin film wherein the nanoparticles in the oxide superconducting thin film have a dispersing density of 10 | 04-16-2015 |
20150162518 | SOURCE MATERIAL SOLUTION FOR FORMING OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTOR - A source material solution for forming an oxide superconductor is provided, the source material solution being used for forming on a substrate an RE 123 oxide superconductor into which flux pinning points are introduced, using a coating-pyrolysis process. Nanoparticles of a predetermined amount for forming pinning points are dispersed in the solution in which an organometallic compound is dissolved for forming the oxide superconductor. The nanoparticles have a particle size of 5 to 100 nm. The organometallic compound is an organometallic compound containing no fluorine. Accordingly, even in an FF-MOD process, the material for pins can easily be added, a treatment for thermally decomposing a metal complex and a heat treatment for generating a pin compound are unnecessary, and the particle size of the pins can suitably be controlled. | 06-11-2015 |
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20090128645 | IMAGING DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGING DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGING ELEMENT - A device is provided for taking high resolution still pictures while recording video without pausing video recording. Plural channels are provided for reaching pixel values from a CMOS sensor, and the output of each channel is input to a corresponding A/D conversion circuit. The channels are configured so that the pixels that are added together are read simultaneously. The data added by the pixel value adder is used as the video data for video recording. When a still picture is captured during video recording, the pixel data is stored in memory with capacity to store one frame, and is sequentially output from the image sensor as the still picture data. | 05-21-2009 |
20090244307 | IMAGE ENCODING METHOD AND DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND IMAGING DEVICE - An image encoding method is for obtaining, from a pixel data string containing pixel values of a plurality of pixels in a pixel array where the pixels are arrayed, a pixel data string containing a quantized representative value into which at least one of the pixel values is encoded. Encoding is performed by allocating a specific quantized representative value when a pixel value of a pixel is a specific pixel value, and by allocating a quantized representative value other than the specific quantized representative value when the pixel value is other than the specific pixel value. | 10-01-2009 |
20100002005 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Achieved are suppression of image-quality deterioration caused by an incorrect motion vector and suppression of flicker in video without causing adverse effects such as image blur. A video display apparatus performs multi-level gradation display by controlling light emission of subfields into which one field displaying a picture is divided, the video display apparatus comprising: an image processing unit configured to calculate a motion vector of the picture; a reliability value calculation unit configured to calculate a reliability value of the calculated motion vector; and a subfield display control unit configured to determine a subfield control pattern based on the calculated reliability value, and to control the light emission according to the determined subfield control pattern. | 01-07-2010 |
20120163788 | Stereoscopic Imaging Device - Stereoscopic imaging device that can take stereo images with the parallax between the left and right eyes being accurately established is afforded. The stereoscopic imaging device ( | 06-28-2012 |
20120163789 | Optical Element Holder and Stereoscopic Imaging Device Utilizing the Holder - Afforded is an optical element holder allowing high-accuracy stereo images to be taken. The holder includes: a rectangular parallelepiped beam splitter ( | 06-28-2012 |
20120163790 | Stereo-Image Photographing Apparatus - A stereo-image photographing apparatus enabling readily, short time-span realization of lens-barrel optical-axis adjustment in left- and right-eye imaging devices is afforded. The apparatus includes: a beam splitter having an incident surface of rectangular form, on which imaging light from a photographic subject is incident, an optically functional surface that reflects first imaging light, being a portion of incident imaging light, in a direction paralleling the shorter side of the rectangular form and that passes second imaging light being the remaining portion of the incident imaging light, a first light-exit surface through which the first imaging light exits, and a second light-exit surface through which the second imaging light exits; a first lens barrel directly facing the first light-exit surface; a second lens barrel directly facing the second light-exit surface; a first imaging device mounted on the first lens barrel; and a second imaging device mounted on the second lens barrel. | 06-28-2012 |
20120163791 | Stereoscopic Imaging Device - A small-sized stereo-image taking apparatus that includes a small-sized beam splitter for splitting in two the imaging light from a photographic subject and that makes it possible to take both telephotographic-range and wide-angle-range images is afforded. The stereo-image taking apparatus includes: an optical element having an optically functional surface splitting in two the imaging light from a photographic subject; first and second telescopic lens barrels having telescoping functionality; first and second imaging devices mounted on the first and second telescopic lens barrels, for generating first and second images on the basis of first and second imaging light constructing images through the first and second telescopic lens barrels; and first and second moveable sections causing the first and second imaging devices to parallel-shift optical-axis-wise in accordance with extension/retraction of the first and second telescopic lens barrels. | 06-28-2012 |
20150097930 | STEREO CAMERA - A first camera for capturing an image of a subject, a second camera for capturing an image of a subject, an optical component disposed on an optical path when the first camera images a subject, and on an optical path when the second camera images a subject, and an adjuster for adjusting a distance between an optical axis of the first camera and an optical axis of the second camera by moving at least one of the first camera and the second camera horizontally are included. The adjuster can move at least one of the first camera and the second camera horizontally in a wider range when a zoom ratio of the first camera and the second camera is a first ratio than when the zoom ratio is a second ratio that is lower than the first ratio. | 04-09-2015 |
20150098132 | SPLIT UNIT - A split unit capable of providing a stereoscopic image having less laterality is provided. The split unit includes: a beam splitter which transmits first imaging light as a part of light incident on an incident surface of the beam splitter, and reflects second imaging light as another part of the light incident on the incident surface; and a reflecting member which reflects the second imaging light reflected by the beam splitter. At least one of a reflectance of the reflecting member and a beam splitting characteristic of the beam splitter is set based on the following formulae: | 04-09-2015 |
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20120148444 | ALUMINUM ALLOY CASTING AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - There is provided an aluminum alloy casting consisting essentially of 7.0 to 11.5 mass % of Si, 0.9 to 4.0 mass % of Mg, 0.1 to 0.65 mass % of Fe, 0.1 to 0.8 mass % of Mn and the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities, or consisting essentially of 7.0 to 11.5 mass % of Si, 0.9 to 4.0 mass % of Mg, 0.1 to 0.65 mass % of Fe, 0.1 to 0.8 mass % of Mn, 0.3 to 1.0 mass % of Cu and the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities, and containing eutectic Si grains having an aspect ratio of 2.0 or smaller and an average grain size of 1.0 micrometer or smaller. There is also provided an automotive part formed with the aluminum alloy casting and a production method of the aluminum alloy casting. | 06-14-2012 |
20140166162 | ALUMINUM ALLOY SHEET AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - An aluminum alloy sheet includes an aluminum alloy substrate having a composition containing, by mass percentage, 3.0 to 4.0% of magnesium, 0.2 to 0.4% of manganese, 0.1 to 0.5% of iron, not less than 0.03% but less than 0.10% of copper, and less than 0.20% of silicon, with the remainder being aluminum and unavoidable impurities. A peak concentration of a copper concentration distribution in a thickness direction in a region at a depth of 15 nm to 200 nm from the surface of the aluminum alloy substrate is equal to or more than 0.15%, and the aluminum alloy substrate has a recrystallized structure with an average grain size of 15 μm or less. | 06-19-2014 |