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| 20080217184 | Method and Apparatus for Producing Ti Through Reduction by Ca - An apparatus for producing Ti by Ca reduction by the invention includes a reaction tank retaining a molten salt in which a molten salt CaCl | 09-11-2008 |
| 20090048005 | MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal includes: a first body including an operation part; a second body including a display; and a connector which rotatably connects the first body and the second body. The connector is connected to the first body, and rotates with respect to the first body about a first rotating shaft. The connector is connected to a lateral end of the second body, and rotates with respect to the second body about a second rotating shaft orthogonal to the first rotating shaft. A first fitting portion is formed on a connected surface of the connector to be connected with the second body. A second fitting portion which is fitted to the first fitting portion, is formed on the second body. When the second body relatively rotates about the second rotating shaft to overlap the connector on the connected surface, the first fitting portion fits to the second fitting portion. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090211916 | Method and apparatus for producing metal by electrolysis of molton salt - A process for production of a metal includes a step of filling a metal chloride in an electrolysis vessel having positive and negative electrodes, a step of heating and fusing the metal chloride to make an electrolytic bath, and a step of electrolyzing the electrolytic bath to deposit metal on the negative electrode in a solid state. In addition, in an apparatus for production of a metal in which a metal chloride is filled in an electrolysis vessel having positive and negative electrodes, the metal chloride is heated and molten to make an electrolytic bath and the electrolytic bath is electrolyzed to deposit the metal on the negative electrode in a solid state, the electrolytic bath is divided into an electrolysis chamber and a dissolution chamber by a dividing wall, the positive electrode is arranged in the electrolysis chamber, the negative electrode is arranged to enable orbital movement in a circle through the electrolysis chamber and dissolution chamber, and the metal deposited on the negative electrode in the electrolysis chamber is separated and recovered in the dissolution chamber. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20100020497 | SUBSTRATE STRUCTURE - It is intended to provide a substrate structure ensuring a shielding property and a heat discharge property of a resin part that collectively covers a plurality of electronic components and capable of downsizing, thinning, and a reduction in number of components. The substrate structure | 01-28-2010 |
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| 20090037007 | GUIDANCE REPORT DEVICE, GUIDANCE REPORT INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, GUIDANCE REPORT METHOD, AND GUIDANCE REPORT PROGRAM - A guidance issuing device has a guidance sound storage unit for storing a guidance sound set every guidance, a sound volume setting unit for setting the volume of the guidance sound, a sound volume storage unit for storing the volume set by the sound volume setting unit, and an output unit for outputting the guidance sound at the set volume level corresponding to the guidance sound of the sound volume storage unit. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090128311 | SAFETY-DRIVE ASSISTANCE DEVICE - The present invention is to provide a safety-drive assistance device that can judges whether a driver recognizes an object to which a driver should pay an attention or not even if an accuracy of detecting a visual-line direction is almost equal to one degree. A traffic environment detecting unit | 05-21-2009 |
| 20110199462 | PARALLAX CALCULATION METHOD AND PARALLAX CALCULATION DEVICE - Disclosed is a stereo camera that implements ranging of an object that includes consecutive similar patterns. In stereo matching using the stereo camera, if a plurality of corresponding point candidates are present in an SAD or suchlike evaluation value distribution for a target point, an evaluation value map is generated by superimposing an evaluation value distribution of a target point for which a plurality of corresponding points are determined to be present and an evaluation value distribution of each other target point present in a peripheral area of that target point. By this means, the shape of an object is represented in real space around a target point for which a plurality of corresponding points are determined to be present, and it is possible to calculate the true distance of a railing or the like that extends in a straight line by extracting a line segment with the strongest linearity in the evaluation value map. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20120026295 | STEREO IMAGE PROCESSOR AND STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A stereo image processor ( | 02-02-2012 |
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| 20090027567 | Projection display apparatus - The present invention provides a projection display apparatus realizing easy recognition of the effect of registration adjustment. The projection display apparatus includes: a light source; a spatial light modulation device modulating, on the basis of a video signal, each of primary color lights for color display emitted from the light source; projecting means for projecting, onto a screen, each of the primary color lights modulated by the spatial light modulation device; and correcting means for correcting, based on a given correction value, the video signal for each of the primary color lights so as to reduce misregistration between the primary color lights projected on the screen, and supplying the corrected video signal to the spatial light modulation device. Validation/invalidation of correction on the video signal by the correcting means is switched in accordance with an operation from the user. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090027568 | Projection display apparatus - A projection display apparatus includes: a light source; a spatial light modulation device modulating, on the basis of a video signal, each of primary color lights for color display emitted from the light source; projecting means for projecting, onto a screen, each of the primary color lights modulated by the spatial light modulation device; and correcting means for correcting, based on a given correction value, the video signal for each of the primary color lights so as to reduce misregistration between the primary color lights projected on the screen, and supplying the corrected video signal to the spatial light modulation device. The correcting means is configured to correct the video signal according to a single correction value such that a group of correction target points selected in a projected image on the screen are collectively processed as a single correction unit. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090027569 | Projection display apparatus - The present invention provides a projection display apparatus realizing improved operability at the time of registration adjustment irrespective of a use situation of the apparatus. In the case where misregistration occurs between primary color lights, video signals for three colors are corrected (registration adjustment is performed) so as to reduce the misregistration in accordance with an input adjustment value. An image inverting process is performed on an input video signal so that the image is inverted in a display screen. By a configuration by the user, the image is properly inverted in the display screen. When the image inverting process is performed, an adjustment value, with a sign different from that in the misregistration direction in a coordinate system where the image is not inverted, is input by an operation on the display screen. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20100035547 | Video transmission apparatus and switch control method of output destination by video transmission apparatus - The present invention provides a video transmission apparatus including an input terminal input with a video signal; an output terminal wire connected to a video device; a wireless communication unit for modulating the video signal through a predetermined wireless modulation method and wirelessly transmitting the modulated video signal; an output switch unit, connected with the input terminal, the output terminal, and the wireless transmission unit, for switching an output destination of the video signal input from the input terminal to the output terminal or the wireless transmission unit; and a switch controller for causing the output switch unit to switch the output destination of the video signal in response to a switch request when receiving the switch request of the output destination by the wireless communication unit. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100037280 | Video transmission apparatus, video transmission system, and reproduction control method by video transmission apparatus - The present invention provides a video transmission apparatus including a connection terminal to which a video reproduction device is connected; a wireless transmission unit for wirelessly transmitting a video signal input through the connection terminal; a transmission quality detection unit for detecting transmission quality of when wirelessly transmitted by the wireless transmission unit; and a reproduction control unit for controlling the video reproduction device to stop the reproduction of the video when degradation of the transmission quality is detected and to resume the reproduction of the video when the transmission quality is recovered. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20110194393 | RECORDABLE OPTICAL DISK, RECORDING DEVICE, RECORDING METHOD, AND REPRODUCTION DEVICE - The present invention is to realize a proper inner zone layout in an optical disk having at least three layers. A test area is provided in the inner zone (inner circumference side area) in each of recording layers. The test areas of each layer are so disposed as to be prevented from overlapping with each other in the layer direction. Furthermore, the number of management information recording/reproduction areas overlapping with the test area in the layer direction at a position closer to the laser-incident surface than this test area is set equal to or smaller than one in each test area of each recording layer. The management information recording/reproduction areas are each so disposed as to be prevented from overlapping with the test areas in the respective recording layers in the layer direction on the disk substrate side of the test areas. | 08-11-2011 |
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| 20110046275 | AQUEOUS COLORANT DISPERSION, METHOD OF PRODUCING AQUEOUS COLORANT DISPERSION, AND AQUEOUS INK FOR INKJET RECORDING - An aqueous colorant dispersion includes a colorant (A), a polymer (B) having an acid value of 85 mgKOH/g or higher, and an aqueous liquid medium (I), wherein the polymer (B) is a copolymer including at least one hydrophobic structural unit (a) which contains an aromatic ring linked to an atom in the main chain of the polymer (B) via a linking group, and comprising at least one hydrophilic structural unit (b) at a content of from 12% by mass to 20% by mass relative to the entire mass of the polymer (B), wherein the content of the aromatic ring is from 10% by mass to less than 21% by mass relative to the entire mass of the polymer (B). | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110074867 | AQUEOUS PIGMENT DISPERSION, INK COMPOSITION, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An aqueous pigment dispersion including: (A) a pigment; (B) a dispersion polymer having a neutralization degree of from 50% to 90% and a solubility of from 0.2 g to 0.8 g per 5 ml of water (25° C.), and containing an acidic group and a hydrophobic structural unit (a) having an aromatic ring linked via a linking group to an atom included in a main chain, a content ratio of the aromatic ring being from 10% by mass to less than 20% by mass based on a total mass of the polymer; and (C) a water-based liquid medium. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110242199 | INK SET AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - Disclosed is an ink set including: an ink composition containing at least water, a pigment, and a resin at least partially coating a surface of the pigment and having a structural unit represented by the following Formula (1) and a structural unit having an ionic group; and a treatment liquid containing a cationic polymer having reactivity to the pigment at least partially coated with the resin, | 10-06-2011 |
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| 20090014663 | CHARGED-PARTICLE BEAM WRITING METHOD - The present invention provides an electron beam writing method capable of suppressing a variation in position to be irradiated with an electron beam due to its drift and writing a predetermined pattern. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090084990 | CHARGED-PARTICLE BEAM WRITING APPARATUS AND CHARGED-PARTICLE BEAM WRITING METHOD - A timing control circuit controls the timing for applying a voltage to a sub deflector when changing a position to be irradiated with the charged-particle beam. A control computer compares a target line width and a line width of a pattern written with the timing for applying voltage to the sub deflector changed, and determines appropriate timing for applying voltage to the sub deflector from a timing range corresponding to a predetermined allowable range of the difference between the target line width and the line width of the written pattern. The control computer then controls the timing control circuit based on the determined timing. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090242807 | CORRECTING SUBSTRATE FOR CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM LITHOGRAPHY APPARATUS - A correcting substrate for a charged particle beam lithography apparatus includes a substrate body using a low thermal expansion material having a thermal expansion lower than that of a silicon oxide (SiO | 10-01-2009 |
| 20100178611 | Lithography method of electron beam - A charged particle beam writing method on a chemical amplification type resist, comprising: coating said chemical amplification type resist which contains an acid diffusion inhibitor, on a surface of a mask substrate, exposing charged particle beams to said chemical amplification type resist layer on said surface of the mask substrate, baking said chemical amplification type resist layer which said charged particle beams were exposed, and developing said chemical amplification type resist after the baking, wherein an exposure current density of said electron beams exposing ranges of 50 | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100288939 | METHOD OF DETERMINING MAIN DEFLECTION SETTLING TIME FOR CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM WRITING, METHOD OF WRITING WITH CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM, AND APPARATUS FOR WRITING WITH CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM - An electron beam is moved a long distance along a straight line from a sub-deflection region | 11-18-2010 |
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| 20100078070 | SOLAR BATTERY - A solar battery, which contains a transparent conductive layer having an average transmittance of 80% or more with an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength of 1,100 nm to 2,000 nm, and a sheet resistance of 20 ohm/sq. or less, in which the transparent conductive layer contains metal nanowires. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100078197 | METAL NANOWIRES, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND TRANSPARENT CONDUCTOR - The present invention provides metal nanowires containing at least metal nanowires having a diameter of 50 nm or less and a major axis length of 5 μm or more in an amount of 50% by mass or more in terms of metal amount with respect to total metal particles. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100078602 | METAL NANOWIRE-CONTAINING COMPOSITION, AND TRANSPARENT CONDUCTOR - The present invention provides a metal nanowire-containing composition containing at a least metal nanowire and a heterocyclic compound having an interaction potential of less than −1 mV. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20110070548 | SILVER HALIDE PHOTOSENSITIVE MATERIAL AND PROCESS OF PRODUCING BLACK AND WHITE IMAGE USING THE SAME - Disclosed is a silver halide photographic photosensitive material which includes a support and at least one silver halide photosensitive layer on the support, wherein the average equivalent sphere diameter of the silver halide of the silver halide photosensitive layer is 0.30 μm or less, the silver halide photosensitive layer includes four or more kinds of silver halide grains having mutually different average equivalent sphere diameters, and the thickness between a surface of the support at a side at which the silver halide photosensitive layer is provided and a surface of the silver halide photosensitive layer at a side opposite to the support is 10 μm or less. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20120088189 | CONDUCTIVE COMPOSITION, TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE FILM, DISPLAY ELEMENT AND INTEGRATED SOLAR BATTERY - To provide a conductive composition including: a binder, a photosensitive compound, metal nanowires, and a solvent, wherein the solvent has a solubility parameter value of 30 MPa | 04-12-2012 |
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| 20100007827 | WIRE-GRID POLARIZER, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE WIRE-GRID POLARIZER, RETARDATION FILM AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE RETARDATION FILM - A method for producing a wire-grid polarizer includes the steps of preparing a resin film including a concave part formed thereon, the concave part having a submicron-sized grating pattern, the resin film having a visible light transmittance of 80% or more; filling the concave part with an electroconductive nano-material having an average diameter equal to or smaller than one-half of an average line width of the concave part; and removing the electroconductive non-material which has not been filled into the concave part. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100046071 | LATENT IMAGE FORMING FILM, LATENT IMAGE IDENTIFYING KIT AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING LATENT IMAGE - A latent image forming film comprising: a reflective layer; and a polarization converting and rotating layer placed on a surface of the reflective layer, the polarization converting and rotating layer changing an ellipticity of polarized incident light and concurrently rotating a polarization direction of the polarized incident light. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20120018705 | ORGANIC EL ELEMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A method of manufacturing an organic EL element having a corrugated structure, the organic EL element comprising a transparent supporting substrate, a transparent electrode, an organic layer, and a metal electrode, the method comprises the steps of: laminating on the transparent supporting substrate a curable-resin layer having concavity and convexity formed thereon in a periodic arrangement in a way that a curable resin is applied onto the transparent supporting substrate, the curable resin is then cured with a master block being pressed thereto, and thereafter the master block is detached; and obtaining an organic EL element by laminating on the curable-resin layer the transparent electrode, the organic layer, and the metal electrode individually so that a shape of the concavity and convexity formed on a surface of the curable-resin layer can be maintained. | 01-26-2012 |
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| 20090140999 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROGRAMS USED THEREIN - In an information-processing apparatus employing a coordinate input unit such as a touch panel, processing of explicitly reporting the state of an operation carried out by the user to the user is carried out in order to present a result of the operation to the user. In the information-processing apparatus employing the coordinate input unit and a display unit integrated with the coordinate input unit, in accordance with the type of an operation carried out by the user on the coordinate input unit, the apparatus issues a notice for verifying the state of the operation as well as a result of the operation and avoiding an incorrect operation to the user. To put it concretely, in the configuration of the information-processing apparatus, by outputting a display detectable by the visual sense, a sound or a vibration pattern in accordance with the number of times contact with the coordinate input unit has been made during an operation or in accordance with the state of sustaining such contact, it is possible to verify whether a tap operation or a drag operation has been carried out as intended by the user. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20100054702 | Information processing device, information processing method, and program - An information processing device performing a process of correcting a difference in time information between section boundaries of contents data of recording contents and section boundaries of independently acquired metadata of the recording contents is disclosed, which includes: difference calculating means for calculating a time difference candidate, which is a candidate for time correction, as a correction time for matching a predetermined section boundary of the metadata with that of the contents data; evaluation value calculating means for calculating an evaluation value indicating a degree of match of the section boundaries of the contents data and the metadata; and correction means for correcting the difference in time information using the time difference candidate having a highest evaluation value among the evaluation values calculated for the time difference candidates of all combinations of the section boundaries of the metadata and the contents data, as the correction time of the time information. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100253486 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROGRAMS USED THEREIN - A method for displaying information includes detecting an input to a surface of a display, the input commanding a predetermined operation; determining a type of operation commanded based on the input; performing a command corresponding to the type of operation; and notifying a user of the type of operation by emitting a sound or vibration pattern associated with the type of operation. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20110050616 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROGRAMS USED IN INFORMATION-PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information-processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention allows the user to select one of a plurality of input operation modes of the absolute coordinate input unit. One of the input operation modes is a specific mode allowing a display range to be moved to a desired position in a state where the highest resolution of a display unit integrated with the absolute coordinate input unit is lower than the resolution of an entire screen. The information-processing apparatus has a configuration in which, when an operation face of the absolute coordinate input unit is touched to carry out a drag operation in this specific mode, the distance of a movement made in the drag operation is detected, and the position of the display range is then changed by moving the display range by the detected distance. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20120089538 | SERVER RESERVATION METHOD, RESERVATION CONTROL APPARATUS AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing device including a communication interface that exchanges data with a first device and a second device; and a processor that performs authentication of the first device; receives content data from the first device via the communication interface; and controls the communication interface to send the content data in real time to the second device based on an access control setting, which indicates a restriction on sending the content data. | 04-12-2012 |
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| 20090057954 | SOLUTION CASTING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A casting dope is cast onto a moving peripheral surface to form a casting film. The casting film is cooled to be hardened or solidified. The casting film is peeled from the peripheral surface by a peeling roller to form a primary wet film. The primary wet film is transported to a transfer section. The primary wet film is sent from the transfer section to a first drying chamber. Wet gas containing water vapor is applied to the primary wet film in the first drying chamber. Water molecules are absorbed into the primary wet film. The water molecules absorbed into the primary wet film expand meshes of network structure of polymer molecules of the primary wet film. The diffusion of liquid compounds contained in the primary wet film is accelerated. Thus, the elimination of the liquid compounds can be facilitated. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090085244 | METHOD FOR REMOVING SOLVENT FROM POLYMER SOLUTION - A dope containing a TAC and solvent is prepared in a dope producing apparatus. In a case where a new dope having components different from that of the dope described above is produced, a controlling device performs controlling such that an operation of each pump is stopped, each valve is set to a closing position, and a hopper stops supplying the TAC. Thereafter, a washing liquid is introduced into the respective devices of the dope producing apparatus. The dope remained in the respective devices are discharged as a waste liquid together with the washing liquid. The waste liquid is heated in dry gas until a liquid level of the waste liquid turns into a falling-rate drying state in a dry heating chamber provided in a solvent removing device. In a wet heating chamber, the waste liquid is heated in wet gas. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090127736 | SOLUTION CASTING METHOD AND SOLUTION CASTING APPARATUS - A casting film is formed by releasing a casting dope onto a moving circumferential surface. The casting film is cooled to obtain self supporting property. A peel roller peels the casting film as a primary wet film and sends the primary wet film to a transfer section. Through the transfer section and the like, the primary wet film is guided to a first drying chamber where a wet gas containing water vapor is blown onto the primary wet film. Water molecules are absorbed in the primary wet film. Absorption of the water molecules in the primary wet film promotes diffusion of the constituent compounds contained in the primary wet film, which facilitates release of constituent compounds. | 05-21-2009 |
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| 20100025569 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME, AND IMAGING DEVICE - A solid-state imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate including a pixel portion having a photoelectric conversion portion and a peripheral circuit portion; a first sidewall composed of a sidewall film and disposed on each sidewall of gate electrodes of MOS transistors in the pixel portion; a second sidewall composed of the sidewall film and disposed on each sidewall of gate electrodes of MOS transistors in the peripheral circuit portion; a first silicide blocking film composed of the sidewall film and disposed on the photoelectric conversion portion and a part of the MOS transistors in the pixel portion; and a second silicide blocking film disposed on the MOS transistors in the pixel portion so as to overlap with a part of the first silicide blocking film, wherein the MOS transistors in the pixel portion are covered with the first and second silicide blocking films. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100176273 | Image pickup element and image pickup device - An image pickup element includes a light-receiving portion having a matrix arrangement formed by disposing first-direction arrays, each having photoelectric conversion portions arranged in a first direction with a predetermined gap maintained therebetween, in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and micro-lenses provided above the light-receiving portion. A certain first-direction array in the matrix arrangement is provided with a pair of photoelectric conversion portions that optically receive, via a pair of micro-lenses, photographic-subject light beams passing through a pair of segmental regions in an exit pupil of a photographic optical system, the pair of segmental regions being disposed biasedly in opposite directions from each other in the first direction. The pair of micro-lenses is disposed such that light axes thereof extend through vicinities of edges of the pair of photoelectric conversion portions, the edges being the farthest edges from each other in the first direction. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100177205 | Image pickup element and image pickup device - An image pickup element includes a light receiver having a matrix arrangement formed by disposing first-direction arrays, each having photoelectric converters arranged in a first direction with a gap therebetween, in a second direction orthogonal thereto, and micro-lenses above the light receiver. In the matrix arrangement, a certain first-direction array has two first photoelectric converters receiving, via two micro-lenses, photographic-subject light passing through two segmental regions in an exit pupil of a photographic optical system, and a certain second-direction array has two second photoelectric converters receiving photographic-subject light passing through two segmental regions in the exit pupil. Light axes of the two micro-lenses extend through vicinities of edges, farthest from each other in the first direction, of the first photoelectric converters. The first photoelectric converters include two photoelectric converters that flank one photoelectric converter, disposed at an intersection between the certain first-direction and second-direction arrays, in the certain first-direction array. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100224951 | Solid-state imaging device, method for producing the same, and electronic apparatus - A solid-state imaging device includes: a peripheral circuit element formed on a semiconductor substrate having an image sensing area where an image sensing element that captures an image of an object is provided and a peripheral area located on the periphery of the image sensing area, the peripheral circuit element being in the peripheral area; a plurality of insulation films formed to cover at least the peripheral circuit element; and a contact plug formed in a contact hole through the plurality of insulation films and above the peripheral circuit element in such a manner that the contact plug is electrically connected to the peripheral circuit element; the plurality of insulation films including a first insulation film, and a second insulation film formed to cover the first insulation film, the contact hole being formed by etching the second insulation film so as to remove a portion thereof where the contact hole is to be formed, and then etching the first insulation film so as to remove a portion thereof where the contact hole is to be formed, the first insulation film being formed to serve as an etching stopper layer during etching of the second insulation film, the first insulation film also being formed to cover a portion where the contact hole is to be formed above the peripheral circuit element, with portions other than the portion where the contact hole is to be formed above the peripheral circuit element being exposed. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100245656 | Imaging device and focus detecting method - An imaging device includes an image pickup device having an arrangement of photoelectric converting units, the arrangement in which a plurality of pairs of photoelectric converting units are arranged along a predetermined direction, each pair of photoelectric converting units receiving light beams of a subject passing through partial areas in a pair that are lopsided in reverse to each other along the predetermined direction in an exit pupil of a shooting optical system, and a focus detector for performing focus detection of a phase-difference detecting technique according to data obtained from the pair of photoelectric converting units in the arrangement of the photoelectric converting units. The focus detector corrects the data according to a correction amount corresponding to a positional shift amount from the normalized position, and performs focus detection of the phase-difference detecting technique according to the corrected data. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20110273581 | IMAGE PICKUP ELEMENT AND IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE - A technology of a phase-difference detecting image pickup element that can precisely detect a focus by a phase difference detection method and that can be properly produced even if pixels are becoming finer is provided. An image pickup element of an image pickup device includes an AF pixel pair | 11-10-2011 |
| 20120104479 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME, AND IMAGING DEVICE - A solid-state imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate including a pixel portion having a photoelectric conversion portion and a peripheral circuit portion; a first sidewall composed of a sidewall film and disposed on each sidewall of gate electrodes of MOS transistors in the pixel portion; a second sidewall composed of the sidewall film and disposed on each sidewall of gate electrodes of MOS transistors in the peripheral circuit portion; a first silicide blocking film composed of the sidewall film and disposed on the photoelectric conversion portion and a part of the MOS transistors in the pixel portion; and a second silicide blocking film disposed on the MOS transistors in the pixel portion so as to overlap with a part of the first silicide blocking film, wherein the MOS transistors in the pixel portion are covered with the first and second silicide blocking films. | 05-03-2012 |
