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20090009477 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electronic apparatus includes a display unit, a base chassis, a screen displaying section, and operation controlling means. The display unit includes a display region. The base chassis is made of a transparent material and includes a first region that extends outward from at least one end on a circumference of the display unit, the first region provided with one of a plurality of vertically-arranged operation buttons and a plurality of horizontally-arranged operation buttons used for operating a driving circuit. The screen displaying section displays an operation screen in the display region of the display unit, the operation screen displayed in association with a position of each of the plurality of operation buttons. The operation controlling means controls an operational input to the operation screen made by using the plurality of operation buttons. | 01-08-2009 |
20090009944 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electronic apparatus includes a display unit, a driving circuit, and a base chassis. The driving circuit is configured to drive the display unit. The base chassis is made of a transparent material and includes a first region that extends outward from at least one end on a circumference of the display unit, the first region provided with an operation button used for operating the driving circuit. | 01-08-2009 |
20090079593 | Keyboard apparatus, electronic apparatus, and method of producing the keyboard apparatus - A keyboard apparatus includes: a plurality of keys; a switching section that detects depression of each of the keys; a top cover that is integrally formed with a partitioning portion separating adjacent keys from each other; a frame member that includes a plurality of key receiving portions which, in a case where the frame member is attached to the top cover, support the keys in a manner that the keys are placed in spaces surrounded by the partitioning portion; a first coupling section that couples the top cover with the frame member; and a second coupling section that couples a first surface portion of the keyboard apparatus including the switching section, with a second surface portion of the keyboard apparatus including the top cover and the frame member with which the top cover is coupled by the first coupling section. | 03-26-2009 |
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20080218622 | Image Pickup Camera - An image pickup apparatus includes a photographing optical system; a photographing preparation manipulation judgment device; a photographing implementing manipulation judgment device; a timer adapted for counting a time period from outputting of a signal from the photographing preparation manipulation judgment device to outputting of the signal from the photographing implementing manipulation judgment device; a focus driving device for changing a focused state of an object by changing a positional relation of the lens relative to an image pickup face; an auto focusing (AF) data detector for detecting AF data representative of a distance face up to the object or the focused state of the object; a time-series AF data collector for driving the AF data detector at an interval of a present time period and obtaining the AF data in a chronological manner; and an object movement presumption calculator for presuming changes in distance of the object from the time-series AF data calculating focus moving amount. When the time counted by the timer is not larger than the preset time period, auto focusing operation is implemented based on the focus moving amount calculated by the object movement presumption calculator. | 09-11-2008 |
20110216237 | BODY STRUCTURE OF IMAGING APPARATUS - A camera body ( | 09-08-2011 |
20110298970 | CAMERA BODY, IMAGING UNIT MOUNTED/REMOVED ON/FROM THE CAMERA BODY AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus comprising an imaging unit in which an optical system and an imaging device are provided, a camera body formed with a concave portion on/from which the imaging unit is mounted/removed, the imaging apparatus photographing the subject image by mounting the imaging unit on the camera body, wherein the concave portion includes three walls of a back wall portion, a side wall portion, and an upper wall portion, viewed from the subject side in a direction of an optical axis of the optical system, wherein the apparatus includes a locking member and a locking member to be locked, wherein an unlocking member for unlocking a lock of the camera body and the imaging unit by means of the locking member is disposed in an intersection portion of the side and upper wall portions, and wherein at least three wall portions which compose the concave portion, are opened. | 12-08-2011 |
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20110206429 | Image forming apparatus - An image forming apparatus including a color toner image forming unit that forms a color toner image on a recording medium; a first colorless transparent toner image forming unit that forms a first colorless transparent toner image on the color toner image; a first fixing unit that fixes the image on the recording medium; a gloss level increasing device that increases a gloss level of the entire image on the recording medium that has been fixed; a second colorless transparent toner image forming unit that forms a second colorless transparent toner image on the image whose gloss level has been increased; and a second fixing unit that fixes the second colorless transparent toner image on the recording medium. | 08-25-2011 |
20120063819 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - After at least one toner image is transferred to a medium to which an image is transferred from at least one of a plurality of image forming stations used, at least one toner image is transferred from at least one of the rest of the image forming stations, and this transfer operation is repeated a plurality of times to transfer toner images to the medium to which an image is transferred. In this manner, the toner images on the medium to which an image is transferred are formed using a desired number of color toner including a transparent toner. In addition, the order in which the transparent toner is transferred from the image forming station that is used for the transparent toner and toner other than the transparent toner is transferred from image forming stations in which the transparent toner is not used can be freely or automatically selected. | 03-15-2012 |
20120082829 | TONER, PRINTED MATERIAL, METHOD OF PREPARING PRINTED MATERIAL AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING VARNISH APPLICATION MEANS - A toner including a petroleum wax, wherein the petroleum wax comprises a paraffin wax having a polarity. | 04-05-2012 |
20120105915 | CONTROLLER AND HALFTONE DOT SIGNAL GENERATING METHOD CAPABLE OF CONTROLLING GLOSSINESS OF IMAGE - An image glossiness controller has a main component color specifying unit that identifies a prescribed component color and output identification information thereof. A change in amplitude of a convexoconcavity of a toner layer of the prescribed component color is greatest among those of the other component colors when each of the component color toner is formed and fixed alone. Three or more halftone dot signal generators convert clear toner image information into three or more binary clear toner image signals corresponding to three or more component colors per component color pixel using multiple halftone dot characteristics, respectively. Each of the multiple halftone dot characteristics generating three or more binary clear toner image signals has a reversed phase from that generating three or more binary component color image signals. | 05-03-2012 |
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20110049629 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - To provide a technique capable of achieving improvement of the parasitic resistance in FINFETs. In the FINFET in the present invention, a sidewall is formed of a laminated film. Specifically, the sidewall is composed of a first silicon oxide film, a silicon nitride film formed over the first silicon oxide film, and a second silicon oxide film formed over the silicon nitride film. The sidewall is not formed on the side wall of a fin. Thus, in the present invention, the sidewall is formed on the side wall of a gate electrode and the sidewall is not formed on the side wall of the fin. | 03-03-2011 |
20110081753 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device is provided for improving the reliability of a semiconductor device including a MISFET with a high dielectric constant gate insulator and a metal gate electrode. A first Hf-containing insulating film containing Hf, La, and O as a principal component is formed as a high dielectric constant gate insulator for an n-channel MISFET. A second Hf-containing insulating film containing Hf, Al, and O as a principal component is formed as a high dielectric constant gate insulator for a p-channel MISFET. Then, a metal film and a silicon film are formed and patterned by dry etching to thereby form first and second gate electrodes. Thereafter, parts of the first and second Hf-containing insulating films not covered with the first and second gate electrodes are removed by wet etching. At this time, a wet process with an acid solution not containing hydrofluoric acid, and another wet process with an alkaline solution are performed, and then a further wet process with an acid solution containing hydrofluoric acid is performed. | 04-07-2011 |
20110215423 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND A MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - There are provided a semiconductor device which can be miniaturized without being deteriorated in characteristics, and a manufacturing method thereof. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a main surface, a source region and a drain region formed apart from each other in the main surface, a gate electrode layer formed over the main surface sandwiched between the source region and the drain region, a first conductive layer formed so as to be in contact with the surface of the source region, and a second conductive layer formed so as to be in contact with the surface of the drain region. A recess is formed in the main surface so as to extend from the contact region between the first conductive layer and the source region through a part underlying the gate electrode layer to the contact region between the second conductive layer and the drain region. | 09-08-2011 |
20120244694 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE - Provided is a manufacturing method of semiconductor integrated circuit, which is effective when applied to a processing technique for a gate electrode or the like. In the patterning of a gate stack film having a high-k gate insulating film and a metal electrode film in a memory region, etching for a cut region between adjacent gate electrodes is performed first using a first resist film and, after the first resist film that is no longer needed is removed, etching for a line and space pattern is performed using a second resist film. | 09-27-2012 |
20120319209 | Semiconductor Device Having Mixedly Mounted Components with Common Film Layers and Method of Manufacturing the Same - A metal gate electrode and a poly-silicon resistance element are mixedly mounted in the same semiconductor substrate. The metal gate electrode is formed on a first gate insulating film and includes a first gate metal film and a first gate silicon film. The poly-silicon resistance element includes a silicon film pattern formed on a laminated pattern which includes a first laminate insulating film, a first laminate metal film, and a second laminate insulating film. The first laminate insulating film and the first gate insulating film are formed from a common insulating film; the first laminate metal film and the first gate metal film are formed from a common metal film, and the silicon firm pattern and the first gate silicon film are formed from a common silicon film. In a planar view, a footprint of the silicon film pattern is included within the second laminate insulating film. | 12-20-2012 |
20130264644 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - On a semiconductor substrate having an SOI region and a bulk silicon region formed on its upper surface, epitaxial layers are formed in source and drain regions of a MOSFET formed in the SOI region, and no epitaxial layer is formed in source and drain regions of a MOSFET formed in the bulk silicon region. By covering the end portions of the epitaxial layers with silicon nitride films, even when diffusion layers are formed by implanting ions from above the epitaxial layers, it is possible to prevent the impurity ions from being implanted down to a lower surface of a silicon layer. | 10-10-2013 |
20140342539 | Semiconductor Device Having Mixedly Mounted Components with Common Film Layers and Method of Manufacturing the Same - A metal gate electrode and a poly-silicon resistance element are mixedly mounted in the same semiconductor substrate. The metal gate electrode is formed on a first gate insulating film and includes a first gate metal film and a first gate silicon film. The poly-silicon resistance element includes a silicon film pattern formed on a laminated pattern which includes a first laminate insulating film, a first laminate metal film, and a second laminate insulating film. The first laminate insulating film and the first gate insulating film are formed from a common insulating film; the first laminate metal film and the first gate metal film are formed from a common metal film, and the silicon firm pattern and the first gate silicon film are formed from a common silicon film. In a planar view, a footprint of the silicon film pattern is included within the second laminate insulating film. | 11-20-2014 |
20140377889 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A semiconductor device manufacturing method which eliminates the possibility that when a film is processed several times, a thin photoresist film is made over a pattern used as an alignment mark, etc. and the pattern is exposed from the photoresist film and removed in a processing step, in order to improve the reliability of a semiconductor device. Patterns used as alignment marks, etc. are linear trenches as openings in a conductive film made over a semiconductor substrate, thereby preventing the photoresist film over the conductive film from flowing toward the openings in the conductive film. | 12-25-2014 |
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20080279570 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus, which includes a plurality of image forming portions transferring a yellow image, a magenta image, a cyan image, and a black image formed on a plurality of photoconductor drums to a sheet conveyed on a conveying belt, a marking unit forming marks on the conveying belt, a detecting unit detecting the marks with three or more sensors aligned in a direction normal to a direction in which the sheet is conveyed, a calculating unit calculating an amount of color misalignment in accordance with results detected by the detecting unit, and a correcting unit correcting the color misalignment in accordance with the calculated amount of color misalignment, wherein the calculating unit calculates an amount of skew difference in accordance with results detected by two sensors among the three or more sensors, wherein one sensor of the two sensors is disposed on one end of the three or more sensors and the other sensor of the two sensors is disposed on the other end of the three or more sensors, wherein the correcting unit corrects the skew difference in accordance with the calculated amount of skew difference. | 11-13-2008 |
20140072315 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming unit that forms toner images based on image data on first image carriers; a second image carrier, on which the toner images formed on the first image carriers are transferred; a second image forming unit that transfers the toner images transferred on the second image carrier onto a transfer medium; a test pattern generating unit that generates a test pattern group with a predetermine length in a moving direction of the second image carrier; and an adjusting unit that determines a method to adjust an image formation condition for the first image forming unit using the test pattern group, based on a relationship between the predetermined length and a length of an image area, in which a print image based on the image data is formed, in a sub-scanning direction corresponding to the moving direction of the second image carrier. | 03-13-2014 |
20140072316 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE CORRECTING METHOD, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, IMAGE CORRECTION UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus includes: at least one first image carrier configured to carry an electrostatic latent image thereon; an image writing unit; a second image carrier configured to move along a transfer position facing to the at least one first image carrier; a first transfer unit provided opposite to the at least one first image carrier; a second transfer unit configured to transfer the subject image to a transfer material; a test pattern detection unit configured to detect the test pattern image; a control unit configured to correct an image forming condition of the subject image based on a result from the detection of the test pattern image, wherein the test pattern image is provided on the second transfer unit at an area being out of the image forming area and being at the same range as the subject image in a scanning direction. | 03-13-2014 |
20140072351 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR PERFORMING IMAGE CORRECTION USING THE SAME AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus comprising: at least one first image carrier; an image writing unit configured to write the electrostatic latent image including a test pattern; a second image carrier configured to move along a transfer position facing to the at least one first image carrier; an image forming unit configured to transfer the subject image transferred on the second image carrier to a transfer material; a detector configured to detect the test pattern image; and a controller configured to correct an image forming condition of the subject image, wherein during a period from the detection of the test pattern to the writing a subsequent subject image, the controller calculates a correction amount of a correction matter, and reflects the calculated amount in the image forming condition of the subject image. | 03-13-2014 |
20150054902 | OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND OPTICAL SCANNING METHOD - An optical scanning device includes a light source emitting light to form an image by optical scanning; and a control section generating a control signal, which is for turning on and off the light source, based on an image signal. Further, the control section generates a pulse signal having a redetermined time width when the image signal indicates that the light source is to be turned off. | 02-26-2015 |