| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080219591 | Recording medium storing image processing program and image processing method - An image processing program causes a computer to execute the following steps. A first step reads data of a first image and data of a second image which are generated by imaging a common object under natural light and have different contents of specular reflection components. A second step generates an output image which gives a different visual impression of the object than the first image and the second image, based on difference data of the specular reflection components extracted from the first image and the second image. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20090185046 | Camera and Image Processing Program - To insert an inserting-image at an appropriate position of image data by providing an imaging unit imaging an image of an object and generating the image data, a recognizing unit performing face recognition processing on the image data and generating distribution information which represents a distribution of a main object in an image of the image data, and a decision unit determining an inserting position to insert the inserting-image into the image data based on at least one of the distribution information and contrast information of the object. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20100260438 | Image processing apparatus and medium storing image processing program - There are provided an image processing apparatus and a storage medium storing an image processing program capable of easily refurbishing a photographed image by performing retouching on the image regardless of a type or a size of a retouch target included in the photographed image, by being provided with an object database storing a plurality of objects which are capable of being overlapped as to cover a part of the photographed image and include an image and a three-dimensional object model of material body forming a spontaneous boundary with the photographed image, a retrieving unit retrieving at least one of the objects from the object database based on a characteristic of the scene of the photographed image, and a composition unit performing a composition by overlapping an image representing at least one of the objects being selected with the photographed image as to cover a part of the photographed image. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20110234818 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT CONTAINING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing device includes: an evaluation unit that evaluates a plurality of images by designating predetermined image characteristics as an evaluation index; an image processing unit that executes image processing, which will affect the evaluation index, on at least one image among the plurality of images; and an image selection unit that selects an image with superiority in an evaluation value calculated in correspondence to the evaluation index, among the plurality of images evaluated by the evaluation unit by factoring in application of the image processing by the image processing unit. | 09-29-2011 |
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| 20080219871 | Scroll Compressor - A scroll compressor is provided which has favorable assembling property, does not require a thrust bearing, has a bearing structure for bearing a compression section at both sides thereof and has a simple structure of a scroll. The scroll compressor includes a compression section | 09-11-2008 |
| 20090185936 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor is provided which has favorable assembling property, does not require a thrust bearing, has a bearing structure for bearing a compression section at both sides thereof and has a simple structure of a scroll. The scroll compressor includes a compression section constituted of an orbiting scroll which is provided in a closed container, and in which volutes are substantially symmetrically formed on both surfaces of an orbiting base plate, and a main shaft is penetrated through and fixed to a center portion thereof, and a pair of fixed scrolls and that have the main shaft penetrated through and are placed on both the surfaces of the orbiting scroll, and have volutes which correspond to the respective volutes to respectively form compression chambers, and a motor which is provided in the closed container and drives the main shaft, a suction pipe which is provided in the closed container, and after a suction gas is introduced into the closed container and cools the motor, causes the gas to be sucked into the compression section, and a discharge pipe which is provided in the closed container and discharges the suction gas compressed by the compression section. | 07-23-2009 |
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| 20090094826 | CONTACTING COMPONENT, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME, AND TEST TOOL HAVING THE CONTACTING COMPONENT - A contacting component has a probe contact formed by plating and adapted to be contacted with a target portion. The contacting component includes an insulating substrate, a conductive circuit formed on one surface of the insulating substrate, and the probe contact is made of a conductive material and formed on the other surface of the insulating substrate. The conductive circuit and the probe contact are electrically connected in a through hole penetrating the insulating substrate. The probe contact includes a bump contact of a convex shape, the bump contact is formed by plating and having a surface which has a shape of a semispherical protrusion to be contacted with the target portion. The bump contact is made of a material containing a metal and carbon, the content of carbon falling within a range between 0.2 at % and 1.2 at %, both inclusive. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20110080186 | CONTACTING COMPONENT, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME, AND TEST TOOL HAVING THE CONTACTING COMPONENT - A contacting component has a probe contact formed by plating and adapted to be contacted with a target portion. The contacting component includes an insulating substrate, a conductive circuit formed on one surface of the insulating substrate, and the probe contact is made of a conductive material and formed on the other surface of the insulating substrate. The conductive circuit and the probe contact are electrically connected in a through hole penetrating the insulating substrate. The probe contact includes a bump contact of a convex shape, the bump contact is formed by plating and having a surface which has a shape of a semispherical protrusion to be contacted with the target portion. The bump contact is made of a material containing a metal and carbon, the content of carbon falling within a range between 0.2 at % and 1.2 at %, both inclusive. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110199111 | CONTACTING COMPONENT, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME, AND TEST TOOL HAVING THE CONTACTING COMPONENT - A contacting component has a probe contact formed by plating and adapted to be contacted with a target portion. The contacting component includes an insulating substrate, a conductive circuit formed on one surface of the insulating substrate, and the probe contact is made of a conductive material and formed on the other surface of the insulating substrate. The conductive circuit and the probe contact are electrically connected in a through hole penetrating the insulating substrate. The probe contact includes a bump contact of a convex shape, the bump contact is formed by plating and having a surface which has a shape of a semispherical protrusion to be contacted with the target portion. The bump contact is made of a material containing a metal and carbon, the content of carbon falling within a range between 0.2 at % and 1.2 at %, both inclusive. | 08-18-2011 |
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| 20090214104 | PATTERN IMAGE CORRECTING APPARATUS, PATTERN INSPECTION APPARATUS, AND PATTERN IMAGE CORRECTING METHOD - The present invention provides an apparatus and method for correcting an inspection reference pattern image in order to properly inspect a pattern image of a specimen. The pattern image correcting apparatus is characterized by including: a first pattern synthesizing unit for synthesizing an assist pattern image and a pattern image to be inspected, thereby generating a pattern image to be inspected with an assist pattern; an assist pattern shift processor; a second pattern synthesizing unit for synthesizing the shifted assist pattern image and the inspection reference pattern image, thereby generating an inspection reference pattern image with an assist pattern; a model generating unit for generating a position shift model by using the pattern image to be inspected with the assist pattern and the inspection reference pattern image with the assist pattern; and a correction pattern image computing unit for correcting the inspection reference pattern image. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090245619 | IMAGE DENSITY-ADAPTED AUTOMATIC MODE SWITCHABLE PATTERN CORRECTION SCHEME FOR WORKPIECE INSPECTION - An image correction device for use in a pattern inspection apparatus is disclosed, which has automatic adaptability to variations in density of a pattern image of a workpiece being tested. The device is operable to identify a two-dimensional (2D) linear predictive model parameters from the pattern image of interest and determine the value of a total sum of these identified parameters. This value is then used to switch between a corrected pattern image due to the 2D linear prediction modeling and a corrected image that is interpolated by bicubic interpolation techniques. A pattern inspection method using the image correction technique is also disclosed. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20100247085 | AUTOMATIC FOCUS ADJUSTING MECHANISM AND OPTICAL IMAGE ACQUISITION APPARATUS - In an automatic focus adjusting mechanism, a test sample having a patterned surface is mounted on a mount table, and an light beam passing through a slit formed in a field stop is applied to the patterned surface of the test sample. The light beam reflected from the test sample is split into two segment light beams. Focus adjusting aperture stops having respective apertures formed rhomboid are provided across the optical paths of the segment light beams. The amounts of the segment light beams passing through the rhomboid apertures are detected by light receiving units. Based on the difference between the detected light amounts, the position of the mount table is controlled by the focus adjusting unit. | 09-30-2010 |
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| 20100284694 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND REPEATER - A repeater includes a variable optical attenuating unit that collectively attenuates WDM optical signal input, an optical-attenuation adjusting unit that adjusts attenuation in the variable optical attenuating unit, and an optical amplifying unit that collectively amplifies and outputs the WDM optical signal collectively attenuated, to a downstream side. An optical-attenuation adjusting unit includes an input level detector; an output level detector; an output-level transmitting unit that receives information of a signal level of WDM optical signal output by a repeater at an upstream side and transmits information of a signal level of the WDM optical signal detected by the output level detector to a repeater at a downstream side; and an attenuation amount controller that controls the variable optical attenuating unit by calculating an attenuation amount thereof based on information of a signal level detected by the input level detector and a signal level received by the output-level transmitting unit. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100287449 | FEC FRAME STRUCTURING DEVICE AND FEC FRAME STRUCTURING METHOD - An FEC frame structuring device includes a multi-lane distributing unit that distributes a data frame to be transmitted to n lanes, FEC coding units each performs FEC coding of the distributed data frame independently for each of the n lanes to generate an FEC frame, a multiplexing unit that multiplexes the FEC frame from the FEC coding units by relating to m channels of an optical signal, a demultiplexing unit that demultiplexes the m channels of the received optical signal by relating to the n lanes, FEC decoding units each performs FEC decoding of the demultiplexed FEC frame independently for each of the n lanes, and a multi-lane synchronizing unit that synchronizes the n lanes with each other after the FEC decoding performed by the FEC decoding units to reconstruct the original data frame. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100287450 | OPTICAL RECEIVING APPARATUS AND OPTICAL RECEIVING METHOD - An optical receiving apparatus includes: an A/D converting circuit; a received-signal demodulating circuit that demodulates a received digital signal from the A/D converting circuit into an m-bit received signal; a soft-decision-data generating circuit that generates n-bit (n≦m) soft-decision data based on the m-bit received signal; and an error correcting circuit that performs error correction based on the n-bit soft-decision data and outputs an error-corrected received signal. The soft-decision-data generating circuit generates soft-decision data of n bits (n=p+1) that corresponds to a determination result according to 2 | 11-11-2010 |
| 20110013907 | MULTI-VALUE OPTICAL TRANSMITTER - Provided is a multi-value optical transmitter in which a DC bias may be controlled to be stabilized so as to obtain stable optical transmission signal quality in multi-value modulation using a dual-electrode MZ modulator. The multi-value optical transmitter includes: D/A converters for performing D/A conversion on first and second modulation data which are set based on an input data series, so as to generate a first and a second multi-value signal, respectively; a dual-electrode MZ modulator including phase modulators for modulating light from a light source based on the first multi-value signal and the second multi-value signal, so as to combine optical signals from the phase modulators to output the optical multi-value signal; an optical output power monitor for detecting average power of the optical multi-value signal; and a DC bias control unit for controlling a DC bias for the dual-electrode MZ modulator, so as to maximize the average power. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110255876 | OPTICAL TRANSMITTER - An optical transmitter for converting an input data series into an optical multi-level signal and for outputting the same, includes an LUT in which data for executing optical multi-level modulation is stored and from which first modulation data and second modulation data are output based on the input data series. A DAC converts the first modulation data by D/A conversion to generate a first multi-level signal. A DAC converts the second modulation data by D/A conversion to generate a second multi-level signal. A dual-electrode MZ modulator includes a first phase modulator for modulating light from a light source in accordance with the first multi-level signal and a second phase modulator for modulating light from the light source in accordance with the second multi-level signal, and combines an optical signal from the first phase modulator and an optical signal from the second phase modulator to output the optical multi-level signal. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110278348 | AUTOMATIC SOLDERING DEVICE AND CARRIER DEVICE - To enable the circuit board to be fixed on a predetermined position and to be conveyed to the solder processing portion. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20120087653 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION METHOD - An optical transmission apparatus in which, even if a change is made in the bit rate of modulation signals that are inputted to a plurality of optical modulating units, the modulation signals do not suffer from phase shifting, thereby enabling achieving synchronous modulation in the plurality of optical modulating units and enabling achieving a high optical signal quality. The optical transmission apparatus includes: a plurality of optical modulating units that modulate light on the basis of modulation signals; and a delay amount control unit that, based on bit rate information indicating a bit rate of the modulation signals, controls delay amounts of the modulation signals to be inputted to the plurality of optical modulating units, such that the light is modulated in a synchronous manner in the plurality of optical modulating units. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120128368 | DIFFERENTIAL CODE OPTICAL TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION DEVICE - A differential code optical transmission and reception device including: a digital signal processing optical transceiver that converts information data into an optical signal and transmits it to a communication channel, a reception front end part that receives the optical signal from the communication channel, an O/E conversion part that converts the optical signal received from the communication channel into an electrical signal, a skew correction part that regulates or correct a skew between lanes contained in the electrical signal, a differential decoder that decodes a differential code of the skew corrected electrical signal, and a lane exchange/rotation part that rearranges the electrical signal having passed through the differential decoder into a lane state thereof at the time of transmission in cases where lane exchange has occurred in the communication channel. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120201546 | PRE-EQUALIZATION OPTICAL TRANSMITTER AND PRE-EQUALIZATION OPTICAL FIBER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A pre-equalization optical transmitter includes: an RZ conversion circuit for generating an RZ-type input data sequence based on an NRZ-type input data sequence and a clock that is twice the speed of the NRZ-type input data sequence; a digital filter for generating pre-equalized data by a convolution operation between the RZ-type input data sequence and a desired transfer function corresponding to the wavelength dispersion of an optical fiber transmission path; D/A converters for performing D/A conversion on the pre-equalized data to output analog pre-equalized data; and a vector modulator for modulating light from a laser light source based on the analog pre-equalized data to output an RZ-type optical signal. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120240424 | REFLOW FURNACE - To prevent evaporated flux from being attached to rotation axes of motors which rotate fans positioned in a preheating zone, a main heating zone and a cooling zone and being solidified, the evaporated flux is efficiently and surely collected with the flux liquefying before the flux is solidified and having fluidity. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120288284 | OPTICAL TRANSMITTER - An optical transmitter generating an arbitrary optical waveform including an analog optical waveform, which is capable of controlling a bias to a Null point easily. The optical transmitter modulates light from a light source by an optical modulator with use of a data sequence being an electric signal, to thereby generate the arbitrary optical waveform, and includes: a light intensity detector detecting intensity of output light of the optical modulator; a data signal generator generating the data sequence; an average modulation degree calculator calculating an average modulation degree of the data sequence based on the data sequence; and a bias controller performing bias control on the optical modulator based on the intensity of the output light detected by the light intensity detector and the average modulation degree of the data sequence calculated by the average modulation degree calculator. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120314277 | OPTICAL MODULATOR AND OPTICAL MODULATION METHOD - An optical modulator includes first and second modulation waveguides, a demultiplexer, first and second phase adjustment waveguides that changes phases of a light of the first and second modulation waveguides, a multiplexer that combines light outputs from the first and second phase adjustment waveguides, a gain controller and a modulator bias controller in which voltages of the first and second modulation signals are controlled so that a result of adding light from the first modulation waveguide to light from the second modulation waveguide where light from the first modulation waveguide has a predetermined phase is equal to a result of adding light from the first modulation waveguide to light from the second modulation waveguide where light from the second modulation waveguide has a predetermined phase. A phase-adjustment bias controller that controls phase amounts changed by the first and second phase adjustment waveguides so as to cancel phase errors. | 12-13-2012 |
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| 20090213347 | Article Loading/Unloading Method and Article Loading/Unloading Device, Exposure Method and Exposure Apparatus, and Method of Manufacturing Device - A loading/unloading apparatus and method to perform quickly exchanging article to be loaded on a placing table. A first step determines a position of a placing table where articles to be unloaded is loaded to a second position that is different from a first position within said predetermined plane, a second step unloads the articles exist on the lading table that is positioned at said second position after said first step is performed, a third step determines a position of said placing table at said first position while said vertically moving member is positioned at a position lower than a lower surface of a loading member holding a next article to be loaded and waiting over said first position and higher than the placing surface of the placing table after said second step is performed, a fourth step allows a loading member holding the next article to be loaded onto the placing table to wait over the first position before the placing table is positioned at the first position, and a fifth step loading the next article onto the placing table positioned at the first position after the third step is performed. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20100134779 | POSITION MEASUREMENT METHOD, POSITION CONTROL METHOD, MEASUREMENT METHOD, LOADING METHOD, EXPOSURE METHOD AND EXPOSURE APPARATUS, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A part of a plate of a predetermined shape detachably mounted on a moving body is detected by an alignment system while the position of the moving body is measured by a measurement unit that sets a movement coordinate system of the movement body, and based on the detection results and the measurement results of the measurement unit corresponding to the detection results, position information of an outer periphery edge of the plate is obtained. Therefore, even if there are no alignment marks on the moving body for position measurement, the position of the plate, or in other words, the position of the moving body can be controlled on the movement coordinate system set by the measurement unit, based on the position information of the outer periphery edge of the plate. | 06-03-2010 |