Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130022294 | METHOD OF PLACING AN ORDER FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTING - In an image network system used for network print service which receives an order for printing or the like by using a communication network such as the Internet, there are provided a center server capable of providing service which is different depending upon points given to a customer according to an order track record, at a time of using the system, capable of suitably setting a storage capacity and a storage period of an image for a user without placing a burden on the user while importance is placed on an operational efficiency of the system, capable of allowing a user to upload images as many as possible in an album, and useful for prompting an order, and an image network system including the center server. | 01-24-2013 |
20130022736 | FERROELECTRIC OXIDE STRUCTURE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE STRUCTURE, AND LIQUID-DISCHARGE APPARATUS - A ferroelectric oxide structure includes a substrate and a ferroelectric thin-film deposited on the substrate. The ferroelectric thin-film has a thickness of greater than or equal to 200 nm and a tetragonal crystal system. The ferroelectric thin-film has (100) single-orientation crystal orientation. | 01-24-2013 |
20130026045 | ANODIZING APPARATUS - An anodizing apparatus includes: a power supplying drum for supporting a strip of an anodizable metal or a composite conductive foil having an anodizable metal on one surface thereof in close contact, at least a portion of the power supplying drum supporting the strip being conductive; opposing electrodes facing the power supplying drum; an electrolysis tank filled with an electrolytic solution in which a portion of the power supplying drum that supports the strip and the opposing electrodes are immersed; non conductive protective members that overlap the transverse ends of the strip on the power supplying drum and portions of the power supplying drum that the strip is not in contact with to protect the overlapped portions from the electrolytic solution; and a drive section that causes the strip and the protective members to move together within the electrolytic solution, synchronized with the rotating speed of the power supply drum. | 01-31-2013 |
20130027583 | PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - Processing for judging whether a face is included in a frame is performed, in a predetermined interval, on each of frames included in a moving image of a subject, displayed on a monitor, until the judgment becomes positive. If it is judged that a face is included in a frame, the facial position is detected in the frame, and stored. Then, judgment is made as to whether a face is included in the next frame after predetermined time. If the judgment is positive, the facial position is detected. The previously stored facial position is replaced by the newly detected facial position, and the newly detected facial position is stored. These processes are repeated until photographing operation is performed by operating a release unit. | 01-31-2013 |
20130032971 | METHOD FOR FORMING PATTERNS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PATTERNED SUBSTRATES - A resist layer constituted by a resist composition (which may include unavoidable impurities) including a polymerizable compound that includes polyfunctional monomers that become polymers having three dimensional structures by cross linking when polymerized and a polymerization initiating agent which is activated by one of light and an electron beam is formed on a substrate. A surface of a mold having a predetermined pattern of protrusions and recesses is pressed against the resist layer. Light is irradiated onto the resist layer to cure the resist layer. The mold is separated from the resist layer under conditions that the temperature of the resist layer is 40° C. or greater. | 02-07-2013 |
20130038751 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS BODY, AND SHADING CORRECTING METHOD - An imaging apparatus body on which a lens unit including an imaging optical system and an identification information storage unit that stores specific identification information can be removably mounted, comprising a shading correction unit that corrects, when the determination unit determines that the correction table corresponding to the identification information of the mounted lens unit is stored in the correction table storage unit, the shading in the set of viewpoint images according to the correction table, corresponding to the identification information of the mounted lens unit, stored in the correction table storage unit. | 02-14-2013 |
20130038761 | IMAGING APPARATUS, METHOD OF PROCESSING CAPTURED IMAGE, AND PROGRAM FOR PROCESSING CAPTURED IMAGE - Two kinds of color images, obtained by a solid-state imaging device, having different color tones are combined with each other. A first captured color image due to a first pixel group (pixels in which spectral sensitivities of color filters are wide) of the solid-state imaging device is processed. A second captured color image due to a second pixel group (pixels in which spectral sensitivities of color filters are narrow) is processed. The level difference between captured image signals of the pixels of the first pixel group and captured image signals of the pixels of the second pixel group, and due to the spectral sensitivity difference between the color filters in which the spectral sensitivities are wide and narrow is obtained (steps S1 and S2). The level difference is corrected. The first captured color image and the second captured color image are combined with each other. | 02-14-2013 |
20130038767 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRIVING SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging apparatus includes a solid-state imaging device and a driving unit. The solid-state imaging device has a plurality of pairs of first and second photoelectric conversion elements having different spectral sensitivity characteristics. The driving unit independently controls an exposure time of a first group of the plurality of first photoelectric conversion elements and an exposure time of a second group of the plurality of second photoelectric conversion elements. A wavelength range where the first photoelectric conversion element of each pair mainly has a spectral sensitivity and a wavelength range where the second photoelectric conversion element of each pair mainly has spectral sensitivity fall within the respective wavelength ranges of specific colors of visible light. A half width in the spectral sensitivity characteristic of each first photoelectric conversion element is wider than a half width in the spectral sensitivity characteristic of each second photoelectric conversion element of the pair. | 02-14-2013 |
20130043400 | RADIATION IMAGING DEVICE, RADIATION IMAGING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR AFFIXING RADIATION CONVERSION PANEL IN RADIATION IMAGING DEVICE - Disclosed is a radiation imaging device configuring a radiation imaging system. Specifically disclosed is a radiation imaging device wherein external force action mechanisms are capable of applying external force to the peripheral sections of a radiation conversion panel, or applying the external force while being laminated on the radiation conversion panel, or pressing the radiation conversion panel against the inner wall of a panel containing unit, which contains the radiation conversion panel, at least in imaging when radiation is applied. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044188 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE REPRODUCTION DEVICE AND METHOD, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE, AND STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - A stereoscopic image is displayed with an appropriate amount of parallax based on auxiliary information recorded in a three-dimensional-image file. The size of a display which performs 3D display is acquired (Step S | 02-21-2013 |
20130044244 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of pairs of a first photoelectric conversion element and a second photoelectric conversion element which have different spectral sensitivity characteristics. A wavelength range where the first photoelectric conversion element of each pair mainly has a spectral sensitivity and a wavelength range where the second photoelectric conversion element of each pair mainly has a spectral sensitivity respectively fall within a wavelength ranges of specific colors of visible light. The plurality of pairs include a plurality of types of pairs having different specific colors of visible light. The half width in the spectral sensitivity characteristic of the first photoelectric conversion element of the each pair is wider than a half width in the spectral sensitivity characteristic of the second photoelectric conversion element of the each corresponding pair. | 02-21-2013 |
20130045365 | PATTERN FORMING METHOD, CHEMICAL AMPLIFICATION RESIST COMPOSITION AND RESIST FILM - A pattern forming method comprising: (i) a step of forming a film from a chemical amplification resist composition, (ii) a step of exposing the film, and (iii) a step of developing the exposed film by using an organic solvent-containing developer, wherein the resist composition contains: (A) a resin, (B) a nonionic compound capable of generating an acid upon irradiation with an actinic ray or radiation, (C) a crosslinking agent, and (D) a solvent. | 02-21-2013 |
20130048833 | COLOR IMAGING ELEMENT - A single-plate color imaging element including color filters in a predetermined color filter array arranged on a plurality of pixels formed by photoelectric conversion elements arranged in horizontal and vertical directions, wherein in the color filter array, the first filters are vertically and horizontally arranged across a filter at a center of a 3×3 pixel group, and the 3×3 pixel group is repeatedly arranged in the horizontal and vertical directions. | 02-28-2013 |
20130050439 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THEREOF - Feature points are extracted from left and right viewpoint images (Step S | 02-28-2013 |
20130057613 | Head Cleaning Method and Head Cleaning Apparatus - A head cleaning method of wiping and cleaning a nozzle surface of a head with a band-shaped liquid absorbing body by, while pressing and abutting a pressing member on which the liquid absorbing body that travels is wrapped against the nozzle surface of the head, sliding the pressing member over the nozzle surface of the head, includes: a first cleaning step of wiping and cleaning the nozzle surface of the head with a non-wet region of the liquid absorbing body; a wet region forming step of forming a wet region on the liquid absorbing body; and a second cleaning step of wiping and cleaning the nozzle surface of the head with the wet region of the liquid absorbing body. | 03-07-2013 |
20130057736 | DRIVING METHOD OF SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, AND IMAGING APPARATUS - The present invention relates to a driving method of a solid-state imaging device including: driving the pixel stacked with the red filter and the pixel stacked with the blue filter which are presented on one line for every four lines of one-side pixel lines of the pixel line extending toward right-upwardly inclined direction and the pixel line extending toward left-upwardly inclined direction, and the pixel stacked with the green filter which is most adjacent to pixel stacked with the red filter and the pixel stacked with the blue filter as a low-sensitivity pixel, and driving the rest of the pixels as a high-sensitivity pixel. | 03-07-2013 |
20130057963 | LENS APPARATUS AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - Provided is a lens apparatus in which a plurality of lenses are formed, including: a housing filled with a first liquid and a second liquid that do not mix with each other; a partition to divide the inside of the housing into a plurality of regions, each of the regions being filled with one of the first liquid and the second liquid; and a pressure control section that controls the internal pressure of the region filled with the first liquid, where the partition is provided with a plurality of openings, in which a plurality of lenses having different characteristics from each other are formed by the interface between the first liquid and the second liquid, and the regions inside the housing filled with the first liquid are linked to each other so that the first liquid can move therebetween. | 03-07-2013 |
20130059764 | CLEANSING COSMETIC - A cleansing cosmetic including (A) a first oil component having an I/O value of from 0.05 to 0.25, in an amount of 30% by mass or more, (B) a liquid form emulsifier including an aliphatic hydrocarbon chain and not including an unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon chain, in an amount of more than 10% by mass, and (C) a carotenoid | 03-07-2013 |
20130064428 | STRUCTURE DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREOF - A plurality of candidate points are extracted from image data. The plurality of candidate points are normalized, and a set of representative points composing form model that is most similar to set form is selected from the plurality of candidate points. Further, the candidate points and the form model are compared with each other, and correction is performed by adding a region forming structure or by deleting a region, or the like. Accordingly, the structure is detected in image data. | 03-14-2013 |
20130069047 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT AND IMAGING DEVICE - A photoelectric conversion element is provided and includes: an electrically conductive thin layer; an organic photoelectric conversion layer; and a transparent electrically conductive thin layer. The organic photoelectric conversion layer contains: a compound represented by formula (I); and a fullerene or a fullerene derivative. | 03-21-2013 |
20130069048 | LUMINESCENT DEVICE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - An electroluminescent device including a substrate on which a first electrode is formed; a transparent substrate disposed on the first electrode side of the substrate; a color filter disposed between the first electrode and the transparent substrate; an electroluminescent layer disposed between the first electrode and the color filter; and a second electrode disposed between the electroluminescent layer and the color filter. | 03-21-2013 |
20130070061 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING DEVICE AND AUTOFOCUS ADJUSTMENT METHOD FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING DEVICE - An autofocus adjustment method for a three-dimensional imaging device, includes: a step of, when a first lens position is not found during search operation of a first focus lens of a first imaging optical system within a first search range, allowing a second focus lens of a second imaging optical system to perform search operation within the first search range, and during the search operation, searching for a second lens position at which the second focus lens focuses on the subject based on a second viewpoint image from the second imaging unit; a step of allowing the second focus lens to move to the second lens position; a step of calculating the first lens position based on the second lens position and a focus position displacement amount preliminarily stored in a storage; and a step of allowing the first focus lens to move to the first lens position thus calculated. | 03-21-2013 |
20130071451 | CAROTENOID-CONTAINING COMPOSITION AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - A method of producing a carotenoid-containing composition including: obtaining a carotenoid-containing oil phase composition by heating an oil phase component mixed liquid containing a carotenoid component containing at least one crystalline carotenoid, and a (poly)glyceryl fatty acid ester having form 1 to 6 of a glycerin unit and from 1 to 6 of a fatty acid unit and in which the glycerin unit has at least one hydroxyl group, at a dissolution temperature of the carotenoid component or higher; and obtaining an oil-in-water emulsified composition by emulsifying under pressure the carotenoid-containing oil phase composition with an aqueous-phase composition comprising an emulsifying agent. | 03-21-2013 |
20130071787 | POSITIVE PHOTOSENSITIVE RESIN COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR FORMING CURED FILM USING THE SAME - The present invention provides a positive photosensitive resin composition including: a resin containing a specific acrylic acid-based constituent unit capable of undergoing dissociation of an acid-dissociable group to produce a carboxyl group, and a constituent unit having a functional group capable of reacting with the carboxyl group to form a covalent bond, the resin being alkali-insoluble or sparingly alkali-soluble and becoming alkali-soluble when the acid-dissociable group dissociates; and a compound capable of generating an acid upon irradiation with an actinic ray or radiation. The present invention also provides a method for forming a cured film using the composition. The positive photosensitive composition is excellent in the sensitivity, film residual ratio and storage stability and by the method for forming a cured film using the positive photosensitive resin composition, a cured film excellent in the heat resistance, adhesion, transmittance and the like can be provided. | 03-21-2013 |
20130072615 | POLYMERIZABLE COMPOSITION - A polymerizable composition includes: a polymerization initiator; a polymerizable compound; a tungsten compound; and an alkali-soluble binder. | 03-21-2013 |
20130076856 | STEREOSCOPIC PANORAMA IMAGE CREATING APPARATUS, STEREOSCOPIC PANORAMA IMAGE CREATING METHOD, STEREOSCOPIC PANORAMA IMAGE REPRODUCING APPARATUS, STEREOSCOPIC PANORAMA IMAGE REPRODUCING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - In a stereoscopic panorama image creating method according to an embodiment of the presently disclosed subject matter, a plurality of stereoscopic images formed of left images and right images continuously shot with a stereoscopic imaging apparatus | 03-28-2013 |
20130076868 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING APPARATUS, FACE DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHODS OF CONTROLLING OPERATION OF SAME - A face image is specified and face image detection is performed in a left-eye image and in a right-eye image. If a face image is detected in only one of these images, then object image detection is performed in the left-eye image and in the right-eye image. The distance to an object represented by an object image contained in one image and the distance to an object represented by an object image contained in the other image are calculated. From among objects represented by object images contained in the other image, the image of an object having a distance equal to the distance to the face represented by the face image detected in the one image is specified as a face image. | 03-28-2013 |
20130077872 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM - Candidate points belonging to a predetermined structure are extracted from image data DV. A shape model which represents a known shape of the predetermined structure and is formed by model labels having a predetermined connection relationship is obtained. Corresponding points corresponding to the model labels are selected from the extracted candidate points under the following constraints: (a) each model label is mapped with only one of the candidate points or none of the candidate points; (b) each candidate point is mapped with only one of the model labels or none of the model labels; and (c) when a path between two candidate points which are mapped with each pair of the model labels connected with each other is determined, each candidate point which is mapped with none of the model labels is included in only one of the determined paths or none of the determined paths. | 03-28-2013 |
20130081719 | DISPENSING APPARATUS AND SUCTION NOZZLE POSITION CONTROL METHOD - A dispensing apparatus including a suction nozzle having a tip to which a nozzle chip is removably attachable, a moving mechanism for moving the suction nozzle, a suction/discharge pump for supplying a suction/discharge pressure to the suction nozzle, a pressure measurement unit for measuring a pressure in the suction nozzle, and a control unit for controlling amounts of actuation of the moving mechanism and the suction/discharge pump, wherein the suction nozzle is moved toward the surface of a dry analysis element with air being discharged from a tip of a nozzle chip attached to the suction nozzle and the movement of the suction nozzle is stopped at a time point at which the pressure in the suction nozzle is detected to have reached a value corresponding to a predetermined relative distance between the tip of the nozzle chip and the surface of the dry analysis element. | 04-04-2013 |
20130082184 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING DEVICE - The present invention provides a radiographic imaging device that may image radiographic images with high sharpness while suppressing a drop in sensitivity. Namely, a radiation detector, in which a scintillator that generates light due to irradiation of radiation and a TFT substrate on which plural sensor portions configured including an organic photoelectric conversion material that generates electric charges by receiving light are disposed are sequentially layered, is positioned in such a way that radiation that has passed through a subject is made incident from the TFT substrate side. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083106 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD, LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS, AND INK-JET APPARATUS - A basic driving waveform which includes a plurality of jet pulses and a non-jet pulse just before the last jet pulse in one recording period is generated. A part of the pulses is removed from the basic driving waveform by maintaining at least the last jet pulse, and a driving signal that is applied to a discharge energy generation element is generated. In the case of using only the last jet pulse among the plurality of jet pulses is used for the jet, a first driving signal that includes the non-jet pulse just before the last jet pulse is generated. In the case of joining the last jet pulse and at least another jet pulse among the plurality of jet pulses to use the pulses for the jet, a second driving signal that is configured to remove the non-jet pulse is generated. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083107 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND ABNORMAL NOZZLE DETERMINATION METHOD - According to the present invention, the occurrence of an ejection abnormality can be determined at an early stage by using a waveform for abnormal nozzle determination, before an image defect producing a visible density non-uniformity (stripe non-uniformity) occurs due to an ejection defect in an output image recorded by a drive signal having a recording waveform. Consequently, recording stability and throughput can both be achieved. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083108 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An inkjet recording apparatus includes: an inkjet head which has a nozzle and an ejection energy generating element configured to cause droplets to be ejected from an ejection port of the nozzle; a head movement device which is configured to reciprocally move the inkjet head to scan a recording medium onto which the droplets ejected from the inkjet head are deposited; a linear encoder which is configured to output signals to determine a position of the inkjet head; an ejection trigger signal generating device which is configured to generate ejection trigger signals in accordance with the output signals of the linear encoder, the ejection trigger signals specifying ejection timings of the inkjet head with a temporal resolution of 0.1 μs order; and an ejection control device which is configured to cause the inkjet head to eject the droplets in accordance with the ejection timings specified by the ejection trigger signals. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083110 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes: a recording head including first and second head modules, each of the first and second head modules having recording elements arranged to perform a recording operation onto a recording medium, the first head module being arranged in a first orientation on the recording head, the second head module being arranged in a second orientation on the recording head, the second orientation being rotated from the first orientation; a signal processing device configured to select, from print data for one page, print data to be used in one recording operation respectively for the recording elements, and to arrange the selected print data in a prescribed recording element sequence for each of the first and second head modules regardless of the first and second orientations; and a data transfer device configured to transfer the arranged print data for each of the first and second head modules. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083117 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD - The present invention provides an image forming method including an ink applying process that applies a water-based ink containing at least polymer particles, wax particles having a ratio of from 0.5% by mass to less than 8% by mass with respect to the total amount of the ink, colorant, and water, by an inkjet method (inkjetting), onto a recording base material which is an assembly of a non-absorptive or low-absorptive fiber material. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083159 | STEREOSCOPIC PANORAMIC IMAGE SYNTHESIS DEVICE, IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE, STEREOSCOPIC PANORAMIC IMAGE SYNTHESIS METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Multiple images are acquired by continuously capturing images at high speed while panning an image capturing device ( | 04-04-2013 |
20130083174 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE CONTROL APPARATUS, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF SAME - A natural stereoscopic image is displayed and eye strain is mitigated. A face image is detected in a stereoscopic image composed of a left-eye image and a right-eye image. The left- and right-eye images are shifted in such a manner that visual disparity of the detected face image is removed. Furthermore, a display area containing the face image is calculated. The calculated display area is enlarged so as to be displayed over the entirety of the display screen. Since a double image that appears in front of the face image is excluded, the strain upon the eyes of the observer is mitigated. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083178 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM AND EXTERNAL CONTROL DEVICE FOR ENDOSCOPE - In the processor device connected to the endoscope, the imaging signal transmitted in serial from an imaging chip of the endoscope is converted by an S/P converter to parallel data, and is then decoded by an 8B10B decoder. Pixel data (eight bits) for each pixel is converted by an 8B10B encoder of the imaging chip to word data with ten bits being taken as one word for serial transmission. In the processor device, the fact that a deviation occurs in timing of word synchronization for delimiting serial data into word data due to an influence of noise or the like is detected from a decode error in the 8B10B decoder, and recovery is made by shifting the timing of word synchronization. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083179 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM AND EXTERNAL CONTROL DEVICE FOR ENDOSCOPE - In the processor device connected to the endoscope, the imaging signal transmitted in serial from an imaging chip of the endoscope is converted by an S/P converter to parallel data, and is then decoded by an 8B10B decoder. When data corruption occurs due to noise or the like during transmission of the imaging signal and normal pixel data cannot be obtained due to decode error at an 8B10B decoder, that pixel data is interpolated with pixel data of a peripheral part in an inner memory of an image processing circuit. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083221 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An AR taking image producer produces an AR taking image of a current frame. A displaying image producer produces a displaying image of the current frame and first to fourth interpolative displaying images. An image pattern reader reads a marker on the AR taking image. CPU retrieves AR moving image that is associated with the marker from an AR image memory. An AR image overlying section produces first to fourth interpolative AR images, and overlies the images on the areas of the marker. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083273 | SURFACE FILM FOR IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, POLARIZING PLATE, AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - There is provided an optical film to be used as a surface film for image display device, which comprises an optically anisotropic layer and a hard coat layer in this order on one surface of a transparent support, the optically anisotropic layer and the hard coat layer being brought into direct contact with each other, wherein the optically anisotropic layer is formed of an optically anisotropic layer forming composition containing a liquid crystalline compound having an unsaturated double bond; the hard coat layer is formed of a hard coat layer forming composition containing a compound having an unsaturated double bond and has a film thickness of from 3 to 30 μm; and the optical film has an in-plane retardation of from 80 to 200 nm at a wavelength of 550 nm. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083274 | CELLULOSE ACYLATE LAMINATE FILM AND ITS PRODUCTION METHOD, POLARIZER AND LIQUID-CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A cellulose acylate laminate film containing a skin B layer that contains a cellulose acetate satisfying 2.50≦Z2<3.00 (Z2 means a total degree of acyl substitution) and a core layer that is thicker than the skin B layer and contains a cellulose acylate satisfying 2.0004-04-2013 | |
20130083276 | PRINTING SHEET FOR PRINTING STEREO PICTURE, STEREO PICTURE PRINT, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING STEREO PICTURE PRINT, AND METHOD OF PROVIDING STEREO PICTURE - Provided is a stereo picture print having reduced crosstalk and ghost images. The printing sheet for printing a stereo picture comprises, in sequence: a light-transmissive image receiving layer; a linearly polarizing layer; and a retardation layer, wherein the retardation layer is formed by fixing in an aligned state a composition containing a compound having refractive index anisotropy and is patterned into a first domain and a second domain which have different in-plane slow axes or have different in-plane retardations. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083277 | OPTICAL FILM, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY, TRANSFERRING MATERIAL, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL FILM - An optical film, which exhibits a high, optically compensatory function and can be stably manufactured by continuous production, can be provided. The optical film comprises an optically anisotropic layer comprising discotic liquid crystal fixed into a hybrid alignment, an adhesion layer having no alignment controllability and a substrate in that order, wherein the hybrid alignment is conditioned such that an angle defined by a director of the discotic liquid crystal in a region close to an interface with air and the normal to the film is larger than an angle defined by a director of the discotic liquid crystal in the vicinity of an interface with the adhesion layer and the normal to the film, and the total thickness of the film is 0.1 μm to 70 μm. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083394 | LAMINATED OPTICAL FILM, AND POLARIZING PLATE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY INCLUDING THE SAME - A laminated optical film which exhibit a high front contrast ratio and even brightness, improve viewing angle characteristics of a liquid crystal display of a horizontal alignment mode, and have high durability. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083893 | RADIATION IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A radiation imaging apparatus includes a differential phase image producing section, a phase unwrapping section, a statistical operation section, and a correction processing section. The differential phase image producing section produces a differential phase image in which pixel values are wrapped into a predetermined range α. The phase unwrapping section performs a phase unwrapping process to the differential phase image. The statistical operation section obtains a mode from statistical operation of pixel values in each subregion segmented in the unwrapped differential phase image. Each subregion is a unit in which error caused by the phase unwrapping process is to be corrected. The correction processing section calculates, for each pixel, an integer “n” which allows a difference Δ between the mode and a pixel value of each pixel to satisfy nα−α/2≦Δ04-04-2013 | |
20130083982 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM - A medical image processing device for extracting an endocardium of a left ventricle from 3D image data representing the left ventricle is provided. The device includes: a blood region extracting unit to extract a blood region in the left ventricle from the image data; a convex and concave points identifying unit to find a convex hull from sample points on a contour of the extracted blood region and identify convex points forming the convex hull and concave points, which are sample points other than the convex points; and an endocardium determining unit to deform the contour of the blood region by moving at least a part of the concave points outward from the blood region by an amount determined based on a positional relationship among each concave point and the convex points located around the concave point and determine a deformed contour of the blood region to be the endocardium. | 04-04-2013 |
20130084442 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ANTI-REFLECTION FILM, ANTI-REFLECTION FILM AND COATING COMPOSITION - A method of manufacturing an anti-reflection film, the method forming a multi-layer structure with different refractive indices from a coating composition in which the following (A) to (F) components are mixed. (A) Fluorine-containing polymer including a fluorine-containing hydrocarbon structure and a constituent unit derived from a compound having at least one group selected from a polyalkylene oxide group and a basic functional group, (B) Low refractive index inorganic fine particles which are not surface-modified or low refractive index inorganic fine particles which are surface-treated with a silane coupling agent having the molecular weight of 600 or less, (C) A curable binder containing no fluorine atoms in the molecule, (D) A solvent, (E) A polyfunctional fluorine-containing curable compound, and (F) High refractive index inorganic fine particles treated with a specific surface modifying agent. | 04-04-2013 |
20130084470 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - An aspect of the present invention relates to a magnetic recording medium comprising a magnetic layer containing a ferromagnetic powder and a binder on a nonmagnetic support, wherein the ferromagnetic powder has a hexagonal ferrite structure, the magnetic layer comprises a coefficient of friction-lowering component in the form of nonmagnetic inorganic particles, and a compound in which a substituent selected from the group consisting of a hydroxyl group and a carboxyl group is directly substituted on an aromatic ring. | 04-04-2013 |
20130084518 | NEGATIVE CHEMICAL AMPLIFICATION RESIST COMPOSITION, RESIST FILM, AND, RESIST-COATED MASK BLANKS, METHOD FOR FORMING RESIST PATTERN, AND PHOTOMASK, EACH USING THE SAME - Disclosed is a negative chemical amplification resist composition including (A) a polymer compound having a repeating unit (P) represented by the following formula (I) which is stable in acids and alkalis, and a repeating unit (Q) having a phenolic hydroxyl group; (B) a compound capable of generating an acid when irradiated with actinic rays or a radiation; and (C) a cross-linking agent: | 04-04-2013 |
20130084580 | CHROMATOGRAPHIC KIT AND CHROMATOGRAPHY METHOD - A chromatographic kit is provided including a labeling substance holding area having a labeling substance modified with a first binding substance of a test substance, and a labeling substance capturing area having a second binding substance of the test substance or a binding substance of the first binding substance in this order from upstream to downstream of a development direction of a test sample including the test substance, and further including an area having a color developing reagent in order to detect a first amplification reagent of two types of amplification reagents used to amplify the signal of the labeling substance when detecting the labeling substance. | 04-04-2013 |
20130085327 | ENDOSCOPE FORCEPS PLUG - A main body that has an installation portion which is formed from an elastic material having a cylinder shape, and installed at the metal opening at one end side; a lid insertion portion which cylindrically protrudes to the other end side, and a lid connected to the main body by a flexible connection portion having flexibility, that is formed from an elastic material, that has a tube shape with a cylindrical insertion channel, and that, at both sides where both ends of the insertion channel are respectively open, has first and second installation portions with different external shapes to each other which are installed by selectively inserting to the lid insertion portion. The first installation portion has a larger external shape than the second installation portion, at least a portion of a diameter of the insertion channel decreases when installed to the lid insertion portion of the first installation portion. | 04-04-2013 |
20130085328 | CAMERA MODULE FOR ENDOSCOPE AND ENDOSCOPE - One end of a cable connecting fitting is fixed to a transmission cable. After a locking claw provided on the other end of the cable connecting fitting is locked to the tip surface of a mounting tube portion of a prism holder, the mounting tube portion and the cable connecting fitting are fixed to each other. An image area sensor is close to the inner circumferential surface of a distal end hard portion, and a camera module is disposed in the distal end hard portion. The cable connecting fitting can be disposed at a free space between the inner circumferential surface of the distal end hard portion and the image area sensor. The size of the cable connecting fitting can be increased within a range of the free space, connection strength is secured, and separation of the prism or junctions and rupture of the transmission cable can be suppressed. | 04-04-2013 |
20130087203 | METAL COMPLEX DYE, PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT AND DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL - A metal complex dye, containing a ligand LL1 having a structure represented by Formula (I): | 04-11-2013 |
20130087500 | CRYSTALLINE POLYMER MICROPOROUS MEMBRANE, PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF, AND FILTRATION FILTER - A crystalline polymer microporous membrane, which contains a laminate containing two or more layers and a plurality of pores piercing through the laminate in a thickness direction thereof, where the two or more layers include a layer containing a first crystalline polymer, and a layer containing a second crystalline polymer stacked to form the laminate, wherein the first crystalline polymer has a higher melting point than a melting point of the second crystalline polymer, wherein at least the layer containing the second crystalline polymer in the laminate has a microstructure containing at least fibrils having an average long axial length of 1 μm or shorter, and wherein at least one of the layers constituting the laminate has a plurality of pores whose average pore diameter is constant without any variation at least at part along a thickness direction of the laminate. | 04-11-2013 |
20130087682 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR DRIVING PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE - A photoelectric conversion device includes, in the following order: a first electrode; an electron blocking layer; a photoelectric conversion layer containing a merocyanine dye; a hole blocking layer; and a transparent electrode as a second electrode, and an absorption maximum wavelength in a thin film absorption spectrum of the photoelectric conversion layer containing a merocyanine dye is within a range of from 400 to 520 nm. | 04-11-2013 |
20130088623 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CALCULATING WHITE BALANCE GAIN - A WB gain calculation unit | 04-11-2013 |
20130089818 | LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE PRECURSOR, PLATE MAKING METHOD THEREOF AND NOVEL POLYMER COMPOUND - A lithographic printing plate precursor includes: a support; and an image-recording layer containing (A) a polymerization initiator, (B) a sensitizing dye and (C) a polymerizable compound, and the image-recording layer or an undercoat layer which is optionally provided between the support and the image-recording layer comprises (D) a polymer compound comprising (a1) a repeating unit having a side chain having a structure represented by the following formula (a1-1) and (a2) a repeating unit having a side chain having at least one structure of the formulae (a2-1), (a2-2), (a2-3), (a2-4), (a2-5) and (a2-6) as defined herein. | 04-11-2013 |
20130093847 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME - An image for a left eye and an image for a right eye are respectively captured. A corresponding point corresponding to each of a plurality of feature points detected from the image for a left eye is searched for using the image for a right eye. The number of corresponding points found by the search is counted, and it is determined whether to be equal to or more than a predetermined ratio with respect to the number of pixels of the image for a right eye. When the number of corresponding points is determined to be less than the predetermined ratio, the image for a right eye is recaptured, and the corresponding point search process and the determination of whether the number of corresponding points is equal to or more than the predetermined ratio are re-executed using an image new for a right eye obtained by recapture. | 04-18-2013 |
20130093848 | IMAGE OUTPUT DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM - The transition of representative parallax of a stereoscopic moving image is reflected in a parallax adjustment according to output conditions of the stereoscopic moving image. A parallax adjustment unit determines whether to satisfy |representative parallax of a reference frame-representative parallax of a target frame|<α. If Yes, the process proceeds to S | 04-18-2013 |
20130093856 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING DIGITAL CAMERA AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPERATION OF SAME - A left-eye image and a right-eye image are captured by a left-eye image capture device and a right-eye image capture device, respectively. Faces are detected in respective ones of these images. If sizes of the detected faces are both large, it is deemed that the captured face is near the camera and difference between the distance from one image capture device to the face and the distance from the other image capture device to the face has great influence upon distance from the one image capture device to the face and upon distance from the other image capture device to the face. Focusing control of the one image capture device is carried out based upon distance (left-eye image) from this image capture device, and focusing control of the other image capture device is carried out based upon distance (right-eye image) from this image capture device. | 04-18-2013 |
20130093857 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGINGDEVICE, AND METHODS - A stereoscopic image display device that is capable of reading out and setting a stereoscopic effect control value suitable for a monitor size of a display monitor used to display an image is disclosed. A stereoscopic image for stereoscopically displaying an image is generated based on a multi-viewpoint image, and the stereoscopic image is displayed on a display monitor capable of stereoscopic display. At this time, a stereoscopic effect of the stereoscopic image displayed on the display monitor is controlled. A controlled stereoscopic effect control value and a monitor size of the display monitor used to display the stereoscopic image when the stereoscopic effect is controlled is associated with the multi-viewpoint image and recorded in a recording medium. | 04-18-2013 |
20130093859 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE REPRODUCTION DEVICE AND METHOD, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE, AND STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - A stereoscopic image is displayed with an appropriate amount of parallax on the basis of auxiliary information recorded in a three-dimensional image file. A 3D image file is read (Step S | 04-18-2013 |
20130093968 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE RECOGNITION APPARATUS - Provided is a stereoscopic image forming apparatus which is excellent from the viewpoint of brightness, flicker, and crosstalk when viewed from the front side while tilting a face, and suppresses crosstalk at the time of oblique observation. | 04-18-2013 |
20130093992 | OPTICAL FILM, POLARIZING PLATE AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - To provide an optical film, which may be used as a λ/4 plate and may provide a display device which has specific optical characteristics, may be manufactured with high productivity and has an excellent 3D-display performance. To provide a 3D-display device having a physical properties having excellent antireflective property and light fastness with high productivity. An optical film having at least one optically anisotropic layer, wherein an in-plane retardation. Re at an arbitrary wavelength in a visible light region is 80 nm to 201 nm, an Nz value represented by the following equation is 0.1 to 0.9, and when the in-plane retardations at wavelengths of 450 nm, 550 nm and 650 nm are referred to as Re450, Re550 and Re650, respectively, Re450/Re550 is 1.18 or less and Re650/Re550 is 0.93 or more. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094833 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PLAYBACK DEVICE, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PLAYBACK SYSTEM, AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PLAYBACK METHOD - In the case where a parallax of left and right images is not appropriate, an influence on the health caused by stereoscopic viewing is preliminarily prevented. A camera and a television are connected (step S | 04-18-2013 |
20130096375 | HUMIDITY DETECTING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENDOSCOPE, AND ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS - A humidity state at a distal end portion of an endoscope internal space can be reliably estimated without enlarging the diameter of an endoscope insertion part. | 04-18-2013 |
20130096941 | CLINICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - Likelihood ratio between a likelihood of belonging to one classification of a key item and a likelihood of belonging to other classification of the key item when a case belongs to each classification of a clinical-information item other than the key item is calculated, based on registration case information for calculating a likelihood ratio, for each classification of a key item. A weighting coefficient corresponding to each classification of the clinical-information item other than the key item for each classification of the key item is determined based on a target classification of a target clinical-information item and the calculated likelihood ratio. A degree of similarity is calculated for each registration case included in registration case information for calculating a degree of similarity by using weighting information corresponding to each classification of the key item and each classification of the clinical-information item other than the key item. | 04-18-2013 |
20130099129 | RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE - A radiation image capture device is provided with a radiation detection panel including optoelectronic conversion elements, a signal processing board that performs signal processing of the signals provided by the radiation detection panel, a flexible printed circuit, and a casing. One end of the flexible printed circuit is connected to the radiation detection panel and the other end is connected to the signal processing board. The flexible printed circuit includes a base film fowled of an insulating resin film, wiring disposed over the base film, a coating layer formed of an insulating resin disposed over the wiring, and a shield layer provided between the base film and the wiring and/or between the wiring and the coating layer. An insulator is interposed between the shield layer and the wiring, and the shield layer is connected to a fixed potential. | 04-25-2013 |
20130099130 | RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE - A radiation image capture device is provided with a radiation detection panel, a signal processing board, a flexible printed circuit, a casing, and a first conductor. The radiation detection panel includes optoelectronic conversion elements that convert radiation to electronic signals. The signal processing board is disposed to oppose the radiation detection panel and performs signal processing of the electronic signals provided by the radiation detection panel. One end of the flexible printed circuit is electrically connected to the radiation detection panel and the other end is electrically connected to the signal processing board. The casing accommodates the radiation detection panel and the signal processing board, and accommodates the flexible printed circuit in a state of being separated from inner walls of the casing. The first conductor is provided at a region of the flexible printed circuit that comes in contact with the casing by movements of the flexible printed circuit. | 04-25-2013 |
20130099627 | PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICE - A piezoelectric device includes: a substrate; a first electrode which is layered over the substrate; a first piezoelectric film which is layered over the first electrode; a metal oxide film which is layered over the first piezoelectric film; a metal film which is layered over the metal oxide film; a second piezoelectric film which is layered over the metal film; and a second electrode which is layered over the second piezoelectric film. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100161 | DIGITAL COMIC EDITOR, METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A digital comic editor comprising a speech bubble region addition device configured to add a new piece of speech bubble region information to the position indicated by the indication device, a speech bubble region deletion device configured to delete the speech bubble region information from the position indicated by the indication device, and an editing device configured to update the speech bubble region information included in the information file based on the speech bubble region information added by the speech bubble region addition device and the speech bubble region information deleted by the speech bubble region deletion device. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100166 | VIEWER UNIT, SERVER UNIT, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, DIGITAL COMIC EDITING METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A viewer unit, comprising a display control device configured to control to shift the position of the display range sequentially within the page image in accordance with the positional line determined by the determination device in order to display the images of each display range sequentially on the display device. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100251 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD - Present invention provides an imaging element that includes a first pixel group and a second pixel group, a pickup execution control unit that performs pixel addition by exposing the first pixel group and the second pixel group of the imaging element during the same exposure in a case of pickup in an SN mode and performs pixel addition by exposing the first pixel group and the second pixel group of the imaging element during different exposure times in a case of pickup in a DR mode, a diaphragm that is arranged in a light path through which the light fluxes which are incident to the imaging element pass, and a diaphragm control unit that, in the case of pickup in the DR mode, sets the diaphragm value of the diaphragm to be a value which is greater than that of the case of pickup in the SN mode. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100253 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGING CAPTURING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE - To remove visual discomfort during a zooming period, thereby enabling an observer not to feel fatigued. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100257 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A image processing method according to an aspect of the present invention includes a parallax amount calculating step of calculating a parallax amount of each pixel of a plurality of viewpoint images constituting a multi-viewpoint image; and a parallax amount correcting step of correcting the parallax amount of each pixel, based on a zoom value of the multi-viewpoint image and the calculated parallax amount of each pixel, in such a manner that a different in parallax amount corresponding to an object distance is kept unchanged even if the zoom value is changed, when a parallax amount of each pixel of at least a portion of the multi-viewpoint image is corrected by image processing. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100338 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device of an aspect of the invention, when reading, as voltage signals, signal charges output from a first pixel receiving a light on a partial area biased to a predetermined direction from a light axis of a light flux passing an exit pupil of an imaging optical system and a second pixel arranged so as to be adjacent to the first pixel and receiving a light on a partial area biased to an opposite direction to the predetermined direction from the light axis, combines and reads the signal charges of adjacent first-number pixels with respect to the first pixel and the second pixel, and calculates an arithmetic mean of adjacent second-number voltage signals with respect to the combined and read voltage signals of the first pixel and the second pixel. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100367 | OPTICAL FILM, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND POLARIZING PLATE, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND STEREO PICTURE DISPLAY SYSTEM INCLUDING THE OPTICAL FILM - Provide is an optical film which includes an optically anisotropic layer having a high-definition alignment pattern, can be readily produced, and is utility. The optical film comprising: a transparent support; an alignment film subjected to a unidirectional alignment treatment; and an optically anisotropic layer formed of one kind of composition mainly containing liquid crystal having a polymerizable group, wherein the optically anisotropic layer is a patterned optically anisotropic layer having first retardation regions and second retardation regions alternately disposed in a plane, and the first retardation regions and the second retardation regions have in-plane slow axes orthogonal to each other. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100791 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD - An optical information recording medium includes: a recording layer | 04-25-2013 |
20130101218 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR IMAGE SEARCH - One or more representative images extracted from an image group comprising a plurality of images is/are displayed. A part or all of the representative image or images, such as a main subject region or a background region including a search target, is/are selected from the representative image or images, and used for setting search conditions. The image group is searched for an image or images agreeing with the search conditions having been set. | 04-25-2013 |
20130104014 | VIEWER UNIT, SERVER UNIT, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, DIGITAL COMIC EDITING METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A viewer unit, comprising a shift sequence determination device configured to determine a shift sequence in which display ranges corresponding to the screen size of the display device are shifted sequentially within the page image of the digital comic data, the shift sequence determination device determining the shift sequence to sequentially display the display ranges including the key region on the display device based on the collateral information of the digital comic data; and a display control device configured to sequentially extract the images of each display range from the page image in accordance with the shift sequence of the display ranges determined by the shift sequence determination device and displays the images on the display device. | 04-25-2013 |
20130104015 | DIGITAL COMIC EDITOR, METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A digital comic editor, comprising: a data acquisition device acquiring a piece of master data of a digital comic, the master data including: an image file corresponding to each page of the comic, the image file having a high resolution image of the entire page; and an information file corresponding to each page or all pages of the comic, the information file having a piece of frame information including a piece of frame region information of each frame within the page; a display control device controlling display device to display an image thereon based on the image file in the master data acquired and to display a frame boundary while superimposing the same on the image based on the frame region information included in the information file in the master data; an indication device indicating a position on the image displayed on the display device; a frame addition device adding a new frame boundary to a position indicated; a frame deletion device that deletes the frame boundary from the position indicated; and an editing device updating the frame region information included in the information file based on the frame boundary added or the frame boundary deleted. | 04-25-2013 |
20130104016 | DIGITAL COMIC EDITOR, METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - The digital comic editor edits a piece of master data of a digital comic suitably for efficiently viewing a digital comic which has an image size larger than a screen size of a predetermined mobile terminal. The digital comic editor enables the master data of the digital comic to be appropriately edited. The master data includes a piece of image file having high resolution image of the entire page of the comic and an information file having described therein a piece of frame information including a piece of frame region information of the frame within the page. Particularly, the digital comic editor displays a frame boundary while superimposing the frame boundary on the image based on the frame region information included in the information file and displays a border F corresponding to the screen size of the predetermined mobile terminal on the image. The digital comic editor allows an editor to virtually drag and shift the position of the displayed frame boundary while referring to the border F; thereby the frame region information can be corrected to match with the screen size of the mobile terminal. | 04-25-2013 |
20130111753 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIQUID DROPLET EJECTION HEAD - An object of the invention is to provide a method of manufacturing a liquid droplet ejection head that is capable of realizing cost reduction by a simple process and obtaining ejection reliability over a long period of time. The method includes: forming a water repellent film on a nozzle forming substrate having a nozzle hole and inside the nozzle hole; adhering a protective film on the water repellent film that is formed on the surface of the nozzle forming substrate; removing the water repellent film formed inside the nozzle by a plasma treatment; and peeling the protective film, wherein polysiloxane is not contained in an adhesion component and a base material of the protective film. | 05-09-2013 |
20130112096 | RESIN COMPOSITION FOR LASER ENGRAVING, RELIEF PRINTING PLATE PRECURSOR FOR LASER ENGRAVING AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND RELIEF PRINTING PLATE AND PROCESS FOR MAKING SAME - To provide a resin composition for laser engraving that can give a film having excellent compositional uniformity and toughness and a relief printing plate having little breakage of small-size halftone dots, a relief printing plate precursor employing the resin composition for laser engraving, a process for making a relief printing plate employing same, and a relief printing plate obtained thereby. | 05-09-2013 |
20130112266 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE AND SOLAR CELL HAVING THE SAME - The photoelectric conversion device of the present invention is a photoelectric conversion device which includes a substrate on which the following are layered in the order listed below: a lower electrode layer; a photoelectric conversion semiconductor layer which includes, as a major component, at least one kind of compound semiconductor having a chalcopyrite structure formed of a group Ib element, a group IIIb element, and a group VIb element; a buffer layer; and a transparent conductive layer, in which the buffer layer includes a ternary compound of a cadmium-free metal, oxygen, and sulfur, and a has a carbonyl ion on a surface facing the transparent conductive layer. | 05-09-2013 |
20130112927 | COMPOSITION, AND FILM, CHARGE TRANSPORTING LAYER, ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE USING THE COMPOSITION, AND METHOD FOR FORMING CHARGE TRANSPORTING LAYER - Provided are a composition useful for manufacturing an organic electroluminescence device that has improved efficiency and durability in an organic electroluminescence device in which a siloxane polymer is used as a material for organic electroluminescence device, the composition including (A) a siloxane polymer having a charge transporting moiety at a side chain thereof, (B) at least one crosslinking agent, and (C) a solvent, a film, a charge transporting layer, and an organic electroluminescence device which use the composition, and a method for forming a charge transporting layer. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113793 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - A parallax amount between the plurality of images for each subject on the images is calculated, a subject having an absolute parallax value which exceeds a first predetermined amount as a subject targeted for display position adjustment, using a cross point provisionally set for the plurality of images as a reference is identified, and parallax is gradually adjusted such that the absolute parallax value of the subject targeted for display position adjustment does not exceed a second predetermined amount after adjustment. In this case, a subject having an absolute parallax value which exceeds a third predetermined amount is identified as a subject to be blurred, in each of an image having the provisional cross-point position, an image undergoing parallax adjustment, and an image after the parallax adjustment, and a blur process is performed on the subject to be blurred within the images. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113863 | LIQUID APPLICATION DEVICE, LIQUID APPLICATION METHOD, AND NANOIMPRINT SYSTEM - A liquid application device includes: a liquid discharge head having a structure in which nozzles for performing droplet ejection of a functional liquid onto a substrate are aligned in a row in a predetermined direction, and including liquid chambers connected to the nozzles respectively and piezoelectric elements which are provided correspondingly to the liquid chambers and serve to pressurize the liquid in the liquid chambers; a relative movement unit for causing relative movement between the substrate and the liquid discharge head; and a droplet ejection control unit for operating the piezoelectric elements so as to cause the liquid to land discretely on the substrate, and controlling operation of the piezoelectric elements according to each of groups formed by grouping the nozzles correspondingly to the structure of the liquid discharge head. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113875 | STEREOSCOPIC PANORAMA IMAGE SYNTHESIZING DEVICE, MULTI-EYE IMAGING DEVICE AND STEREOSCOPIC PANORAMA IMAGE SYNTHESIZING METHOD - A method of the subject matter includes: performing projective transform of a plurality of left images and right images acquired from a plurality of stereoscopic images onto an identical projection surface separately; detecting respective corresponding points in overlapping areas between the left images and between the right images; setting a stereoscopic image in which a main subject has been detected, as a first reference stereoscopic image; with reference to the left image and the projective-transformed right image having been acquired from the first reference stereoscopic image, performing geometric deformation of adjacent left and right images such that the corresponding points between the reference left image and the adjacent left image are matched, and the corresponding points between the reference right image and the adjacent right image are matched; and synthesizing right and left panorama images based on the first reference stereoscopic images and the geometrically-deformed right and left images. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113888 | DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR DETERMINING OBSTACLE WITHIN IMAGING RANGE DURING IMAGING FOR STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY - An obstacle determining unit obtains predetermined index values for each of subranges of each imaging range of each imaging unit, compares the index values of the subranges at mutually corresponding positions in the imaging ranges of the different imaging units, and if a difference between the index values in the imaging ranges of the different imaging units is large enough to satisfy a predetermined criterion, determines that the imaging range of at least one of the imaging units contains an obstacle that is close to the imaging optical system of the at least one of the imaging units. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113892 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Among objects located more frontward than a main object, an object having a disparity vector having magnitude of a predetermined threshold value or more determined as a target object. A background image for an image for right-eye is extracted from an image for left-eye, and is combined with the image for right-eye. The target object is deleted from the image for right-eye. The target object image is combined at a position in the image for left-eye corresponding to a position of the target object in the image for right-eye to overlappingly display images of the target object in the image for left-eye. The image for right-eye from which the target object image is deleted and the image for left-eye in which the images of the target object are overlappingly displayed are three-dimensionally displayed on a monitor. Accordingly, the target object can be prevented from being viewed as a three-dimensional image. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113895 | 3D IMAGE REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, AND PARALLAX ADJUSTMENT METHOD OF THE SAME, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE - When there is no parallax data for a video image overall nor is there parallax data for a main imaging subject but there is image capture condition data ( | 05-09-2013 |
20130113901 | PLAYBACK DEVICE, COMPOUND-EYE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, PLAYBACK METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - There is provided: a CPU that, in at least one case among a case in which fluctuation of a fixed interval in the acquired parallax amount is greater than a predetermined value, and a case in which the parallax amount reaches a predetermined allowed limit value, or a case in which an object of acquisition of the parallax amount can no longer be detected, judges that there is an abnormality in the parallax amount, and that, in a case that is none of these, judges that there is no abnormality in the parallax amount, and that, when it is judged that there is no abnormality in the parallax amount, carries out first parallax adjustment, and that, when it is judged that there is an abnormality in the parallax amount, switches to control of a second parallax adjustment and carries out parallax adjustment. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113906 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM, PROCESSOR DEVICE THEREOF, AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING OXYGEN SATURATION LEVEL - In a special mode, an internal body portion is imaged under a first white light beam to obtain a first frame composed of blue, green, and red signals. Sequentially, the body portion is imaged under a second white light beam to obtain a second frame composed of blue, green, and red signals. An oxygen saturation level is calculated from the signals. A special image is produced based on the oxygen saturation level. A displacement between the first and second frames is calculated from the signals. If the displacement is a first allowable value or more and less than a second allowable value, the special image is displayed with a lower chroma on a monitor, as compared with a case where the displacement is less than the first allowable value. If the displacement is the second allowable value or more, the special image is converted into a gray scale image. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113965 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING METHOD - An imaging apparatus includes a solid-state imaging device that has a plurality of pairs of a first photoelectric conversion element and a second photoelectric conversion element, which have different spectral sensitivity characteristics, respectively. A wavelength range where the first photoelectric conversion element of each pair mainly has a spectral sensitivity and a wavelength range where the second photoelectric conversion element of the pair mainly has a spectral sensitivity fall within wavelength ranges of specific colors of visible light respectively. The plurality of pairs include a plurality of types of pairs having different specific colors. A half-width in a spectral sensitivity characteristic of the second photoelectric conversion element of each pair is wider than a half width in a spectral sensitivity characteristic of the first photoelectric conversion element of the pair. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113972 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging device includes a photoelectric conversion layer, a MOS transistor circuit. The photoelectric conversion layer is formed over a semiconductor substrate. The MOS transistor circuit reads out a signal corresponding to charges generated in the photoelectric conversion layer and then collected, and that is formed in the semiconductor substrate, the charges having a given polarity. The MOS transistor circuit includes a charge accumulation portion, a reset transistor, and an output transistor. The charge accumulation portion is electrically connected with the photoelectric conversion layer. The reset transistor resets a potential of the charge accumulation portion to a reset potential. The output transistor outputs a signal corresponding to the potential of the charge accumulation portion. The reset transistor and the output transistor have carriers whose polarity is opposite to the given polarity. In the MOS transistor circuit, following formula (1) is satisfied: GND05-09-2013 | |
20130113976 | IMAGING LENS, IMAGING APPARATUS AND PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE - An imaging lens is provided and includes: in order from the object side, a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a concave surface on the image side near the optical axis and having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens having a positive refractive power near the optical axis; and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power near the optical axis. An image side surface of the fifth lens is concave near the optical axis and has a region where a negative power of the region decreases toward a periphery of the fifth lens as compared with a negative power near the optical axis. | 05-09-2013 |
20130114793 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING DEVICE, RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING SYSTEM, AND RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING METHOD - The radiographic imaging device that configures the disclosed radiographic imaging system has at least a camera that images a main cassette body. Said camera is integrally configured to a radiation source and a control device that controls the main cassette body or is integrally configured to a main radiation source body that houses the radiation source. | 05-09-2013 |
20130115556 | PATTERN FORMING METHOD, CHEMICAL AMPLIFICATION RESIST COMPOSITION AND RESIST FILM - A pattern forming method, includes: (i) forming a film from a chemical amplification resist composition that contains (A) a resin capable of increasing a polarity of the resin (A) to decrease a solubility of the resin (A) for a developer containing an organic solvent by an action of an acid, (B) a compound capable of generating an acid upon irradiation with an actinic ray or radiation, and (C) a solvent; (ii) exposing the film; and (iii) performing development by using a developer containing an organic solvent, wherein the resin (A) has a structure in which a polar group is protected with a leaving group capable of decomposing and leaving by an action of an acid, and the leaving group contains a fluorine atom. | 05-09-2013 |
20130116564 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE AND ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC METHOD - A microscopic change in structure of sound velocity or attenuation due to a pathological change can be grasped, the change being difficult to grasp with conventional measurement of an absolute value of sound velocity or attenuation. The above problem is solved by providing an ultrasound diagnostic device including an ultrasound probe including a plurality of ultrasound transducers transmitting ultrasound waves to an object and receiving ultrasound waves reflected from the object to output an ultrasound detection signal, a region-of-interest setting device setting a region of interest within the object, a transmission focus instructing device making the ultrasound probe transmit the ultrasound waves by focusing on the region of interest, a device setting at least one or more points of interest in the region of interest, a device finding a change in sound velocity or attenuation at the point of interest, and a device finding an index indicating a sonic variation or an attenuation variation based on the change in sound velocity or attenuation. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117984 | REEL INSTALLATION METHOD AND MAGAZINE - An installation method includes: holding a first reel and a second reel at an upper cartridge so as to be unable to rotate, by reel holding mechanisms; detaching a lower cartridge from the upper cartridge; conveying the upper cartridge, that is in a state of holding the first reel and the second reel by the reel holding mechanisms, to a drive device, and positioning and placing the first reel and the second reel respectively on a pair of rotating members of the drive device; releasing holding of the first reel and the second reel by the reel holding mechanisms; removing the upper cartridge from the drive device; and fixing the first reel and the second reel to the respective rotating members. | 05-16-2013 |
20130118578 | SUBSTRATE FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A substrate for an electronic device is formed by an insulating layer-provided metal substrate, which includes an anodized alumina film on the surface of a metal substrate and has a cut end face at at least one side thereof, and an electrode layer, which is provided only at an inner area that is away from the cut end face by a distance of 200 μm or more. | 05-16-2013 |
20130119260 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING DEVICE - A radiographic imaging device has two radiation detectors | 05-16-2013 |
20130119278 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ERASING DEVICE - A radiographic image erasing device includes: a first light source that applies first erase light including a wavelength in the ultraviolet region to a storage phosphor sheet in which a radiographic image has been stored and recorded; a second light source that is placed at a height identical to that of the first light source and applies second erase light including a wavelength of a longer wavelength than that of the first erase light to the storage phosphor sheet to which the first erase light has been applied; drive mechanisms that switch the orientations or positions of the first light source and the second light source; and a controller that controls the drive mechanisms in accordance with a conveyance direction of the storage phosphor sheet such that the first erase light and the second erase light are applied in this order to the storage phosphor sheet. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120374 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - A parallax amount between the plurality of images for each subject on the images is calculated, a subject is identified as a subject targeted for display position adjustment, in a case where the subject having an absolute parallax value which exceeds a predetermined amount is successively pictured in more than a predetermined number of frames, using a cross point provisionally set for the plurality of images as a reference, and parallax is adjusted such that the absolute parallax value of the subject targeted for display position adjustment does not exceed a predetermined amount after adjustment. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120485 | LIQUID APPLICATION DEVICE, LIQUID APPLICATION METHOD, AND NANOIMPRINT SYSTEM - A liquid application device includes: a liquid ejection head including: nozzles configured to perform ejection of droplets of liquid toward a substrate; and liquid chambers connected respectively to the nozzles and defined by side walls, at least respective parts of the side walls being constituted of piezoelectric elements, the liquid ejection head being configured to cause shear deformation of the piezoelectric elements to eject the droplets of the liquid in the liquid chamber through the nozzles; and a droplet ejection control device configured to group the nozzles into groups of not less than three in such a manner that adjacent nozzles belong to different groups, and is configured to control operation of the piezoelectric elements in such a manner that the droplet ejection is performed at a same timing only through the nozzles belonging to a same group so as to deposit the liquid discretely onto the substrate. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120503 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS AND DRIVE METHOD FOR INKJET HEAD - A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a gas chamber surrounding a piezoelectric element in an inkjet head; and a dry gas supply device configured to start supply of dry gas to the gas chamber before supply of electric power to the inkjet head is started, to continue the supply of the dry gas while the supply of the electric power to the inkjet head is continued, and to halt the supply of the dry gas after the supply of the electric power to the inkjet head is halted. While the dry gas supply device halts the supply of the dry gas to the gas chamber, a dry gas supply flow channel opening and closing device is closed to disconnect the dry gas supply device and the gas chamber, and a gas return flow channel opening and closing device is closed to disconnect the gas chamber and the external air. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120676 | STEREO IMAGE PRINT AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - Provided is a stereo image print observable without polarized glasses, having a transparent support; first and second laminate disposed on a surface, respectively, of the transparent support, each laminate having an image layer satisfying condition (1) and a protective layer having at least one layer satisfying condition (2), the image layer and the protective layer being disposed in this order from the transparent support side: (1) each image layer has a dichroic image including pixels for a left eye and pixels for a right eye arranged in a predetermined array, each pixel having at least one kind of horizontally aligned dichroic dye, and absorption axes of the dichroic images in the first and the second laminates are orthogonal to each other, (2) the protective layer has an in-plane retardation value (Re) 10 mm or less for visible light. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120839 | CELLULOSE ACYLATE FILM, PROTECTIVE FILM FOR POLARIZING PLATE, POLARIZING PLATE, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - There is provided a cellulose acylate film, containing a hindered amin-based compound, wherein the hindered amine-based compound is contained in an amount of 0.001% by mass to 5% by mass based on cellulose acylate, a minimum value of Knoop hardness is 170 N/mm | 05-16-2013 |
20130121123 | METHOD FOR RECORDING ON AND READING OUT FROM OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - Recording and reading method for optical information recording medium comprising: recording layer having thickness not less than 2λ/n, where λ is wavelength of recording beam and n is refractive index of the recording layer, and configured to undergo a change in the refractive index by irradiation with the recording beam; and adjacent layer adjacent to the recording layer at a side opposite to an incident side, comprises the steps of: recording a recording spot by irradiating with the recording beam, while shifting focal position by offset amount d, which satisfies ω | 05-16-2013 |
20130121127 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - An optical information recording medium | 05-16-2013 |
20130121464 | RADIATION IMAGING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND RADIATION IMAGING SYSTEM - Besides normal pixels, a plurality detection pixels are arranged in an imaging surface of an FPD. In preliminary imaging, X-rays are emitted to an imaged body portion of a patient. The detection pixels receive the X-rays passed through the body portion, and output AEC detection signals. If an integral value of the AEC detection signals has reached a threshold value, X-ray emission is stopped and the preliminary imaging is completed. A main exposure condition determination unit determines a main irradiation time, being an irradiation time with the X-rays during the main imaging, based on an irradiation time with the X-rays during the preliminary imaging and the integral value of the AEC detection signals. The main imaging is performed using the main irradiation time. The normal pixels continue a charge accumulation operation over the preliminary imaging and the main imaging to produce an X-ray image for use in diagnosis. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121468 | RADIOGRAPH IMAGING SYSTEM, RADIOGRAPH IMAGING METHOD, AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - In the disclosed radiograph imaging system, the transmission/reception of a signal is possible between on-site communication units and a waiting area communication unit. Also, the waiting area communication unit transmits at least an imaging menu to the on-site communication units. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121471 | RADIATION IMAGE DETECTION APPARATUS AND RADIATION IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHING SYSTEM - A radiation image detection apparatus, includes: a control unit configured to drive an imaging unit so that a radiation image data is acquired, an image receiving unit is reset after acquiring the radiation image data, and a dark image data is acquired; in which: the control unit changes at least one of a reset time of the image receiving unit and a reduction ratio of an reduced image data on the basis of the communication speed by such that the transmission of the reduced image data is completed at least prior to reading-out an electrical charge signal from the image receiving unit when acquiring the dark image. | 05-16-2013 |
20130122276 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE, PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF, PHOTOSENSOR, IMAGING DEVICE AND THEIR DRIVE METHODS - A photoelectric conversion device comprising a transparent electrically conductive film, a photoelectric conversion film and an electrically conductive film in this order, wherein the photoelectric conversion film comprises a photoelectric conversion layer, and an electron blocking layer, wherein the electron blocking layer contains a compound represented by the specific formula. | 05-16-2013 |
20130122281 | HEAT-RAY SHIELDING MATERIAL - A heat-ray shielding material including: a substrate; and a metal particle-containing layer containing at least one kind of metal particles, the metal particle-containing layer being on the substrate, wherein the metal particles contain flat metal particles each having a substantially hexagonal shape or a substantially disc shape in an amount of 60% by number or more, and wherein a coefficient of variation of a distribution of distances between centers of the flat metal particles adjacent to each other is 20% or less. | 05-16-2013 |
20130122427 | PATTERN FORMING METHOD, ACTINIC RAY-SENSITIVE OR RADIATION-SENSITIVE RESIN COMPOSITION AND RESIST FILM - A pattern forming, method, includes: (i) forming a film from an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition that contains (A) a compound capable of generating an acid upon irradiation with an actinic ray or radiation and decomposing by an action of an acid to decrease a solubility of the compound (A) for an organic solvent; (ii) exposing the film; and (iii) performing development by using a developer containing an organic solvent. | 05-16-2013 |
20130123453 | POLYMERIZABLE COMPOUND - Provided is a novel polymerizable azomethine compound which has a high Δn and is colorless. | 05-16-2013 |
20130123628 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE AND ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC METHOD - The present invention provides an ultrasound diagnostic device including an ultrasound probe including a plurality of ultrasound transducers transmitting ultrasound waves to an object and receiving ultrasound waves reflected from the specimen to output an ultrasound detection signal, a region-of-interest setting unit setting a region of interest within the specimen, and a variation measuring unit measuring a sonic variation or an attenuation variation of ultrasound waves in the region of interest. | 05-16-2013 |
20130126213 | CONDUCTIVE FILM - There are provided a pattern exposure method, a conductive film producing method, and a conductive film, wherein a photosensitive material is subjected to a proximity exposure through a photomask disposed with a proximity gap of 70 to 200 μm, and thereby is exposed in the mask pattern periodically in the conveying direction to obtain a conductive film. The conductive film has a plurality of conductive portions of first and second conductive thin metal wires and a plurality of opening portions. A side of each thin metal wire has a protrusion extending toward the opening portion from a virtual line representing a designed width of the thin metal wire, and the protruding amount of the protrusion is 1/25 to ⅙ of the designed width. | 05-23-2013 |
20130126653 | REEL - There is provided a reel including: a substantially cylindrical bottomed reel hub, around an outer peripheral surface of which a recording tape can be wound; a reel gear that is formed at a bottom section of the reel hub and is configured to mesh with a drive gear of a winding device that winds the recording tape around the reel hub; and a stationary portion that is formed at the bottom section of the reel hub and is configured to be fixed by a fastener to a fastening portion formed at a rotating member of a drive device. | 05-23-2013 |
20130126743 | RADIATION DETECTOR - A radiation detector includes a scintillator layer, a first photoelectric conversion layer, a second photoelectric conversion layer, and one board or two boards. The scintillator layer, the first photoelectric conversion layer, the second photoelectric conversion layer, and the one board or two boards are layered. The first photoelectric conversion layer is constituted with one of a first organic material and an inorganic material with a wider radiation absorption wavelength range than the first organic material. The first photoelectric conversion layer absorbs at least light of a first wavelength and converts the light to charges. The second photoelectric conversion layer is constituted with a second organic material that is different from the first organic material. The second photoelectric conversion layer absorbs more of light of a second wavelength than of light of the first wavelength and converts the light to charges. | 05-23-2013 |
20130126799 | ELECTROCONDUCTIVE FILM, TOUCH PANEL AND SOLAR BATTERY - An electroconductive film including: electroconductive fibers, wherein the electroconductive film satisfies the following expression: 0.0105-23-2013 | |
20130126850 | RADIATION DETECTOR AND RADIATION DETECTOR MANUFACTURING METHOD - A radiation detector that includes a first scintillator layer, an organic photoelectric conversion layer and a substrate is provided. The first scintillator layer, the organic photoelectric conversion layer and the substrate are layered along a radiation incident direction. The first scintillator layer contains a blend of a first phosphor material that is mainly sensitive to low energy radiation in incident radiation and converts the radiation into light of a first wavelength, and a second phosphor material that is more sensitive to high energy than low energy radiation in the radiation and converts the radiation into light of a second wavelength different from the first wavelength. The organic photoelectric conversion layer is configured by disposing a plurality of first light detection sensors and a plurality of second light detection sensors in the same plane. | 05-23-2013 |
20130127002 | SOLID STATE IMAGING DEVICE - A CCD image sensor, being a solid state imaging device, has four types of pixels, first to fourth pixels. The first to fourth pixels are arranged in a predetermined pattern. Each of the pixels has a PD and a microlens. Each of the microlens is arranged with its optical axis center eccentric or shifted in a predetermined direction from a center of a light receiving surface of the PD. A part of the microlens overlaps one or more adjacent pixels. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128009 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE CORRECTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging unit for acquiring a plurality of view point images imaged from a plurality of viewpoints by a plurality of imaging optical systems each including a zoom lens; a storage unit for storing an error of the imaging optical system; an optical zoom magnification specifying unit for receiving specification instruction of an optical zoom magnification; a zoom lens driving unit for moving the zoom lens to a position corresponding to the instruction of the optical zoom magnification; and a correction unit for setting an electronic zoom magnification corresponding to the position of the zoom lens, magnifying a viewpoint image to be corrected from within the plurality of viewpoint images based on the electronic zoom magnification, and extracting a part of the magnified viewpoint image to eliminate an object point shift amount corresponding to the error from the magnified viewpoint image. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128286 | INK USE AMOUNT EVALUATION APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND INKJET APPARATUS - When image is formed by a liquid ejection head, input image data is subjected to conversion processing including tone conversion using a first look-up table (LUT) and density correction or non-uniformity correction in nozzle units using second LUTs. Ink use amount in image formation is predicted from reduced image data which is generated from the input image data. In this, the calculation is made more efficient by applying a third LUT which is compiled according to requirements from the second LUTs, to the reduced image data, rather than using the second LUTs directly. Since the image conversion processing is carried out which combines the first LUT for tone conversion and the third LUT corresponding to the non-uniformity correction, and the ink amount distribution data is calculated from the reduced image data after the conversion, then it is possible to ascertain an accurate ink amount which reflects the image adjustment conditions. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128359 | OPTICAL FILM, POLARIZING PLATE, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - An optical film having a high Re and a low |Rth| is provided. An optical film consists of a composition that includes cellulose acylate having an acyl group including an aromatic group, and satisfies Formula (I) 150 nm≦Re (550)≦350 nm, Formula (II) −50 nm≦Rth (550)≦50 nm, and Formula (III) 0.07 nm≦degree of cross-sectional orientation P2z≦1, Here, Re (550) represents the in-plane retardation at a wavelength of 550 nm, and Rth (550) represents the thickness direction retardation at a wavelength of 550 nm. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128710 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - Optical information recording medium comprises: a plurality of recording layers | 05-23-2013 |
20130128715 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - Optical information recording medium | 05-23-2013 |
20130129049 | RADIATION IMAGING SYSTEM AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An X-ray imaging system is composed of an X-ray source, first and second absorption-type gratings, and a flat panel detector (FPD). Images are captured with the second absorption-type grating moved in X direction orthogonal to its grating line, relative to the first absorption-type grating. The FPD has pixels arranged in the X direction and Y direction orthogonal to the X direction. A group of the pixels arranged in the X direction are connected to a single signal line for reading out charge. A differential phase image producing section produces a differential phase image based on pieces of image data obtained from the respective images captured. A phase contrast image producing section integrates the differential phase image, produced by the differential phase image producing section, in a direction corresponding to the signal line of the FPD to produce a phase contrast image. | 05-23-2013 |
20130129053 | RADIATION IMAGE DETECTION APPARATUS AND RADIATION IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHING SYSTEM - A radiation image detection apparatus includes a control unit, during a irradiation detection mode, stops supplying of an operating power to a data processing unit until irradiation of radiation is detected by an irradiation detection unit, and when the irradiation of radiation is detected by the irradiation detection unit, the control unit proceeds to a photographing mode and begins supplying the operating power to the data processing unit. | 05-23-2013 |
20130129465 | ELECTROCONDUCTIVE LAYER-TRANSFERRING MATERIAL AND TOUCH PANEL - An electroconductive layer-transferring material including: a base material; a cushion layer on the base material; and an electroconductive layer on the cushion layer, the electroconductive layer containing metal nanowires having an average minor axis length of 100 nm or less and an average major axis length of 2 μm or more, wherein the electroconductive layer-transferring material satisfies A/B=0.1 to 0.7, where A is a total thickness of an average thickness of the electroconductive layer and an average thickness of the cushion layer, and B is an average thickness of the base material, wherein the average thickness of the electroconductive layer is 0.01 μm to 0.2 μm, and wherein the average thickness of the cushion layer is 1 μm to 50 μm. | 05-23-2013 |
20130129903 | FAT-AND-OIL CONTAINING COMPOSITION AND ORAL FORMULATION CONTAINING THE SAME - A fat-and-oil containing composition which contains at least (A) an oil component, (B) glycerin, and (C) an emulsifier, the composition containing: a glycerin fatty acid ester, in which from 30% by mass to 75% by mass of constituent fatty acids are docosahexaenoic acid, as (A) the oil component; and a decaglycerin fatty acid ester, in which constituent fatty acids are oleic acid, as (C) the emulsifier, wherein respective content ratios of (A) the oil component, (B) the glycerin and (C) the emulsifier are within the following ranges relative to the total mass of (A) the oil component, (B) the glycerin and (C) the emulsifier: (A) the oil component: from 55% by mass to 78% by mass, (B) the glycerin: from 10% by mass to 35% by mass, and (C) the emulsifier: from 5% by mass to 13% by mass. | 05-23-2013 |
20130129916 | CONDUCTIVE PATTERN FORMING METHOD AND CONDUCTIVE PATTERN FORMING SYSTEM - According to a mode of the present invention, since a conductive pattern having a graded composition structure in which a content ratio of a conductive polymer decreases while a content ratio of metal microparticles increases from a base material is formed with respect to a thickness direction, adhesion with the base material is secured at a bonding portion between the base material and the conductive pattern due to the high content ratio of the conductive polymer and, at the same time, favorable electrical performance is produced by increasing the content ratio of the metal microparticles. | 05-23-2013 |
20130130064 | ALUMINA DISPERSION FOR MANUFACTURING PARTICULATE MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PARTICULATE MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM USING THE SAME, AND PARTICULATE MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - An aspect of the present invention relates to an alumina dispersion, which is employed to manufacture a particulate magnetic recording medium, comprises alumina, a solvent, and a dispersing agent in the form of an aromatic hydrocarbon compound having a phenolic hydroxyl group, and essentially does not comprise ferromagnetic powder. | 05-23-2013 |
20130131184 | ASTAXANTHIN-CONTAINING AQUEOUS COMPOSITION, COSMETIC PREPARATION, AND METHOD FOR SUPPRESSING DECOMPOSITION OF ASTAXANTHIN - Disclosed are an aqueous cosmetic preparation including at least astaxanthin, 20 μg/L or more of iron ions, and an iron chelating agent, and a method for suppressing the decomposition of astaxanthin in which an iron chelating agent is included in an aqueous composition including at least astaxanthin and 20 μg/L or more of iron ions. | 05-23-2013 |
20130131212 | CURABLE RESIN COMPOSITION AND MOLDED ARTICLE - Disclosed is a curable resin composition comprising a polymer (A) that has a main chain comprising carbon atoms and a side chain having a polymerizing unsaturated linking group and has a cyclic structure in the main chain and/or the side chain, and a compound having a polymerizing unsaturated group. The curable resin composition has good optical characteristics, good heat resistance and good moldability. | 05-23-2013 |
20130131516 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC METHOD - An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasound probe including a plurality of ultrasound transducers; a device for determining optimum sound speed values at a lattice point set in a shallower region than a region of interest (ROI) and in the ROI on the basis of an ultrasound detection signal outputted by the ultrasound probe; a device for arithmetically operating a received wave received from the ROI on the basis of the optimum sound speed value; a device for setting an assumed sound speed in the region of interest, obtaining a received wave received from each lattice point on the basis of the assumed sound speed and the optimum sound speed value at the lattice point, and synthesizing received waves at lattice points to obtain a resultant received wave; and a device for determining a local sound speed value in the ROI on the basis of the received wave and the resultant received wave. | 05-23-2013 |
20130133533 | RESIN COMPOSITION FOR LASER ENGRAVING, FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE PRECURSOR FOR LASER ENGRAVING AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE AND PROCESS FOR MAKING SAME - Disclosed are a resin composition for laser engraving, comprising (Component A) at least one polymer selected from the group consisting of following (Component A-1) to (Component A-3), (Component B) a polyfunctional ethylenically unsaturated compound, and (Component C) a polymerization initiator,
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20130133537 | RESIN COMPOSITION FOR LASER ENGRAVING, FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE PRECURSOR FOR LASER ENGRAVING AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE AND PROCESS FOR MAKING SAME - Disclosed is a resin composition for laser engraving, comprising:
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20130133538 | RESIN COMPOSITION FOR FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE, FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE PRECURSOR AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE AND PROCESS FOR MAKING SAME - A resin composition for a flexographic printing plate that comprises comprising (Component A) a polyester resin having an ethylenically unsaturated bond in the interior and at a terminal. | 05-30-2013 |
20130133539 | RESIN COMPOSITION FOR LASER ENGRAVING, FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE PRECURSOR FOR LASER ENGRAVING AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE AND PROCESS FOR MAKING SAME - Disclosed is a resin composition for laser engraving, comprising (Component A) a polyurethane resin that is a plastomer at 20° C. and has an ethylenically unsaturated group in a main chain and a side chain and (Component B) a polymerization initiator. Also disclosed is a flexographic printing plate precursor for laser engraving, comprising a relief-forming layer comprising the above-described resin composition. | 05-30-2013 |
20130133540 | RESIN COMPOSITION FOR LASER ENGRAVING, FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE PRECURSOR FOR LASER ENGRAVING AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE AND PROCESS FOR MAKING SAME - A resin composition for laser engraving that comprises (Component A) a resin that has a group selected from the group consisting of groups represented by Formula (I) to Formula (III) and is a plastomer at 20° C.; (Component B) an ethylenically unsaturated compound; and (Component C) a polymerization initiator. In Formula (I) to Formula (III), X, Y, and Z independently denote an alkylene group having 1 to 30 carbons, R | 05-30-2013 |
20130134316 | RADIOGRAPHY DEVICE - In this radiography device, the radiation conversion panel side of a scintillator is formed in a convex shape towards the radiation conversion panel, the end portions of columnar crystals are formed at said side, and the end portions of the columnar crystals can contact the radiation conversion panel. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135449 | SINGLE-EYE STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE - Present invention provides a single-eye stereoscopic image capturing device which can reduce the discomfort of a photographer by constantly maintaining a parallax quantity of a left-eye image and a right-eye image that are stereoscopically-displayed even if a focus lens is moved. The single-eye stereoscopic image capturing device comprises, a photographic optical system, pupil division part, imaging part, focus lens driving part, parallax correction quantity calculation part, parallax correction part, and output part. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135506 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING METHOD - An imaging apparatus having a solid state imaging device that includes first photoelectric conversion elements and second photoelectric conversion elements arranged in a two dimensional array, comprises a device control unit that performs a driving in which a first signal according to electrical charges accumulated in the first photoelectric conversion elements during a first exposure period and a second signal according to electrical charges accumulated in the second photoelectric conversion elements during each of second exposure periods are read by sequentially exposing the second photoelectric conversion elements for the second exposure periods, each of which overlaps with the first exposure period and has different length of time, during periods overlapped with the first exposure period while simultaneously exposing the first photoelectric conversion elements for the first exposure period. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135726 | ANTISTATIC ANTIREFLECTION FILM, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ANTISTATIC ANTIREFLECTION FILM, POLARIZING PLATE AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An antistatic antireflection film, including; a support; a hardcoat layer formed from a composition for a hardcoat layer containing at least a compound having a quaternary ammonium salt group; and a low refractive index layer formed from a composition for a low refractive index layer containing at least the following (a), (b), (c) and (d), in this order, wherein, (a) is an ethylenically unsaturated group-containing fluoropolymer, (b) is a fluorine-containing polyfunctional monomer having a surface free energy of 23 mN/m or more when a film is formed alone, four or less —CF | 05-30-2013 |
20130136233 | RADIATION DETECTOR, RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING DEVICE, AND RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING SYSTEM - The present invention provides radiation detector, radiographic imaging device and radiographic imaging system that may detect irradiated radiation while maintaining quality of radiographic image. The radiation detector has: pixels having a sensor portion that generates charges in accordance with light converted from irradiated radiation, TFT switch that outputs, to a signal line, charges read-out from the sensor portion, and radiation detection TFT switch that is not connected to a signal line; and radiation detection pixels that have the sensor portion, the TFT switch, and radiation detection TFT switch that is connected to a signal line and that outputs, to the signal line, charges read-out from the sensor portion. The radiation detection TFT switches are connected to radiation detection scan lines, and ON/OFF states are controlled by scan signals that are outputted from a radiation detection control circuit. | 05-30-2013 |
20130136234 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE DETECTOR AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREFOR - A flat panel detector has pixels for obtaining image signals and detective pixels for detecting the amount of incident x-rays. A signal processing circuit is of a pipeline-type, wherein first and second buffer memories are connected to the output of an A/D converter. In a dose detecting operation, the signal processing circuit repeats primary cycles alternately with secondary cycles of a shorter length than the primary cycles. In the primary cycle, a dose detection signal based on electric charges from the detective pixels is input in the first buffer memory and, simultaneously, a dummy signal is output from the second buffer memory. In secondary cycle, the dose detection signal is output from the first buffer memory and, simultaneously, a second dummy signal is input in the second buffer memory. On the basis of the dose detection signals, a start-of-radiation detector detects the start of x-ray radiation. | 05-30-2013 |
20130136900 | ACTINIC RAY-SENSITIVE OR RADIATION-SENSITIVE RESIN COMPOSITION, AND RESIST FILM, PATTERN FORMING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE, EACH USING THE COMPOSITION - Disclosed are an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition including (A) a compound capable of generating an acid by irradiation of actinic rays or radiation, and (B) a resin of which solubility in an alkali developer is increased by being decomposed by the action of an acid, a resist film using the composition, a pattern forming method, an electronic device manufacturing method, and an electronic device, wherein the actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition contains a combination composed of the two types of specific compounds of (A-1) or a combination of the two types of specific compounds of (A-2) as the compound (A). | 05-30-2013 |
20130137018 | DYE COMPOUND, METHOD OF PRODUCING DIPYRROMETHENE METALCOMPLEX COMPOUND, METHOD OF PRODUCING DYE MULTIMER,SUBSTITUTED PYRROLE COMPOUND, COLORED CURABLE COMPOSITION,COLOR FILTER, METHOD OF PRODUCING COLOR FILTER, SOLID-STATEIMAGE SENSOR AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The invention provides a dye compound having a partial structure represented by the following formula (5): | 05-30-2013 |
20130137190 | IMMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHIC DEVICE - The present invention provides an immunochromatographic device, which contains the following (a) and (b): (a) a first device part holding a first insoluble carrier used for developing a complex formed with an analyte and a labeling substance comprising a metal labeled with a first binding substance that can bind to the analyte and capturing the analyte and the labeling substance at a reaction portion containing a second binding substance that can bind to the analyte, and (b) a second device part holding a second insoluble carrier used for developing a liquid and a third insoluble carrier used for absorbing a liquid, in such a way that the first insoluble carrier does not come into contact with the second insoluble carrier and the third insoluble carrier. | 05-30-2013 |
20130137926 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Obtaining a surface image captured by an endoscope inserted in a tubular organ associated with a surrounding blood vessel and representing an inner surface of a wall of the organ, generating, from a three-dimensional image representing a three-dimensional area including the organ, an adjacent blood vessel image depicting a portion of the blood vessel adjacent to the wall from a viewpoint in the three-dimensional image corresponding the viewpoint of the surface image, generating, from a three-dimensional image representing a three-dimensional area including a surrounding area of the organ, a surrounding blood vessel image depicting the blood vessel from a viewpoint in the three-dimensional image corresponding the viewpoint of the surface image, and causing the surface image, adjacent blood vessel image, and surrounding blood vessel image to be displayed in this order on a display unit. | 05-30-2013 |
20130137927 | PROPULSION ASSEMBLY FOR ENDOSCOPE AND DRIVING METHOD - A propulsion assembly includes a support sleeve for mounting on a tip device of an endoscope. An endless track device is supported on the support sleeve in an endlessly movable manner, for contacting a wall of a body cavity, for propulsion of the tip device relative to the body cavity. A drive sleeve drives the endless track device. First and second torque wire devices have proximal and distal end portions, the proximal end portion being rotated by a motor, the distal end portion actuating the drive sleeve. Plural helical windings of a first group constitute the first wire device, and are so wound as to increase tightness thereof upon moving the endoscope in a distal direction. Plural helical windings of a second group constitute the second wire device, and are so wound as to increase tightness thereof upon moving the endoscope in a proximal direction. | 05-30-2013 |
20130137928 | ENDOSCOPE - An endoscope permitting cleaning thereof with hydrogen peroxide and having an angle section with enhanced ease of operation. The endoscope includes the angle section including substantially cylindrical tubular members connected to each other, a bending operation section for bending the angle section, and wires for connecting the bending operation section and the angle section and bending the angle section when drawn by the operation at the operating section. The wires have adhered on the surfaces thereof polytetrafluoroethylene powder produced by pyrolysis as lubricant. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138061 | ENDOSCOPIC ASPIRATION DEVICE - An endoscopic aspiration device is mounted on a manipulating head of an endoscope, from which an elongated insertion rod member is extended forward, the endoscopic aspiration device being composed of a valve casing which is mounted on the manipulation head in communication with an aspiration passage running through the insertion rod member, and a valve assembly unit including a valve member, a valve guide member and a connector member attached to the valve guide member to communicate same with a proximal aspiration passage on the side of a suction source. The valve member is put in a sliding displacement along the valve guide member to bring the aspiration passage into and out of communication with the proximal aspiration passage on the side of a suction source. The valve guide member is coupled with the valve casing through a coupling mechanism which permits to turn the valve assembly unit on and relative to the manipulating head. The coupling mechanism is arranged to perform a function of coupling and uncoupling the valve guide unit with and from the valve casing, and a function of locking the valve guide member in the valve casing to prevent spontaneous dislodgement from the latter. | 05-30-2013 |
20130139723 | NOVEL AZO COMPOUND, AQUEOUS SOLUTION, INK COMPOSITION, INK FOR INKJET RECORDING, INKJET RECORDING METHOD, INK CARTRIDGE FOR INKJET RECORDING, AND INKJET RECORD - There is provided an aqueous solution including: (a) a preservative, and (b) at least one kind of an azo compound represented by the following Formula (1) or a salt thereof, wherein a content of (b) is 1% by mass to 25% by mass: | 06-06-2013 |
20130139724 | NOVEL AZO COMPOUND, AQUEOUS SOLUTION, INK COMPOSITION, INK FOR INKJET RECORDING, INKJET RECORDING METHOD, INK CARTRIDGE FOR INKJET RECORDING, AND INKJET RECORD - There is provided an aqueous solution containing (a) a preservative and (b) at least one azo compound represented by the following Formula (1) or a salt thereof, in which the content of (b) is 1% by mass to 25% by mass. | 06-06-2013 |
20130140464 | RADIATION DETECTION PANEL - A radiation detection panel includes a single light emitting section, a first detection section and a second detection section. The single light emitting section absorbs radiation that has been transmitted through an imaging subject and that emits light. The first detection section detects light emitted from the light emitting section as an image. The second detection section that is formed from an organic photoelectric conversion material and that detects light emitted from the light emitting section. The light emitting section, the first detection section and the second detection section are stacked in layers along a radiation incident direction. | 06-06-2013 |
20130140465 | RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE AND RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURE SYSTEM - In a radiation detector ( | 06-06-2013 |
20130140467 | RADIOLOGICAL IMAGE-CAPTURING DEVICE, RADIOLOGICAL IMAGE-CAPTURING SYSTEM, RADIOLOGICAL IMAGE-CAPTURING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A radiological image-capturing device includes: a first read control section that executes a first read mode in which electric signals stored in a plurality of pixels are read out simultaneously in units of a plurality of rows; and an emission-start determining section that determines that the emission of radiation from a radiation source onto an image-capturing panel has started when the values of the electric signals read by the first read control section have become greater than an arbitrarily settable threshold. If it is determined by the emission-start determining section that the emission of said radiation has started, the first read control section terminates the reading of the electric signals, and thereby brings the image-capturing panel into an exposure state. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141539 | MONOCULAR STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING DEVICE - The monocular stereoscopic imaging device according to one aspect of the presently disclosed subject matter includes: an imaging optical system including a zoom lens and a diaphragm; a pupil dividing unit configured to divide a light flux having passed through a imaging optical system into multiple light fluxes; an imaging unit configured to receive the multiple light fluxes, so as to continuously acquire a left-eye image and a right-eye image; and a controlling unit configured to control a zoom lens driving unit to move the zoom lens in accordance with an instruction of changing the focus distance, and configured to control the diaphragm driving unit to maintain at a substantially constant level a stereoscopic effect of the left-eye image and the right-eye image three-dimensionally displayed on a display unit before and after the zoom lens is moved. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141681 | LAMINATE, OPTICAL FILM AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR THESE, POLARIZING PLATE, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - A laminate comprising a transparent support and, as formed on the transparent support, a patterned alignment control layer containing a first alignment control region and a second alignment control region each having an alignment control surface, in which the two regions differ from each other in point of the composition thereof and in point of the alignment-controlling capability thereof, in which the individual alignment control surfaces are alternately positioned in the patterned alignment control layer, and in which the alignment control surfaces of the first alignment control region and the second alignment control region can control liquid crystals in such a manner that the long axes of the aligned liquid crystals could be vertical to each other in the plane parallel to the alignment control surfaces. | 06-06-2013 |
20130142308 | RADIATION IMAGING SYSTEM AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - In each of a first phase shift differential image produced in the absence of a subject in preliminary imaging and a second phase shift differential image produced in the presence of the subject in main imaging, boundaries, at each of which a value changes from π/2 to −π/2 or from −π/2 to π/2, are determined. First and second staircase data in each of which a value changes by π or −π when crossing each of the boundaries in a predetermined direction is produced. The first and second staircase data is added to the first and second phase shift differential images to produce first and second added phase shift differential image, respectively. The first added phase shift differential image is subtracted from the second added phase shift differential image to produce a corrected phase shift differential image. | 06-06-2013 |
20130142309 | RADIATION IMAGING SYSTEM AND RADIATION IMAGING DEVICE - A radiation imaging system that can continuously use sections of a radiation imaging device that has not been damaged and a radiation imaging device are provided. The radiation imaging system comprises: a radiation device that applies radiation; and the radiation imaging device with an imaging panel that captures images of the applied radiation. The radiation imaging device comprises: a failure cause detection unit that detects environmental noise or falls that cause failures in the radiation imaging device; a malfunction diagnostic unit that, in a case where a detected environmental noise value reaches a threshold value or in a case where a fall has been detected, diagnoses a malfunction in the radiation imaging device; and a function limiting unit that applies limits to the radiation imaging device functions that are used continuously, in accordance with the diagnosis results of the malfunction diagnostic unit. | 06-06-2013 |
20130143028 | OPTICAL FILM, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, POLARIZING PLATE AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - Optical film having a transparent support and optical functional layer as the outermost layer. The optical functional layer is on or above the transparent support; has a thickness of 50-250 nm; and contains low refractive index fine particles having a refractive index of ≦1.45 and arranged substantially in a line on a surface of the optical functional layer on the opposite side of the transparent support, high refractive index fine particles having a refractive index of ≧1.55 and unevenly distributed in a lower part of the optical functional layer on the side of the transparent support, and a fluorine-containing compound. | 06-06-2013 |
20130143164 | POLYMERIZABLE COMPOSITION - Provided is a polymerizable composition containing (A) a polymerization initiator, (B) a polymerizable compound, (C) at least either a tungsten compound or a metal boride, (D) a compound having a maximum absorption wavelength between 300 nm and 450 nm and assuming that the maximum absorbance between 300 nm and 450 nm is 1, having an absorbance of 0.3 or less at a wavelength of 550 nm, and (E) an alkali-soluble binder. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144123 | PROPULSION ASSEMBLY FOR ENDOSCOPE AND FASTENING METHOD - A propulsion assembly for an endoscope includes a support sleeve and an endless track device. A clamping sleeve is contained in the support sleeve. Male and female threads cooperate for moving the clamping sleeve between operative and non-operative states upon rotation of the clamping sleeve. The operative state is on a side of a proximal direction from the non-operative state along a central axis. A sealing device is contained in the support sleeve, has a C-shape in a resiliently deformable manner, is disposed around the endoscope and between the clamping sleeve and a receiving surface. The sealing device is pushed by the clamping sleeve when the clamping sleeve is in the operative state, for squeezing the endoscope by radially compressing thereabout, and released from push of the clamping sleeve when the clamping sleeve is in the non-operative state, for releasing the endoscope by radially returning to expand thereabout. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144160 | IMAGE-BASED DIAGNOSIS ASSISTANCE APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - A morphology image representing the morphology of a specific organ including a tubular structure in the inside thereof and a function image representing a function level at each position in the organ are obtained. A structure region representing a structure dominating the organ is extracted from the morphology image. A specific partial region in the extracted structure region and a dominated region in the organ are determined, and the dominated region being dominated by a structure in the partial region. In that case, at least one of the partial region determination step and the dominated region determination step is performed by using the function image. | 06-06-2013 |
20130145945 | RESIN COMPOSITION FOR LASER ENGRAVING, FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE PRECURSOR FOR LASER ENGRAVING AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE AND PROCESS FOR MAKING SAME - Disclosed is a resin composition for laser engraving, comprising (Component A) an oligomer or polymer having a (meth)acryloyloxy group in the molecule, (Component B) an ethylenically unsaturated compound, (Component C) a compound having in the molecule at least one type selected from the group consisting of a mercapto group, a primary amino group, and a secondary amino group and at least one type of hydrolyzable silyl group and/or silanol group, and (Component D) a thermopolymerization initiator. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147871 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - At least two dot formers are provided for each of a plurality of colors. Dot formers, which form dots in a particular color, are disposed at a greater interval along a direction perpendicular to an array direction of dot forming elements than intervals along the direction perpendicular to the array direction at which other dot formers, which form dots in the remaining colors, are disposed. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147934 | ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE - An electronic endoscope includes an outer shell that is formed in a tube shape and whose peripheral wall is provided with a transparent window part extending in an axial direction, a solid-state imaging device that is provided inside the outer shell, an objective optical system that includes an objective lens for focusing object light through the window part and that forms an image onto the solid-state imaging device, and a drive mechanism that causes the objective lens in the objective optical system to move along an axis of the outer shell. The drive mechanism includes a lens holder for supporting the objective lens, a feed screw extending along the axis of the outer shell, and a motor for driving and revolving the lens holder about the feed screw as an axis of revolution. The lens holder engages with a thread groove of the feed screw. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147935 | ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE - An electronic endoscope includes an outer shell whose peripheral wall is provided with a transparent window part, a solid-state imaging device that is provided inside the outer shell, an objective optical system that includes an objective lens for focusing object light through the window part and that forms an image onto the solid-state imaging device, and a drive mechanism that causes the objective lens in the objective optical system to move along an axis of the outer shell. The outer shell is formed in a cylindrical shape and a thread groove is formed in an inner peripheral surface of the outer shell. The drive mechanism includes a lens holder for supporting the objective lens and a motor for driving and revolving the lens holder about an axis of the outer shell as an axis of revolution. The lens holder engages with the thread groove of the outer shell. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148156 | PRINTING CONDITION DETERMINING APPARATUS, PRINTING CONDITION DETERMINING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A group of printing conditions, which have at least one condition item in common except for environmental condition items concerning a temperature and humidity environment for printing, is selected from among a plurality of printing conditions. A list image, which represents a line-up of visible information concerning the temperature and humidity environment depending on the environmental condition items, and which is included in the printing conditions of the selected group, is generated and displayed. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148782 | RADIATION IMAGING APPARATUS AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - An X-ray imaging system performs pre-exposure and main exposure to take a single X-ray image. In the pre-exposure, an AEC circuit reads out a dose detection signal outputted from a detection pixel, and compares an integral value of the dose detection signal with a threshold value. When the integral value has reached the threshold value, the AEC circuit stops X-ray emission. A main exposure condition determination unit determines main irradiation time, being one item of a main exposure condition, based on irradiation time in the pre-exposure, an integral dose in the pre-exposure, and a necessary dose required for production of the X-ray image. After that, the main exposure is performed immediately with the determined main irradiation time. Normal pixels perform a charge accumulation operation continuously from the start of the pre-exposure to the end of the main exposure, and the X-ray image is produced from accumulated electric charge. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148784 | RADIOGRAPHIC DEVICE, RADIOGRAPHIC SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR RADIOGRAPHIC DEVICE - An AEC unit of an electronic cassette sets a dose target value and a short-circuited pixel used for AEC based on a radiographing condition. When a control unit of the electronic cassette detects start of irradiation of X rays, the AEC unit starts integration of a cumulative dose of X rays which are incident to a target region based on a dose detection signal output by the short-circuited pixel. The AEC unit predicts a stop timing at the time point t1, waits until the time point t2 which is a predetermined time earlier than a scheduled stop time, and sends a stop timing notification to an X-ray generation device at the time point t2. When the stop timing notification is received, a X-ray source control device immediately inputs an irradiation stop command so as to stop an operation of an X-ray source. | 06-13-2013 |
20130150562 | METHOD FOR IMMOBILIZATION, PHYSIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE SUBSTANCE-IMMOBILIZED CARRIER, CARRIER FOR IMMOBILIZATION, CARRIER, AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING CARRIER - An immobilization method for immobilizing a physiologically active substance on a solid phase carrier, the method including: bringing the solid phase carrier into contact with an acid anhydride functional group-containing silane coupling agent represented by the following Formula (I); and carrying out a process of binding of the physiologically active substance to the acid anhydride functional group while maintaining the solid phase carrier after the contact at a temperature within the range of 0° C. to 60° C.; a physiologically active substance-immobilized carrier, and a carrier for immobilization are provided. Further, a carrier including a porous material treated with an acid anhydride functional group-containing silane coupling agent represented by the following Formula (I), a blocking agent that is immobilized to the porous material; and a method for producing it is provided. | 06-13-2013 |
20130150723 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes an ultrasound probe including a transducer array, and a back unit connected to the ultrasound probe by wireless communication and generating an ultrasound image based on reception signals outputted from the transducer array, the ultrasound probe including a middle unit connected to the back unit by wireless communication and a front unit detachably connected to the middle unit and including the transducer array, and the front unit having a transmission driver that supplies drive signals to the transducer array and causes the transducer array to transmit an ultrasonic beam and a preamplifier that amplifies reception signals outputted from the transducer array. | 06-13-2013 |
20130152809 | RESIN COMPOSITION FOR LASER ENGRAVING, FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE PRECURSOR AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE AND PROCESS FOR MAKING SAME - A resin composition for laser engraving that comprises (Component A) an epoxy resin; (Component B) an epoxy resin curing agent; and (Component C) a silica, Component B comprising an amine curing agent having an amine value of no greater than 0.01 eq/g or an acid anhydride curing agent having an acid anhydride value of no greater than 0.0050 eq/g. | 06-20-2013 |
20130152822 | METHOD OF MODIFYING SURFACE OF POWDER, COATING MATERIAL, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM MANUFACTURED BY THE SAME - An aspect of the present invention relates to a method of modifying a surface of a powder, comprising mixing a powder with a compound denoted by general formula (I): | 06-20-2013 |
20130155162 | PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTING DEVICE - A printing method comprises supplying a flocculant for promoting aggregation reaction of aggregative material that gels by aggregation to at least a region of a printing medium having a small capillary force, shooting droplets of ink containing the aggregative material by an ink jet method to at least the region of the printing medium having a small capillary force, and fixing the ink that has gelled by the aggregation reaction between the aggregative material and the flocculant onto the printing medium. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155204 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND MOVEMENT CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A left-eye image and a right-eye image for a stereoscopic image are obtained using a camera including a single imaging apparatus. The left-eye image is obtained by imaging objects OB | 06-20-2013 |
20130155214 | ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE - An electronic endoscope includes a lens holder that has a tube-shaped part, a wide-angle lens that is mounted on the lens holder and that is arranged on one-end side of the tube-shaped part in a state that an optical axis is aligned to a center axis of the tube-shaped part so that an observational field of view extends to a sideward region of the tube-shaped part, an imaging device that receives light acquired through the wide-angle lens and that converts the light into an electric signal, a transparent cover that covers one-end side of the tube-shaped part and whose part facing the observational field of view of the wide-angle lens has transparency, a tube-shaped body part that is connected to the transparent cover on the-other-end side of the tube-shaped part, and a driving section that causes the lens holder to advance or retreat in the center axis direction. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155468 | COLOR PREDICTION METHOD, COLOR CONVERSION LOOKUP TABLE GENERATION METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - According to the present invention, even if the coloring material use amount is limited but ambiguities remain and an accurate coloring material use limit is not known, then a virtual coloring material use limit is set artificially, the color measurement values of virtual patches in a region that exceeds the coloring material use limit are inferred by extrapolation and the color measurement values in the region exceeding the coloring material use limit are predicted by interpolation using the inferred color measurement values. Therefore, it is possible to predict colors in relation to any input exceeding the coloring material use limit. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155489 | ELECTROPHORETIC COMPOSITION, MICROCAPSULE AND ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is an electrophoretic composition including a dye, a non-water-soluble dispersion medium, and charged particles, wherein the dye includes in a molecule thereof at least two color forming moieties including a first color forming moiety and a second color forming moiety, the first color forming moiety having a maximum absorption wavelength that is the shortest maximum absorption wavelength among the at least two color forming moieties, the second color forming moiety having a maximum absorption wavelength that is the longest maximum absorption wavelength among the at least two color forming moieties, a difference between the maximum absorption wavelength of the first color forming moiety and the maximum absorption wavelength of the second color forming moiety being from 50 nm to 400 nm, and the first color forming moiety and the second color forming moiety being bonded through a covalent bond. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156965 | COATING APPARATUS AND COATING FILM MANUFACTURING METHOD - A coating apparatus includes a die coater that supplies a coating liquid to a web. The die coater includes a die main body, a manifold, a slot, a lip face, a mount, a decompression chamber, and a container. The container includes a guide plate guiding the coating liquid or a solvent ejected from the slot of the die coater without bringing the coating liquid or solvent into contact with the mount and the decompression chamber in a non-steady state, in which the coating liquid is not supplied from the die coater to the web. The container collects the coating liquid or the solvent guided by the guide plate. The coating apparatus also includes a liquid discharge tube that is connected to the container and discharges the coating liquid or solvent to an outside of the decompression chamber. | 06-20-2013 |
20130157199 | METHOD OF PREPARING LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE - To provide a method of preparing a lithographic printing plate comprising exposing imagewise a lithographic printing plate precursor including a support, a photosensitive layer containing a binder polymer and a radical polymerizable compound having viscosity of 9,000 mPa·s or less at 25° C. and a protective layer in this order and developing the exposed lithographic printing plate precursor with a developer without passing through a heat treatment, as a method of preparing a lithographic printing plate capable of forming an image area which is cured at high sensitivity and has good printing durability and halftone dot reproducibility and capable of easily reproducing a halftone dot image because of excellent stability of halftone dot reproduction to exhibit a small restriction on setting of the time described above, even without conducting a preheat treatment. | 06-20-2013 |
20130158177 | INK SET FOR INK JET RECORDING AND INK JET RECORDING METHOD - An ink set for ink jet recording containing an ink composition containing a pigment, polymer particles, a water-soluble organic solvent, a lubricant, and water and a reaction liquid that forms an aggregate by contacting with the ink composition and an ink jet recording method using the same are provided. | 06-20-2013 |
20130158353 | PROPULSION ASSEMBLY FOR ENDOSCOPE - A propulsion assembly for an endoscope includes a support sleeve and a barrel unit. An endless track device is disposed to extend along inner and outer surfaces of the barrel unit, for endlessly moving in an axial direction of an elongated tube of the endoscope, and contacting a wall of a body cavity, for propulsion of the elongated tube. Worm wheels are disposed on the support sleeve, for driving the endless track device by engagement therewith. Plural idler rollers are disposed on the inner surface of the barrel unit in a rotatable manner, for keeping the endless track device movable in driving of the worm wheels. An guide projection is formed on the endless track device. A guide groove is formed in the barrel unit, for receiving the guide projection, to guide the endless track device on the barrel unit in the axial direction. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159459 | SERVER UNIT, BROWSING SYSTEM AND DELIVERY METHOD - A server unit includes a browsing request receiving device that receives a browsing request for a piece of content including one or multiple pages from a display unit; a user discriminating device that discriminates a user of the display unit issuing the browsing request; a delivery information generating device that generates a piece of delivery information by adding a piece of scenario information for each model representing a transition of a display range within each page of the content to which the browsing request is issued from the display unit, when an identical user discriminated by the user discriminating device has multiple display units of different models, the delivery information generating device generating the delivery information the content of which has added thereto multiple pieces of scenario information; and a delivery device that delivers the delivery information. | 06-20-2013 |
20130161525 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE DETECTOR, RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS, RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING SYSTEM - The present invention provides a radiographic image detector that may maintain even resolution in 6 directions before and after 3-pixel binning process. Namely, out of plural pixels with hexagonal shaped pixel regions in a radiation detector, for plural pixel groups respectively configured from 3 pixels, 3 pixels worth of charges in the radiation detector are read together, the charge signals of these 3 pixels combined, and integrated in sequence with a charge amplifier. For specific pixel groups, out of 3 pixels configuring the specific pixel groups, the charge signals of 2 pixels worth, and the charge signal of the remaining 1 pixel worth are summed with the same charge amplifier using shifted integration timings. 3-pixel binning is thereby performed. | 06-27-2013 |
20130161774 | SOLID STATE IMAGING DEVICE - A CCD image sensor is provided with a pixel set. The pixel set is composed of first and second pixels and a microlens. The pixels are arranged side by side in a horizontal direction. The microlens has a hemispheric shape. A diameter of the microlens is larger than a length of a rectangular region, being an external shape of the first and second pixels, in a height direction. The rectangular region has a height and width ratio of approximately 1:2. The pixel sets are arranged in a width direction of the rectangular region to constitute a pixel row. In the CCD image sensor, the pixel rows are arranged in the height direction of the rectangular region, with the adjacent pixel rows shifted from each other in the horizontal direction by half pitch of the rectangular region. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162712 | IMAGE FORMATION DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMATION METHOD - An image formation device of the present invention has: a recording medium supplying section that supplies a recording medium; a conveying section that conveys the recording medium supplied from the recording medium supplying section; an image formation section that ejects droplets and forms an image on the recording medium that is being conveyed; an image conversion section that converts an inputted image into dot data; a printing processing section that, from inputted print information, outputs continuously printed number of sheets information that causes the image formation section to continuously print output images, and prints the recording media corresponding to the continuously printed number of sheets, and, thereafter, carries out processing that temporarily stops printing of the output images; and a control section that, during a stoppage time of the printing, stops at least formation of images at the image formation section, and continues to drive the conveying section. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162714 | INKJET RECORDING METHOD - An inkjet recording method included a feeding step of feeding a recording medium, a jetting step of jetting aqueous ultraviolet-curable ink onto the recording medium, a humidity controlling step of controlling the amount of moisture on the surface on the recording side of the recording medium after the jetting step in such a way that a difference between the amounts of moisture on the surface on the recording side of the recording medium after the jetting step and during the feeding step becomes equal to or greater than 2 g/m | 06-27-2013 |
20130162742 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - An aspect of the present invention provides an inkjet recording apparatus, including: a conveyance device which has a moving suctioning surface and which conveys a cut sheet medium by suctioning the medium on the suctioning surface, a concavoconvex pattern being formed in the suctioning surface by arranging recess sections regularly in the suctioning surface, and suction holes each having an opening smaller than a size of openings of the recess sections being formed inside the recess sections; and a recording head which forms an image by ejecting ink by an inkjet method onto a surface of the medium which is conveyed by the conveyance device. According to the aspect, it is possible to prevent floating and wrinkling of the medium during conveyance, and an image of high quality can be recorded. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162764 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus comprising an image processing unit that applies, for left and right complement target areas serving as non-output areas respectively positioned closer to the center of the output plane than the left and right reference boundaries set by the reference boundary setting unit, image information about adjacent areas serving as partial areas within the left and right viewpoint images respectively adjacent to the left and right complement target areas, respectively, to the left and right complement target areas, to complement image information about the left and right complement target areas in each of the stereoscopic image frames and an output unit that outputs each of the stereoscopic image frames in which the image processing unit has complemented the image information to the left and right complement target areas according to the disparities adjusted by the disparity adjustment unit. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162780 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING DEVICE AND SHADING CORRECTION METHOD - Provided is a technique for improving the quality of an image obtained by a pupil-division-type stereoscopic imaging device. First and second images obtained by the stereoscopic imaging device according to the present invention have the shading of an object in a pupil division direction. Therefore, when the first and second images are composed, reference data in which shading is cancelled is generated. The amount of shading correction for the first and second images is determined on the basis of the reference data and shading correction is performed on the first and second images on the basis of the determined amount of shading correction. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163082 | OPTICAL FILM, MULTILAYER FILM, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - An optical film that does not cause display unevenness, includes a retardation layer A (A layer) satisfying the following relational expression, nz>nx≧ny here, nx represents an in-plane refractive index in a direction of an in-plane slow axis, ny represents an in-plane refractive index in a direction orthogonal to the direction of an in-plane slow axis, and nz represents a refractive index in a thickness direction; and a retardation layer B (B layer) of which in-plane retardation Re and thickness direction retardation Rth satisfy the following relational expressions: 0 nm≦Re≦20 nm and 50 nm≦Rth≦300 nm, wherein the total film thickness is 5 μm to 40 μm. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163716 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE DETECTOR, RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS, RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING SYSTEM - The present invention provides a radiographic image detector that may maintain even resolution in 6 directions before and after 3-pixel binning process or 4-pixel binning process. A radiation detector is disposed with plural pixels that have hexagonal shaped pixel regions, arrayed in a honeycomb pattern. Scan lines connected to TFT switches in each of the pixels are disposed one for each of the pixel rows. Grouped scan lines are also disposed one for each of the pixel rows for reading and combining 3 pixels or 4 pixels worth of charges at the same timing for plural pixel groups, each configured from 3 pixels or 4 pixels in a radiation detection element. ON signals are simultaneously sent by the grouped scanned lines to the TFT switches to perform 3-pixel binning or 4-pixel binning. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163722 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE DETECTOR, RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS, RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING SYSTEM - The present invention provides a radiographic image detector that maintains even resolution in 6 directions before and after 4 pixel binning processing. In the radiographic image detector, first TFT switches of each pixel are switched ON according to control signals from plural first scan lines, and charge signals according to accumulated charges are transmitted through data lines. For each pixel group configured by combinations of plural adjacent pixels, second TFT switches of the pixels configuring each of the pixel groups are switched ON according to control signals from plural second scan lines, and binning processing is performed in which 4 pixels worth of charges are read simultaneously and are combined, and charge signals according to the amount of the combined charges are transmitted through the data lines. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163809 | PIPE THICKNESS MEASURING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A pipe thickness measuring device | 06-27-2013 |
20130164563 | MAGNETIC PARTICLES AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND USAGE THEREOF - An aspect of the present invention relates to a method of manufacturing magnetic particles, which comprises adding a carboxylic acid compound to a water-based magnetic liquid, wherein the water-based magnetic liquid comprises magnetic particles dispersed in an acidic water-based solvent, and the carboxylic acid compound is selected from the group consisting of aromatic compounds and aliphatic compounds having one or more carboxylic acid (salt) groups denoted by: | 06-27-2013 |
20130164564 | MAGNETIC PARTICLES AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND USAGE THEREOF - An aspect of the present invention relates to a method of manufacturing magnetic particles, which comprises: adding a compound to a water-based magnetic liquid, wherein the water-based magnetic liquid comprises magnetic particles dispersed in an acidic water-based solvent, and the compound is selected from the group consisting of amine compounds, aromatic compounds, and aliphatic compounds having one or more monovalent phosphorus polar groups denoted by: | 06-27-2013 |
20130164861 | BIOLOGICAL MOLECULE DETECTING APPARATUS AND BIOLOGICAL MOLECULE DETECTING METHOD - A laser beam is emitted onto fluorescent molecules within a solution to orient the fluorescent molecules. The direction in which the laser beam is emitted is switched to switch the transition moment direction of the fluorescent particles to be parallel or perpendicular to the vibrating direction of linearly polarized excitation light. Thereby, the fluorescent molecules of free molecules and binding molecules can be switched between an excited and a non excited state. There is a difference in the speeds at which the orientation directions change for molecules which have undergone and molecules which have not undergone antigen antibody reactions. Therefore, the fluorescence contributed by fluorescent molecules associated with free molecules and the fluorescence contributed by fluorescent molecules associated with binding molecules can be calculated respectively, to measure the concentration of a detection target substance with high sensitivity. | 06-27-2013 |
20130165796 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC EQUIPMENT - An ultrasound diagnostic equipment has at least one rechargeable ultrasound probe with a built-in battery, and a diagnostic equipment body connected to the at least one ultrasound probe in a wireless manner, wherein the diagnostic equipment body includes a power supply unit which supplies power to the battery of the at least one ultrasound probe, and a power supply controller which causes the battery of the at least one ultrasound probe to selectively perform refresh charging and top-up charging using the power supply unit on the basis of power supply information to the battery of the at least one ultrasound probe and the examination situation in the diagnostic equipment body. | 06-27-2013 |
20130168790 | ORGANIC PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT AND IMAGE ELEMENT - An organic photoelectric conversion element comprises: a pair of electrodes; an organic photoelectric conversion layer arranged between the pair of electrodes; and an positive hole blocking layer arranged between one of the pair of electrodes and the organic photoelectric conversion layer, wherein an ionization potential of the positive hole blocking layer is larger than a work function of the adjoining electrode by 1.3 eV or more, and wherein an electron affinity of the positive hole blocking layer is equal to or larger than that of the adjoining organic photoelectric conversion layer. An electron blocking layer may be arranged between the other one of the pair of electrodes and the organic photoelectric conversion layer, wherein its electron affinity is smaller than a work function of the adjoining electrode by 1.3 eV or more, and its ionization potential is equal to or smaller than that of the adjoining organic photoelectric conversion layer. | 07-04-2013 |
20130169640 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - A projection image is generated from a three-dimensional image by projecting an observation target in a predetermined projection direction. The generated projection image is displayed at a center of a display screen of a display device. A region extending in the predetermined projection direction from a central part of the display screen is set as set region, and at least a part of an overlapped region between the set region, which has been set, and the observation target is determined, as rotation center candidate region. Center of rotation is determined in the determined rotation center candidate region or in the vicinity thereof. | 07-04-2013 |
20130169896 | STEREO IMAGE PRINT AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - Stereo image print observable without polarized glasses, having: a transparent support; first laminate and second laminate disposed on a front surface and a back surface, respectively, of the transparent support, each laminate having an image layer satisfying condition (1) and protective layer having at least one layer satisfying condition (2), the image layer and the protective layer being disposed in this order from the transparent support side: (1) each image layer has a dichroic image including pixels for a left eye and pixels for a right eye arranged in a predetermined array, each pixel has at least one horizontally aligned dichroic dye, and absorption axes of the dichroic images included in the first and the second laminates are orthogonal to each other, (2) the protective layer has an in-plane retardation value (Re) of 10 nm or less for visible light; and a linearly polarizing layer satisfying the according to predefined condition. | 07-04-2013 |
20130170614 | BONE MINERAL DENSITY ANALYSIS METHOD, BONE MINERAL DENSITY ANALYSIS APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - From radiation images obtained by driving radiation tube with a plurality of tube voltages, including a normal tube voltage, a density gradient with respect to at least two sections of a reference substance having different radiation transmission characteristics is obtained for each of the plurality of tube voltages prior to obtaining a bone mineral density. If a radiation image captured for obtaining a bone mineral density is determined to have been captured under a tube voltage other than the normal tube voltage, an image signal representing the image and/or a bone mineral density analysis result is corrected so as to correspond to that which should have been obtained if the image had been captured under the normal tube voltage based on the relationship between the density gradient in the image and the density gradient in the radiation image captured under the normal tube voltage. | 07-04-2013 |
20130171415 | PHOTOSENSITIVE RESIN COMPOSITION, OXIME SULFONATE COMPOUND, METHOD FOR FORMING CURED FILM, CURED FILM, ORGANIC EL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a photosensitive resin composition comprising: (Component A) an oxime sulfonate compound represented by Formula (1); (Component B) a resin comprising a constituent unit having an acid-decomposable group that is decomposed by an acid to form a carboxyl group or a phenolic hydroxy group; and (Component C) a solvent | 07-04-2013 |
20130172426 | FAT-REDUCING AGENT - A fat-reducing agent includes a carotenoid-containing composition as an active ingredient, the carotenoid-containing composition including: a carotenoid component including at least one crystalline carotenoid, wherein at least 90% by mass of the crystalline carotenoid is in the non-crystalline state; and a (poly)glycerin fatty acid ester containing from 1 to 6 glycerin units and from 1 to 6 fatty acid units, and having at least one hydroxyl group in the glycerin units. | 07-04-2013 |
20130174077 | MEDICAL INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The obtaining condition input interface receives a gesture input while a subject appearance image (human body icon) is displayed, the obtaining condition identification unit identifies, based on a type of the gesture determined by the gesture type analysis unit and a region of the subject corresponding to the gesture identified by the gesture region analysis unit, a medical information obtaining condition for obtaining medical information corresponding to the gesture, the medical information obtaining unit selectively obtains medical information satisfying the identified medical information obtaining condition from the medical information database storing a plurality of sets of medical information, and the medical information display control unit displays the obtained medical information on the display means. | 07-04-2013 |
20130176362 | NOZZLE SURFACE CLEANING APPARATUS AND IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - According to the present invention, firstly, since the cleaning liquid is deposited onto the nozzle surface by the nozzle surface cleaning liquid deposition device, then it is possible to raise the dissolving effect, which is a chemical effect of dissolving adhering material which is adhering to the nozzle surface. Consequently, it is possible to remove the adhering material readily by subsequently wiping the nozzle surface with the wiping member, and hence the physical effects can also be improved. Furthermore, since the cleaning liquid is deposited so as to wet the wiping member, then it is possible to suppress the drawing out of liquid from the nozzles due to the absorbing characteristics of the wiping member, and therefore ejection defects due to solidification of drawn out liquid can be prevented. Consequently, it is possible to improve ejection stability of the droplet ejection head. | 07-11-2013 |
20130176409 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM AND EXTERNAL CONTROL DEVICE FOR ENDOSCOPE - In the processor device connected to the endoscope, the imaging signal transmitted in serial from an imaging chip of the endoscope is converted by an S/P converter to parallel data, and is then decoded by an 8B10B decoder. In the imaging signal, word synchronous data is inserted at predetermined intervals. In the processor device, a process of determining the word synchronous data as appropriate word synchronous data if the word synchronous data has been detected a plurality of number of times and establishing word synchronization is performed. | 07-11-2013 |
20130177850 | POSITIVE TYPE RESIST COMPOSITION FOR USE IN LIQUID IMMERSION EXPOSURE AND A METHOD OF FORMING THE PATTERN USING THE SAME - A positive type resist composition for use in liquid immersion exposure comprises: (A) a resin having a monocyclic or polycyclic cycloaliphatic hydrocarbon structure, the resin increasing its solubility in an alkali developer by an action of acid; (B) a compound generating acid upon irradiation with one of an actinic ray and a radiation; (C) an alkali soluble compound having an alkyl group of 5 or more carbon atoms; and (D) a solvent. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179820 | MEDICAL INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The obtaining condition input user interface receives a gesture input while a subject appearance image (human body icon) is displayed, the endoscope condition identification unit recognizes an endoscope gesture representing an insertion path of an endoscope in the subject represented by the subject appearance image based on position information of the gesture and a position of the subject appearance image on the display surface and if, the endoscope gesture is recognized, identifies a medical information obtaining condition for obtaining medical information of an actual and/or a virtual endoscopic examination of the subject, the medical information obtaining unit selectively obtain medical information satisfying the identified medical information obtaining condition from the medical information database storing a plurality of sets of medical information, and the medical information display control unit displays the obtained medical information. | 07-11-2013 |
20130180586 | SOLAR CELL - A solar cell | 07-18-2013 |
20130180652 | FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE PRECURSOR FOR LASER ENGRAVING AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SAME, LAYERED PRODUCT, AND PROCESS FOR MAKING FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE - Disclosed is a flexographic printing plate precursor for laser engraving comprising: a support; a relief-forming layer provided above the support; and a foam sheet covering the relief-forming layer, the foam sheet having a surface roughness Ra of 0.02 to 1.0 mm. | 07-18-2013 |
20130181202 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION MATERIAL, FILM CONTAINING THE MATERIAL, PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE, METHOD FOR PREPARING PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE, METHOD FOR USING PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE, PHOTOSENSOR AND IMAGING DEVICE - There is provided a compound represented by a specific formula, which has an absorption maximum at 400 nm or more and less than 720 nm in a UV-visible absorption spectrum, wherein a molar extinction coefficient is 10,000 mol | 07-18-2013 |
20130182027 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - Ink droplets are ejected from a plurality of dot forming elements arranged along an array direction to form dots of at least two sizes on a recording medium. If the dots formed along the array direction are classified into a plurality of groups depending on a plurality of times, the existing ratio of dots of a smaller one of the at least two sizes is higher for one of the groups of an earlier time of the times. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182045 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND INK COMPOSITION - The present invention provides an image forming method and an ink composition used in the method by which deterioration of a head plate which is formed of silicon is suppressed and more precise images are stably formed, where ink containing an inorganic silicate compound is ejected to form an image from an inkjet head having a nozzle plate where SiO | 07-18-2013 |
20130182082 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING DEVICE AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING METHOD - A stereoscopic imaging device, wherein the aperture controller performs a second aperture control in which the larger the amount of shake detected by the shake detector becomes, the further the amount of opening of the aperture unit decreases than the amount of opening required for the first aperture control. The present invention allows to deepen a depth of focus and decrease the amount of parallax by further closing an aperture as the amount of shake becomes larger, so that a stereoscopic effect is weakened when the amount of shake is large, thereby reducing an influence on viewers. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182248 | LIGHT MEASUREMENT METHOD AND MEASUREMENT APPARATUS USING AN OPTICAL FIELD ENHANCEMENT DEVICE - Performing a measurement using an optical field enhancement device which includes a transparent substrate having a transparent fine uneven structure on a surface and a metal film formed on a surface of the fine uneven structure on the surface of the substrate, in which a subject is placed on the metal film of the optical field enhancement device, then excitation light is projected onto an area of the optical field enhancement device on which the subject is placed, and light generated by the projection of the excitation light is detected from a back surface side of the transparent substrate. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182343 | OPTICAL FIELD ENHANCEMENT DEVICE - An optical field enhancement device which includes a transparent substrate having a transparent fine uneven structure on a surface and a metal film formed on a surface of the fine uneven structure on the surface of the substrate and allows projection of excitation light and detection of detection light either from a front surface side of the metal film or from a back surface side of the transparent substrate. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182823 | RADIATION IMAGING APPARATUS AND SYSTEM - An X-ray imaging apparatus has an electronic cassette, in which an FPD device receives X-rays applied by an X-ray source to a body, and stores charge according to a radiation dose of the X-rays, to create an image. A control unit controls the FPD device. A radiation sensor detects the radiation dose to be used for controlling the FPD device. A magnet as fastening device secures the radiation sensor removably in a radiation path between the X-ray source and the body. Also, an evaluation unit recognizes a start and end of application of the X-rays according to a dose signal from the radiation sensor, for the control unit to control the FPD device. A flexible support arm is disposed between the radiation sensor and the magnet, for keeping the radiation sensor in a changeable position relative to the magnet. | 07-18-2013 |
20130184426 | MIXTURE COMPRISING SULFONATE GROUP-CONTAINING COMPOUND AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, SOLUTION COMPOSITION, POLYURETHANE RESIN AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - An aspect of the present invention relates to a mixture of a sulfonate group-containing compound denoted by general formula (1) with a protonic acid: | 07-18-2013 |
20130184732 | TISSUE HARVESTING APPARATUS - A tissue harvesting apparatus is provided which can reliably prevent a worker from being stabbed with a needle tip of a needle tube at the time of disposal. When disposing a used tissue harvesting apparatus used for harvesting of a living body tissue, a sheath member with a puncture pipe body (a puncture needle) inserted and arranged in the inside thereof is wound in the form of a loop around an operating rod and locked in a locking groove. Then, a needle tip of the puncture pipe body protruding from a leading end of the sheath member is housed and fixedly supported in a needle housing hole formed in an end face of a second flange portion on the base end side of the operating rod. | 07-18-2013 |
20130186292 | RESIN COMPOSITION FOR FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE, LASER-ENGRAVING TYPE FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE PRECURSOR AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE AND PROCESS FOR MAKING SAME - Disclosed is a resin composition for a flexographic printing plate, comprising (Component A) a binder resin and (Component B) a compound represented by Formula (1) and/or Formula (2), Component B being contained at 1 to 50 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of Component A, | 07-25-2013 |
20130186672 | METAL FILM MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a metal film material, the method including: applying an ink composition by discharging the ink composition onto a substrate via an inkjet method, the ink composition containing at least one first monomer having at least one group selected from the group consisting of a cyano group, an alkyloxy group, an amino group, a pyridine residue, a pyrrolidone residue, an imidazole residue, an alkylsulfanyl group, or a cyclic ether residue, at least one second monomer that has polyfunctionality, and at least one polymerization initiator, a total monomer content in the ink composition being 85% by mass or greater; forming a cured film by carrying out at least one of light exposure or heating of the ink composition that has been applied; applying a plating catalyst or a precursor thereof to the cured film; and a plating processing step of performing plating with respect to the plating catalyst or precursor thereof that has been applied. | 07-25-2013 |
20130187970 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING DISCHARGE DEFECT, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PRINTING SYSTEM - A discharge defect of a nozzle in an apparatus that forms an image on a medium by discharging liquid from a liquid discharge head based on image data is accurately detected. A discharge defect of a nozzle is detected by comparing data (reference data) of a reference image with read data obtained by reading an output image. In this case, a mark for matching the read pixel and the nozzle position with each other is recorded on the medium, and the correspondence relationship is specified by reading the mark. In addition, data items that are converted to have the nozzle resolution by performing a filtering process corresponding to the human visual characteristics for both the data of the reference image and the data of the read image are compared with each other, thereby detecting a discharge defect of a nozzle. | 07-25-2013 |
20130187980 | NOZZLE SURFACE WIPING APPARATUS AND DROPLET EJECTION APPARATUS - A nozzle surface wiping apparatus wipes a nozzle surface of a droplet ejection head while moving relatively with respect to the head. The apparatus includes: a band-shaped wiping web; a pay-out spindle which pays out the web; a take-up spindle which is rotated to take up the web; a pressing device which causes the web travelling between the pay-out spindle and the take-up spindle to be pressed against the nozzle surface; a drive roller around which the web travelling between the pressing device and the take-up spindle is wrapped, the drive roller being rotated to apply conveyance force to the web toward the take-up spindle; and a driving device which drives the drive roller and the take-up spindle in such a manner that a velocity at which the web is taken up by the take-up spindle is faster than a velocity at which the drive roller applies the conveyance force to the web. | 07-25-2013 |
20130187998 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND IMAGE RECORDED MATERIAL - Provided is an image forming method capable of obtaining an image which has superior adhesion with a recording substrate having ink non-absorbency or low ink-absorbency and has superior scratch resistance. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188025 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING DEVICE AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING METHOD - A stereoscopic imaging device, wherein the aperture controller performs a second aperture control in which the larger the amount of shake detected by the shake detector becomes, the further the amount of opening of the aperture unit increases than the amount of opening required for the first aperture control. The present invention allows to shallow a depth of focus and to increase the amount of parallax by further opening an aperture as the amount of shake becomes larger, so that an influence on a parallax is reduced even when the amount of shake is large, thereby maintaining a stereoscopic effect. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188086 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device of the present invention includes: an imaging optical system; an imaging element that forms a subject image through the imaging optical system; a display unit that displays the subject image imaged by the imaging element, as a live view image; an optical viewfinder; a synthesis unit that synthesizes an optical image visually checked by the optical viewfinder and the live view image displayed by the display unit; a defocus amount calculation unit that calculates a defocus amount from a focusing state of the subject image; and a display control unit that displaces the live view image displayed on the display unit, with respect to the optical image, according to the defocus amount calculated by the defocus amount calculation unit, and that displays the subject image on the display unit so that the optical image fits the live view image when the defocus amount becomes zero. | 07-25-2013 |
20130189210 | OIL-IN-WATER COSMETIC - An oil-in-water cosmetic includes an aqueous phase; and an oil phase including a hydrogenated polyisobutene having a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of from 200 mm | 07-25-2013 |
20130189449 | POLARIZING PLATE, METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A polarizing plate includes two protective films and a polarizer provided between the two protective films, and the polarizer has a thickness of 3 μm to 18 μm, at least one of the protective films has a thickness of 3 μm to 40 μm and contains at least one resin and a compound in an amount of 1 part by mass to 20 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the resin, the compound having at least one hydrogen-donating group capable of forming a hydrogen bond and a ratio of molecular weight to number of aromatic rings of 300 or less, and the polarizing plate has a thickness of 15 μm to 70 μm. | 07-25-2013 |
20130189494 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - An optical information recording medium comprises a plurality of recording layers, and intermediate layers provided between the plurality of recording layers. The optical information recording medium has a recess for use in tracking, in a layer which is provided in a position farther, than the plurality of recording layers, from a light-incident side on which a beam emitted for recording/reading enters. A depth D of the recess is λ/4n where λ is a wavelength of the beam emitted for recording/reading, n is a refractive index of a layer with which the recess is filled. | 07-25-2013 |
20130189627 | GAP EMBEDDING COMPOSITION, METHOD OF EMBEDDING GAP AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE BY USING THE COMPOSITION - A gap embedding composition used for embedding a patterned gap formed between photosensitive resin film portions on a semiconductor substrate surface, the gap embedding composition, having a hydrolysis condensate having an average molecular weight of 3,000 to 50,000 derived from an alkoxysilane raw material including at least alkyltrialkoxysilane and an ether compound having a total carbon atom of from 7 to 9 and/or an alkyl alcohol compound having a total carbon atom of from 6 to 9, as a solvent. | 07-25-2013 |
20130193107 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A MASTER MOLD AND CUTOUT PROCESSING METHOD FOR A MASTER MOLD - A metal plate having a pattern of protrusions on a first surface thereof is produced; photoresist is provided on a second surface of the metal plate; the photoresist is removed from a portion of the metal plate corresponding to a loop shaped outer peripheral cutout region that contacts the outer periphery of a mold region of the metal plate; and the metal plate is etched using the remaining photoresist as a mask, in a method for producing and a method for cutting a processing a master mold having a pattern of protrusions and recesses corresponding to data to be transferred on a surface thereof. | 08-01-2013 |
20130193333 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - A radiographic image capture device includes a radiation detector and a determination section. The radiation detector includes a first sensor for radiographic image capture and a second sensor for radiation detection. The determination section determines whether or not radiation has been detected by the radiation detector based on a ratio of a first value obtained by the first sensor to a second value obtained by the second sensor. | 08-01-2013 |
20130193339 | RADIATION IRRADIATION INITIATION DETERMINATION APPARATUS, RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE, RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURE CONTROL APPARATUS, RADIATION IRRADIATION INITIATION DETERMINATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A radiation irradiation initiation detection apparatus includes an acquisition unit, an averaging unit, a calculation unit and a determination unit. The acquisition unit acquires a detection result for each of frames from a detection section that detects radiation. The averaging unit averages the detection results of a plural number of frames, which detection results have been previously acquired by the acquisition unit. The calculation unit calculates at least one of a difference or a ratio between the most recent detection result acquired by the acquisition unit and an averaging result from the averaging unit. The determination unit determines whether or not irradiation of radiation has been initiated on the basis of calculation results from the calculation unit. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194348 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND INK COMPOSITION - The present invention provides an image forming method and an ink composition whereby deterioration of a head plate, which is formed of silicon, is suppressed, and an image with higher precision is formed stably, the ink composition including an inorganic silicate compound and being ejected to form an image from an ink-jet head having a nozzle plate where a C | 08-01-2013 |
20130194367 | DRYING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There is provided a drying device including: an airflow path extending in a direction intersecting with a conveyance path of a recording medium; an external air intake section that introduces external air into the airflow path; and a heating and blowing section provided to the airflow path that heats external air introduced into the airflow path and blows drying air onto a front face of the recording medium being conveyed on the conveyance path. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194457 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING METHOD - The device control section | 08-01-2013 |
20130194637 | IMAGE EVALUATING APPARATUS, IMAGE EVALUATING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM - The present invention relates to an image evaluating apparatus, an image evaluating method, and a non-transitory storage medium. In the present invention, two-dimensional relative positions between the image formation position of one color plate of a plurality of color plates and the image formation positions of other color plates are calculated based on known positional information of registration marks formed by the color plates and positional information of the registration marks that are actually formed as images on a recording medium. A position expressing image is generated which represents the calculated relative positions by way of two-dimensional positional coordinates. | 08-01-2013 |
20130197255 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING WATER REPELLENT FILM AND THEREBY MANUFACTURED WATER REPELLENT FILM - A method of manufacturing a water repellent film includes, before a formation step of forming an organic film on a substrate using a silane coupling agent by a vapor phase deposition method under film formation conditions, a step of specifying the film formation conditions using a test substrate of a same material as the substrate used in the formation step. The film formation condition specifying step includes: specifying film formation temperature to be not lower than a temperature at which the silane coupling agent evaporates and to be lower than a temperature at which the silane coupling agent bumps; and forming an organic film of the silane coupling agent on the test substrate at the specified film formation temperature, measuring by optical microscopic observation a time at which a bead of surplus water repellent material is formed, and specifying the film formation duration to be shorter than the measured time. | 08-01-2013 |
20130197307 | PROPULSION APPARATUS AND DRIVE APPARATUS FOR ENDOSCOPE - A propulsion apparatus for an endoscope includes a propulsion assembly for mounting on a tip device of the endoscope, for propulsion in a body cavity. First and second wire devices are disposed to extend from the tip device in a proximal direction, having a coil winding, for rotating to drive the propulsion assembly. First and second motors are connected with proximal ends of respectively the first and second wire devices, for rotating the first and second wire devices. A timer is actuated if a speed difference between rotational speeds of the first and second motors becomes equal to or more than a reference speed value, for measuring an elapsed time. A break detector detects breakage of the first wire device if the elapsed time becomes equal to or longer than a predetermined time. A controller controls the first and second motors in response to an output of the break detector. | 08-01-2013 |
20130199599 | POLYESTER FILM, BACK SHEET FOR SOLAR CELL, AND SOLAR CELL MODULE - A polyester film containing (A) a polyester, (B) a monofunctional glycidyl ether compound represented by the following general formula, and (C) a reaction promoter can prevent gelation and can reduce vaporization in forming a film, and is excellent in adhesiveness and weather resistance. In the formula, R | 08-08-2013 |
20130201234 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE RECORDING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - According to the present invention, recording density information indicating a recording density of a plurality of recording elements is acquired on the basis of a test chart for density measurement output to a recording medium after carrying out recording defect correction in respect of existing recording elements having a recording defect, recording elements which record in the periphery of a new recording element having a recording defect are extracted as correction hold recording elements on the basis of a test chart for recording defect detection output to the recording medium, predetermined density correction values are set in respect of the correction hold recording elements, density correction values calculated on the basis of the acquired recording density information are set in respect of recording elements other than the correction hold recording elements, and output image data is output to the recording medium on the basis of the set density correction values. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201240 | PATTERN FORMING METHOD AND PATTERN FORMING APPARATUS - A pattern forming method includes: a modification treatment step of, in accordance with a pattern to be formed on a pattern forming surface of a base body, applying a light beam having a width smaller than a diameter of each of dots to constitute the pattern, onto a treatment target region including at least outer edges on both sides in a width direction of a region where the pattern is to be formed in the pattern forming surface, thereby carrying out modification treatment on the treatment target region; and a droplet deposition step of ejecting and depositing droplets of a functional liquid by an inkjet method onto the region where the pattern is to be formed including the treatment target region where the modification treatment has been carried out. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201302 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD, AS WELL AS PROGRAM - A stereoscopic imaging apparatus includes a photographing device for obtaining two images through photographing from different positions, a three-dimensional processing device for generating a stereoscopic image from the two images, a display device capable of both a two-dimensional display and a stereoscopic display, an input device for receiving an instruction to start changing a parallax level of the stereoscopic image and an instruction to change the parallax level, and a display control device for changing stereoscopic display of the stereoscopic image into two-dimensional display of the two images overlapped with each other in a response to the instruction to start changing the parallax level inputted when the stereoscopic image is stereoscopically displayed as a live view image, and two-dimensionally displaying the two images with changing the parallax level of the images in a response to the instruction to change the parallax level. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201379 | DIGITAL CAMERA AND FINDER DEVICE THEREOF - Provided are a polarization beam splitter | 08-08-2013 |
20130201532 | IMAGE INFORMATION MANAGING METHOD, IMAGE INFORMATION MANAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE INFORMATION MANAGING SYSTEM, AND EVALUATION CHART - An evaluation chart has test patterns, a first code mark, and a second code mark. The evaluation chart is electronically read at one time to obtain first code information that specifies measuring conditions for the evaluation chart and second code information that specifies image forming conditions for the evaluation chart. Quantized information of the test patterns that is measured under the measuring conditions is associated with the image forming conditions. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201533 | IMAGE EVALUATING APPARATUS, IMAGE EVALUATING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM - Standard positional information is acquired about a plurality of regions of interest to be quantified, which are designated in a standard image region. An image magnification which represents a size ratio of measurement image region represented by the image data to the standard image region is calculated. Positional information of a plurality of regions of interest depending on the measurement image region is calculated based on the acquired standard positional information and the calculated image magnification. | 08-08-2013 |
20130202086 | RADIATION IMAGING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND RADIATION IMAGING SYSTEM - An FPD detects an X-ray image of an object. The FPD includes a plurality of pixels arranged in its image capturing field. Each pixel receives X-rays emitted from an X-ray source, and outputs a pixel value in accordance with an X-ray dose applied thereto. A pixel determiner determines a minimum-value pixel out of the pixels based on the pixel values of the pixels. The minimum-value pixel is a pixel whose pixel value is the lowest. The pixel determiner sets the minimum-value pixel as an exposure control pixel. A comparator compares a first integrated value, which is an integrated value of the pixel values of the minimum-value pixel, with a predetermined first threshold value. The comparator performs X-ray emission control such that, when the first integrated value has reached the first threshold value, the X-ray source stops emitting the X-rays. | 08-08-2013 |
20130202858 | INK COMPOSITION, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND PRINTED MATTER USING THE SAME - An ink-jet ink composition is disclosed which includes (a) from 3% by mass to 10% by mass of polymer compound particles that include a first copolymer including at least one repeating unit derived from a hydrophilic monomer in an amount of from 1% by mass to 15% by mass, that have a volume average diameter of from 100 nm to 300 nm, and that have no cross-linked structure, (b) from 5% by mass to 20% by mass of at least one water soluble polymer, (c) from 0.1% by mass to 10% by mass of at least one colorant, (d) from 5% by mass to 40% by mass of at least one water soluble organic solvent, and (e) water. An image forming method and printed matter using the same are also disclosed. | 08-08-2013 |
20130202955 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE FOR SECONDARY BATTERY AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY - Provided are a non-aqueous electrolyte liquid for a secondary battery, which has excellent lithium ion conductibility and voltage resistance and is suitably used in a lithium secondary battery, and a high output power lithium secondary battery containing this non-aqueous electrolyte liquid for a secondary battery. Disclosed is a non-aqueous electrolyte liquid for a secondary battery containing a metal salt containing an ion of a metal which belongs to Group 1 or Group 2 of the Periodic Table of Elements, and at least one selected from the group consisting of silicon compounds represented by the following formula (1) or formula (2). | 08-08-2013 |
20130202999 | PATTERN FORMING METHOD, CHEMICAL AMPLIFICATION RESIST COMPOSITION AND RESIST FILM - Provided is a negative type pattern forming method that satisfies high sensitivity, high resolution, good roughness and good dry etching resistance at the same time, and further, has a good development time dependency, the method including (i) forming a film by a chemical amplification resist composition containing (A) a fullerene derivative having an acid-decomposable group, (B) a compound generating an acid upon irradiation with an actinic ray or radiation, and (C) a solvent, (ii) exposing the film, and (iii) developing the exposed film by using an organic solvent-containing developer. | 08-08-2013 |