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20090244295 | IMAGING APPARATUS HAVING CAMERA CONTROL UNIT AND SEPARATE CAMERA HEAD - An imaging apparatus includes: a camera head that is provided with an image pickup device that outputs an image signal; a camera control unit that is connected to the camera head with a camera cable and outputs a video signal based on the image signal; a CDS circuit that performs co-related double sampling on the image signal; a pulse generator that outputs sample pulses to the CDS circuit; a phase adjusting unit that performs phase adjustment on a clock signal and outputs the adjusted clock signal to the pulse generator; a peak search unit that searches for a peak range in the image signal being performed with the co-related double sampling by the CDS circuit; and a phase control unit that controls the phase adjustment by the phase adjusting unit based on a result of the search by the peak search unit. | 10-01-2009 |
20100103295 | Imaging Device - According to an embodiment, an imaging device includes a first CCD which converts a first color component into a first electric signal, a second CCD which converts a second color component different from the first color component into a second electric signal, a third CCD which converts a third color component different from the first and second color components into a third electric signal, and a heat sink having first to third radiators which radiate heat from the first to third CODs. The first to third radiators are maintained at the same temperature by the function of the heat sink. | 04-29-2010 |
20110293147 | MOVEMENT DETECTION APPARATUS AND MOVEMENT DETECTION METHOD - According to one embodiment, a movement detection apparatus includes an arithmetic module, an edge-storing filter, a determination module, and a control module. The arithmetic module calculates a difference signal between an input image signal and an image signal of the previous frame. The filter performs smoothing processing for a signal falling within a level range provided as threshold value, among difference signals calculated by the arithmetic module. The determination module determines levels of a movement component and a noise component of the signal output from the filter. The control module controls a level range supplied as threshold value to the filter in accordance with an amplitude level of the noise component overlying the input image signal. | 12-01-2011 |
20120133751 | Imaging Apparatus, Imaging Method and Endoscope Apparatus - A head separated type imaging apparatus includes a head unit and a main unit which are separated, the head unit imaging a subject and the main unit processing an imaging signal transmitted from the head unit. The head unit includes an imaging unit having a plurality of pixels and imaging the subject, and a storage unit storing correction information for pixels for which a data amount of correction information is larger than a predetermined threshold out of correction information correcting noise of the plurality of pixels and remaining correction data. The main unit includes a correction information obtaining unit obtaining the correction information for pixels for which the data amount of correction information is larger than the predetermined threshold in priority and then obtaining the remaining correction data, and a correcting unit correcting, when the correction information obtaining unit completes obtaining of the correction information for pixels for which the data amount of correction information is larger than the predetermined threshold, an image signal transmitted from the imaging unit of the head unit based on the obtained correction information. | 05-31-2012 |
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20090104728 | Gallium Nitride-Based Compound Semiconductor Multilayer Structure and Production Method Thereof - An object of the present invention is to provide a gallium nitride compound semiconductor multilayer structure useful for producing a gallium nitride compound semiconductor light-emitting device which operates at low voltage while maintaining satisfactory light emission output. The inventive gallium nitride compound semiconductor multilayer structure comprises a substrate, and an n-type layer, a light-emitting layer, and a p-type layer formed on the substrate, the light-emitting layer having a multiple quantum well structure in which a well layer and a barrier layer are alternately stacked repeatedly, said light-emitting layer being sandwiched by the n-type layer and the p-type layer, wherein the well layer comprises a thick portion and a thin portion, and the barrier layer contains a dopant. | 04-23-2009 |
20100006874 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF GALLIUM NITRIDE-BASED COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - In the process for production of a gallium nitride-based compound semiconductor light emitting device, when an n-type semiconductor layer, a light emitting layer obtained by alternately stacking an n-type dopant-containing barrier layer and a well layer, and a p-type semiconductor layer, composed of gallium nitride-based compound semiconductors, are grown in that order on a substrate, the ratio of the supply rates of n-type dopant and Group III element during growth of the barrier layer (M/III) is controlled to a range of 4.5×10 | 01-14-2010 |
20110207299 | COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING DEVICE, COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND JIG FOR MANUFACTURING COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR - When compound semiconductor layers are formed on a compound semiconductor substrate ( | 08-25-2011 |
20110260177 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT, AND SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT - Provided is a method for manufacturing a semiconductor light emitting element, which has a step wherein a substrate composed of a material different from that of a semiconductor layer is used and a III compound semiconductor layer is formed on the substrate, and can reduce the emission wavelength distribution (δ) of the obtained semiconductor light emitting layer. The method for manufacturing the semiconductor light emitting element having the III compound semiconductor layer is characterized in having: a compound semiconductor substrate forming step wherein at least one compound semiconductor layer is formed on the substrate and a compound semiconductor substrate having an amount of warpage (H) within the range of 50 μm≦H≦250 μm is formed; and a light emitting layer forming step wherein the light emitting layer composed of a plurality of III compound semiconductor layers is formed on the compound semiconductor substrate which has been formed. | 10-27-2011 |
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20090045214 | Medicine supply apparatus and tablet case - An object is to provide a medicine supply apparatus capable of reducing a time required for charging medicines without causing any trouble during counting of the medicines, the apparatus comprises: a discharge drum which discharges the medicines from a tablet case; a medicine detecting sensor which detects the medicines discharged from the tablet case, and a control device, and this control device controls a rotating motor for rotating the discharge drum to discharge the medicines from the tablet case, counts the discharged medicines based on a detecting operation of the medicine detecting sensor, and changes a discharge speed of the medicine by the discharge drum depending on a type of medicine in the tablet case. | 02-19-2009 |
20120258528 | CULTURE APPARATUS - A culture apparatus comprising: a fan configured to circulate air inside a culture chamber in a predetermined direction in the culture chamber; a duct configured to guide air circulating inside the culture chamber along a wall face inside the culture chamber from an upper part to a lower part of the culture chamber; and a gas generator detachable from a predetermined position at a lower part of the duct, the gas generator being configured to take in air discharged from a lower part of the duct and discharge together with the air taken in a hydrogen peroxide gas to sterilize the inside of the culture chamber generated from a hydrogen peroxide solution into the culture chamber. | 10-11-2012 |
20120264201 | CULTURE APPARATUS - A culture apparatus comprising: an inner box configured to form a culture chamber; an outer box configured to cover the inner box; a fan configured to circulate gas inside the culture chamber through an air passage provided in the inner box within the culture chamber; a first through hole configured to penetrate a wall configuring a part of the air passage in the inner box; a second through hole configured to penetrate the wall and disposed at a position at which a flow velocity of the gas circulated through the air passage by the fan is lower than a flow velocity of the gas around the first through hole; a connecting pipe configured to connect the first through hole and the second through hole outside of the inner box; and a sensor configured to detect a concentration of the gas flowing in the culture chamber. | 10-18-2012 |