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20120281334 | ELECTROSTATIC CHUCK APPARATUS - Disclosed is an electrostatic chuck apparatus which is configured of: an electrostatic chuck section; an annular focus ring section provided to surround the electrostatic chuck section; and a cooling base section which cools the electrostatic chuck section and the focus ring section. The focus ring section is provided with an annular focus ring, an annular heat conducting sheet, an annular ceramic ring, a nonmagnetic heater, and an electrode section that supplies power to the heater. | 11-08-2012 |
20120299253 | ELECTROSTATIC CHUCK APPARATUS - The present invention provides an electrostatic chuck apparatus including:
| 11-29-2012 |
20140042716 | ELECTROSTATIC CHUCK DEVICE - An electrostatic chuck device includes an electrostatic chuck section ( | 02-13-2014 |
20140204975 | PLATE-SHAPED BODY FOR TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT AND TEMPERATURE MEASURING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH THE SAME - There are provided a plate-shaped body for temperature measurement which, simply by being mounted on a mounting surface of an electrostatic chuck apparatus and without using a semiconductor wafer itself which is a product, is able to easily optimize the in-plane temperature distribution of the mounting surface of the electrostatic chuck apparatus, the temperature rising characteristics, and the cooling characteristics during decreases in temperature, and a temperature measuring apparatus provided with the same. In such a wafer for temperature measurement (plate-shaped body for temperature measurement) ( | 07-24-2014 |
20140301010 | ELECTROSTATIC CHUCK DEVICE - An electrostatic chuck device is provided in which it is possible to uniformize an in-plane temperature distribution in a placement surface on which a plate-shaped sample such as a wafer is placed and it is possible to improve in-plane uniformity of plasma etching of the plate-shaped sample by uniformizing plasma density on the plate-shaped sample. The electrostatic chuck device includes an electrostatic chuck section that has an upper surface as a placement surface on which a plate-shaped sample is placed, and is made to have an internal electrode for electrostatic adsorption built-in, and a cooling base section that cools the electrostatic chuck section, wherein a heater element ( | 10-09-2014 |
20140355169 | ELECTROSTATIC CHUCK DEVICE - An electrostatic chuck device is provided in which there is no concern that a plate-shaped sample may be deformed when adsorbing the plate-shaped sample or when detaching the plate-shaped sample, the temperature of the plate-shaped sample is uniformized, and particles are not easily produced. | 12-04-2014 |
20140376148 | ELECTROSTATIC CHUCK DEVICE - An electrostatic chuck device includes an electrostatic chuck part that has an upper surface as a placement surface for placing a plate-shaped sample and has an internal electrode for electrostatic attraction built therein; and a cooling base part that cools the electrostatic chuck part. The electrostatic chuck part and the cooling base part are integrally adhered to each other via an adhesive layer. An insulator having a double pipe structure including an insulator and an insulator provided coaxially with an outer peripheral portion of the insulator is provided in a cooling gas hole, formed in the electrostatic chuck part and the cooling base part, so as to cover an exposed surface of the adhesive layer on the cooling gas hole side. | 12-25-2014 |
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20090087038 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, PROCESSING METHOD FOR THE APPARATUSES, AND PROGRAM FOR THE APPARATUSES - An image processing apparatus includes an object-feature-information storage unit configured to store feature information of a predetermined object; an image inputting unit configured to input an image; an object detecting unit configured to detect an object contained in the input image; an attribute determining unit configured to determine an attribute of the detected object; a feature-point determining unit configured to determine, according to the determined attribute, positions of feature points to be set in the input image; and a similarity calculating unit configured to calculate, by comparing feature information stored in the object-feature-information storage unit to feature information at feature points set in the input image, similarity between an object corresponding to the feature information stored in the object-feature-information storage unit and the detected object. | 04-02-2009 |
20090160988 | DRIVE METHOD FOR SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging device having: (a) a pixel array with an oblique pixel pattern in which pixels are obliquely disposed, an odd-numbered row vertical signal line in an odd-numbered row vertical signal line group being connected to each column of odd-numbered row pixels and an even-numbered row vertical signal line in an even-numbered row vertical signal line group being connected to each column of even-numbered row pixels; (b) a row selector for separately selecting an odd-numbered row and an even-numbered row of the oblique pixel pattern; (c) an odd-numbered row column processing circuit group including column processing circuits and connected to the odd-numbered row vertical signal line group, for adding signals of the odd-numbered row pixels between columns; (d) an even-numbered row column processing circuit group including column processing circuits and connected to the even-numbered row vertical signal line group, for adding signals of the even-numbered row pixels in pixel columns; and (d) a column selector for selecting the column processing circuits of the odd-numbered row column processing circuit group and the column processing circuits of the even-numbered row column processing circuit group. | 06-25-2009 |
20090309878 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a projecting unit that projects a registered face image containing at least part of a face onto a surface of a three-dimensional model having a shape in which at least part of the three-dimensional model in one direction on the surface onto which an image is projected is bent to a front side, so that a horizontal direction of the face contained in the registered face image substantially coincides with the one direction, a transforming unit that transforms the three-dimensional model on the basis of an orientation of a face contained in a target image, a generating unit that generates a two-dimensional image by projecting the registered face image projected on the surface of the transformed three-dimensional model, onto a plane, and an identifying unit that identifies the face contained in the target image, by comparing the generated two-dimensional image against the target image. | 12-17-2009 |
20100061707 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD - In a high speed image capturing state, a camera signal processing circuit is not needed to perform a signal process at a high screen rate, but at a regular screen rate. In the high speed image capturing mode, raw data of 240 fps received from an image sensor | 03-11-2010 |
20100220219 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS ALLOWING AN INCREASE IN PIXELS WITHOUT AN INCREASE IN DRIVING FREQUENCY AND CIRCUIT AREA - A signal processing apparatus for carrying out signal processing on an input image signal and to output the result includes first correction processing means for carrying out correction processing dependent on pixels on the input image signal, second correction processing means for carrying out correction processing independent from pixels on a supplied image signal, synchronization processing means for generating RGB signals that represent a captured image and has matching spatial phases based on a supplied image signal, conversion means for carrying out at least processing for generating a luminance signal and a color signal based on a supplied image signal, and first resolution conversion means for converting a captured image into an image having the same resolution as an output image. The first resolution conversion means is provided downstream of the first correction processing means and upstream of the conversion means. | 09-02-2010 |
20100231745 | IMAGING DEVICE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - The present invention provides an imaging device that generates, for, each of a red color, a green color, and a blue color, an image signal having pixels arranged adjacent to each other in a two-dimensional array, including a red color imaging element that senses incident light to output a red color signal ( | 09-16-2010 |
20100302402 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes: a straight edge detection section that detects a straight edge of an object in at least one of first and second original images obtained by capturing the identical object from two different viewpoints; a first morphing processing section that performs a first morphing process, which does not include parallelization of the original images, on the original images to generate a first intermediate image seen from a virtual viewpoint between the two viewpoints; a distortion determination section that determines whether or not an edge of the object in the first intermediate image that corresponds to the straight edge detected by the straight edge detection section is distorted; and a second morphing processing section that, if the edge is distorted, performs a second morphing process, which includes parallelization of the original images, on the original images to generate a second intermediate image seen from the virtual viewpoint. | 12-02-2010 |
20110157305 | Image processing apparatus, image capturing apparatus, image processing method, and program - An image processing apparatus includes: an image synthesis unit generating a synthesized image by inputting images photographed at different positions and connecting strip areas cut from the images. The image synthesis unit generates a left-eye synthesized image applied to display a 3-dimensional image by connecting and synthesizing left-eye image strips set in the images and generates a right-eye synthesized image applied to display a 3-dimensional image by connecting and synthesizing right-eye image strips set in the images. The image synthesis unit performs a process of setting the left-eye image strip and the right-eye image strip in an allowable range of set positions of the left-eye image strip and the right-eye image strip used to generate the left-eye synthesized image and the right-eye synthesized image, which are at different observing points, applicable to display the 3-dimensional images by acquiring the allowable range from a memory or calculating the allowable range. | 06-30-2011 |
20110193941 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes an image evaluation unit evaluating properness of synthesized images as the 3-dimensional images. The image evaluation unit performs the process of evaluating the properness through analysis of a block correspondence difference vector calculated by subtracting a global motion vector indicating movement of an entire image from a block motion vector which is a motion vector of a block unit of the synthesized images, compares a predetermined threshold value to one of a block area of a block having the block correspondence difference vector and a movement amount additional value, and performs a process of determining that the synthesized images are not proper as the 3-dimensional images, when the block area is equal to or greater than a predetermined area threshold value or when the movement amount addition value is equal to or greater than a predetermined movement amount threshold value. | 08-11-2011 |
20120011464 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A display control device includes: a display signal output unit configured so as to output a display image signal on a display unit so as to execute normal display, zoom-in display, scroll display, and zoom-out display regarding data to be displayed as display operation for data to be displayed; and a control unit configured to instruct the display signal output unit to perform, regarding data to be displayed, output of a display image signal for sequentially executing zoom-in display in a scroll start position from the normal display, scroll display from the scroll start position, and zoom-out display from a scroll end position to the normal display at a display unit. | 01-12-2012 |
20120162193 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIVIEW IMAGE GENERATION USING DEPTH MAP INFORMATION - A method and apparatus for multiview image generation using depth map information is described. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises converting a input image and an input depth map into a projected image and a projected depth map using values from physical pixel locations that map to projected pixel locations, wherein the projected image and the projected depth map are associated with a particular view of the input image, inpainting the projected image and the projected depth map and producing an output image in a direction of the particular view using the inpainted projected image and the inpainted projected depth map. | 06-28-2012 |
20120275711 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing device including a feature point detection unit configured to detect feature points from an image, a reliability computation unit configured to compute reliability of each of the detected feature points, and a removal processing unit configured to remove some of the detected feature points on the basis of the reliability so that the number of the remaining feature points in each split region that is obtained by splitting the image into a plurality of regions is within a restricted number of feature points. | 11-01-2012 |
20120275712 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing device including a feature point detection processing unit configured to detect a feature point from an image, and a feature quantity generation processing unit configured to compare a pixel difference value of two pixels in an image region having a position of the detected feature point as a reference with a threshold and generate binary information indicating a result of comparison as a component of feature quantities corresponding to the feature point. | 11-01-2012 |
20130155205 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - In the configuration in which a two-dimensional panoramic image or images used for displaying a three-dimensional image are generated by connecting stripped areas cut out from a plurality of images, a composition image that can be generated is determined based on the movement of the camera, and the determined composition image is generated. In the configuration in which a two-dimensional panoramic image or left-eye and right-eye images used for a three-dimensional image are generated by connecting stripped areas cut out from a plurality of images, it is determined whether or not a two-dimensional panoramic image or a three-dimensional image can be generated by analyzing the movement of an imaging apparatus at the time of capturing images, and a composition image that can be generated is generated. | 06-20-2013 |
20130162786 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An apparatus and method that generate left-eye and right-eye composition images to display a three-dimensional image maintaining base line length to be substantially constant by connecting stripped areas cut out from plural images. An image composing unit is configured to generate a respective left-eye composition image and right-eye composition image to display respective three-dimensional images by connecting and composing left-eye image strips and right-eye image strips set in each of captured images. The image composing unit performs a setting process of the left-eye and right-eye image strips by changing an amount of offset, which is an inter-strip distance between the left-eye and right-eye image strips, in accordance with image capturing conditions to maintain a base line length corresponding to a distance between capturing positions of the left-eye and right-eye composition images to be substantially constant. | 06-27-2013 |
20140355948 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD - In a high speed image capturing state, a camera signal processing circuit is not needed to perform a signal process at a high screen rate, but at a regular screen rate. In the high speed image capturing mode, raw data of 240 fps received from an image sensor | 12-04-2014 |