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20110157702 | DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENT AND OPTICAL DEVICE - In a diffractive optical element, first and second optical members are stacked, and a diffraction grating is formed at an interface between the first and second optical members. In the diffractive optical element, an absorption coefficient α (mm | 06-30-2011 |
20110235178 | DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENT AND OPTICAL DEVICE - A diffractive optical element includes first and second optical members which are stacked. A diffraction grating is formed at an interface between the first and second optical members. A plurality of pores are formed in the second optical member. | 09-29-2011 |
20110235180 | DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENT AND OPTICAL DEVICE - A diffractive optical element includes a first optical member having a first diffraction grating with a sawtooth cross section; and a second optical member which has a second diffraction grating having a sawtooth cross section and which has a refractive index different from that of the first optical member. In the diffractive optical element, the first and second optical members are stacked so that the first and second diffraction gratings closely contact each other. Arithmetical mean roughness of a diffraction surface of the first diffraction grating is set so as to fall within a predetermined range. | 09-29-2011 |
20110261459 | DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENT AND OPTICAL DEVICE - A diffractive optical element includes first and second optical members which are stacked. The first optical member includes a diffraction grating in which a plurality of raised portions each having a vertical surface and a surface inclined to the vertical surface are arranged. The second optical member includes a diffraction grating in which a plurality of recessed portions are arranged, to which the raised portions are fitted. The diffraction grating of the first optical member and the diffraction grating of the second optical member are in close contact with each other. A ridge portion of the raised portion defines a curved surface. A curvature radius R (μm) of the curved surface, a pitch P (mm) of the raised portions, and a refractive index difference Δn | 10-27-2011 |
20120182852 | OBJECTIVE LENS, OPTICAL HEAD, OPTICAL DISK APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An objective lens, an optical head, an optical disk apparatus and an information processing apparatus which can suppress deterioration of a focal spot caused by a drop in the diffraction efficiency are provided. An inner circumference area ( | 07-19-2012 |
20120207008 | Objective Lens Element and Optical Head Device Including the Same - An objective lens element having improved diffraction efficiency at least one of used wavelengths is provided. The objective lens element includes one surface including: a first region including an optical axis; and a second region surrounding the first region. A periodic first diffraction structure is formed on the first region, and a periodic second diffraction structure different from the first diffraction structure is formed on the second region. The objective lens element satisfies the following conditions. | 08-16-2012 |
20130223201 | OBJECTIVE LENS AND OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - An objective lens capable of converging light of a used wavelength with a satisfactory aberration on a recording medium is provided. An objective lens for converging light of a predetermined wavelength λ on a recording medium satisfies the following condition: |CML|+|CMF|<0.03λ, where CML is an amount of a generated third-order coma aberration per 1 degree of tilt of the objective lens, and CMF is an amount of a generated third-order coma aberration per 1 degree of tilt of off-axis light. | 08-29-2013 |
20140098656 | OPTICAL ELEMENT - An optical element has at least one surface divided into a plurality of regions and includes: a first region configured to converge light with a wavelength λ | 04-10-2014 |
20140146653 | OBJECTIVE LENS ELEMENT AND OPTICAL HEAD DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - An objective lens element having improved diffraction efficiency at at least one of used wavelengths is provided. The objective lens element includes one surface including: a first region including an optical axis; and a second region surrounding the first region. A periodic first diffraction structure is formed on the first region, and a periodic second diffraction structure different from the first diffraction structure is formed on the second region. The objective lens element satisfies the following conditions. | 05-29-2014 |
20140254345 | OBJECTIVE LENS, OPTICAL HEAD, OPTICAL DISK DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - Assuming that third-order coma aberration per unit angle generated by tilt of BD ( | 09-11-2014 |
20140293766 | OPTICAL ELEMENT AND OPTICAL HEAD APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - An optical element having compatibility among two or more wavelengths and having an excellent converging performance for light with each wavelength, and an optical head apparatus using the optical element are provided. An optical element according to the present disclosure has a first region including an optical axis and a second region formed around the outer circumference of the first region. The first region and the second region respectively have a first diffraction structure and a second diffraction structure each cyclically formed on an aspheric surface and having a step-like cross section. In the first region, the number of steps included between top portions of the first diffraction structure is different from the number of steps included between the optical axis and a top portion that is closest to the optical axis in the first diffraction structure. | 10-02-2014 |
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20120014085 | SOLAR SIMULATOR - Xenon light emitted from a xenon light source heads for a wavelength-selecting mirror through a taper coupler and an air mass filter. The wavelength-selecting mirror reflects a short wavelength component of the xenon light and emits the short wavelength component to a taper member. Halogen light emitted from a halogen light source heads for a wavelength-selecting mirror through a taper coupler and a reflecting mirror. The wavelength-selecting mirror transmits a long wavelength component of the halogen light and emits the long wavelength component to the taper member. The taper member has width gradually decreasing from an entrance plane for light to an exit plane for the light. The light emitted from the taper member is changed so that a radiation directivity of a component originating from the xenon light becomes similar to a radiation directivity of a component originating from the halogen light. This makes it possible to provide a solar simulator performing irradiation of artificial sunlight having uniform illumination distribution onto an irradiation-target surface. | 01-19-2012 |
20130033847 | LIGHT-SOURCE DEVICE AND SIMULATED-SOLAR-LIGHT IRRADIATION DEVICE PROVIDED WITH SAME - The present invention provides a light source device for emitting concentrated light, which is prepared by concentrating light emitted from a light source, including: the light source; a reflective box in which the light source is provided; a plurality of light guides having a circular column shape or a polygonal column shape and having two end surfaces being different in area; and light separating means, the reflective box having a plurality of openings, each opening being provided with one of the light guides in such a way that the end surface smaller in area faces the light source, and each light separating means being provided at a position between the adjacent ones of the openings. With this, a small-sized light source device for emitting light with high output and high directivity, and a simulated solar light irradiation device including the same are provided. | 02-07-2013 |
20130294046 | PSEUDO SUNLIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - A pseudo sunlight emitting device includes a first light source for emitting first light having a certain spectral distribution; a first light guide member for receiving, at its light incident surface, the first light from the first light source, and for emitting, via its light emission surface, light having a controlled directivity; a first optical filter for adjusting a spectrum of the light emitted from the first light guide member; a second light source for emitting second light whose accumulative irradiance in an infrared wavelength region is greater than an accumulative irradiance of a wavelength region of light shorter in wavelength than infrared light; second light guide members for receiving, at their light incident surfaces, the second light from the second light source, and for emitting, via their light emission surfaces, light having a controlled directivity; a second optical filter(s) for adjusting a spectrum of the light emitted from the second light guide member, a number of the second light guide members being greater than that of the first light guide member by n times, where n is a natural number not less than 2. | 11-07-2013 |
20140009901 | SIMULATED SUNLIGHT IRRADIATION APPARATUS - A simulated sunlight irradiation apparatus ( | 01-09-2014 |
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20100053709 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM CONTAINING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus of the present invention includes a color matching section for performing, on monochrome or two-color image data to be supplied to an image display device, a color matching process of reducing differences in color from a single- or two-color image to be outputted by an image display device, and as such, can display a comfortable preview of a single- or two-color image data by reducing differences in color between an image to be previewed and an image to be actually printed. | 03-04-2010 |
20110102869 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM IS RECORDED - A two color process section included in the image processing apparatus includes a luminance and chroma calculation section, an image-data determination section, and an output-color generation section. The luminance and chroma calculation section calculates a luminance value and a chroma value based on input image data. The image-data determination section determines the input image data, the chroma value of which is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold, as first input image data constituting a chromatic color in a two-color image and determines the input image data, the chroma value of which is less than the threshold, as second input image data constituting an achromatic color in the two-color image. The output-color generation section generates image data of CMY from the first input image data based on the chroma value and the luminance value and generates image data of CMY from the second input image data based on the luminance value. | 05-05-2011 |
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20100086223 | IMAGE PROCESSOR - A decoding unit includes a first processing unit including ND decoding units and decoding a group of Normal Data, a second processing unit decoding a group of Flex Bits, and a selector. The ND decoding units perform decoding of the group of Normal Data, stepwise varying a start position of decoding in the data stream, concurrently with decoding of the group of Flex Bits by the second processing unit. The selector selects one ND decoding unit with a start position of decoding being set at a position immediately following an end position of the group of Flex Bits, from the ND decoding units, based on a result of decoding of the group of Flex Bits. | 04-08-2010 |
20100104206 | IMAGE COMPRESSION APPARATUS - An image compression apparatus performs quantization of DC component data, low-pass component data and high-pass component data which are generated by frequency conversion of still image data. An extracting part extracts additional data and coding object data which is to be entropy coded, from quantization data. An entropy coding part performs entropy coding of the coding object data stored in a coding object data memory. An additional data processing part generates a flex bit from the additional data. A pattern information generation part acquires the coding object data directly from the extracting part, to generate pattern information indicating whether the coding object data is zero or not. A bit stream generation part outputs the pattern information, the coding object data and the flex bit in a predetermined order, to output a bit stream. | 04-29-2010 |
20100128999 | IMAGE COMPRESSION APPARATUS - A symbol generation part serially inputs a data string of quantization data. If quantization data of non-zero coefficient is inputted, respective information on an absolute value, a zero run and a sign of the non-zero coefficient are stored in registers. When quantization data of the next non-zero coefficient is inputted, the respective information on the absolute value, the zero run and the sign stored in the registers are updated. At that time, the contents of the registers which have been stored immediately before the input are outputted as symbol data of the immediately preceding non-zero coefficient. | 05-27-2010 |
20110161574 | SETTING CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SETTING CONTROL APPARATUS - A setting control apparatus includes a setting control part, a special register, and a read-out control part. The setting control part makes stored in a temporary storage part a control value used in a processing circuit, in response to an input of the control value. The special register is electrically connected to the processing circuit and serving as a storage element capable of storing the control value. The read-out control part controls a read-out operation for reading out the control value from the temporary storage part into the special register. The read-out control part performs the read-out operation at a predetermined timing after storing of the control value in the temporary storage part is completed. | 06-30-2011 |
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20080287625 | Fluoropolymer Having S-Sulfate Group and Water/Oil Repellent Composition Containing the Polymer - A fluoropolymer comprising: (A) repeating unit derived from an S-sulfate monomer having an —S—SO | 11-20-2008 |
20090029099 | FLUORINE-CONTAINING MONOMER, FLUORINE-CONTAINING POLYMER AND SURFACE TREATING AGENT - Disclosed is a fluorine-containing polymer having: | 01-29-2009 |
20090030143 | FLUOROSILICONES AND FLUORINE- AND SILICON-CONTAINING SURFACE TREATMENT AGENT - A fluorosilicone reaction product of a mercapto functional organopolysiloxane and a fluorine-containing monomer, and methods of preparing the fluorosilicone are disclosed. The fluorosilicone products are suitable for application to substrates such as textiles, particularly fabrics, to impart oil repellent properties to the textile. The fluorosilicone reaction product is prepared from (A) a fluorine-containing monomer of the formula CH | 01-29-2009 |
20100018659 | GREASEPROOF PAPER - A greaseproof paper is provided for use in food processing and/or packaging of foods in which paper has been rendered oleophobic by treatment with a fluorine-containing polymer. The fluorine-containing polymer may be prepared by polymerizing a fluorine-containing monomer in the presence of a mercapto group-containing organopolysiloxane. The fluorine-containing polymer may be applied to paper by coating onto pre-formed paper, or by applying the polymer as a size during a papermaking process. | 01-28-2010 |
20110057142 | FLUOROSILICONES AND FLUORINE- AND SILICON-CONTAINING SURFACE TREATMENT AGENT - A fluorosilicone reaction product of a vinyl functional organopolysiloxane and a fluorine-containing monomer, and methods of preparing the fluorosilicone are disclosed. The fluorosilicone products are suitable for application to substrates such as textiles, particularly fabrics, to impart oil repellent properties to the textile. The fluorosilicone reaction product is prepared from (A) a fluorine-containing monomer of the formula CH | 03-10-2011 |
20110124803 | Dispersion of Fluorosilicones and Fluorine- and Silicon-Containing Surface Treatment Agent - A fluorosilicone reaction product of a mercapto or vinyl functional organopolysiloxane and a fluorine-containing monomer, and methods of preparing the fluorosilicone are disclosed. The fluorosilicone products are suitable for application to substrates such as textiles, particularly fabrics, to impart oil repellent properties to the textile. The fluorosilicone reaction product is prepared from (A) a fluorine-containing monomer of the formula CH | 05-26-2011 |
20110220833 | FLUOROSILICONES AND FLUORINE- AND SILICON-CONTAINING SURFACE TREATMENT AGENT - A fluorosilicone reaction product of a mercapto functional organopolysiloxane and a fluorine-containing monomer, and methods of preparing the fluorosilicone are disclosed. The fluorosilicone products are suitable for application to substrates such as textiles, particularly fabrics, to impart oil repellent properties to the textile. The fluorosilicone reaction product is prepared from (A) a fluorine-containing monomer of the formula CH | 09-15-2011 |
20110274936 | FLUORINE- AND SILICON-CONTAINING TREATMENT AGENT FOR CONCRETES - The present invention provides a surface treatment agent comprising a fluorine-containing polymer having repeating units derived from a monomer comprising a fluorine-containing monomer, wherein the fluorine-containing polymer has a silicone moiety possessed by a mercapto group-containing silicone. When a porous substrate is treated under drying at normal temperature, the surface treatment agent comprising the fluorine-containing acrylate polymer can impart the excellent water- and oil-repellency and soil resistance to the porous substrate. | 11-10-2011 |
20110287678 | FLUOROSILICONE POLYMERS AND SURFACE TREATMENT AGENT - A surface treatment agent, which can impart the excellent water- and oil-repellency, soil resistance and feeling to the substrate, is obtained from a fluorine-containing polymer which contains: (A) a monomer which comprises; (A1) a fluorine-containing monomer of the formula: CH | 11-24-2011 |
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20090201542 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - An image processing system readily provides a client PC with preview of a target image for printing or transmission. In accordance with a request from a client PC (information transmission direction i), a server | 08-13-2009 |
20090284789 | INFORMATION DISPLAYING AND PRINTING SYSTEM - An information displaying and printing system that reduces the time to wait for printing of content displayed on a displaying apparatus to complete is provided. An image forming apparatus transmits an image data and an identification information of the image data stored in a registration information database to a displaying apparatus. The displaying apparatus receives an image data and an identification information of the image data, displays the image data, and transmits a print request with the identification information to the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus searches for an identification information coinciding with the identification information received from the displaying apparatus by referring to the registration information database, reads the image data from the registration information database, and prints the image data. | 11-19-2009 |
20110075943 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus has a storage unit for storing uncompressed data, a compression processing unit for performing lossless compression and lossy compression on the uncompressed data, a memory controller for reading the uncompressed data from the storage unit and writing compressed data compressed by the compression processing unit and a control unit for controlling transfer of the uncompressed data stored in the storage unit to the compression processing unit, wherein the compression processing unit has one DMA and simultaneously executes the lossless compression and the lossy compression, and wherein the control unit uses the DMA to successively transfer a rectangular region, constituted by a predetermined number of pixels in a main scanning line direction and a predetermined number of pixels in a sub-scanning line direction, of the uncompressed data from the storage unit to the compression processing unit for each rectangular region, and after uncompressed data on a main scanning line is transferred, the control unit moves in the sub-scanning line direction within one rectangular region, and the uncompressed data is transferred such that uncompressed data on a subsequent main scanning line is transferred, whereby the compression processing is successively performed on data in each rectangular region transferred by the compression processing unit. | 03-31-2011 |
20140063564 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS HAVING STAMP FUNCTION AND DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM HAVING DOCUMENT SEARCH FUNCTION - An image reading apparatus includes an image reading unit, a character stamp information reception unit receiving the input of character stamp information, a manuscript character information extraction unit, and an information-added image data generation unit. The information-added image data generation unit generates information-added image data serving as data where meta-information and a stamped image are caused to make a set. The meta-information is information where the character stamp information received by the character stamp information reception unit is added to manuscript character information extracted by the manuscript character information extraction unit. | 03-06-2014 |
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20100112144 | Soybean Mixed Powder - Herein disclosed is a raw material used for preparing solidified soybean foods comprising the combination of a soybean mixed powder which comprises a soybean powder prepared by the pulverization of dried soybeans, dextrin and an alkali carbonate; and a coagulating agent, and more specifically, a raw material used for preparing solidified soybean foods (such as TOFU and TOFA) which comprises dextrin in an amount ranging from 9 to 40 parts by mass and an alkali carbonate in a rate ranging from 0.15 to 1.6 parts by mass, per 100 parts by mass of the soybean powder as well as a raw material used for preparing a soybean-derived beverage starting from the foregoing soybean mixed powder. Thus, the present invention can provide a soybean mixed powder or the like for use in the preparation of TOFU, TOFA and/or soybean-derived beverages, which have excellent appearance, high pleasantness to the teeth and high nutritive values, which can easily be prepared, for instance, at each home using soybean mixed powder obtained by the pulverization of dried soybeans. | 05-06-2010 |
20120124946 | Method of Preparing Soybean Mixed Powder, Method of Preparing a Solidified Soybean Food, and a Method of Preparing a Packaged Raw Material for Preparing a Solidified Soybean Food - A method of preparing soybean mixed powder comprising a soybean powder having properties wherein formation of agglomerate is small when the powder is added to water and then heated with stirring to dissolve the powder. | 05-24-2012 |
20120177758 | COMPOSITION COMPRISING TURMERIC EXTRACT AND ZEDOARY EXTRACT - This invention is intended to further improve the effects of alleviating hangover symptoms with the use of a composition comprising a turmeric extract. In particular, this invention is intended to provide a composition that alleviates specific hangover symptoms, such as heartburn and dull headache. The present inventors found that a composition comprising a turmeric ( | 07-12-2012 |
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20080241022 | Reactor for Generating Moisture and Moisture Generating and Feeding Apparatus for Which the Reactor is Employed - A reactor for generating moisture, with which hydrogen and oxygen fed into the reactor contact with a platinum coating catalyst layer to activate reactivity so that hydrogen and oxygen react under conditions of non-combustion, wherein the reactor includes a cooler comprising a heat dissipation body substrate in which a heater insertion hole is made in the center to fix to the outer surface of the reactor structural component on the outlet side and a cooler on the outlet side made up of a plural number of heat dissipation bodies installed vertically in parallel on the part excluding the area where the afore-mentioned heater insertion hole of the heat dissipation body substrate exists, and a part of the heater to heat the reactor is inserted in the heater insertion hole so as to fix to the outer surface of the reactor structural component on the outlet side. | 10-02-2008 |
20090032115 | VACUUM THERMAL INSULATING VALVE - The present invention provides a vacuum thermal insulating valve that may be used at high temperature in gas supply systems or gas exhaust systems, and also may be made substantially small and compact in size owing to its excellent thermal insulating performance. With a vacuum thermal insulating valve comprising a valve equipped with a valve body and an actuator, and a vacuum thermal insulating box that houses the valve, the afore-mentioned vacuum thermal insulating box S is formed by a square-shaped lower vacuum jacket S | 02-05-2009 |
20100143239 | METHOD FOR PARALLEL OPERATION OF REACTORS THAT GENERATE MOISTURE - The method for parallel operation of moisture generating reactors according to the present invention operates so that an orifice, provided with an orifice hole having a predetermined opening diameter, is disposed on a mixed-gas inlet side of each of a plurality of moisture generating reactors connected in parallel with each other, and mixed gas G consisting of hydrogen and oxygen is supplied from a mixer to each of the moisture generating reactors through each orifice, and the flows of moisture generated by the moisture generating reactors are combined, and the resulting combined moisture is supplied to an apparatus that uses high-purity water. Thus, a need to increase the amount of high-purity water supply is met by allowing a plurality of moisture generating reactors to perform a parallel water generating operation by branching off a mixed gas consisting of H | 06-10-2010 |
20120082596 | Reactor for Moisture Generation - A reactor for moisture generation generates high-purity moisture at a catalytic reaction temperature that is lower than an ignition point of hydrogen gas and oxygen gas so hydrogen and oxygen gas are supplied into the reactor having a platinum catalyst layer to catalyze the reaction of the gases without combustion, wherein the reactor maintains high adhesion strength for a long time of the platinum catalyst layer to a barrier layer provided between the base material and the platinum catalyst layer. The reactor includes a reactor main body that has a gas inlet and a moisture outlet, and the Y | 04-05-2012 |