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20080303774 | Display Apparatus - A display apparatus includes a substrate having a metal layer, a plurality of scanning signal lines and a plurality of data signal lines which intersect with each other and are disposed on the substrate, a display device which has a display element located at an intersecting position of the scanning and data signal lines and is driven by a voltage signal supplied to the scanning and data signal lines, a plurality of coils disposed in parallel with each other on the substrate, and a circuit for detecting currents passing through the plurality of coils by the action of electromagnetic induction of an electromagnetic wave locally generated at a surface of the display device to determine a generation position of the electromagnetic wave by a position of the coils through which the currents pass. The metal layer as a substrate material is a thin electroconductive metal plate which is flexible and not readily broken. | 12-11-2008 |
20100190214 | BIOCHEMICAL TREATMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD COMPRISING LIQUID HANDLING MECHANISM - Nucleic acid solution, magnetic particles solution and primer or eluate are moved between a lot of wells provided in reaction/storage vessel | 07-29-2010 |
20110104794 | APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING BIOCHEMICAL PROCESSING USING CONTAINER HAVING WELLS - A biochemical processing apparatus includes a thermal cycle section, a processing section for performing a processing not requiring heating or cooling, and a cooling section. These sections are arranged in that order and opposed to a container with a plurality of wells. | 05-05-2011 |
20120308246 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a first image bearing member (drum); a second image bearing member (drum); a developing device for forming a toner image on the basis of an electrostatic latent image formed on the first drum; an electrostatic latent image forming portion for forming an electrostatic latent image mark on the first drum; a detecting portion for detecting a position of the electrostatic latent image mark; and an adjusting portion for adjusting, on the basis of a detection result of the position of the electrostatic latent image mark, superposition between the toner image formed on the first drum and the toner image formed on the second drum. An electrostatic latent image which is undetectable by the detecting means is formed between a formation region of the toner image on the first drum and a formation region of the electrostatic latent image mark on the first drum. | 12-06-2012 |
20140161493 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The developing device includes: a developing container that stores a developer including a non-magnetic toner and a magnetic carrier; a toner bearing member that bears the toner and conveys the toner to a developing portion; and a separating portion wherein a surface of the toner bearing member includes a plurality of recess structures in which a smallest opening width R is equal to or larger than r | 06-12-2014 |
20150227077 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner bearing member has a plurality of convex portions formed on the surface thereof and extended in a direction crossing a developer carrying direction. An opening width between the adjacent convex portions in the developer carrying direction is equal to or greater than a particle diameter of a toner and less than a particle diameter of a carrier. The convex portion has a height equal to or less than the particle diameter of the toner | 08-13-2015 |
20150227078 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is a developing device including a toner carrying member which carries a toner, a toner supplying member which transports the toner to the toner carrying member, wherein an outer layer surface of the toner supplying member includes a plurality of protrusion portions which extend in a direction intersecting a toner transporting direction, an aperture width in the toner transporting direction between the adjacent protrusion portions is equal to or larger than a particle diameter of the toner and smaller than a particle diameter of the carrier, and a height of the protrusion portions is equal to or smaller than the particle diameter of the toner, and wherein the toner supplying member and the toner carrying member are movable so as to have a relative velocity difference in a toner supplying portion where the toner is supplied from the toner supplying member to the toner carrying member. | 08-13-2015 |
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20090242418 | COATING METHOD AND ELECTROLYZING APPARATUS USED THEREFOR - The present invention provides a coating method, in which a composite coating layer is formed on a surface of an alloy base member by utilizing a rotary electrode device. The coating method includes the steps of: preparing an electrolytic solution containing A ion wherein A is Co or Ni; preparing a MCrAlY powder wherein M denotes at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ni and Co, and the MCrAlY powder contains at least Ni when A is Co or the MCrAlY powder contains at least Co when A is Ni; preparing a dispersion liquid by dispersing the MCrAlY powder into the electrolytic solution; immerging the cylindrical rotary electrode and the alloy base member into the dispersion liquid; and electrolyzing the surface of the alloy base member while the cylindrical rotary electrode covered with the nonwoven fabric layer is rolled on the on the surface of the alloy base member thereby to form the composite coating layer onto the surface of the alloy base member. | 10-01-2009 |
20100295934 | Monitoring apparatus and monitoring method - A monitoring apparatus is provided with an imaging section which can partially pick up an image of a wafer ( | 11-25-2010 |
20110109738 | OBSERVATION DEVICE AND OBSERVATION METHOD - An observation device ( | 05-12-2011 |
20120099120 | EXPOSURE CONDITION DETERMINING METHOD AND SURFACE INSPECTION APPARATUS - There is provided an exposure condition determining method for determining an exposure condition for an exposure-objective substrate having a plurality of semiconductor pattern features formed by predetermined exposure on a surface thereon, the method including, irradiating an illumination light onto a surface of a substrate, which has the pattern features, detecting a diffracted light from the plurality of semiconductor pattern features of the substrate irradiated with the illumination light, and determining the exposure condition based on a variation in brightness of the detected diffracted light. | 04-26-2012 |
20140002814 | OBSERVATION DEVICE AND OBSERVATION METHOD | 01-02-2014 |
20140192366 | EXPOSURE CONDITION DETERMINING METHOD AND SURFACE INSPECTION APPARATUS - There is provided an exposure condition determining method for determining an exposure condition for an exposure-objective substrate having a plurality of semiconductor pattern features formed by predetermined exposure on a surface thereon, the method including, irradiating an illumination light onto a surface of a substrate, which has the pattern features, detecting a diffracted light from the plurality of semiconductor pattern features of the substrate irradiated with the illumination light, and determining the exposure condition based on a variation in brightness of the detected diffracted light. | 07-10-2014 |
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20080292282 | Input-output circuit, recording apparatus and reproduction apparatus for digital video signal - A video signal input-output circuit and a recording-reproduction apparatus in which a digitally compressed video signal input in packet form can be recorded and reproduced efficiently and in stable fashion. In this apparatus, a clock reference is detected from a packet signal containing the clock reference and a digitally compressed video signal, a time stamp for a packet is generated using a clock signal in phase with the clock reference and added to the particular packet, and the packet signals with the time stamp added thereto are recorded closely to each other in a data storage element such as a magnetic recording medium. At playback, the packet interval is output by being restored to the original length on the basis of the time stamp added to the packet in store. | 11-27-2008 |
20080292283 | Input-output circuit, recording apparatus and reproduction apparatus for digital video signal - A video signal input-output circuit and a recording-reproduction apparatus in which a digitally compressed video signal input in packet form can be recorded and reproduced efficiently and in stable fashion. In this apparatus, a clock reference is detected from a packet signal containing the clock reference and a digitally compressed video signal, a time stamp for a packet is generated using a clock signal in phase with the clock reference and added to the particular packet, and the packet signals with the time stamp added thereto are recorded closely to each other in a data storage element such as a magnetic recording medium. At playback, the packet interval is output by being restored to the original length on the basis of the time stamp added to the packet in store. | 11-27-2008 |
20090003803 | Input-output circuit, recording apparatus and reproduction apparatus for digital video signal - A video signal input-output circuit and a recording-reproduction apparatus in which a digitally compressed video signal input in packet form can be recorded and reproduced efficiently and in stable fashion. In this apparatus, a clock reference is detected from a packet signal containing the clock reference and a digitally compressed video signal, a time stamp for a packet is generated using a clock signal in phase with the clock reference and added to the particular packet, and the packet signals with the time stamp added thereto are recorded closely to each other in a data storage element such as a magnetic recording medium. At playback, the packet interval is output by being restored to the original length on the basis of the time stamp added to the packet in store. | 01-01-2009 |
20090044269 | DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS - If content is transmitted/received through a digital signal bus, protection of copyright causes a problem because of no deterioration in quality. Accordingly, authentication is required. The quantity of information to be processed is, however, so large that a long time is required for authentication. Accordingly, both achievement of handling property as in conventional analog connection and protection of copyrighted content without user's awareness become an object. The foregoing object can be achieved by authentication which is executed, for management of copyright, among apparatuses connected to the digital signal bus when the apparatuses are powered on or connected to the digital signal bus or when an input terminal connected to the digital signal bus is selected. The object can be further achieved by an encryption key shared among these apparatuses. | 02-12-2009 |
20090252478 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING A DIGITAL SIGNAL AND APPARATUS FOR RECORDING AND REPRODUCING THE DIGITAL SIGNAL - A method and apparatus is provided for receiving and/or reproducing a digital signal, capable of efficiently recording a compressed, packeted digital signal and inhibiting a copy thereof. An input packet signal is added with a time stamp indicating a relative time of an arrival of the packet, and the packet signals of digital information with the added time stamps are recorded at reduced intervals therebetween. In reproducing, a packet interval adjusting circuit restores the original packet intervals in accordance with the time stamps, and then a time stamp change circuit changes at least one bit of the time stamp and thereafter outputs the digital information. | 10-08-2009 |
20100027962 | INPUT-OUTPUT CIRCUIT, RECORDING APPARATUS AND REPRODUCTION APPARATUS FOR DIGITAL VIDEO SIGNAL - A video signal input-output circuit and a recording-reproduction apparatus in which a digitally compressed video signal input in packet form can be recorded and reproduced efficiently and in stable fashion. In this apparatus, a clock reference is detected from a packet signal containing the clock reference and a digitally compressed video signal, a time stamp for a packet is generated using a clock signal in phase with the clock reference and added to the particular packet, and the packet signals with the time stamp added thereto are recorded closely to each other in a data storage element such as a magnetic recording medium. At playback, the packet interval is output by being restored to the original length on the basis of the time stamp added to the packet in store. | 02-04-2010 |
20110321155 | DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS - If content is transmitted/received through a digital signal bus, protection of copyright causes a problem because of no deterioration in quality. Accordingly, authentication is required. The quantity of information to be processed is, however, so large that a long time is required for authentication. Accordingly, both achievement of handling property as in conventional analog connection and protection of copyrighted content without user's awareness become an object. The foregoing object can be achieved by authentication which is executed, for management of copyright, among apparatuses connected to the digital signal bus when the apparatuses are powered on or connected to the digital signal bus or when an input terminal connected to the digital signal bus is selected. The object can be further achieved by an encryption key shared among these apparatuses. | 12-29-2011 |
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20130190978 | In-Car Information System, In-Car Device, and Information Terminal - An information terminal includes: an operation assignment information storage unit that stores operation assignment information; an actuation information reception unit that receives from an in-car device actuation information; an assignment unit that, on the basis of the operation assignment information and the actuation information, assigns some among a plurality of operations in the information terminal to each of one or more actuations among a plurality of types of actuation that can be inputted with an actuation unit provided to the in-car device respectively, according to priority levels; an actuation signal reception unit that receives an actuation signal outputted from the in-car device; and a conversion unit that, on the basis of the result of assignment by the assignment unit, converts the actuation signal into an operating command that corresponds to one among the plurality of operations. | 07-25-2013 |
20130305262 | In-Car Information System, Information Terminal, And Application Execution Method - An in-car information system includes a portable information terminal and an in-car device. The information terminal includes a storage unit in which applications are stored and a control unit that executes an application manager. The application manager has a launch function that enables execution of the application stored in the storage unit in the foreground and a communication function that enables execution of communication processing in the background to allow the information terminal and the in-car device to exchange information. | 11-14-2013 |
20140092047 | Information Terminal On-Board Information System, On-Board Device, and Information Terminal Program - A portable information terminal that is connected to an in-vehicle device comprises: a first display unit; a display control unit that generates a first screen image for display upon the first display unit, and a second screen image for display upon a second display unit that is comprised in the in-vehicle device; and a screen image output unit that outputs the second screen image to the in-vehicle device. | 04-03-2014 |
20150024731 | In-Car Information System, In-Car Device, and Information Terminal - An information terminal includes: an operation assignment information storage unit that stores operation assignment information; an actuation information reception unit that receives from an in-car device actuation information; an assignment unit that, on the basis of the operation assignment information and the actuation information, assigns some among a plurality of operations in the information terminal to each of one or more actuations among a plurality of types of actuation that can be inputted with an actuation unit provided to the in-car device respectively, according to priority levels; an actuation signal reception unit that receives an actuation signal outputted from the in-car device; and a conversion unit that, on the basis of the result of assignment by the assignment unit, converts the actuation signal into an operating command that corresponds to one among the plurality of operations. | 01-22-2015 |
20150283903 | RESTRICTION INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS AND RESTRICTION INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - Provided is a technology for dealing with display restrictions more easily. A restriction information distribution apparatus includes: a storage unit for storing software restriction information, component layout setting information, and component validity setting information; a communication unit for receiving, from an external device, software identification information, model identification information of an output device, and location information; a restriction information distribution unit for transmitting the software restriction information corresponding to the software identification information to the external device; a location determination unit for determining the region based on the location information; and a layout distribution unit for specifying the component layout setting information corresponding to the model identification information and transmits, together with the component validity setting information corresponding to the region, the component layout setting information to the external device. | 10-08-2015 |
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20110299661 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - An X-ray waveguide according to the present invention includes: a core for guiding an X-ray in such a wavelength band that a real part of the refractive index of a material is 1 or less; and a cladding for confining the X-ray in the core, wherein: the cladding has a periodic structure in which multiple materials having different real parts of the refractive index are periodically arranged in two-dimensional directions perpendicular to the guiding direction of X-ray; and the periodic structure has a period of 100 nm or less. | 12-08-2011 |
20110299662 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - An X-ray waveguide which: shows a small propagation loss of an X-ray; does not deteriorate owing to oxidation; and can be easily produced is realized with an X-ray waveguide, including: a core for guiding an X-ray in such a wavelength band that the real part of refractive index of materials is 1 or less; and a cladding for confining the X-ray in the core, in which: the cladding has a one-dimensional periodic structure consisting of at least two materials having different real parts of refractive index; one of the materials is inorganic one, and another one of materials is any of an organic material, a gas, or vacuum; and the core and the cladding are formed so that the critical angle for total reflection at the interface between the core and the cladding is smaller than a Bragg angle depending on the periodicity of the one-dimensional periodic structure. | 12-08-2011 |
20120269327 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - An X-ray waveguide includes a cladding and a core. The core has a periodic structure formed in at least one period direction. The periodic structure includes periodically arranged members made of material having different refractive index real parts. The core is surrounded by the cladding in the plane perpendicular to a wave-guiding direction. The Bragg angle obtained from the periodicity of the periodic structure is smaller than the total reflection critical angle at which X-rays are incident on the interface between the cladding and the core. The at least one period direction is the direction of at least one fundamental vector expressing the periodicity of the periodic structure in a plane of the core perpendicular to the wave-guiding direction. | 10-25-2012 |
20120288055 | X-RAY HOLOGRAPHY LIGHT SOURCE ELEMENT AND X-RAY HOLOGRAPHY SYSTEM - An X-ray holography light source element divides an entering X-ray beam to emit two or more mutually coherent X-ray beams. The light source element includes an X-ray waveguide which has a core and a cladding. The core contains a plurality of substances different in a refractive-index real part and is a periodic structure body in which basic structures are periodically disposed; the cladding confines an X-ray to the core to be guided therethrough. The total reflection critical angle of the X-ray on the interface of the core and the cladding is larger than the Bragg angle corresponding to the periodicity of the basic structures of the core. A shield member provided with two or more opening portions for respectively emitting the two or more mutually coherent X-ray beams is disposed at the end portion at an emission side of the X-ray waveguide. | 11-15-2012 |
20120328082 | X-RAY MIRROR, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE MIRROR, AND X-RAY APPARATUS - Provided is an X-ray mirror, a method of producing the X-rat mirror, and an X-ray apparatus. The X-ray mirror comprises: a substrate; and an X-ray reflecting structure formed of multiple regions present on the substrate, in which the X-ray reflecting structure comprises a mesostructured film that has the multiple regions having different structural periods in a normal direction of the substrate. Thus, there can be reduced the absorption loss of an X-ray of the mirror that reflects X-rays having different energies. | 12-27-2012 |
20130039476 | X-RAY OPTICAL SYSTEM - An X-ray optical system includes a waveguide that includes a core and a cladding and that guides X-rays from an X-ray source, and an optical element that condenses the X-rays from the waveguide. The core has a periodic structure. The critical angle for total internal reflection of the X-rays at the interface between the core and the cladding is larger than the Bragg angle of the periodic structure. The optical element condenses the X-rays from the waveguide at least in the direction parallel to the interface between the core and the cladding. | 02-14-2013 |
20130039477 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - To provide an X-ray waveguide which: shows a small propagation loss of an X-ray; has a waveguide mode with its phase controlled; does not deteriorate owing to oxidation; and can be easily produced, an X-ray waveguide, including: a core for guiding an X-ray in such a wavelength band that a real part of the refractive index of a material is 1 or less; and a cladding for confining the X-ray in the core, in which: the core has a one-dimensional periodic structure containing multiple materials having different real parts of the refractive index; the multiple materials include one of an organic material, a gas, and a vacuum, and an inorganic material; and the core and the cladding are formed so that the critical angle for total reflection at an interface between the core and the cladding is larger than a Bragg angle resulting from a periodicity of the one-dimensional periodic structure, is realized. | 02-14-2013 |
20130058461 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - An X-ray waveguide showing a small propagation loss and having a waveguide mode with its phase controlled is provided. The X-ray waveguide including: a core for guiding an X-ray in a wavelength band that a real part of the refractive index of a material is 1 or less; and a cladding for confining the X-ray in the core, in which: the X-ray is confined in the core by total reflection at a interface between the core and the cladding; in the core multiple materials having different real parts of the refractive index are periodically arranged; and a waveguide mode of the X-ray waveguide is such that the number of antinodes or nodes of an electric field intensity distribution or a magnetic field intensity distribution of the X-ray coincides with the number of periods of the periodic structure in a direction perpendicular to a waveguiding direction of the X-ray in the core. | 03-07-2013 |
20130064352 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE, PROCESS OF PRODUCING X-RAY WAVEGUIDE, AND X-RAY GUIDING SYSTEM - An X-ray waveguide, for guiding X-rays having a wavelength of 1 pm or more and 100 nm or less, includes: a core and a cladding. The core has a periodic structure composed of a plurality of materials each having a different real part of refractive index in the direction perpendicular to the waveguiding direction. A planarizing layer is disposed between the core and the cladding. The critical angle for total reflection of the X-rays at the interface between the planarizing layer and the cladding is larger than the Bragg angle of the periodic structure of the core. | 03-14-2013 |
20130070905 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE WAVEGUIDE - An X-ray waveguide according to the present invention includes: a core for guiding an X-ray; and a cladding for confining the X-ray in the core, wherein: the core has a low electron density portion and a high electron density portion having a higher electron density than an electron density of the low electron density portion; the low electron density portion is provided in the high electron density portion; and the low electron density portion is formed of one of a pore and an organic substance. | 03-21-2013 |
20130114795 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING X-RAY WAVEGUIDE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - An X-ray waveguide includes a core having a periodic structure in which basic structures made of a plurality of materials having different real parts of refractive indexes are periodically disposed, a cladding formed on an outer side of the core to confine X-rays in the core through total reflection and including at least a portion with a gap between the cladding and the core, and a driving unit which drives at least a portion of the cladding or the core to change a distance of the gap. A critical angle for total reflection of the X-rays in the interface between the cladding and the gap is larger than a Bragg angle corresponding to the periodic structure of the core, and a critical angle for total reflection in an interface between a plurality of ingredients which form the periodic structure of the core is smaller than the Bragg angle. | 05-09-2013 |
20130142312 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE AND X-RAY WAVEGUIDE SYSTEM - An X-ray waveguide includes a core configured to guide X-ray therethrough and a cladding. In a section perpendicular to an X-ray guiding direction, the core has threefold or more rotational symmetry and has a periodic structure made of plural substances each having a different value of a real part of refractive-index, and a critical angle for total reflection of an X-ray at an interface between the core and the cladding is larger than a Bragg angle of the X-ray for the periodic structure of the core. A waveguide mode having a two-dimensionally spatial coherence over a wide cross-section of the core and exhibiting a small propagation loss is realized. | 06-06-2013 |
20130156162 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE AND X-RAY WAVEGUIDE SYSTEM - An X-ray waveguide includes a cladding and a core to guide X-rays. The core includes a periodic structure of plural substances having different values of a refractive-index real part in a direction perpendicular to an X-ray guiding direction. A Bragg angle determined depending on a wavelength of an X-ray and periodicity of the periodic structure is smaller than a critical angle for total reflection of the X-ray at an interface between the core and the cladding. The Bragg angle is larger than a critical angle for total reflection of the X-ray at an interface between the plural substances constituting the periodic structure. The core has, in the X-ray guiding direction, two or more regions differing in periodic number of the periodic structure constituting the core with a core width in a direction of period being different between the two or more regions corresponding to change of the periodic number. | 06-20-2013 |
20130163727 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - A X-ray waveguide includes a core for guiding X-rays having a wavelength band in which the real part of refractive index of material is smaller than 1 and a cladding for confining the X-rays in the core. The core has a one-dimensional periodic structure in which a plurality of layers respectively formed of inorganic materials having different real parts of refractive index are periodically laminated. The core and the cladding are configured so that a critical angle for total reflection for the X-rays at an interface between the core and the cladding is larger than a Bragg angle due to a periodicity of the one-dimensional periodic structure. A critical angle for total reflection for the X-rays at an interface between layers in the one-dimensional periodic structure is smaller than the Bragg angle due to the periodicity of the one-dimensional periodic structure. | 06-27-2013 |
20130177138 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - An X-ray waveguide includes a core to guide X-rays in a wavelength band where the real part of the refractive index of a material is 1 or less, and a cladding to confine the X-rays to the core, in which the core includes a periodic structure having basic structures that contain materials having different real parts of refractive indices, the basic structures being periodically arranged, a low electron density layer is arranged between the core and the cladding and has a lower electron density than that of a material having the highest electron density of all the materials constituting the core, and the critical angle for total reflection of the X-rays at the boundary between the cladding and the low electron density layer is larger than the Bragg angle attributed to the periodicity of the basic structures in the periodic structure of the core. | 07-11-2013 |
20130182827 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE AND X-RAY WAVEGUIDE SYSTEM - An X-ray waveguide includes a core having a curved portion and a cladding. The core has a periodic structure made of different substances periodically arrayed perpendicular to a guiding direction. A critical angle for total reflection of an X-ray at a core-cladding interface is larger than a Bragg angle of the periodic structure. A critical angle for the total reflection of the X-ray at a substance interface in the periodic structure is smaller than the Bragg angle. When s is a core width in a direction perpendicular to the guiding direction and parallel to a curvature radius of the curved portion, n | 07-18-2013 |
20140056414 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE AND X-RAY MEASUREMENT SYSTEM - An X-ray waveguide having a curved structure formed of a core and two claddings that sandwich the core and are mutually opposed, wherein when a y-axis is defined using as an origin a center of a circle, which defines a curvature radius of an interface a between a cladding A present on an inner circumference side of the curved structure of the two claddings, and the core, perpendicular to a tangent at an arbitrary point S and in a direction from the origin toward the interface b, a refractive index real part of the core in the interface a at a y | 02-27-2014 |
20140294158 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - Provided is an X-ray waveguide including a core and two clads opposing to each other so as to sandwich the core, wherein one of the interfaces between the clad and the core has a periodic relief structure in a direction perpendicular to an opposing direction of the two clads and perpendicular to a guiding direction of an X-ray in the X-ray waveguide. | 10-02-2014 |
20140376699 | X RAY WAVEGUIDE SYSTEM - An X-ray waveguide system capable of forming X-rays having spatial coherence of a large space region has an X-ray collecting optical element which collects incident X-rays; and an X-ray waveguide containing a core and claddings and wave-guiding a collected X-ray collected by the X-ray collecting optical element, in which the core of the X-ray waveguide is a periodic structure body in which a plurality of basic structures containing substances different in the refractive-index real part are periodically disposed, the total reflection critical angle of the collected X-ray at the interface of the core and the cladding is equal to or larger than the Bragg angle corresponding to the period of the core, and the collection angle of the collected X-ray entering the X-ray waveguide is as large as or larger than the double of the Bragg angle. | 12-25-2014 |
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20110231357 | INTER-FACILITY MOVEMENT ESTIMATION APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - In general, embodiments provide an inter-facility movement estimation apparatus including: a movement map which stores location information about facilities and movement times therebetween; a positioning unit which obtains user's location information when starting a movement; a movement candidate list which stores given movement path candidates; a movement situation estimating unit which estimates a user's movement situation; a movement path estimating unit which selects, whenever the movement situation is changed, estimated movement path candidates from the given movement path candidates based on the nearest facility and the user's movement situation; and an adjusting unit which changes the likelihoods of the estimated movement path candidates, wherein one of the estimated movement path candidates having a highest likelihood thereamong is specified as an actual movement path of the user. | 09-22-2011 |
20110246122 | MOTION DETERMINATION APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - In one embodiment, a motion determination apparatus includes: a basic motion determination module determining a basic motion of a user, based on a sensor signal for detecting a motion of the user; a basic motion recording module recording the basic motion in a temporal sequence; a motion scene determination table configured to store the basic motion and a condition under which the basic motion occurs, for each motion scene; a motion scene determination module determining that the basic motion recorded in the temporal sequence corresponds to a certain motion scene, based on the motion scene determination table; a detailed label determination table storing a detailed label indicating a detailed motion in the motion scene, for each motion scene; and a detailed label determination module determining that the basic motion included in the motion scene corresponds to a certain detailed label, based on the detailed label determination table. | 10-06-2011 |
20120150777 | ACTION HISTORY SEARCH DEVICE - According to one embodiment, an action history search device receives an inquiry from a user and outputs a inquirty time and a target of inquiry, decides a range for searching action history information representing history of the user's action together with a time of the user's action using the target of inquiry, and calculates an elapsed time from the time of the user's action within the range to the inquiry time. The device judges using the elapsed time and a narrowing-down model a probability on each response candidate to the inquiry based on the history of the action within the range. The narrowing-down model is used for judging according to the elapsed time the probability that the response candidate to the inquiry obtained from the history of the action is the user's desired response. The device outputs the response candidate according to the probability. | 06-14-2012 |