Nikon Patent Applications
Nikon patent applications that are pending before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20230166980Abstract: Gallium-doped zinc oxide particles having an average particle diameter of from >0 nm to 30 nm and a resistivity of from 0.08 M?·cm to 1.4 M?·cm.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicants: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyoshi KANIE, Atsushi MURAMATSU, Yasutaka NISHI, Ryoko SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20230166359Abstract: A processing system includes a holding apparatus for hold an object to be rotatable; a rotation apparatus for rotating the holding apparatus; a beam irradiation apparatus for irradiating the object with an energy beam; an object measurement apparatus for measuring the object; and a control apparatus for controlling at least one of the beam irradiation apparatus and the rotation apparatus based on an information related to the object measured by the object measurement apparatus and an information of a rotational axis of the rotation apparatus, and processes the object by irradiating the object held by the holding apparatus with the energy beam from the beam irradiation apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2020Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Shigeki EGAMI
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Publication number: 20230171517Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes a second image sensor having an organic photoelectric conversion film transmitting a specific light, and a first image sensor which is stacked in layers on a same semiconductor substrate as that of the second image sensor and which receives the specific light having transmitted the second image sensor, in which a pixel for focus detection is provided in the second image sensor or the first image sensor. Therefore, an AF method can be realized independently of a pixel for imaging.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2023Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Hironobu MURATA
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Publication number: 20230168461Abstract: An interchangeable lens that is removably attachable to a camera body includes: a first clock receiver that receives a first clock signal from the camera body; a second clock transmitter that transmits a second clock signal to the camera body; a lens that is driven by a driving force from a first drive member; a receiver that receives an instruction signal from the camera body in synchronization with the first clock signal; and a first transmitter that repeatedly transmits positional information on the lens to the camera body in synchronization with the second clock signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2023Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki FUNAOKA, Kiyoshi YASUDA, Hideaki SUGIYAMA
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Publication number: 20230158952Abstract: An image capture device is mounted in a vehicle. The image capture device includes: an image capture unit; and a setting unit that sets an image capture condition for each region of the image capture unit each having a plurality of pixels, or for each pixel, based upon at least one of a state exterior to the vehicle and a state of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2023Publication date: May 25, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Akiko SHIGA, Toru Miyakoshi, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Akira Kinoshita, Kaoru Yoshino, Hitomi Naganuma, Takashi Kuriyama, Koichi Fukuda, Yuki Kita, Koji Nagaoka, Tomoya Nakagawa, Masakazu Sekiguchi, Takashi Shionoya
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Publication number: 20230158607Abstract: A processing system is a processing system that is configured to process an object by using an energy beam, and includes: an irradiation optical system that includes a condensing optical system and that is configured to condense the energy beam entering a pupil plane of the condensing optical system to irradiate the object with it; and a detection apparatus that is configured to detect, through the condensing optical system, an object light including a light from the object, at least a part of a path of the object light in the condensing optical system is different from at least a part of a path of the energy beam in the condensing optical system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2020Publication date: May 25, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuki UENO
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Publication number: 20230161231Abstract: Provided is a light receiving apparatus including a first light receiving unit; a body to which the first light receiving unit is secured; a first exterior portion that covers at least a portion of the body; and a mount that is capable of having an interchangeable lens attached thereto, to which the body and the first exterior portion are secured. Also provided is a light receiving apparatus, in which a body to which a first light receiving unit is secured and a first exterior portion that covers at least a portion of the body are secured to a mount that is capable of having an interchangeable lens attached thereto, and force placed on the first exterior portion is absorbed by the mount, such that transfer of the force placed on the first exterior portion to the body is reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2022Publication date: May 25, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Tsuyoshi OKUTANI, Eiji MATSUKAWA, Yoshiaki TANABE
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Publication number: 20230156367Abstract: Provided is an image capturing device including a first substrate having a plurality of pixel blocks each including one or more pixels; and a second substrate having a control circuit unit including a first control block including a first exposure control unit for controlling an exposure time of a pixel included in a first pixel block of the plurality of pixel blocks and a second control block including a second exposure control unit for controlling an exposure time of a pixel included in a second pixel block of the plurality of pixel blocks, and a peripheral circuit unit arranged outside the control circuit unit and configured to control signal reading of pixels each included in at least the first pixel block and the second pixel block of the plurality of pixel blocks.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2021Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Yojiro TEZUKA, Tomoki HIRATA, Shiro TSUNAI
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Publication number: 20230152601Abstract: An image display device includes: an input unit into which image signals are inputted, the image signals being outputted from image capturing pixels disposed in correspondence to image capturing micro-lenses, each of the image capturing pixels receiving light that has passed through a corresponding one of the image capturing micro-lenses; display micro-lenses; display pixels that emit light for forming a three-dimensional image to each of the display micro-lenses, the display pixels being disposed in correspondence to the display micro-lenses; and a generator that generates display image data that includes three-dimensional information, based upon the image signals inputted into the input unit. The generator allocates the image signals outputted from the image capturing pixels to the display pixels arranged at symmetrical positions in a predetermined direction, using a pseudo-optical axis of each of the display micro-lenses as a reference.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2022Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Toru IWANE
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Publication number: 20230154010Abstract: A processor acquires a first fundus image of an examined eye including a foreground area and a background area other than the foreground area. The processor also generate a second fundus image by performing background processing to replace a first pixel value of a pixel configuring the background area with a second pixel value different from the first pixel value.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2019Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Mariko HIROKAWA, Yasushi TANABE
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Publication number: 20230152675Abstract: An accessory mount can be inserted through the camera body mount without any of the first through third tabs being hindered by any of three camera body-side tabs at the camera body mount, as long as the accessory mount is inserted into the camera body mount at a correct interlock phase. The first, second, and third tabs extend over varying lengths along the circumferential direction. The first tab extends over a greatest length and the third tab extends over a smallest length, along the circumferential direction. The accessory mount includes a restricting member, a fitting portion, and a lock pin hole. The restricting member is disposed at a position assumed on a side substantially opposite from the lock pin hole across the fitting portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2023Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori HASUDA, Noriyasu KOTANI, Hideaki HOSHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20230152083Abstract: A measuring device includes an illumination system configured to radiate light to a measuring target object located on an object plane, an image formation system configured to form a conjugate plane optically conjugate with the object plane, a diffracted light restricting part configured to restrict at least some of a plurality of rays of diffracted light from the measuring target object and to pass a first diffracted light and a second diffracted light different from the first diffracted light among the plurality of rays of diffracted light, and an imaging part disposed on the conjugate plane and configured to image a periodic light and dark pattern formed by the first diffracted light and the second diffracted light.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2020Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Michio OHASHI, Satoshi TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20230152564Abstract: This microscope optical system comprises an objective lens that collimates light from an object, and an image formation lens (IL) that forms an image of light from the objective lens. The image formation lens (IL) comprises a first lens group (G1) having a cemented lens (CL11), a second lens group (G2) having positive refractive power, and a third lens group (G3) having negative refractive power, which are arranged in order from the object side, and satisfies the following conditional expression. 0.1<?en/f<0.2 where ?en is the pupil diameter of the objective lens, and f is the focal length of the image formation lens (IL).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2021Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Yuta KUSUI, Kazuhiro TAKASAGO
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Publication number: 20230152565Abstract: A microscope objective lens (OL) includes a first lens group (G1) and a second lens group (G2) arranged in order from the object side. The first lens group (G1) has positive refractive power and converts luminous flux from an object into convergent luminous flux. The second lens group (G2) has negative refractive power and converts the convergent luminous flux from the first lens group (G1) into parallel luminous flux. The microscope objective lens (OL) satisfies the following conditional expression: 14.0?NA×f 1.0<H1/HO Where NA is the numerical aperture of the microscope objective lens (OL); f is the focal distance of the microscope objective lens (OL); H1 is the maximum value of the height of marginal rays from an on-axis object point of the first lens group (G1); and HO is the height of marginal rays on the lens surface closest to the image side of the second lens group (G2).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2021Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Yuta KUSUI, Kazuhiro TAKASAGO
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Publication number: 20230143407Abstract: In corner sections of first to fourth quadrants whose origin point is a center of an upper surface of a stage, three each of two-dimensional heads are provided. The three each of two-dimensional heads include one first head and two second heads. The stage is driven, while measuring a position of the stage using three first heads that face a two-dimensional grating of a scale plate provided above the stage from the four first heads, and during the driving, difference data of measurement values of the two second heads with respect to the first head in a measurement direction are taken in for head groups to which the three first heads belong, respectively, and using the difference data, grid errors are calibrated.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2023Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Yuichi SHIBAZAKI
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Publication number: 20230142998Abstract: A processing apparatus is a processing apparatus that processes an object by a processing light from a processing light source, includes a first optical system that condenses the processing light from the processing light source on a condensed plane; and a second optical system that condenses the processing light from the first optical system to irradiate the object with it, a position in the condensed plane through which the processing light passes is changeable, a propagating direction of the processing light propagating from the first optical system to the second optical system changes depending on the position in the condensed plane through which the processing light passes.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2020Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroyuki NAGASAKA
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Publication number: 20230134254Abstract: A blade (BL) is a blade that is used in fluid and includes : a base member (BM); and a coat layer (TBC) that is formed on the base member, a plurality of first grooves (9) and a plurality of second grooves (7) are formed on a surface of the coat layer, a pitch (P9) of the plurality of first grooves is different from a pitch (P7) of the plurality of second grooves.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2020Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Shinji SATO
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Publication number: 20230133779Abstract: A processing system is a processing system that is configured to process an object by irradiating the object with an energy beam, and includes: a placing apparatus on which the object is placed; an irradiation apparatus that is configured to irradiate the object with the energy beam; and a light reception apparatus that includes: a beam passing member having an attenuation area in which the energy beam is attenuated and a plurality of passing areas through each of which the energy beam is allowed to pass; and a light reception part that is configured to optically receive the energy beam that has passed through the plurality of passing areas.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2020Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeki EGAMI, Yosuke TATSUZAKI
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Publication number: 20230139849Abstract: An image processing method including acquiring a fundus image, extracting a first area including a first feature from the fundus image, extracting a second area including a second feature different from the first feature from the fundus image, and generating a combined image in which the extracted first area and the extracted second area are combined.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2019Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Mariko HIROKAWA, Yasushi TANABE
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Publication number: 20230126104Abstract: An image capturing device including a pixel chip having pixel blocks each including one or more pixels; and a signal processing chip having a first control block including a first converting unit for converting a signal from a pixel in at least a first pixel block into a digital signal, and a first storage unit storing the digital signal, and a second control block next to the first control block in a column direction and including a second converting unit for converting a signal from a pixel included in at least a second pixel block into a digital signal, and a second storage unit storing the digital signal, wherein the second converting unit and the second storage unit in the second control block are reversed vertically to the first converting unit and the first storage unit in the first control block.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2021Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Sota NAKANISHI, Shigeru MATSUMOTO, Tomoki HIRATA
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Publication number: 20230130244Abstract: A processor divides a fundus region of an ultra-wide field fundus image into plural areas including at least a first area and a second area, generates first attribute information indicating an attribute of the first area and second attribute information indicating an attribute of the second area, and generates first mode instruction information to instruct display of the first area in a first mode corresponding to the first attribute information, and generates second mode instruction information to instruct display of the second area in a second mode corresponding to the second attribute information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2019Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Mariko HIROKAWA, Yasushi TANABE
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Publication number: 20230122763Abstract: A build system is provided with: a build apparatus that performs a build process for forming a build object by supplying build materials to an irradiation area of an energy beam from a supply system while irradiating a target object with the energy beam from an irradiation system; and a change apparatus that is configured to change a relative position between the energy beam and the target object, wherein the build system differentiates a condition of the build process that is performed at a first area of the target object and a condition of the build process that is performed at a second area of the target object.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuki UENO
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Publication number: 20230111474Abstract: An image sensor includes: a pixel substrate that includes a plurality of pixels each having a photoelectric conversion unit that generates an electric charge through photoelectric conversion executed on light having entered therein and an output unit that generates a signal based upon the electric charge and outputs the signal; and an arithmetic operation substrate that is laminated on the pixel substrate and includes an operation unit that generates a corrected signal by using a reset signal generated after the electric charge in the output unit is reset and a photoelectric conversion signal generated based upon an electric charge generated in the photoelectric conversion unit and executes an arithmetic operation by using corrected signals each generated in correspondence to one of the pixels.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Shigeru MATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20230107373Abstract: Provided is an imaging unit including an imaging section that includes a pixel capable of performing charge accumulation a plurality of times in response to an imaging instruction for generating one frame of image data; a storage section that stores a pixel signal based on output from the pixel; an updating section that updates the pixel signal already stored in the storage section by performing an integration process to integrate the pixel signal output from the pixel as a result of a new charge accumulation and the pixel signal already stored in the storage section; and a control section that controls whether the updating section performs the update, for each of a plurality of pixel groups that each include one or more pixels.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2022Publication date: April 6, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Takashi KURIYAMA
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Publication number: 20230104653Abstract: An imaging device includes an imaging sensor that outputs an imaging signal representing a sequence of frame images of a photographic subject. A buffer memory temporarily stores data of the sequence of frame images from the imaging signal. A release switch is actuated by a user to output an image-taking signal. A controller, upon receipt of the image-taking signal from the release switch: (i) generates moving image data from at least some of the plurality of frame images stored in the buffer memory, (ii) generates at least one piece of still image data based on at least one frame image of the plurality of frame images stored in the buffer memory, and (iii) associates the moving image data with the still image data and records the moving image data and the still image data in a recording medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2022Publication date: April 6, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Takashi KURIYAMA
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Publication number: 20230106321Abstract: The problem of limited throughput in three-dimensional (3D) printing processes is addressed by systems and methods that employ mirrors to receive energy reflected by the melt pool and to redirect such light back to the melt pool, where it may further heat the melt pool. Multiple such passes of reflection from the melt pool and redirection back to the melt pool may substantially increase the efficiency at which the melt pool absorbs the energy, thereby substantially increasing the throughput of the 3D printing process.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2021Publication date: April 6, 2023Applicant: Nikon CorporationInventors: Alton Hugh Phillips, Eric Peter Goodwin
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Publication number: 20230094685Abstract: A stage apparatus includes a movable body having a first support surface for supporting an object, a support portion that is elastically deformable, has a predetermined thickness, and supports the movable body, a support device having a second support surface that supports the support portion, and a drive unit configured to move the movable body so that an angle between the first support surface and the second support surface is changed, wherein the support portion elastically deforms so that the predetermined thickness at a first side where an interval between the first support surface and the second support surface is narrow becomes small and the predetermined thickness at a second side where the interval between the first support surface and the second support surface is wide becomes large in accordance with a change in the angle caused by the drive unit to support the movable body.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Hideaki NISHINO, Atsushi HARA
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Publication number: 20230098793Abstract: An image-capturing device includes: an image sensor that captures an image of a subject to output an image-capturing signal; a development processing unit that generates development data based on the image-capturing signal; and an output control unit that outputs the development data to an external device in a predetermined transmission format via a connecting member that connects the image-capturing device to the external device. The output control unit outputs the image-capturing signal to the external device via the connecting member in the predetermined transmission format.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro YOSHIMURA, Hiroaki SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20230099077Abstract: Provided is a mist generator including: a container that stores a liquid; a gas supply unit that supplies a gas into the container; and an electrode that generates plasma of the gas between the electrode and the liquid, where the supply direction of the gas fed from the gas supply opening of the gas supply unit is different from a direction in which gravity acts.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Ryoko SUZUKI, Yasutaka NISHI, Kotaro OKUI
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Publication number: 20230087007Abstract: A camera body with which it is possible to improve the effect of shake correction, a camera accessory, and an information transmission method wherein the camera body to which a camera accessory can be detachably mounted, and includes: a movable section which is movable to correct shaking of the camera body; a detection unit which detects the shake and outputs a detection signal; a calculation unit which, on the basis of the detection signal, calculates an amount of movement of the movable section; and a transmission unit which transmits, to the camera accessory, body-side information the calculation unit uses to calculate the amount of movement.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Sueyuki OHISHI
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Publication number: 20230079144Abstract: A processing system includes: a processing apparatus for processing an object; a rotation apparatus for rotating a holding part holding the object; a movement apparatus for moving at least one of the processing apparatus and the holding part; a measurement apparatus for measuring at least a part of the object held by the holding part; and a control apparatus for controlling the movement apparatus and the rotation apparatus based on a measured result by the measurement apparatus to rotate the holding part and to move at least one of the processing apparatus and the holding partType: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2020Publication date: March 16, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Takeshi MATSUDA
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Publication number: 20230079905Abstract: This eyeglass lens is outstanding in anti-crazing properties, impact resistance properties, and adhesion. The present invention comprises: a lens substrate; a primer layer disposed on the lens substrate; and at least one layer that is disposed on the primer layer and that is selected from the group consisting of a hard-coat layer and a reflection-preventing layer. The primer layer contains a polycarbonate-based polyurethane resin and inorganic oxide particles. The tensile strength of the polycarbonate-based polyurethane resin is over 40 N/mm2. The expansion rate of the polycarbonate-based polyurethane resin is at least 300%, and the inorganic oxide particle content is 10-40% by volume with respect to the total volume of the primer layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2022Publication date: March 16, 2023Applicant: NIKON-ESSILOR CO.,LTD.Inventor: Koichi SAKAI
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Publication number: 20230084582Abstract: A feature value related to a positional relationship between a vortex vein position and a characteristic point on a fundus image is computed. The image processing method provided includes a step of analyzing a choroidal vascular image and estimating a vortex vein position, and a step of computing a feature value indicating a positional relationship between the vortex vein position and a position of a particular site on a fundus.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2022Publication date: March 16, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Yasushi TANABE, Mariko HIROKAWA
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Publication number: 20230075378Abstract: An image sensor includes: a photoelectric conversion unit that photoelectrically converts light to generate an electric charge; a holding unit that holds the electric charge generated by the photoelectric conversion unit; an accumulation unit that accumulates the electric charge generated by the photoelectric conversion unit; a first transfer path that transfers the electric charge generated by the photoelectric conversion unit to the accumulation unit; and a second transfer path that transfers the electric charge generated by the photoelectric conversion unit to the accumulation unit via the holding unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Ryoji ANDO, Yoshiyuki WATANABE
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Publication number: 20230069519Abstract: A lightweight lens barrel that includes two focus lenses. The first lens holding frame for holding a first lens L5, a first drive unit STM5 for causing the first lens holding frame to move in the optical axis direction, a second lens holding frame for holding a second lens L6, and a second drive unit STM6 for causing the second lens holding frame to move in the optical axis direction, the first lens holding frame being arranged on an inner peripheral side of the second lens holding frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi KISHIMOTO, Kenichi KITANO, Osamu GOMIBUCHI
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Publication number: 20230062176Abstract: A lens barrel includes an element displaced by application of voltage; an elastic body having a contact surface coming into contact with the element, a drive surface to produce a vibration wave by displacement of the element, and a plurality of grooves; a moving element come into contact with the drive surface and rotated by the vibration wave; an annular ring rotated by rotating of the moving element; and a lens moved in an optical axis direction by rotating of the annular ring; wherein the element mainly contains a material having potassium sodium niobate, potassium niobate, sodium niobate, or barium titanate, wherein a value of [(T/B)÷W] is in a range of 0.84 to 1.94, where T represents a depth of the groove, B represents a distance from a bottom part of the groove to the contact surface, and W represents a radial width of the elastic body.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Takatoshi ASHIZAWA
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Publication number: 20230047898Abstract: A processing system includes: an irradiation part for irradiating an object with an energy beam; a powder supply part for supplying powder to a melt pool formed by an irradiation of the energy beam; an illumination apparatus for illuminating a position of a solidified part where the melt pool is solidified with a second light having a wavelength different from a wavelength of a first light emitted from the melt pool; an imaging apparatus for optically receive at least a part of the first light and at least a part of a third light from a part of the solidified part that is illuminated with the second light; and a display apparatus for displaying, based on an output of the imaging apparatus, an image related to the melt pool and the solidified part.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2021Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Koichi YASUBA, Yasuhisa MAEDA, Shinichiro KINOSHITA, Yoshikazu ONOBORI
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Publication number: 20230052396Abstract: A control device configured to control a supply condition of a gas which is supplied between two substrates that are to be bonded to each other by a substrate bonding device, is configured to control the supply condition based on a measurement result obtained by a measurement in relation to at least one of the substrate, another substrate bonded before the substrate is bonded, or the substrate bonding device, and the two substrates are bonded to each other by a contact region expanding after the contact region is formed in a center.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2022Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Hidehiro MAEDA, Toshimasa SHIMODA, Hajime MITSUISHI, Hiroshi MORI, Kishou TAKAHATA, Masahiro YOSHIHASHI, Takashi SHIOMI, Yoshihiro MAEHARA
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Publication number: 20230048772Abstract: A mask data generation method including: calculating first evaluation value of projection image based on first mask data in which first value or second value different from first value is set for each of a plurality of unit elements that constitute 2-dimensional grid; generating second mask data by changing value of first unit element to which first value is set to second value and by changing value of second unit element which is disposed close to first unit element on 2-dimensional grid and to which second value is set to first value, among the plurality of unit elements included in the first mask data; calculating second evaluation value of projection image based on the second mask data; and comparing the first evaluation value and the second evaluation value and selecting either the first mask data or the second mask data as output mask data based on the comparison result.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2021Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Yosuke OKUDAIRA, Satoshi YASHIKI
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Publication number: 20230048981Abstract: A compound represented by Formula (1) given below.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2022Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro SOMEYA, Masayuki SHIJO
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Publication number: 20230034966Abstract: In a beam irradiation apparatus in which a movable body holds an object, a mark detection system detects a first mark on the movable body while moving the movable body in a first direction and changing an irradiation position of a measurement beam in the first direction, the mark detection system detects a second mark while moving the movable body in the first direction and changing the irradiation position of the measurement beam in the first direction, a controller controls a position of the movable body in a second direction intersecting the first direction during a time period between the detection of the first mark and the detection of the second mark, and the controller controls the movement of the movable body to adjust a positional relation between the object on the movable body and a processing beam, based on results of the detection of the first and second marks.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Akihiro UEDA
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Publication number: 20230036138Abstract: An image sensor including a pixel that includes: a first photoelectric conversion unit and a second photoelectric conversion unit, each of which generates an electric charge through photoelectric conversion of light; an output unit that outputs a first signal generated based upon the electric charge generated in the first photoelectric conversion unit and a second signal generated based upon an electric charge generated in the second photoelectric conversion unit; and an adjustment unit that adjusts a capacitance at the output unit upon outputting of the first signal and the second signal from the output unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Atsushi KOMAI
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Publication number: 20230033962Abstract: An accessory includes: a detection terminal; a first power supply terminal through which a first power supply voltage is supplied; a first ground terminal used as a ground potential; a second power supply terminal through which a second power supply voltage is supplied; a second ground terminal used as a ground potential; a ready terminal used to indicate whether or not communication is allowed: a first data terminal that receives a first data signal; a second data terminal that outputs a second data signal; a clock terminal that outputs a clock signal; and a third data terminal that outputs a third data signal, wherein: the first ground terminal, the second power supply terminal, and the second ground terminal are positioned between the first power supply terminal and the ready terminal; and the first data terminal and the second data terminal are positioned between the ready terminal and the clock terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Takayuki FUNAOKA
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Publication number: 20230029722Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes an imaging element having a plurality of image capture regions, each of the image capture regions having a plurality of pixels for generating an image signal; a setting unit that sets different image capture conditions for the plurality of image capture regions; and a control unit that corrects a portion of an image signal of a photographic subject captured under first image capture conditions in an image capture region among the plurality of image capture regions so that it is as if the portion of the image signal was captured under second image capture conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiyuki KANBARA, Takashi SHIONOYA, Naoki SEKIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20230029429Abstract: A beam processing apparatus is a beam processing apparatus that irradiates a workpiece with a processing beam, and performs a removal processing of a first part of the workpiece by irradiating a first surface of the workpiece with the processing beam while moving an irradiation position of the processing beam along a first direction, and performs a removal processing of a second part of the workpiece by irradiating a second surface, which is formed at the workpiece by the removal processing of the first part, with the processing beam while moving the irradiation position of the processing beam along the first direction. A moving range of the processing beam for the removal processing of the second part is smaller than a moving range of the processing beam for the removal processing of the first part.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2019Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Tomoki MIYAKAWA
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Publication number: 20230028137Abstract: An image-capturing device includes: a plurality of micro-lenses disposed in a two-dimensional pattern near a focal plane of an image forming optical system; an image sensor that includes a two-dimensional array of element groups each corresponding to one of the micro-lenses and made up with a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements which receive, via the micro-lenses light fluxes from a subject having passed through the photographic optical system and output image signals; and a synthesizing unit that combines the image signals output from the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements based upon information so as to generate synthetic image data in correspondence to a plurality of image forming areas present on a given image forming plane of the image forming optical system, the information specifying positions of the photoelectric conversion elements output image signals that are to be used for generating synthetic image data for each image forming area.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2022Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Toru IWANE
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Publication number: 20230015748Abstract: An optical system includes a first optical system, a second optical system, and a third optical system. The first optical system divides an input beam into a first light and a second light. The second optical system includes a concave reflective surface which reflects the first light. The third optical system directs at least one of the first light reflected from the second optical system and the second light from the first optical system to an output optical path of the third optical system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Daniel Gene SMITH, Brian Lee STAMPER
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Publication number: 20230011109Abstract: An image sensor includes: (1) a first pixel and a second pixel each including: a photoelectric conversion unit that photoelectrically converts light and generates an electric charge; and a transfer unit that transfers the electric charge generated by the photoelectric conversion unit to an accumulation unit that accumulates the electric charge, the first pixel and the second pixel being arranged in a row direction; (2) a first supply unit that supplies a signal which controls the transfer unit of the first pixel; and (3) a second supply unit that supplies a signal which controls the transfer unit of the second pixel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2022Publication date: January 12, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Osamu SARUWATARI
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Publication number: 20230004094Abstract: An optical device includes a plurality of laser light sources, an output module having an optical modulator, and a time divider that is disposed between the plurality of laser light sources and the output module and that is configured to divide laser beams emitted from the plurality of laser light sources in time.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Yasushi MIZUNO, Masaki KATO
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Publication number: 20220398736Abstract: An information processing device includes: an acquirer that acquires observation results obtained from a time-lapse image of a target object; and a controller that indicates, in a display image, analysis results visually representing the observation results and an increase/decrease time indicating an amount of time required to increase or decrease a predetermined value related to the target object. When a setting for a section in the analysis results has been received, the controller indicates, in the display image, the increase/decrease time corresponding to the section that has been set.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2019Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Momotaro ISHIKAWA, Toshihide TADAKI, Takeyuki ABE, Kohma HAYASHI, Kyoko NEGISHI, Ryoko SENDODA