Abstract: A sewing machine including a needle-swing mechanism that swings a needle bar; a cloth-feed mechanism that feeds a workpiece cloth by a feed dog; an imaging unit that captures an image of a baseline drawn on a surface of the workpiece cloth; a baseline-color detection portion that detects a baseline color of the baseline based on an image data of the baseline captured by the imaging unit; a first storage portion storing a mapping of a plurality of baseline colors to stitch data of a plurality of normal patterns; and a control portion that forms normal pattern stitches along the baseline by reading stitch data corresponding to the baseline color detected by the baseline-color detection portion from the first storage portion and controlling the needle-swing mechanism and the cloth-feed mechanism based on the stitch data read.

Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for fabricating a multi-layer information recording medium including a substrate, plural information recording layers placed on the aforementioned substrate, resin intermediate layers placed between adjacent information recording layers and a resin protective layer placed on all the information recording layers at the side opposite from the aforementioned substrate, the apparatus including an ejecting unit including ink jet nozzles operable to drip minute resin liquid drops onto the aforementioned substrate or the aforementioned information recording layers; and a control unit operable to control the aforementioned ejecting unit, whereby resin layers which form said resin intermediate layers or said resin protective layer are formed on the aforementioned substrate or the aforementioned information recording layers.

Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing a conductive layer of in a signal transmission substrate. The method includes sewing conductive thread in sheet-like material having an insulating property so as to form one of a plurality of low resistance regions using the conductive thread in a high resistance region formed by the sheet-like material, moving the conductive thread from an end point of a previously sewed low resistance region to a start point of a low resistance region to be sewed subsequently, repeating the sewing and moving steps to form the plurality of low resistance regions in the high resistance region, and forming a plurality of holes in the conductive layer by press working so that an electrical component attached to at least one of the plurality of holes is able to transmit a signal between neighboring ones of the plurality of low resistance regions.

Abstract: An operation control method to be implemented by each of a plurality of communication devices two-dimensionally arranged on a two dimensional diffusive signal-transmission board, each of the plurality of communication devices being configured to communicate by transmitting a transmission signal carrying data to another of the plurality of the communication devices using a two dimensional diffusive signal-transmission technology, the method includes judging whether a communication device being operated in a normal mode satisfies a predetermined condition, and setting the communication device into one of a low electrical power consumption mode in which at least one function is decreased, and a power off mode in which electrical power supply to the communication device is shut off, when the communication device being operated in the normal mode satisfies the predetermined condition.

Abstract: A micro-device includes a frame configured to form a cavity surrounded thereby, the frame having a first opening and a second opening opposite to the first opening, a movable portion provided in the cavity, a supporting portion configured to support the movable portion in the cavity, a first sealing member configured to be bonded with the frame and to seal the first opening of the frame, and a second sealing member configured to be bonded with the frame and to seal the second opening of the frame. The frame includes an alignment structure configured to align at least one of the first sealing member and the second sealing member relative to the frame.

Abstract: A slip printing system which can be employed in a service management system is configured to include a host computer, a mobile terminal device, and a mobile printer that is capable of receiving data from the mobile terminal device. The mobile terminal device includes a service information input module. The service information input through the service information input module is transmitted to the host computer. A print data generating module of the host computer generates print data to in accordance with the service information. The print data generated by the print data generating module is transmitted to the mobile terminal device. The mobile terminal device transmits the print data which has been transmitted from the host computer, and the mobile printer prints an image on a slip in accordance with the print data transmitted from the mobile terminal device.

Abstract: A sewing machine capable of embroidery sewing is configured to specify a type of embroidery frame by shooting an embroidery frame placed on an upper surface of the bed by a CCD or a CMOS image sensor disposed in an underside of an arm from an obliquely upward direction and obtaining an X-directional size and a Y-directional size of the embroidery frame, an embroiderable area size, and further a height-directional size of the embroidery frame by calculation based on image data shot by the image sensor.

Abstract: A personalized product producing system enables customers to order a personalized product, such as a name card, a stamp, or a sticker/label, inexpensively and conveniently. Customers operate their own cellular phones to send personalized information to be engraved in a stamp or printed on a name card or sticker/label in the form of e-mail to a host computer. The host computer edits the information and sends personalized product producing data to a stamp personalized product producing device. The personalized product producing device produces a personalized product based on the received data.

Abstract: A sewing machine including a needle bar that has a sewing needle attached in a lower end thereof; a needle-bar vertical drive mechanism that vertically moves the needle bar by a sewing machine motor via a sewing machine motor main shaft; an imaging unit that captures image of at least the sewing needle and a moving object that is in close proximity of the sewing needle; a distance calculating portion that calculates a distance between the sewing needle and the moving object based on image data captured by the imaging unit; a judging portion that makes a judgment that the distance calculated by the distance calculating portion is equal to or less than a predetermined distance; and a control portion that controls execution of a predetermined safety operation based on a judgment result of the judging portion.

Abstract: A sewing machine including a needle-swing mechanism that swings a needle bar; a cloth-feed mechanism that feeds a workpiece cloth by a feed dog; an imaging unit that captures an image of a baseline drawn on a surface of the workpiece cloth; a baseline-color detection portion that detects a baseline color of the baseline based on an image data of the baseline captured by the imaging unit; a first storage portion storing a mapping of a plurality of baseline colors to stitch data of a plurality of normal patterns; and a control portion that forms normal pattern stitches along the baseline by reading stitch data corresponding to the baseline color detected by the baseline-color detection portion from the first storage portion and controlling the needle-swing mechanism and the cloth-feed mechanism based on the stitch data read.

Abstract: A sewing machine includes needlebars for a sewing operation using a plurality of needle threads, a spool pin stand having a plurality of spool pins to which thread spools corresponding to the needlebars are attachable, respectively, thread passage defining members located on a thread passage extending from the spool pin stand to the needlebars, a storage unit storing sewing data including at least thread color information about colors of the needle threads, thread supply display units located on the spool pin stand so as to correspond to the spool pins respectively, the thread supply display units displaying the thread colors in a color-variable manner, respectively, and a thread color information display control unit controlling the thread supply display units based on the thread color information read from the sewing data storage unit, so that thread colors corresponding to the spool pins are displayed by the thread supply display units, respectively.

Abstract: A sewing machine capable of embroidery sewing is configured to specify a type of embroidery frame by shooting an embroidery frame placed on an upper surface of the bed by a CCD or a CMOS image sensor disposed in an underside of an arm from an obliquely upward direction and obtaining an X-directional size and a Y-directional size of the embroidery frame, an embroiderable area size, and further a height-directional size of the embroidery frame by calculation based on image data shot by the image sensor.

Abstract: An exposure apparatus of an optical disk master having a laser source, a deflector for deflecting a recording laser beam obtained based on the laser beam of the laser source and an objective lens for focusing the recording laser beam on an optical disk master, has a lens system provided between the laser source and the deflector, which has a first lens for focusing the laser beam and a second lens for adjusting the focused laser beam to a desired beam diameter; and a pinhole placed at a practical focal position of the lens system.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for exposing an optical disk master having a laser source, a deflector for deflecting a recording laser beam based on the laser beam of the laser source and an objective lens for focusing the recording laser beam on an optical disk master, including a liquid crystal plate provided between the laser source and the deflector, a parallel flat plate provided between the deflector and the objective lens, a photodetector that detects reflected light from the parallel flat plate, and an adjusting device for adjusting a voltage applied to the liquid crystal plate based on information on wavefront fluctuation of the recording laser beam detected by the photodetector.

Abstract: There is provided a method of compressing an image signal including a plurality of pixel signals outputted from a pixel array in which color pixels are arranged in a predetermined array. The method includes calculating a difference between pixel signals of neighboring same color pixels in the pixel array in accordance with predetermined order where the plurality of pixel signals are outputted from the pixel array, and generating a difference signal representing the calculated difference between the pixel signals of neighboring same color pixels.

Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing a conductive layer of in a signal transmission substrate. The method includes sewing conductive thread in sheet-like material having an insulating property so as to form one of a plurality of low resistance regions using the conductive thread in a high resistance region formed by the sheet-like material, moving the conductive thread from an end point of a previously sewed low resistance region to a start point of a low resistance region to be sewed subsequently, repeating the sewing and moving steps to form the plurality of low resistance regions in the high resistance region, and forming a plurality of holes in the conductive layer by press working so that an electrical component attached to at least one of the plurality of holes is able to transmit a signal between neighboring ones of the plurality of low resistance regions.

Abstract: In an electron beam exposure method in which an article subjected to exposure and an electron beam irradiation spot are moved relative to each other at a continuous speed, the article is exposed at a plurality of irradiation intensities of an electron beam by changing a transmittance of an electron optical system for forming the electron beam irradiation spot on the article.

Abstract: In producing a stamper for molding an optical disc, a master disc which can be obtained from the steps of forming a thermosensitive material layer capable of acting as a negative type by a laser beam on a substrate, irradiating a laser beam to predetermined areas of the thermosensitive material layer so as to partially perform exposure and wet-etching the partially exposed thermosensitive material layer so as to form a fine pits-and-bumps pattern is used as a stamper for injection molding machine. Therefore, minute pits each having a size smaller than the spot of the laser beam of optical limit are formed, thereby providing a stamper with the small number of deficiencies.

Abstract: A wearable jacket includes a 2D-DST substrate shaped to cover a body of a subject person. The 2D-DST substrate includes a first conductive sheet, a second conductive sheet and a plurality of communication modules. The first and second conductive sheets are overlapped, and the first conductive sheet is located on the subject person side when in use. The plurality of communication modules are distributed between the first and second conductive sheets. At least one of the plurality of communication modules has a communicating system capable of communicating with an external device by receiving and/or transmitting a spatially propagating signal. One of the first and second conductive sheets on the external device side is formed with an area that allows the spatially propagating signal to pass through at a position corresponding to a location of a communication module having the communicating system.

Abstract: A liquid material is applied by spin coating it onto a first main surface of a flat plate to form a coating of the liquid material thereon. The flat plate includes a second main surface which is opposite to the first main surface and a hole which passes through the flat plate. The application of the liquid material is carried out using an inner guide member, which is placed in the hole, and the spin coating is carried out while the flat plate is placed on a stage such that the inner guide member is placed generally adjacent to an inner peripheral side surface of the flat plate and an upper surface of the inner guide member and the first main surface are located at generally the same level. Thereby, a coating is obtained which extends on the upper surface of the inner guide member and the first main surface of the flat plate.