Abstract: A coupling device 20 includes a first resistive element 22, and a single-pole single-throw switch 21 that is controlled by a digital camera 10 to, in a coupled state in which the digital camera 10 is coupled to an accessory 30, switch an electrical connection state of the first resistive element 22 and a second resistive element 31 included in the accessory 30 to a resistance detection terminal D2 of the digital camera 10 between a first connection state in which the second resistive element 31 is connected to the resistance detection terminal D2 and a second connection state in which the first resistive element 22 and the second resistive element 31 are connected to the resistance detection terminal D2.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus using a liquid crystal display device, a display control method used in the liquid crystal display device, and a non-transitory recording medium for storing a display control program, sets a region having a larger area of an information display region and a background region as a transmission region and a region having a smaller area as a shielding region in an illumination mode. A tint change of the shielding region caused by a TN type liquid crystal and a light source for backlight is reduced, and thus, it is possible to make the tint change depending on the viewing direction unremarkable.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a first hole portion formed through a sidewall of the process chamber and horizontally extending outward and a second hole portion formed to be contiguous with the first hole portion and defining a supply channel for a process gas. The apparatus also includes a gas nozzle, a plurality of seal members and an annular spacer. A proximal end of the gas nozzle is inserted into the first hole portion. The plurality of seal members is spaced apart from each other between an outer circumferential surface of the gas nozzle and the first hole portion. The annular spacer is inserted into the first hole portion and is pressed against an annular surface of an opening periphery of the second hole portion by the gas nozzle in a state where the proximal end of the gas nozzle is engaged with the annular spacer.

Abstract: An electro-optic device includes a chip provided with a mirror and a drive element adapted to drive the mirror, a light-transmitting cover adapted to cover the mirror in a planar view, and a spacer having contact with one surface of the chip between the cover and the chip. The entire part of one surface of the chip having contact with the spacer is made of a first material such as silicon oxide film having first thermal conductivity, and the spacer is made of a second material such as a quartz crystal having second thermal conductivity higher than the first thermal conductivity. The cover is made of a third material such as sapphire having third thermal conductivity higher than the second thermal conductivity.

Abstract: A method is of designing a composite material that includes stacked reinforced fiber substrates and has a thickness-varying part whose thickness in a stacking direction changes from a large thickness to a small thickness. The method includes setting, as a cut substrate, the reinforced fiber substrate that has the drop-off portion and is positioned between a base substrate and a cover substrate in the stacking direction; performing stress analysis on the base substrate, the cut substrate, and the cover substrate to calculate an evaluation value concerning stress on the cut substrate; and setting, as the cut substrate, a reinforced fiber substrate in the thickness-varying part, based on the calculated evaluation value.

Abstract: Preliminary experience of a match at a player's perspective is enabled. A virtual environment material storage 13 has stored therein virtual environment materials for reproducing a dynamic object and a static object on a virtual environment. A dynamic object sensing unit 11 chronologically measures a position and a posture of the dynamic object in a real environment and generates position and posture information composed of one movement action. A presentation sequence acquisition unit 17 obtains a presentation sequence including position and posture information of a plurality of different kinds of dynamic objects. A virtual environment construction unit 14 synthesizes a virtual environment material of the dynamic object and a virtual environment material of the static object based on the presentation sequence to construct the virtual environment.

Abstract: A camera shake detection unit detects a camera shake value. A shutter button that is a shutter operating unit is operated in imaging. A prediction range calculation unit calculates a prediction range of a camera shake value that occurs in a case where the shutter button is operated, on the basis of a history of the camera shake value after a previous operation of the shutter button. A camera shake display controller displays a locus of camera shake on an EVFLCD on the basis of the camera shake value detected by the camera shake detection unit before the operation of the shutter button, and displays the prediction range on the EVFLCD using a leading end of the locus as a starting point.

Abstract: A film forming apparatus includes first and second processing gas supply parts for respectively supplying first and second processing gases to the substrate, and a separation region formed between first and second processing regions to separate an atmosphere of the first processing region to which the first processing gas is supplied and an atmosphere of the second processing region to which the second processing gas is supplied. The separation region includes: a separation region forming member including edge portions radially extending from a rotation center to a peripheral edge of a rotary table and for forming a narrow space between the edge portions and the rotary table, and a concave portion provided in a region sandwiched between adjacent edge portions and for forming a buffer space; and a separation gas supply part for supplying a separation gas into the buffer space.

Abstract: A method of detoxifying an exhaust pipe in a film forming apparatus configured to supply a raw material gas contending a harmful component and a reaction gas capable of generating a harmless reaction product by reaction with the raw material gas into a process chamber to perform a film forming process on a substrate while independently exhausting the raw material gas and the reaction gas from a raw material exhaust pipe and a reaction gas exhaust pipe connected to the process chamber, respectively, is provided. The method includes supplying the reaction gas into the raw material exhaust pipe to detoxify an interior of the raw material exhaust pipe during a predetermined period in which the film forming apparatus is operated and the film forming process is not performed.

Abstract: The digital camera includes a finder section, an imaging optical system, a focus ring, an eye sensor, an imaging element, a main control section, a digital signal processing section, and a finder display control section. The imaging element outputs first and second imaging signals obtained by receiving the first and second rays formed by performing pupil division on the subject image. The main control section calculates an amount of defocus so as to generate a defocus image, on the basis of first and second imaging signals obtained by receiving first and second rays. The eye sensor detects an eye position P of a photographer who is in contact with the finder section. The finder display control section changes a position, at which the defocus image is displayed, in accordance with the direction of shift of the eye position P.

Abstract: The digital camera includes a finder section, an imaging optical system, a focus ring, an imaging element, a main control section, a digital signal processing section, and a finder display control section. The imaging element outputs first and second imaging signals obtained by receiving the first and second rays formed by performing pupil division on the subject image. The main control section generates a defocus image, which indicates an amount of defocus of the imaging optical system, for each main subject area, on the basis of the first and second imaging signals obtained in the plurality of main subject areas. The finder display control section displays a defocus image of the single main subject area at a position where the main subject does not overlap with another main subject area.

Abstract: An electro-optic device includes a chip provided with a mirror and a drive element adapted to drive the mirror, a light-transmitting cover adapted to cover the mirror in a planar view, and a spacer having contact with one surface of the chip between the cover and the chip. The entire part of one surface of the chip having contact with the spacer is made of a firs material such as silicon oxide film having first thermal conductivity, and the spacer is made of a second material such as a quartz crystal having second thermal conductivity higher than the first thermal conductivity. The cover is made of a third material such as sapphire having third thermal conductivity higher than the second thermal conductivity.

Abstract: An electro-optic device includes an interconnection board provided with an internal terminal, and a chip mounted on the interconnection board, and the chip is provided with a mirror, a drive element, and a chip-side terminal electrically connected to the drive element. The interconnection board includes a first surface on which an internal terminal is disposed, a second surface located on an opposite side to the first surface, a third surface connecting the first surface and the second surface to each other, and a fourth surface located on an opposite side to the third surface. The interconnection board is provided with a metal member exposed on the first surface and the second surface, and through holes (a first through hole and a second through hole) extending from the third surface to the fourth surface and having contact with the metal member.

Abstract: An electro-optic device includes a chip provided with a mirror and a drive element adapted to drive the mirror, a light-transmitting cover adapted to cover the mirror in a planar view, and a spacer having contact with one surface of the chip between the cover and the chip. The entire part of one surface of the chip having contact with the spacer is made of a first material such as silicon oxide film having first thermal conductivity, and the spacer is made of a second material such as a quartz crystal having second thermal conductivity higher than the first thermal conductivity. The cover is made of a third material such as sapphire having third thermal conductivity higher than the second thermal conductivity.

Abstract: A substrate processing method is provided. In the method, a plurality of substrates is placed on a plurality of substrate holding areas provided in a surface of a turntable at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction, the turntable being provided in a processing chamber. Next, the turntable on which the plurality of substrates is placed is rotated. Then, a fluid is supplied to the surface of the turntable while rotating the turntable. Here, the fluid is supplied to an area between the plurality of substrate holding areas in response to an operation of changing a flow rate of the fluid.

Abstract: An electro-optic device includes a chip provided with a mirror and a drive element adapted to drive the mirror, a light-transmitting cover adapted to cover the mirror in a planar view, and a spacer having contact with one surface of the chip between the cover and the chip. The entire part of one surface of the chip having contact with the spacer is made of a first material such as silicon oxide film having first thermal conductivity, and the spacer is made of a second material such as a quartz crystal having second thermal conductivity higher than the first thermal conductivity. The cover is made of a third material such as sapphire having third thermal conductivity higher than the second thermal conductivity.

Abstract: An electro-optic device includes an interconnection board provided with an internal terminal, and a chip mounted on the interconnection board, and the chip is provided with a mirror, a drive element, and a chip-side terminal electrically connected to the drive element. The interconnection board includes a first surface on which an internal terminal is disposed, a second surface located on an opposite side to the first surface, a third surface connecting the first surface and the second surface to each other, and a fourth surface located on an opposite side to the third surface. The interconnection board is provided with a metal member exposed on the first surface and the second surface, and through holes (a first through hole and a second through hole) extending from the third surface to the fourth surface and having contact with the metal member.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a first hole portion formed through a sidewall of the process chamber and horizontally extending outward and a second hole portion formed to be contiguous with the first hole portion and defining a supply channel for a process gas. The apparatus also includes a gas nozzle, a plurality of seal members and an annular spacer. A proximal end of the gas nozzle is inserted into the first hole portion. The plurality of seal members is spaced apart from each other between an outer circumferential surface of the gas nozzle and the first hole portion. The annular spacer is inserted into the first hole portion and is pressed against an annular surface of an opening periphery of the second hole portion by the gas nozzle in a state where the proximal end of the gas nozzle is engaged with the annular spacer.

Abstract: Provided are a plant cultivation system, device, and method for simultaneously producing wide variety of plants such as leaf vegetables, fruit vegetables, head-forming vegetables, and legumes year-round without causing continuous cropping injury by circulating a simple nutrient solution. In each of the plant cultivation system, device, and method, a temperature of reformed air, which is obtained by reforming air into a state suitable for setting a dissolved-oxygen concentration of the simple nutrient solution in a cultivation tank for holding a wide variety of plants to a predetermined concentration, is set to a predetermined temperature, and the reformed air is supplied, at a flow rate required for setting the dissolved-oxygen concentration of the simple nutrient solution to the predetermined concentration, from a vicinity of a bacterial colonization portion into the simple nutrient solution flowing at a predetermined speed through the cultivation tank.

Abstract: A method of detoxifying an exhaust pipe in a film forming apparatus configured to supply a raw material gas contending a harmful component and a reaction gas capable of generating a harmless reaction product by reaction with the raw material gas into a process chamber to perform a film forming process on a substrate while independently exhausting the raw material gas and the reaction gas from a raw material exhaust pipe and a reaction gas exhaust pipe connected to the process chamber, respectively, is provided. The method includes supplying the reaction gas into the raw material exhaust pipe to detoxify an interior of the raw material exhaust pipe during a predetermined period in which the film forming apparatus is operated and the film forming process is not performed.