Abstract: There is provided a waveguide type optical device whose parasitic capacitance is reduced to allow an increase in signal transmission speed. Bottom electrode 41 is formed on substrate 2, bottom cladding 51 is formed on bottom electrode 41, and bottom core 62 is formed on bottom cladding 51. Top core 61 is formed on bottom core 62, top cladding 53 is formed on top core 61, and top electrode 42 is formed on top cladding 53. Two sides of top core 61 and bottom core 62 are covered with side cladding layer 52. Vertically overlapping portions of top electrode 42 and bottom electrode 41 are located almost at a same place as a region for a core layer composed of top core 61 and bottom core 62. The width of one from among top core 61 and bottom core 62 is satisfying a single mode condition, and the width of the other is almost equal to or more than the width of a field distribution.

Abstract: At least part of an optical device comprises an optical waveguide of a magneto-optical material. The magneto-optical material comprises a polycrystalline material having no lattice matching with an underlayer material. The optical waveguide exhibits no magnetic anisotropy due to an inverse magnetostriction effect caused by thermal strain. The magnetization direction of the optical waveguide is aligned with a traveling direction of light passing through the waveguide by shape magnetic anisotropy.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus detecting a skin area indicating human skin from an image, includes: an irradiating section irradiating an object with first and second wavelength light; a first generating section installed with an image sensor at least having a first light receiving element receiving the first wavelength light and a second light receiving element receiving the second wavelength light and generating a first mosaic image based on a reflected light from the object when the object is irradiated with the first and second wavelength lights incident to the image sensor; a second generating section generating a first image obtained by a first interpolation process and a second image obtained by a second interpolation process, in respective pixels forming the first mosaic image; and a detecting section detecting the skin area on the basis of the first and second images.

Abstract: Disclosed is an aminopyrrolidine compound represented by the formula [I] or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The compound or the salt is useful as a prophylactic/therapeutic agent for mode disorder such as depression, anxiety disorder, anorexia, cachexia, pain and drug dependence, whose action relies on the MC4 receptor antagonistic effect.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes an input unit that receives an input signal from a first operation unit, a communication unit that is capable of performing communication with an external apparatus as a host apparatus and a device apparatus, a display unit, and a control unit that controls an input signal from the input unit such that the display unit performs a display according to an operation of the first operation unit. When the communication unit operates as a host apparatus, the control unit receives an instruction for operating the communication unit as a device apparatus, performs switching of a driver by uninstalling a driver for the action of the host apparatus and installing a driver for the action of the device apparatus, and transmits the input signal from the communication unit to the external apparatus which becomes the host apparatus corresponding thereto.

Abstract: Improvement of signal integrity, a size reduction of a device, and the like are realized. A semiconductor integrated circuit section 11 and an optical wiring section 21 are electrically connected to each other by a connection section 31 provided between a face of the semiconductor integrated circuit section 11 and a face of the optical wiring section 21 facing each other. An electrical wiring 23 is provided in an optical wiring section 21. The electrical wiring 23 of the optical wiring section 21 functions as a global wiring electrically connecting between a plurality of circuit blocks CB provided in the semiconductor integrated circuit section 11.

Abstract: A mode-locked laser includes a two-electrode semiconductor laser (3) including a saturable absorber section (31) and gain section (32), and an optical waveguide (4) formed outside the gain section (32) of the two-electrode semiconductor laser. The optical waveguide (4) includes a ring resonator (43) having a resonator length which is an integral fraction of the total resonator length of the mode-locked laser, another ring resonator (44) having bandpass filter characteristics whose bandwidth is narrower than a gain bandwidth, and a reflective surface (46) which reflects, toward the two-electrode semiconductor laser (3), a laser beam having arrived from the two-electrode semiconductor laser (3) via the first and second ring resonators.

Abstract: An optical connector fitted upon a tip end portion of an optical fiber ribbon and disposed to face an optical input and output terminators which are installed upon a substrate, and which optically connects between optical fibers of the optical fiber ribbon and each of the optical input and output terminators. The optical connector includes a block shaped connector main body which is disposed to face the optical input and output terminators.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel ?-amino acid derivatives of formula (1): (wherein, R1, R2, R3, R4, X and Y are as defined in the claims) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, prodrugs or solvates thereof. The derivatives of formula (1) have ?ARK1 inhibitory activity and are useful for preventing or treating heart failure. Moreover, the derivatives of formula (1) also have antitumor activity, particularly dual inhibitory activity on Aurora kinase and CDK, and are useful for cell proliferative diseases such as cancer.

Abstract: This invention suppresses increase in power consumption and reduces the time it takes until a controller is usable when starting the operation of console main unit from the standby state by the controller through BT communication. When a console main unit 10 is started up from the standby state by a controller through BT communication, a main CPU 64 of the console main unit 10 reads in and runs a controller connection managing program after the BT driver is read-in and run. Upon reception of a logical layer connection request signal from the controller, the main CPU 64 stores that logical layer connection request signal in main memory 65, reads in and runs the controller connection managing program, reads in terminal identification information from the main memory 65, establishes a logical layer connection through BT communication, and makes a communication module 79 transmit a logical layer connection enable signal.

Abstract: Provided is an optical device that includes a ring-shaped optical waveguide and an input/output optical waveguide, and that changes a resonant wavelength of the ring-shaped optical waveguide, in which the ring-shaped optical waveguide includes in part a refractive index control section for controlling a refractive index at a guided wavelength, and the refractive index control section is formed of an optical material having a thermo-optic effect with its sign different from that of an optical material that forms a section of the ring-shaped optical waveguide other than the refractive index control section.

Abstract: Disclosed is a novel compound having Syk and/or Abl inhibitory activities, which is useful for prevention/treatment of allergic diseases, autoimmune diseases, arthritides and cancers. Specifically disclosed is a pyrazolopyrimidine compound represented by the formula [I] or [III] below, a tautomer thereof, a stereoisomer thereof, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a solvent of any of them.

Abstract: There is provided a waveguide type optical device whose parasitic capacitance is reduced to allow an increase in signal transmission speed. Bottom electrode 41 is formed on substrate 2, bottom cladding 51 is formed on bottom electrode 41, and bottom core 62 is formed on bottom cladding 51. Top core 61 is formed on bottom core 62, top cladding 53 is formed on top core 61, and top electrode 42 is formed on top cladding 53. Two sides of top core 61 and bottom core 62 are covered with side cladding layer 52. Vertically overlapping portions of top electrode 42 and bottom electrode 41 are located almost at a same place as a region for a core layer composed of top core 61 and bottom core 62. The width of one from among top core 61 and bottom core 62 is satisfying a single mode condition, and the width of the other is almost equal to or more than the width of a field distribution.

Abstract: A mode-locked laser includes a two-electrode semiconductor laser (3) including a saturable absorber section (31) and gain section (32), and an optical waveguide (4) formed outside the gain section (32) of the two-electrode semiconductor laser. The optical waveguide (4) includes a ring resonator (43) having a resonator length which is an integral fraction of the total resonator length of the mode-locked laser, another ring resonator (44) having bandpass filter characteristics whose bandwidth is narrower than a gain bandwidth, and a reflective surface (46) which reflects, toward the two-electrode semiconductor laser (3), a laser beam having arrived from the two-electrode semiconductor laser (3) via the first and second ring resonators.

Abstract: A semiconductor device has printed wiring board (11) where electric wiring (18) connected to LSI chip (17) and to planar optical element (21) is formed, and where optical waveguide (25) which transfers light inputted into planar optical element (21) and/or light outputted from planar optical element (21) is fixed. Planar optical element (21) is mounted in one end of small substrate (13), and another end of small substrate (13) is connected to printed wiring board (11) by solder bump (26). One end of small substrate (13) where planar optical element (21) is mounted is fixed to printed wiring board (11) by a fixing mechanism. Small substrate (13) has flexible section (15), which is easily deformable compared with other portions of printed wiring board (11) and small substrate (13), in at least a partial region between one end where planar optical element (21) is mounted and another end electrically connected to printed wiring board (11).

Abstract: At least part of an optical device comprises an optical waveguide of a magneto-optical material. The magneto-optical material comprises a polycrystalline material having no lattice matching with an underlayer material. The optical waveguide exhibits no magnetic anisotropy due to an inverse magnetostriction effect caused by thermal strain. The magnetization direction of the optical waveguide is aligned with a traveling direction of light passing through the waveguide by shape magnetic anisotropy.

Abstract: An RF unit receives radio-frequency signals where a plurality of channels are frequency-multiplexed. An A-D unit converts the radio-frequency signals to digital signals. A processing unit processes the plurality of channels contained in the digital signals which have been converted by the A-D unit. The processing unit includes: a band-pass filter, having bands corresponding respectively to the plurality of frequency-multiplexed channels, which separates the digital signals into the plurality of channels; and a demodulation unit which demodulates the plurality of channels separated by the band-pass filter.

Abstract: On the back surface of a transparent plate having a light extracting part for outputting lights to the outside, an electrode for wiring, and an electrode for an electromagnetic shield, an optical device is flip-chip mounted right under the light extracting part, an a driver IC is flip-chip mounted at a desired position with metal bumps. When currents driving the optical device flow from the driver IC according to an electric logical signal from the outside, an optical signal is emitted from the optical device, and is output to the outside through the light extracting part. The light extracting part may be provided with a light coupling material or an optical axis converter.

Abstract: There is provided a method for producing aminobenzopyran compound, which results in little wastes, has no influence on reactors and necessitates a simple work-up procedure. Concretely, it is a method for producing aminobenzopyran compound of formula (2) characterized by reducing a nitro group on 2,2-dimethyl 2H-1-benzopyran compound of formula (1) with hydrazine in the presence of a metal catalyst.

Abstract: Disclosed is an aminopyrrolidine compound represented by the formula [I] or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The compound or the salt is useful as a prophylactic/therapeutic agent for mode disorder such as depression, anxiety disorder, anorexia, cachexia, pain and drug dependence, whose action relies on the MC4 receptor antagonistic effect.