Abstract: An input device 1 comprises a sensor circuit 91 which includes a pressure-sensitive sensor 50 and a first fixed resistor 914 which is electrically connected in series to the pressure-sensitive sensor 50. A resistance value Rf of the first fixed resistor 914 satisfies the following expression (1). In the expression (1), RsHL is a resistance value of the pressure-sensitive sensor 50 when ½ of the maximum working load of the pressure-sensitive sensor 50 is applied, and Co is a resistance correction coefficient within the range of 1/16 to 1/1.

Abstract: Provided is a transmitter which can maximize the efficiency of rectification in a power-receiving electronic device irrespective of the distance therebetween. The transmitter transmits electric power to the electronic device through use of a microwave. The electronic device receives the microwave, converts the microwave to DC power, and uses the DC power as operation power.

Abstract: The present invention comprises: a step of applying a liquid composition for forming a PZT ferroelectric film; a step of drying the film applied with the liquid composition; a step of irradiating UV rays onto the dried film at a temperature of 150 to 200° C. in an oxygen-containing atmosphere; and after the application step, the drying step, and the UV irradiation step once, or more times, a step of firing for crystallizing a precursor film of the UV-irradiated ferroelectric film by raising a temperature with a rate of 0.5° C./second or higher in an oxygen-containing atmosphere or by raising a temperature with a rate of 0.2° C./second or higher in a non-oxygen containing atmosphere, followed by keeping the temperature at 400 to 500° C. An amount of liquid composition is set such that thickness of the ferroelectric film be 150 nm or more for each application and ozone is supplied during UV irradiation.

Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes a spectroscopic section disposed on an optical axis of return light from an object irradiated with visible light, first excitation light and second excitation light including a longer wavelength than a wavelength of the first excitation light and configured to separate and emit the light of a second wavelength band other than light of a first wavelength band, a first excitation light cut filter configured to block a wavelength band of one of the first excitation light and the second excitation light included in the return light, and a second excitation light cut filter configured to block a wavelength band of another excitation light of the first excitation light and the second excitation light and a wavelength band of the visible light.

Abstract: An ejection volume of a liquid can more finely be adjusted without lowering the ejection speed. The liquid jet head includes a plurality of nozzles adapted to jet the liquid, a piezoelectric actuator having a plurality of pressure chambers corresponding respectively to the nozzles and filled with the liquid, and adapted to vary a capacity of each of the pressure chambers, and a control section adapted to apply a pulse signal to the piezoelectric actuator to thereby expand and contract the capacity of the pressure chamber so as to jet the liquid with which the pressure chamber is filled. The control section generates a drive waveform including a plurality of the pulse signals adapted to expand the capacity of the pressure chamber, and sets a crest value of either of the pulse signals other than the pulse signal applied last to a different value from a crest value of another of the pulse signals in the drive waveform.

Abstract: The present invention is a polarization independent optical isolator including two polarizing separation members each configured to separate polarization components of a transmitted light, an absorptive polarizer arranged on optical paths of separated transmitted lights and corresponding to a plane of polarization of each separated transmitted light, and a Faraday rotator, wherein the Faraday rotator is arranged downstream of the absorptive polarizer in a forward direction. As a result, there can be provided a polarization independent optical isolator that requires no stray light processing of separated optical feedback and shows high isolation.

Abstract: An endoscope system includes an image pickup section that picks up, light included in return light generated according to radiation of excitation light, and reference light, the return light including the fluorescence, light in a first wavelength band, and light in a second wavelength band; an observation image generation section that generates an observation image using first through third image signals obtained by picking up the return light; and a control section that controls the observation image generation section such that the observation image is generated, by causing the first image signal to be assigned to a green component, and by causing one image signal having a relatively large signal value, between the second image signal and the third image signal, to be assigned to a red component and another image signal having a relatively small signal value to be assigned to a blue component and the green component.

Abstract: An endoscope apparatus enables observation using reflected light of white light and observation using fluorescence, and includes: an insertion portion configured to be insertable into a subject; an objective optical system; a transmitting optical system; a camera unit; an optical splitter configured to split light exiting through the transmitting optical system; an optical filter disposed in the transmitting optical system or the camera unit, the optical filter being configured to transmit the reflected light of the white light and the fluorescence and block the reflected light of the excitation light; a first image pickup device for picking up an image of the reflected light of the white light exiting through the optical filter and the optical splitter; and a second image pickup device for picking up an image of the fluorescence exiting through the optical filter and the optical splitter.

Abstract: A translucent sintered body having the following basic composition: Ca(1?x)YbxF(2+x), where 0.4?x?1.0, or preferably Ca(1?x?y)YbxRyF(2+x+y), 0.4?x?1.0, 0?y?0.5 wherein R is at least one element selected from Ce, Pr, Sm, Eu and Y.

Abstract: To provide a faraday rotator using a TGG ceramic sintered compact and a light isolator using the faraday rotator such that the influence of scattered light can be relatively reduced and overall characteristics degradation for the entire light isolator is minimized so that a high extinction ratio of at least 38 dB or greater is achieved. [Solution] The faraday rotator according to the present invention uses a TGG ceramic sintered compact having an average particle diameter of 0.2 to 5.0 ?m, and has a transmission beam diameter of 0.3 mm or more, the TGG ceramic sintered compact being preferably annealed.

Abstract: Provided is a fluorescence observation apparatus including a light source; a section generating a fluorescence image of an object; a section generating a reference image of the object; a section generating a corrected image in which emphasized are pixels of the reference image corresponding to pixels each having luminance value equal to or more than a first threshold value in the fluorescence image; a display unit displaying the reference image or the corrected image; a bleeding state determining section determining whether or not a bleeding region of the subject detected based on the reference image is more than a predetermined range; and a section switching between displaying the reference image on the display unit if the determining section determines that the region is not more than the range, and displaying the corrected on the image display if the determining section determines that the region is more than the range.

Abstract: A diagnosis assisting apparatus includes a region extraction section configured to extract, from among fluorescence images obtained by picking up images of fluorescence emitted from a desired object, a reference region to be handled as a reference for a fluorescence generation state and a region of interest to be handled as a comparison target of the fluorescence generation state, respectively, a calculation processing section configured to acquire a reference value corresponding to a luminance value of each pixel included in the reference region and calculate a calculation value obtained by dividing the luminance value of the region of interest by a representative value, a storage section configured to store the calculation value calculated by the calculation processing section, and an image processing section configured to cause a display apparatus to display information indicating a variation over time of the calculation value stored in the storage section.

Abstract: A dielectric-thin-film forming composition for forming a BST dielectric thin film, includes a liquid composition for forming a thin film which takes a form of a mixed composite metal oxide in which a composite oxide B including Cu (copper) is mixed into a composite metal oxide A expressed by a formula: Ba1-xSrxTiyO3 (wherein 0.2<x<0.6 and 0.9<y<1.1), the liquid composition is an organic metal compound solution in which a raw material for composing the composite metal oxide A and a raw material for composing the composite oxide B are dissolved in an organic solvent at a proportion having a metal atom ratio expressed by the formula shown above and a molar ratio between A and B in the range of 0.001?B/A<0.15.

Abstract: A fluorescence observation endoscope system includes a light source apparatus configured to include one light emitting body configured to be able to emit light in a first wavelength band which is radiated onto medicine administered to a living body to thereby emit fluorescence, light in a second wavelength band and light in a third wavelength band, a light guide, an image pickup section configured to include an image pickup device to simultaneously receive the fluorescence and reflected light of the light in the second and third wavelength bands, and a signal processing apparatus configured to generate color display images from an image pickup signal of the fluorescence and second and third image pickup signals acquired from the reflected light of the light in the second and third wavelength bands.

Abstract: An input device 1 includes a panel unit 10, a pressure-sensitive sensor 60 which detects a pressing force applied through the panel unit 10, a seal member 70 which is disposed outside the pressure-sensitive sensors 60, and a support member 80 which supports the panel unit 10 through the pressure-sensitive sensors 60 and the seal member 70. The thickness of the pressure-sensitive sensors 60 is relatively thinner than the thickness of the seal member 70, a space which is formed between the panel unit 10 and the support member 80 includes a first part S1 where the pressure-sensitive sensors 60 are arranged and the second part S2 where the seal member 70 is arranged, and the distance of the first part S1 is relatively narrower than the distance of the second part S2.

Abstract: A light-transmitting bismuth-substituted rare-earth iron garnet-type calcined body expressed by R3-xBixYe5O12 and having an average crystal particle diameter of 0.3-10 micrometers, and a magneto-optical device using said calcined body; wherein R is at least one kind of elements selected from a group consisting of Y and lanthanoids, and x is a number from 0.5 to 2.5.

Abstract: An input device 1 comprises a sensor circuit 91 which includes a pressure-sensitive sensor 50 and a first fixed resistor 914 which is electrically connected in series to the pressure-sensitive sensor 50. A resistance value Rf of the first fixed resistor 914 satisfies the following expression (1). In the expression (1), RsHL is a resistance value of the pressure-sensitive sensor 50 when ½ of the maximum working load of the pressure-sensitive sensor 50 is applied, and Co is a resistance correction coefficient within the range of 1/16 to 1/1.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus 1 includes a touch panel 30, a panel unit 10 which includes at least a cover member 20, at least one pressure-sensitive sensor 50 which detects a pressing force applied through the panel unit 10, a touch panel controller 81 which generates a data group (X, Y, ?) which includes touch coordinate values detected by the touch panel 30 and another value except the touch coordinate values, a sensor controller 91 which generates a pressure value Pn from an output value OPn of the pressure-sensitive sensor 50, and a computer 100 which includes at least a touch panel driver 103 and to which the touch panel controller 81 and the sensor controller 91 are electrically connected. The computer 100 further includes a touch panel filter driver 105 which rewrites the other value of the data group (X, Y, ?) to the pressure value Pn.

Abstract: An input device 1 includes a pressure-sensitive sensor 50 and a sensor controller 90. The sensor controller 90 includes an acquisition part 91 which obtains an actual output value of the pressure-sensitive sensor 50, a storage part 92 in which a correction function g(Vout) is stored, and a correction part 93 which substitutes the actual output value into the correction function g(Vout) so as to correct the actual output value for linearizing output characteristics of the pressure-sensitive sensor 50. The correction function g(Vout) is a function which is obtained by replacing an output variable Vout of the pressure-sensitive sensor 50 with a corrected output variable Vout? of the pressure-sensitive sensor 50 and also replacing an applied-load variable F to the pressure-sensitive sensor 50 with the output variable Vout in an inverse function f?1(F) of the output characteristic function f(F) of the pressure-sensitive sensor 50.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a magneto-optical material containing as a main component an oxide that includes a terbium oxide and having a large Verdet constant at a wavelength in the 1.06 ?m region (0.9 to 1.1 ?m) and high transparency, and to provide a small-sized optical isolator suitably used in a fiber laser for a processing machine. The magneto-optical material of the present invention contains an oxide represented by Formula (I), TbxR1?x)2O3, where x satisfies 0.4?×?1.0 and R includes at least one element selected from the group consisting of scandium, yttrium, and lanthanoid elements other than terbium, at a content of at least 99 wt %.