Abstract: A lens apparatus connected to a camera, includes: a focus lens; a driving unit which drives the focus lens; an operation input unit; a mode switcher that switches between first and second modes relating to selection between AF and MF and a selection of an operation target of the operation input unit, and a controller, in which the controller, in the first mode, controls the driving unit based on an input from the operation input unit and controls a driving of the focus lens unit in MF, and in which the controller, in the second mode, outputs a control signal to change image pickup parameter based on input from the operation input unit, controls the driving unit in AF based on an AF control signal input from the camera when a set value input from the camera is AF-executable, and does not perform AF when the set value is AF-not-executable.

Abstract: An antenna (1) according to the present disclosure includes a plate-shaped transparent dielectric member (10), a patch antenna (20), a ground plane (30), and a transparent conductive film (40). The patch antenna (20) is disposed on a front face (11) of the transparent dielectric member (10) and includes holes portions (22) inside the patch antenna (20). The ground plane (30) is disposed on a back face (12) of the transparent dielectric member (10) and includes hole portions (32) inside the ground plane (30). The transparent conductive film (40) is disposed at the hole portions (22) of the patch antenna (20).

Abstract: An automatic excretion-processing device (1) includes a cup (2) attached to a human body and configured to receive an object which is excreted from the human body, a processing unit (3) configured to transfer the object in the cup outside of the cup, an acquisition unit (4) configured to image the inside of the cup and to acquire a captured image of the object, and a determination unit (5) configured to extract a feature of the object with reference to a result of iterative learning using the captured images of the object in different states on the basis of the captured images acquired by the acquisition unit and to classify the state of the object.

Abstract: A control device for controlling an annealing apparatus that performs laser annealing by causing a laser beam to be incident on a surface of a semiconductor wafer and moving a beam spot of the laser beam on the surface of the semiconductor wafer, the control device making a sweep speed of the beam spot of the laser beam faster than twice a value obtained by dividing a thermal diffusivity of the semiconductor wafer by a thickness of the semiconductor wafer.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a control device of an annealing device, which is capable of further suppressing a temperature of a surface opposite to a laser irradiation surface from rising. A beam spot of a pulsed laser beam output from a laser light source on a surface of an annealed target is shaped into a long shape in one direction by a beam shaping optical element. A movement mechanism moves the beam spot with respect to the annealed target. The control device controls the laser light source and the movement mechanism and performs annealing by performing a sweep operation of moving the beam spot in a longitudinal direction of the beam spot with respect to the annealed target while causing the pulsed laser beam to be incident on the annealed target.

Abstract: An antenna (1) according to the present disclosure includes a plate-shaped transparent dielectric member (10), a patch antenna (20), a ground plane (30), and a transparent conductive film (40). The patch antenna (20) is disposed on a front face (11) of the transparent dielectric member (10) and includes holes portions (22) inside the patch antenna (20). The ground plane (30) is disposed on a back face (12) of the transparent dielectric member (10) and includes hole portions (32) inside the ground plane (30). The transparent conductive film (40) is disposed at the hole portions (22) of the patch antenna (20).

Abstract: The present technology relates to a communication device, a communication method, and an electronic device which are capable of suppressing the leak of an electromagnetic wave to the outside of housings in a case where two communication devices perform communication in a state in which housings thereof are brought into contact with or close to each other. The electronic device includes: a waveguide tube that includes a choke structure nearby an opening end and transmits a signal in a state in which the opening end is in contact with or close to an opening end of another waveguide tube; and a transmitting unit that transmits a transmission signal via the waveguide tube and controls a relative relation between a transmission frequency of the transmission signal and a frequency characteristic of the choke structure. The present technology can be applied to, for example, communication devices that transmit millimeter wave signals.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a communication device, a communication method, and an electronic apparatus enabling a signal to be transmitted regardless of a polarization direction of a communication device which is a communication partner so that interference in a signal can be suppressed. A communication device includes: a communication unit that performs transmission of a first signal and a second signal by electromagnetic coupling with another communication device and is able to change each of a direction of a first polarized wave used for the transmission of the first signal and a direction of a second polarized wave used for the transmission of the second signal; and a transmission control unit that sets the direction of the first polarized wave and the direction of the second polarized wave in accordance with the other communication device. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a communication device transmitting a millimeter wave signal.

Abstract: The technology relates to a communication apparatus, a communication method, and an electronic apparatus that allow for suppressing interference between signals in performing bidirectional transmission through electromagnetic coupling between two communication apparatuses. The communication apparatus includes a transmission control section that controls a method of transmission with another communication apparatus that performs the bidirectional transmission through the electromagnetic coupling on the basis of a distance from the other communication apparatus. Alternatively, the communication apparatus includes a transmission control section that controls a method of transmission with another communication apparatus on the basis of an interference level being a level of an interference component of a first signal affecting a second signal in performing transmission of the first signal and reception of the second signal through the electromagnetic coupling with the other communication apparatus.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a parameter processing circuit and an image correction circuit. The image processing device rearrange a plurality of parameters in order of a plurality of reference image data items written to an image memory. The image correction circuit includes a parameter memory, a pixel calculation circuit, an acquisition circuit, a comparison circuit, and a logic circuit. The image correction circuit reads one of one of the plurality of reference image data items from the image memory storing input image data and perform image correction on the one of the plurality of reference image data items to generate an output image corresponding to one of a plurality of output image areas.

Abstract: A connector device according to the present disclosure includes a first connector section and a second connector section. The first connector section includes a waveguide for transmitting a high-frequency signal. The second connector section includes a waveguide for transmitting a high-frequency signal, a yoke disposed to cover the waveguide, and a magnet forming a magnetic circuit with the yoke, and is couplable to the first connector section by the attractive force of the magnet. A communication system according to the present disclosure includes two communication devices and a connector device. The connector device has the above-described configuration and transmits a high-frequency signal between the two communication devices.

Abstract: An ornament has extremely high ornamental presentability, and can easily swing and move about freely in any direction in a manner that can be sustained for a long time, as a result of which visual perceptibility is increased to observers through repetitive variation in the direction of refraction and reflection at the jewelry member. The ornament has an ornament body provided with a receiving portion; a pivot shaft provided in erect fashion on, and in such manner that a bottom end portion thereof makes contact with, said receiving portion; a rigid suspending arm portion that protrudes from a top end portion of said pivot shaft; and a jewelry member supported in pendent fashion by a lower portion of said suspending arm portion; the ornament being characterized in that said pivot shaft is capable of pivoting freely about the bottom end portion thereof as pivot point on said receiving portion.

Abstract: The present invention has an objective of evaluating a motor function of a subject with a neurodegenerative disease with high accuracy using a motor function analysis system that utilizes a wrist joint movement of the subject. The motor function analysis system includes: a display unit for displaying image information including a moving target image and a cursor image for tracking the target image; a moving unit used by the subject to move the cursor image; and an analyzer for detecting the tracking status of the target image tracked by the cursor image and analyzing the frequency of the movement components contained in the tracking status.

Abstract: A connector device of the present disclosure includes a waveguide tube having a coupling portion at a distal end portion and adapted to transmit a high-frequency signal while an open end is arranged in a state contacting or placed close to another waveguide tube having a coupling portion at a distal end portion. Additionally, the coupling portion of the waveguide tube has a metallic tube and a dielectric substance provided inside at least a part of the metallic tube. Furthermore, a communication device of the present disclosure includes the waveguide tube having, at the distal end portion, the coupling portion configured as described above, and the communication device is coupled to another communication device including a waveguide tube and transmits a high-frequency signal thereto in a state where open ends of both of the waveguide tubes contact each other or are located close to each other.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a connector for a waveguide, a communication module, a transmission cable, and an electronic device capable of reducing sizes of devices and parts using a plurality of waveguides. A connector for a waveguide is provided with an insertion unit in which a plurality of waveguides is inserted in a state in which side surfaces are opposed to each other, and a plurality of waveguide paths which connects a mounting surface which is a surface mounted on a substrate and the insertion unit and transmits signals transmitted by corresponding waveguides. The present technology is applicable to electronic devices which transmit signals using a plurality of waveguides, for example.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a connector module, a communication circuit board, and an electronic device that are capable of satisfactorily suppressing the leakage of high-frequency electromagnetic waves. The connector module includes an opening and a conductive spring. The opening accepts the insertion of an end of a waveguide that transmits high-frequency electromagnetic waves. The conductive spring locks the waveguide when the waveguide inserted into the opening is pressed toward one inner side surface of the opening. Further, the conductive spring is disposed in a gap between the opening and the waveguide so as to come into contact with the opening and with the waveguide along a direction in which the waveguide transmits the electromagnetic waves. The present technology is applicable, for example, to an electronic device that establishes communication by using millimeter waves.

Abstract: An annealing object is held at a position on which a laser beam output from a laser light source is incident. An infrared detector detects heat radiation light from the annealing object. An optical element which does not allow light having a wavelength shorter than 1 ?m to be incident on the infrared detector is disposed in a pathway of the heat radiation light from the annealing object to the infrared detector.

Abstract: A connector device of the present disclosure includes a waveguide tube having a coupling portion at a distal end portion and adapted to transmit a high-frequency signal while an open end is arranged in a state contacting or placed close to another waveguide tube having a coupling portion at a distal end portion. Additionally, the coupling portion of the waveguide tube has a metallic tube and a dielectric substance provided inside at least a part of the metallic tube. Furthermore, a communication device of the present disclosure includes the waveguide tube having, at the distal end portion, the coupling portion configured as described above, and the communication device is coupled to another communication device including a waveguide tube and transmits a high-frequency signal thereto in a state where open ends of both of the waveguide tubes contact each other or are located close to each other.

Abstract: A connector apparatus of the present disclosure is configured to include: a waveguide cable; a substrate including a waveguide structure; and a coupling section configured to electromagnetically couple an end portion of the waveguide cable to the waveguide structure. Furthermore, a communication system of the present disclosure is a communication system including: a transmitter configured to transmit high-frequency signals; a receiver configured to receive high-frequency signals; a waveguide cable configured to transmit high-frequency signals between the transmitter and the receiver; and a connector apparatus configured to connect between at least one of the transmitter and the receiver to the waveguide cable. A connector apparatus having the above-mentioned configuration is used as the connector apparatus.

Abstract: An ornament has extremely high ornamental presentability, and can easily swing and move about freely in any direction in a manner that can be sustained for a long time, as a result of which visual perceptibility is increased to observers through repetitive variation in the direction of refraction and reflection at the jewelry member. The ornament has an ornament body provided with a receiving portion; a pivot shaft provided in erect fashion on, and in such manner that a bottom end portion thereof makes contact with, said receiving portion; a rigid suspending arm portion that protrudes from a top end portion of said pivot shaft; and a jewelry member supported in pendent fashion by a lower portion of said suspending arm portion; the ornament being characterized in that said pivot shaft is capable of pivoting freely about the bottom end portion thereof as pivot point on said receiving portion.