Abstract: A shake correction module for a photographing apparatus is provided. The shake correction module includes: a base plate; a slider member disposed on the base plate so as to be able to move in a first axis direction and a second axis direction crossing the first axis direction, and accommodating an imaging element; and first and second drive members that are disposed between the base plate and the slider member, wherein the first and second drive members are arranged to be symmetric with a centroid of the slider member, and move the slider member in the first axis direction and the second axis direction.

Abstract: A digital image processing apparatus and a method of controlling the same. When the composition of a subject displayed on a display of the apparatus is changed during application of a first shutter-release signal, a current auto-focus (AF) region moves along with the subject and displayed on the display at the same time as the subject. The apparatus can further display an initial AF region on the display in a manner distinguishable from the current AF region. After the composition of the subject is changed, while the current AF region moving along with the subject is being displayed on the display, when the application of the first shutter-release signal is interrupted, an AF region is reset as the initial AF region. Also, an image file can be generated and stored after application of a second-shutter release signal which occurs after application of the first shutter-release signal.

Abstract: A lens optical system includes a first optical system and a second optical system. The lens optical system includes at least one reflection member to selectively redirect optical paths of light representing objects from first and second directions toward a photographing device. The first optical system includes, in order from an object to the photographing device along the optical axis, a first lens group including a first reflection member, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, a third lens group having a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens group having a positive refractive power. The second optical system shares at least one optical element with the first optical system.

Abstract: A wiring board includes a first substrate portion including a first feed-through conductor portion in a vertical direction, a second substrate portion provided on the first substrate portion and including a second feed-through conductor portion in a vertical direction of a corresponding part to the first feed-through conductor portion, and a feed-through electrode including the first feed-through conductor portion and the second feed-through conductor portion.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for encoding video data, a method and apparatus for decoding video data, and a program recording medium are provided. The apparatus for encoding video data includes an encoding processor generating encoded raw image data by encoding raw image data that is output from an image pickup device in frame units; an encoding information generator generating encoding information that is required to decode the encoded raw image data; an image pickup device information generator generating information about an image pickup device and which is required to develop the encoded raw image data; and a data generator generating video data including the encoded raw image data, the encoding information, and the image pickup device information.

Abstract: The invention relates to an imaging method with synthetic aperture for determining an incident angle and/or a distance of a sensor from at least one object in space, wherein at each of a number of aperture points one echo profile is sensed. Advantageously, for several angles assumed as the incident angle, one phase correction value and/or one distance correction value is calculated, adapted profiles are generated based on the echo profiles by adapting the phase with the phase correction value for each assumed angle and/or by shifting the distance with the distance correction value, for the assumed angle, the adapted profiles are summed or integrated, and a probability distribution is derived, and a probability value for the incident angle and/or for the distance is determined therefrom. A determination of the incident angle is also possible independently of the distance, wherein it is possible to only consider velocities or accelerations.

Abstract: A lens barrel and a photographing apparatus including the lens barrel include a clutch assembly disposed on a plane orthogonal to an optical axis between a manual adjustment ring and a distance adjustment ring.

Abstract: Provided are an imaging device unit and a photographing apparatus. The imaging device unit includes an imaging device having an imaging plane on which an optical image of a subject is formed, wherein the imaging unit is configured to convert the optical image into an electrical signal; an optical unit disposed nearer to the subject than the imaging device; a plate that is mounted on a boundary portion of the optical unit, wherein at least an outer portion of the plate extends over an outer edge of the optical unit; a piezoelectric element that is mounted on the plate and configured to vibrate the plate and the optical unit; and a supporting frame that supports the at least outer portion of the plate extending over the outer edge of the optical unit.

Abstract: A programmable controller which executes a plurality of independent sequence programs in parallel is provided with an ASIC, including a plurality of arithmetic-logic units and a plurality of arbitration circuits, and MPUs as many as the arbitration circuits. The entire execution time of the programmable controller is shortened by changing combinations (groups of arithmetic-logic units) of the MPUs (and the arbitration circuits as many as the MPUs) and the arithmetic-logic units, based on the ratios of MPU execution instructions and ASIC execution instructions included in those instructions which constitute the programs to be executed in parallel.

Abstract: A compound, or its salt, or a solvate thereof having a cPLA2 inhibiting activity having the formula (I): or a pharmaceutical composition, cPLA2 inhibitor and inhibitors of various lipid mediator production containing the same as active ingredients.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: an electronic component including an electrode pad forming face on which electrode pads are formed, a back face opposite to the electrode pad forming face; a sealing resin including a first face provided on the electrode pad forming face side and a second face provided on the back face side, and provided around the electronic component to seal up a side face of the electrode component; a multilayer wiring structure which is provided on the first face, and in which insulating layers, a wiring pattern and external connecting pads are stacked on each other; and a conductive member which is provided in a through-hole passing through the sealing resin and the insulating layer. The wiring pattern is directly connected to the electrode pads and the external connecting pads, and includes a wiring provided in the insulating layers. The conductive member is connected to the wiring.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for inducing differentiation of cardiomyocytes efficiently and selectively from stem cells. A method for inducing differentiation of cardiomyocytes from pluripotent stem cells, which comprises: (i) culturing the pluripotent stem cells in a culture medium containing no substance that promotes activation of the canonical Wnt signaling pathway during the time period between initiation of differentiation induction and 24 hours before the period of elevated canonical Wnt gene expression; and then (ii) culturing the pluripotent stem cells in a culture medium containing a substance that promotes activation of the canonical Wnt signaling pathway during a time period of 24 to 96 hours, starting from 24 to 0 hours before the period of elevated canonical Wnt gene expression.

Abstract: A method for growing a Group III nitride semiconductor crystal is provided with the following steps: First, a chamber including a heat-shielding portion for shielding heat radiation from a material 13 therein is prepared. Then, material 13 is arranged on one side of heat-shielding portion in chamber. Then, by heating material to be sublimated, a material gas is deposited on the other side of heat-shielding portion in chamber so that a Group III nitride semiconductor crystal is grown.

Abstract: In a charged particle detecting apparatus 100 for which an MCP is sandwiched with an IN electrode 1 and an OUT electrode and an anode electrode and a rear cover are installed therebehind, the component members in the rear of the IN electrode 1 are arranged further inside than the IN electrode 1 when viewed from an MCP incident surface, and the charged particle detecting apparatus 100 is fixed by screwing and the like to a cabinet wall surface 330 of a TOF-MS by using a flange portion provided at a part of IN electrode 1 projected further outside than the rear component members.

Abstract: A laser light source 1 is provided with a first reflection mirror 11, a laser medium 12, an aperture 13, an output mirror 14, a half mirror 15, a light beam diameter adjuster 16, and a second reflection mirror 17, and outputs laser oscillation light 31 reflected by the half mirror 15 to the outside. The main resonator is composed by the first reflection mirror 11 and the output mirror 14 disposed so as to be opposed to each other with the laser medium 12 placed therebetween. The external resonator is composed by the output mirror 14 and the second reflection mirror 17 disposed so as to be opposed to each other. The second reflection mirror 17 is configured such that it gives amplitude or phase variations to respective positions in the section of a light beam when the light is reflected, the second reflection mirror presents an amplitude or phase variation distribution, and determines the transverse mode of the laser oscillation light 31 based on the amplitude or phase variation distribution.

Abstract: A method is provided for encoding an image or a sequence of images generating a data flow comprising data representing a group of pixels in one of said images, said method including: calculating a predetermined number of predictors in relation to said group of pixels, and selecting an optimal predictor in accordance with a predetermined selection criterion. Between the calculation and selection steps, a step of eliminating at least one predictor with a calculated predetermined number is performed, which comprises, for at least two ith (Pi) and jth (Pj) predictors, of: calculating the difference between said jth and ith predictors, applying a transform to said calculated difference, performing a quantification operation on the result of the applied transform, comparing the result of said quantification operation with a predetermined value, eliminating the jth predictor if the result of said quantification operation is less than or equal to said predetermined value.

Abstract: A tape feeder for supplying components to a component mounter via a carrier tape on which the components are disposed at predetermined intervals, wherein the carrier tape and components are covered with a cover tape, is described. The tape feeder may comprise a frame including a receptacle. The receptacle may have an inlet port for receiving the cover tape separated from the carrier tape, a space for containing the cover tape received through the inlet port, and a door opening through which the cover tape is discharged. The tape feeder may additionally comprise a door configured to open or close the door opening and an opening/closing member configured to fasten the door closed and thereafter open the door when an inner pressure of at least a predetermined value is applied by the cover tape received in the receptacle.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a solid-state imaging device, etc., which makes it possible to obtain an image with higher resolution by properly correcting pixel data even when any one of row selecting wirings is disconnected. A solid-state imaging device (1) comprises a photodetecting section (10), a signal reading-out section (20), a controlling section (30), and a correction processing section (40). In the photodetecting section (10), M×N pixel portions P1,1 to PM,N are two-dimensionally arrayed in a matrix of M rows and N columns, and each of the pixel portions P1,1 to PM,N includes a photodiode and a reading-out switch. Charges generated in each pixel portion Pm,n are inputted into an integrating circuit Sn through a reading-out wiring LO,n, and a voltage value corresponding to the amount of charges is outputted from the integrating circuit Sn. The voltage value from the integrating circuit Sn is outputted to an output wiring Lout through a holding circuit Hn.