Abstract: A microelectromechanical device array apparatus is provided and includes: an device array one-dimensionally or two-dimensionally arranged with devices including a movable portion having movable electrodes and fixed electrodes facing to the movable portion for displacing the movable portion to one of two different positions; and a drive circuit for inclining the movable portion by writing an device-displacing signal to the fixed electrodes and applying a control voltage to the movable electrodes when the device in a first state of controlling to displace the position of the movable portion from one to the other of the two different positions and the device in a second state of controlling to maintain the position of the movable portion at one position of the two different positions, there is brought about a state in which the device in the first state crosses over pull-out and the device in the second state does not cross over the pull-out.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and program for implementing the method is provided for performing efficient and stable comparative image observation in which a plurality of digital images inputted for comparative observation is switched and displayed on the screen of a display means. Brightness adjusting process for the plurality of images inputted for comparative observation, and aligning process for the structures of the subjects among the images are performed by the image processing means. Display control is implemented by the display control means such that each of the images is repeatedly switched and displayed on the screen of the display means at a favorable frame rate for comparative observation in the range from 1 to 5 fps based on the processed image data files.

Abstract: A color solid state imaging device as defined herein, which includes an output signal processing section including: signal memory means provided for respective columns of the unit pixels, for holding signals read-out from the pixels of the same color of the same unit pixel row, respectively; and row-direction scanning control means for switching between an all pixels reading operation in which the signals held by the respective signal memory means are read out individually and output to the outside and a sum reading operation in which among the signals held by the respective signal memory means signals held by signal memory means corresponding to adjoining unit pixels are read out simultaneously and output to the outside.

Abstract: An image sensor 1 has a substrate 2 and primary light-receiving pixels 4 arrayed in the direction of the surface of the substrate, and the primary light-receiving pixels are formed by laminating plural secondary light-receiving pixels 10, 20 and 30 which sense lights in different wavelength ranges, respectively, via at least sealing insulation layers 18 and 28 between adjacent secondary light-receiving pixels in the thickness direction. Each secondary light-receiving pixel includes a photoelectric conversion portion 14, 24, or 34 for photoelectrically converting the lights and a signal output portion 12, 22 or 32 for outputting signals from a thin film transistor 40 according to charges generated by the photoelectric conversion portion, and the active layer 48 of the thin film transistor is formed from an oxide semiconductor or organic semiconductor.

Abstract: A recording medium controller detects the type of the record format of a recording medium, and sends detection signals to a CPU. The CPU judges whether the record format is suitable for high-speed recording or not. In a case of a general-purpose record format, the CPU detects the presence or absence of existing data in the recording medium. When the existing data is present, whole existing data is stored from the recording medium into an evacuated data area of an internal memory. Upon completing the evacuation of existing data, the recording medium controller reformats the recording medium. Then, moving image data is recorded on the reformatted recording medium. Upon completing the record of whole moving image data, existing data is reconstructed in the recording medium.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head having a flow channel plate in which liquid flow channels are formed and an actuator forming plate on which actuators for generating pressure which ejecting the liquid are formed. Plate bonding parts through which the flow channel plate and the actuator forming plate are bonded together, and electrical bonding parts through which electrical signals are supplied to the actuators, are bonded by non-conductive pastes having same curing conditions.

Abstract: A solid-state image pickup element is mounted on a digital camera. The solid-state image pickup element has: first color pixels which detect an amount of incident light of a first color of the three primary colors; second color pixels which detect an amount of incident light of a second color; third color pixels which detect an amount of incident light of a third color; and luminance detection pixels which are adjacent to the color pixels, respectively, and which detect luminance information. In the digital camera, when data of a reduced image in which the resolution is more reduced than the resolution of all the pixels of the solid-state image pickup element are to be produced, data of each of the color pixels (R, G, B), and data of one or more of the luminance detection pixels (Y) which are adjacent to the color pixel are added together. A signal processing is applied to the added data to reproduce a photographed image.

Abstract: Color reproduction ranges for images of subjects taken in the light of plural light sources each having plural color temperatures are previously stored. First, a predetermined chromatic characteristic of an input image is analyzed, thereby determining whether the image needs white balance correction or not. If the image is determined to need white balance correction, a color reproduction range close to the color distribution of the image is selected from among the color reproduction ranges previously stored, and white balance correction adapted for a color temperature associated with the color reproduction range is performed.

Abstract: When a face image of a character in an image represented by image data fed to a mask data creating apparatus is detected, face image areas of the detected character are respectively extracted by different two types of processing. An appropriate degree is calculated for each of the face image areas extracted by the two types of extraction processing. The face area for which the higher relevance factor is calculated is used, to create mask data.

Abstract: A resist composition, which comprises: (A) a resin containing a repeating unit represented by formula (I); and (B) a compound capable of generating an acid upon irradiation with actinic rays or radiation: wherein AR represents an aryl group; Rn represents an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group or an aryl group; and A represents an atom or group selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a halogen atom, a cyano group and an alkyloxycarbonyl group, and a pattern forming method using the resist composition.

Abstract: There are provided an information provision apparatus capable of identifying a particular place with a high accuracy and providing information about the place, a print system for printing the acquired information on recording paper and providing it, an information provision program for causing a computer to operate as the information provision apparatus, and an information provision program storage medium in which the information provision program is stored.

Abstract: A solid-state image pickup device including a solid-state image pickup element which is curved in a light incident direction and a curvature changing portion which changes a curvature of the solid-state image pickup element, and an optical instrument including a lens unit and a solid-state image pickup element which is curved toward the lens unit and picks up taking an image focused by the lens unit wherein the curvature changing portion changes a curvature radius of the solid-state image pickup element so that the solid-state image pickup element is curved at a first curvature in a telephoto mode and the solid-state image pickup element is curved at a second curvature larger than the first curvature in a wide-angle mode.

Abstract: An ink cartridge for supplying an ink to an ink jet type recording head is made of a paper box formed with an ink chamber. Inner wall surfaces of the ink chamber are processed to have water-repellency. The ink chamber is partitioned into a storage chamber storing the ink and an ink absorbent chamber containing an ink absorbent made of unwoven fabric. An ink outlet is formed in a bottom wall of the ink chamber. The ink outlet may be formed as a thin wall part with no water-repellency, so the ink percolates through the thin wall part. An ink run-out detection window is formed in the storage chamber. The ink run-out detection window may be a thin wall part or consist of an opening and a translucent paper sheet covering the opening.

Abstract: An elongated probe to be inserted into a tube which is open at a distal end portion of an insertion section of an endoscope includes a sheath constituting the outer circumferential surface of the optical probe, an optical fiber laid in the internal space of the sheath along the longitudinal direction of the sheath, and a deflection scanning means disposed in the internal space of the sheath to deflect light outputted from the optical fiber and is rotated around an axis line extending in the longitudinal direction to scan the deflected light in a circumferential direction of the axis line. A plurality of light transmission sections for transmitting the scanning light is provided, each formed flat on the outer surface, on a side wall of the sheath along the circumferential direction.

Abstract: The liquid ejection head including: a plurality of ejection ports which eject liquid to a recording medium; a plurality of pressure chambers which are connected respectively to the ejection ports; a plurality of piezoelectric elements which respectively deform the pressure chambers and are provided on a side of the pressure chambers opposite to a side on which the ejection ports are formed; a common liquid chamber which is provided on the side of the pressure chambers opposite to the side on which the ejection ports are formed; and a plurality of wiring members which are formed in such a manner that at least a portion thereof rises upward through the common liquid chamber in a substantially perpendicular direction with respect to a surface on which the piezoelectric elements are disposed, each of the wiring members containing driving wires through which driving signals are applied respectively to at least two of the piezoelectric elements.

Abstract: This invention provides an optical information recording medium that can record information by laser beam irradiation. The optical information recording medium comprises a visible information recording layer on which visible information is to be recorded. The visible information recording layer contains a coloring matter, and at least one metal atom selected from the group consisting of Na, Mg, K, and Ca. The coloring matter is at least one material selected from the group consisting of oxonol coloring matter, cyanine coloring matter, azo coloring matter, phthalocyanine coloring matter, and pyrromethene coloring matter.

Abstract: The time for obtaining ultrasonic images can be reduced by using a two-dimensional transducer array and good radiation images can be obtained even when radiation imaging is performed with the fixed array. The medical imaging apparatus includes a radiation generating unit for generation radiation, a radiation detecting unit for detecting radiation, an ultrasonic transducer array provided between the radiation generating unit and the radiation detecting unit and including two-dimensionally arranged ultrasonic transducers, a radiation image data generating unit for generating radiation image data based on a detection result of the radiation detecting unit, and an image processing unit for performing image processing on the radiation image data generated based on a detection result of radiation transmitted through an object to be inspected and the ultrasonic transducer array, thereby removing an image of the ultrasonic transducer array from a radiation image represented by the radiation image data.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image pickup device having: an image pickup component, a focal length computing component, a shutter speed computing component, a camera shake correction judging component, and a camera shake correcting component. The focal length computing component computes a focal length of an optical system. The shutter speed computing component computes a shutter speed of the image pickup component. At a time when the shutter speed computed by the shutter speed computing component is greater than a reciprocal of the focal length computed by the focal length computing component, the camera shake correction judging component judges that camera shake correction is to be carried out, and, at a time when the shutter speed is less than or equal to the reciprocal of the focal length, the camera shake correction judging component judges that camera shake correction is not to be carried out.

Abstract: An endoscope system has an electronic endoscope with a solid-state image sensor, a processor device, and an option circuit board detachably connected to the processor device. The electronic endoscope drives the solid-state image sensor based on a clock signal correspondingly to the number of pixels of the solid-state image sensor, and captures images. The processor device generates a first video signal from an image signal. The option circuit board has a measurement pulse generator for generating measurement pulses, a gate pulse generator for generating a gate pulse, a pulse counter for counting the number of the measurement pulses during outputting the gate pulse, and a judgment circuit for obtaining the number of pixels from a count value of the pulse counter. The option circuit board converts the first video signal into a second video signal in consideration of the number of pixels to display the images on a PC monitor.

Abstract: An image processing device includes: an image obtaining unit for obtaining an image; a depth of field specification unit for receiving specification of a depth of field specified by an imager size; and a blur enhancement processing unit for generating a processed image with enhanced blur of a subject contained in the image, the blur being enhanced according to the specified depth of field.