Abstract: Siccolla is an identity verification architecture utilizing wireless phones as an identity verification tool. The wireless phone has a specialized built-in fingerprint sensor, camera, and blood sensor to acquire high quality images of biometrics, including but not limited to the iris, face and fingerprints, as well as DNA sampling, to perform identity verification via biometric recognition to secure credit card/debit card/financial instruments and general multi-purpose local and/or remote identity verification transactions at the Point-of-Sale terminals (POS), online for E-Commerce, and at any general purpose point of transaction at which a positive identity verification in real time must occur to prevent identity theft and financial fraud and enable commerce, E-Commerce, or general access or business to proceed and prosper.

Abstract: In obtaining a photomask blank 1 by disposing a sputtering target in a vacuum chamber and forming thin films 3, 4, and 5 with a three-layer construction of CrN/CrC/CrON over a transparent substrate 2 by reactive sputtering, the thin films are formed in a mixed gas atmosphere containing helium, and the helium gas flux in the mixed gas is controlled such that the crystal grain diameter of the CrC thin film, which is the thickest film, will be 3 to 7 nm. This yields a photomask blank having thin films with low film stress, having good film quality, and which can be produced at a high yield in mass production.

Abstract: An optical fiber fixing member having optical fiber engagement grooves 2 and peaks 5 between the engagement grooves 2 is configured as a unitary structure by molding. A preform G is pressed with a mold 21 such that the concavities 25 of the mold 21, which comprises convexities 26 and concavities 25 for the transfer of the engagement grooves 2 and the peaks 5, respectively, are filled with the preform G only partially. The shape of the convexities 26 of the mold 21 is transferred, yielding optical fiber engagement grooves 2 whose surfaces are mold transfer surfaces 6. Because the preform G fills the concavities 25 only partially, the peaks 5 between the optical fiber engagement grooves formed by the filling of the concavities 25 are free rounded surfaces 7 whose shape does not reflect the shape of the concave bottom portions 25a of the mold 21.

Abstract: The optimum optical properties of a spectacle lens that correspond with the state in which the spectacle lens is worn by respective wearers are found and evaluated. Three-dimensional shape data of the spectacle lens comprising the determinations of a three-dimensional determination device that determines the surface shape f the spectacle lens, parameters of the state in which the spectacle lens is worn, such as the distance from the center of rotation, and material parameters, such as the refractive index of the spectacle lens, are input to a computer that calculates optical properties of a spectacle lens.