Abstract: In an optical pick-up apparatus for recording to or reproducing from an optical information recording medium, the optical pick-up apparatus includes: a light source for emitting light flux; a light converging optical system having an aperture and an objective lens and converging the light flux emitted from the light source on the optical information recording medium; a photodetector for detecting light reflected from the optical information recording medium; and a driving section for driving the objective lens and the aperture in association with the objective lens.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus structured with an image carrier; a developing device for making a toner image by using a toner having resin particles, which are obtained through particle formation in an aqueous medium; a transfer device for transferring the toner image onto a transfer material; and a cleaning device for removing residual toner remaining on the image carrier after transferring, wherein the cleaning device has: a cleaning roller having a conductive or semi-conductive resilient body; a cleaning blade made of a resilient material and provided downstream the cleaning roller; a power source to apply a bias voltage on the cleaning roller; and a collecting member to collect the toner removed by the cleaning roller; and wherein the absolute value of the charge amount of the toner used in the image forming apparatus is between 20–50 ?C/g.

Abstract: A white ink composition for ink jet recording characterized in including at least a white pigment, a polymerizable compound, and a polymerization initiator and having a viscosity of 10 to 500 Pa·s at 30° C. A method for ink jet recording including the steps of: heating an ink in an ink-jet head to be not less than 40° C. and jetting the ink onto an ink-jet recording medium.

Abstract: An electroluminescent element is disclosed, comprising an electroluminescent material and a fluorescent substance emitting light having an emission maximum at the wavelength different from that of light emitted from the electroluminescent material upon absorption of the light emitted from the electroluminescent material. A color conversion filter is also disclosed, comprising a fluorescent substance emitting light having an emission maximum at the wavelengths of 400 to 700 nm upon absorption of the light emitted from the electroluminescent material.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus administration system is provided which includes an image forming apparatus, which is located in a first local network and connected to the Internet through a first firewall server, an administration computer, which is located in a second local network and connected to the Internet through a second firewall server, and a relaying server, which is located outside the first local network and the second local network and is connected to the Internet. The administration computer transmits information for administrating the image forming apparatus to the relaying server, and accesses the relaying server to obtain information corresponding to a state of the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus accesses the relaying server at a predetermined timing to obtain the information from the administrating computer, and transmits the information corresponding to the state of the image forming apparatus to the relaying server.

Abstract: A layer formation method is disclosed which comprises supplying gas to a discharge space, exciting the supplied gas at atmospheric pressure or at approximately atmospheric pressure by applying a high frequency electric field across the discharge space, and exposing a substrate to the excited gas, wherein the high frequency electric field is an electric field in which a first high frequency electric field and a second high frequency electric field are superposed, frequency ?2 of the second high frequency electric field is higher than frequency ?1 of the first high frequency electric field, strength V1 of the first high frequency electric field, strength V2 of the second high frequency electric field and strength IV of discharge starting electric field satisfy relationship V1?IV>V2 or V1>IV?V2, and power density of the second high frequency electric field is not less than 1 W/cm2.

Abstract: An image processor wherein a radiation image forming device forms a radiation image corresponding to the radiation amount transmitted through an object, a discriminator discriminates at least one of the region of the object and the radiographing orientation for a radiation image, and an image processing condition memorizing device memorizes each of a plurality of image processing conditions in accordance with each of the regions of an object, each of the directions of radiographing, or each of the combinations of both of these. At least one image processing condition is displayed, and an image processing condition selects an arbitrary image processing condition out of the displayed image processing conditions.

Abstract: An optical pickup apparatus for reproducing information from an optical information recording medium or for recording information onto an optical information recording medium, is provided with a first light source for emitting first light flux having a first wavelength; a second light source for emitting second light flux having a second wavelength, the first wavelength being different from the second wavelength; a converging optical system having an optical axis and a diffractive portion, and a photo detector; wherein in case that the first light flux passes through the diffractive portion to generate at least one diffracted ray, an amount of n-th ordered diffracted ray of the first light flux is greater than that of any other ordered diffracted ray of the first light flux, and in case that the second light flux passes through the diffractive portion to generate at least one diffracted ray, an amount of n-th ordered diffracted ray of the second light flux is greater than that of any other ordered diffracted

Abstract: A medical image displaying device for displaying a plurality of image data obtained by photographing a patient, includes: a plurality of display formats for designating at least one selected between each display size of the plurality of image data and each display position of the plurality of image data.

Abstract: The invention is designed to help coordinate the processing of radiographic images for a lab, hospital, office, or other locations for example. The image reading system may have a reading device for reading image information from a containing member in which a recording medium capable of recording a radiographic image is built. The control device may set a reading condition of the containing member. An ID giving section may provide ID information to one of the containing member and the recording medium. A storage section may store the reading condition. A selecting section may select at least one of a first registration type and a second registration type, the first registration type being for registering a correspondence between the reading condition and the containing member or the recording medium before image recording and the second registration type being for registering the correspondence after the image recording, and for using the system on a basis of the selected registration type.

Abstract: A digital still camera, composed of a lens barrel having therein a camera lens, whose optical axis is close to a center of the digital still camera, an imaging element arranged on an image forming point of the camera lens, perpendicularly to the optical axis of the camera lens, for receiving an image of a subject taken through the camera lens, and an image display device arranged on a side of the imaging element, on a back side of the digital still camera, for displaying the image taken by the imaging element through the camera lens, wherein a concave section for housing one side portion of the image display device is formed in the lens barrel from a peripheral surface of the lens barrel to an inside of the lens barrel, perpendicularly to the optical axis.

Abstract: An optical pick-up apparatus has a first light source, a second light source, and an optical system including an objective lens. An optical functional surface of the objective lens is divided into at least first and second concentric optical functional regions. The second functional region is provided with a diffractive structure to correct a spherical aberration of a converged light spot on an information recording plane to be regulated in a range where reproduction and/or recording information for a first optical information recording medium can be conducted when the refractive index of the optical element and the wavelength of the first light source vary due to a change of the working temperature of the optical system.

Abstract: Disclosed is a support which comprises a flexible substrate and provided thereon, one or two or more polymer layers and one or two or more sealing layers, wherein at least one of the polymer layers and the sealing layers is formed by a process comprising the steps of exciting a reactive gas at a space between opposed electrodes at atmospheric pressure or approximately atmospheric pressure by electric discharge to be in the plasma state, and exposing the flexible substrate, the polymer layer or the sealing layer to the reactive gas in the plasma state.

Abstract: An optical compensation film used for a liquid crystal display comprising a support and an optically anisotropic layer is disclosed. The optically anisotropic layer is a layer on which orientation of the liquid crystalline compound is fixed and the support is an optically biaxial cellulose ester film. A polarizing plate used for a liquid crystal display and a liquid crystal display employing the optical compensation film are also disclosed.

Abstract: A phase contrast radiographic image processing apparatus, comprises: a management information storing section to store management information regarding a radiography; and an image processing section to apply an image processing onto a phase contrast radiographic image produced by the phase contrast radiography, wherein the image processing section determines an image processing condition based on the management information stored in the management information storing section and conducts the image processing based on the determined image processing condition.

Abstract: A calibration method of a printer includes forming characterization data using first colorimetric data obtained from a first set of color patches outputted from the printer, and forming calibration data using second colorimetric data obtained from a second set of color patches, which is smaller in number than the first set of color patches. A color matching table is formed based on the characterization data and the calibration data. And color image data is converted based on the color matching table.

Abstract: An optical pickup apparatus for reproducing information from an optical information recording medium or for recording information onto an optical information recording medium, is provided with a first light source for emitting first light flux having a first wavelength; a second light source for emitting second light flux having a second wavelength, the first wavelength being different from the second wavelength; a converging optical system having an optical axis and a diffractive portion, and a photo detector; wherein in case that the first light flux passes through the diffractive portion to generate at least one diffracted ray, an amount of n-th ordered diffracted ray of the first light flux is greater than that of any other ordered diffracted ray of the first light flux, and in case that the second light flux passes through the diffractive portion to generate at least one diffracted ray, an amount of n-th ordered diffracted ray of the second light flux is greater than that of any other ordered diffracted

Abstract: A silver salt photothermographic dry imaging material comprising a support having thereon a photosensitive layer and a polymer layer, wherein the polymer layer comprises a copolymer of: (i) a fluorine containing acrylate or a fluorine containing methacrylate; and (ii) a monomer having a hydrophobic group in the molecule.

Abstract: A method of preparing an IC card, which comprises a first sheet material and a second sheet material and an adhesive agent layer between the first sheet material and the second sheet material, the adhesive agent layer having therein an IC module fixed with a moisture hardenable adhesive agent, the method comprising: a pasting step to paste the first sheet material and the second sheet material while providing the IC module between the first sheet material and the second sheet material with the moisture hardenable adhesive agent to form a pasted sheet; a first storing step to store the pasted sheet under a temperature of 10 to 30° C. and a relative humidity of 20 to 80%; and a second storing step to store the pasted sheet under a temperature of 20 to 50° C. and a relative humidity of 40 to 100% after the first storing step.

Abstract: A protective film for polarizing plate is disclosed in which an contact angle of the surface in contact with a polarizer with respect to pure water is less than 55° and the surface in contact with a polarizer becomes hydrophilic due to a plasma treatment. In such a manner, the protective film for the polarizing plate is readily adhered with a polyvinyl alcohol film employed as a polarizer and can be produced employing processing which is safe in work and does not adversely affect the environment. Thus highly efficient protective film for the polarizing plate, which exhibits excellent adhesion with a polyvinyl alcohol film, and a polarizing plate employing the same, are provided.