Abstract: A process for producing a cellulose-ester-resin-containing protective film for polarizers through film formation by melt casting. The protective film diminishes long-period optical unevenness and suffers no unevenness even after long-term storage. Also provided are a protective film for polarizers, a polarizer employing the film, and a liquid-crystal display. The process for producing a protective film for polarizers is a process for producing by the melt casting method a polarizer-protective film containing a cellulose ester resin.

Abstract: A coating device is provided with: a plurality of inkjet heads (31) staggered to cover an area to be coated in a width direction of a long-roll supporting body (10); a pressure adjusting mechanism (40) for adjusting the back-pressure of the coating solution to be applied from inkjet heads (31); a plurality of solution feeding pipes (43) for supplying the coating solution from the pressure adjusting mechanism (40) to inkjet heads (31); and storage tank (50) for storing the coating solution, wherein the feeding volumes of the coating solution from the solution feeding pipes (43) are adjusted equal (i.e. flow resistances of the piping are made equal), so that equal back-pressures are applied to the coating solution to be jetted from the inkjet heads.

Abstract: An image projector has a light source emitting blue, green, and red illumination light, a digital micromirror device forming blue, green, and red images, and a projection system enlarging the images, and fulfills the formula FP?1/(2·sin {sin?1[1/(2·FI)]+?}), where, when mirror surfaces forming pixels are referred to as pixel surfaces, mirror-reflected light on the pixel surface along the illumination axis is referred to as mirror-reflected light, and angles between, of the diffracted light produced as a result of the rays along the illumination axis being diffracted, the part traveling in a direction closest to the mirror-reflected light and the normal line to the image display surface is defined as diffraction angles ?B, ?G, and ?R, then ? represents the largest of the angles ?B, ?G, and ?R, FI represents f-number of illumination light, and FP represents f-number of projection system.

Abstract: A die having a plurality of cavities and a temperature sensor for acquiring a temperature value in which the number of the cavities is larger than that of electrothermal conversion elements. When viewed from a direction perpendicular to the surface of a parting line, all cavities and a temperature sensor are arranged in a region occupied by the electrothermal conversion elements. Interval between the outlines of the cavities is smaller than the minimum interval between the outline of the cavity and the electrothermal conversion element, and the shortest distance between the electrothermal conversion element and the temperature measuring portion of a temperature measuring element is shorter than the minimum interval between the outline of the cavity and the electrothermal conversion element.

Abstract: Provided is a small-sized five-element image pickup lens which ensures a sufficient lens speed of about F2 and exhibits various aberrations being excellently corrected. The image pickup lens is composed of, in order from the object side, a first lens with a positive refractive power, including a convex surface facing the object side; a second lens with a negative refractive power, including a concave surface facing the image side; a third lens with a positive or negative refractive power; a fourth lens with a positive refractive power, including a convex surface facing the image side; and a fifth lens with a negative refractive power, including a concave surface facing the image side. The image-side surface of the fifth lens has an aspheric shape, and includes an inflection point at a position excluding an intersection point with the optical axis.

Abstract: A retardation film comprising a cellulose derivative and a plasticizer, wherein a total haze, Htotal, of the retardation film meets the following condition: 0.1%?Htotal?0.4%; and a ratio of a internal haze, Hi, to the total haze, Hi/Htotal, of the retardation film meets the following condition: Hi/Htotal?0.5.

Abstract: Disclosed is an optical film having a hard coat layer on a cellulose ester film, which contains an ester compound composed of a furanose structure or a pyranose structures and a sum of a number of the furanose structures or the pyranose structure is 1 to 12, provided that a part of hydroxy groups of the furanose structure or the pyranose structure has been esterified and a part of hydroxy groups of the furanose structure or the pyranose structure remains.

Abstract: An image sensor unit includes a fixed substrate, a movable substrate, an actuate section including an actuator for moving the movable substrate against the fixed substrate, an image sensor having an imaging surface on a front surface of the image sensor, and at least, a part of a rear surface of the image sensor being directly fixed onto the movable substrate, an external electrical connecting member for conducting a transmission and reception of signals between the actuate section and the image sensor and an outside of the image sensor unit, and an internal electrical connecting member electrically connects the actuate section, the image sensor and the external connection wiring, wherein the actuate section, the image sensor, the internal connection wiring and a part of the external connection wiring are sealed into the same space.

Abstract: An optical tomographic image forming method including: splitting low coherence light emitted from a light source is split into a measuring light and a reference light; forming an optical tomographic image of a measured object by detecting an interference light that is obtained by superposing reflected light, reflected from the measured object when the measuring light is irradiated onto the measured object via a condenser lens, and reflected light, reflected from a reference mirror, which is positioned a predetermined length of optical path away from the splitting position, when the reference light is irradiated onto the reference mirror, wherein the method further includes: inputting a refractive index of the measured object; correcting the tomographic image in accordance with the inputted refractive index of the measured object; and outputting the corrected tomographic image.

Abstract: An anisotropic dye layer containing a coordination polymer is disclosed. The a polarization control film containing an oriented dichroic dye in which light absorption spectrum of a molecule is reversibly changed by charge passing are disclosed.

Abstract: A lens assembling method for assembling a first lens and a second lens where the first lens has a first mark on a first surface thereof and a second mark on a second surface opposite to the first surface, and the second lens has a third mark on a first surface thereof, the lens assembling method including: a first step of aligning a position of one of the first mark and second marks of the first lens with a position of the third mark of the second lens; and a second step of aligning a position of the other one of the first and second marks of the first lens with the position of the third mark of the second lens, while keeping the position alignment performed in the first step.

Abstract: A position control device 1 and a position control method of the present invention are a technology used in a shape memory alloy actuator for moving a movable member using a shape memory alloy member. In controlling the position of the movable member, an instruction value indicating a position of the movable member as a control target is changed to reduce the temperature of a shape memory alloy member when an amount of power supplied to the shape memory alloy member is in excess of a predetermined first threshold value. A drive device and an imaging device C of the present invention include a shape memory alloy actuator and the position control device 1.

Abstract: Provided are a wafer lens production method, an intermediate die, an optical component, a molding die, and a molding die production method. The production method of a wafer lens (1) includes a first intermediate die production step using a die (7), a second intermediate die production step using the first intermediate die (8), and a wafer lens production step using the second intermediate die (9). A first intermediate-die substrate (80) is provided with a depressed section (85) on the surface facing the die (7). When photo-curable resin (84A) is pressed, at least a portion closer to the first intermediate-die substrate (80) among the top (71a) and the peripheral section (77) of the die (7) is arranged in the depressed section (85), and a gap is provided so that the die (7) does not contact with a depressed plane (85a) of the depressed section (85).

Abstract: An image processing device includes a corrector for performing an optical correction of correcting a distortion of an image by interpolating image data of the distorted picked-up image resulting from an optical characteristic of an image pickup section, and locally changing a resolution of the image; and a compressor for performing a dynamic range compression of compressing a dynamic range of the image data by extracting an illumination component from the image data based on a space frequency of the image, and compressing the extracted illumination component, wherein the compressor performs the dynamic range compression with respect to image data of an after-correction-image to be obtained after the optical correction is performed by the corrector.

Abstract: A method for processing a material for a die for molding an objective lens which is formed with a multilevel structure on the curved surface thereof, wherein the transfer surface of the objective lens is cut by a tool having a cutting face, the outline of which includes a linear first edge portion, a linear second edge portion extending in a direction which intersects the first edge portion at an acute angle thereto, and a third edge portion which joins the ends of the first and second edge portions, while the die material is rotated around the axis thereof, in a state in which at least the first edge portion and the second edge portion of the tool is inclined with respect to the axis and while the tool is moved only in the axial direction and in the direction which intersects the axis.

Abstract: The rotation axis of each mirror of a DMD (4) defines an angle of 45° with respect to long and short sides of a rectangular image display area. A polarization conversion optical system (24) makes a polarization direction of light from a light source (1) arranged in one direction and projects the arranged light, and after total reflection from the critical surface (31b) of a TIR prism (3), the light is guided to the DMD (4). When the incident surface of the critical surface (31b) and the mirror incident surface of the DMD (4) are in parallel with each other, a PBS prism array of the polarization conversion optical system (24) carries out the polarization and separation of the light from the light source (1) in a direction corresponding to the long side direction of the image display area of the DMD (4) in the case of the separation of the light from the light source (1) into two linear polarizations having different polarization directions.

Abstract: Provided is a driving device having a rod-like terminal capable of stably fixing an SMA and connecting a conductive member without preventing the size of the driving device from being reduced and affecting the performance of the SMA. Also provided is an imaging device. The driving device is equipped with a string-shaped shape-memory alloy as a driving source and includes: a base member serving as the base of the driving device; and the rod-like terminal made of a metal penetrating the base member and secured to the base member. One end side of the rod-like terminal is caulked to interpose and hold the shape-memory alloy, and the other end side of the rod-like terminal has a crimp portion where the conductive member for supplying current to the shape-memory alloy is crimped and fixed.

Abstract: An optical compensation film and a liquid crystal display characterized in that in a scattered-light intensity measurement for a film with an incident light with 90° in a scattered light profile of a goniophotometer, in the case of measuring so as to detect a scattered light intensity at the position of 130° from a light source, a difference in scattered light intensity between the case where a film slow axis is installed horizontally on a sample stand and the case where the film slow axis is installed vertically is 0.05 or less.

Abstract: Provided are an optical element and a method for manufacturing the optical element, wherein the concave optical surface of the optical element does not adhere to the metal mold convex surface and excellent mold releasability is ensured by providing the end surface of the optical element with an end section which is continuous to the outer end section of the concave optical surface of the optical element and providing the end section with a tapered section having a tilt with respect to the flat surface formed by the outer end section of the concave optical surface at the time of forming the optical element by means of a liquid drop method. The tapered section can be used for alignment at the time of assembling the light emitting unit, and contributes to process time reduction and prevention of generation of failures.

Abstract: A luminance signal and a color information signal having high S/N ratios are generated by combining a visible luminance image component and an infrared image component at an appropriate ratio according to brightness of a subject such as brightness on a sunny day or brightness in darkness. An image pickup element 3 picks up a ye image component Dye, an R image component DR, an infrared image component DBlk and a luminance image component DW. An evaluation value calculator 41 calculates an evaluation value eDW and an evaluation value eDBlk by adding pixel values of the luminance image component DW and pixel values of the infrared image component DBlk in a local area, and calculates an evaluation value e (=eDW?eDBlk). A factor determiner 51 determines weighting factors k, kw from the evaluation value e.