Abstract: A system for an online community based on Structured Dialogs offering organizations the opportunity to create online communities and have a dialog with users on their status, condition, and progress without the risk of adverse event reports by users. The system may include an interface that limits user communication to Structured Dialogs comprising controlled vocabulary elements of specific choices, including pop-ups, drop downs, and sliders. The system includes a personal health and wellness management tool coupled with the community to enable the user to manage his or her medication and condition using Structured Dialogs and thus making the interaction more interesting and effective for users. The system may also include an information repository “Info” Layer that can offer articles that are relevant to users. The “We”, “Me” and “Info” Layers can share statistics and Structured Dialogs data.

Abstract: A data processing method providing improved and efficient authentication of client computers by server computers, the method comprising: using authentication logic of a server computer, establishing a secure socket connection with a client computer; receiving, from the client computer, a request to use a communications service that is implemented at the server computer, and in response to the request, determining that the client computer is unauthenticated; providing a nonce value to the client computer; receiving from the client computer an encrypted identity token that includes the nonce and a user identifier, wherein the identity token has been encrypted using a provider computer and an encryption key of the provider computer, wherein the encryption key is known at the server computer; validating the identity token and obtaining the user identifier therein; creating and storing a session token that is uniquely associated with the client computer and that includes a session identifier, the user identifier,

Abstract: Method of manufacturing an optical element capable of providing a satisfactory shape accuracy even where a plurality of optical elements are molded. By providing a protruding portion 12d to change the flow of molten glass drop GD for an optical element with a forming mold 10, it is possible to make the glass drop GD for an optical element flow along an optical surface transferring surface 12a in the vicinity of edge side close to the drop point of the glass drop GD for an optical element, among the optical surface transferring surfaces 12a. According to this, even where a plurality of glass lenses 100 are collectively molded, it is possible to transfer an optical function surface 101a of the glass lens 100 to each optical surface transferring surface 12a with a high accuracy and to collectively manufacture the glass lenses 100 with a satisfactory shape accuracy.

Abstract: It is desirable to design and manufacture electronic chips that are resistant to modern reverse engineering techniques. Disclosed is a method and device that allows for the design of chips that are difficult to reverse engineer using modern teardown techniques. The disclosed device uses devices having the same geometry but different voltage levels to create different logic devices. Alternatively, the disclosed uses devices having different geometries and the same operating characteristics. Also disclosed is a method of designing a chip using these devices.

Abstract: An imaging device is provided with an imaging element. The imaging element has a sensitive wavelength region including an infrared wavelength region, and selectively including a visible wavelength region, and is composed of at least three types of pixels having spectral sensitivities different from each other. The imaging device generates a color image, based on a luminance signal including an infrared wavelength component, and based on a color-difference signal that has been generated based on a visible wavelength component in original image data. The luminance signal including an infrared wavelength component is generated, based on a signal obtained by compressing the dynamic range of original image data including at least three types of original image components acquired by an imaging operation of the imaging element.

Abstract: A probe includes an optical system which irradiates a site of a biological tissue and receives light emitted from the site, and an imaging device. The imaging device is disposed ahead of the optical system closer to the end of the probe. The probe rotates the incident direction of the light and the imaging direction of the imaging device around a rotation axis directed to the longitudinal direction of the probe while fixing an angle between the incident direction and the imaging direction. The optical system receives the light from the site which always falls in the field of view of the imaging device, or brought with a time lag into the field of view of the imaging device as a result of rotation, the light being incident in the direction normal to, or inclined away from the rotation axis.

Abstract: Image pickup lens unit (100) comprises, in order to minimize the positional displacement between an optical system and a holder therefor, compound lens (6), holder (2) which houses compound lens (6) therein, and cover (4) which covers compound lens (6). In holder (2), there is formed peripheral section (2e) which restricts the movement of compound lens (6) in the XY-direction. In cover (4), there is formed projecting section (4e) which restricts the movement of compound lens (6) in the Z-direction.

Abstract: Method for manufacturing an image pickup lens unit. In the second molding step, by performing additional molding with respect to a first holder member 20 in which a lens 10 has been inserted, the separation of the lens 10 can be prevented and, at the same time, a second holder member 30 welded to the first holder member 20 can be molded. Therefore, molding of the second holder member 30 and the process of joining the second holder member with the first holder member 20 can be performed together. Additionally, when the lens 10 is fixed from the side of a third molding portion 63 of a second mold 52, the lens 10 and the third molding portion 63 are brought in contact by an elastic biasing force, thereby reducing breakage or deformation of the lens 10.

Abstract: A probe which is inserted into a lumen of inside of a body, irradiates an observation object part of a physiological tissue with excitation light, and detects fluorescence resulting from the excitation light, wherein the probe including: a plus lens arranged facing toward a tip side of the probe; and a plurality of optical fibers receiving the fluorescence at tip surfaces through the plus lens, wherein the tip surface are directed toward the plus lens and arranged in positions offset from an optical axis of the plus lens, wherein positions of the tip surface of at least optical fibers of which an amount of offset from the optical axis of the plus lens differ mutually among plurality of optical fibers are shifted mutually along the optical axis of the plus lens.

Abstract: Two imaging optical systems are provided. The two imaging optical systems are configured to have a difference in a ghost appearance condition under the same imaging condition by differentiating at least one of the angle, the resolution, and the variation adjustment in production. In Step S1, images captured by the two imaging optical systems are stored. In Step S2, corresponding positions of each respective portion of a subject between the two imaging optical systems are obtained. In Step S3, images at the corresponding positions are compared with each other for determining a bright portion having a deviation in a luminance value, as a ghost portion. In this configuration, it is possible to accurately detect a ghost generation position on a real-time basis.

Abstract: An electronic device includes: a base layer; a first layer located at least partially over the base layer; a second layer located at least partially over the first layer; a first metal layer located at least partially over the second layer, wherein one or more signal outputs of the electronic device are formed in the first metal layer; and a second metal layer located at least partially over the first metal layer, wherein one or more gate connection is formed in the second metal layer, wherein removing a portion of the second metal layer disrupts at least one gate connection and deactivates the device.

Abstract: An image pickup lens unit, in which a holder body and a cover can be easily connected together, without additional components and a resin flow path for the connection. A lens 10 is positioned in a first holder member 20 which remains in a mold. A second holder member 30 for preventing the lens 10 from falling off is molded such that it is welded to the first holder member having the lens 10 positioned therein. This facilitates molding of the second holder member 30 and joining of the second holder member 30 to the first holder member 20 at the same time. Since there is no need to provide a resin flow path for joining the first holder member 20 and the second holder member 30 together, the image pickup lens unit can be made small in size.

Abstract: Provided is a device for manufacturing an optical film having satisfactorily reduced thickness unevenness, by using a melt-casting film forming method, which device includes a casting die for discharging a molten film-forming material including a thermoplastic resin into a film-like shape; a pair of a first rotation roll and a second rotation roll between which the discharged film-shaped molten article is pinched to be cooled and solidified to make the film-shaped molten article; and two pairs of wind shield plates each of which pairs are arranged between the shaft-direction ends of the first and second rotation rolls and an end part in the width-direction of the film-shaped molten article, wherein the wind shield plates are placed approximately perpendicular to the surface of the film-shaped molten article, and wherein each pair of the wind shield plates are placed approximately in parallel.

Abstract: An electronic device includes: a base layer; a first layer located at least partially over the base layer; a second layer located at least partially over the first layer; a first metal layer located at least partially over the second layer, wherein one or more signal outputs of the electronic device are formed in the first metal layer; and a second metal layer located at least partially over the first metal layer, wherein one or more gate connection is formed in the second metal layer, wherein removing a portion of the second metal layer disrupts at least one gate connection and deactivates the device.

Abstract: A large aperture zoom optical system and an image pickup apparatus have a five-lens-group arrangement of positive-negative-positive-negative-positive refractive powers. At the time of zooming, the fifth lens group is fixed, and at least the second lens group, the third lens group and the fourth lens group are moved. The third lens group for use in focusing is composed of a single lens element.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device with a front plate including a step of providing, on a surface on a viewing side of a liquid crystal panel having polarizing plates on both sides, a ?/4 plate having a hard coat layer and composed of mainly a thermoplastic resin, an adhesive layer, a front plate composed of glass or acrylic, and a sealing layer containing a UV-curable tacky agent, all being stacked in this order from the viewing side; and a step of curing the sealing layer by irradiating with ultraviolet radiation from a hard coat layer side. The ?/4 plate having the hard coat layer contains 0.005 to 0.5 parts by mass of a compound which shows an absorption peak (?max) in a wavelength range of 260 nm to 400 nm per 100 parts by mass of the thermoplastic resin composing the ?/4 plate.

Abstract: A laminated wafer lens includes a wafer lens and a spacer substrate bonded to each other. The wafer lens includes a resin section provided on a surface of a glass substrate. The resin section includes lens portions and interval portions, each interval portion provided between adjacent lens portions. The spacer substrate has openings at positions corresponding to the respective lens portions. The lens portions are arrayed in row and column directions in a matrix fashion. The interval portions include first and second interval portions, the second interval portion longer than the first interval portion. The spacer substrate includes interval portions each of which is provided between adjacent openings. The interval portions include third and fourth interval portions corresponding to the first and second interval portions, respectively, the fourth interval portion being longer than the third interval portion.

Abstract: An imaging lens system has, from an object side, at least one positive lens element convex to the object side, a negative lens element, and at least one lens element having an aspherical surface. The positive and negative lens elements are arranged next to each other. The formulae 0.1<Ton/Dopn<7, 0.1<(Rona?Ronb)/(Rona+Ronb)<1.5, and 0.3<Y?/TL<0.

Abstract: An image projection apparatus has a corrector that corrects angle distribution of illumination light such that, let, in a comparison in traveling direction between, of diffracted light resulting from light rays with the wavelengths ?1 and ?2 along the illumination optical axis being diffracted on an on-state digital micromirror device, ?1 diffracted light traveling in a direction closest to a traveling direction of the mirror-reflected light and ?2 diffracted light traveling in a direction closest to the traveling direction of the mirror-reflected light, the ?1 diffracted light be diffracted to a position farther away from the mirror-reflected light than the ?2 diffracted light, the angle distribution of the illumination light includes at least an angle distribution that fulfills conditional formula (1): F?2<F?1, where F?1 and F?2 represent F-numbers of illumination light with the first and second wavelengths ?1 and ?2, respectively.

Abstract: A single-focal-length imaging lens system achieves focusing by, while keeping first and third lens groups stationary relative to the image plane, moving a second lens group along the optical axis. The second lens group includes a positive lens element. The third lens group includes an aspherically shaped lens element having an inflection point at a position other than the intersection with the optical axis. The first and second air lenses formed by the intervals between the first and second and between the second and third lens groups have negative and positive refractive powers respectively. The conditional formula 0?|Fi1/Fi2|?|Fm1/Fm2|?10 is fulfilled (Fi1 and Fi2 representing the focal lengths of the first and second air lenses, respectively, when focusing on the infinite object distance; Fm1 and Fm2 representing the focal lengths of the first and second air lenses, respectively, when focusing on the closest object distance).