Abstract: A portable information device including a body, a position information portion that is provided in the body and that outputs position information, an image sensor that is provided in the body, a display system that is provided in the body and that displays, on a local field in a screen field, relevant information based on the position information such that the displayed relevant information is overlapped on a real-time image, an input portion that is provided on the body and, by use of which user operates an icon, the icon being displayed on the local field such that the displayed icon is overlapped on the real-time image and an imaging button that is provided, separately from the input portion, on the body and that is operated by user to capture a subject image via the image sensor.

Abstract: A method for detecting a main subject in an image comprises the steps of: (i) computing a plurality of saliency features from the image (14) with a control system (20); (ii) generating a spatial weight map for each of a plurality of image segments of the image (14) with the control system (20); (iii) adjusting the plurality of saliency features via the spatial weight map to generate a plurality of adjusted saliency features; (iv) combining at least two of the plurality of adjusted saliency features to generate a saliency map of the image (14); and (v) extracting the main subject from the saliency map of the image (14). Additionally, the plurality of saliency features can include at least two of a sharp/blur saliency feature, a spectral residual saliency feature, a color spatial distribution saliency feature, and one or more color contrast saliency features.

Abstract: This imaging device comprises: a storage unit that sequentially stores a plurality of frame images based on an imaging signal from an imaging sensor for capturing images of a subject light and also stores a still image corresponding to any of the plurality of frame images; a movie image generation unit that generates slow-motion movie images to be played back at a second frame rate lower than a first frame rate indicative of the number of frame images stored in the storage unit in a unit of time, on the basis of the plurality of frame images stored in the storage unit; and an image stabilization amount calculation unit that uses, as a reference, the frame image corresponding to the still image from among the plurality of frame images, to calculate an image stabilization amount for the slow-motion movie images.

Abstract: A functional film that is applied to a surface of a medical apparatus or a biomaterial includes a film of Ti-doped tetrahedral amorphous carbon (ta-C:Ti film).

Abstract: An exposure apparatus exposes an object with an exposure beam. The apparatus includes first and second stages, a measurement device and a controller. The first stage mounts the object. The second stage is movable relative to the first stage. The measurement device obtains position information of an outer periphery edge of the first stage. The controller controls at least one of a position of the first stage and a position of the second stage based on the position information of the outer periphery edge so that the first and second stages do not touch each other.

Abstract: A lens system comprises, on a side closest to an object, a first lens component having a positive refractive power and a second lens component having a positive refractive power in order from the object; and on a side closest to an image, a cemented lens constructed by cementing together a positive lens and a negative lens in order from the object; wherein the lens system satisfies the following conditional expressions: (n1+n2)/2>1.49 (?1+?2)/2>60 where n1 and ?1 denote a refractive index and an Abbe number of the first lens component at d-line, respectively, and n2 and ?2 denote a refractive index and an Abbe number of the second lens component at d-line, respectively.

Abstract: [Problem] It is to provide an illumination optical system, exposure apparatus and device manufacturing method allowing adjustment of the light intensity distribution on the illumination target surface.

Abstract: An electric zoom consecutively changes a magnification for a sample within a magnification changeable range. An electric revolver switches an objective lens placed in an observation optical path to intermittently change the magnification for the sample. A control section calculates a total magnification based on the magnification provided by the electric zoom and the magnification of the objective lens currently placed in the observation optical path. The control section controls the electric revolver such that the objective lens placed in the observation optical path is switched when the magnification changed in response to the operation of causing the magnification of the electric zoom to be changed falls outside the magnification changeable range of the electric zoom.

Abstract: A focus detection device includes a focus detector, an object detector, a selector, a divider, and a controller. The focus detector is configured to detect a plurality of focus adjusting states at focus detecting positions in an image plane of an optical system. The object detector is configured to detect image information corresponding to a specified object in an image of the optical system. The selector is configured to select focus adjusting states among the plurality of focus adjusting states based on the image information detected by the object detector. The divider is configured to find variation in the selected focus adjusting states and configured to divide the selected focus adjusting states into a plurality of groups based on the variation. The controller is configured to find a final focus adjusting state based on a pre-final focus adjusting state in a group selected from the plurality of groups.

Abstract: Methods are provided for complementarily dividing, on a divided stencil reticle as used in charged-particle-beam (CPB) microlithography, certain pattern elements into complementary pattern-element portions, and for exposing the pattern-element portions without significantly reducing throughput. For example, a large-area pattern element, having length and width equal to or greater than a division criterion L, is complementarily divided into linear pattern-element portions each having a width<L, and length≧L. Each pattern-element portion can have respective overlap regions along edges at which the portions as projected are conjoined on a lithographic substrate. The pattern-element portions are defined on at most two complementary reticles (or reticle portions) thereby imposing less adverse effect on throughput than conventionally.

Abstract: A photometer for a camera that performs multi-area photometry and displays the exposure deviation to the photographer. The photometer includes a light measuring device with a plurality of photometric elements that perform photometry at a plurality of areas within the photographic field. A photometric value determining section calculates an effective photometric value using a weighted addition of each photometric value according to the given photometric mode. A standard value determining section calculates a reference photometric value using a predetermined, specified weighted addition of each photometric value. A deviation determining section calculates the deviation in the logarithmic values of the effective photometric value and the reference photometric value. A display device displays the deviation calculated by the deviation determining section.

Abstract: A light-shielding blade made of a carbon fiber-reinforced plastic plate, composed of three or more reinforced plastic sheets each of which consists of continuous carbon fibers aligned in one direction and matrix resin enveloping the carbon fibers and which are plane symmetrically laminated in such a manner that the directions of fibers of the sheets are mutual substantially perpendicular. The carbon fiber-reinforced plastic plate has a thickness in a range of 60 to 120 .mu.m, and carbon black is incorporated only in the outermost ones of the sheets constituting the plate, a black coating of a thickness of 0.1 to 3 .mu.m is provided on each surface of the plate.