Abstract: An information processing device of the present invention is capable of collaboration with a learning device to determine whether an image group that has been obtained in time series by the first endoscope is an image group obtained at a first time or at a second time, and to create a first inference model for image feature determination of images for the first endoscope by performing learning with results of having performed annotation on the image group that was obtained at the second time as training data, the information processing device comprising at least one or a plurality of classifying processors that classify image groups constituting training data candidates, within an image group from the first endoscope that has been newly acquired, or an image group from a second endoscope, using the image group that has been obtained at the first time, when the first inference model was created.

Abstract: Disclosed is a coating composition for a plastic label, which contains an oxetane compound, an epoxy compound, and a cyclic acetal and/or a poly(vinyl butyral). The coating composition excels in suitability for printing such as gravure printing or flexographic printing, cures rapidly to give excellent productivity, and after curing, gives a coating layer that excels in adhesion to a plastic base film and in toughness. A plastic label formed using the coating composition excels in surface scratch resistance and crumpling resistance, and therefore is particularly useful as a label for use in plastic containers, and metal containers such as bottle cans.

Abstract: Disclosed is a coating composition for a plastic label, which contains an oxetane compound, an epoxy compound, and a cyclic acetal and/or a poly(vinyl butyral). The coating composition excels in suitability for printing such as gravure printing or flexographic printing, cures rapidly to give excellent productivity, and after curing, gives a coating layer that excels in adhesion to a plastic base film and in toughness. A plastic label formed using the coating composition excels in surface scratch resistance and crumpling resistance, and therefore is particularly useful as a label for use in plastic containers, and metal containers such as bottle cans.

Abstract: Provided is a shrinkable label having a hologram layer that suffers no whitening even after shrink processing with relatively large shrinkage. The label therefore fits even complicated dimensions of an article and, in addition, provides a superior holographic expression. The shrinkable label includes a shrinkable film and, on or above at least one side thereof, a hologram layer. The hologram layer is formed by curing a resin composition which is cationically curable by the action of an active energy ray and which contains one or more oxetane compounds including a monofunctional oxetane compound, and one or more bifunctional or higher-functional epoxy compounds. In the resin composition, the total of the oxetane compounds and the bifunctional or higher-functional epoxy compounds occupies 60 percent by weight or more of the resin composition, and the monofunctional oxetane compound occupies 30 percent by weight or more of the oxetane compounds.

Abstract: Provided is a shrinkable label having a hologram layer that suffers no whitening even after shrink processing with relatively large shrinkage. The label therefore fits even complicated dimensions of an article and, in addition, provides a superior holographic expression. The shrinkable label includes a shrinkable film and a hologram layer present on or above at least one side of the shrinkable film. The hologram layer has been formed by curing a radically curable resin composition by the action of an active energy ray. The resin composition contains 45 to 95 percent by weight of an acrylic monomer and 5 to 55 percent by weight of a bifunctional or higher-functional urethane acrylate, based on the total amount of the acrylic monomer and the bifunctional or higher-functional urethane acrylate.

Abstract: Disclosed is an active energy ray-curable resin the composition for plastic films which contains an oxetane compound, an epoxy compound, and at least one silicone compound selected from epoxy-modified silicones, fluorine-modified silicones, amino-modified silicones, (meth)acrylic-modified silicones, and polyether-modified silicones. The resin the composition has excellent printability such as gravure printability and flexographic printability and cures rapidly to attain high productivity. After curing, it gives a cured layer which excels in adhesion to the plastic base film and in toughness and has good recoatability. A plastic label using the resin the composition excels in surface scratch resistance and crumpling resistance. This label is hence useful especially as a label to be applied to plastic containers, metallic containers such as bottle cans.

Abstract: An equipment for manufacturing semiconductor devices has: a reaction chamber in which a substrate to be processed is placed; means for evacuating the reaction chamber; means for introducing a reaction gas into the reaction chamber; means for applying polarized light to the surface of the substrate for the purpose of depositing a thin film on the surface of the substrate using a photochemical reaction between the light and the reaction gas; and means for adjusting the direction of polarization of the light so as to be substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of a stepped circuit pattern present on the surface of the substrate for the purpose of flattening the circuit pattern.

Abstract: A method of forming a thin film wherein a gas which contains an element used to constitute a desired thin film as at least a part of its constituent elements or a condensed solid layer of this gas is irradiated with a high output power laser beam to dissociate the gas or the solid layer of the gas and thereby locally produce a plasma, and a substrate is irradiated with reactive particles produced in the plasma, thereby obtaining a highly-pure high-quality thin film. Also disclosed is an apparatus for realizing this method.

Abstract: First conductivity type impurity ions are implanted at a predetermined depth all over a region where impurity ions are to be implanted, and second conductivity type impurity ions are implanted in a dose about twice as large as that of the first conductivity type impurity ions at substantially the same implantation depth of the first conductivity type impurity ions, followed by annealing.In this way, mutually contiguous first and second conductivity type regions having substantially the same impurity concentrations and located at substantially the same depths are formed.

Abstract: A thin film solar cell formed on a substrate, comprising at least first and second electrodes, at least one of which is capable of passing light, a silicon film interposed between said first and second electrodes, and at least one junction formed in the silicon film for separating electrons and positive holes when the cell is exposed to light, wherein said silicon film comprises a mixed phase consisting of a polycrystalline phase and an amorphous phase, and includes at least about 50% by volume of fibrous crystalline grains, each of said grains having a maximum bottom diameter of about 1 .mu.m and a minimum height of about 50 nm and having its grain boundaries terminated with a monovalent element.The solar cell has a high photoelectric conversion efficiency comparable to that of a single-crystal solar cell, and can be produced at a low cost.

Abstract: Alumina or aluminum is arranged on, or in the vicinity of, a wafer surface into which an impurity, particularly antimony, is to be diffused, and the impurity is vapor-diffused.The impurity can be diffused in much larger quantities than in a prior art vapor diffusion, and a very low sheet resistance for the diffused layer of antimony can be attained.

Abstract: A solid resinous product useful for coatings, adhesives and molding materials which is obtained by polymerizing a by-product tar produced as by-product in manufacturing resorcinol or resorcinol and hydroquinone via hydroperoxide of m-diisopropylbenzene or of a combination of m- and p-diisorpopylbenzenes and containing m-substituted phenolic constituents or a combination of m- and p-substituted phenolic constituents as major constituents.

Abstract: An epoxy resin useful for coatings, adhesives and molding materials which is derived from a by-product tar produced as by-product in manufacturing resorcinol or resorcinol and hydroquinone via hydroperoxide of m-diisopropylbenzene or of a combination of m- and p-diisopropylbenzenes and containing m-substituted phenolic constituents or a combination of m- and p-substituted phenolic constituents as major constituents, or is derived from a polymerization product of said by-product tar.

Abstract: A process for production of a polymer emulsion comprising polymerizing at least one partially esterified, imidated or amidated product of an adduct with a compound having a polymerizable unsaturated group and a hydroxy group, epoxy group or amino group, in an aqueous system in the presence or absence of a vinyl monomer, said adduct being produced by adding an .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated dicarboxylic acid or anhydride thereof to at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a synthetic unsaturated polymer having a number average molecular weight of 150 to 30,000 and an iodine value of 50 to 500, a natural drying oil, a natural semidrying oil and an unsaturated fatty acid which composes the natural drying or semidrying oils. The polymer emulsion shows excellent coating film properties when used for paints.

Abstract: A germanium-containing silicon nitride film has a germanium content of 0.5 to 10 atomic-% that of the silicon content. Since the film has a much smaller stress than a conventional silicon nitride (Si.sub.3 N.sub.4) film, it is very suitable as a mask for fabricating a semiconductor device and an insulating or a protective film for a semiconductor device.

Abstract: In forming a film of a purposive substance on a substrate by a chemical vapor deposition (CVD), the size of the film-forming substance particles formed in a reactor is detected as an electrical signal and flow rates of respective gases introduced into the reactor are controlled in response to this electrical signal. According to this control method, the fogging phenomenon owing to formation of the film-forming substance in the gas flow can be effectively prevented.