Abstract: The present invention provides an illumination optical system that illuminates a surface to be illuminated by using a light beam from a light source, comprising: an optical element configured to transmit the light beam from the light source; and a member that has an incident surface on which the light beam transmitted through the optical element is incident, wherein the optical element has a first region including a central portion of the optical element, and a second region outside the first region, and wherein the optical element is formed so as to overlap a part of a light beam which is transmitted through the first region and a part of the light beam which is transmitted through the second region, on the incident surface.

Abstract: The present invention provides a trioxane composition which comprises trioxane as a main component, an antioxidant, and at least one alkaline organic compound selected from the group consisting of an amine compound having an alcoholic hydroxy group in the molecule thereof, a thiocarbamate compound, and an organophosphorus compound, wherein the amount of the alkaline organic compound contained is 0.01 to 10 ppm, based on the trioxane, and wherein the trioxane composition is a liquid.

Abstract: An exposure apparatus is provided. An illumination optical system in the apparatus includes a diffraction optical element, a condensing optical system a detector that detects a light beam that exited from the condensing optical system, and a first diaphragm that can be inserted/removed in/from a position near a predetermined plane in an optical path where the condensing optical system condenses a light beam. The first diaphragm has an opening diameter such that an output of the detector decreases when an incident angle of light from a light source on the diffraction optical element deviates from a target angle. Based on an output of the detector when the first diaphragm is inserted in the position and an output of the detector when the first diaphragm is retracted from the position, a controller performs a process of adjusting the incident angle.

Abstract: Relax oscillation circuits have at least one comparison circuit that is structured with a flipped gate transistor and a normal MOS transistor wherein the two transistors having different threshold voltages. The relaxation oscillators are configured for charging and discharging capacitances between the threshold voltages of the flipped gate transistor and the normal MOS transistor by toggling the state of a latching circuit to control the charging and discharging of the capacitances.

Abstract: An image pickup device, an image pickup system, and a movable body that include a conductive line in which a potential changes in a direction opposite to a direction of a change in a potential of a control line used to perform a global electronic shutter operation.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes pixels including a photoelectric converter, a holding portion, and a transfer unit transferring charges from the photoelectric converter to the holding portion, and outputting a signal based on charges held in the holding portion, a signal line the signal is output from the pixels, a clipping unit limiting signal level so that it falls within a range having an upper limit or a lower limit determined by a clipping level, a transfer control unit controlling the transfer unit so that the charges generated during one exposure period are transferred through transfer operation performed at frequency variable but at least once, and a clipping level control unit controlling so that the clipping level is set to first clipping level when the transfer operation is performed at first frequency, and is set to second clipping level when the transfer operation is performed at second frequency.

Abstract: Heating is stopped in between recordings in a first recording mode where the time between recordings is relatively long, while heating is continuously performed in between recordings in a second recording mode where the time between recordings is relatively short.

Abstract: Method for producing an optical member, in which at least two optical substrates, of which at least either has a light shielding portion, are bonded to each other using an ultraviolet ray cured resin composition containing (A) a (meth)acrylate and (B) a photopolymerization initiator, an optical member obtained by the producing method, the use of an ultraviolet ray cured resin composition containing (A) a (meth)acrylate and (B) a photopolymerization initiator, and the ultraviolet ray cured resin composition. A bonded optical member causing little damage to an optical substrate, and exhibiting favorable productivity and excellent cure extent and adherence, for example, a touch panel or a display body unit having an optical substrate having a light shielding portion can be produced by the producing method of the present invention, and an optical member exhibiting high cure extent of resin at a light shielding portion and high reliability can be obtained.

Abstract: An input buffer circuit providing an interface between integrated circuits having differing power supply voltage sources. A voltage reference generator that produces dual reference voltages employing a flipped gate anti-doped transistor. A receiver is connected to receive the first reference voltage and the second reference voltage and the input voltage signal from an integrated circuit operating with a low power supply and transmitting with the first voltage range. The receiver has a first comparator, a second comparator, and a latching circuit. The first comparator compares receive the input voltage and the first reference voltage and the second comparator compares the input voltage and the second reference voltage for determining the output state of the receiver. The output of the receiver provides the data output signal from the input buffer.

Abstract: A current sensor state determination device determines that an abnormality is caused in a current sensor when a sum of phase currents based on current detection values from each of the current sensors in three phases is greater than a first determination value, and determines that no abnormality is caused in the current sensor when the sum of phase currents is equal to or less than the first determination value. The state determination device determines that the current sensor is normal when it is determined that (i) no abnormality is caused in a preset electric angle range equal to or less than one electric-angle cycle of the rotating electric machine and (ii) a value of an electric current flowing in the rotating electric machine in a rotating coordinates system calculated based on the current detection value is equal to or greater than a second determination value.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a transformation matrix deriving device includes a first trajectory generator, a second trajectory generator, a trajectory matcher, and a deriver. The first trajectory generator is configured to generate a first trajectory of a moving object, detected from a video, in a first coordinate system. The second trajectory generator is configured to generate a second trajectory of a moving object in a second coordinate system, from time-series data of positional information. The trajectory matcher is configured to associate the first trajectory with the second trajectory to be a motion trajectory of the same moving object based on a similarity between the first trajectory and the second trajectory. The deriver is configured to derive a transformation matrix that transforms the second coordinate system into the first coordinate system by using the first trajectory and the second trajectory associated with each other.

Abstract: A scanning optical apparatus includes a light source, a deflector and an imaging optical system. The deflector deflects a beam emitted from the light source to scan a scanning surface with the beam in a main scanning direction. The imaging optical system focuses the beam on the scanning surface. The imaging optical system includes a first lens having negative power in a sub scanning direction and a second lens having positive power in the sub scanning direction, in which the sub scanning direction is parallel to the scanning surface and perpendicular to the main scanning direction. The power ?1 of the first lens, the power ?2 of the second lens and a magnification ? in the sub scanning direction of the imaging optical system satisfy the conditions ?1.2??1/?2??0.9 and ?1.3????0.8.

Abstract: An information display apparatus includes a display unit configured to display first content and a part of second content that is a moving image in an overlapping manner. The information display apparatus includes a change unit configured to change a displayed area of the second content while reproducing the second content in a case where an area in which the first content is displayed is selected by a user.

Abstract: A horn antenna includes a metallic horn having a rear end adapted for connection with a waveguide. The horn antenna further includes a dielectric horn connected with the metallic horn and extending forward from a front end of the metallic horn. The dielectric horn includes: i) a metallic horn filler section adapted for filling an internal space of the metallic horn; ii) a waveguide filler section formed to extend rearward from a rear end of the metallic horn filler section and adapted for filling an internal space of a section of a predetermined length of the waveguide; and iii) a flared end section having a frustum shaped internal space, which is formed to flare out toward the front end of the dielectric horn. The metallic horn and the flared end section of the dielectric horn have respective cross sections whose outer contours are the same as each other.

Abstract: A distribution apparatus includes a memory and a processor programmed to distribute control information and a first content to a terminal apparatus. The control information causes the terminal apparatus to execute displaying the first content superimposed onto a second content in a first display mode, the second content having a higher transparency than the first content; detecting an input operation causing the first content to move relative to the display region; in response to the detected input operation and the first content moving, changing the first display mode to a second display mode by changing a transparency of at least one of the first content and the second content, such that the first content and the second content are visible in the display region; and in response to completion of the input operation and the first content not moving, changing the second display mode to the first display mode.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an alkali-free glass substrate, having a difference ?n between the maximum value and the minimum value of a refractive index at a cross-section of a glass sheet of 0.40×10?5 or less. According to the alkali-free glass substrate of the present invention, the polishing ability can be extremely improved and the polishing time is shortened, so that the production efficiency can be improved.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing device includes a storage device and a processor connected to the storage device. The processor is configured to perform a process for displaying an image and information related to a size of a recognition target, and recognize a recognition target from the image. The information related to the size of the recognition target includes visual information of the recognition target.

Abstract: Provided is an image writing device including a deflector having deflective reflection surfaces for deflecting light flux emitted from a light source and a scanning imaging optical system that condenses the light flux as a light spot on a scanned surface of a latent image carrier, and performing optical scanning on the scanned surface at a constant speed, the image writing device further including: a surface detector that detects a deflective reflection surface that deflects the light flux; a storage that prestores a beam irradiation position in a sub scanning direction corresponding to each main image height on each of the deflective reflection surfaces; and a hardware processor that controls, on the basis of a beam irradiation position in the sub scanning direction corresponding to each main image height on the deflective reflection surface a light quantity of the light flux to be irradiated to the beam irradiation position.

Abstract: A pixel array has a plurality of output units arranged in matrix form and a plurality of A/D conversion units corresponds to the output units. Each of the output units outputs an electric signal based on incident electromagnetic waves. Each of the A/D conversion units converts the electric signal input from the corresponding output unit to a digital signal. A plurality of storage units corresponds to columns of the output units. Each of the storage units holds the corresponding digital signal. A first signal line is configured to supply a driving bias to at least one of the output units and the A/D conversion units. A second signal line is configured to transmit the digital signal from the A/D conversion units to the storage units. The output units are provided between the first signal line and the second signal line.

Abstract: An object of the disclosure is to provide cancelling of the output voltage deviation in a switching converter, caused by Equivalent Series Inductance (ESL) of the output capacitor, using switching node information. A further object of the disclosure is to eliminate a step-like voltage deviation in the equalized output, further eliminating the need to increase the Panic comparator offset reference, and eliminating the need to reduce the bandwidth of the pulse-width modulation control loop. Still further, another object of the disclosure is to merge some of the new components depending on the circuit topology. Still further, another object of the disclosure is to implement the new components with the same silicon as the control block, for matching the output voltage ripple and the cancelling signal control.