Abstract: There is provided a method for controlling the quality of a product, characterized in that a product and an oxygen detecting agent having a predetermined sensitivity corresponding to the kind of the product and quality control conditions for the product are provided in combination and the quality of the product is controlled by taking advantage of such a phenomenon that, when a predetermined period of time corresponding to the kind of the product and the quality control conditions for the product has elapsed, the oxygen detecting agent undergoes a change in color as a result of the detection of the concentration of oxygen, which has infiltrated the oxygen detecting agent, by the oxygen detecting agent.

Abstract: A self light-emitting device 1 has spherical photo-electric converting elements 2 that have a substantially spherical acceptance surface, respectively; a light emitting diode 3 that emits light using electric power generated by the spherical photo-electric converting elements 2; a control circuit 5; and a sealing member 4 that integrates the spherical photo-electric converting elements 2, the light emitting diode 3 and the control circuit 5. The control circuit 5 is equipped with a light emitting control circuit where a photo-detecting sensor 23 is incorporated, a charge control circuit and a condenser. Since the acceptance surface of the spherical photo-electric converting elements 2 is substantially spherical, electric power is generated due to incidental light from any angle. Since the sealing member 4 integrates the constructional elements, so the device is difficult to damage.

Abstract: A receiving apparatus includes a receiving section for receiving image data output from an autonomously traveling robot at a predetermined output position and a storage section for storing the image data received from the robot at the receiving section.

Abstract: A makeup mirror apparatus comprises a case body, a case lid, and a rotary shaft rotatably connecting the case body and the case lid. The case body is provided with a cosmetic-material containing area, a brush containing area, and operation buttons. The case lid is provided with a mirror unit, a camera portion, and a memory slot. The mirror unit is constituted such that an LCD panel is stacked on a half mirror. By manipulating the operation button, a sample image is read from a memory card loaded in the memory slot. The read sample image is displayed on the LCD panel and is overlapped with a user's face reflected in the half mirror. Makeup is performed by tracing the sample image.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image-taking apparatus which includes: a first light-emitting section having a xenon tube and a main capacitor; and a second light-emitting section having an LED. When an image is to be taken with an auxiliary light emission immediately after power-on and immediately after previous image taking with a previous auxiliary light emission, recharge of the main capacitor is not completed yet. In such a case, the image-taking apparatus selects the second light-emitting section to emit auxiliary light from the LED.

Abstract: A lens barrel has its length which is reduced by dispensing with guide rods or a travel mechanism long extending from a base which fixes an image pickup device. The optical axes of multiple lens groups can be easily aligned. An image taking apparatus has its body which has the lens barrel incorporated into it. A second lens group, third lens group and, via the travel mechanism, a fourth lens group are supported by a straight-ahead key ring, and the straight-ahead key ring also supports a front tube holding the first lens group. A zoom motor and a focus motor are also supported by the straight-ahead key ring.

Abstract: A radial type piston motor with a speed reducer capable of housing the speed reducer and the motor within width of a track shoe. For this purpose, in the radial type piston motor with a speed reducer: the speed reducer includes planetary gear trains of a plurality of stages; a hollow final shaft is integrally constructed in a motor case of the motor; at least a planetary gear train of one stage of the aforesaid planetary gear trains is placed in a hollow of the final shaft; and at least a final stage planetary gear train of the plurality of planetary gear trains is placed outside the final shaft.

Abstract: A facsimile communication system is provided which is capable of sending out picture data from a gateway device on a receiver side to a facsimile device on the receiver side even in the development of delays in communications caused by fluctuations in a communication network and of avoiding a forced breakdown of the facsimile communication occurring based on a judgement by the facsimile communication system that a communication failure has occurred due to the delays in communications. In the facsimile communication system, the gateway device on the receiver side, after receiving a digital instruction (DCS) signal from the gateway device on a sender side, without waiting for the receipt of a receiving preparation confirmation (CFR) signal to be fed from a facsimile device on the receiver side, returns, for itself, the CFR signal to the gateway device on the sender side and then starts to receive picture data from the gateway device on the receiver side.

Abstract: A digital still camera includes an image pickup device positioned on a lens optical axis. A camera body has a substantially tubular shape, contains the image pickup device, and has a peripheral surface disposed to surround the lens optical axis. A flexible display unit of an organic ELD has a sheet form, is changeable between a widely spread state and a protecting state for protection, and displays an image when widely spread. The display unit is bent on and about the peripheral surface when in the protecting state. Furthermore, a light entrance opening is formed in the camera body. A photographing optical system includes an objective optical element, namely an achromatic prism, positioned inside the light entrance opening. The display unit is opposed to a front side of the light entrance opening when in the protecting state.

Abstract: When an magnified and synthesized image is finally printed on a printing medium based on an original image and a character font data, linear magnifying processing is executed with the aid of a software on the host computer side for the original image optically read by a scanner. In addition, vector magnifying processing is executed for font data likewise with the aid of a software, and moreover, synthesizing processing is executed for the font data. At this time, forming processing such as edge emphasizing or the like can be executed after completion of the vector magnifying processing. Synthesizing data are additionally magnified in a printer with the aid of a hardware, and subsequently, the magnified and synthesized image is outputted to the printer for performing a printing operation by the latter. An magnifying rate applicable to the host computer and the printer can be determined such that productivity of the image forming system is maximized.

Abstract: Provided is a retrofocus type optical system including a lens or a layer made of a material satisfying the following conditions of the Abbe constant ?d and partial dispersion ratios ?gd and ?gF, ?d<30, ?gd<?3.333×10?3·?d+1.40, ?gF<?2.615?10?3·?d+0.67. In the case that this layer is disposed on the front side of the aperture stop, the layer is designed to have a positive refractive power, and in the case that the layer is disposed on the rear side of the aperture stop, the layer is designed to have a negative refractive index.

Abstract: An endoscope is provided with a bending tube including sequentially connected plural bending pieces constituting a bending section which is provided in a slim and elongated insertion portion and which is brought into a bending operation by remote control, a distal end section which is provided in the front end side of this bending tube and which constitutes the front end side of the insertion portion, a flexible tube section which is provided in the base end side of the bending tube and which constitutes the rear end side of the insertion portion, and a covering member which is disposed to cover the bending tube and which has elasticity in order that both end portions of the covering member are fixed to the distal end section or the flexible tube section by being fastened radially inward, wherein the relationship represented by 0.3D<d<1.0D is established between a thickness d of the covering member fixed by fastening and the thickness D of the covering member before being fixed by fastening.

Abstract: An image taking apparatus of the present invention includes: a shooting lens which comprises a plurality of lens groups and which has a variable focal length and adjusts a focus; and a lens barrel which accommodates the shooting lens and which can advance and retract. The lens barrel comprises a lens advancing/retracting mechanism which retracts at least one of the lens groups from a shooting optical axis when the lens barrel is retracted, and which advances the lens group retracted when the lens barrel is retracted to the shooting optical axis when the lens barrel advances. The shooting lens forms a fixed focus shooting optical system by the remaining lens group among the plurality of lens groups excluding the lens group which is retracted from the shooting optical axis.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a shooting apparatus which is thinner than a conventional shooting apparatus. A lens barrel is brought into an accommodated state from a shooting state by retracting at least one of lens groups constituting the shooting lens from an optical axis, and by bringing at least a portion of one of the other lens groups remaining on the optical axis or an image pickup element into a non-using state in which an opening is left opening at a predetermined opening diameter.

Abstract: A lens barrel has its collapsed length which can be further decreased and its extended length which can be further increased. A photographic apparatus incorporates the lens barrel into its body. A lens barrel is equipped with a first gear which is rotatably supported by a straight-ahead key ring and rotates being driven by rotation of a middle tube and a second gear which receives driving force from the first gear and retracts a second lens group to a predetermined retracted position off the optical axis of a zoom lens during collapse and advances the second lens group onto the optical axis during extension. The second gear lacks teeth in that part which faces the first gear when the second lens group is at the retracted position during collapse. Consequently, the first gear runs idle while facing that part thereby holding the second lens group at the retracted position.

Abstract: A lens barrel has its length which is reduced by dispensing with guide rods or a travel mechanism long extending from a base which fixes an image pickup device. The optical axes of multiple lens groups can be easily aligned. An image taking apparatus has its body which has the lens barrel incorporated into it. A second lens group, third lens group and, via the travel mechanism, a fourth lens group are supported by a straight-ahead key ring, and the straight-ahead key ring also supports a front tube holding the first lens group. A zoom motor and a focus motor are also supported by the straight-ahead key ring.

Abstract: A lens barrel has its collapsed length that can be further decreased by removing unnecessary space and bringing lens groups close to each other and a photographic apparatus incorporates the lens barrel. When the lens barrel is collapsed, at least a fourth lens group is retracted from a photographic optical axis by an advance/retract mechanism. In that case, a first lens group and third lens group are aligned along the optical axis and stuffed into the lens barrel, the fourth lens group is placed on the top, bottom, right, or left side of these lenses, and a second lens group is placed on the top, bottom, right, or left side of the first and third lens groups. This reduces the length of the lens barrel. During extension, the second and fourth lens groups are advanced onto the photographic optical axis by the advance/retract mechanism to extend the lens barrel greatly.

Abstract: An optical system including a diffractive optical element, and an optical member for suppressing incidence of ultraviolet radiation on the diffractive optical element is disclosed. The optical member is disposed on a light incident side of the diffractive optical element. The optical member has optical power to achieve an optical system that has high optical performance and preferable environmental durability.

Abstract: A receiving apparatus includes a receiving section for receiving image data output from an autonomously traveling robot at a predetermined output position and a storage section for storing the image data received from the robot at the receiving section.

Abstract: In a zoom lens of two elements comprising a front elements lens and a rear elements lens, a track of the front elements by zooming is set up so that the front elements are disposed at a position that formula set forth below is satisfied. T 1 ? Ha 1 + HH 1 + L + HH 2 + f 2 ? ( f 1 - L ) f 1 + f 2 - L + f 1 2 m - f 1 Where a length from the top of the front elements on the optical axis to the front side main point of the front elements: Ha1, a main point interval of the front elements: HH1, a length from the rear side main point of the front elements to the front side main point of the rear elements: L, a main point interval of the rear elements: HH2, a focal length of the front elements: f1, a focal length of the rear elements: f2, a length from the subject at the time of near photography to the front side main point of the front elements: m, and a length from the top of the front elements on the optical axis to the imaging plane: T1.