Abstract: According to an embodiment, an optical inspection apparatus includes a controller. The controller is configured to: project first modulation pattern lights having an intensity modulation pattern, in which an extending direction of an end portion of an object and a modulation direction are substantially parallel, onto the object; acquire a first image group by imaging the object onto which the first modulation pattern lights are projected; and generate, by a peculiar scattering extraction process, a first peculiar light scattering image that is able to include an image of a peculiar area that is located at the end portion of the object or in an area inside the end portion, is extracted based on the first image group, and causes peculiar light scattering due to the first modulation pattern lights.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an optical inspection apparatus includes an imaging portion, a first wavelength selection portion, an illumination portion, and a second wavelength selection portion. The imaging portion includes an image sensor configured to capture a subject by light from the subject. The first wavelength selection portion is provided on an optical axis of the imaging portion and is configured to selectively pass a plurality of light components of predetermined wavelengths. The illumination portion is configured to illuminate the subject. The second wavelength selection portion is provided on an optical axis of the illumination portion and is configured to pass the plurality of light components of the predetermined wavelengths complementarily to the first wavelength selection portion.

Abstract: A semiconductor laser element includes a semiconductor stack body that emits a laser beam, an emission side protective layer that is disposed on a laser beam emission side end surface of the semiconductor stack body, and has a first end surface through which the laser beam travels; and a non-emission side protective layer that is disposed on a non-emission side end surface of the semiconductor stack body opposite to the laser beam emission side end surface and reflects the laser beam. A reflectivity at an oscillation wavelength of the laser beam in the emission side protective layer before an oxide containing silicon adheres to the first end surface is higher than a reflectivity at an oscillation wavelength of the laser beam in the emission side protective layer after the oxide adheres to the first end surface.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an optical processing method includes: inputting an image including direction information of light from an object as hue information for each pixel into an artificial neural network; and acquiring depth information of the object for the image based on a result output from the artificial neural network.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a waveform signal processing system according to an embodiment includes a neural network, a learner, and an extractor. The neural network is configured to generate at least first time-series data on noise and second time-series data on a signal other than noise on the basis of input random noise. The learner is configured to update parameters of the neural network on the basis of a loss function including a main limitation term of which a value becomes lower as synthetic time-series data obtained by adding the first time-series data and the second time-series data generated by the neural network and an observed time-series waveform including noise become more similar to each other. The extractor is configured to extract at least one of the first time-series data and the second time-series data generated by the neural network as a target signal on the basis of the parameters updated by the learner.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical apparatus includes at least two light sources, illumination opening portions, and an imaging portion. The illumination opening portions are configured to partially block light emitted from the at least two light sources, respectively, to form illumination light. The imaging portion is configured to image an object using the illumination light. The at least two light sources are disposed at positions facing each other with an optical axis of the imaging portion interposed between the at least two light sources. The illumination light from the at least two light sources is formed to spread like a fan shape toward the object respectively by the illumination opening portions. The fan shape is defined on a reference plane including the optical axis of the imaging portion and on another plane parallel to the reference plane.

Abstract: A nitride light-emitting element includes: a GaN substrate; an n-type semiconductor layer including an n-type nitride-based semiconductor, the n-type semiconductor layer being disposed on the GaN substrate; a p-type semiconductor layer including a p-type nitride-based semiconductor; an active layer including a nitride-based semiconductor containing Ga or In, the active layer being disposed between the n-type semiconductor layer and the p-type semiconductor layer; and a p-type electron barrier layer including Al, the p-type electron barrier layer being disposed between the active layer and the p-type semiconductor layer. The p-type electron barrier layer shows a composition distribution in which a position in a depth direction of the p-type electron barrier layer is taken as a horizontal axis, and a proportion of an Al element in a total amount of group III elements at each position is taken as a vertical axis. The composition distribution has maximum value A1. The maximum value A1 is 46 mol % or more.

Abstract: An object is to provide a Th1-increasing agent that can reduce constraints on storage conditions and feeding form and sufficiently increase Th1 at lower doses. A Th1-increasing agent containing a cellulose derivative as an active ingredient, the cellulose derivative having a degree of butyryl substitution of 0.3 or greater and 2.6 or less, and a total degree of substitution of 0.5 or greater and 2.8 or less.

Abstract: According to the embodiment, an optical apparatus includes an illumination optical element having a focal plane or a focal plane region including a vicinity of the focal plane; and a projection portion including a light source. The projection portion is configured to emit a light flux including light of at least two different wavelength spectra from the light source to the illumination optical element. The projection portion is configured to form a projection image at different positions by light of the two different wavelength spectra in the focal plane or the focal plane region of the illumination optical element.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a processing apparatus includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to: shift one or more captured images selected from a plurality of captured images including a reference captured image, and compose at least one subject surface image by superimposing the shifted one or more captured images on the reference captured image. The plurality of captured images have been obtained with an imaging portion within a predetermined time while a surface of a subject moving relative to the illumination light is irradiated with a plurality of beams of illumination light traveling in different directions in at least one plane.

Abstract: A center console structure for the vehicle includes a console body; an armrest; and a power supply section that wirelessly transmits electric power to the mobile terminal via a placement surface where the mobile terminal is placed. An upper surface of the console body includes a terminal accommodation section having the placement surface and arranged on a vehicle lower side of the armrest; and a top plate section provided with an operation section accepting an occupant's operation and arranged on a vehicle front side of the terminal accommodation section. The terminal accommodation section includes a rear wall portion positioning the mobile terminal where, in a perpendicular cross section along a vehicle front-rear direction, a front end of the mobile terminal is located in a virtual area, the mobile terminal having a terminal width that is equal to or longer than 67 mm and equal to or shorter than 84 mm.

Abstract: According to the embodiment, an optical inspection method for a surface state of a subject includes acquiring and discriminating. The acquiring includes acquiring a color vector of a color corresponding to a wavelength spectrum in a color coordinate system of n dimensions (n is a natural number equal to or larger than 1), which is equal to or smaller than a number of a plurality of color channels of pixels of an image sensor, with optical imaging using a wavelength spectrum selection portion that selectively allows a plurality of wavelength spectra different from one another from a surface of the subject to pass. The discriminating includes discriminating the surface state of the subject based on a direction of the color vector in the color coordinate system.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a processing device includes an acquisition part, and a processor. The acquisition part and the processor are configured to perform a first operation. The acquisition part is configured to acquire first image data, second image data, and third image data in the first operation. The first image data includes data related to a first object member image of an object member transmitting a first light. The second image data includes data related to a second object member image of the object member transmitting a second light. The third image data includes data related to a third object member image of the object member transmitting a third light. The processor is configured to derive first derived data based on the first, second, and third image data in the first operation.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a seat cushion comprises a second air cell section that is located on the rear side of a seat surface and a third air cell section that is located rearward of the second air cell section. The second air cell section and the third air cell section are adjacent to each other and have a common boundary extending diagonally in the front-rear direction of the seat surface such that the ischial region of a user fits in the boundary.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a processing device relating to an inspection of an inspection object by a photography unit is provided. A processor of the processing device calculates a plurality of photography points as positions photographing the inspection object based on shape data in which a shape of a surface of the inspection object is indicated by a point group, and information relating to a position and a normal vector on the surface of the inspection object is defined by the point group. The processor executes analysis regarding a path that passes through all of the calculated photography points and minimizes a sum of a movement cost from each of the photography points to a photography point of a next movement destination, and calculates a path corresponding to an analysis result as a path for moving the photography unit.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an optical apparatus includes an illumination unit, a light-receiving unit and a processing unit. The illumination unit can illuminate an object with a plurality of pattern rays including rays with different wavelengths simultaneously. The light-receiving unit includes a pixel that can receive the rays from the object to disperse at least two of the different wavelengths included in the pattern rays. The processing unit acquires information on the object based on a result of the pixel of the light-receiving unit receiving the pattern rays with which the illumination unit illuminates the object simultaneously.

Abstract: According to the embodiment, an optical measurement method includes: forming an object image including at least a part of the object by a bright-field optical system, and capturing and acquiring object image data by an imaging element configured to distinguish spectrums including first and second wavelengths by each pixel; performing dark-field conversions for the first wavelength to obtain first converted image data and for the second wavelength to obtain second converted image data, based on the object image data; performing hue generation processing of generating hue image data based on the first and second converted image data; and estimating information regarding a physical property of the object based on the hue image data.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an optical inspection method includes: causing a wavelength selection portion to selectively pass light components including at least two different wavelength spectra from an object point and causing an imaging portion including at least two color channels configured to receive the light components of the wavelength spectra to capture the object point; defining the light components of the at least two different wavelength spectra as signal vectors having different directions based on light reception data in the at least two color channels for the object point; and estimating spread of a direction distribution of light at the object point based on the directions of the signal vectors.

Abstract: According to the embodiment, an optical inspection apparatus includes a single-pixel light receiving element, an image formation optical element, and a light beam selection portion. The image formation optical element is disposed at a position where the single-pixel light receiving element configured to receive image points corresponding to at least two different object points of an object. The light beam selection portion is provided between the image formation optical element and the single-pixel light receiving element and is configured to selectively shield at least one wavelength included in lights from the object points.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical inspection method includes projecting first pattern light in a first basic modulation mode that periodically changes in bright and dark, onto an object, acquiring a first image by capturing an image of the object onto which the first pattern light has been projected, projecting second pattern light in a first inverted modulation mode in which bright and dark are inverted with respect to the first basic modulation mode, onto the object, acquiring a second image by capturing an image of the object onto which the second pattern light has been projected, and generating a singular light-scattered image in which a singular region including uniquely-scattered light that is extracted based at least on the first image and the second image is intensified.