Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing an optical element in which aligning properties of an alignment pattern in a photo-alignment film is improved such that alignment defects of a liquid crystal compound in a liquid crystal layer can be suppressed. The method of manufacturing an optical element includes: an exposure step of performing interference exposure to a surface of a photo-alignment film including a photo-alignment material to form, on the photo-alignment film, an alignment pattern in which a direction of an optical axis derived from a liquid crystal compound changes while continuously rotating in at least one in-plane direction; and a liquid crystal layer forming step of applying a liquid crystal composition including a liquid crystal compound to the photo-alignment film where the alignment pattern is formed to form a liquid crystal layer, in which the photo-alignment material includes an azo compound, and the exposure step is performed in an environment having a relative humidity of 50% or less.

Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal diffraction element which exhibits low scattering and high sharpness of diffracted light, and a method for producing the same.

Abstract: Provided are an optical laminate where the occurrence of crosstalk can be suppressed and the occurrence of multiple images can be suppressed, a light guide element, and an image display apparatus.

Abstract: An electrochemical device has a laminated body including: a positive electrode; a negative electrode; and a solid electrolyte sandwiched between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, wherein the laminated body contains water, a content of the water contained in the laminated body is 0.001 mass % or more and less than 0.3 mass % with respect to the laminated body, a part of the water is a bound water bonding with a constituent of the laminated body, and a ratio of the bound water in the water is 50% or more and 90% or less.

Abstract: An object is to provide a light deflection device having a simple structure suitable for reducing the size and weight where a deflection angle can be increased, and an optical device including the light deflection device. The light deflection device includes: a MEMS light deflection element that deflects incident light to be emitted; and an angle increasing optical element that is disposed downstream of the light deflection element in a light traveling direction and increases an angle range of a deflection angle of light emitted from the light deflection element, in which the MEMS light deflection element has a function of collecting and emitting incident light.

Abstract: An object is to provide a light deflection device and an optical device having a simple structure suitable for reducing the size and weight where a deflection angle can be increased. The light deflection device includes: a light deflection element that deflects incident light in one in-plane direction to be emitted; a driving unit that drives the light deflection element; a light collecting element that is disposed on a light emission side of the light deflection element; and an angle increasing optical element consisting of a diffraction element in which a periodic structure pitch gradually changes from a center of deflection of the light deflection element toward an outer side.

Abstract: An all-solid lithium ion secondary battery has a pair of electrode layers and a solid electrolyte layer between the pair of electrode layers. In the all-solid lithium ion secondary battery, at least one electrode of the pair of electrodes has an active material layer and an intermediate layer on the surface of the active material layer on the side of the solid electrolyte layer, and each of the solid electrolyte layer, the intermediate layer, and the active material layer includes a compound containing Li and two or more shared types of metal elements other than Li, the two or more shared types of metal elements in the solid electrolyte layer, the intermediate layer, and the active material layer are identical between the solid electrolyte layer, the intermediate layer, and the active material layer.

Abstract: A nanopore device includes an aperture and an electrode pair. A transimpedance amplifier converts a current signal Is that flows through the nanopore device into a voltage signal Vs. The nanopore device measures small particles based on first data obtained by removing a DC component from the voltage signal Vs and second data obtained based on the voltage signal Vs from which the DC component has not been removed. Furthermore, the nanopore device is capable of monitoring the state of the nanopore device.

Abstract: Provided are a method of manufacturing an optical element in which an optically-anisotropic layer having a small amount of in-plane unevenness can be prepared, and an optical element.

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing an optical element and an optical element, in which an alignment pattern can be formed with high manufacturing efficiency and high accuracy, an increase in manufacturing time caused by an increase in size can be suppressed, and a liquid crystal compound can be appropriately aligned. The method is a method of manufacturing an optical element, the optical element including a liquid crystal layer that is formed of a liquid crystal composition including a liquid crystal compound, an alignment film that aligns the liquid crystal compound of the liquid crystal layer, and a support, the method including: an alignment film forming step of forming the alignment film having a periodic unevenness shape on the support, the unevenness shape having a tilted surface that is tilted with respect to a surface of the support; and a liquid crystal layer forming step of forming the liquid crystal layer on the alignment film.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery structure includes an electrode junction body and an exterior member having a housing chamber housing the electrode junction body, the housing chamber includes no electrolytic solution, and the housing chamber is hermetically sealed, with an interior thereof being in a low humidity state is manufactured by housing the electrode junction body in the housing chamber and then hermetically sealing the housing chamber in a low humidity environment so that the electrode junction body is sealed in the housing chamber without injecting any electrolytic solution into the housing chamber so that the housing chamber includes no electrolytic solution and the housing chamber is hermetically sealed with an interior thereof being in a low humidity state.

Abstract: There is provided with an image identification apparatus. An extraction unit extracts a feature value of an image from image data using a Neural Network (NN). A processing unit identifies the image based on the feature value extracted by the extraction unit. The NN comprises a plurality of calculation layers connected hierarchically. The NN includes a plurality of sub-neural networks for performing processing of calculation layers after a specific calculation layer. Mutually different data from an output of the specific calculation layer are respectively inputted to the plurality of sub-neural networks.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an optical device that can accomplish both the effect of preventing external light reflection and the improvement of utilization efficiency of light emitted from an organic electroluminescent element. The object is achieved by an optical device having an organic electroluminescent substrate, a circularly polarized light-separating layer that has a liquid crystal alignment pattern, in which the direction of an optical axis derived from a liquid crystal compound changes while continuously rotating in one direction in a plane, and separates light into right-handed circularly polarized light and left-handed circularly polarized light, a patterned retardation layer that converts circularly polarized light into linearly polarized light and has a plurality of regions among which the direction of a slow axis varies in the same plane, and a polarizer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a molding method of molding, using a mold, an uncured composition arranged on a substrate as a film continuously covering a surface of the substrate, including obtaining unevenness information concerning an unevenness of a surface of an uncured first composition arranged as the film on the substrate, arranging a droplet of an uncured second composition on a concave portion of the surface of the first composition based on the unevenness information obtained in the obtaining, and after the arranging the droplet is performed, molding a composition including the film of the first composition and the droplet of the second composition by the mold.

Abstract: A nanopore device includes an aperture and an electrode pair. A transimpedance amplifier converts a current signal IS that flows through the nanopore device into a voltage signal VS. The nanopore device measures small particles based on first data obtained by removing a DC component from the voltage signal VS and second data obtained based on the voltage signal VS from which the DC component has not been removed. Furthermore, the nanopore device is capable of monitoring the state of the nanopore device.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first extraction unit configured to subject an input image to first extraction processing to extract a first feature quantity, a second extraction unit configured to subject the input image to second extraction processing having a lower throughput than the first extraction processing to extract a second feature quantity, a comparison unit configured to compare the first feature quantity with the second feature quantity and then output a comparison result, and an update unit configured to update parameters to be used for the second extraction processing by the second extraction unit, based on the comparison result.

Abstract: Provided are a cholesteric liquid crystal layer having a high diffraction efficiency, a method of forming the same, and a laminate, a light guide element, and an image display device that include the cholesteric liquid crystal layer. The cholesteric liquid crystal layer is obtained by immobilizing a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase, in which the cholesteric liquid crystal layer has a liquid crystal alignment pattern in which a direction of an optical axis derived from a liquid crystal compound changes while continuously rotating in at least one in-plane direction, in a cross-section observed with a SEM, bright portions and dark portions are tilted, in a case where a tilt angle of a direction in which an in-plane retardation is minimum with respect to a normal line in a slow axis plane or a fast axis plane is represented by ?2, an absolute value of an optical axis tilt angle ? represented by “sin ?2=n·sin ? (n represents an average refractive index of the cholesteric liquid crystal layer)” is 5° or more.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus configured to determine whether a person in one of two images and a person in the other image are the same person by using a trained model configured to output a feature unique to each person on an image includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a first feature of a first person in a first image and a second feature of a second person in a second image by using the trained model and an output unit configured to output a first focused region map indicating a correlation between a feature in the first image and a feature in the second image for each region of the first image based on the acquired first feature and the acquired second feature.

Abstract: Provided are a phenoxy resin having excellent heat resistance, low hygroscopicity, and solvent solubility, a resin composition using the same, and a cured object obtained therefrom. The phenoxy resin is represented by Formula (1) below and has an Mw of 10,000 to 200,000: where, X represents a divalent group, and includes, essentially, a group having a cyclohexane ring structure and a group having a fluorene ring structure. Y represents a hydrogen atom or a glycidyl group. n is the number of repetitions and an average value thereof is 25 to 500.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an optical element capable of widening a field of view of an AR glass or the like; and an image display device using the optical element. The object is accomplished with an optical element including a light guide plate; a switching ?/2 plate capable of switching a phase difference between zero and ?/2; and a first optically anisotropic layer that is arranged between the light guide plate and the switching ?/2 plate, is formed using a composition including a liquid crystal compound, and has a liquid crystal alignment pattern in which an orientation of an optical axis derived from the liquid crystal compound changes while continuously rotating along at least one in-plane direction of the first optically anisotropic layer.