Abstract: A subject tracking apparatus includes a region extraction section extracting a region similar to a reference image in a first image based on respective feature amounts of the first image being picked up and the reference image being set, a motion vector calculating section calculating a motion vector in each of a plurality of regions in the first image using a second image and the first image, the second image being picked up at a different time from that of the first image, and a control section determining an object region of subject tracking in the first image based on an extraction result in the region extraction section and a calculation result in the motion vector calculating section.

Abstract: An optically anisotropic film comprising at least one species of liquid crystal compound which exhibits a nematic phase or a smectic phase, the liquid crystal phase showing birefringence ?n(?) at wavelength ? which satisfies the numerical expression (1) below is disclosed.

Abstract: An object is to provide a gas-insulated switchgear allowing reduction in layout dimension in a direction of axis lines of circuit breakers and also reduction in layout dimension in a direction orthogonal to the direction of the axis lines of the circuit breakers, thereby allowing reduction in installation area. Between a main bus 1 and a main bus 2 disposed in parallel, a circuit breaker 3, a circuit breaker 4, and a circuit breaker 5 are disposed as being aligned so that each axis line is orthogonal to a direction of axis lines of the main buses 1 and 2. A branch line drawn from a portion between the circuit breakers 3 and 4 and a branch line drawn from a portion between the circuit breakers 4 and 5 are connected to cable heads 42 and 44, respectively. Then, the center of the cable head 42 and the center of the cable head 44 are configured so as to be positioned on a straight line orthogonal to the direction of the axis lines of the main buses 1 and 2.

Abstract: To provide an image evaluation apparatus and camera which are capable of evaluating an image which is comprehensively good. An image evaluation apparatus comprising: a storage portion which stores a plurality of images when an imaging portion of a camera has continuously imaged in a predetermined time interval a plurality of frames of a subject in a photographing area of the camera, and an image evaluation portion which evaluates a plurality of the images stored in the storage portion, based on a characteristic amount showing a state in which the subject in the photographing area changing in chronological sequence, when the plurality of the images is imaged.

Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid crystal composition comprising two or more species of liquid crystal compounds respectively having a polymerizable group, at least one species of which being a compound represented by formula (I) below, having a content of the compound of from 20% to 80% relative to the total mass of said two or more species of liquid crystal compounds.

Abstract: A system and a method for communicating data at a rate exceeding about a gigabit per second is described. The system may include circuitry and a current-sourcing module. The circuitry may include an output couplable to a load. The circuitry may output from the output a low voltage differential signal having a first current that drives the load from a first voltage at a first time to a second voltage at a second time.

Abstract: The invention relates to a composition comprising at least a polymer which comprises a repeating unit represented by formula (1), a discotic compound and a pigment. In the formula, each of L1, L2, L3 and L4 independently represents a divalent linking group; X represents an (n+2)-valent linking group; R1 represents a substituted or non-substituted, alkyl group, alkenyl group, alkynyl group, aryl group, aralkyl group, or hetero ring residue; n represents an integer from 1 to 4, and n (L4)s and n (R1)s may be same with or different from each other; and MG represents a mesogen group.

Abstract: A compound of formula (1): wherein A1 and A2 are —O—, —NR—, —S—, or —CO—, in which R is a hydrogen atom or substituent; Z is one or two atoms selected from a carbon atom or a non-metal atom of Group 14, 15 or 16 in the Periodic Table, and forms a five- or six-membered ring with the C—C?C—C or C?C—C?C; R1, R2, and R3 each are a substituent; m is an integer of 0 to 4; L1 and L2 are a single bond or divalent linking group; X is a non-metal atom of Group 14, 15 or 16 in the Periodic Table, and may have a hydrogen atom or R4; and at least one of R, R1, R2, R3, and R4 is substituted with a polymerizable group; a liquid crystal composition, an optical film, a retardation sheet, a polarizing plate, and a liquid crystal display.

Abstract: An optical compensation film capable of contributing to improvement in a viewing angle characteristic of a liquid crystal display device, especially an IPS mode liquid crystal display device is proposed. A composition comprises at least one onium salt, at least one rod-like liquid crystalline compound, and at least one additive capable of promoting a vertical alignment of molecules of the rod-like liquid crystalline compound at an air interface; and an optical compensation film comprising an optically anisotropic layer formed of the composition are disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a polarizing plate comprising at least a polarizing layer having a K value as defined by the following expression of from 0.25 to 0.75; K=(kx?kz)/(kx?ky) wherein axes which are orthogonal to each other in a plane of the polarizing layer are an x-axis and a y-axis; an axis which is orthogonal to an x-y axis plane is a z-axis; and kx, ky and kz are an absorption coefficient along the x-axis, y-axis and z-axis directions, respectively.

Abstract: A compound of formula (A): wherein L1 and L2 each independently are a single bond or a divalent linking group, R1 and R2 each independently are a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and R is a group having a polymerizable group; and a composition, containing at least one of the compound; an optically anisotropic material, containing the compound or the composition; and a liquid crystal display device, containing the optically anisotropic material.

Abstract: In a photographic apparatus (1), there are included a housing (11) consisting of a pair of side panels (13, 14) and a top panel (15) provided contiguously to the side panels (13, 14) in pair, these panels defining together a photo compartment (16) in the housing (11), a photographic unit (17) provided at the rear side of the housing (11) to take a picture of an object person inside the photo compartment (16), printers (18, 19) installed to the housing (11) to print an image of the object person, captured by the photographic unit (17), onto a photographic paper and eject the photographic paper having the object image printed thereon to a photo outlet (38), and a curtain (33) provided, by hanging, on the top panel (15) at the front side, opposite to the rear side, of the housing (11) to face the photographic unit (17). One (13) of the side panels (13, 14) is formed narrower than the other (14). The housing (11) is generally flush, at the bottom thereof, with the floor surface.

Abstract: The present invention provides a vertical alignment film having a polymerizable liquid crystal compound having negative dielectric constant anisotropy, where the polymerizable liquid crystal compound is vertically aligned against the surface of the substrate, and then the polymerizable liquid crystal compound is fixed to form the vertical alignment film.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus that generates interpolation image signals based on a motion vector between continuously input time-series image signals and increases time resolution. The image processing apparatus includes a feature variation detecting unit that detects a predetermined feature variation between the time-series image signals; a generation time setting unit that sets a generation time of the interpolation image signals; and an interpolation image signal generating unit that generates the interpolation image signals at the generation time set by the generation time setting unit.

Abstract: A liquid crystal composition, containing a compound represented by formula (I) and a compound represented by formula (II); and an anisotropic material containing the liquid crystal composition: Q1-SP1-X1-MG-X2-SP2-Q2??Formula (I) wherein, Q1 and Q2 represent a polymerizable group, SP1 and SP2 represent a spacer group, X1 and X2 represent a linking group, MG represents a mesogen group, Ra, Rb and Rc represent -L1-R1, -L2-R2 or —NHR, at least one of Ra, Rb and Rc is —NHR, L1 and L2 represent a single bond or a divalent linking group, R1 and R2 represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and R represents a group having a polymerizable group.

Abstract: A compound represented by formula (I) below: where, each of A1 and A2 independently represents a group selected from the group consisting of —O—, —NR— (R represents a hydrogen atom or substituent), —S— and —CO—; Z forms a five- or six-membered ring together with C—C?C—C or C?C—C?C illustrated in the formula; Y forms a five- to seven-membered ring together with B1—C—B2 illustrated in the formula, provided that those having the same substituent for A1 and B1 and for A2 and B2 and those having the same substituent for A1 and B2 and for A2 and B1 are excluded, is disclosed.

Abstract: A phase difference plate which comprises one sheet of polymer film containing a compound having a rod-shaped molecular structure and exhibiting a maximum absorption wavelength (?max) of less than 250 nm in an ultraviolet spectrum of its solution and which exhibits a retardation value as measured at a wavelength of 450 nm (Re450) of 60 to 135 nm and a retardation value as measured at a wavelength of 590 nm (Re590) of 100 to 170 nm, where the relationship: Re590?Re450?2 nm is satisfied. The phase difference plate functions as a ?/4 plate.

Abstract: A phase difference plate which comprises one sheet of polymer film containing a compound having a rod-shaped molecular structure and exhibiting a maximum absorption wavelength (?max) of less than 250 nm in an ultraviolet spectrum of its solution and which exhibits a retardation value as measured at a wavelength of 450 nm (Re450) of 60 to 135 nm and a retardation value as measured at a wavelength of 590 nm (Re590) of 100 to 170 nm, where the relationship: Re590?Re450?2 nm is satisfied. The phase difference plate functions as a ?/4 plate.

Abstract: A tracking device includes: a light measurement device for light measuring an object; a focus detection device for performing focus detection of the object by an optical system; and a tracking control device for tracking the object based on light measurement information from the light measurement device and focus detection information from the focus detection device corresponding to the light measurement information.

Abstract: The conductivity test jig includes: a jig main body; a holding member; a conductivity test unit; a conductivity member; an air cylinder; a jig main body; and a second air cylinder. The jig main body has a hole for receiving the connector. The holding member holds the connector in the hole. The conductivity test unit is detachably attached to the connector. When the conductivity test unit moves close to the connector, the conductivity member is electrically connected to the terminals of the connector. The air cylinder makes the conductivity test unit contact the connector, and removes the conductivity test unit from the connector. The push-out member is interposed between the connector and the jig main body in an insertion direction of the connector in the hole. The second air cylinder moves the push-out member in the insertion direction.