Abstract: There is provided a push button device with which a support plate can be disposed close to a display screen without providing the support plate with a latching mechanism, and which can be easily attached and detached. The invention comprises a push button device that is inserted into the opening of a transparent plate from the front side, and an annular lock plate that is disposed on the back side of the transparent plate and is fitted to the outer peripheral portion of the bottom part of the push button device from the back side. A snap-fit structure that is fixed to the outer peripheral portion of the bottom part by rotating the lock plate is provided to the outer peripheral portion of the bottom part of the push button device and to the inner peripheral portion of the lock plate.

Abstract: A liquid container refillable with liquid to be supplied to a printer includes a bag; a liquid supplying port member having a liquid supplying port; a liquid supply flow passage provided inside the liquid supplying port member; a liquid filling flow passage branching off from the liquid supply flow passage; and a communication port provided inside the liquid supplying port member and being in communication with the liquid filling flow passage and facing an internal surface of the bag. The bag is fixed to the liquid supplying port member such that a gap is formed between the bag and the peripheral portion of the communication port due to a flow of the liquid from the liquid supply flow passage to the liquid filling flow passage, the gap being in communication with the liquid containing portion through the communication port.

Abstract: A support plate can be disposed close to a display screen without having to provide a latching mechanism to the support plate, a push button device can be easily attached and detached, and the fixing of the push button device can be carried out simultaneously with the locking of the flexible wiring. There are provided a push button device that is inserted into an opening in a transparent plate 50 from the front side, and an annular lock plate that is disposed on the back side of the transparent plate and is fitted to the outer peripheral portion of the bottom part of the push button device from the back side. The outer peripheral portion of the bottom part of the push button device and the inner peripheral portion of the lock plate have snap-fit structures that are fixed to the outer peripheral portion of the bottom part by rotating the lock plate.

Abstract: Provided are a data collection method, a data collection system and a computer program for automatically collecting data in stages in classification. A data collection method is implemented by one or more processors connected to a sorting machine sorting articles to different sorting destinations. The method comprising: acquiring, by a processor, an identification code of an article from a reader provided on the sorting machine for identifying the article; acquiring, by a processor, image data of the article identified by the identification code from a camera that is attached so as to image the article after being read by the reader; storing, by a processor, the acquired image data so as to be associated with the acquired identification code.

Abstract: A trained model generation program causes a computer to implement a learning execution function of inputting first input image data representing a first input image generated by a first reconstruction method using compressed sensing and second input image data representing a second input image generated by a second reconstruction method different from the first reconstruction method to a machine learning device to execute machine learning, the second reconstruction method being an analytical reconstruction method, and causing the machine learning device to generate a trained model, and a trained model acquisition function of acquiring trained model data indicating the trained model. Then, input image data representing an input image is input to the trained model to generate a reconstructed image with improved image quality.

Abstract: The present invention provides an in-vehicle image pickup device wherein highly accurate optical axis adjustment of an image pickup unit with respect to a housing can be performed, while suppressing precision machining of the housing as much as possible. The present invention is provided with: camera modules having a lens holder, which has the optical axis of a lens as a normal line, and which has one or more reference surfaces that are formed therein; and a housing having an insertion hole, into which the lens holder is inserted, facing surfaces facing the reference surfaces, and adhesive filling sections penetrating from the side of the facing surfaces to the reverse side of the facing surfaces.

Abstract: An image generation method of an interior CT includes the following steps: a step for obtaining interior CT projection data by measuring quantum beams passing through a region of interest (ROI) in an inside of photographing object in a geometrical system for CT measurement; a step for obtaining partial entire projection data by measuring quantum beams passing through an entire of said photographing object from a segment in an outside of said photographing object in said geometrical system for CT measurement; and a processing step for exactly reconstructing said ROI upon basis of said interior CT projection data obtained and said partial entire projection data.

Abstract: A phase imaging method and apparatus are provided, the phase imaging method including causing a quantum beam from a radiation source to be incident on a detector through a test object and at least one phase grating and obtaining a phase image of the test object, based on intensity distribution of a beam in a pixel constituting the detector. The intensity distribution of the beam at least includes information of absorption (a0), visibility (V), and phase (?). At least three adjacent pixels are assumed to have a substantially identical value for each of the absorption (a0), the visibility (V), and the phase (?) through variable approximation of an image. The absorption, the visibility, and the phase are obtained, based on at least one measurement image.

Abstract: [Problem] A phase imaging method and apparatus are provided that allow acquisition of phase of a test object having a high spatial resolution with at least a single imaging operation without a need of improvement in an existing apparatus. [Solution] A phase imaging method and apparatus are provided, the phase imaging method including causing a quantum beam from a radiation source to be incident on a detector through a test object and at least one phase grating and obtaining a phase image of the test object, based on intensity distribution of a beam in a pixel constituting the detector. The intensity distribution of the beam at least includes information of absorption (a0), visibility (V), and phase (?). At least three adjacent pixels are assumed to have a substantially identical value for each of the absorption (a0), the visibility (V), and the phase (?) through variable approximation of an image. The absorption, the visibility, and the phase are obtained, based on at least one measurement image.

Abstract: Provided is an imaging device having a first substrate and a second substrate, the imaging device including an insertion hole provided to the first substrate and penetrating from a first side to a second side, a projection provided to the second substrate, inserted into the insertion hole from the first side, and bonded to the first substrate by a first adhesive agent, a first contact portion provided to the first substrate and in contact with the second substrate, a second contact portion provided to the second substrate and in contact with the first contact portion in the first substrate, a first bonding portion provided to the first substrate and bonded to the second substrate by a second adhesive agent, and a second bonding portion provided to the second substrate and bonded to the first bonding portion in the first substrate by the second adhesive agent, wherein the first adhesive agent projects from an inside of the insertion hole to the second side.

Abstract: The present invention provides an in-vehicle image pickup device wherein highly accurate optical axis adjustment of an image pickup unit with respect to a housing can be performed, while suppressing precision machining of the housing as much as possible. The present invention is provided with: camera modules having a lens holder, which has the optical axis of a lens as a normal line, and which has one or more reference surfaces that are formed therein; and a housing having an insertion hole, into which the lens holder is inserted, facing surfaces facing the reference surfaces, and adhesive filling sections penetrating from the side of the facing surfaces to the reverse side of the facing surfaces.

Abstract: An image generation method of an interior CT includes the following steps: a step for obtaining interior CT projection data by measuring only all of quantum beams passing through a region of interest (ROI) in an inside of photographing object in a geometrical system for CT measurement; a step for obtaining partial entire projection data by measuring quantum beams passing through an entire of said photographing object from a segment in an outside of said photographing object in said geometrical system for CT measurement; and a processing step for exactly reconstructing said ROI upon basis of said interior CT projection data obtained and said partial entire projection data.

Abstract: Featured are methods for reconstruction of images acquired from any of a number of scanning devices or apparatuses known to those skilled in the art which methods are established so as to provide a mechanism for compensating for motion of an object being imaged. Such methods of the present invention are such as to allow the clinician to select one or more specific methodologies that is appropriate for the expected motion, severity or complexity of the motion and efficient processing of projection data. Also feature are systems, apparatuses, software code and computer readable media which embody such methodologies.

Abstract: A semiconductor package includes an interposer and a semiconductor element mounted on one surface of the interposer. A plurality of lands are formed on another surface of the interposer. A plurality of lands are formed on a surface of a printed wiring board opposed to the another surface of the interposer. The plurality of lands on the printed wiring board are divided into a first land group including lands connected to the plurality of lands formed on the another surface of the interposer via solder and a second land group including lands connected to an insulating member of the interposer via solder. The second land group is provided in a region opposed to a center region of the another surface of the interposer. The first land group is provided around the second land group so as to surround the second land group.

Abstract: In measurement data selection, when a vector composed of measurement data obtained for respective combinations of light emitting positions, light detection positions, and resolving times in a time-resolved waveform is given as y, a vector in which pixel values of learning image data are components is given as x, and a system matrix for calculating internal image data from the measurement data is given as A1, the vector y which meets the conditional expressions (2) and (3) min?y?00??(2), ?x?A1Ty?22??2??(3) or the conditional expression (4) min(?y?00+??x?A1Ty?22)??(4) is determined, and upon measurement of a subject, only the measurement data corresponding to nonzero components of the vector y is used to prepare the internal image data.

Abstract: The bioinstrumentation apparatus includes a light irradiation unit irradiating a measurement region with light, a light detection unit detecting diffused light from the measurement region, and a computing unit generating a reconstructed image for the interior of the measurement region. The computing unit calculates J coefficients wj set for every pixel of the reconstructed image and more than 0 and not more than 1 (where J is the number of pixels of the reconstructed image) and carries out successive approximation computation by the following iterative formula xj(k+1)=xj(k)+wjdj(k) (where k is an integer from 1 to N, N is the number of times of iterative computation, xj(k) is a pixel value of the jth pixel on the kth iterative computation, and dj(k) is an update amount of the jth pixel on the kth iterative computation) to generate the reconstructed image.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a control unit subjects a light-emitting element to constant current control in a dimming degree region shallower than a dimming degree set in advance and subjects the light-emitting element to constant voltage control or constant power control in a dimming degree region deeper than the dimming degree set in advance. When a dimming signal having a deepest dimming degree equivalent to extinction of the light-emitting element is input in a lighting state of the light-emitting element, the control unit gradually reduces an optical output of the light-emitting element from an immediately preceding dimming degree to extinguish the light-emitting element.

Abstract: A power supply device includes a control circuit and a first circuit. The control circuit switches between a current control mode and a voltage control mode according to an inputted dimming signal and thus dims a light-emitting element. In the current control mode the control circuit controls an output current supplied to the light-emitting element to a target current, and in the voltage control mode the control circuit controls an output voltage supplied to the light-emitting element to a target voltage. The first circuit detects the output current and the output voltage, and sets the target voltage at which switching between the current control mode and the voltage control mode is carried out as a first voltage.

Abstract: A semiconductor package includes an interposer and a semiconductor element mounted on one surface of the interposer. A plurality of lands are formed on another surface of the interposer. A plurality of lands are formed on a surface of a printed wiring board opposed to the another surface of the interposer. The plurality of lands on the printed wiring board are divided into a first land group including lands connected to the plurality of lands formed on the another surface of the interposer via solder and a second land group including lands connected to an insulating member of the interposer via solder. The second land group is provided in a region opposed to a center region of the another surface of the interposer. The first land group is provided around the second land group so as to surround the second land group.

Abstract: In measurement data selection, when a vector composed of measurement data obtained for respective combinations of light emitting positions, light detection positions, and resolving times in a time-resolved waveform is given as y, a vector in which pixel values of learning image data are components is given as x, and a system matrix for calculating internal image data from the measurement data is given as A1, the vector y which meets the conditional expressions (2) and (3) min?y?00??(2), ?x?A1Ty?22??2??(3) or the conditional expression (4) min(?y?00+??x?A1Ty?22)??(4) is determined, and upon measurement of a subject, only the measurement data corresponding to nonzero components of the vector y is used to prepare the internal image data.