Abstract: Provided is a dye-sensitized solar cell element comprising at least one dye-sensitized solar cell, wherein the dye-sensitized solar cell includes a first base material including a transparent substrate, a second base material which faces the first base material, an annular sealing portion which bonds the first base material and the second base material, and an oxide semiconductor layer which is provided between the first base material and the second base material, wherein the second base material has a flexibility, wherein the second base material includes an annular bonding edge portion which is bonded to the sealing portion and a main body portion in an inner side of the bonding edge portion, and wherein a portion of the main body portion is a convex bending portion which is bent to be convex toward a side opposite to the first base material.

Abstract: Provided is a dye-sensitized solar cell element comprising at least one dye-sensitized solar cell, wherein the dye-sensitized solar cell includes a first base material including a transparent substrate, a second base material which faces the first base material, an annular sealing portion which bonds the first base material and the second base material, and an oxide semiconductor layer which is provided between the first base material and the second base material, wherein the second base material has a flexibility, wherein the second base material includes an annular bonding edge portion which is bonded to the sealing portion and a main body portion in an inner side of the bonding edge portion, and wherein a portion of the main body portion is a convex bending portion which is bent to be convex toward a side opposite to the first base material.

Abstract: A portable device with a display unit and a rear surface input unit of a touch-input type including a state assessment unit which assesses that a position designation state is applied when detecting a state a contact object is kept contacting the rear surface input unit in a prescribed time or longer; an index display unit for displaying an index on the display unit, corresponding to a position of the contact object contacting the rear surface input unit; a provisionally determined position storage unit for storing in a storage device, an index position when the contact object is removed from the rear surface input unit as a provisionally determined position; and an input determination unit which makes a definite determination of an input at the provisionally determined position stored in the provisionally determined position storage unit based on a definite determination operation.

Abstract: Provided is a dye-sensitized solar cell element including: a dye-sensitized solar cell; and a back sheet facing the solar cell, the solar cell including a conductive substrate, a current collector disposed on the conductive substrate, a counter substrate facing the conductive substrate, a power generation layer disposed on the conductive substrate, an electrolyte disposed between the conductive substrate and the counter substrate, and an annular sealing portion enclosing the power generation layer and the electrolyte together with the conductive substrate and the counter substrate and joining the conductive substrate and the counter substrate, and the solar cell element further including: an adhesive part adhering the back sheet and the conductive substrate in an annular region surrounding the solar cell, in which the current collector is provided only at an outer side of the sealing portion and only at the inner side of an outer peripheral surface of the adhesive part.

Abstract: Of two pairs of biaxial goniometers and a uniaxial straight-ahead stage, one pair of biaxial goniometers and the uniaxial straight-ahead stage are subjected to fully-closed feedback control (follow-up control) under which output from a QPD is directly input into an axis drive motor, and the remaining pair of biaxial goniometers are subjected to semi-closed feedback control (constant-value control), encoder outputs on all the axes and QPD output are acquired simultaneously, measurement point coordinates and normal vectors derived from the encoder outputs are corrected with the QPD output, thereby eliminating influence of steady-state deviation in a goniometer control system.

Abstract: A portable device with a display unit and a rear surface input unit of a touch-input type including a state assessment unit which assesses that a position designation state is applied when detecting a state a contact object is kept contacting the rear surface input unit in a prescribed time or longer; an index display unit for displaying an index on the display unit, corresponding to a position of the contact object contacting the rear surface input unit; a provisionally determined position storage unit for storing in a storage device, an index position when the contact object is removed from the rear surface input unit as a provisionally determined position; and an input determination unit which makes a definite determination of an input at the provisionally determined position stored in the provisionally determined position storage unit based on a definite determination operation.

Abstract: Provided is a dye-sensitized solar cell for low illumination, which includes a first electrode having a transparent substrate and a transparent conductive film provided on the transparent substrate; a second electrode facing the first electrode; an oxide semiconductor layer provided on the first electrode; an electrolyte provided between the first and the second electrodes; a photosensitizing dye adsorbed to the oxide semiconductor layer; and a co-adsorbent adsorbed to the oxide semiconductor layer together with the dye, the dye being a compound represented by the following formula (1), and the co-adsorbent including a compound represented by the following formula (2): wherein in formula (1), M represents Ru; R1, R2, R3, and R4 each independently represent a monovalent cation; and R5 and R6 each independently represent a halogen group; and wherein in formula (2), n represents an integer from 0 to 5; and R7 represents a monovalent group having a ?-conjugated structure.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a drive axis control method used by a normal vector tracing ultra-precision shape measurement device that derives a surface shape of an object to be measured from coordinates at measurement points and measurement values of normal vectors, and shortens measurement time at each of the measurement points by devising a method for controlling each axis, thereby realizing higher-speed and higher-precision measurement of the surface shape of the object to be measured.

Abstract: A method for controlling a video game is provided.

Abstract: A method for controlling a video game is provided.

Abstract: According to the present game program, the velocity magnitude data of a controller and velocity magnitude data of an object are calculated based on the acceleration data and the time duration data, both of which are recognized by a control unit. Then, the calculation of modifying the range data of the area into the range data depending on the velocity magnitude of the object is performed. Accordingly, an area set by the modified range data of the area is displayed on a television monitor with the image data. Finally, a state of the object moving at the velocity set by the velocity magnitude data of the object is consecutively displayed on the television monitor with the image data corresponding to the object.

Abstract: In the present invention, the moving state data for setting a moving state of a moving object is recognized by a control unit. Acceleration data and time duration data, which are consecutively inputted into an input unit from a controller, are recognized by the control unit. Then, the position data of the controller is calculated by the control unit based on the acceleration data and the time duration data, both of which are recognized by the control unit. Then, displacement of the controller is calculated by the control unit based on the position data of the controller. Then, the moving state data is modified by the control unit depending on the displacement of the controller. Then, a moving state of the moving object is displayed on an image display unit with the image data corresponding to the moving object based on the modified moving state data.

Abstract: An object is to realize that an object is caused to move based on the acceleration data detected by an acceleration sensor when a controller is moved and the controller is caused to vibrate by a vibration mechanism when the moved object makes contact with another object. In the present game program, velocity magnitude data of a controller and velocity magnitude data of an object are calculated based on acceleration data and time interval data, both of which are recognized by a control unit. Then, it is judged by the control unit whether or not the coordinate data within the display range of a moving bat character corresponds to the coordinate data within the display range of a ball character. Next, vibration control data for controlling vibration of the controller is calculated by the control unit depending on the velocity of the bat. Accordingly, a command for outputting the vibration control data to the controller is issued by the control unit.

Abstract: A video game program is provided that is capable of realizing a video game in which an object displayed on an image display unit is caused to move in conjunction with movement of a controller in which an acceleration sensor is embedded. According to the present game program, in time interval data recognizing means, a time interval of the acceleration data consecutively inputted into an operation input unit is recognized by a control unit as the time interval data. In acceleration data recognizing means, the acceleration data to be inputted into the operation input unit at the time interval of the acceleration data to be consecutively inputted into the operation input unit is recognized by the control unit. In velocity data calculating means, the velocity data is calculated by the control unit based on the acceleration data and the time interval data, both of which are recognized by the control unit.

Abstract: The present invention is for easily drawing a polygon model having borderlines at high-speed. The video game machine comprises a recording medium 200 for enlarging the 3-D model where a normal vector of each polygon faces the outside at a predetermined enlargement ratio, overlaying a back model, where a normal vector of each polygon faces the inside, onto the above model and storing the integrated model as a framed model in advance, and a drawing processor 10 for drawing only polygons facing the direction of the view point position of the virtual camera in a virtual game space on the monitor 22 based on the drawing instructions of the framed model.

Abstract: The present invention is for easily drawing a polygon model having borderlines at high-speed. The video game machine comprises a recording medium 200 for enlarging the 3-D model where a normal vector of each polygon faces the outside at a predetermined enlargement ratio, overlaying a back model, where a normal vector of each polygon faces the inside, onto the above model and storing the integrated model as a framed model in advance, and a drawing processor 10 for drawing only polygons facing the direction of the view point position of the virtual camera in a virtual game space on the monitor 22 based on the drawing instructions of the framed model.

Abstract: A manual controller of a video game system has a plurality of control switches for controlling the motion of an image displayed on a display screen, and an analog joystick for designating a point in a given area on the displayed image. When the analog joystick is operated by the game player of the video game system, it is tilted to a position in a desired direction in a two-dimensional plane, and outputs a positional signal depending on the tilted position thereof. A coordinate transforming unit converts first and second two-dimensional coordinates of the tilted position respectively into third and fourth two-dimensional coordinates of an image position with respect to a predetermined reference position on the displayed image, with a first conversion constant for converting the first coordinate into the third coordinate and a second conversion constant, which is different from the first conversion constant, for converting the second coordinate into the fourth coordinate.