Abstract: A piezoelectric sensor is provided that includes a piezoelectric film that is arranged on a surface of a flexible base material between a first electrode and a second electrode, and a protective film that is coated onto the first electrode, the second electrode, and the piezoelectric film, the piezoelectric films included in a plurality of the piezoelectric films being connected in series through the first electrode and the second electrode, the flexible base material being bent such that the piezoelectric films included in the plurality of the piezoelectric films are arranged in a layered formation.

Abstract: In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, according to an embodiment of the present technology, there is provided a structure including a decorative portion and a member. The decorative portion includes a single-layered metal layer that includes fine cracks and varies in addition concentration of a predetermined element in a thickness direction of the metal layer. The member includes a decorated region to which the decorative portion is bonded.

Abstract: [Solving Means] A gold color tone multilayer coat includes a metal film and a multilayer film layer. The multilayer film layer includes a plurality of dielectric films respectively having two or more different refractive indices and the dielectric films having different refractive indices are alternately laminated.

Abstract: A structure according to an embodiment of the present technology includes: a decorative portion; and a member. The decorative portion includes a metal layer having a first surface, a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface, a first internal region, a second internal region, and minute cracks, the second surface having a reflectance higher than that of the first surface, the first internal region having a relatively high hardness on a side of the first surface, the second internal region having a relatively low hardness on a side of the second surface. The member includes a to-be-decorated region to which the decorative portion is to be bonded.

Abstract: To achieve the above described purpose, an optical part according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an optical section and a multi-layer film. The optical section includes a first surface and a second surface constituting a recessed section or a protruded section in cooperation with the first surface. The multi-layer film is formed on the first surface and the second surface, and includes an absorption layer for absorbing light and an upper layer including low refractive index material covering the absorption layer.

Abstract: A structure according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a decorative film and a casing portion. The decorative film includes a metal layer that includes a first area in which an addition concentration of a predetermined element is relatively high, a second area in which the addition concentration is relatively lower than that of the first area, and minute cracks that are formed using the first area as a reference. The casing portion includes a to-be-decorated area to which the decorative film is to be bonded.

Abstract: [Solving Means] A gold color tone multilayer coat includes a metal film and a multilayer film layer. The multilayer film layer includes a plurality of dielectric films respectively having two or more different refractive indices and the dielectric films having different refractive indices are alternately laminated.

Abstract: An imaging device includes a micro lens that collects light from a subject, a light sensing element that generates a signal for performing focusing determination through phase difference detection by sensing subject light collected by the micro lens, and a light blocking portion that is disposed between the micro lens and the light sensing element and performs pupil division for the subject light by blocking a part of the subject light, wherein the light blocking portion is set such that a position of an image forming point of subject light passing through the micro lens and a position of an end portion of the light blocking portion on an entrance side become distant from each other according to a variation in image height.

Abstract: An imaging device includes: a microlens that focuses subject light; a light receiving element that receives the subject light focused by the microlens to thereby generate a signal for making focus determination through phase-difference detection; and a light blocking portion that is disposed between the microlens and the light receiving element so as to block part of the subject light focused by the microlens, wherein the distance between the light blocking portion and the microlens in an optical axis direction of the microlens is set so as to decrease as an image height increases.

Abstract: An image pickup element includes a light-receiving portion having a matrix arrangement formed by disposing first-direction arrays, each having photoelectric conversion portions arranged in a first direction with a predetermined gap maintained therebetween, in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and micro-lenses provided above the light-receiving portion. A certain first-direction array in the matrix arrangement is provided with a pair of photoelectric conversion portions that optically receive, via a pair of micro-lenses, photographic-subject light beams passing through a pair of segmental regions in an exit pupil of a photographic optical system, the pair of segmental regions being disposed biasedly in opposite directions from each other in the first direction. The pair of micro-lenses is disposed such that light axes thereof extend through vicinities of edges of the pair of photoelectric conversion portions, the edges being the farthest edges from each other in the first direction.

Abstract: An imaging device includes a micro lens that collects light from a subject, a light sensing element that generates a signal for performing focusing determination through phase difference detection by sensing subject light collected by the micro lens, a first light blocking unit that performs pupil division by blocking a portion of the subject light, and a second light blocking unit that is disposed between the first light blocking unit and the micro lens, and blocks the portion of the subject light which is incident to the first light blocking unit, wherein an aperture area of the second light blocking unit is smaller than an aperture area of an image generation pixel.

Abstract: An optical laminated body includes: a dielectric layer having a surface exposed to air; a metallic layer that has an interface with the dielectric layer, and contains at least Ag; and a laminated body that has an interface with the metallic layer and includes one or more low-refractive-index layers and one or more high-refractive-index layers, wherein a reflectance in a wavelength region of 460 to 650 nm is 0.1% or less.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes a light-beam splitting mirror configured to transmit and reflect incident light that has entered the light-beam splitting mirror through a photographing optical system; an image sensor that receives light transmitted through the light-beam splitting mirror; an autofocus detecting unit that receives light reflected by the light-beam splitting mirror; a signal processing unit configured to process an image pickup signal of the image sensor; and a display unit configured to display an image being photographed, on the basis of an image signal obtained at the signal processing unit. In the image pickup apparatus, the light-beam splitting mirror has spectral characteristics including a reflectivity of 25% or more and 35% or less at a wavelength of 400 to 650 nm and a reflectivity of 60% or more at a wavelength of about 700 nm through optimization.

Abstract: An image pickup element includes a light-receiving portion having a matrix arrangement formed by disposing first-direction arrays, each having photoelectric conversion portions arranged in a first direction with a predetermined gap maintained therebetween, in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and micro-lenses provided above the light-receiving portion. A certain first-direction array in the matrix arrangement is provided with a pair of photoelectric conversion portions that optically receive, via a pair of micro-lenses, photographic-subject light beams passing through a pair of segmental regions in an exit pupil of a photographic optical system, the pair of segmental regions being disposed biasedly in opposite directions from each other in the first direction. The pair of micro-lenses is disposed such that light axes thereof extend through vicinities of edges of the pair of photoelectric conversion portions, the edges being the farthest edges from each other in the first direction.

Abstract: An imaging device includes an image pickup device having an arrangement of photoelectric converting units, the arrangement in which a plurality of pairs of photoelectric converting units are arranged along a predetermined direction, each pair of photoelectric converting units receiving light beams of a subject passing through partial areas in a pair that are lopsided in reverse to each other along the predetermined direction in an exit pupil of a shooting optical system, and a focus detector for performing focus detection of a phase-difference detecting technique according to data obtained from the pair of photoelectric converting units in the arrangement of the photoelectric converting units. The focus detector corrects the data according to a correction amount corresponding to a positional shift amount from the normalized position, and performs focus detection of the phase-difference detecting technique according to the corrected data.

Abstract: An image pickup device includes a fixedly provided half mirror that separates object light that has passed through a shooting optical system into transmitted light and reflected light, and an image pickup unit that generates an image of an object by receiving the transmitted light. The half mirror includes an optically transmissive film that is optically isotropic.

Abstract: An imaging device includes a micro lens that collects light from a subject, a light sensing element that generates a signal for performing focusing determination through phase difference detection by sensing subject light collected by the micro lens, and a light blocking portion that is disposed between the micro lens and the light sensing element and performs pupil division for the subject light by blocking a part of the subject light, wherein the light blocking portion is set such that a position of an image forming point of subject light passing through the micro lens and a position of an end portion of the light blocking portion on an entrance side become distant from each other according to a variation in image height.

Abstract: An imaging device includes a micro lens that collects light from a subject, a light sensing element that generates a signal for performing focusing determination through phase difference detection by sensing subject light collected by the micro lens, a first light blocking unit that performs pupil division by blocking a portion of the subject light, and a second light blocking unit that is disposed between the first light blocking unit and the micro lens, and blocks the portion of the subject light which is incident to the first light blocking unit, wherein an aperture area of the second light blocking unit is smaller than an aperture area of an image generation pixel.

Abstract: An imaging device includes: a microlens that focuses subject light; a light receiving element that receives the subject light focused by the microlens to thereby generate a signal for making focus determination through phase-difference detection; and a light blocking portion that is disposed between the microlens and the light receiving element so as to block part of the subject light focused by the microlens, wherein the distance between the light blocking portion and the microlens in an optical axis direction of the microlens is set so as to decrease as an image height increases.

Abstract: An image pickup element includes a light receiver having a matrix arrangement formed by disposing first-direction arrays, each having photoelectric converters arranged in a first direction with a gap therebetween, in a second direction orthogonal thereto, and micro-lenses above the light receiver. In the matrix arrangement, a certain first-direction array has two first photoelectric converters receiving, via two micro-lenses, photographic-subject light passing through two segmental regions in an exit pupil of a photographic optical system, and a certain second-direction array has two second photoelectric converters receiving photographic-subject light passing through two segmental regions in the exit pupil. Light axes of the two micro-lenses extend through vicinities of edges, farthest from each other in the first direction, of the first photoelectric converters.