Abstract: Provided are a hair observation method, a phase contrast microscope system, and a preparation. The hair observation method includes capturing an infrared image of the hair using an image sensor that is capable of detecting infrared light. A phase contrast microscope system includes: a stage having a sample placed thereon; an infrared light irradiation source for irradiating infrared light to the sample placed on the stage; an image sensor that is capable of detecting infrared light and configured to capture an infrared image of the sample; and a display apparatus configured to display the infrared image captured by the image sensor. The preparation includes a microscope glass and a plurality of hair pieces that are obtained by cutting one hair and arranged on the microscope glass in a manner parallel with one another from one end to another end in a cutting order.

Abstract: Provided are a hair observation method, a phase contrast microscope system, and a preparation. The hair observation method includes capturing an infrared image of the hair using an image sensor that is capable of detecting infrared light. A phase contrast microscope system includes: a stage having a sample placed thereon; an infrared light irradiation source for irradiating infrared light to the sample placed on the stage; an image sensor that is capable of detecting infrared light and configured to capture an infrared image of the sample; and a display apparatus configured to display the infrared image captured by the image sensor. The preparation includes a microscope glass and a plurality of hair pieces that are obtained by cutting one hair and arranged on the microscope glass in a manner parallel with one another from one end to another end in a cutting order.

Abstract: A trocar with camera has a camera section. The camera section obtains a trocar image that includes an image of a white part on a surface of a puncture member by performing imaging when the puncture member of a trocar shaft is exposed at a deployed position. A white balance setting section for trocar image sets a white balance for the trocar image based on the image of the white part in the trocar image.

Abstract: A trocar with camera has a camera section. The camera section obtains a trocar image that includes an image of a white part on a surface of a puncture member by performing imaging when the puncture member of a trocar shaft is exposed at a deployed position. A white balance setting section for trocar image sets a white balance for the trocar image based on the image of the white part in the trocar image.

Abstract: A portable terminal includes a touchpad that detects contact made thereto and output a value indicating a degree of the contact, and stores a first threshold and a second threshold less than the first threshold. The portable terminal calculates, based on the output value, an area contact value indicating a degree of the contact for each of contacted areas of the touchpad. The portable terminal judges whether the contacted areas include two areas that are not directly adjacent to each other and each have a calculated area contact value equal to or greater than the second threshold. When judging negatively, the portable terminal determines, as a target area to which processing to be performed is allocated, one of the contacted areas having an area contact value equal to or greater than the first threshold, and when judging affirmatively, the portable terminal does not to determine the target area.

Abstract: A portable terminal includes a touchpad that detects contact made thereto and output a value indicating a degree of the contact, and stores a first threshold and a second threshold less than the first threshold. The portable terminal calculates, based on the output value, an area contact value indicating a degree of the contact for each of contacted areas of the touchpad. The portable terminal judges whether the contacted areas include two areas that are not directly adjacent to each other and each have a calculated area contact value equal to or greater than the second threshold. When judging negatively, the portable terminal determines, as a target area to which processing to be performed is allocated, one of the contacted areas having an area contact value equal to or greater than the first threshold, and when judging affirmatively, the portable terminal does not to determine the target area.

Abstract: In order to improve operability when operating a target key, an input device has a plurality of keys arranged in a column direction. Each of the plurality of keys comprises a key indication mark (211) formed on an operation surface and an electrode plate (221) of a capacitive touch sensor disposed behind the operation surface, and the electrode plates (221a, 221b and so on) has a shape in which the top edge and the bottom edge are V-shaped and bend downwards so that the center of gravity of the electrode plate is positioned downwards in the column direction from a center of a minimum rectangle region enclosing the corresponding key indication marks (221a, 221b and so on).

Abstract: Provided is a mobile information device which can prevent erroneous inputs in situations where conventional mobile information devices cannot prevent erroneous inputs. Two proximity sensors 110 are provided on a front surface 102 of a mobile information device 100. The two proximity sensors 110 are separated from one another by a distance equivalent to at least one key 105, and are each adjacent to at least one of the keys 105. The mobile information device 100 blocks execution of processing in response to key operations when both of the proximity sensors 110 detect a state of proximity of a sensing target, such as a human body. As a result, erroneous inputs on the keys 105 caused by contact with hands or face can be prevented.

Abstract: A portable terminal includes a touchpad that detects contact made thereto and output a value indicating a degree of the contact, and stores a first threshold and a second threshold less than the first threshold. The portable terminal calculates, based on the output value, an area contact value indicating a degree of the contact for each of contacted areas of the touchpad. The portable terminal judges whether the contacted areas include two areas that are not directly adjacent to each other and each have a calculated area contact value equal to or greater than the second threshold. When judging negatively, the portable terminal determines, as a target area to which processing to be performed is allocated, one of the contacted areas having an area contact value equal to or greater than the first threshold, and when judging affirmatively, the portable terminal does not to determine the target area.

Abstract: A portable terminal includes a touchpad that detects contact made thereto and output a value indicating a degree of the contact, and stores a first threshold and a second threshold less than the first threshold. The portable terminal calculates, based on the output value, an area contact value indicating a degree of the contact for each of contacted areas of the touchpad. The portable terminal judges whether the contacted areas include two areas that are not directly adjacent to each other and each have a calculated area contact value equal to or greater than the second threshold. When judging negatively, the portable terminal determines, as a target area to which processing to be performed is allocated, one of the contacted areas having an area contact value equal to or greater than the first threshold, and when judging affirmatively, the portable terminal does not to determine the target area.

Abstract: A mobile phone 100 having a capacitive touchpad unit 102 includes a touch sensor circuit 121 that outputs measurement values each indicating a capacitance of the touchpad unit 102, a computing unit 111a that computes a sensor output value based on each measurement output from the touch sensor circuit 121, a calibration coefficient updating unit 111a3 that updates the sensor output value by updating a calibration coefficient so as to be equal to a predetermined reference value, a judging unit 118 that detects a contact based on the sensor output values, and a judgment threshold switching unit 133 that causes the judging unit 118 to use a provisional contact-judging unit for a time period starting when the update occurs during the time that the user's face is in contact with the touchpad unit 102 and ending when it is judged that the touch to the touchpad unit 102 is released.

Abstract: A portable terminal operates while switching first mode for generating, based on a value indicating a degree of contact output by a touchpad, a value indicating degree of the contact for each contacted area and second mode for generating, based on the output value, a value by performing adjustment such that temporal change amount of the value indicating the degree is equal to or less than a predetermined value. When a value of one contacted area generated in the second mode equals or exceeds the first threshold, the portable terminal switches to the first mode, and when a value of one contacted area generated in the first mode falls below the second threshold, the portable terminal switches to the second mode. The portable terminal determines, as a target area to which processing to be performed is allocated, one contacted area having a value that equals or exceeds the first threshold.

Abstract: In order to improve operability when operating a target key, an input device has a plurality of keys arranged in a column direction. Each of the plurality of keys comprises a key indication mark (211) formed on an operation surface and an electrode plate (221) of a capacitive touch sensor disposed behind the operation surface, and the electrode plates (221a, 221b and so on) has a shape in which the top edge and the bottom edge are V-shaped and bend downwards so that the center of gravity of the electrode plate is positioned downwards in the column direction from a center of a minimum rectangle region enclosing the corresponding key indication marks (221a, 221b and so on).

Abstract: Provided is a mobile information device which can prevent erroneous inputs in situations where conventional mobile information devices cannot prevent erroneous inputs. Two proximity sensors 110 are provided on a front surface 102 of a mobile information device 100. The two proximity sensors 110 are separated from one another by a distance equivalent to at least one key 105, and are each adjacent to at least one of the keys 105. The mobile information device 100 blocks execution of processing in response to key operations when both of the proximity sensors 110 detect a state of proximity of a sensing target, such as a human body. As a result, erroneous inputs on the keys 105 caused by contact with hands or face can be prevented.

Abstract: A mobile phone 100 having a capacitive touchpad unit 102 includes a touch sensor circuit 121 that outputs measurement values each indicating a capacitance of the touchpad unit 102, a computing unit 111a that computes a sensor output value based on each measurement output from the touch sensor circuit 121, a calibration coefficient updating unit 111a3 that updates the sensor output value by updating a calibration coefficient so as to be equal to a predetermined reference value, a judging unit 118 that detects a contact based on the sensor output values, and a judgment threshold switching unit 133 that causes the judging unit 118 to use a provisional contact-judging unit for a time period starting when the update occurs during the time that the user's face is in contact with the touchpad unit 102 and ending when it is judged that the touch to the touchpad unit 102 is released.

Abstract: A portable communication terminal pertaining to the present invention comprises a touchpad that detects contact made thereto and outputs a value indicating a degree of the contact, and select, based on the value output by the touchpad, one area from among areas on the touchpad on which contact is detected, the areas each having processing to be executed allocated thereto. When the communication terminal does not judge that the number of areas on which contact is detected equals or exceeds a predetermined number within a time period from the selection until a specific condition is satisfied, the communication terminal does not execute the processing allocated to the selected area. The specific condition includes a requirement that contact made to the selected area continues to be detected for a predetermined time period from the selection. When the communication terminal judges in the affirmative, the communication terminal does not execute the processing.

Abstract: A portable terminal operates while switching first mode for generating, based on a value indicating a degree of contact output by a touchpad, a value indicating degree of the contact for each contacted area and second mode for generating, based on the output value, a value by performing adjustment such that temporal change amount of the value indicating the degree is equal to or less than a predetermined value. When a value of one contacted area generated in the second mode equals or exceeds the first threshold, the portable terminal switches to the first mode, and when a value of one contacted area generated in the first mode falls below the second threshold, the portable terminal switches to the second mode. The portable terminal determines, as a target area to which processing to be performed is allocated, one contacted area having a value that equals or exceeds the first threshold.

Abstract: A portable terminal includes a touchpad that detects contact made thereto and output a value indicating a degree of the contact, and stores a first threshold and a second threshold less than the first threshold. The portable terminal calculates, based on the output value, an area contact value indicating a degree of the contact for each of contacted areas of the touchpad. The portable terminal judges whether the contacted areas include two areas that are not directly adjacent to each other and each have a calculated area contact value equal to or greater than the second threshold. When judging negatively, the portable terminal determines, as a target area to which processing to be performed is allocated, one of the contacted areas having an area contact value equal to or greater than the first threshold, and when judging affirmatively, the portable terminal does not to determine the target area.

Abstract: A portable terminal pertaining to the present invention comprises: a touchpad having a plurality of areas; an illumination unit that illuminates the touchpad in lit state, and does not illuminate the touchpad in unlit state; and a control unit that detects contact made to the areas of the touchpad, performs a first judgment when detecting contact made to at least one of the areas of the touchpad while the illumination unit is unlit, the first judgment being a judgment of whether the number of areas of the touchpad to which the contact during the unlit state has been made equals or exceeds a predetermined number within a first interval from the detection of the contact, and turns the illumination unit on when the result of the first judgment is negative and does not turn the illumination unit on when the result of the first judgment is positive.

Abstract: A radio signal received by an antenna is supplied to a SAW bandpass filter, and a signal of a carrier frequency band is extracted and supplied to a first mixer. On the basis of a first receiving local signal supplied from a local signal generator, the first mixer generates a signal of an intermediate frequency band and supplies the signal to a second mixer. The second mixer demodulates a baseband signal from the intermediate-frequency signal by using a second local signal as an output from a TCXO circuit which generates a reference signal to the local signal generator. The baseband transmitting signal is supplied to a quadrature modulator where a transmitting local signal (carrier-band signal) supplied from the local signal generator is modulated by the baseband transmitting signal. The carrier-band modulated signal is supplied to the antenna via a high-power amplifier and transmitted from the antenna as a radio signal.