Abstract: The cooling system includes a duct that draws in air that is drawn in from an intake side of a cooling target, which is disposed in a room adjusted to a predetermined temperature, that absorbs the heat of the cooling target, and that is exhausted from an exhaust side of the cooling target, and that guides the air to the intake side; a cooler that is provided in the duct and that cools the air; a monitoring device that monitors a cooling state of at least one of the cooling target and the cooler; and a duct adjustment device that operates the duct to guide the air in the duct in a direction different from a direction toward the intake side when the monitoring device detects an abnormality in the cooling state.

Abstract: A sensor positioning device includes an inter-sensor distance measurement jig that measures a distance between two sensors, and is a reference when setting the distance between the two sensors to a target distance, and reference-setting jigs of sensor height position, each including a weight and a weight suspension member, a lengthwise direction of which is in a vertical direction when the weight is suspended, and each performing setting of a distance which is a total of a vertical direction dimension of the weight, a length of the weight suspension member, and a distance from an upper end of the weight suspension member to the sensor such that the distance coincides with a target height of the sensor, when the weight is in contact with a reference surface, in a state where the weight is attached to a sensor holding jig by the weight suspension member.

Abstract: A sensor positioning device includes an inter-sensor distance measurement jig that measures a distance between two sensors, and is a reference when setting the distance between the two sensors to a target distance, and reference-setting jigs of sensor height position, each including a weight and a weight suspension member, a lengthwise direction of which is in a vertical direction when the weight is suspended, and each performing setting of a distance which is a total of a vertical direction dimension of the weight, a length of the weight suspension member, and a distance from an upper end of the weight suspension member to the sensor such that the distance coincides with a target height of the sensor, when the weight is in contact with a reference surface, in a state where the weight is attached to a sensor holding jig by the weight suspension member.

Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including an image acquisition unit that obtains color image data composed of wavelength components in a visible light region only, and monochrome image data which does not contain the wavelength components in the visible light region and which is composed of wavelength components in other than visible light region only, a color information extraction unit that extracts color information from the color image data, a luminance information extraction unit that extracts luminance information from the monochrome image data, and a synthesis unit that synthesizes the extracted color information and the extracted luminance information to generate composite image data.

Abstract: Provided is an optical apparatus including a filter (102) that includes a first surface (105) intersecting a rotation axis at a predetermined angle and a second surface (106) orthogonal to the rotation axis and rotates around the rotation axis, a filter (110) that is arranged adjacent to the filter (102), includes a third surface (115) and a fourth surface (116) in a spatial relationship of point-symmetry to the first surface (105) and the second surface (106) about a point on the rotation axis between the filters, and rotates in an opposite direction of the filter (102) around the rotation axis.

Abstract: There is provided an imaging apparatus including an optical elements that disperses an incoming light from a subject into a first light composed of wavelength components in a visible light region only, and a second light which does not contain the first light and which is composed of wavelength components in other than visible light region only, a color image pickup device that receives the first light irradiated from the optical element, and a monochrome image pickup device that receives the second light irradiated from the optical element.

Abstract: An overturn prevention control device for a two-wheel vehicle having a vehicle body, a front wheel, an actuator that steers the front wheel, a rear wheel, and a rear-wheel driving portion, includes an angular velocity sensor and a control unit arranged to output a steering angle command signal for controlling the actuator. The angular velocity sensor includes a detection axis, is mounted on the vehicle body such that the detection axis is downwardly inclined at a predetermined angle relative to a forward direction of the vehicle body, and detects an angular velocity about the detection axis. The angular velocity detected by the angular velocity sensor includes an angular velocity in a lateral direction of inclination and an angular velocity in an azimuthal direction. The zero-set error and offset noise are incorporated into the azimuth angle command. Thus, the two-wheel vehicle can be prevented from overturning.

Abstract: A cerebral local portion cooling probe is composed so that a handheld module includes a Peltier device and a coolant liquid circulating part arranged so as to contact with the Peltier device and wirings, conduits and a heat radiating part are connected to this handheld module. Circulation of coolant liquid and operation of the Peltier device are implemented by means of a control unit, then the tip end of the handheld module is caused to contact with a cerebral local portion to be cooled and a state of the cerebral local portion is monitored in accordance with responses to the cooling. A cerebral function mapping device comprises a mapping module in which a plurality of cooling modules are arranged, each cooling module including a Peltier device and a coolant liquid circulating part in a manner similar to that of the cerebral local portion cooling probe.

Abstract: There is provided an imaging apparatus including an optical elements that disperses an incoming light from a subject into a first light composed of wavelength components in a visible light region only, and a second light which does not contain the first light and which is composed of wavelength components in other than visible light region only, a color image pickup device that receives the first light irradiated from the optical element, and a monochrome image pickup device that receives the second light irradiated from the optical element.

Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including an image acquisition unit that obtains color image data composed of wavelength components in a visible light region only, and monochrome image data which does not contain the wavelength components in the visible light region and which is composed of wavelength components in other than visible light region only, a color information extraction unit that extracts color information from the color image data, a luminance information extraction unit that extracts luminance information from the monochrome image data, and a synthesis unit that synthesizes the extracted color information and the extracted luminance information to generate composite image data.

Abstract: Provided is an optical apparatus including a filter (102) that includes a first surface (105) intersecting a rotation axis at a predetermined angle and a second surface (106) orthogonal to the rotation axis and rotates around the rotation axis, a filter (110) that is arranged adjacent to the filter (102), includes a third surface (115) and a fourth surface (116) in a spatial relationship of point-symmetry to the first surface (105) and the second surface (106) about a point on the rotation axis between the filters, and rotates in an opposite direction of the filter (102) around the rotation axis.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging device, and an optical system configured to image light from an imaging subject on the imaging device. The optical system includes a group of lenses and an aperture diaphragm. When NP point is defined as a point where an extended linear component in an object space of a principal ray located in a Gauss region and selected from among principal rays passing through a center of the aperture diaphragm of the optical system crosses an optical axis of the optical system, D represents a diameter of a lens at the closest side to the imaging subject, and LN represents a distance from a lens surface of the lens at the closest side to the imaging subject to the NP point, a formula; 0?LN?D (1) is satisfied.

Abstract: A three-dimensional imaging apparatus includes: a front-side optical member formed of a non-afocal optical system, the front-side optical member forming an image of a subject; a plurality of rear-side optical members not only disposed downstream of the plane where the front-side optical member forms an image of the subject but also positioned in such a way that the optical axes of the plurality of rear-side optical members are substantially parallel to the optical axis of the front-side optical member but do not coincide therewith, the plurality of rear-side optical members refocusing a real image formed by the front-side optical member; and an imaging device that receives the light rays focused by the rear-side optical members to produce an imaged signal.

Abstract: An imaging device includes imagers each having an imaging element. An NP point is located downstream of the imaging element, and all NP points are collectively located within a predetermined radius region centered on one of the NP points. A lens closest to the object is cut along a plane not including the optical axis, and a>H is satisfied, where H is a distance from the optical axis to a center portion of an overlapping region with the adjacent imager when the imaging element is scanned from the optical axis toward the optical axis of the adjacent imager, and a is a distance from the optical axis to a position at which an illuminance ratio does not vary even if an aperture stop state is shifted, although the position is located in a region in which the illuminance ratio decreases as the distance from the optical axis increases.

Abstract: An image pickup device which can obtain an image of wide range picked up by a plurality of cameras is provided by preventing occurrence of parallax.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus is able to shoot an image of a wide range by a plurality of image pickup units, it is able to obtain excellent image quality and it can be miniaturized.

Abstract: A 360°-image is formed on the object-side surface (doughnut-shaped) 15 of an optical fiber array 13. The image is applied from the element-side surface 16 of the array, which is substantially rectangular, to an imaging element 11 that is rectangular. The image that has been photographed is converted in accordance with the image signals generated at the object-side surface. Hence, the entire surface of the imaging element 11 can serve as effective photographing region. In addition, the image of the camera, which is formed on the center part of the object-side surface 15, is not transmitted to the imaging element 11.

Abstract: An image pickup device includes a plurality of image pickup unit configured to pick up images of a plurality of respective subject segments divided from a subject in a wide range; and a processing unit configured to combine the images picked up by the image pickup unit into a single image.

Abstract: The present invention provides an imaging apparatus capable of imaging a wide area, controlling parallax to achieve an excellent image quality, and utilizing an imaging element with a relatively large package.