Abstract: An image capture apparatus includes an image capture unit that has a plurality of unit pixels each including a plurality of photo-electric conversion units per condenser unit, and a recording unit that records captured image signals, which are captured by the image capture unit and are respectively read out from the plurality of photo-electric conversion units, and the recording unit records identification information which allows to identify each photo-electric conversion unit used to obtain the captured image signal in association with that captured image signal.

Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition production method wherein melt-kneading is performed in a stretched flow when producing a thermoplastic resin composition as specified in the paragraph (I) or (II) below: (I) a thermoplastic resin composition comprising a Thermoplastic resin (A) and a Resin (B) with a reactive functional group; (II) a thermoplastic resin composition comprising a Thermoplastic resin (A), a Thermoplastic resin (C) that is different from the Thermoplastic resin (A), and a Compound (D) with a reactive functional group.

Abstract: An image pickup system capable of shortening time lag between reading of signals from an image sensor and displaying of the signals when a 3D image signal from a camera having the single image sensor is displayed in real time with a time-division system. A solid state image pickup device has pixels that are arranged in two dimensions and are divided into image pickup areas. A reading unit reads signals from the image pickup areas. A mode setting unit sets either of a first shooting mode and a second shooting mode. A control unit controls the reading unit to read signals from all the image pickup areas as a single frame when the mode setting unit sets the first shooting mode, and reads the signals from the image pickup areas as different frames, respectively, when the mode setting unit sets the second shooting mode.

Abstract: The invention provides a fiber reinforced resin composition comprising a melt-kneaded product (A) prepared by melt-kneading a first resin (A1) and a second resin (A2) that has reactive functional group as well as a third resin (B) and a fibrous filler (C), wherein, with respect to the contents of the components, the first resin (A1), the second resin with a reactive functional group (A2), and the third resin (B) account for 0.1 to 75 wt %, 0.1 to 15 wt %, and 10 to 99.8 wt %, respectively, to form a resin composition while said fibrous filler (C) accounts for 0.1 to 300 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of said resin composition, said first resin (A1) and said third resin (B) forming a matrix resin, said second resin (A2) being dispersed as particles in said matrix resin, and said particles having a number average particle diameter of 10 to 1,000 nm.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a hyperbranched-polyester comprising at least one kind of a structural unit selected from an aromatic oxycarbonyl unit (P), aromatic and/or aliphatic dioxy units (Q), and an aromatic dicarboxy unit (R), and a trifunctional or higher polyfunctional organic residue (B), wherein the content of B is within a range from 7.5 to 50 mol % based on entire monomers constituting the hyperbranched-polyester. The present invention provides a hyperbranched-polyester which can remarkably improve thin-wall flowability, stiffness and gas barrier property by blending with a thermoplastic resin, and a thermoplastic resin composition blended with the same.

Abstract: A quarter-wave plate includes a base member including a ridge and trough periodic structure with a structural period of ?min/2<P<?min arranged on one side of the base member, where ?min is the minimum wavelength among the wavelengths of a plurality of light fluxes which pass the quarter-wave plate. In the quarter-wave plate, refractive index of a ridge portion of the ridge and trough periodic structure for the wavelength ?min and a light transmittance have predetermined values. The ridge and trough periodic structure satisfies the predetermined condition relating to the structural height and the structural width of the ridge portion.

Abstract: The present invention is a thermoplastic resin composition which is obtained by adding a specific modified vinyl copolymer having a specific intrinsic viscosity to a composition comprising a styrene-based resin and a polyamide resin. The thermoplastic resin composition has excellent flowability and has a far better surface appearance than conventional ones while satisfactorily retaining rigidity, heat resistance, chemical resistance, and impact resistance at room and low temperatures.

Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition production method wherein melt-kneading is performed in a stretched flow when producing a thermoplastic resin composition as specified in the paragraph (I) or (II) below: (I) a thermoplastic resin composition comprising a Thermoplastic resin (A) and a Resin (B) with a reactive functional group; (II) a thermoplastic resin composition comprising a Thermoplastic resin (A), a Thermoplastic resin (C) that is different from the Thermoplastic resin (A), and a Compound (D) with a reactive functional group.

Abstract: A quarter-wave plate includes a base member including a ridge and trough periodic structure with a structural period of ?min/2<P<?min arranged on one side of the base member, where ?min is the minimum wavelength among the wavelengths of a plurality of light fluxes which pass the quarter-wave plate. In the quarter-wave plate, refractive index of a ridge portion of the ridge and trough periodic structure for the wavelength ?min and a light transmittance have predetermined values. The ridge and trough periodic structure satisfies the predetermined condition relating to the structural height and the structural width of the ridge portion.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a hyperbranched-polyester comprising at least one kind of a structural unit selected from an aromatic oxycarbonyl unit (P), aromatic and/or aliphatic dioxy units (Q), and an aromatic dicarboxy unit (R), and a trifunctional or higher polyfunctional organic residue (B), wherein the content of B is within a range from 7.5 to 50 mol % based on entire monomers constituting the hyperbranched-polyester. The present invention provides a hyperbranched-polyester which can remarkably improve thin-wall flowability, stiffness and gas barrier property by blending with a thermoplastic resin, and a thermoplastic resin composition blended with the same.

Abstract: The present invention is a thermoplastic resin composition which is obtained by adding a specific modified vinyl copolymer having a specific intrinsic viscosity to a composition comprising a styrene-based resin and a polyamide resin. The thermoplastic resin composition has excellent flowability and has a far better surface appearance than conventional ones while satisfactorily retaining rigidity, heat resistance, chemical resistance, and impact resistance at room and low temperatures.

Abstract: A fuse for an automobile having a housing manufactured by the injection molding of a polyamide resin composition, wherein the polyamide resin composition constituting the housing has a heat of fusion of 40 J/g or more, as measured by means of a differential scanning calorimeter, and exhibits an average diameter of spherulites of 0.5 ?m or less, as measured by the observation by means of a polarization optical microscope.

Abstract: Data related to the configuration of a system are input in CAD (computer aided design) employed for designing the system. The CAD extracts data formable as a single chip from the said data. Thus, a semiconductor device and a method of designing the same reducing the burden imposed on a designer are obtained in relation to design of a system LSI.

Abstract: The invention provides an auction system by which reduction of the charge for delivery of a commodity to be borne by parties in an auction is achieved while the merits to the parties by the auction are assured thereby to achieve activation of the auction. The auction system includes a server in which an auction site which determines a successful bidder for an auction commodity based on bids performed from user terminals through a network is formed. The server exhibits, in the auction site, a delivery charge bearing object commodity to be sold by a dealer who bears part or all of the delivery charge for the auction commodity for which the user becomes the successful bidder, and performs sales processing of the delivery charge bearing object commodity in combination with the auction commodity in response to a request from a user terminal.