Abstract: A contact lens type line-of-sight detection apparatus has a shape such that it is wearable on an eyeball of a user. Furthermore, in the line-of-sight detection apparatus, a plurality of light-emitting sections that output light and a plurality of light-receiving elements that receive light reflected by an eyeball surface. The light-receiving elements receive light that has been output from the light-emitting sections and reflected by the eyeball surface and output light-receiving signals according to amounts of light received. The signal processing unit detects a line of sight of the user based on the light-receiving signals of the light-receiving elements. The present technology can be applied to a contact lens type line-of-sight detection apparatus or a display apparatus.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a contact lens and storage medium capable of controlling an image pickup unit provided in the contact lens. [Solution] Provided is a contact lens including: a lens unit configured to be worn on an eyeball; an image pickup unit configured to capture an image of a subject, the image pickup unit being provided in the lens unit; and an image pickup control unit configured to control the image pickup unit.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus that forms an image of a light beam transmitted through an imaging lens on an imaging element includes a laminated material that is provided on the imaging element, the light beam being transmitted through the laminated material, the laminated material being provided at a position at which an end portion of an upper surface of the laminated material allows an outermost light beam out of light beams to be transmitted therethrough, the light beams entering a pixel in an outer end portion of the imaging element in an effective pixel area, the position having a width Hopt.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes: a polarization removing element layer including a plurality of polarization removing elements, each of the plurality of polarization removing elements being configured to polarize an incident light to thereby obtain light having a polarization axis in a predetermined direction and to transmit the polarized light; a polarizer layer provided in front of the polarization removing element layer, the polarizer layer being configured to twist polarization axes of light having a plurality of polarization axes by predetermined angles, respectively, and to transmit the light; an inclination detecting device configured to detect inclination of the incident light to an optical axis; a controller configured to control and drive the polarizer layer such that the polarizer layer twists the polarization axis of light depending on the inclination detected by the inclination detecting device and transmits the light; and an image pickup device configured to detect the light.

Abstract: [Object] To provide an image capturing element and an image capturing apparatus in which an image capturing optical system can be thinned without degrading image capturing properties. [Solving Means] An image capturing element according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an on-chip lens, a low refractive index layer and an infrared absorption layer. The on-chip lens is composed of a high refractive index material. The low refractive index layer is formed flatly on the on-chip lens and is composed of a low refractive index material. The infrared absorption layer is laminated above the low refractive index layer and is composed of an infrared absorption material.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes: a polarization removing element layer including a plurality of polarization removing elements, each of the plurality of polarization removing elements being configured to polarize an incident light to thereby obtain light having a polarization axis in a predetermined direction and to transmit the polarized light; a polarizer layer provided in front of the polarization removing element layer, the polarizer layer being configured to twist polarization axes of light having a plurality of polarization axes by predetermined angles, respectively, and to transmit the light; an inclination detecting device configured to detect inclination of the incident light to an optical axis; a controller configured to control and drive the polarizer layer such that the polarizer layer twists the polarization axis of light depending on the inclination detected by the inclination detecting device and transmits the light; and an image pickup device configured to detect the light.

Abstract: An electro-optical device including a substrate; an array region which is formed on the substrate and in which a plurality of light emitting pixels are arranged two-dimensionally; first drive lines that are arranged in a row direction and are connected to each of the light emitting pixels; second drive lines that are arranged in a column direction and are connected to each of the light emitting pixels; a drive circuit that supplies a drive signal to at least one of the first drive line and the second drive line; an inspection terminal that is electrically connected to the drive circuit or the second drive lines; and an electrostatic protection circuit that is connected to the inspection terminal, in which at least a part of the electrostatic protection circuit overlaps the inspection terminal in a plan view.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus that forms an image of a light beam transmitted through an imaging lens on an imaging element includes a laminated material that is provided on the imaging element, the light beam being transmitted through the laminated material, the laminated material being provided at a position at which an end portion of an upper surface of the laminated material allows an outermost light beam out of light beams to be transmitted therethrough, the light beams entering a pixel in an outer end portion of the imaging element in an effective pixel area, the position having a width Hopt.

Abstract: An organic EL device includes a substrate, an organic EL element that is formed on the substrate and is provided with a first electrode, a light emitting functional layer, and a second electrode having transparent conductivity to emit light to the second electrode side, a color filter that is formed on the second electrode side in a pixel area where the organic EL element emits the light, and a partition that is formed in a light shielding area that is an area other than the pixel area. The color filter is provided with any one of a red color filter, a green color filter, and a blue color filter. At least one color filter of the three color filters constitutes at least a part of the partition.

Abstract: An image-capturing device includes an image-capturing unit 30 including a first image-capturing element 41, a second image-capturing element 51, a third image-capturing element 61, and a fourth image-capturing element 71, and includes an image processing unit 11, wherein a sensitivity of the fourth image-capturing element 71 is less than sensitivities of the first image-capturing element 41 to the third image-capturing element 61, and the image processing unit 11 generates high sensitivity image data on the basis of outputs from the first image-capturing element 41 to the third image-capturing element 61, and generates low sensitivity image data on the basis of an output from the fourth image-capturing element 71, and further, the image processing unit 11 generates a combined image using high sensitivity image data corresponding to a low illumination image area in the low illumination image area obtained from the low sensitivity image data or the high sensitivity image data, and using low sensitivity image da

Abstract: [Object] To provide a chemical sensor, a chemical sensor module, a chemical detection apparatus, and a chemical detection method that are capable of detecting chemicals with high accuracy and high sensitivity. [Solving Means] A chemical sensor according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a substrate, a low refractive index layer, a high refractive index layer, and a light detection unit. The low refractive index layer is laminated on the substrate and has a second refractive index smaller than a first refractive index that is a refractive index of a detection target object. The high refractive index layer is laminated on the low refractive index layer, has a third refractive index larger than the first refractive index, and includes a holding surface on which the detection target object is held, and illumination light propagates therein.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an optical system that forms an image corresponding to subject light incident through a lens; an imaging device that produces a signal corresponding to the subject light incident through the lens and outputs the signal as a captured image; acquisition means for acquiring the distance to the subject; and correction means for correcting blur in the captured image outputted from the imaging device based on an imaging characteristic of the optical system specific to the subject distance acquired by the acquisition means.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging apparatus including: a sensor substrate that has a plurality of pixels configured to receive incident light, the plurality of pixels being arranged on an upper surface of a semiconductor substrate; a transparent substrate that has a lower surface facing an upper surface of the sensor substrate and is configured to transmit the incident light therethrough; and a diffraction grating that is provided at any position between an upper surface of the transparent substrate and the upper surface of the sensor substrate and is configured to transmit the incident light therethrough, in which the diffraction grating is formed so as to diffract reflected diffraction light caused by that the incident light is incident on a pixel area in which the plurality of pixels are arranged on the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate and is diffracted.

Abstract: An organic EL device as a light emitting device includes: a first light emitting element that is disposed on a first surface of a substrate and that has a first pixel electrode; a second light emitting element that has a second pixel electrode; and an insulating layer that is provided with a first opening which exposes the first pixel electrode and a second opening which exposes the second pixel electrode. Further, in the organic EL device, the first opening is configured so that the insulating layer covers equal to or more than 50% of the circumferential edge portion of the first pixel electrode, and the second opening is configured so that the insulating layer covers less than 50% of the circumferential edge portion of the second pixel electrode.

Abstract: An electro-optic device includes a light-emitting element disposed above a substrate, an optically transparent sealing film covering the light-emitting element, and a color filter disposed on the sealing film so as to adjoin the sealing film. The sealing film includes a thin portion overlapping at least part of the light-emitting element, and a thick portion surrounding the thin portion. The thin portion and the thick portion form a recess in the sealing film. The color filter fills the recess.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a solid-state image pickup element, including: a semiconductor substrate; a pixel portion which is formed on the semiconductor substrate and in which a plurality of pixels each having a photoelectric conversion portion are arranged; an insulating layer formed on the semiconductor substrate so as to cover the photoelectric conversion portion; a hole portion formed in the insulating layer and above the photoelectric conversion portion; a silicon nitride layer formed so as to cover a bottom surface and a side surface of the hole portion; and a buried layer formed on the silicon nitride layer, wherein the silicon nitride layer is formed so as to contain a silicon nitride formed by utilizing an atomic layer deposition method.

Abstract: A three-dimensional image-capturing apparatus includes an image-capturing device having a plurality of image-capturing regions and a plurality of optical systems for forming images of a subject in the image-capturing regions. The optical systems includes a plurality of reflectors for reflecting rays from the subject a number of times and at least a lens provided to be closer to the image-capturing device than the reflection means closest to the subject. The reflectors and the lens are used to form, in the image-capturing regions, separate images of the subject which are captured from different viewpoints.

Abstract: The present technique relates to a display control device, a method, and a program that can improve user's operability of a free-cursor type user interface. An imaging unit outputs an RGB image based on a pixel signal corresponding to a visible light among light input through a lens and an IR image based on a pixel signal corresponding to an infrared light among light input through the lens. An ROI set unit sets a movement area of an infrared light source in the IR image based on the RGB image, and a display control unit controls a cursor movement amount on a display unit according to movement of the infrared light source in the movement area. The present technique can be applied to a television set that monitors a viewing condition of a viewer, for example.

Abstract: An organic EL device as a light emitting device includes: a first light emitting element that is disposed on a first surface of a substrate and that has a first pixel electrode; a second light emitting element that has a second pixel electrode; and an insulating layer that is provided with a first opening which exposes the first pixel electrode and a second opening which exposes the second pixel electrode. Further, in the organic EL device, the first opening is configured so that the insulating layer covers equal to or more than 50% of the circumferential edge portion of the first pixel electrode, and the second opening is configured so that the insulating layer covers less than 50% of the circumferential edge portion of the second pixel electrode.

Abstract: An organic EL device includes a substrate; a color filter layer that is formed above the substrate; a first electrode that is formed between the substrate and the color filter layer; a second electrode that is formed to face the first electrode; and an organic light-emitting layer that is formed between the first and second electrodes. The color filter layer includes first and second sub-filter layers that are formed in a region overlapping the first electrode, when viewed from a direction perpendicular to the substrate, and transmit a first color. The first and second sub-filter layers are formed of the same material and the first and second sub-filter layers are laminated.