Abstract: A polymer battery having at least one layer of a positive electrode, at least one layer of a polymer electrolyte retained by a separator and at least one layer of a negative electrode, each of which is in a thin film form, stacked in this order, wherein the entirety of the outer peripheries of the separator and of the negative electrode is positioned outside of the outer periphery of the positive electrode except for a collector tab (49 provided to the positive electrode so as to protrude from one side of the positive electrode, and the following relationship is satisfied in a portion of the outer peripheries of the separator and of the negative electrode: the length between the end of the negative electrode and the end of the positive electrode (D1) >the length between the end of the negative electrode and the end of the separator (D2).

Abstract: An information processing device includes: a synthesis filter processing unit to subject image data to analysis filtering for dividing the frequency components of the image data into highband components and lowband components hierarchically, and subject the frequency components of the image data divided into a plurality of frequency components to synthesis filtering for mutually synthesizing the frequency components of the frequency band of the same division level recursively; a frequency component holding unit to hold frequency components of a division level one order lower, generated by the synthesis filtering performed by the synthesis filter processing unit; and a control unit to cause the synthesis filter processing unit to recursively perform the synthesis filtering processing on each frequency component held in the frequency component holding unit, in an order whereby the image data is restored in order from the top of the image, a plurality of lines at a time.

Abstract: An image data processing apparatus includes a memory for storing coefficient data obtained by performing a wavelet transform on image data, a calculation unit for calculating a memory address of the memory storing the coefficient data, based on an encoding parameter of the image data and an amount of data of the coefficient data, a memory area reservation unit for reserving a memory area where the coefficient data is to be written, in accordance with the memory address calculated by the calculation unit, and a write unit for rearranging the coefficient data in the order of inverse wavelet transform and writing the order-rearranged coefficient data onto the memory area reserved by the memory area reservation unit.

Abstract: An information processing device, configured to divide the frequency components of image data into a plurality of frequency bands, includes an analysis filtering unit configured to perform analysis filtering for dividing the frequency components into highband components and lowband components recursively, and a holding unit configured to supply, in sync with timing for holding data supplied as a computation result of the analysis filtering by the analysis filtering unit, the data already held, which is data necessary for computation of next analysis filtering to the analysis filtering unit.

Abstract: A wavelet transformation device for performing wavelet transformation at a plurality of levels as to image signals, comprises: a first buffer for storing, independently for each of the levels, a part of coefficients from the results of analysis filtering in the horizontal direction of the image signals; a second buffer for storing, independently for each of the levels, a part of coefficients generated in the computation process of analysis filtering in the vertical direction of the image signals; a vertical filtering unit for performing the vertical direction analysis filtering, using coefficients read out from the first and second buffers; and a horizontal filtering unit for performing analysis filtering in the horizontal direction, using coefficients from the results of the vertical direction analysis filtering as the input of the horizontal direction analysis filtering for the next level, except for the final level of the levels.

Abstract: A wavelet transformation device for performing wavelet transformation at a plurality of levels as to image signals includes a horizontal filtering unit for subjecting the image signals to horizontal direction lowband analysis filtering and highband analysis filtering, and buffers which are independent for each of the levels, for holding frequency components, which are generated as the results of the horizontal direction analysis filtering by the horizontal filtering unit, for each of the levels.

Abstract: A method for producing an electro-optical apparatus includes forming a WSi film by sputtering including bombarding a target with plasma ions of an atmosphere injected into a vacuum chamber under reduced pressure to eject particles from the target and depositing the particles on a substrate to be used to form the electro-optical apparatus. The WSi film is formed in such a manner that the average deposition rate of the WSi film deposited on the substrate is equal to or higher than an average deposition rate at the limit of discharge maintenance in sputtering and 35 ?/s or less.

Abstract: A polymer battery which comprises a negative electrode comprising a carbon material as an active material, an electrolyte layer and a positive electrode comprising a chalcogenide containing lithium as an active material, characterized in that the electrolyte layer comprises an ion-conducting compound and a polymer fiber, and the carbon material comprises the graphite particles having amorphous carbon adhered on the surface thereof. The polymer battery is capable of preventing the decomposition of the ion-conductive material by graphite particles.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an input unit that inputs image data; and an analysis filtering unit that generates coefficient data of a plurality of subbands by performing analysis filtering of the image data input by the input unit for each predetermined number of lines from an upper-end line to a lower-end line such that analysis filtering of a lower-end line of the current picture is completed before analysis filtering of an upper-end line of the next picture starts.

Abstract: A lithium polymer secondary cell having a negative electrode, a positive electrode and, arranged between the electrodes, a polymer electrolyte layer, characterized in that the cell has been subjected to a heat treatment at a temperature of 40 to 60° C. after the assembly thereof. The polymer cell is freed of or is reduced in the adverse effect of a residual monomer and initiator on the performance of the cell. The polymer electrolyte is formed by cross-linking polymerization of a precursor monomer for an ion conducting polymer in a non-aqueous electrolyte, and the residual monomer and initiator contained therein is consumed by the heat treatment.

Abstract: In a lithium secondary cell having a negative electrode, a positive electrode and, arranged between the electrodes, a polymer electrolyte layer, the internal resistance of the cell and the interfacial resistance between the electrode and the polymer electrolyte can be reduced by incorporating into the electrode, in advance, a polymer electrolyte precursor solution in a manner such that the electrode has a higher content of the precursor monomer and/or an oligomer thereof than that in the polymer electrolyte layer formed on the electrode.

Abstract: A lithium secondary battery comprising a battery element composed of a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a separator providing electrical isolation between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, the positive electrode or negative electrode having a positive active material or a negative active material, a conductive material and a current collector, and the conductive material having a first conductive material containing at least one species of a carbon material and a second conductive material bonding the positive active material or the negative active material, the first conductive material and the current collector to one another.

Abstract: A lithium polymer secondary battery comprising a negative electrode, a positive electrode and an electrolyte layer between both electrodes, wherein the negative electrode and the positive electrode each has a solid electrolyte prepared by incorporating an organic electrolytic solution into a polymer, the polymer is obtained by solidifying a precursor solution containing vinylene carbonate and a content of vinylene carbonate in the precursor solution for the positive electrode is smaller than that in the precursor solution for the negative electrode.

Abstract: A sputtering apparatus includes a first cover surrounding a periphery of a target, having a first opening through which sputtered particles from the target are emitted, and being made of a conductive material; a second cover having a second opening through which the sputtered particles from the target are adhered onto a substrate, the second cover being made of a conductive material; an O-ring placed between the first cover and the second cover to allow the first opening and the second opening to communicate with each other via a hollow center portionof the O-ring, the O-ring being made of an insulating material; and a third cover placed via an insulating material over a face of at least one of the first cover and the second cover facing the O-ring, the third cover being made of a conductive material.

Abstract: A lithium polymer secondary battery comprising: a negative electrode including a carbonaceous material, as an active material, obtainable by attaching or covering an amorphous carbon on the surface of graphite particle; an electrolyte layer; and a positive electrode having at least a metal oxide containing lithium as an active material, wherein the electrolyte layer comprising: a polymer containing a unit derived from vinylene carbonate; an organic solvent; and lithium salt.

Abstract: A lithium secondary battery which comprises a negative electrode, a positive electrode, and disposed therebetween a polymer electrolyte comprising an ionically conductive polymer. The polymer electrolyte has a two-layer structure composed of a positive-electrode-side layer and a negative-electrode-side layer. The polymer electrolyte on the positive-electrode side contains a nonaqueous electrolytic solution containing a lithium salt in a higher concentration than that in the polymer electrolyte on the negative-electrode side. The battery is improved in charge/discharge cycling characteristics and high-load discharge characteristics.

Abstract: A lithium polymer secondary battery which comprises a negative electrode, a positive electrode, and polymer electrolyte layers united respectively with the two electrodes and differing in viscoelastic behavior. In this battery, conformation to the expansion and shrinkage accompanying charge/discharge is easy and the interfacial resistance between each electrode and the polymer electrolyte is kept low.

Abstract: In a lithium-ion secondary battery of the present invention, the electrical resistivity of the mixture of a positive electrode active material, an electrically conductive member, and a binder is 0.1 ?cm or more but 1 ?cm or less. The positive and negative electrodes each have an electrical capacity of 10 mAh or more but 50 mAh or less per volume of a rectangular parallelepiped that has a 1 cm2 square base on a face of the electrode of one polarity facing the electrode of the other polarity and that has a height equal to the thickness of the electrode of the one polarity at the square base. Used as the negative electrode thereof is a negative electrode formed by sintering graphite powder, non-graphitizing carbon, and fibrous powder retained in the pores of a porous metal structure in an inert gas atmosphere at a temperature of between 600 and 1000° C.

Abstract: In a lithium secondary cell having a negative electrode, a positive electrode and, arranged between the electrodes, a polymer electrolyte layer, the internal resistance of the cell and the interfacial resistance between the electrode and the polymer electrolyte can be reduced by incorporating into the electrode, in advance, a polymer electrolyte precursor solution in a manner such that the electrode has a higher content of the precursor monomer and/or an oligomer thereof than that in the polymer electrolyte layer formed on the electrode.

Abstract: A lithium polymer secondary battery comprising a negative electrode, a positive electrode and an electrolyte layer between both electrodes, wherein the negative electrode and the positive electrode each has a solid electrolyte prepared by incorporating an organic electrolytic solution into a polymer, the polymer is obtained by solidifying a precursor solution containing vinylene carbonate and a content of vinylene carbonate in the precursor solution for the positive electrode is smaller than that in the precursor solution for the negative electrode.