Abstract: There is provided an endoscope imaging unit including parallel electric wires, an image sensor located on a front end side by being separated from front ends of the respective electric wires, and having a light incident surface substantially perpendicular to the electric wires, a flexible substrate located between the electric wires and the image sensor, having a circuit, and conductively connecting the respective electric wires to the circuit, an image sensor mounting peninsula portion bent with respect to the substrate, and mounting the image sensor thereon by conductively connecting the image sensor to the circuit, and a circuit mounting peninsula portion extending from the substrate, located by being bent to a side opposite to the image sensor before the image sensor mounting peninsula portion, and mounting and conductively connecting an electronic component or the circuit pattern to the circuit.

Abstract: An endoscope includes a lens, an imaging element, an element cover glass configured to cover an imaging surface of the imaging element, a lighting member, and a light-shielding member disposed between the lens and the lighting member. The lens has a quadrangular outer shape in a direction perpendicular to a direction along a center axis of the lens. The imaging element has a quadrangular outer shape in the direction perpendicular to the direction along the center axis of the lens. The lighting member is disposed outside a side of the lens and extends in the direction along the center axis of the lens. The light-shielding member extends in the direction along the center axis of the lens from an insertion tip surface in a tip portion of the endoscope to the imaging surface of the imaging element. The lens is attached to the element cover glass via an adhesive resin.

Abstract: A lens having a quadrangular outer shape in a direction perpendicular to its center, an imaging element having a quadrangular outer shape in the direction perpendicular to the center axis, an element cover glass covering an imaging surface of the imaging element, a light guide placed outside at least one side of the lens and extending along the center axis, and a cylinder holder disposed between the lens and the light guide are disposed in a tip portion of an endoscope.

Abstract: A lens having a quadrangular outer shape in a direction perpendicular to its center, an imaging element having a quadrangular outer shape in the direction perpendicular to the center axis, an element cover glass covering an imaging surface of the imaging element, a light guide placed outside at least one side of the lens and extending along the center axis, and a cylinder holder disposed between the lens and the light guide are disposed in a tip portion of an endoscope.

Abstract: A lens having a quadrangular outer shape in a direction perpendicular to its center, an imaging element having a quadrangular outer shape in the direction perpendicular to the center axis, an element cover glass covering an imaging surface of the imaging element, a light guide placed outside at least one side of the lens and extending along the center axis, and a cylinder holder disposed between the lens and the light guide are disposed in a tip portion of an endoscope.

Abstract: There is provided an endoscope imaging unit including parallel electric wires, an image sensor located on a front end side by being separated from front ends of the respective electric wires, and having a light incident surface substantially perpendicular to the electric wires, a flexible substrate located between the electric wires and the image sensor, having a circuit, and conductively connecting the respective electric wires to the circuit, an image sensor mounting peninsula portion bent with respect to the substrate, and mounting the image sensor thereon by conductively connecting the image sensor to the circuit, and a circuit mounting peninsula portion extending from the substrate, located by being bent to a side opposite to the image sensor before the image sensor mounting peninsula portion, and mounting and conductively connecting an electronic component or the circuit pattern to the circuit.

Abstract: A lens having a quadrangular outer shape in a direction perpendicular to its center, an imaging element having a quadrangular outer shape in the direction perpendicular to the center axis, an element cover glass covering an imaging surface of the imaging element, a light guide placed outside at least one side of the lens and extending along the center axis, and a cylinder holder disposed between the lens and the light guide are disposed in a tip portion of an endoscope.

Abstract: A screen operation system obtains operation information associated with an operation performed by a user with a pointing object relative to a screen of an image display apparatus controlled by an information processing apparatus and causes the information processing apparatus to execute processing associated with the operation information. The screen operation system includes a mobile information apparatus including a camera capturing an image of the screen of the image display apparatus; a display displaying the image captured by the camera; and a communicator communicating information with the information processing apparatus. The camera of the mobile information apparatus captures an image such that the pointing object is displayed overlapping a predetermined position on the screen of the image display apparatus. Based on captured image information obtained thereby, operation information is obtained.

Abstract: The size of a pointing object is determined based on a detection result of a touch operation with a pointing object, and the number of electrodes in a group is switched according to the size of the pointing object. In particular, the size of the pointing object is categorized into three groups based on the size of an adult's finger, a child's finger, and a stylus, and the number of electrodes in a group is set to three levels. The number of electrodes in a group varies according to powers of two, such as two, four, and eight.

Abstract: There is provided a fixing apparatus capable of reducing the warm-up time, improving the heating efficiency, and suppressing the temperature increase out of the sheet width by using a magnetic adjuster. In this apparatus, the Currie temperature Tc of the magnetic adjuster material heated by electromagnetic induction is set to 220 degrees C. or below and the fixation setting temperature of a heating member corresponding to the portion where a recording material passes during continuous sheet feed is set lower than a value than the temperature at which the relative magnetic permeability of the magnetic adjuster material begins to decrease. Thus, it is possible to obtain a large difference between the heating portion and the non-heating portion, to surely prevent excessive temperature increase of the portion out of the recording material width, to reduce the warm-up time, and improve the heating efficiency.

Abstract: A pattern forming apparatus includes a liquid material application mechanism that includes an opening for applying a liquid material on a substrate, and a laser processing mechanism that includes an irradiation section for irradiating the liquid material applied on the substrate with laser light to immobilize the liquid material so that a pattern is formed. The laser processing mechanism is integrated with the liquid material application mechanism.

Abstract: An under-layer 2 comprising a coupling agent having a metal element to be transformed to an oxide is disposed on the surface of an inorganic oxide substrate 1, and a liquid containing micro-fine metal particles dispersed therein is coated on the under-layer 2 to form a micro-fine metal particle layer 3. Then, temperature is elevated to a metallizing temperature of the micro-fine metal particles, to form a thin metal film layer 5.