Abstract: A display device (101) includes: an output luminance calculation section (83) configured to generate an output luminance for an input luminance for a first reference point residing in a low luminance region, an output luminance for an input luminance for a second reference point residing in a high luminance region, and an output luminance for an input luminance for a third reference point residing between the first and second reference points in such a manner that a straight line connecting the first and third reference points has a different slope than does a straight line connecting the third and second reference points; and a luminance conversion section (85) configured to convert input luminances in the input image to output luminances based on a gamma curve specified using the input and output luminances for the first, second, and third reference points, to output the output image.

Abstract: The present invention provides a bearing pressure plate and a dynamo-electric machine using the bearing pressure plate which are capable of avoiding breakage of a bolt by dispersing a stress when a load due to vibrations etc. is applied. A bearing pressure plate 5 has an annular inner ring portion 11 abutting against an outer ring 3Ba of a rolling bearing 3 that supports a rotation shaft 4, an annular outer ring portion 12 located at a radial direction outer side of the inner ring portion 11 and having a plurality of bolt holes 12b through which the outer ring portion 12 is secured to a fixing portion side with a plurality of bolts 12a, and bridge portions 13 integrally connecting the inner ring portion 11 and the outer ring portion 12 at positions except the bolt holes 12b in a circumferential direction.

Abstract: The present technology relates to an imaging device and an electronic device which enable image capturing based on the global shutter system, without reducing the amount of saturated signal charge. Pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit that converts light received thereon into electric charge, and a holding unit that holds the electric charge transferred from the photoelectric conversion unit, a floating diffusion that is shared among a plurality of the pixels, and that holds the electric charge transferred from the holding unit, and a boost line through which the floating diffusion is boosted are included. The present technology is applicable, for example, to an imaging device to capture images on the basis of a global shutter system.

Abstract: A stirring element to stir liquid includes a rod-shaped body configured to have a magnetic force at a first end portion and to have a magnet force at a second end portion opposite to the first end portion in a longitudinal direction, a first blade configured to extend on the first end portion of the rod-shaped body, and a second blade configured to extend on the second end portion of the rod-shaped body. The first blade and the second blade each have a plate shape.

Abstract: In a stacked workpiece molding method, a second mold 30 includes through-holes 32 that extend to be opened at a peripheral edge of a workpiece body 42, the through-holes 32 are connected to a first suction device 51 that sucks a sheet material 44, a first mold 20 includes suction holes 22 that extend to be opened at a portion that contacts the workpiece body 42, the suction holes 22 are connected to a second suction device 52 that sucks the workpiece body 42, and in a bonding step of bonding the sheet material 44 to the workpiece body 42, a suction force in the through-holes 32 by the first suction device 51 is set stronger than a suction force in the suction holes 22 by the second suction device 52.

Abstract: Provided is an optical sight having a lens frame and multiple fixing members for fixing an objective lens to an inside of a barrel body. The objective lens is held on an inner peripheral surface of a lens frame. A male screw, which can be screwed into a female screw arranged on the inner peripheral surface of a barrel body, is arranged on an outer peripheral surface of the lens frame. Multiple through-holes are formed at a wall section of the lens frame corresponding to the outer peripheral surface of the objective lens along a circumferential direction of the wall section. The fixing member is made of metal or synthetic resin having a hardness lower than that of the barrel body. An assembly including the objective lens, the lens frame, and the fixing members is screwed into the female screw arranged on the inner peripheral surface of the barrel body.

Abstract: A small piece supplying apparatus includes: a raw material supplying section that supplies a raw material sheet; a coarse crushing section that coarsely crushes the raw material sheet supplied from the raw material supplying section to produce small pieces; and a reservoir section in which the small pieces produced by the coarse crushing section are accumulated. The raw material supplying section includes a feeder roller that feeds out the raw material sheet, and a contact section that changes a course of the raw material sheet by contact with an edge of the raw material sheet fed out by the feeder roller.

Abstract: A stirring apparatus includes a case that houses fiber pieces containing fibers, and a rotary body that is disposed inside the case and that stirs the fiber pieces, in which the rotary body includes a rotary portion that forms a portion of a bottom surface of the case and that rotates, and blades that stand upright on the rotary portion.

Abstract: An imaging device including: an imaging unit in which a plurality of shared sections each including two pixel regions adjacent at least in a first direction is provided and the shared sections provided at closest positions in a second direction are disposed to shift in the first direction by the one pixel region; a photoelectric converter provided for each of the pixel regions; an electric charge holding unit that holds signal charge generated by the photoelectric converter; an electric charge voltage converter to which the signal charge is transferred from the electric charge holding unit; and a pixel transistor that is electrically coupled to the electric charge voltage converter. The second direction intersects the first direction. The pixel transistor is provided for each of the shared sections.

Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a light-emitting element, a second irradiation process includes forming a first modified region at a first distance from a second surface in a thickness direction of a sapphire substrate, forming a second modified region at a second distance from the second surface in the thickness direction, the second distance being less than the first distance, the second modified region being shifted in a first direction from the first modified region, and forming a third modified region at a third distance from the second surface in the thickness direction, the third distance being less than the second distance, the third modified region overlapping the first modified region in a top-view. In the thickness direction of the sapphire substrate, a greater number of modified regions that include second modified portions are formed than modified regions that include first modified portions.

Abstract: A stacked workpiece in which a sheet material can be more firmly attached to a workpiece body than in the related art is provided. A stacked workpiece (40) includes a workpiece body (42), and a sheet material (44) stacked on the workpiece body (42). In the workpiece body (42), a workpiece-side protruding portion (42a) that is placed at least in a part of a peripheral portion of the stacked sheet material (44) and that protrudes toward a side of the sheet material (44) is provided, and a thinly-crushed compression portion (44a) is formed in a portion of the sheet material (44) stacked on the workpiece-side protruding portion (42a).

Abstract: The present invention provides a bearing pressure plate and a dynamo-electric machine using the bearing pressure plate which are capable of avoiding breakage of a bolt by dispersing a stress when a load due to vibrations etc. is applied. A bearing pressure plate 5 has an annular inner ring portion 11 abutting against an outer ring 3Ba of a rolling bearing 3 that supports a rotation shaft 4, an annular outer ring portion 12 located at a radial direction outer side of the inner ring portion 11 and having a plurality of bolt holes 12b through which the outer ring portion 12 is secured to a fixing portion side with a plurality of bolts 12a, and bridge portions 13 integrally connecting the inner ring portion 11 and the outer ring portion 12 at positions except the bolt holes 12b in a circumferential direction.

Abstract: Provided is an inkjet printing apparatus comprising: a print head that ejects ink; a tank that contains ink to be supplied to the print head; a floating body that floats on the liquid surface of the ink inside the tank; and an electrode pin that detects the level of the liquid surface inside the tank. The floating body includes an opening portion in which to insert the electrode pin, and a perimeter of the opening portion protrudes from a top surface side of the floating body.

Abstract: A stirring apparatus includes a shredder that shreds a sheet; a case that accommodates a sheet piece shredded by the shredder and has a bottom surface and an inner surface; and a rotator that is disposed at the bottom surface of the case and includes a blade which stirs the sheet piece by rotation, in which L1<L3<L2, when between an outer end of the blade and the inner surface in a radial direction of the rotator, a shortest distance in the radial direction is defined as L1, a longest distance in the radial direction is defined as L2, and an average major axis length of the sheet piece is defined as L3.

Abstract: A raw-material feeding device includes: a storage section that includes a bottom section and a side wall standing from the bottom section and that stores, in a storage space surrounded by the bottom section and the side wall, small pieces of raw material constituted by a material containing fibers; a stirring section that is provided in the bottom section at a position facing the storage space, that includes a blade which rotates about a rotational axis extending in a direction in which the side wall stands, and that stirs the raw material in the storage space by rotating the blade; a first discharging section that is provided in the side wall so as to communicate with the storage space, that includes a first tubular body rotating about a first axis intersecting the rotational axis, and that discharges, upon rotation of the first tubular body, the raw material in the storage space to a processing section; and a second discharging section that is provided in the side wall at a position different from a positio

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head, an ink tank, a supply flow path, a supply pump located in the supply flow path, a collection flow path, a relief flow path connecting a first position in the supply flow path to a second position in the supply flow path, wherein the first position is located at a downstream side of the supply pump in the supply flow path and the second position located at an upstream side of the supply pump in the supply flow path, and a differential pressure regulating valve located in the relief flow path and configured to, in a case where the pressure of the pumped ink in the supply flow path is larger than a predetermined value, open the relief flow path so as to allow ink in the supply flow path to flow from the first position to the second position.

Abstract: A solid-state image pickup device includes a plurality of pixels, a pixel connection section, and a pixel reset section. The plurality of pixels each include a photoelectric conversion section that generates a charge according to irradiated light, a charge holding section that holds the generated charge, and a signal generation section that generates as an image signal a signal according to the held charge. The pixel connection section conducts between charge holding sections of the plurality of pixels and thereby allows each of the charge holding sections of the plurality of pixels to hold the charge that has been generated by the photoelectric conversion section of one pixel of the plurality of pixels. The pixel reset section discharges and resets the charge of the respective charge holding sections of the plurality of pixels when the pixel connection section conducts between the respective charge holding sections of the plurality of pixels.

Abstract: A stacked workpiece molding device 1 includes: a first mold 20 configured to suck and hold a workpiece body 42; and a second mold 30 having on an inner surface a pattern that can be transferred to a surface of a sheet material 44 stacked on the workpiece body 42 and press the sheet material 44 against the workpiece body 42. The inner surface of the second mold 30 includes a groove portion 31 that is positioned at a peripheral edge portion of the workpiece body 42, the second mold 30 includes a through-hole 32 extending to open into the groove portions 31, the through-hole 32 is connected to a first suction device 51 that sucks the sheet material 44, and the first mold 20 includes a suction hole 22 for sucking the workpiece body 42, and the suction hole 22 is connected to a second suction device 52.

Abstract: Provided is an inkjet printing apparatus comprising: a print head that ejects ink; a tank that contains ink to be supplied to the print head; a floating body that floats on the liquid surface of the ink inside the tank; and an electrode pin that detects the level of the liquid surface inside the tank. The floating body includes an opening portion in which to insert the electrode pin, and a perimeter of the opening portion protrudes from a top surface side of the floating body.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light-emitting device includes: providing a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; forming, on or above the first surface of the substrate, a semiconductor structure comprising a light-emitting layer; forming a crack inside the substrate, the crack reaching the first surface of the substrate; disposing a wavelength conversion layer on the second surface of the substrate; forming a first recess in the wavelength conversion layer by removing a first portion of the wavelength conversion layer, the first portion overlapping with the crack when viewed in a direction from the wavelength conversion layer toward the semiconductor structure, and leaving a second portion of the wavelength conversion layer between the first recess and the semiconductor structure; and cleaving the second portion along the crack.