Abstract: An image capturing apparatus comprises a taking optical system including a zoom lens element capable of changing a focal length, an imaging part for acquiring an image of a subject transmitted from the taking optical system, as a captured image, a driving part for driving the zoom lens element to change the focal length, and a limiting part for limiting a driving range of the zoom lens element such that a distortion aberration of the zoom lens element falls within a predetermined range.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus comprises: a body; a display part movable relative to the body, the display part having a display screen capable of being changed in orientation according to a movement relative to the body; a detector for detecting an orientation of the display screen; and a display controller for determining an assistant index to be employed in capturing an image for face recognition according to the orientation of the display screen detected by the detector, and displaying the assistant index on the display screen.

Abstract: An image display in which a resistance value of internal wiring for inputting a signal and a power supply to a driving IC COG-packaged on an insulating substrate composing a display panel is reduced without enlarging external size of the display panel, and a method of manufacturing the image display. In internal wiring 8 for inputting a signal and a power supply to a driving IC 4 COG-packaged on a first insulating substrate 1, first layer internal wiring 8a is composed of a first conductive film forming a scanning line, etc., and second layer internal wiring 8b is composed of a second conductive film forming a signal line, etc. Connecting wiring 15 for connecting the first layer internal wiring 8a and the second layer internal wiring 8b is formed simultaneously with formation of a display electrode, and the internal wiring 8 is formed into a multi-layer structure connected electrically parallel.

Abstract: A high-precision patterning is conducted with a half-tone resist thickness being prevented from varying due to the presence/absence of a base film. A transmitting portion and two kinds of semi-transmitting portions, providing different quantities of transmitted light, are provided in a photomask for exposing a resist, and a smaller-transimitting-light-quantity semi-transmitting portion is used in a base film-present area and a large-transmitting light-quantity semi-transmitting portion is used in a base-film-free area to regulate luminous exposure while exposing, thereby forming a half-tone resist having uniform thickness.

Abstract: An image output apparatus for outputting an image to an image capturing apparatus comprises a first acquisition part for acquiring information concerning a display resolution of a display of the image capturing apparatus, a change part for changing an output resolution of the image in accordance with the display resolution, and an output part for outputting the image with the output resolution changed by the change part to the image capturing apparatus. The change part changes the output resolution to a resolution lower than an original resolution of the image.

Abstract: An image display in which a resistance value of internal wiring for inputting a signal and a power supply to a driving IC COG-packaged on an insulating substrate composing a display panel is reduced without enlarging external size of the display panel, and a method of manufacturing the image display. In internal wiring 8 for inputting a signal and a power supply to a driving IC 4 COG-packaged on a first insulating substrate 1, first layer internal wiring 8a is composed of a first conductive film forming a scanning line, etc., and second layer internal wiring 8b is composed of a second conductive film forming a signal line, etc. Connecting wiring 15 for connecting the first layer internal wiring 8a and the second layer internal wiring 8b is formed simultaneously with formation of a display electrode, and the internal wiring 8 is formed into a multi-layer structure connected electrically parallel.

Abstract: The widths of those portions of a semiconductor layer 5 and a drain line 6a overlapping with it which cross an edge line of a gate electrode 2 are made smaller than the channel width of a thin-film transistor. With this measure, the overlap area of the gate electrode 2 and a drain electrode 6 is reduced. As a result, a variation of the above overlap area due to alignment errors in a photolithography apparatus used in patterning the gate lines 2, the drain electrodes 6, and source electrodes 7 can be reduced and the frequency of occurrence of display defects can be decreased.

Abstract: In an image taking apparatus according to the present invention, focus adjustment is performed based on image information in a focus adjustment area within a captured image in response to a movement instruction from a user as well as a focus adjustment mode switching instruction from the user. When detecting an instruction to switch to a position non-fixed focus adjustment mode, an initial position of the focus adjustment area in the position non-fixed focus adjustment mode immediately after mode switching is determined based on a position of a representative point of the focus adjustment area immediately before the mode switching.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus permits easy changing of the file name of an image file created by an image taking apparatus. A personal computer serving as the image processing apparatus is fed with an image file created by a digital camera, and replaces a first character string included in the file name of the image file with a second character string. The first character string consists only of characters usable in a file name on the digital camera, and the second character string consists of characters selected among all the characters usable on the personal computer. The first and second character strings are entered via a keyboard, and are stored, in the form of a look-up table that lists their correspondence, in a hard disk.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided that permits the clear grasping of the relationship between images and annotations when a plurality of images having annotations added to partial regions thereof are reproduced one after another. On a personal computer screen, when images taken with a digital camera are presented in a slide show, each parent image having annotations added thereto along with all the images added as annotation to that parent image is regarded as a group, and one such group after another is presented. Within each group, the parent image is reproduced before any of the images added as annotations thereto. When a parent image is reproduced, frames indicating the regions to which annotations are added are shown superimposed thereon.

Abstract: The widths of those portions of a semiconductor layer 5 and a drain line 6a overlapping with it which cross an edge line of a gate electrode 2 are made smaller than the channel width of a thin-film transistor. With this measure, the overlap area of the gate electrode 2 and a drain electrode 6 is reduced. As a result, a variation of the above overlap area due to alignment errors in a photolithography apparatus used in patterning the gate lines 2, the drain electrodes 6, and source electrodes 7 can be reduced and the frequency of occurrence of display defects can be decreased.

Abstract: An apparatus that permits annotation information to be added to a region within an image permits easy specification of a region and permits even omission of specification of a region. When an image to which to add annotation information is specified, a region at the center of the image is set and displayed as a region to which to add the annotation information. If this region does not agree with the region to which the user wants to add the annotation information, the user, by moving, enlarging, or reducing the displayed region frame, specifies the desired region; otherwise, specification of a region can be omitted. The region that was used to adjust the focus of a taking lens when the image was captured may be set as a region to which to add the annotation information.

Abstract: The widths of those portions of a semiconductor layer 5 and a drain line 6a overlapping with it which cross an edge line of a gate electrode 2 are made smaller than the channel width of a thin-film transistor. With this measure, the overlap area of the gate electrode 2 and a drain electrode 6 is reduced. As a result, a variation of the above overlap area due to alignment errors in a photolithography apparatus used in patterning the gate lines 2, the drain electrodes 6, and source electrodes 7 can be reduced and the frequency of occurrence of display defects can be decreased.

Abstract: The display device includes the lead line connected to pixels, the line terminal connected to the lead line and connected to the terminal of the drive circuit mounted directly on the insulating substrate by the conductive material through the transparent conductive film, the external terminal to be connected to an external unit, an external line connected to the external terminal, and an external line terminal connected to the external line and connected directly to the terminal of the drive circuit by the conductive material. The surface of the line terminal to be connected to the transparent conductive film is formed by the high resistance conductive film, and the surface of the external line terminal to be connected to the terminal of the drive circuit by the conductive material is formed by the low resistance conductive film.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image display apparatus and a program by which the user can easily compare images with each other on the basis of a link between the images. An image display apparatus has a storing part in which an a group of images classified according to predetermined criteria are stored. For images included in the image group, link relations are defined. A reading part reads the images and the link relations from the storing part and outputs them to a display part and a layout determining part. The layout determining part determines a layout of images on a display of the display part on the basis of the link relations.

Abstract: A high-precision patterning is conducted with a half-tone resist thickness being prevented from different due to the presence/absence of a base film. A transmitting portion and two kinds of semi-transmitting portions providing different quantities of transmitting light are provided in a photomask for exposing a resist, and a smaller-transimitting-light-quantity semi-transmitting portion is used in a base film-present area and a large-transmitting light-quantity semi-transmitting portion is used in a base film-absent area to regulate luminous exposure at exposing, thereby forming uniform-thickness half-tone resist.

Abstract: An image display in which a resistance value of internal wiring for inputting a signal and a power supply to a driving IC COG-packaged on an insulating substrate composing a display panel is reduced without enlarging external size of the display panel, and a method of manufacturing the image display. In internal wiring 8 for inputting a signal and a power supply to a driving IC 4 COG-packaged on a first insulating substrate 1, first layer internal wiring 8a is composed of a first conductive film forming a scanning line, etc., and second layer internal wiring 8b is composed of a second conductive film forming a signal line, etc. Connecting wiring 15 for connecting the first layer internal wiring 8a and the second layer internal wiring 8b is formed simultaneously with formation of a display electrode, and the internal wiring 8 is formed into a multi-layer structure connected electrically parallel.

Abstract: Image data obtained through image capturing are held on an internal memory 23. The image data are compressed by a CPU 22, recorded on a memory card 45, and sent by a communications interface 46, a Bluetooth™ transmission module 50, a portable telephone function unit 52 or the like. The CPU 22 is capable of compressing the image data at different compression ratios which are different between recording and sending. In this case, the image data held on the internal memory 23 are compressed at the different compression ratios and recorded in mutually different recording regions of the memory card.

Abstract: A charging circuit detects a battery voltage Vp and a charging voltage of a main condenser. When a charge of the condenser is instructed, if the battery voltage is smaller than prescribed value Vpo, the charge is performed in a single control mode. And then, when the charging voltage of the main condenser is larger than a prescribed value Vco, the mode is changed to a push-pull control mode from the single control mode. When the charge of the condenser is instructed, if the battery voltage is larger than prescribed value Vpo, the charge is performed in a push-poll control mode independent of the charging voltage.

Abstract: The widths of those portions of a semiconductor layer 5 and a drain line 6a overlapping with it which cross an edge line of a gate electrode 2 are made smaller than the channel width of a thin-film transistor. With this measure, the overlap area of the gate electrode 2 and a drain electrode 6 is reduced. As a result, a variation of the above overlap area due to alignment errors in a photolithography apparatus used in patterning the gate lines 2, the drain electrodes 6, and source electrodes 7 can be reduced and the frequency of occurrence of display defects can be decreased.