Abstract: A lens barrel includes a lens holding frame configured to hold a lens and being provided with a cam follower, a guide tube engaging with the lens holding frame and being configured to rectilinearly guide the lens holding frame in an optical axis direction, and a cam tube engaging with the cam follower and being provided with a cam slot which engages with the cam follower, the cam tube being configured to rotate about the optical axis thereby to move the lens holding member in the optical axis direction, wherein the cam slot has a locus including a flat portion orthogonal to the optical axis and a lift portion not orthogonal to the optical axis, wherein the flat portion has a surface perpendicular to the optical axis, and wherein the cam follower has a surface parallel to the perpendicular surface.

Abstract: The present invention generally provides methods and apparatuses that are adapted to form a high quality dielectric gate layer on a substrate. Embodiments contemplate a method wherein a metal plasma treatment process is used in lieu of a standard nitridization process to form a high dielectric constant layer on a substrate. Embodiments further contemplate an apparatus adapted to “implant” metal ions of relatively low energy in order to reduce ion bombardment damage to the gate dielectric layer, such as a silicon dioxide layer and to avoid incorporation of the metal atoms into the underlying silicon. In general, the process includes the steps of forming a high-k dielectric and then terminating the surface of the deposited high-k material to form a good interface between the gate electrode and the high-k dielectric material.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electronic device that is connected to one or more other devices via a specified signal line and capable of operating in accordance with a control signal transmitted from any of the one or more other devices connected to the electronic device. The electronic device includes: a reception section configured to receive the control signal transmitted from any of the one or more other devices connected to the electronic device; a control section configured to perform a specified process if, after receiving a specific control signal, the reception section does not receive a control signal corresponding to the specific control signal within a set signal waiting period; and a waiting period adjustment section configured to adjust the signal waiting period based on traffic in the signal line.

Abstract: An optical apparatus is capable of achieving reduction in noise caused by lens driving and reduction in size. The optical apparatus includes a main and a movable housing member which houses a lens movable in a direction of an optical axis. The housing member is movable in the optical axis direction between a first position where the movable housing member is retracted in the main body and a second position where the movable housing member protrudes from the first position. Further, the apparatus includes a first actuator which moves the movable housing member between the first position and the second position, and a second actuator which moves the lens with respect to the movable housing member.

Abstract: A multi-function apparatus having a plurality of functions relating to an image processing and configured to selectively realize one of the plurality of functions, including: a plurality of operation keys which are operated by a user so as to control the multi-function apparatus; a display device configured to display an operation view for assisting the user in operating the plurality of operation keys; and a display control section configured to control the display device to display the operation view in which a plurality of images respectively representing the plurality of operation keys are displayed, such that an image of each of at least one active key each as an active one of the plurality of operation keys is displayed in the view in a first manner, while an image of each of at least one inactive key each as an inactive one of the plurality of operation keys is displayed in the view in a second manner which is different from the first manner.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a plurality of photoelectric converting elements, each of which is provided with an electric charge output port, and a group of channel selection switches that turn on and off between the electric charge output port and a common signal line. A resolution of the image sensor is determined by ON-OFF patterns of a signal used for designating a resolution, at a timing of a rising or falling edge of a signal for setting a timing for designating the resolution during the period that a signal for setting a period for designating the resolution is on.

Abstract: There is provided an image displaying device including a first display area on which thumbnail images respectively corresponding to a plurality of pieces of image data are displayed, the thumbnail images being selectable on the first display area; a second display area on which an image corresponding to one of the thumbnail images selected through the first display area is displayed; a setting unit to set an enlargement condition of the image being displayed on the second display area, the enlargement condition including an enlarging factor; a storing unit to store the enlargement condition; and a display control unit configured such that in response to selection of one of the thumbnail images, the display control unit displays the image corresponding to a selected thumbnail image in accordance with the stored enlargement condition.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a display, a retrieving unit, a process display unit, a process receiving unit, a process storing unit, a thumbnail display unit, and a thumbnail designating unit. The retrieving unit retrieves image data. The process display unit displays on the display a plurality of candidate image processes to be performed on the image data. The process receiving unit receives an instruction indicating a selected image process selected from among the plurality of candidate image processes. The process storing unit stores the selected image process. The thumbnail display unit displays a thumbnail image corresponding to the image data on the display. The thumbnail designating unit designates a thumbnail image. The thumbnail display unit displays a processed thumbnail image that represents a result of the selected process performed on the image data corresponding to the designated thumbnail image.

Abstract: An image-displaying device includes a storing unit and a displaying unit. The storing unit stores correlation data between a plurality of thumbnails and a sequence of the plurality of thumbnails. The displaying unit is capable of displaying a predetermined maximum number of thumbnails based on the correlation data. If a displayed thumbnail is selected by a user, the displaying unit displays identification data identifying the selected thumbnail together with the selected thumbnail. If identification data is selected by a user, the displaying unit displays a thumbnail corresponding to the selected identification data.

Abstract: An image processor enabling a user to quickly select desired images from a large number of images without scrolling repeatedly through the images. The image processor assigns image numbers to segments of a scroll bar and displays image data corresponding to an image number assigned at the position on the scroll bar pressed by the user. The image processor also reduces the number of image numbers assigned per segment of the scroll bar near the image number at the pressed position on the scroll bar to facilitate the user in specifying a desired image through a subsequent input operation.

Abstract: A device and method is provided for generating color data for image formation by converting C, M, Y, data into C, M, Y, K data. The minimum value of the three color values of C, M, Y is selected and, depending on the color of the minimum value, a black data generating table is selected to generate a value for the black color K. The black data generating tables have different black data conversion characteristics from one another and are associated with the three colors of cyan, magenta, and yellow, respectively.

Abstract: A storage unit stores a plurality of pieces of image information and a plurality of pieces of position information corresponding to respective ones of the plurality of images individually. The storage unit correlates the plurality of pieces of image information with respective ones of the plurality of pieces of position information individually. The plurality of images is displayed on the display based on the plurality of pieces of image information and the plurality of pieces of position information, respectively. An image selection unit selects at least a first image and a second image from the plurality of images. An information interchange unit interchanges first image information of the first image with second image information of the second image, or interchanges first position information of the first image with second position information of the second image.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a thumbnail display control unit, a process display control unit, and a changing unit. The thumbnail display control unit controls a thumbnail image representing a content of the image data to display on the touch panel. The process display control unit controls process-indicating images corresponding to a plurality of candidate processes to be performed on the image data to display on the touch panel together with the thumbnail image. The changing unit changes a designated thumbnail image to a processed thumbnail image that represents a result of the designated process performed on the image data corresponding to the designated thumbnail image designated while maintaining to display the thumbnail image other than the designated thumbnail image designated each time the process designating unit designates the process.

Abstract: A peripheral apparatus is provided. The peripheral apparatus includes a display, the peripheral apparatus being configured to process input images based on one of a plurality of operation conditions displayed on the display, each of the operation conditions comprising a plurality of set items, each of the set items comprising a plurality of possible set values; a setting unit that sets a set value for each of the plurality of set items; an operation condition storing unit that stores the plurality of operation conditions and associated set items and set values; and a display controlling unit that controls the display to array and display the plurality of operation conditions, including setting items and set values corresponding to the respective operating conditions, on the display.

Abstract: A stereoscopic displaying apparatus includes: an image generating section having a right eye image generating region on which a right eye image light is generated and a left eye image generating region on which a left eye image light is generated; a polarizing plate that emits the right eye image light and the left eye image light generated by the image generating section in the same polarizing direction; and a polarization axis control plate on which the right eye image light and the left eye image light from the polarizing plate are incident, and from which the right eye image light and the left eye image light are emitted as linear polarized lights of which polarization axes are orthogonalized to each other or circularly polarized lights of which polarization axes are rotated in the directions opposite to each other.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a stereoscopic displaying apparatus is provided.

Abstract: An image data processing device includes a plurality of image data treating units, a storing unit, and a setting unit. The plurality of image data treating units treats image data. The storing unit stores a plurality of conditions relating to a property of image data to be treated by each of the image data treating units. The setting unit is configured to set a condition in the storing unit to each of at least two of the image data treating units at a time. The conditions set to the at least two of the image data treating units is associated with one another so that the at least two of the image data treating units treat image data with same concept of processing.

Abstract: An image sensor including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in a main scanning direction, a plurality of switching elements connected to respective ones of the photoelectric conversion elements, individually, and a controller for generating a clock signal to control the switching elements. The photoelectric conversion elements are divided into plural groups, each including a predetermined number (N) of the photoelectric conversion elements. The outputs from the photoelectric conversion elements in one group are read out simultaneously in response to the clock signal generated from the controller, thereby attaining a high speed reading of a document.

Abstract: The hierarchical structure display device includes a hierarchical structure storing unit, a display unit, and a display control unit. The hierarchical structure storing unit stores information about a hierarchical structure of menus where each item contained in a menu is linked to a directly beneath level menu. The display control unit controls the display unit to display at least one menu in the display screen and to preserve at least a first region in the display screen for displaying titles of items contained in a menu of interest. The titles of items contained in a menu are arranged one after another in the second direction with each title extending in the first direction, and the first region has a first length in the first direction long enough to entirely visibly indicate the titles of items.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus configured to connect an external device in conformity with a predetermined interface specification, includes: a control LSI configured to control signal output to an external device effectively connected; and a CPU configured to control the operation within the apparatus including the control LSI as a whole; wherein the CPU includes an interface circuit connected to a detecting unit configured to detect the validity of connection to an external device, a control LSI control unit configured to control reset of the control LSI, and release of the reset state of the control LSI according to the detection result of the detecting unit, and the control LSI.