Abstract: An optical synthetic resin composed of: a synthetic resin; and fine particles dispersed in the synthetic resin at a ratio of 0.1 vol % or more to 50 vol % or less, each having a maximum length of 1 nm or more to 30 nm or less, in which part of surfaces of the fine particles are modified with functional groups which themselves repel each other, and a distance between two arbitrary adjacent fine particles among the fine particles is in a range of 0.1 nm or more to 500 nm or less. The two arbitrary adjacent fine particles attract each other with an intermolecular force, thereby making it possible to provide an optical composite deviating from an additivity range.

Abstract: A radio unit and a baseband processing unit perform wireless communications with a plurality of base station apparatuses compatible with a plurality of wireless communication schemes, respectively. A battery remaining amount management unit inspects a remaining amount of battery to be supplied to the radio unit and the like. A control unit controls standby operations that the radio unit and the baseband processing unit are to perform on the plurality of wireless communication schemes, based on the remaining amount of battery inspected by the battery remaining amount management unit. The control unit defines degrees of priority for the plurality of wireless communication schemes, respectively. As the remaining amount of battery becomes low, the control unit sets long a time interval of the standby operation for a base station compatible with a wireless communication scheme having a low degree of priority.

Abstract: An optical pickup device is provided which is compatible with at least two types of optical disc standards having different NAs and which controls an effective NA when a light beam for an optical disc standard having a relatively small NA is converged, thereby forming a desired spot. An inner part 131B and an outer part 131F of an objective lens element 143 are provided with diffraction structures different from each other. A condition (1), DO11×DO12>0, and a condition (2), DO21×DO22<0, are satisfied (DO11 (DO21) is the diffraction order of the diffracted light beam having the highest diffraction efficiency among light beams of the wavelength ?1 (?2) diffracted by the diffraction structure on the inner part; and DO12 (DO22) is the diffraction order of the diffracted light beam having the highest diffraction efficiency among light beams of the wavelength ?1 (?2) diffracted by the diffraction structure on the outer part).

Abstract: A novel binuclear metal complex containing a biimidazole as a bridging ligand. The binuclear metal complex can be used as a material for an organic electroluminescence element.

Abstract: A device information management apparatus for processing a report from a device management client during a failure of a transaction system is disclosed. The device information management apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive the report from the device management client; a determining unit configured to determine whether to process the report based on an importance level of the report and a load (workload) level of the device information management apparatus; a processing unit configured to process the report if the determining unit determines to process the report; and a discarding unit configured to discard the report if the determining unit determines not to process the report.

Abstract: The light-shielding coating contains (a) a resin, (b) a coloring material, (c) inorganic fine particles, and (d) a surfactant and/or an oil. The concentration of Component (d), the surfactant and/or the oil, is higher in the uppermost layer of the coating than in the lower layer. The content ratio of Component (d) is in the range of 10 to 40 weight % relative to the total weight of the light-shielding coating. The optical element features this light-shielding coating.

Abstract: A high-NA and thin objective lens which prevents occurrence of a crack during lens molding and can stably be molded is provided. The present invention is directed to an objective lens having an optical surface having power which is not negative. The objective lens is a single lens and is formed such that a flat portion which is provided at an outer peripheral portion and perpendicular to the optical axis is closer to a disc surface than the position of the top of an exit-side surface of the objective lens and such that the rate of change in sag of the exit-side surface is continuous across the entire region.

Abstract: An endoscope includes: an image pickup device mounted in a distal end portion of an insertion portion; wiring that transmits a power supply having a plurality of different power supply voltages for driving the image pickup device, a drive signal that drives the image pickup device, an image pickup signal that is outputted from the image pickup device, and a ground level; a substrate on which a connector that relays the wiring is provided; a first voltage comparing portion that compares the plurality of different power supply voltages; a power supply generation portion that generates a plurality of second power supply voltages; a second voltage comparing portion that compares the plurality of second power supply voltages; and a power supply control portion that controls a supply of power to the image pickup device based on comparison results of the first and second voltage comparing portions.

Abstract: Methods to load control programs into an optical transceiver whose specifications follow the standards are disclosed. The standard transceiver, such as SFP transceiver and/or XFP transceiver, provides control terminals in addition to the serial interface to communicate with the host device. The control terminals are inactive when the transceiver is output of the host device. The loader to load the program utilizes those control terminals and the optical transceiver of the invention provides mechanisms to use those control terminals for downloading the program.

Abstract: An optical system for optical pickup includes a magnification conversion optical element moving along an optical axis direction in accordance with each of optical recording medium recording surfaces, and an objective lens element converging a light beam incident through the magnification conversion optical element, to form a spot on a corresponding one of the recording surfaces, and satisfies the following formula: 4.0×10?4<Mn/(tn?tc)×f<6.0×10?4. Here tc is the thickness [?m] of a recording-medium base material at which a third-order spherical aberration occurring when a parallel light beam is incident on the objective lens element is the minimum, f is the focal length [mm] of the objective lens element, and Mn is the imaging magnification of the objective lens element when a spot is formed through a thickness tn [?m]of the base plate.

Abstract: An antireflection structure having a high antireflection effect is provided. An antireflection structure (50) reduces reflection of light having a wavelength equal to or larger than a predetermined wavelength, and absorbs the light whose reflection is reduced. The antireflection structure (50) includes a base structure portion (7) which is configured to have a plurality of structural units (70) arranged on a reference plane, and each having a tilted surface (71) so that an angle between the first side surface (71) and a reference plane (51) is a predetermined angle, and a plurality of fine concave/convex portions (8, 8, . . . ) which are formed on a surface of the base structure portion (7), and arranged within a cycle equal to or smaller than the predetermined wavelength.

Abstract: There is a need for decreasing a variation in times for writing to TFT elements for pixels in a direction along the extension of a gate line in a liquid crystal display apparatus. A display apparatus includes a display panel having multiple gate lines and drain lines arranged in a matrix and a data driver for outputting a display data signal to each drain line. The data driver includes: an internal control signal generation circuit generating an internal control signal for setting a timing to output a data signal to a drain line of each block on a block basis by dividing the plurality of drain lines into multiple blocks; and a register circuit for recording a setting for division of the block, a setting for delay direction and width of a timing to output the data signal, and a setting for rising and falling of an internal control signal.

Abstract: A synthetic resin leather has a substrate and a synthetic resin layer attached to the substrate. The substrate is a both sides cross-knitted fabric and is prepared by cross-knitting a first yarn with 10 to 40 in count including single spun or mixed spun fibers made of rayon, cotton, polyester, nylon, acryl, or urethane and a second yarn with 50 to 300 in denier including crimpy long fiber filaments, thermoplastic elastomer long fiber filaments or polyurethane long fiber filaments; and knitting the both-sided cross-knitted fabric so loops made of the first yarn and loops made of the second yarn are formed on the front and rear sides of the substrate and are in alternating positions on the front side as compared to the rear side; and, on each side of the substrate, loops of the first and second yarns are formed in alternating positions in longitudinal and transverse directions.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid composite for producing a three-dimensional shaped article, the liquid composite being used in an inkjet printer, the liquid composite including a porous carbon material having a specific surface area value as measured by the nitrogen BET method of 10 m2/g or more, a pore volume as measured by the BJH method of 0.1 cm3/g or more and a pore volume as measured by the MP method of 0.1 cm3/g or more.

Abstract: In a diffractive optical element, first and second optical members are stacked, and a diffraction grating is formed at an interface between the first and second optical members. In the diffractive optical element, an absorption coefficient ? (mm?1) of the first optical member and a grating height h (?m) of the diffraction grating satisfy expressions (1) and (2): ??0.04??(1) h?263.18×??0.9454??(2).

Abstract: An impedance matching apparatus includes: a cable that transmits a rectangular wave outputted from a solid image pickup device; a correlated double sampling circuit that performs scanning of the rectangular wave by sampling the rectangular wave with a timing of a signal clamp pulse being changed, based on a timing of the feed-through sampling pulse fixed at a timing at which the rectangular wave by the cable indicates a high value; a variable resistance provided at a tail end side of the cable; and a resistance value varying unit that, that performs the scanning with a resistance value of the variable resistance being changed, based on a signal outputted from the correlated double sampling circuit, changes a resistance value of the variable resistance so as to match a characteristic impedance of the cable.

Abstract: An optical element which has optical steps each providing a phase difference to transmitted light and has low light amount loss and a high efficiency is provided. The optical element includes a symmetry axis, a plurality of optically functional surfaces which are ring-shaped regions around the symmetry axis, and a plurality of wall regions connecting the optically functional surfaces to each other. The optically functional surfaces and the wall regions constitute the optical steps. On a cross-section taken by, as a cutting plane, a plane including the symmetry axis, the contour line of each wall region is substantially parallel to a light beam which is incident on the optically functional surface on the outer side and passes near the wall region. The maximum value of the angle between the symmetry axis and the light beam passing near the wall region is equal to or more than 25 degrees.

Abstract: In a diffractive optical element, a first optical member and a second optical member are stacked, and a diffraction grating is formed at an interface between the first and second optical members. The diffractive optical element is configured so that the followings fall within a predetermined range: an inter-material gradient which is a ratio of an amount of change in reference refractive indexes between the first optical member and the second optical member, to an amount of change in principal dispersions between the first optical member and the second optical member; and a blaze wavelength of the diffraction grating.

Abstract: A storage unit stores a preamble signal defined in a legacy system and a preamble signal defined in a MIMO system. A monitoring unit in a transmitting apparatus monitors the existence of any communication apparatus which is not compatible with the MIMO system but accepts the legacy system. A channel characteristics acquiring unit derives the characteristics of a radio channel between the transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus. A selector selects a packet format based on a monitoring result obtained by the monitoring unit. The selector also selects where to place LTS, based on the characteristics of wireless channel derived by the channel characteristics acquiring unit.

Abstract: There is a need for decreasing a variation in times for writing to TFT elements for pixels in a direction along the extension of a gate line in a liquid crystal display apparatus. A display apparatus includes a display panel having multiple gate lines and drain lines arranged in a matrix and a data driver for outputting a display data signal to each drain line. The data driver includes: an internal control signal generation circuit generating an internal control signal for setting a timing to output a data signal to a drain line of each block on a block basis by dividing the plurality of drain lines into multiple blocks; and a register circuit for recording a setting for division of the block, a setting for delay direction and width of a timing to output the data signal, and a setting for rising and falling of an internal control signal.