Abstract: An information processing system includes circuitry that creates first marketing data including first content and first uniform resource locator (URL) information. The first content is specified in accordance with an operation performed on a first information terminal. The first URL information is according to a customer. In response to access by a terminal of the customer to a page indicated by the first URL information after a first medium based on the first marketing data is delivered to the customer, the circuitry transmits an access notification to a second information terminal to notify the access to the page indicated by the first URL information. The circuitry receives second content information related to the access notification and specified in accordance with an operation performed on the second information terminal. The circuitry creates second marketing data related to the customer and including second content indicated by the received second content information.

Abstract: A control system assists generation of a distribution content item representing progress of a video game played by a user. The control system includes at least one memory that stores a program; and at least one processor that executes the program to (i) provide the user with address information representing an address of material data on an effect material used for the distribution content item, (ii) under a control condition set in accordance with instructions from the user, update the material data in conjunction with progress of the video game played by the user, and (iii) in conjunction with the progress of the video game played by the user, transmit the material data to the editing system based on a request that uses the address information from an editing system that generates the distribution content item.

Abstract: A sheet material machining system includes a sheet material machining machine which is configured to machine a workpiece to produce a machined workpiece that includes a plurality of products and a residual material. The machined workpiece is configured to be placed on a sorting table. The plurality of products are configured to be placed on a temporary placement table. At least one product among the plurality of products are configured to be placed on a discharge table. A carrier includes an attracting actuator and a mobile actuator. The order management processor is configured to control the carrier and includes a storage configured to memorize a layout of the plurality of products in the workpiece. The plurality of products are associated with an attracting order.

Abstract: A sheet metal working system includes a laser machining apparatus for processing a sheet metal in a laser machining region, a camera for photographing the laser machining region, an illuminator for illuminating the sheet metal, and circuitry configured to process an image photographed by the camera. The laser machining apparatus includes a sheet metal support member having a plate shape, the sheet metal support member having a plurality of elongated projections arranged in a first direction in a laser machining region. The sheet metal is disposed on the plurality of elongated projections. The camera is arranged such that the optical axis of the camera is oriented substantially parallel to the first direction when viewed in the height direction of the laser machining apparatus. The circuitry detects a bright region in the image as a machining available area of the sheet metal.

Abstract: A sheet material machining system includes a sheet material machining machine which is configured to machine a workpiece to produce a machined workpiece that includes a plurality of products and a residual material. The machined workpiece is configured to be placed on a sorting table. The plurality of products are configured to be placed on a temporary placement table. At least one product among the plurality of products are configured to be placed on a discharge table. A carrier includes an attracting actuator and a mobile actuator. The order management processor is configured to control the carrier and includes a storage configured to memorize a layout of the plurality of products in the workpiece. The plurality of products are associated with an attracting order.

Abstract: When a jig to be used at the time of cutting and machining a workpiece W with a laser beam machine 1 is produced, a shape of a workpiece supporting portion 23a for supporting the workpiece by abutting on the workpiece at the time of supporting the workpiece is produced from drawing data CD showing the three dimensional shape of the workpiece.

Abstract: When a jig to be used at the time of cutting and machining a workpiece W with a laser beam machine 1 is produced, a shape of a workpiece supporting portion 23a for supporting the workpiece by abutting on the workpiece at the time of supporting the workpiece is produced from drawing data CD showing the three dimensional shape of the workpiece, two or more jig parts 25 having a shape corresponding to the shape of the workpiece supporting portion are cut out of a material sheet 27 on the basis of the shape of the workpiece supporting portion produced, the two or more jig parts cut out are assembled so as to produce a jig assembly 23 having the shape corresponding to the workpiece supporting portion.

Abstract: When a color image is formed using exposure units, photoconductive drums, developing machines, transfer printing machines and the like, a color patch using each monochrome toner prepared for the above developing machines and a color patch formed by overlapping plural colors of toner are formed on a transfer medium as sample images. After the two types of color patches are fixed by a fixing roll, they are detected by a fixed image density sensor installed after the fixing roll. A control section corrects an image formation condition based upon difference in density between the two types of sample images.

Abstract: A specific reflection area 42 on a paper surface 37a is irradiated with light from a light source 41 via nor not via a lens 43. A photoelectric conversion element 44 is placed on a focal surface in the rearward of the lens 43 and out of the light reflected (including scattering light and diffusion light) from the reflection area 42 on the paper surface 37a, only the whole light reflected within a predetermined angular range is received by the photoelectric conversion element 44 via the lens 43. The density of the image formed on the paper surface 37a is measured from the light reception output. When the paper surface 37a is irradiated with light from the light source 41 via the lens 43, the light source 41 is placed backward from the focal surface 43b in the rearward of the lens 43.

Abstract: An unfixed toner image of a reference pattern is formed on a photosensitive member, the unfixed toner image is measured by a development density sensor 13, and the amount of toner to be supplied to a developing device 4 is controlled by a toner supply control unit 60 on the basis of a measurement output, thereby maintaining the image quality constant. If it is judged from a result of a detection of a state amount such as the temperature and the humidity by a state amount sensor 19 that there is a fear that the image quality exceeds an allowable range, a fixed image of a reference pattern is formed on a record medium such as a banner sheet, and the fixed image is measured by an optical sensor 10. Operation amounts such as the charge amount and the exposure value of an image output unit 100 are controlled by an image density control unit 20, thereby maintaining the image quality to be within the allowable range.

Abstract: A thin-film type photoelectric conversion device for use in an image input unit of facsimile equipment, a scanner and the like, which uses a thin-film semiconductor as a phoconductive layer to reading not only a monochromatic image but also a color image with high resolution. A photoelectric conversion device having a photoconductive layer disposed between opposing electrodes, in which a surface facing in a direction perpendicular to a direction of film deposition of the photoconductive layer acting as a light-receiving surface.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor element such as a thin film transistor or a photo diode, in which a voltage is applied to an organic insulating layer in the direction vertical to a substrate during a coating process of polyimide constituting the interlayer insulating layer formed over a semiconductor layer, a prebaking process for initial hardening which immediately follows the coating process, and a postbaking process after the pattern formation of the interlayer insulating layer.

Abstract: An image sensor having an photodetecting element array including a plurality of blocks linearly arrayed in a main scan direction, each block consisting of a plurality of photodetecting elements, a plurality of switching elements for transferring every block charges generated in the photodetecting elements, and drive ICs for outputting the charges in the form of image signals. In the image sensor, the switching elements in a block of the photodetecting element array and the switching elements in another block located adjacent to the former block are connected by wires in such a way that the switching elements closest to each other between the blocks are interconnected, the switching elements next close to each other are interconnected, and so on.

Abstract: An image sensor having an photodetecting element array including a plurality of blocks linearly arrayed in a main scan direction, each block consisting of a plurality of photodetecting elements, a plurality of switching elements for transferring every block charges generated in the photodetecting elements, and drive ICs for outputting the charges in the form of image signals. In the image sensor, the switching elements in a block of the photodetecting element array and the switching elements in another block located adjacent to the former block are connected by wires in such a way that the switching elements closest to each other between the blocks are interconnected, the switching elements next close to each other are interconnected, and so on.

Abstract: An image sensor manufacturing method, in which a chromium layer or the tantalum layer as barrier metal is formed on the semiconductor layer as the ohmic contact layer of the thin film transistor switching element (TFT). With use of the chromium layer or the tantalum layer, the semiconductor layers of an n.sup.+ hydrogenated amorphous silicon (n.sup.+ a-Si:H) can be protected when metal, e.g., aluminum, is vapor deposited or deposited by the sputtering method. Accordingly, the characteristic of the semiconductor layers can be kept intact, and consequently the reliability of the image sensor is improved. Further, when the chromium layer or the tantalum layer as barrier metal is formed, the lower electrode portion of the photo detect element is formed using the same layer, in the same photolithograph process. Accordingly, the manufacturing of image sensors is simpler than that of the same in which the photo detect elements and the TFTs are formed in different process steps.

Abstract: A device for photoelectric conversion and a process for fabricating the device are provided. The device exhibits superior dark current characteristics, and therefore a superior contrast ratio. The device is arranged to reduce or eliminate the vertical component of an electric field under an area where an ohmic contact, rather than a Schottky barrier, exists. The device can be fabricated using process equipment that sputters one or more of the device layers, including the wiring metal.