Abstract: An objective lens unit includes an objective lens, a first rotary member, a second rotary member, and a drive section. The objective lens is provided with a correction ring. The first rotary member is mounted on the objective lens. The second rotary member engages with the first rotary member. The first rotary member has a first engagement portion. The second rotary member has a second engagement portion that is to engage with the first engagement portion. The second engagement portion is disposed at a part in the circumferential direction of the second rotary member. The second rotary member rotates to be positioned at an engagement position or a retraction position. The engagement position is a position where the second engagement portion engages with the first engagement portion. The retraction position is a position where the second engagement portion retracts from the first engagement portion.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes first and second semiconductor fins, a first gate structure, and a second gate structure. The first and second semiconductor fins respectively includes a first channel region and a second channel region, which the first and second gate structures are respectively on. The first gate structure includes a first silicon oxide layer on the first channel region, a first high-k dielectric layer on the first silicon oxide layer, and a first metal gate on the first high-k dielectric layer. The second gate structure includes a second silicon oxide layer on the second channel region, a second high-k dielectric layer on the second silicon oxide layer, and a second metal gate on the second high-k dielectric layer. The first silicon oxide layer has a Si4+ ion concentration greater than a Si4+ ion concentration of a bottom portion of the second silicon oxide layer.

Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry: encodes information for deriving a parameter into a header of a bitstream; filters reconstructed samples in a first image using a filtering process, to generate a second image; determines whether the parameter has a predefined value; encodes a third image using the second image when the parameter has the predefined value; and encodes the third image using the first image when the parameter does not have the predefined value.

Abstract: To provide a system, a method and the like for acquiring more images or more quickly focused images. A control device acquires information regarding a situation of a range captured by an imaging device, determines a mode according to an assumed situation of the range captured by the imaging device among a plurality of focusing modes, and transmits designation information specifying the determined mode to the imaging device. The imaging device receives the designation information from the control device, and captures an image using the mode specified by the received designation information.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first insulated circuit board that is rectangular with first to fourth sides, including a first input wiring board and a first output wiring board each extending in a first direction parallel to the first side and being adjacent to each other. The first output wiring board includes a first output region electrically connected to a first output terminal and a first connection wiring region electrically connected to the output electrodes of the plurality of first semiconductor chips and being closer to the second side than is the first output region. The first connection wiring region has a first slit extending in the first direction from an end of the first connection wiring region at a side thereof where the first output region is located.

Abstract: An optical fiber connector member includes an optical fiber and a housing into which the optical fiber is inserted and that fixes the optical fiber. The housing includes a wedge portion that pressurizes the optical fiber only in a first direction included in diametric directions of the optical fiber.

Abstract: A timing detection device includes a main reference code generation module, an auxiliary reference code generation module, a first correlation processing module, a second correlation processing module, and a subtraction module. The main reference code generation module generates a main reference code consisting of the same code for synchronization included in a received signal. Using a portion of the same code as the code for synchronization, the auxiliary reference code generation module generates an auxiliary reference code consisting of a code configuration different from the main reference code and without generating a main lobe during correlation processing. The first correlation processing module correlates the received signal with the main reference code and outputs a first correlation result. The second correlation processing module correlates the received signal with the auxiliary reference code and outputs a second correlation result.

Abstract: A silicon-containing composition includes: a polysiloxane including a first structural unit represented by formula (1); and a solvent. X is an alkali-dissociable group; a is an integer of 1 to 3; and when a is 2 or more, a plurality of Xs are the same or different from each other. R1 is a monovalent organic group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a hydroxy group, or a halogen atom; b is an integer of 0 to 2; and when b is 2, two R1s are the same or different from each other. a + b is 3 or less.

Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus and an information processing method that enable users at remote locations to more naturally communicate with each other. Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a control unit, in which when a captured image captured by an imaging device in one space is displayed in real time by a display device in another space between a first space in which a first imaging device and a first display device are installed and a second space in which a second imaging device and a second display device are installed, the control unit acquires analysis target data obtained from a device installed in at least one of the first space or the second space, analyzes a state of a user by using the acquired analysis target data on the basis of a human visual characteristic, and controls a shape of a display area of the display device on the basis of an analysis result of the state of the user.

Abstract: A liquid processing apparatus includes a storage tank, a circulation line, a supply line, a return line and at least one filter. The storage tank stores a processing liquid therein. Through the circulation line, the processing liquid sent from the storage tank is returned back into the storage tank. The supply line connects the circulation line and a supply configured to supply the processing liquid onto a substrate. The return line is connected to the supply line, and the processing liquid is returned back into the storage tank from the supply line through the return line. The filter is provided in at least one of the supply line on an upstream side of a connection point between the return line and the supply line or the return line, and is configured to remove a foreign substance in the processing liquid.

Abstract: A semiconductor wafer according to the present embodiment includes a plurality of semiconductor chip regions and a division region. The plurality of semiconductor chip regions have a semiconductor element. The division region is provided between the semiconductor chip regions adjacent to each other. A first stacked body is provided on the division region. The first stacked body is configured with a plurality of first material films and a plurality of second material films alternately stacked.

Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light-emitting element includes a light-emitting layer comprising a well layer comprising AlGaN and emitting ultraviolet light; an electron blocking layer being located on the light-emitting layer and comprising AlGaN with a first Al composition ratio higher than an Al composition ratio of the well layer; and a p-type cladding layer being located on the electron blocking layer, comprising AlGaN with a second Al composition ratio higher than the Al composition ratio of the well layer and lower than the first Al composition ratio, and being doped with a predetermined concentration of a p-type dopant. An interface between the electron blocking layer and the p-type cladding layer is doped with not less than a predetermined amount of an n-type dopant.

Abstract: A substrate processing method includes: (a) disposing a substrate on a substrate support provided in a chamber of a substrate processing apparatus; (b) supplying a processing gas including hydrogen fluoride gas into the chamber; (c) controlling a temperature of the substrate support to a first temperature, and a pressure of the hydrogen fluoride gas in the chamber to a first pressure; and (d) controlling the temperature of the substrate support to a second temperature, and the pressure of the hydrogen fluoride gas in the chamber to a second pressure. In a graph with a horizontal axis indicating a temperature and a vertical axis indicating a pressure, the first temperature and the first pressure are positioned in a first region above an adsorption equilibrium pressure curve of hydrogen fluoride, and the second temperature and the second pressure are positioned in a second region below the adsorption equilibrium pressure curve.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light-emitting device includes: providing a structure body including: a first substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, the first surface including first regions and second regions; first light-emitting element portions respectively located on the first regions; and second light-emitting element portions respectively located on the second regions; fixing the first light-emitting element portions to a second substrate without fixing the second light-emitting element portions to the second substrate; subsequently, transferring the first light-emitting element portions from the first substrate to the second substrate by removing, from the second surface, portions of the first substrate overlapping the first regions when viewed from the second surface; and subsequently, separating the first light-emitting element portions from the second substrate in a state in which the second light-emitting element portions are located on the second regions.

Abstract: A connector includes inner conductors and an outer conductor. The outer conductor includes four plate portions surrounding outer peripheral surfaces of the inner conductors, a rear plate portion for closing a rear surface of the outer conductor and an opening provided behind the bottom plate portion and in front of the rear plate portion. The inner conductor includes a board connecting portion projecting outwardly of the outer conductor through the opening. The outer conductor includes a common base end portion connected to a rear end of the bottom plate portion via a bent portion and projecting toward the same side as the board connecting portion, and a plurality of branched pieces projecting from a projecting end of the common base end portion while being arranged in a width direction of the common base end portion.

Abstract: A fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell; a temperature acquisition unit that acquires a temperature at a specific position in a vehicle equipped with the fuel cell system; a purge unit that purges the fuel cell when an operation of the fuel cell is stopped; and a control unit that acquires the temperature at the specific position from the temperature acquisition unit at least once from when the fuel cell system is stopped until the fuel cell system is started again, and uses the temperature at the specific position to determine whether purging at a stop by the purge unit is necessary when the fuel cell system is stopped next.

Abstract: A polymerizable composition for an optical material containing two or more different monomers for an optical material, and a polymerization catalyst, in which at least one of the two or more different monomers for an optical material is an isocyanate compound containing an aromatic ring, a content of the polymerization catalyst with respect to a total of 100 parts by mass of the two or more different monomers for an optical material is from 0.010 parts by mass to 0.50 parts by mass, and the viscosity measured by a B-type viscometer at 25° C. and 60 rpm is from 10 mPa·s to 1,000 mPa·s.

Abstract: There is provided a light receiving device including: a pixel including a first tap configured to detect a charge photoelectrically converted by a photoelectric conversion unit, and a second tap configured to detect a charge photoelectrically converted by the photoelectric conversion unit; a first comparison circuit configured to compare a first detection signal detected by the first tap and a reference signal; a second comparison circuit configured to compare a second detection signal detected by the second tap and the reference signal; a first zero reset signal generation circuit configured to generate a first zero reset signal that is supplied to the first comparison circuit when the first comparison circuit performs an auto zero operation; and a second zero reset signal generation circuit configured to generate a second zero reset signal that is supplied to the second comparison circuit when the second comparison circuit performs an auto zero operation.

Abstract: A conveying device includes a conveying member that conveys a spray-receiving medium to be sprayed with pressure sensitive adhesive particles having a pressure-induced phase transition property, containing at least a binder resin, and having a sulfur content of 0.1 mass % or more and 0.5 mass % or less relative to an entirety of the pressure sensitive adhesive particles as measured by X-ray fluorescence; and a removing member that contacts the conveying member and removes the pressure sensitive adhesive particles remaining on the conveying member.

Abstract: A fiber-reinforced resin molding material molded product includes a fiber-reinforced resin molding material prepared by impregnating chopped fiber bundles obtained by cutting a reinforcing fiber bundle with a matrix resin, wherein in a region excluding 30 mm from an edge of the molded product, when an arbitrary rectangular region having an area of 40 mm2 or more and defined by a thickness of the molded product and a width in a direction perpendicular to a thickness direction of the molded product is set in a cross section in an arbitrary thickness direction of the molded product, with respect to a bundle thickness of the chopped fiber bundles present in the set rectangular region.