Abstract: An optical modulation element that can be housed in the same housing together with an electronic circuit is implemented without deteriorating the high-frequency characteristics and the optical modulation characteristics and without increasing a size of the housing.

Abstract: Provided is a novel beam delivery system for quantum computing applications that includes a beam delivery photonic integrated circuit on a chip and an optical relay assembly. The beam delivery photonic integrated circuit on a chip may contain one or more layers, and a layer may contain one or more inputs connecting one or more outputs. The optical relay assembly receives a beam or beams from one or more outputs from a layer of the beam delivery photonic integrated circuit. The optical relay assembly focuses each received beam on a corresponding position of an atomic object confinement apparatus.

Abstract: With a wavelength conversion device based on a nonlinear optical effect, when arrayed waveguides including an intended nonlinear waveguide are fabricated, unwanted slab waveguides are inevitably formed. The slab waveguides can cause an erroneous measurement in the selection of a waveguide having desired characteristics from the arrayed waveguides. The erroneous measurement can lead to redoing steps for fabricating the wavelength conversion device and a decrease in the yield and inhibit the evaluation of the characteristics in selection of the waveguide and the subsequent fabrication of the wavelength conversion device from being efficiently performed. A wavelength conversion device according to the present invention includes a plurality of waveguides formed on a substrate, and a plurality of slab waveguides that are arranged substantially in parallel with and spaced apart from the plurality of waveguides, and each of the slab waveguides has a grating structure that reflects light of a particular wavelength.

Abstract: A Super System on Chip (SSoC) is disclosed. The Super System on Chip (SSoC)'s input/outputs are coupled with a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI), wherein the Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) can generally include a phase transition material or a phase change material. The Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) is coupled with a first optical waveguide in two-dimensions (2-D) or three-dimensions (3-D). The first optical waveguide is coupled with (i) a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) or (ii) a second optical waveguide that can include a nonlinear optical material in two-dimensions (2-D) or three-dimensions (3-D). Furthermore, the semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) may be replaced by an optical resonator.

Abstract: A visual sensor having a light sensitive element and a processor, the processor being adapted to recognize whether a cap is on or off the light sensitive element by recognizing a unique identification pattern coded into the light sensitive element.

Abstract: A control method for an occlusion component and an electronic device are disclosed. The method includes: in a first status of the electronic device, controlling the occlusion component to be located at a first position on the electronic device to occlude a lens of the electronic device; in a second status of the electronic device, detecting a trigger signal and a target object in front of the lens, wherein the trigger signal is generated by triggering a physical button of the electronic device, and the first status is different from the second status; and in a situation where the trigger signal is detected and the target object exists, controlling the occlusion component to move to a second position on the electronic device to expose the lens.

Abstract: An imaging module, including a substrate, a sensor assembly, a lens assembly and an adjustable lens assembly. The sensor assembly is arranged on the substrate and is configured to receive light passing through the adjustable lens assembly and the lens assembly. The adjustable lens assembly includes a piezoelectric actuator and an adjustable lens, and the piezoelectric actuator is configured to deform the adjustable lens through the action of an electrical signal and change a focal length of the imaging module.

Abstract: First and second LED arrays can include respective first and second pluralities of light-emitting areas that are separated by respective first and second boundaries. The first and second boundaries can be arranged in slightly different patterns. At least one lens can collimate light from the first LED array to form first illumination, collimate light from the second LED array to form second illumination, and illuminate the scene with the first and second illuminations. The first boundaries can form first dark bands in the first illumination. The second boundaries can form second dark bands in the second illumination, which can be slightly offset from the first dark bands at the scene.

Abstract: A system and method for product photography includes a movable display configured to travel along a path wherein the movable display provides illumination onto a photographic subject visible to at least one camera configured for long exposure photography where the movable display creates one or more digital light paintings at least partially visible to the camera, and a mechanical means for movement of the movable display. The invention employs a method of capturing a photographic image of an object including the steps of selecting an image for the movable display, using at least one camera to capture long exposure images, positioning one or more photographic subjects, positioning one or more cameras, focusing the one or more cameras, beginning capture of a long exposure, using a movable display to create a digital light painting effect, ending capture of the long exposure, and storing the image in memory.

Abstract: A camera has a more integrated appearance and higher dustproof and light-shielding performance. A camera includes a frame accommodated in a housing having a front surface with an opening, and a lens barrel accommodating at least one lens. The lens barrel includes a stationary cylinder including a cylindrical wall extending in X-direction from a base, and a drive cylinder that causes an extendable unit located radially inward front the cylindrical wall of the stationary cylinder and extendable in X-direction through the opening to extend and retract. The drive cylinder includes a cylindrical portion rotatable between the cylindrical wall of the stationary cylinder and an inner circumferential edge of the opening in a front cover. The lens barrel further includes a cover cylinder covering the inner circumferential edge of the opening in the front cover and the cylindrical portion of the drive cylinder and rotatable relative to the stationary cylinder together with the drive cylinder.

Abstract: A lens apparatus includes a holding barrel configured to hold a lens, an operation member, an exterior barrel configured to hold the operation member rotatably around an optical axis, and a fixed barrel. When the holding barrel and the exterior barrel move in an optical axis direction relative to the fixed barrel, an imaging state and a retracted state are switchable. When the operation member is rotated in one direction in each of the imaging and retracted states, the operation member gets engaged with the fixed barrel and the state gets locked. When the operation member is rotated in the other direction around the optical axis, the operation member gets disengaged from the fixed barrel, and the imaging state or the retracted state gets unlocked and switchable.

Abstract: A camera includes a lens-camera communication controller and an adapter-camera communication controller. The camera-lens communication channel includes a first data communication channel used during a data communication and a first notification channel used for a notification of a timing of a communication via the first data communication channel. The camera-adapter communication channel includes a second data communication channel used during the data communication and a second notification channel used for a notification of a timing of a communication via the second data communication channel.

Abstract: A lens unit includes a guided portion that includes a first bearing portion and a second bearing portion disposed to be spaced apart from each other in a direction X and is slidably supported by a guide shaft, and a lens holding member. The lens unit includes a first tilt-preventing member having a linear expansion coefficient lower than a linear expansion coefficient of the lens holding member. The first tilt-preventing member is fixed to a region of the guided portion positioned between the first bearing portion and second bearing portion.

Abstract: This buckle for a fixation system of a strap to a camera includes a plate and a means for attaching the plate to a strap, the plate including a first hole, a second hole and a protrusion located between the first and second holes. A button may be received in the second hole only by inserting it in the first hole and then moving it from the first hole into the second hole, and removed from the buckle only by moving it from the second hole into the first hole and then removing it from the first hole. The plate further includes a slit extending from the second hole towards an outer edge of the plate.

Abstract: A booth for photographing or inspecting a vehicle includes walls that bounding a planar stage, each of the walls has a first portion and a second portion, the first portion has a first length and extending up from the planar stage. A first end of the first portion forms a first obtuse angle with the planar stage inside the booth, the second portion has a second length and extending up from a second end of the first portion. A first end of the second portion forms a second obtuse angle with the second end of the first portion inside the booth. A platform is also suspended above the stage. A lighting source is positioned on the platform. The lighting source is configured to direct light toward the second portion of each of the walls.

Abstract: A camera location apparatus, system, and method is disclosed which includes a camera housing configured to at least partially enclose a camera, the camera housing attached to an extension via a bracket, wherein the extension is configured to extend through a tire rim and secure to a tire carrier and the bracket is configured to allow the camera housing to rotate in relation to the extension.

Abstract: SMA actuators and related methods are described. One embodiment of an actuator includes a base; a plurality of buckle arms; and at least a first shape memory alloy wire coupled with a pair of buckle arms of the plurality of buckle arms. Another embodiment of an actuator includes a base and at least one bimorph actuator including a shape memory alloy material. The bimorph actuator attached to the base.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a projection device, an actuator device thereof, and a projection method adapted for the actuator device. The projection method includes disposing an optical element in a frame body, and disposing a driving assembly between a base and the frame body; controlling the driving assembly to drive the frame body by a signal so that the optical element reciprocally swings relative to the base based on a first, a second, and a third moving shaft. The signal includes a first driving signal corresponding to the first moving shaft, a second driving signal corresponding to the second moving shaft, and a third driving signal corresponding to the third moving shaft. The first and the second driving signal have a first frequency; the third driving signal has a second frequency different from the first frequency. The phase difference between the first and the second driving signal is not equal to zero.

Abstract: An image projector with a high optical efficiency projects an image at an arbitrary distance from an observer. The image projector includes an illumination module having at least one spatially coherent light source; a phase image generator with an array of optical phase shifting elements; an electronic image controller connected electrically to the phase image generator; and a waveguide which includes at least one embedded partial reflector. The waveguide may be positioned either between the illumination module and the waveguide, or between the waveguide and the observer. The phase image generator may include phase shifts for canceling speckle, correcting optical aberrations, and/or compensating interference caused by light rays having different optical path lengths.

Abstract: A projection apparatus includes a casing, a projection lens, a first and a second light source modules, a first and a second thermal modules respectively thermally coupled to the first and the second light source modules, and a first and a second fans. The casing includes a bottom cover having a first air inlet corresponding to the projection lens, a front cover, a rear cover having a second air inlet, a first and a second side covers, which define an internal space divided into a first and a second areas. The first air inlet is connected to the internal space. A first air outlet of the first side cover and the second air inlet are connected to the first area. The first and the second light source modules, the first and the second thermal modules, and the first and the second fans are disposed in the first area.

Abstract: A projection system includes a first optical system and a second optical system including an optical element and a reflector and disposed at the enlargement side of the first optical system. The optical element has a reflection surface, a first transmissive surface disposed at the enlargement side of the reflection surface, and a second transmissive surface disposed at the enlargement side of the first transmissive surface. The reflector is disposed at the enlargement side of the reflection surface and at the reduction side of the first transmissive surface. The reflector is disposed between the optical element and the first optical system in the direction along a first optical axis of the first optical system.

Abstract: A projection screen includes a substrate with a first substrate surface. The first substrate surface includes a first region and a second region adjacent to the first region. Multiple first wire grid bodies extending in a first direction are provided in the first region. Multiple second wire grid bodies extending in the first direction are provided in the second region. Each first wire grid body includes a first contact surface connected to the substrate and a first surface, and a first angle is formed therebetween. The first angles gradually decrease in a direction from the first region to the second region. Each second wire grid body includes a second contact surface connected to the substrate and a third surface, and a third angle is formed therebetween. The third angles gradually increase in a direction from the first region to the second region.

Abstract: Provided is a projection screen, the taper angles of a plurality of triangular pyramid units arranged in an array are designed to gradually change according to a predetermined relationship, so that the image light emitted from the projector is reflected by a microstructure layer with a triangular pyramid unit and then converges to a range centered on the human eye, which reduces the difference in brightness at different viewing positions, so as to ensure that the projection screen has high brightness uniformity and high gain.

Abstract: A stud attachment device for attaching a plurality of studs to a photomask constituting a reticle. The stud attachment device including a body; a plurality of holders extending from the body, the holders allowing the studs to be laid thereon, respectively; and a pressure regulator for independently controlling pressures of the holders when the studs are attached to the photomask.

Abstract: Provided is a reflective mask blank that can reduce the shadowing effect of a reflective mask and form a fine and high-precision absorbent body pattern.

Abstract: When detecting an object structure, at least one portion of the object is initially illuminated with illumination light of an at least partly coherent light source from at least one preferred illumination direction. At least one diffraction image of the illuminated portion is recorded by spatially resolved detection of the diffraction intensity of the illumination light, diffracted by the illuminated portion, in a detection plane. At least one portion of the object structure is reconstructed from the at least one recorded diffraction image using an iterative method. Here, the iteration diffraction image of a raw object structure is calculated starting from an iteration start value and said raw object structure is compared to the recorded diffraction image in each iteration step.

Abstract: An imprint system includes a replica mold manufacturing apparatus which manufactures a replica mold of a master mold by performing a first imprint process using the master mold, an imprint apparatus which performs a second imprint process using the replica mold, and a controller which controls a first imprint condition that is an imprint condition of the first imprint process and a second imprint condition that is an imprint condition of the second imprint process. The controller corrects the first imprint condition based on an overlay state between a pattern formed on a shot region by the second imprint process and the shot region.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to densified nanoimprint films and processes for making these densified nanoimprint films, as well as optical devices containing the densified nanoimprint films. In one or more embodiments, a densified nanoimprint film contains a base nanoimprint film and a metal oxide disposed on the base nanoimprint film and in between the nanoparticles. The base nanoimprint film contains nanoparticles, where the nanoparticles contain titanium oxide, zirconium oxide, niobium oxide, tantalum oxide, hafnium oxide, chromium oxide, indium tin oxide, silicon nitride, or any combination thereof. The metal oxide contains aluminum oxide, titanium oxide, zirconium oxide, niobium oxide, tantalum oxide, indium oxide, indium tin oxide, hafnium oxide, chromium oxide, scandium oxide, tin oxide, zinc oxide, yttrium oxide, praseodymium oxide, magnesium oxide, silicon oxide, silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride, or any combination thereof.

Abstract: The present application relates to a binder resin including a compound represented by Formula 1-1 and a compound represented by the following Formula 1-2, a negative-type photosensitive resin composition, and a display device including a black bank formed by using the same.

Abstract: A photosensitive resin composition, a patterning process performed using the photosensitive resin composition, a cured film formed by curing the pattern, and an electronic component having the cured film. The photosensitive resin composition includes a resin, a photosensitizer, a surfactant containing a structural unit represented by formula (1), and a solvent, where Y1 and Y2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a methyl group, a phenyl group, or a group represented by formula (2), at least one of Y1 and Y2 is a group represented by formula (2), R1 to R6 are monovalent hydrocarbon groups that may be the same or different and optionally contain a heteroatom, having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, “1” and “n” are each independently integers of 1 to 100, and “m” is an integer of 0 to 100.

Abstract: A method includes the following steps. A photoresist is exposed to a first light-exposure through a first mask, wherein the first mask includes a first stitching region, and a portion of the photoresist corresponding to a portion of the first stitching region is unexposed during the first light-exposure. The photoresist is exposed to a second light-exposure through a second mask, wherein the second mask includes a second stitching region and a functional feature in the second stitching region, and the portion of the photoresist is exposed by the functional feature during the second light-exposure.

Abstract: A storage container storing a treatment liquid for manufacturing a semiconductor is provided, wherein the occurrence of defects on the semiconductor, such as particles, is suppressed and a fine resist pattern or a fine semiconductor element is manufactured. The storage container includes a storage portion that stores the treatment liquid, wherein the treatment liquid includes one kind or two or more kinds of metal atoms selected from Cu, Fe, and Zn, and a total content of particulate metal that is a metal component derived from the metal atoms and that is a nonionic metal component present in the treatment liquid as a solid without being dissolved is 0.01 to 100 mass ppt with respect to a total mass of the treatment liquid.

Abstract: Apparatuses and techniques for suppressing a zeroth order portion of a configured radiation beam. In some embodiments, an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithographic apparatus for forming an image on a substrate by use of an EUV radiation beam that is configured by a patterning device comprising a pattern of reflective regions and partially reflective regions, wherein the partially reflective regions are configured to suppress and apply a phase shift to a portion of the EUV radiation beam, may include a projection system. The projection system may be configured to suppress a zeroth order portion of a configured EUV radiation beam, and direct an unsuppressed portion of a configured EUV radiation beam towards a substrate to form an image on the substrate.

Abstract: The present application relates to contact immersion lithography exposure units and methods of their use. An example contact exposure unit includes a container configured to contain a fluid material and a substrate disposed within the container. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface, and the substrate includes a photoresist material on at least the first surface. The contact exposure unit includes a photomask disposed within the container. The photomask is optically coupled to the photoresist material by way of a gap comprising the fluid material. The contact exposure unit also includes an inflatable balloon configured to be controllably inflated so as to apply a desired force to the second surface of the substrate to controllably adjust the gap between the photomask and the photoresist material.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a device for adjusting a wafer, a reaction chamber, and a method for adjusting a wafer. The device for adjusting a wafer includes: a lifting module, the lifting module including a first carrier surface configured to carry a wafer, and the first carrier surface ascending to a preset highest position or descending to a preset lowest position relative to a reference surface; a carrier module, the carrier module including a second carrier surface, a position of the second carrier surface being higher than the preset lowest position and being lower than the preset highest position, and the second carrier surface being configured to receive and carry the wafer carried on the first carrier surface; and a suction module, the suction module including a first suction opening facing the wafer and surrounded by the second carrier surface.

Abstract: An optical element and a lithographic apparatus including the optical element. The optical element includes a first member having a curved optical surface and a heat transfer surface, and a second member that comprises at least one recess, the at least one recess sealed against the heat transfer surface to form at least one closed channel between the first member and the second member to allow fluid to flow therethrough for thermal conditioning of the curved optical surface. In an embodiment, one or more regions of the heat transfer surface exposed to the at least one closed channel are positioned along a curved profile similar to that of the curved optical surface.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photoreceptor that has a photosensitive layer constituting a surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor, a charging device that charges the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor, an electrostatic charge image forming device that forms an electrostatic charge image on the charged surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor, a developing device that accommodates a developer containing a toner which contains toner particles and an external additive, and develops the electrostatic charge image formed on the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor by the developer as a toner image, a transfer device that transfers the toner image formed on the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor to a surface of a recording medium, and a cleaning device that includes a cleaning blade coming into contact with the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor and cleaning at least residual toner particles on the surface of the el

Abstract: A toner cartridge includes a customer replaceable unit monitoring (CRUM) apparatus to store error information of a toner injection process of the toner cartridge using a toner refill apparatus. Based on the error information not being stored in the CRUM apparatus, an availability of a refill operation of the toner cartridge is identified based on a predetermined first reference value and an amount of toner detected in the toner cartridge, and, based on the error information being stored in the CRUM apparatus, the availability of the refill operation of the toner cartridge is identified based on a predetermined second reference value and the amount of toner detected in the toner cartridge.

Abstract: A powder accommodating container includes a powder accommodating portion that accommodates powder, a sealing section that openably seals a supply port by being removed from the powder accommodating portion, and a breaking section that has a film-shaped member that breaks the powder in the powder accommodating portion by being removed from the powder accommodating portion in a case of opening the supply port, is fixed to plural places in the powder accommodating portion such that the film-shaped member is removable, and is fixed to the powder accommodating portion such that a force required for removing a tip of the film-shaped member from the powder accommodating portion is larger than other portions.

Abstract: A powder transporting device includes a first agitating and transporting section that agitates and transports powder, a receiving section that receives the powder from the first agitating and transporting section, a second agitating and transporting section that is arranged below the first agitating and transporting section in a vertical direction and agitates and transports the powder, an upward transport section that is arranged on a downstream side in a transport direction of the second agitating and transporting section and transports the powder transported from the second agitating and transporting section to the first agitating and transporting section above, and a speed increasing section that increases a rotation of a rotating shaft of any one of the first agitating and transporting section, the second agitating and transporting section, or the receiving section and transmits the rotation to the upward transport section.

Abstract: A developing device includes: a rotating member that passes a developer while rotating to an image holding body on which a latent image is formed; a housing in which a circulation path through which the developer to be supplied to the rotating member circulates and a branch path that is branched from the circulation path and through which a part of the developer is transported are formed; and a wall portion that forms the branch path at a part of the housing and in which an output port from which the developer is output to an outside and an exhaust port from which air in the branch path is output to the outside above the output port are formed.

Abstract: An inorganic compound particle supply member includes inorganic compound particles, and the Young's modulus of the inorganic compound particle supply member is lower than the Young's modulus of a supply object to be supplied with the inorganic compound particles.

Abstract: An image heating device includes a conveyance belt having a heat generation layer, and a first electrode portion, a second electrode portion and a third electrode portion that are in contact with the heat generation layer. The conveyance belt conveys a recording medium that includes an image. A first heat generation region formed on the conveyance belt between the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion generates heat to a first temperature that is equal to or greater than a deformation temperature at which a material forming the image is deformable. A second heat generation region formed between the second electrode portion and the third electrode portion generates heat to a second temperature that is different from the first temperature. The first heat generation region and the second heat generation region are located in a region of the conveyance belt to contact the recording medium.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a belt having a tubular shape and extending in a longitudinal direction, and having a longitudinal end, a drive roller to rotate the belt to convey a print medium between the drive roller and the belt, a bushing located at the longitudinal end of the belt, and a guide wall adjacent to the bushing. The belt is displaceable in the longitudinal direction relative to the bushing. The bushing includes a shoulder adjacent to the longitudinal end of the belt and a stem extending from the shoulder to an inside of the belt to support the belt. The guide guides the bushing to move in a direction opposite to a conveyance direction of the print medium when the belt moves toward the bushing. The stem of the bushing includes a convex portion that is in contact with an inner surface of the belt when the belt is displaced in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: A heating device includes a heating roller that includes a resistance heating layer, and a connection power feeder that is mounted on an end portion of the heating roller, is connected to the resistance heating layer, and feeds power to the resistance heating layer, in which the connection power feeder includes an annular frame that is disposed to be concentric with the heating roller and is conductively connected to the resistance heating layer, a power feed shaft of which a portion is disposed in the frame and which feeds power, plural rolling bodies that roll while being in conductive contact with an inner peripheral surface of the frame and an outer peripheral surface of the power feed shaft, and a non-conductive cover that holds and covers the frame and the rolling bodies in a state where a portion excluding the portion of the power feed shaft is exposed, and the connection power feeder excluding the power feed shaft is mounted on the heating roller so as to be integrally rotated with the heating roller.

Abstract: A fixing belt, in which, in a measurement of a Fourier transform power spectrum of a surface profile of an inner peripheral surface of the fixing belt, a ratio of an average of a power spectral density at a wavelength of 2 ?m or more and 6 ?m or less to an average of a power spectral density at a wavelength of 10 ?m or more and 50 ?m or less is 0.82 or more and 0.92 or less.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has an AC circuit having a heater and a triac for load control connected in series with the heater in order to control the heater. In addition, an image forming apparatus includes an overcurrent operation circuit connected in parallel with the AC circuit and through which a current flows in a state where DC power is suppliable to the AC circuit, and a polyswitch connected in series with the AC circuit and the overcurrent operation circuit, in which the polyswitch shuts off the current when an overcurrent flows in the overcurrent operation circuit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable photosensitive member; a charging portion, an exposure portion, a developing member, a transfer unit, a contact and separation portion, a charging voltage applying portion, a detecting portion, and a controller. The controller is capable of executing an operation in an image forming mode and an operation in a detecting mode. The controller carries out control so that a charging current flowing through a charging portion during charging of the photosensitive member in the operation in the detecting mode is lower than a charging current flowing through the charging portion during charging of the photosensitive member in the operation in the image forming mode.

Abstract: An example user terminal apparatus includes a display, a communication apparatus to communicate with an external apparatus, and a processor to, based on information on a possible first toner refill quantity of a plurality of grouped image forming apparatuses provided from the external apparatus through the communication apparatus and a toner quantity of one toner refill apparatus, control the display to display a guide message including information on the time point of toner refill, each of the image forming apparatuses which is a subject of toner refill within the group, and a possible second toner refill quantity of each of the image forming apparatuses at the time point of toner refill.

Abstract: A first cover includes a first discharge tray portion and a first recess. The first discharge tray portion supports a discharged sheet. The first recess is formed at the first discharge tray portion. The first recess extends along a sheet discharge direction to a downstream end of the first discharge tray portion in the sheet discharge direction. The second cover surrounds the first cover. A second cover includes a second discharge tray portion and a second recess. The second discharge tray portion is arranged downstream of the first discharge tray portion in the sheet discharge direction. The second discharge tray portion supports the discharged sheet in cooperation with the first discharge tray portion. The second recess is arranged downstream of the first recess in the discharge direction. The second recess is formed continuously from the first recess, and serves as a sheet handle portion in cooperation with the first recess.