Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Disco Corporation

Tokyo Gas Company Limited

Tokyo Tanabe Company, Ltd.

Atsushi Takagi

Takashi Saito

Tadashi Suzuki

Hideki Adachi

Masahiro Tomosada

Naoyuki Ohki

Hiroaki Takeda

Tomomi Funayoshi

Nobutoshi Yoshida

Chikara Sato

Yoya Muraguchi

Hideki Ina

Takeshi Koyama

Koichi Sentoku

Nobuyuki Miyake

Tsutomu Toyono

Kimio Nakahata

Atsushi Komatsu

Shigeru Izumi

Fuminobu Takahashi

Kiyoshi Sakamoto

Yasuyoshi Miyazaki

Toshiaki Kikuchi

Hiroshi Morohoshi

Tatsuroh Sugioka

Seishi Watahiki

Shinichi Kurita

Shinji Sonoda

Yasuzi Sakuma

Yoshinori Aguro

Yuko Kakuta

Masao Yajima

Shinji Naitoh

Masaki Saeki

Nobuyuki Miyke

Hiroyuki Asanuma

Takenobu Mori

Mai Haneda

Atsushi Nakatsuka

Stored is a height of a grinding mechanism when lower surfaces of grinding stones have come into contact with an upper surface of a wafer held on a holding surface, through lowering of the grinding mechanism from above the wafer. Based on this height, an origin point height which is a height of the grinding mechanism when the lower surfaces of the grinding stones have come into contact with the holding surface is then determined.

Setup method

An information processing device includes circuitry to detect one of a device and an information processing terminal. The device is connected to the information processing terminal and used to receive an output image of the information processing terminal. The information processing terminal is connected to the information processing device via the device. The circuitry causes a display device connected to the information processing device to display the output image of the information processing terminal, according to a detection of the one of the device and the information processing terminal.

Information processing device, non-transitory recording medium, and information processing system

A cut groove having a predetermined depth is formed with a cutting blade along a projected dicing line set on a workpiece. A first preliminary groove is cut in a measurement member and a relational expression with respect to a distance from the preliminary groove bottom and the width of the preliminary groove is determined. An amount of incision into the workpiece is set to be equal to or smaller than a predetermined value from a reference position and the thickness of the workpiece. A second preliminary groove is cut along the projected dicing line, and an image of the second preliminary cut groove is captured. The width of the second preliminary cut groove is measured, and the depth of the second preliminary cut groove is calculated from the width of the second preliminary groove and the relational expression.

Method of forming cut groove

A lithography apparatus includes an original holder configured to hold and move an original, a measurement unit configured to measure a misalignment amount of the original with respect to the original holder, and a controller configured to control movement of the original holder. The controller repeatedly performs preliminary driving for moving the original holder before performing the pattern formation. At this time, if the misalignment amount measured by the measurement unit converges to a predetermined convergence value while the preliminary driving is repeatedly performed, the controller ends the preliminary driving.

Lithography apparatus, control method therefor, and method of manufacturing article

An exposure apparatus includes an atmosphere maintaining unit which maintains an exposure chamber in an air atmosphere, a gas supply unit which supplies air or a mixed gas containing air and an inert gas to a local space, between a final surface of a projection optical system and a substrate, a detector which detects an alignment mark and a reference mark formed on the substrate stage, and a controller. The controller controls the gas supply unit not to supply the mixed gas to the local space when the detector detects the reference mark, and controls the gas supply unit to supply the mixed gas to the local space when an instruction to detect the alignment mark upon setting the local space in a mixed gas atmosphere, and expose the substrate based on the detection results of the reference mark and the alignment mark is issued from the recipe.

Exposure apparatus and device manufacturing method

A thermal printer is proposed that includes an ink ribbon on which a color ink portion and a non-color ink portion are alternately formed in a conveyance direction, a supply bobbin on which the ink ribbon is wound, a take-up bobbin on which the ink ribbon is to be wound, and a housing that contains the supply bobbin and the take-up bobbin. When an error occurs during transferring of an ink on the color ink surface, the ink ribbon is conveyed so that a portion of the ink ribbon exposed from the ink cassette between the supply bobbin and the take-up bobbin is the non-color ink portion.

Thermal printer and ink ribbon cassette

An image processing device which is capable of efficiently performing face-detection, red-eye detection, and/or image data correction including red-eye correction without waste when there are a plurality of chances of performing the image data correction including the red-eye correction on a single image. A printing apparatus acquires image data and information concerning a face detection process performed on the image data from an image pickup apparatus. A controller of the printing apparatus determines to cause the printing apparatus to perform a face detection process on the acquired image data, based on the acquired information. The information contains an information item concerning detection accuracy of the performed face detection process, and a face detection process with higher detection accuracy than the detection accuracy described in the information is determined as the face detection process to be performed by the printing apparatus.

Image processing device, method, program, and storage medium for face or red eye detection

In an image sensing apparatus capable of sensing a moving image, when sensing of the moving image, image data of the sensed moving image and image sensing condition data of such moving image are stored, a frame for printing is selected from among multiple frames of the image data forming the stored moving image, and a number of frames to synthesize is determined based on image sensing conditions for the selected frames. Of the plurality of frames of image data forming the moving image/image data of the selected frame and of the determined number of frames sensed before and after the selected frame is synthesized to generate image data for printing.

Image sensing apparatus and control method for same, and information processing apparatus, printing apparatus, and print data generation method, using correlation information recorded as attribute information of image data of frame

A multifunctional machine includes a first component section that starts up taking a first time period, and a second component section that starts up taking a second time period shorter than the first time period. An operation start prediction information obtaining section is provided to obtain operation start prediction information predicting a time when a user starts the multifunctional machine. A start up control section is provided to start up the first component section in advance of the second component section. A power supply control section is provided to supply power from at least one external power source and drive the start up control section in accordance with the operation start prediction information.

Multifunctional machine and method of controlling multifunctional machine

A measurement method for measuring a distortion of a projection optical system that projects a pattern, used by an exposure apparatus that exposes the reticle pattern onto an object to be exposed, the measurement method includes the steps of a first exposing step for exposing a mark pattern onto the object to be exposed, the mark pattern having a mark on or near an optical axis of the projection optical system and a mark beside the optical axis, and being arranged at a position of the reticle, a second exposing step for only exposing a mark on or near the optical axis of the projection optical system in the mark pattern, measuring step for measuring a shape of the mark formed on the object to be exposed via the first and second exposing steps, and calculating step for calculating the distortion of the projection optical system from the shape of the mark measured by the measuring step.

Measurement method and apparatus, exposure apparatus, and device fabrication method

A printing apparatus for delivering a recording medium printed in accordance with received print information to a delivery tray which physically exists is constructed by a print information storing unit for storing the received print information, a delivery tray defining unit for virtually defining a delivery tray of the recording medium according to the stored print information, a delivery tray allocating unit for allocating the virtually defined delivery tray to the physically existing delivery tray and a delivering unit for delivering the printed recording medium to the allocated physically existing delivery tray. A delivering method, a print system, and a memory medium for realizing the above printing apparatus are also provided.

Printing apparatus, delivering method, print system, and memory medium

A bus line address changing apparatus for use in an electronic instrument including a plurality of battery unit attaching sections configured to accommodate a plurality of battery units respectively composed of at least one battery. A bus line receives a communication signal from at least one battery unit. A body side controller receives the communication signal from the at least one battery unit via the bus line. A bus line address storing device stores a plurality of bus addresses allocated for and corresponding to the plurality of battery unit attaching sections. In addition, a bus address selecting and setting device is provided to select and set one of bus addresses according to the battery unit attaching section when the battery unit is attached to the electronic instrument and electrically connected to the bus line.

Apparatus and method for changing bus line address for a detachable battery unit

There is a multi-color copying apparatus having image processing functions which can easily designate arbitrary areas when the trimming or masking is executed. This apparatus comprises: an area designating device to designate the first area of the original; a first developing device to develop the image of the first area in the first color; a second developing device to develop the image of the second area in the second color; and a control circuit for making the first developing device operative without making the second developing device operative in accordance with the designation of the first area and, after completion of the development of the image of the first area, making the second developing device operative without making the first developing device operative. The control circuit inhibits the operation of the first or second developing device by moving the first or second developing device to a position away from the photo sensitive drum, or by applying the bias voltage to the first or second developing device such that the toner from the inoperative developing device is not deposited onto the drum.

Copying apparatus

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Yokohama, Japan

Atsushi Takagi