Olympus Corporation

Kyocera Corporation

Hiroshi Tsuruta

Yasuaki Kasai

Nayu Nomachi

Hirokazu Yokota

Atsuo Chiba

Yoshiro Okazaki

Kazutoshi Kumagai

Hideko Murakami

Yuki Yamada

Natsuhito Honda

Daisuke Ibuki

Hiroshi Sasaki

Tatsuo Nakata

Tomoki Funakubo

Tomohiro Sudou

Michiko Takei

Kenichi Kusaka

Akinori Araya

Takayuki Sato

Tomohiro Sudo

Hisae Honma

Kenji Abe

Shuji Ishikawa

Hiroto Yahagi

Mitsutaka Hata

Yoshiyuki Shinoda

Motoaki Abe

Fumiyuki Ito

Morimichi Shimizu

Mitsutoshi Kobayashi

Tomoyuki Urano

In one aspect, a communication device that sends mail including a destination address entry field, a subject entry field, and a message body entry field includes a controller that moves a character group entered in the destination address entry field or a character group entered in the subject entry field to the message body entry field if the character group satisfies a predetermined condition. If the predetermined condition is satisfied, the communication device determines that the character group presumed to be the message body of the mail has been entered in the entry field for the destination address or the subject of the mail, and moves the entered character group to the message body entry field.

Communication device, control method, and control program

Provided is an optical-fiber scanner including: an optical fiber; a body fitted on a basal-end side of the optical fiber; piezoelectric elements secured to the body and causing the optical fiber to vibrate; and a securing portion to which the body is fitted at a position that is farther on a basal-end side away from the piezoelectric elements, wherein the body has a columnar portion that is formed of an elastic material to which the piezoelectric elements are attached and that has a through-hole into which the optical fiber can be inserted, and a distal-end portion that is disposed at a distal end of the columnar portion, that supports the optical fiber in a fitted state, and that has a rotator shape in which a cross-sectional area thereof in a radial direction gradually decreases toward a distal end of the optical fiber.

Optical-fiber scanner, illumination apparatus, and observation apparatus

A scanner unit includes: a tubular elastic part provided with marks outside a prescribed bonding region set on an outer surface thereof and; and a piezoelectric element that is bonded to the bonding region. The piezoelectric element includes: a piezoelectric body having two mutually opposing electrode faces; and marks that are different from each other, respectively provided on the two electrode faces. The mark provided on one electrode face has a shape that matches the mark provided outside the bonding region when the piezoelectric body is bonded to the bonding region so that the other electrode face contacts the outer surface.

Scanner unit, optical fiber scanner, illumination apparatus, and observation apparatus

A scanner includes: an optical fiber that guides light from a light source; a drive unit including at least one actuator that, when a voltage is applied thereto, displaces an exit end of the optical fiber in a direction intersecting an optical axis; a support portion that is provided on a basal end side from the drive unit and that is spaced away from the drive unit to support the optical fiber; and a correction portion that performs correction so as to bring the center of gravity of the drive unit and a combined center of gravity of the optical fiber, the drive unit, and the support portion close to each other on a cross-section of the drive unit.

Scanner, scanning illuminator, and scanning observation apparatus

An optical fiber scanner including: an optical fiber that guides illumination light; a piezoelectric element that is disposed at an intermediate position on the optical fiber in the long-axis direction and that displaces, due to a bending vibration, an emission end of the optical fiber in a direction intersecting the long axis; a wiring part that is electrically bonded to the piezoelectric element at a location between the piezoelectric element and the optical fiber; a tube-shaped electrically conductive frame that has an inner hole for accommodating the piezoelectric element and the optical fiber; and a holding section that fixes the frame and the piezoelectric element and that conducts electricity between the frame and the piezoelectric element.

Optical fiber scanner, illumination device, and observation apparatus having a holding section that conducts electricity between an electrically conductive frame and a piezoelectric element

An optical fiber scanner is provided with an illumination optical fiber that guides light and emits the light from a distal end thereof; a plurality of piezoelectric elements that are secured on a side surface of the illumination optical fiber, that have polarizations in radial directions of the illumination optical fiber, and that vibrate the illumination optical fiber when an alternating voltage is applied in the polarization directions; and a vibration suppressing part that suppresses vibrations in the radial directions generated at a position of the illumination optical fiber away from the piezoelectric elements toward a base end.

Optical fiber scanner, illumination system, and observation apparatus

This optical fiber scanner has an elongated optical fiber, a vibration transmission member which has a column-like shape and has a penetrating hole through which the optical fiber penetrates, and a piezoelectric element provided on an outer surface of the vibration transmission member, wherein the penetrating hole is a fitted hole which is formed from a proximal end of the vibration transmission member to a middle of the vibration transmission member and the optical fiber is fitted, and the penetrating hole is an accommodation hole which is formed from the middle to a distal end of the vibration transmission member, which has a large inner diameter than an outer diameter of the optical fiber, and which accommodates a distal end portion of the optical fiber with a gap between the optical fiber and the accommodation hole.

Optical fiber scanner, illumination apparatus, and observation apparatus

The force of a piezoelectric element is efficiently transferred to an optical fiber without attenuation, so that the vibration of the optical fiber becomes large. Provided is an optical fiber scanner including an optical fiber which has an elongated cylindrical shape in which illumination light emitted from a light source is guided and can emerge from a distal end thereof and whose distal end can be vibrated in a direction intersecting the longitudinal direction thereof; and at least one piezoelectric element which have a plate shape polarized in a thickness direction thereof and which are separately bonded to an outer circumferential surface of the optical fiber closer to a base side than to a distal end thereof.

Optical fiber scanner

In one aspect, a mobile electronic device includes a sound input module and a controller for performing off-hook when sound input to the sound input module is accepted at a time of incoming call. The mobile electronic device performs off-hook when a response operation to the incoming call is detected through a touch screen, starts to accept sound input through the sound input module when a response operation to the incoming call is not detected through the touch screen, and performs off-hook when the sound input is accepted.

Mobile electronic device, control method, and control program

According to an aspect, a device includes: a display unit for displaying a screen; a sensor for detecting an inclination of the display unit; an operating unit for detecting an operation; and a controller. The controller changes an orientation of the screen depending upon the inclination detected through the sensor and the operation detected through the operation unit.

Device, method and storage medium storing program for controlling screen orientation

The tactile sensation providing device according to the present invention includes a touch sensor () that detects contact, a tactile sensation providing unit () that provides a tactile sensation to a contacting object in contact with the touch sensor (), and a control unit () that controls the tactile sensation providing unit (), when the touch sensor () detects a slide operation by the contacting object, to provide the tactile sensation continuously while varying the tactile sensation provided to the contacting object during the slide operation in accordance with a position of the contacting object during the slide operation, whereby can provide the user's finger, when detecting a slide operation by a user, with a tactile sensation that varies during the slide operation in accordance with the position of the user's finger during the slide operation.

Tactile sensation providing device

According to an aspect, an information processing device includes: a touch panel for detecting a contact; and a controller configured to display a virtual keyboard including a plurality of buttons on the touch panel, and receive, when the touch panel detects a contact started at a first position on the surface of the touch panel and terminated at a second position on the surface of the touch panel, a character string including characters corresponding to the buttons displayed on a trajectory obtained by connecting each position at which the contact is detected from when the contact is started at the first position to when the contact is terminated at the second position as input.

Information processing device and character input method

It is possible to provide a mobile display device which can improve usability even when the character size is increased for improving visibility. A method for controlling the mobile display device is also disclosed. A control unit () can set a conversion candidate of an input character displayed on a second display region (conversion candidate character display region ()) of a display unit () to a first display mode (normal mode) for displaying the conversion candidate in a first character size and to a second display mode (enlarged mode) for displaying the conversion candidate in a second character size greater than the first character size while differentiating a display priority of a plurality of conversion candidates to be displayed in the second display region in the first display mode and a display priority of a plurality of conversion candidates to be displayed in the second display region in the second display mode.

Mobile display device and method of controlling display of conversion candidates of input characters on the mobile display device

A total internal reflection fluorescence microscope includes a light source which generates laser light having a plurality of wavelengths, a focal optical system which irradiates the laser light from the light source on a specimen at a predetermined incident angle via an objective lens and which generates evanescent illumination, a fluorescence observation unit which observes fluorescence generated from the specimen due to the evanescent illumination, an incident angle adjuster which adjusts the incident angle of the laser light irradiated on the specimen, and a controller which controls the incident angle adjuster such that the amount of the permeation depth of the evanescent light is the same when the wavelength of the laser light from the laser light source is switched.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Hiroshi Tsuruta