Sony Corporation

Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Toshiba Machine Co., Ltd.

Isao Sasaki

Hisashi Ohashi

Tadahiro Takigawa

Kenji Yoshida

Takeshi Harada

Takashi Nunomaki

Emi Arakawa

Kenji Tsushio

Mayumi Kamiya

Keiki Fukuda

Riuzou Nagatsuka

Masaki Mikamo

Kuniaki Sakai

Tetsuya Asai

Yasushi Noda

Kimio Maki

Takao Ohsawa

Chihiro Kaihatsu

Kazuo Tsuji

Hisashi Ohoshi

The present invention is to provide an imaging apparatus superior in operability and visibility at the time of setting and adjusting functions thereof. The apparatus includes GUI screen image generating means for generating a GUI screen image for operating the imaging apparatus to display the GUI screen image on image display means; operating means for operating the GUI screen image displayed on the image display means; controlling means for controlling the imaging apparatus in accordance with the operation of the GUI screen image by the operating means; storing means for storing hierarchy type main menu information; menu generating means; and menu editing means capable of editing the unique menu information generated by the menu generating means. The controlling means controls the GUI screen image generating means when detecting a predetermined operation by the operating means, and the GUI screen image generating means generates the GUI screen image in which the index information to operate the menu editing means is included in the unique menu information, in accordance with the control by the controlling means, and displays the GUI screen image on the image display means.

Imaging apparatus

Multiple capture assist marks (markers for capture assistance) to be synthesized with video captured by a camera unitis generated by an OSD unitthrough the control of a control unit. These capture assist marks are synthesized with the video from the camera unitby synthesis means and displayed. In this case, an operation unitis used to accept input of an instruction about the capture assist mark from a user. Based on this instruction input, the control unitcontrols the OSD unitand a baseband processing unitto synthesize the capture assist mark corresponding to the instruction with a video signal from the camera unit

Imaging apparatus and capture assist mark usage control method

An imaging apparatus generates a GUI screen image for operating the imaging apparatus. A controller controls the generation of the GUI screen image upon detecting a predetermined operation.

Imaging device

The recording operation can be rapidly started and a notification about the operating state during the recording operation can be realized without adding a new component, whereby a target scene of a subject can be recorded reliably. When a video signal captured by a camera unitis compressed and encoded and is recorded on a DV tape, a control unitcontrols a compression/decompression unitand a tape deck unitto compress and encode the video signal and record as DV data without using compressed data already recorded on the DV tape. In other words, the control unitcontrols the operation of compressing and encoding video data to be newly recorded in such a manner that compressed data already recorded on the DV tape is not read out, thus reducing the time until recording of the video data on the DV tape is started.

Imaging device and recording control method

The VTR built-in camera apparatus according to the present invention includes a memory for storing a still picture signal, a VTR (VTR unit ) for recording the still picture signal, and a button (photo-button ) capable of being depressed at two steps, wherein when the button is depressed up to the first position, the still picture signal is stored in the memory and when the button is depressed up to the second position, the still picture signal is recorded on the tape.

VTR built-in camera apparatus

An ion implantation method is provided which uses an ion implantation apparatus which is capable of focusing an ion beam into a spot having a diameter smaller than the size of a region into which ions are to be implanted. The ion dose is varied in accordance with the gate region, source and drain regions, and the field region of a semiconductor device including a transistor having short gate length and width.

Ion implantation method

A variable shaping type electron beam exposing apparatus is provided which comprises an electron gun which irradiates an electron beam from the front end of a cathode chip; shaping plates having openings of variable shapes for shaping the electron beam irradiated from the electron gun into the shapes of these openings; and an objective lens for focusing the electron beam passed through the shaping plates into a predetermined shape on a sample. In this apparatus, the cathode chip is made of single-crystal lanthanum hexaboride whose axial orientation is &lt;310&gt;, the front end of it is formed into a circular conical shape, and half the vertical angle of the front end is set to be between 60.degree. and 85.degree.. The maximum area of the image on the sample is between 2 to 50 .mu.m.sup.2.

Electron beam exposing apparatus

An electron beam apparatus comprises an electron gun having a cathode consisting of single-crystal lanthanum hexaboride and a plurality of electron lenses for projecting the cross-over image of an electron beam emitted from the electron gun as a reduced-scale image onto a sample. It further comprises a circuit for measuring the brightness and shape of the cross-over image projected onto the sample and the emission pattern of the electron beam emitted from the electron gun, and a circuit for applying a bias voltage, with which the cross-over image has a desired brightness and is round and the emission pattern is anisotropic, to the electron gun.

Electron beam apparatus

An electron gun having a cathode of a lanthanum hexaboride single crystal is disclosed in which the axis of the cathode is set to such a crystal orientation that the electron beam has two intensive emission regions which are asymmetrical with each other in intensity. In the electron gun, even at a low heating temperature of the cathode, a single spot of an image by the electron beam of a more intensive emission region since the electron beam of a weaker intensity emission region is blocked by an aperture.

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Chiba, Japan

Isao Sasaki