Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Japan Science and Technology Agency

Merckle Gmbh

Katsumi Nakagawa

Toshiyuki Komatsu

Yutaka Hirai

Shoji Nishida

Tadaji Fukuda

Yukiko Iwasaki

Katsunori Hatanaka

Teruo Misumi

Masaki Mizutani

Masahiro Kanai

Yasushi Fujioka

Kozo Arao

Masaki Fukaya

Tatsumi Shoji

Noritaka Ukiyo

Takao Yonehara

Shunichi Ishihara

Masaaki Iwane

Noboru Toyama

Yoshiyuki Osada

Takehito Yoshino

Kiyofumi Sakaguchi

Toshihiro Saika

Ihachiro Gofuku

Soichiro Kawakami

Hideo Hosono

Masafumi Sano

Takashi Nakagiri

Tetsuya Takei

Toshimitsu Kariya

Jinsho Matsuyama

Yoshinori Isobe

Kenji Nomura

Toshio Kamiya

Hiroshi Echizen

Satoshi Omata

Akira Sakai

Yasufumi Asao

Tetsuya Kaneko

Hideyuki Suzuki

Kazuhiko Fukutani

Tsutomu Murakami

Satoshi Itabashi

Tetsuro Saito

Nobuko Kitahara

Katsunori Terada

Hirofumi Iwamoto

Yasuo Kuroda

Shinichi Seito

Keishi Saito

Noboru Koumura

Tatsundo Kawai

Yasuhiro Someda

Shigeru Ichihara

Motoharu Fujii

Nobuhiro Takekawa

Shinichi Seitoh

Isao Tanikawa

Noriyuki Kaifu

Hiroshi Sato

Kenichi Nagae

Takao Nakajima

Toshinobu Tokita

Yasuyoshi Takai

Nobuyuki Sekimura

Kazuaki Ohmi

Yutaka Inaba

Nobuhiko Sato

Isamu Shimizu

Hideo Kanno

Somei Kawasaki

Shunichi Uzawa

Masami Iseki

Masaru Kamio

Kazutaka Yanagita

Noritaka Mochizuki

Makoto Ogura

Yoshiaki Shirato

Takaharu Kondo

Mitsutoshi Kuno

Junji Ohyama

Toshihiro Yamashita

Teruhiko Furushima

Makoto Iwakami

Yusuke Yamagata

Tadaji Fukada

Peter Nawroth

Youming Zhang

Kouji Oda

Hiroyuki Fuchigami

A novel amorphous oxide applicable, for example, to an active layer of a TFT is provided. The amorphous oxide comprises microcrystals.

Amorphous oxide and field effect transistor

Provided are an ultrasonic probe capable of forming an image without degradation even when the frequency band of a photoacoustic wave and the frequency band of an ultrasonic wave used in ultrasonography are separated from each other, and an inspection object imaging apparatus including the ultrasonic probe. The ultrasonic probe includes a first array device capable of transmitting and receiving an ultrasonic wave; and a second array device capable of receiving a photoacoustic wave. The first array device includes plural electromechanical transducers arranged in a direction perpendicular to a scanning direction, the second array device includes plural electromechanical transducers arranged in a two-dimensional manner, and the first array device and the second array device are provided on the same plane and in the scanning direction.

Ultrasonic probe, and photoacoustic-ultrasonic system and inspection object imaging apparatus including the ultrasonic probe

An image forming apparatus has acoustic transducers; and an image processing unit which calculates intensity of acoustic waves irradiated from regions inside a subject respectively by processing received signals, which are output from the acoustic transducers, by a Fourier-domain method. The image processing unit includes: a coefficient memory which stores coefficients computed in advance, the coefficient being a value determined only by a position of the acoustic transducer, position of the region and a time of receipt of the acoustic wave; a multiplier unit which multiplies the received signal of the acoustic transducer by the corresponding coefficient; and a voxel memory which accumulates multiplication results of the multiplier unit for each region.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method

An ultrasonic probe includes a light irradiating portion configured to radiate light for generating ultrasonic waves from a light absorber, an ultrasonic transducing portion configured to transduce the ultrasonic waves to an electric signal, and a light guide member configured to introduce light from a light source to the light irradiating portion. A light irradiating region of the light irradiating portion is included within an ultrasonic receiving region of the ultrasonic transducing portion.

Ultrasonic probe and inspection apparatus equipped with the ultrasonic probe

When a subject is pressed by a plate and an acoustic wave is received by a probe via the plate, the acoustic wave is refracted because of the difference between a sound velocity in the subject and a sound velocity in the plate. When the refraction is not considered, a reduction in resolution occurs. A correction table or a correction formula for correcting image distortion associated with refraction is provided. After image information is acquired, new image information is acquired in accordance with the correction table or the correction formula, and is displayed.

Biological information acquisition apparatus

When a subject is pressed by a plate and an acoustic wave is received by a probe via the plate, the acoustic wave is refracted because of the difference between a sound velocity in the subject and a sound velocity in the plate. When the refraction is not considered, a reduction in resolution occurs. Weights for signals or virtual wavefronts corresponding to the signals to be added to one another are determined using a thickness of the plate, the sound velocity in the plate, the sound velocity in the subject, positions of image elements (pixels or voxels) for image information, and arrival times of the acoustic wave from an object that is a sound source. The signals or the virtual wavefronts corresponding to the signals are added to one another, thereby acquiring the image information.

Biological information acquisition apparatus and biological information acquisition method

A novel field-effect transistor is provided which employs an amorphous oxide. In an embodiment of the present invention, the transistor comprises an amorphous oxide layer containing electron carrier at a concentration less than 1&#xd7;10/cm, and the gate-insulating layer is comprised of a first layer being in contact with the amorphous oxide and a second layer different from the first layer.

Field effect transistor

An organic EL display device includes a glass substrate and a flattening film arranged above the glass substrate. A plurality of anodes are arranged on a surface of the flattening film. A plurality of organic EL layers are arranged on a surface of the anodes. The flattening film has irregularities formed in at least a partial surface in a region outside a region where the plurality of organic EL layers are arranged. According to such a structure, an organic EL display device in which remaining of moisture in an insulating film is suppressed can be provided.

Organic EL display device and manufacturing method of the same

There is provided an organic electroluminescence display includes a lower electrode formed on a substrate, a device separation film formed on the lower electrode, an organic compound layer formed on the device separation film and including a light emission layer, and an upper electrode formed on the organic compound layer, wherein the device separation film is a polyimide film having an imidation ratio in a range of 65% or more to less than 90%. The display is expected to have longer operating life.

Organic electroluminescence display and method of producing same

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