Nikon Corporation

Nippon Kogaku K.k.

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.

Nippon Steel Chemical & Material Co., Ltd.

Keita Kimura

Tadashi Nakayama

Tetsuya Yamamoto

Norihiko Takatsu

Hiroki Uwai

Hideo Hoshuyama

Koichiro Kawamura

Shoei Nakamura

Naoki Fujimoto

Hiroto Unno

Mitsuharu Yonemura

Tomohisa Hasumi

Yuki Enomoto

Tatsuya Furukawa

Mayumi Nakayama

Makoto Yamazaki

Steve Pont

Steven Fuchs

Mayuko Iwasaki

Bungo Fujii

A metal mask material for OLED use reduced in amount warpage due to etching, a method for manufacturing the same, and a metal mask are provided. The metal mask material and metal mask of the present invention contain, by mass %, Ni: 35.0 to 37.0% and Co: 0.00 to 0.50%, have a balance of Fe and impurities, have thicknesses of 5.00 μm or more and 50.00 μm or less, and have amounts of warpage defined as maximum values in amounts of rise of four corners of a square shaped sample of the metal mask material of 100 mm sides when etching the sample from one surface until the thickness of the sample becomes ⅖ and placing the etched sample on a surface plate of 5.0 mm or less.

Metal mask material, method for manufacturing same, and metal mask

A turbine-blade retaining structure in which deformation of end portions of locking pieces exposed through an insertion window portion in the axial direction is prevented, and the occurrence of a crack in a welded portion is prevented. At least one of the end portions of adjacent locking pieces exposed through the insertion window portion is provided with a thick-plate portion that expands in the disc-thickness direction so as to be inside the insertion window portion.

Turbine-blade retaining structure and rotary machine having the same

A personal computer to which electronic equipment, such as, an electronic camera is connected reads recording units that are recorded in the electronic camera and displays a table consisting of recording information. In recording information such as a main image, a sub image and sound in the electronic camera, data within the electronic camera are inter-related by an index which indicates that the information is part of a common recording unit. The date having the same index are output and displayed in a same thumbnail area. When a recording unit for deletion is designated from the table; check boxes are displayed according to information contained in the recording unit. For example, an 'x' is displayed in the check box of the information to be deleted, indicating that the information is a target of deletion. After the selection of information is completed and an 'OK' button is pressed, the personal computer sends a control command to the electronic camera and deletes the designated information. Rather than deletion, the designated information can be read from the electronic camera into the personal computer.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method and recording medium for electronic equipment including an electronic camera

A marker corresponding to an editing state at an arbitrary point in time of image data being edited is stored in memory. The image of an arbitrary editing state can be displayed by a user selecting the displayed marker. The original image data is not updated. When saving the image data file, the saved editing state at an arbitrary point of time can be saved as a single file together with the original image data. By selecting a plurality of markers, images corresponding to a plurality of processing states can be displayed simultaneously. A marker can be used to create a new image data file of a desired processing state, or a plurality of markers can be selected to create a plurality of new image data files. Image data can be displayed as thumbnail images, and thumbnail images and ordinary images can be concurrently displayed.

Image processing device, method and program

The electronic album providing system, with which publishing and viewing of an electronic album by a system user is possible, includes: a first decision unit that detects whether or not a designated reader who has been designated by a publisher has viewed the album, and that decides that a first condition has become valid when a number of persons who have completed viewing to a total number of the designated readers reaches a predetermined value; a second decision unit that decides that a second condition has become valid when a time limit for publishing the album that has been set in advance arrives; and a deletion unit that performs deletion control of the album when at least one of the first condition and the second condition becomes valid.

Electronic album providing system and file providing system

A camera includes: an image obtaining unit that obtains an object image obtained by capturing an image of an object and a dust reference image obtained by capturing an image of dust that adheres on an image sensor or a protecting member protecting the image sensor; a recording unit that records the object image and data concerning the dust reference image in correlation to each other; a dust removing unit that physically removes the dust adhering on the image sensor or the protecting member. The recording unit is configured such that when the dust is removed by the dust removing unit, the recording unit stops correlating the object image captured after the removal to the data concerning the dust reference image already captured.

Camera

An information processing apparatus includes, an input device that inputs image data output from an electronic camera, a storage device that stores the input image data; and a control device. The image-processing device is capable of modifying the contents of a look-up table in the electronic camera by using a plurality of control points. The information processing apparatus is capable of exchanging the control points and the contents of the look-up table with the electronic camera and the camera is able to store the control points.

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, image input apparatus, image input system and information exchange method for modifying a look-up table

An image-capturing apparatus, includes: an image-capturing unit that captures an image of a subject through an optical system; and a control unit that outputs images captured at the image-capturing unit as image data files, and: the control unit outputs the image data files in a format that allows an image data file containing a normal image to be distinguished from an image data file containing a reference image to be used to correct an image defect in the normal image. An image processing apparatus, includes: an input unit to which an image data file output from the image-capturing apparatus is input; an identifying unit that identifies the image data file as a file containing the reference image or a file containing the normal image; and a correction unit that corrects an image defect in the image identified as the normal image based upon the image identified as the reference image.

Image-capturing apparatus and image processing apparatus

To shorten the time required to transfer image data from a first information processing apparatus (e.g., an electronic camera) to a second information processing apparatus (e.g., a personal computer) the first information processing apparatus reduces the image data when it is determined that a slow interface is being used. Additionally, the reduced image data being transferred can be altered in size (enlarged or further reduced) prior to compression so that its size is best suited for the particular compression process.

Information processing system, apparatus, method and recording medium for controlling same

An information processing apparatus, e.g., a personal computer, requests an electronic camera to send main image data. The main image data sent from the electronic camera is displayed on a CRT display. A transfer request for sub-image data is performed. The sub-image data that is received is superimposed on the main image and displayed on the CRT display. A transfer request of audio data is sent to the electronic camera. The audio data that is received is reproduced. Accordingly, data stored as a recording unit in the electronic camera is always received and displayed by the personal computer in a specified order.

Information processing apparatus and method

An image reading device comprises a line sensor that moves in an auxiliary scanning direction, a resolution setting device which sets the resolution of the line sensor in the auxiliary scanning direction, an exposure correction value setting device that sets an exposure correction value when the image is read, and a control device that performs exposure correction by multiplying the moving velocity of the line sensor and the accumulation time of the line sensor by correction factors. To correct the base concentration while reducing the effects of deterioration of the S/N ratio and level-skipping, a rough adjustment of the exposure is conducted by a gain circuit, a fine adjustment is conducted with reference to a first look-up table, and a further fine adjustment of the original document base concentration is conducted with reference to a second look-up table.

Image reading device and method for correcting image exposure data

A floppy disk driver includes a loader for mounting a disk, a drive for rotating the disk at a predetermined rotational speed, a speed detector for detecting when the disk reaches the predetermined rotational speed, a fluctuation detector for detecting fluctuation in rotational speed of the disk, and a defect detector responsive to a speed detection signal produced by the speed detector and a fluctuation detection signal produced by the fluctuation detector for determining the presence of a defect condition based on production of the fluctuation detection signal during a predetermined period after production of the speed detection signal and for causing the drive to stop rotating the disk when a defect condition is determined to be present.

Floppy disk driver with protective rotation control apparatus

An electronic still camera comprises a photoelectric converting device for converting light from an object into an electrical signal; an amplifying-recording device for amplifying the electrical signal and for recording the amplified signal on a recording medium; a selecting device for selecting one of plural amplification gains so that the amplifying-recording device amplifies the electrical signal on the basis of the selected amplification gain; an exposure time in accordance with the selected amplification gain and the luminance of an object to be photographed; and a determining device for determining a longest permissible exposure time, irrespective of the luminance of the object, in accordance with the selected amplification gain. If the calculated exposure time is longer than the longest permissible exposure time, an alarm is given and/or the calculated exposure time is reduced.

Electronic still camera

An electronic still camera includes a photo-taking lens, color temperature detector for detecting the color temperature of the outside of the camera including an object, an image pickup for accumulating therein charges according to the incident light from the object passed through the photo-taking lens, a regulator for regulating the picture signal from the image pickup on the basis of the output of the color temperature detector, a recorder means for recording the picture signal passed through the regulator on a recording medium, a device for producing a luminance signal from the output of the color temperature detector, and a computer for calculating the charge accumulating time of the image pickup for the light from the photo-taking lens on the basis of the luminance signal.

Exposure control device in an electronic still camera

An apparatus for making a video signal includes a solid state image pickup device having a plurality of first charge accumulation type photoelectric converting elements corresponding to the odd fields of the video signal, a plurality of second charge accumulation type photoelectric converting elements corresponding to the even field of the video signal, vertical transfer means, horizontal transfer means, first terminal means and second terminal means; output means for putting out a vertical blanking signal indicative of the vertical blanking period of the video signal, a first transfer pulse and a second transfer pulse; input means for alternately inputting the first and second transfer pulses to the first and second terminal means during each vertical blanking period and a generator for putting out a first driving pulse and a second driving pulse of a longer period than the first driving pulse to the vertical transfer means.

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Keita Kimura