Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Matsumoto Seiyaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Makoto Kameyama

Toshiaki Yoshikawa

Junri Ishikura

Hiroyuki Suzuki

Mitsuharu Sawamura

Tadashi Okamoto

Tsuyoshi Orikasa

Nobuyuki Okamura

Kiyozumi Niizuma

Toshio Yamanaka

Hideaki Miyakawa

Yasuyuki Saito

Takashi Suzuki

Junichi Sakamoto

Masaaki Matsushima

Michio Yanagi

Junji Terada

Hidehiko Fujimura

Tomoaki Takahashi

Takeshi Sawada

Yuko Izaki

Fujihiro Ito

Iwakichi Sugiyama

Akihiko Yokoyama

Seiji Kobayashi

Kazutaka Kondo

Kazuyo Yoshida

Koji Yoshida

Takeo Tsukamoto

Kenichi Nagasawa

Kenichi Iwata

Hiroyuki Tokunaga

Kenji Ando

Masahiro Kawase

Hirohide Matsuhisa

Koji Kitani

Nagato Osano

Etsuro Furutsu

Hideo Iwase

Yoshiaki Tomari

Yoshio Kawakami

Takahiro Nakagawa

Makoto Okawara

Yukihisa Takaoka

Yasuyuki Nakai

Satoshi Takaoka

Noboru Sugahara

Masakazu Wakabayashi

Yoichi Hoshi

An electronic device sets, in accordance with a use operation, which one of a plurality of objects is to be used to display a specific setting item on a setting screen. The plurality of objects include a first object and a second object whose display size, information amount to be displayed, and number of types of operable setting values are larger than the first object. In case where the first object is displayed on the setting screen, the electronic device changes a first setting value concerning the specific setting item in accordance with an operation on one of a first or second operation member. In case where the second object is displayed on the setting screen, the electronic device changes the first and second setting values in accordance with the operations on the first and second operation members, respectively.

Electronic device, imaging control apparatus and control method thereof

In a multiple-exposure imaging operation, an imaging apparatus performs an information display according to an appropriate display type considering imaging conditions. The imaging apparatus includes a display type setting unit configured to set any one of a plurality of display types as a display type for an information display to be displayed together with a through image, a mode setting unit to set a multiple-exposure imaging mode, perform a control, when the multiple-exposure imaging mode is set and an image to be multiple-composited with the through image can be acquired, to change to a display type dedicated to the multiple-exposure imaging mode for displaying at least one of the number of multiple-exposure image capturing scheduled images, the number of multiple-exposure image capturing completed images, the number of images remaining to reach the number of multiple-exposure image capturing scheduled images, and an icon indicating that the multiple-exposure imaging mode is set.

Imaging apparatus and method for controlling the same

An apparatus for producing a probe carrier in which ambient humidity for a plurality of nozzles of a liquid ejection device for ejecting droplets of solutions containing probes to the surface of a carrier is controlled to 50% or more, preferably 60% or more. A part of solution supply passages to the plurality of nozzles is constructed from gas permeable membranes permitting gas-liquid separation under reduced pressure. These gas permeable membrane portions are gathered and altogether placed under reduced pressure to remove air bubbles from the respective solutions supplied to the plural nozzles and decrease the amount of a dissolved gas, which causes air bubbles to be generated.

Apparatus for producing probe carrier

A method for appropriately managing the quality and distribution of a probe carrier. Probe carriers manufactured by a probe carrier manufacturing apparatus having ejecting portions for ejecting probe solutions, each containing a probe, which can be specifically coupled with a target substance, for applying the probe solution on a carrier, and a plurality of probe tanks storing mutually different probe solutions for supplying ejecting portions. Each probe tank is labeled with the bar-code. The labeled bar-code is read by the bar-code reader. On the basis of the read bar-code, the probe solution stored in the probe tank is identified. On the other hand, the probe tank is mounted on the ejecting portion.

Probe carrier management method, probe carrier manufacturing apparatus and probe carrier managing apparatus

A particle film deposition method provides ultrafine particles generated by arc heating. An electrode is employed with at least two sub-electrodes each radially aligned toward the same part of a material. The material is evaporated by an arc discharge via the electrode, particles are generated from the evaporated material and the particles collide against a substrate.

Film forming method employing sub-electrodes aligned toward target

Management method of probe carrier, probe carrier manufacturing apparatus and probe carrier managing apparatus

A particle film deposition apparatus and method are provided, with which ultra fine particles are generated by arc heating. The generated ultra fine particles can be efficiently sucked up into a transfer tube regardless of an arc voltage, and the resulting film can be stable in shape. An evaporation materialto be evaporated by arc heating and to generate ultra fine particles is connected to an electrode. As other electrodes, a plurality of rodseach having a discharge section at the tip thereof are provided. These rodsare so arranged as to be directed in each different direction with respect to the evaporation material

Film deposition apparatus and film deposition method

A method of manufacturing an electron-emitting device having excellent electron emission characteristics is provided in which fibers comprising carbon as the main composition are fixed (bonded) to a substrate in a desired area and at a desired density with simple processes and inexpensive manufacture cost, and a manufacture method for an electron source, a light-emitting apparatus and an image forming apparatus using such electron-emitting devices is provided. A method of manufacturing an electron-emitting device made of material comprising carbon as main composition by an aerosol type gas deposition method in which the material comprising carbon as the main composition is aerosolized and transported together with gas, and tightly attached (bonded) to a substrate via a nozzle.

Manufacture method for electron-emitting device, electron source, light-emitting apparatus, and image forming apparatus

A carrier having indexes in a probe non-fixing region is used and solutions containing probes are applied to respective specific positions on the carrier by referring to said indexes and fixed. The position of a target compound that is specifically bonded to a probe fixed to a probe carrier manufactured by a method according to the invention can be accurately and quickly detected by referring to the indexes.

Probe carrier, probe fixing carrier and method of manufacturing the same

In a thin-film formation process and system, a target and a substrate are placed in a sputtering space and a film-forming space, respectively, the pressure in the film-forming space is maintained at a pressure lower than the pressure in the sputtering space and a pressure sufficient for sputtered particles to move in the film-forming space with their mean free path which is longer than the distance between the grid plate and the substrate, and the target is sputtered to form a thin film on the substrate.

Thin-film formation system and thin-film formation process

An electrode plate is formed by a substrate and a plurality of patterned electrodes formed on the substrate. Each patterned electrode has a laminate structure including a first layer of nickel metal formed on the substrate and a second layer of copper formed thereon. The electrode plate may be prepared by a process including a step of etching such a multi-layer metal electrode-forming film formed on a substrate by spraying an etchant downwardly and uniformly onto the substrate while rotating the substrate at a rotation speed sufficient to allow quick liberation of the etchant from the substrate. The metal electrodes can be formed with good adhesion onto the substrate and with good width and thickness accuracy. By incorporating the electrode plate as a pair of substrates sandwiching a liquid crystal, a liquid crystal device free from transmission delay and rounding of voltage waveforms can be provided.

Electrode plate, liquid crystal device and production thereof

A display apparatus includes a planar optical modulation device having a transparent substrate and a plurality of pixels disposed thereon so as to be each capable of optical modulation thereat, and a masking member disposed on the transparent substrate and including spacings. The making member includes a layer of a metal compound containing C, O and a metal element. The masking member is effective in reducing a degree of reflection of external light (from a viewer side) while maintaining a sufficient light-interrupting property, thus resulting in a display apparatus exhibiting good display performances.

Display apparatus and process for production thereof

The present invention relates, in a camera including multiple points type focus detecting means, to the camera for carrying out the proper control for a time for accumulation when detecting a focus by adopting fill-in light. In particular, the invention provides a camera which is designed in such a way that in the control for the time for accumulation for the focus detection without the emission of the fill-in light, the maximum time for the accumulation is determined in accordance with the accumulation time in a sensor in which the accumulation operation control has been most early completed, while for the focus detection in a state in which the fill-in light is being applied to an object, the maximum time for the accumulation is determined irrespective of the accumulation time in a sensor in which the accumulation operation control has been most early completed.

Focus adjusting apparatus

Disclosed herein is a process for producing a color filter substrate for picture device constructed by selectively arranging light-shielding members and a plurality of coloring members different in spectral characteristics from each other on a transparent base, which comprises the steps of forming a water-repellent layer composed of a silane coupling agent on the base on which the light-shielding members are partially formed, exposing the surface of the base to oxygen plasma, and arranging a plurality of the coloring members different in spectral characteristics from each other on transparent regions of the base.

Process for treating base to selectively impart water repellency, light-shielding member formed substrate, and production process of color filter substrate for picture device

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Chiba, Japan

Makoto Kameyama