Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

The University of Tokyo

Nec Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Renesas Electronics Corporation

Japan Science and Technology Agency

Osaka University

The Foundation for the Promotion of Industrial Science

Makoto Takamiya

Hidejiro Kadowaki

Yasuhiko Ishida

Kosuke Yamamoto

Haruhiko Takahashi

Ken Tsuchii

Takayasu Sakurai

Masafumi Wataya

Shigeki Kato

Toshiyuki Yanaka

Hiroshi Sugiyama

Shinji Ueda

Jun Ashiwa

Akihiko Nagano

Yasushi Miura

Kou Ishizuka

Ken Takeuchi

Masayuki Mizuno

Koichi Ishida

Ichiro Onuki

Yasushi Murayama

Haruhiko Moriguchi

Naoki Kawamata

Tadashi Yasufuku

Yasuyuki Tamura

Nobuyuki Kuwabara

Hisashi Fukushima

Tadashi Yamamoto

Nobuhiko Takekoshi

Masami Izumizaki

Tsuyoshi Sekitani

Hiroshi Fuketa

Tokihiko Mori

Hitoshi Kishino

Teruyoshi Hatanaka

Akio Suzuki

Yasuo Suda

Koichi Washisu

Toshiaki Hirosawa

Makoto Oikawa

Yoshihiro Takada

Takao Someya

Fumihiro Kajimura

Yasushi Kaneda

Hiroyuki Hagiwara

Toshiro Hiramoto

Takafumi Uemura

Yoshitaka Hashimoto

Shusuke Yoshimoto

Teppei Araki

Hiroyuki Shiomi

Yuki Noda

Shunta Iguchi

Po-Hung Chen

Sungjun Lee

A wiring sheet includes one or more carbon wires each of which is one of a signal line and a power supply line, and which are conductors including carbon as a main material and have flexibility; and an insulation sheet that encloses substantially an entirety of the one or more carbon wires, includes an electrical insulator as a main material, and has flexibility.

Wiring sheet, sheet-shaped system, and structure operation support system

An object to provide an electric device easy to manufacture, extensible and of high quality. The electric device comprises a plurality of module boards, the module boardspiled up on one another, each of the module boardsprovided with an electrodeon its surface, the electrodeson the piled-up module boardsgenerally positioned along a vertical straight line; and a connectorconnecting the module boards, the connectorincluding a body portion, the body portionelectrically connecting the electrodespositioned along the vertical straight line, and a holderholding the body portion, the holderincluding a board engagement portion and a holder connecting portion, the board engagement portion engaging with the module boardso that the connectoris mounted on the module board, and the holder connecting portion engaging with another holder connecting portion so that the connectoris coupled to another vertically adjacent connector

Electric device

A signal detection device includes: multiple electrodes that are arranged to come into contact with a subject that generates a signal; an electrode signal selection unit that alternatively selects one signal from signals on the multiple electrodes based on a selection signal; an amplification unit that amplifies the signal that is selected by the electrode signal selection unit; and a flexible substrate on which the multiple electrodes, the selection unit, and the amplification unit are formed, in which the amplification unit is formed on the substrate to form a laminated structure together with the multiple electrodes and the selection unit.

Signal detection device, signal detection method, and method of manufacturing signal detection device

For example, an averaging circuit includes first to third capacitors and a controller. The controller causes a first first-stage average voltage to be applied to a first capacitor, the first first-stage average voltage being an average of a first voltage applied to the first capacitor and a second voltage applied to a second capacitor, causes a second first-stage average voltage to be applied to the second capacitor, the second first-stage average voltage being an average of a third voltage applied to the second capacitor and a fourth voltage applied to a third capacitor, and causes a first second-stage average voltage to be applied to the first capacitor, the first second-stage average voltage being an average of the first and second first-stage average voltages applied to the first and second capacitors.

[object Object]

An image sensor comprising a plurality of pixels, each of at least part of the plurality of pixels comprises: a plurality of photoelectric conversion parts; a microlens; and a plurality of interlayer lenses formed between the plurality of photoelectric conversion parts and the microlens and integrally formed to correspond to the plurality of photoelectric conversion parts. The plurality of interlayer lenses cause light incident on the plurality of interlayer lenses to enter the corresponding plurality of photoelectric conversion parts.

Image sensor, image capturing apparatus, and forming method

According to one embodiment, an oscillator circuit includes a resonant circuit and first and second negative-resistance circuits. Each of the first and second negative-resistance circuits includes a first power-supply terminal, a second power-supply terminal, an input terminal and an output terminal. The first and second negative-resistance circuits are connected in series between a first power supply and a second power supply at the first and second power-supply terminals, and connected parallel to the resonance circuit at the input and output terminals.

Oscillator circuit

A clock generation circuitincludes a resonant reactor connected with a half voltage supply point TV, a resonant capacitor CL connected between a ground voltage supply point TVss and an output terminal TVout, a transistor MPconnected between the resonant reactor Lr and the resonant capacitor CL, and a transistor MNconnected with the output terminal TVout. In this configuration, signals in a wide range of frequencies can be output with low power consumption by adjusting the time when a clock signal &#x3c6;1 applied to the gates of the transistors MPand MNis high.

Signal transmission circuit

A booster circuit is configured, such that: in response to a reading request for reading data from a flash memory, when a voltage of an output terminal detected by a voltage detection circuit is not higher than a voltage, an oscillator outputs a control clock signal of predetermined on time and off time to a transistor of a boost converter to perform switching control of the transistor; and when the voltage detection circuit detects that the voltage of the output terminal reaches a voltage, an oscillator outputs a control clock signal of an on time and an off time input from a selection circuit to a transistor of a boost converter to perform switching control of the transistor.

Integrated circuit device

In a voltage detecting circuit, a transistor is configured as a P-type MOSFET, and includes a source connected with an input terminal, a gate connected with a ground voltage terminal and a drain connected with an output terminal. A transistor is configured as a P-type MOSFET, and includes a gate and a source connected with the output terminal and a drain connected with the ground terminal. Gate width and gate length of the transistor and gate width and gate length of the transistor are adjusted so that source-drain current flowing between the source and the drain of the transistor becomes equal to source-drain current flowing between the source and the drain of the transistor when the voltage applied to the input terminal is set to be preset trigger voltage. This configuration accomplishes detecting that the input voltage exceeds the trigger voltage with simple configuration.

Voltage detecting circuit

An image sensor that output a signal for detecting a focus state of a photographing lens. The image sensor includes a microlens; a light-receiving pixel; a first focus state detection pixel pair for outputting a focus state detection signal, in which aperture areas of the first focus state detection pixel pair are small in comparison to the light-receiving pixel; and a second focus state detection pixel pair for outputting a focus state detection signal, in which aperture areas of the second focus state detection pixel pair are small in comparison to the light-receiving pixel, wherein the second focus state detection pixel pair is arranged at a position that is shifted by a predetermined amount relative to each aperture position, with respect to the microlens of the first focus state detection pixel pair.

Solid-state image sensing element and image sensing apparatus for detecting a focus state of a photographing lens

The interposeris disposed on an upper surface of the stacked structureformed by stacking a plurality of a DRAM chipand a plurality of a flash memory chip. Thus down-size of an entire device is accomplished. A boost converter having an inductor is used as a voltage boost circuit. Thus down-size of the entire device is accomplished.

Stacked structure with a voltage boosting supply circuit

A focus detection device having imaging pixels and focus-detecting pixels using a phase-difference focus detection method implements high-precision focus detection. In the focus detection device, a plurality of pixels each having a photoelectric conversion unit for converting an incident light flux into signal charges, and a microlens having a focus position near the photoelectric conversion unit are arranged. The plurality of pixels include a plurality of imaging pixels for generating a shot image, and a plurality of focus-detecting pixels for generating an image signal for focus detection by the phase-difference focus detection method. An opening for giving a pupil division function to the focus-detecting pixel is formed using electrodes arranged to read out signal charges from the photoelectric conversion unit.

Focus detection device and imaging apparatus having the same

A cameracomprises an image pickup elementwhich has imaging pixels performing a photoelectric conversion of an object image formed by a light beam emitted from an image pickup optical system and focus detection pixels performing a photoelectric conversion of two images formed by two divided light beams, a focus detector which obtains first and second pairs of image signals having optical base lengths different from each other from the focus detection pixels, a selector which selects one of the first and second pairs of image signals based on at least one correlation amount of the first and second pairs of image signals, and a calculator which calculates a defocus amount based on the selected pair of image signals.

Optical device and signal processor

A focus detection apparatus includes an image sensor including pixels for focus detection for receiving a pair of respective light beams transmitted through different pupil areas of a photographing lens to output a pair of signals; an acquisition unit for acquiring exit window information on the photographing lens; an arithmetic circuit for calculating a tilt for detection area in the detecting position, depending on an image height for a detecting position in which a focus state is detected and on the exit window information; and a calculation unit for calculating the shape of the detection area depending on the calculated tilt, in which the defocus amount is detected on the basis of a phase difference between the pair of signals obtained from pixels for focus detection included in the calculated detection area.

Focus detection apparatus and control method therefor

The channel number detecting circuit detects the operation channel number based on the output terminal voltage after falling down when the output terminal voltage falls down during the voltage boosting control, and the switching control circuit generates the control clock signal having the on-time and the off-time adjusted based on the operation channel number and performs the voltage boosting control using generating control clock signal. The voltage boosting control is properly performed based on the operation channel number when the operation channel number increase during performing the voltage boosting control. Thus boosting the power supply voltage up to a second voltage is accomplished.

Integrated circuit device having a plurality of integrated circuit chips and an interposer

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Makoto Takamiya