Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

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Dena Co., Ltd.

Cannon Kabushiki Kaisha

Ryo Kuroda

Toshihiko Miyazaki

Yasuhiro Shimada

Takako Yamaguchi

Kunihiro Sakai

Tomohiro Yamada

Hiroyasu Nose

Akihiko Yamano

Yasuhisa Inao

Natsuhiko Mizutani

Toshimitsu Kawase

Takahiro Oguchi

Katsunori Hatanaka

Noriyuki Nose

Yukichi Niwa

Kiyoshi Takimoto

Shunichi Shido

Masakazu Matsugu

Takayuki Yagi

Kenji Saitoh

Shigeyuki Suda

Minoru Yoshii

Haruki Kawada

Koji Yano

Katsuhiko Shinjo

Toshihiko Takeda

Naoto Abe

Etsuro Kishi

Tsutomu Ikeda

Osamu Takamatsu

Masahiro Tagawa

Masaya Ogino

Satoru Nishiuma

Kentaro Furusawa

Hiroshi Matsuda

Keisuke Yamamoto

Kenji Saito

Junichi Seki

Takayuki Teshima

Takehiko Kawasaki

Hidenori Shiotsuka

Susumu Yasuda

Yuji Kasanuki

Kohei Okamoto

Yoichiro Handa

Junta Yamamichi

Mitsutoshi Ohwada

Masaru Nakayama

Junji Ohyama

Takeshi Sawada

Yuki Machida

Yujiro Uetani

Akihko Yamano

Tsutomi Ikeda

Akihiro Takeda

To motivate a user to obtain game items from another deck after the user has obtained desired game items, a system according to an embodiment of the disclosure includes one or more processors and a storage storing information about a finite number of game items included respectively in a first deck and a second deck allocated to a user. The one or more processors select a first allotted count of game items as first allotted game items from among game items in the first deck in response to an acquisition request from the user, and select a second allotted count of game items as second allotted game items from among game items in the second deck in response to the acquisition request from the user.

Method and device for providing allotted game items from decks having rare items

An optical filter includes a substrate, and a periodic structure in which a plurality of members formed of silicon are periodically arranged on a surface of the substrate. The filter selectively transmits light of a first wavelength included in light incident on the periodic structure in the direction of the substrate. The members are two-dimensionally arranged with a period of 400 nm to 500 nm. The dimension of the members in the direction parallel to the surface is of 120 nm to 160 nm. A local maximum value of the transmission spectrum of the first wavelength is within the range of 400 nm to 500 nm.

Optical filter, solid-state imaging element having the filter, and imaging apparatus

An optical tomography imaging a tomogram by using a coherent light by a backscattering light of a measured object and a reflected light of a reference mirror, which has supercontinuum light sources, an optical system having group velocity dispersion connected to the supercontinuum light source, an optical detection element detecting a coherent light by a backscattering light of the measured object and a reflected light of the reference mirror, a timing detection element detecting a timing of each wavelength component in an output light from the optical system having the group velocity dispersion, and a unit sampling a signal from the optical detector by using a timing signal from the timing detection element with a signal from the supercontinuum light source as a trigger, and detecting an optical tomogram signal imaging a tomogram, thereby acquiring an optical tomogram at a higher speed than a conventional SS-OCT.

Optical tomography apparatus with timing detection element including optical resonator having variable resonator length

An optical filter includes a light-shielding conductive layer provided with a plurality of apertures on a substrate surface that selectively transmits light of a first wavelength, and a dielectric layer in contact with the conductive layer. A size of the apertures is a size equal to or less than the first wavelength, and a ratio of a surface area of the conductive layer to a surface area of the substrate surface is within a range of equal to or greater than 36% and equal to or less than 74%. A transmissivity of the first wavelength is increased by surface plasmons induced in the apertures by light falling on the conductive layer.

Optical filter

A substrate for forming a target substance detecting device includes a supporting member, an underlying layer disposed on a surface of the supporting member, and a metal pattern layer, disposed on a surface of the underlying layer, for being bound to a target substance trapping substance capable of trapping a target substance in a specimen solution at least containing water as a liquid medium to detect the target substance by utilizing plasmon resonance. The underlying layer has a refractive index nb satisfying the following relationship:0.90 na&#x2266;nb&#x2266;1.05 na,wherein na represents a refractive index of water.

Substrate for target substance detecting device, target substance detecting device, target substance detecting apparatus and method using the same, and kit therefor

In the fields of biosensing and the like, achievement of high sensitivity and high performance has been demanded in the concentration detection of target substances. In order to meet such demand, disclosed is an optical element utilizing the localized surface plasmon resonance, including: a dielectric substrate; a first group of metal microstructures in which a plurality of metal microstructures is supported on a dielectric substrate in an in-plane direction of the substrate; and a second group of metal microstructures in which a plurality of metal microstructures is disposed in the in-plane direction, and each of the metal microstructures is partially exposed to the outside; wherein the first group of metal microstructures and the second group of metal microstructures are laminated so as to be separated from each other by 100 nm or more.

Optical element and method for preparing the same, sensor apparatus and sensing method

An optical element of the present invention includes a conductive microstructure having a conductive property, and detects an optical spectrum signal varied by the binding of measured molecules on the surface of the conductive microstructure. The optical element has a distribution in the binding capacity of the measured molecules on the surface of the conductive microstructure in the direction of the electric displacement vector generated inside the conductive microstructure. As a result, it is possible to provide an optical element capable of measuring the density at high accuracy without depending on the binding position of the measured molecules.

Optical element, sensor device, manufacturing method of optical element, detection element, target substance measuring device and detection method

An exposure apparatus to be used with an exposure mask having an elastically deformable holding member and a light blocking film provided on the holding member and being formed with an opening pattern. For exposure, the mask is flexed, to be brought into contact with an object to be exposed. The apparatus includes a distance detecting device for detecting a distance between the exposure mask and the object to be exposed. The distance detecting device is adapted to detect the distance between the exposure mask and the object to be exposed before the exposure mask is flexed. The apparatus also includes a distance controlling device for controlling the distance between the exposure mask before the mask is flexed and the object to be exposed, on the basis of a signal from the distance detecting device.

Exposure apparatus, exposure method, and exposure mask

A sensor device is formed from a metal film having a plurality of openings, a sensor material positioned within each of the openings, a light source that emits light having a first wavelength, and a light detector that detects light emitted from the light source and transmitted through or reflected from the openings. The plurality of openings are arranged periodically in a first direction in the metal film, and both a size of each of the plurality of openings and an interval thereof in the first direction are equal to or less than the wavelength of the light.

Sensor device and testing method utilizing localized plasmon resonance

In a chemical sensing apparatus utilizing a surface plasmon resonance in a small aperture formed in a metal thin film or on a surface of a metal fine particle, a capturing substance is disposed in the small aperture or on the surface of the metal fine particle for capturing a target substance. A marker substance, having a size comparable to that of the small aperture or the metal fine particle is combined with the target substance. As a result, a spectral change is increased in the transmitted light or the scattered light, induced by a surface plasmon resonance and resulting from the capture of the target substance.

Chemical sensing apparatus and chemical sensing method

A near-field exposure method including preparing a photomask for near-field exposure, having a light blocking film provided on a base material constituting a membrane portion and a support member supporting the base material, wherein a first alignment mark for rough alignment is provided on the support member and a second alignment mark for fine alignment is provided on the membrane portion, setting the photomask and an object to be exposed in a near-field exposure apparatus, aligning the photomask and the object using the first alignment mark, flexing the membrane portion to contact with the object and detecting a positional relation between the membrane portion and the object using the second alignment mark, aligning the photomask and the object based on the detected positional relation and flexing the membrane portion to contact with the object, and exposing the object to light from a light source by way of the photomask.

Method of detecting relative position of exposure mask and object to be exposed, alignment method, and exposure method using the same

A plasmon sensor apparatus using a metallic fine periodic structure designed to reduce the dependences of the resonance wavelength and sensitivity on the incident angle. The plasmon sensor apparatus has a sensing element including a metallic member having periodic slit openings and metallic portions, and a substrate on which the metallic member is held, a light source which emits light so that the light is incident on the sensing element, and a photodetector which detects light obtained from the light source. If the period of the slit openings is &#x39b;; the width of the metallic portions is d; and the thickness of the metallic member is h, the aspect ratio h/(&#x39b;&#x2212;d) of the slit openings is 3 or higher and the opening width (&#x39b;&#x2212;d) is equal to or smaller than the wavelength of light applied from the light source to the sensing element.

Sensor apparatus

A method of manufacturing a device includes the steps of (i) providing a near-field photomask including a light shield film for constituting a light shield portion and openings formed in the light shield film, wherein the openings include two or more parallel first slit openings lengthening in a first direction and a second slit opening lengthening in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first directions, wherein the second slit opening interlinks the first slit openings, (ii) forming a photoresist layer on a substrate, (iii) exposing the photoresist layer to near-field light through the near-field photomask using polarized exposure light having an electrical field component parallel to the first direction, to form a latent image on the photoresist only in discrete regions at which the second slit opening crosses the light shield portion, (iv) forming a pattern of the photoresist layer based on the latent image, and (v) etching a surface of the substrate based on the pattern.

Method of manufacturing a device using a near-field photomask and near-field light

A near-field photoresist for formation of a fine pattern with by near-field exposure includes an alkali-soluble novalac resin, a diazyde-type photosensitizer which is photoreactive by near-field exposure, a photoacid generator which generates acid by the near-field exposure, and a solvent.

Near-field exposure photoresist and fine pattern forming method using the same

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Ryo Kuroda