Minolta Company, Ltd.

Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited

Other

Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha

Konica-minolta Holdings, Inc.

Otsuka Chemical Co., Ltd.

Satoshi Nakamura

Kenji Takada

So Yano

Shigehiro Miyatake

Yoshio Hagihara

Yasushi Kusaka

Shinya Matsuda

Noriyuki Okisu

Satoshi Sembo

Yutaka Uematsu

Mitsuaki Katagiri

Toshihiko Karasaki

Hideki Osaka

Shinichi Fujii

Jun Minakuti

Yukitoshi Hirose

Tomokazu Kakumoto

Satoshi Muraoka

Makoto Hatakoshi

Katsuhiko Asai

Ken Iwakura

Kenichi Fujita

T&uuml;may Tekin

Daniele Fuog

Robert Senn

Keizaburo Murai

An interposer to be mounted with an integrated circuit to be a test object is provided with a switch and a probe to detect an electric current corresponding to individual terminals of the integrated circuit. A test pattern signal is then inputted to the integrated circuit through a test substrate as a switch that is connected to a power supply terminal of the integrated circuit and that is turned off. If the integrated circuit normally operates and the current values of all the terminals of the integrated circuit are within a tolerance, the power supply terminal connected to the turned-off switch is identified as a terminal that may be removed.

Test method and interposer used therefor

When the brightness of a subject detected by a detecting deviceis higher than a predetermined value, for example 700 [cd/m], a switching judgment circuitjudges that an area sensor (solid-state image-sensing device)should perform logarithmic conversion. In response to this judgment by the switching judgment circuit, a switching signal generating circuitoutputs a switching signal to instruct the area sensorto perform logarithmic conversion. When the brightness of the subject detected by the detecting deviceis lower than the predetermined value, for example 700 [cd/m], a switching judgment circuitjudges that the area sensorshould perform linear conversion. In response to this judgment by the switching judgment circuit, the switching signal generating circuitoutputs a switching signal to instruct the area sensorto perform linear conversion.

Image-sensing apparatus

A solid-state image sensing apparatus in which a first signal converted linearly to the intensity of incident light, and a second signal converted logarithmically to the intensity of light, can be processed by a common circuit after undergoing a predetermined signal processing.

Solid-state image sensing apparatus

An image-sensing apparatus has an area sensorthat outputs image data by logarithmically converting the brightness of light incident thereon, a black-level detectorfor detecting the black level BL of the image data at which the image data has the lowest signal level, a white-level detectorfor detecting the white level WL of the image data at which the image data has the highest signal level, a calculation formula determinerfor determining, in accordance with the detected black and white levels BL and WL, the formula to be used to convert the signal level of the image data, and a dynamic range converterfor converting the signal level of the image data using the calculation formula determined by the calculation formula determiner

Image-sensing apparatus with brightness range adaptation functionality

A pesticidal composition comprising 4-phenoxyphenyl 2-(2-pyridyloxy) propyl ether and 2 -tert-butyl-5-(4-tert-butylbenzylthio) 4-chloropyridazin-3(2H)-one as active ingredients, and a method for controlling pests using 4-phenoxyphenyl 2-(2-pyridyloxy)propyl ether and 2-tert-butyl-5-(4-tert-butylbenzylthio)-4-chloropyridazin-3(2H)-one.

Insecticides

A solid-state, two-dimensional image sensing device having a matrix of pixels each of which employs a photosensor that generates a photocurrent and a MOS circuit which outputs a signal proportional to the logarithm of the integral over time of the photocurrent. The sensor includes an integration control switching device so that all pixels in the array have equal integration time. The sensor integrates the signal for each pixel for a period of time and stores the integrated signal in a pixel signal storage location. To read out the stored signal each pixel includes an amplifier to increase the signal during read out. The sensor further accumulates signal in either a MOS transistor pn-junction or a secondary pixel storage location during a time that the integrated pixel signal is being read out so that image information can be collected continuously even while the integrated pixel signal for each pixel is being read.

Image pickup device with integral amplification

A solid-state, two-dimensional image sensing device having a matrix of pixels each of which employs a photosensor that generates a photocurrent and a MOS circuit which outputs a signal proportional to the logarithm of the integral over time of the photocurrent. The sensor includes an integration control switching device so that all pixels in the array have equal integration time. The sensor integrates the signal for each pixel for a period of time and stores the integrated signal in a pixel signal storage location. The sensor further accumulates signal in a MOS transistor pn-junction during a time that the integrated pixel signal is being read out so image information can be collected continuously even while the integrated pixel signal for each pixel is being read.

Solid-state image pickup device

Solid-state image pickup device with integration and amplification

Methods and compositions controlling pests

A pesticidal composition comprising 4-phenoxyphenyl 2-(2-pyridyloxy)propyl ether and (E)-1-(2-chlorothiazol-5-ylmethyl)-3-methyl-2-nitroguanidine as active ingredients, especially, the composition having the weight ratio of 4-phenoxyphenyl 2-(2-pyridyloxy)propyl ether and (E)-1-(2-chlorothiazol-5-ylmethyl)-3-methyl-2-nitroguanidine in the composition is in the range of from 100:1 to 1:30. Further, a method for controlling pests applying an effective amount of 4-phenoxyphenyl 2-(2-pyridyloxy)propyl ether and (E)-1-(2-chlorothiazol-5-ylmethyl)-3-methyl-2-nitroguanidine to pest or place where pest inhabits.

Insecticide compositions and method for destroying insects

In an image-sensing apparatus, shading data obtained when a sensor is irradiated with uniform light is compressed by a COM and is then stored in a memory . During image sensing, the data stored in the memory is decompressed back into the shading data by an EXP . By a COR , this shading data is subtracted from the image data obtained from the sensor , and thereby the unevenness in the outputs from the individual pixels of the sensor is corrected.

Pesticidal compositions containing 4-phenoxyphenyl 2-(2-pyridyloxy)propyl ether and 2-(2,6-difluorophenyl)-4-(2-ethoxy-4-tert-butyl-phenyl)-2-oxazoline as active ingredients have excellent pesticidal efficacy.

Pesticidal compositions

A solid state image sensing device provided with a gamma correction circuit which corrects a logarithmically converted value derived from the logarithmic conversion of individual pixel data output from individual photoelectric conversion elements, thereby easily correcting discrepancies and differences in the gamma characteristics of the individual pixels of a photoelectric conversion element which converts a light signal to an electrical signal.

Solid state image sensing device and image sensing method

In an image-sensing device, the output of an area sensor obtained as an electric signal logarithmically proportional to the amount of incident light is converted by a conversion circuit into an electric signal linearly proportional to the amount of incident light by use of a conversion formula for exponential conversion stored in a memory . The thus converted output is fed to a processing circuit so that, even if the area sensor is a LOG sensor, the processing circuit of a conventional circuit design configured to process a linearly converted signal can process the electric signal output from the area sensor

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Ikeda, Japan

Satoshi Nakamura