Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

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Mitsubishi Plastics Industries Limited

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Nkh Spring Co., Ltd.

Renesas Electronics Corporation

Takeshi Uchida

Takeshi Takahashi

Yasuo Kamigata

Tetsuya Hoshino

Hiroki Terazaki

Yoshio Honma

Takako Suga

Yasuhiro Nagatomo

Jun Matsuzawa

Naoyuki Koyama

Tatsuro Uchida

Yasushi Kurata

Tetsuya Takeuchi

Motoo Futami

Takao Nakajima

Shin Yamauchi

Kenji Takeda

Yuichiro Hori

Koichi Ito

Kenji Yamagata

Mitsuhiro Ikuta

Jun Iba

Hiroshi Amano

Yasuhisa Inao

Yoshinobu Sekiguchi

Yasuyuki Suzuki

Masaaki Naoi

Katsuhiko Takano

Satoshi Ueda

Noriyuki Chino

Takayuki Muneyasu

Seiichi Kondoh

Takeshi Yoshioka

Katsuyuki Hoshino

Yosuke Mine

Tetsu Owada

Toshihiro Nakagaki

Takuma Higa

Shingo Horita

Yasuo Miyazaki

Yoshihiko Sano

Toshimitsu Matsuu

Hiroki Terasaki

Akiko Igarashi

Yukihide Umetsu

Tateo Yanagisawa

Katsumi Sakamoto

Seiki Inagawa

Yoshiharu Fukumoto

Hideyo Nakahara

Hisayoshi Yamada

Akira Kamide

Takatsugu Maeda

Nobuyuki Furuya

Takeyoshi Shimbori

Tomoyuki Minami

Kiyomi Tsuchiya

Shinya Kamijo

Kouichi Yokoura

Yoshio Narumiya

Satoshi Ageishi

Shoji Konta

Toru Uchikoshi

Takeyoshi Shinbori

Yoshinori Wakabayashi

Seiji Mizukami

Yuichi Banrai

Masato Koseki

Mitsunori Komori

Mitsutoshi Hayashi

Hirohisa Tanimuro

An electronic apparatus includes a proximity detector configured to detect proximity of an object to a viewfinder, a line-of-sight detector configured to detect line-of-sight information for a first display unit disposed inside the viewfinder, a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to determine an eye proximity state or an eye absence state based on a detection result of the line-of-sight detector, and start driving the proximity detector in a case where the processor determines the eye absence state, and stop driving the line-of-sight detector in a case where the proximity detector does not detect the proximity of the object.

Electronic apparatus, its control method, and storage medium

An identification device according to the present invention includes at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image obtained by capturing an eyeball of a user; an information acquisition unit configured to acquire three-dimensional information of the eyeball, based on the image; and an identification unit configured to identify the user, based on the three-dimensional information.

Identification device for user identification based on analysis of a three-dimensional image and data related to an eyeball of the user

An electronic device that has a line-of-sight detection function and is capable of suppressing the execution of an operation different from the intention of a user, and a control method therefor are disclosed. The device has a function for detecting coordinates on an image at which a user is gazing as point-of-gaze coordinates. The device, in a case where a movement of the point-of-gaze coordinates has been detected, measures a duration of the point-of-gaze coordinates after the movement. The device further determines that the movement of the point-of-gaze coordinates with the duration larger than a time threshold is a viewpoint movement that is intended by the user, and determines that the movement of the point-of-gaze coordinates with the duration equal to or smaller than the time threshold is a viewpoint movement that is not intended by the user.

Electronic device and control method therefor

An electronic device according to the present invention includes at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: a gaze acquisition unit configured to acquire right gaze information related to a gaze of a right eye of a user that wears a display apparatus of an optical see-through type on a head and left gaze information related to a gaze of a left eye of the user; and a correlation acquisition unit configured to acquire, as information on personal differences, correlation information related to correlation between the gaze of the right eye and the gaze of the left eye on a basis of the right gaze information and the left gaze information.

Electronic device

The light emitting element according to the present disclosure comprises a first active layer that emits light having a first wavelength by injecting current, a second active layer that emits light having a second wavelength different from the first wavelength by absorbing the light having the first wavelength, and a first reflecting mirror in which a reflectance of light having the first wavelength is higher than a reflectance of light having the second wavelength, wherein the first reflecting mirror is disposed at a position closer to an emission end, from which the light emitted by the first active layer or the second active layer exits outside, than the first active layer and the second active layer.

Light emitting element and manufacturing method of light emitting element

A photoelectric conversion element includes a first reflecting mirror provided on a substrate, a resonator provided on the first reflecting mirror, and a second reflecting mirror provided on the resonator. The first reflecting mirror includes a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) including a plurality of semiconductor layers. A photoelectric conversion layer is provided in at least one layer of the plurality of semiconductor layers.

Photoelectric conversion element and photoelectric conversion system

An anti-noise component for a connector including a plug on an end of a coaxial cable and a jack at an opening of a metal housing of an electronic device. The anti-noise component includes a cylindrical first conductive member where the plug is inserted, and a cylindrical second conductive member where the first conductive member is inserted. The plug is held inside the first conductive member. An external thread portion is formed on the first conductive member and an internal thread portion is formed inside the second conductive member. The external thread portion mates with the internal thread portion. A flange portion is formed on the second conductive member and a joining portion is formed on the flange portion. The joining portion abuts an outer face of the metal housing. This prevents a gap from forming and leaking electromagnetic noise between the joining portion and the metal housing.

Anti-noise component

An electronic device according to the present invention is an electronic device capable of acquiring an eye image by capturing an image of an eye looking at a screen of a display through an eye window frame, and includes at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: an estimating unit configured to estimate a viewed point of the eye on the screen on a basis of the eye image; and a detecting unit configured to detect a shifted viewing state in which the eye shifts from a position corresponding to a center of the screen on the eye image, on a basis of a position of a pupil image or a Purkinje image on the eye image.

Electronic device, control method, and non-transitory computer readable medium

A light-receiving element, comprising a plurality of photodiodes formed by stacking in this sequence, a lower reflection mirror, a resonator including a photoelectric conversion layer, and an upper reflection mirror on a semiconductor substrate, wherein the plurality of photodiodes share the semiconductor substrate and the lower reflection mirror, the plurality of photodiodes includes a first photodiode having a resonance wavelength &#x3bb;1 and a second photodiode having a resonance wavelength &#x3bb;2 that is larger than the resonance wavelength &#x3bb;1, and a reflectance of the lower reflection mirror has a first peak corresponding to the resonance wavelength &#x3bb;1 and a second peak corresponding to the resonance wavelength &#x3bb;2.

Light-receiving element and detection system

A light-emitting thyristor includes a layered structure having a semiconductor DBR layer, a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor layer of a second conductive type, a third semiconductor layer, and a fourth semiconductor layer of the second conductivity type in this order on a semiconductor substrate, the third semiconductor layer has at least one fifth semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type and a multi-quantum well structure, the fifth semiconductor layer is present between the second semiconductor layer and the multi-quantum well structure, the multi-quantum well structure is formed of barrier layers and quantum well layers, and the number of the quantum well layers is greater than or equal to 10.

Light-emitting thyristor, light-emitting thyristor array, exposure head, and image forming apparatus

An imaging device includes a first substrate in which a plurality of first pixels each including a first light receiving unit and a light emitting unit that emits light with a light amount in accordance with a light amount detected by the first light receiving unit are provided, and a second substrate that is provided facing the first substrate and in which a plurality of second pixels each including a second light receiving unit that detects a light emitted from the light emitting unit of the first pixel and a readout circuit that outputs an image signal based on information detected by the plurality of second pixels are provided.

Imaging device and imaging system

A light emitting thyristor includes a stack structure having first to fourth semiconductor layers, and the third semiconductor layer includes at least a fifth semiconductor layer in contact with the second semiconductor layer and a sixth semiconductor layer in this order from the semiconductor substrate side. The sixth semiconductor layer is a layer having the smallest bandgap in all the layers forming the stack structure, and a difference &#x394;Eg in bandgap between the fifth semiconductor layer and the sixth semiconductor layer is greater than or equal to 0.05 eV and less than or equal to 0.15 eV.

Light emitting thyristor having a plurality of semiconductor layers with a specific layer having the smallest bandgap, light emitting thyristor array, exposure head, and image forming device

An acoustic wave acquiring apparatus is used that includes: an array light source including a plurality of elements emitting measurement light; a controller controlling the wavelength of the measurement light, for each of or the plurality of elements; a Fabry-Perot interferometer including a first mirror upon which the measurement light is incident and a second mirror upon which an acoustic wave from a subject is incident; an optical sensor measuring a light quantity of reflected light by the first and the second mirror; and a processor acquiring an intensity of the acoustic wave on the basis of a change of the light quantity of the reflected light, which is a distance between the first mirror and the second mirror, occurring due to the incidence of the acoustic wave.

Acoustic wave acquiring apparatus and control method therefor

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device to form a toner image onto a recording medium by transferring the toner image directly or indirectly onto the recording medium, the image forming device including a developer to develop a latent image formed on an image carrier into the toner image; and a controller to control the image forming device. The controller determines whether a first estimated time period is greater than a first predetermined time period, the first estimated time period being a time period from a time when image formation of one page of the image completes to an estimated time when image formation of a subsequent page of the image will start; and stops operating the developer based on a determination indicating that the first estimated time period is greater than the first predetermined time period.

Image forming apparatus, image forming system, method of controlling image forming apparatus, and recording medium

A light source includes an upper electrode layer, a lower electrode layer, and an active layer interposed therebetween. At least one of the upper and lower electrode layers is divided into a plurality of electrodes separated from each other in an in-plane direction of the active layer. The separated electrodes independently inject current into a plurality of different regions in the active layer. The light source emits light by injecting current from the upper and lower electrode layers into the active layer, guide the light in the in-plane direction, and output the light. The plurality of different regions in the active layer include a first region not including a light exit end and a second region including the light exit end, and the second region is configured to emit light of at least first-order level. The active layer has an asymmetric multiple quantum well structure.

Light source and optical coherence tomography apparatus including the light source

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Takeshi Uchida