Hoya Corporation

Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.

Teijin Pharma Limited

Bridgestone Corporation

Toshiki Nakamura

Daisuke Takai

Yukimitsu Yamada

Takashi Sasaki

Masaru Eguchi

Hiroshi Nomura

Hiroshi Shigetaka

Yoshiyuki Kikuchi

Heishiro Fudo

Yuzuru Kawana

Yutaka Takakubo

Kazuhito Oshita

Yasuji Hagiwara

Keiko Omura

Shinya Fujimoto

Naomi Matsumoto

Yoshitake Tanno

Masahiro Takata

Hideharu Shimura

Keigo Wakana

Masahide Takishita

Tongoh Chin

Toru Hikosaka

Kazuaki Fujiura

Naoki Kurai

Hironori Takayama

Tetsuya Abe

Takayuki Ito

Shinya Suzuka

Daisuke Koreeda

Eijiroh Tada

Takahiro Morinaga

Takamitsu Okayama

Takeshi Masaki

Satoe Matsunaga

Masaki Ota

Yasushi Tsutsumi

Hirofumi Kuga

Shin Ooya

Takayuki Ooshima

An electrostatic input device includes a capacitance detector that is disposed at an operation part to be operated by a living body, and is configured to detect capacitance; and a controller that is formed of an integrated circuit, and is configured to transition the capacitance detector to an activated state in response to an increment in the capacitance detected by the capacitance detector reaching or exceeding a first predetermined value a predetermined number of times or more within a predetermined period in a case in which the capacitance detector is in a standby state and no contact with the living body is detected.

Electrostatic input device

An input device includes a touch panel having an operation surface and configured to receive a touch input and a hover input by an operation body; a display device configured to display a plurality of selection items; a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to highlight a selection item, a selection of the selection item being made by the hover input from the plurality of selection items, confirm the selection of the selection item by the hover input in a case where a duration during which the selection item is selected by the hover input reaches a first predetermined threshold, and confirm a selection of the selection item by the touch input in a case where the touch input is detected on the selection item before the duration reaches the first predetermined threshold.

Input device adapted to receive a touch input and a hover input

A door handle includes a door handle case and an electrostatic sensor provided in the door handle case. The electrostatic sensor includes a detection electrode that is formed of a flat conductor plate, or that is formed on a surface of a flat substrate or within a flat substrate. The detection electrode includes a middle portion in a longitudinal direction of the detection electrode and includes peripheral portions proximal to both end portions of the detection electrode in the longitudinal direction. For a width of the detection electrode in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, each peripheral portion is wider than the middle portion, and the width of the detection electrode gradually increases toward each end portion in the longitudinal direction.

Door handle

An operation detection device includes an electrostatic sensor accommodated inside a casing and including a first conductor and a second conductor, and a controller electrically connected to the first conductor and the second conductor, and applies a voltage to each of the first conductor and the second conductor, to measure an electrostatic capacitance of each of the first conductor and the second conductor. The first conductor is arranged in and the second conductor is not arranged in a detection region in which an operating body is detected by the electrostatic sensor. The first conductor and the second conductor are arranged in a non-detection region in which the operating body is not detected.

Operation detection device and door handle

An optical element includes a glass body including a colored layer provided inside the glass body and positioned at an optical function surface of the optical element. An optical apparatus including the optical element is also provided.

Optical element and optical apparatus

An optical element including a glass body is provided. The optical element includes a colored layer provided inside the glass body and positioned outside an effective aperture of the optical element. Coloring of the colored layer is a reduction pigment occurring in a glass component of the glass body. The colored layer suppresses occurrence of stray light and obtains sufficient light-shielding properties, so that a superior image quality can be achieved.

A door handle includes door handle case, a first detection electrode and a second detection electrode disposed in the door handle case, and a controller connected to the first detection electrode and the second detection electrode. The controller separately measures a first capacitance between the first detection electrode and an operation body and a second capacitance between the second detection electrode and the operation body, and the controller determines whether a locking operation is performed by the operation body based on one or both of the first capacitance and the second capacitance.

An operation device includes a housing, an operation member, and a detector. The housing includes an electrically conductive portion on a surface thereof. The operation member is supported by the housing such that the operation member is movable in response to an operation by an operation body, and is configured to be capacitively coupled to the operation body and to the electrically conductive portion. The detector is configured to detect whether the operation body is in proximity to the operation member based on a change in capacitance at the electrically conductive portion.

Operation device and operation member

An operation input device includes a substrate formed of an insulator, a plurality of detecting electrodes provided on a surface of the substrate, and a controller, wherein the controller detects capacitance generated between each of the detecting electrodes and an operation body when the operation body is positioned in proximity to the substrate, and determines that a gesture operation by the operation body is performed when a duration from when the capacitance becomes a first threshold or greater to when the capacitance becomes a second threshold or greater is a predetermined value or greater, or when a length in which the operation body is moved from when the capacitance becomes the first threshold or greater to when the capacitance becomes the second threshold or greater is a predetermined value or greater, the first threshold being a threshold for the capacitance, and the second threshold being greater than the first threshold.

Operation input device and door handle

The biological information measurement apparatus includes a first signal applying unit which applies a first applying signal to electrodes at the time of the measurement of biological information, a biological information measurement unit which measures biological information based on detection signals of the electrodes at the time of the measurement of biological information, a second signal applying unit which applies a second applying signal to the electrodes at a time of detection of an attached state, and an attached state detection unit which detects an attached state based on the detection signals at the time of the detection of an attached state. At least some of the electrodes at the time of the measurement of biological information is identical with at least some of the electrodes at the time of the detection of an attached state.

Biological information measurement apparatus, method for controlling the same, and recording medium

In a position detection system that has a plurality of transmitters/receivers placed at least three positions: processing is executed to measure distances among the plurality of transmitters/receivers, each distance being measured a plurality of times, and obtain a minimum value for each distance; processing is executed to obtain an angle between each two adjacent straight lines, each of which is one of straight lines that mutually connect the plurality of transmitters/receivers, by using minimum values, each of which is the minimum value for each distance; and if the absolute value of the difference between 180 degrees and the sum of angles, each of which is the angle between each two adjacent straight lines, inside a triangle formed by straight lines that interconnect three of the plurality of transmitters/receivers is smaller than a predetermined value, processing is executed to take the minimum values as the true values of the distances.

Position detection system

A position detection system performs first through third processes to measure, using high-frequency signals, a position of a slave device in a measurement area surrounded by parent devices. The first process measures distances between the slave device and each of the master devices a plurality of times, to obtain a minimum value of each of the distances. The second process obtains a position of an intersection point of two arcs among arcs respectively having the minimum value of each of the distances as a radius from respective centers of the master devices when a number of intersection points of the two arcs within the measurement area is one. The third process regards a center of gravity of the intersection points as a true position of the slave device when the intersection points are densely arranged.

An imaging apparatus includes a front lens group, which constitutes part of an imaging optical system, at a fixed position with respect to an optical axis direction, wherein the front lens group includes a front lens element and a reflector and the reflector reflects light rays exiting from the front lens element; a movable lens group provided closer to the image plane side than the front lens group and movable along the optical axis; a support which supports the reflector; a movable frame which supports the front lens element and is supported by the support to be movable along a plane orthogonal to the optical axis of the front lens element; a front cover fixed to the support; and a driver which drives the movable frame in the plane, in accordance with vibrations applied to the photographing optical system, to reduce image shake.

Imaging apparatus

An imaging apparatus includes a front lens group having a front lens element and a reflector, in that order from an object side. The reflector includes a reflection surface which reflects light rays, from the front lens element, toward a different direction; a rear lens group positioned closer to an image plane than the front lens group, the imaging apparatus performs an image-stabilizing operation by driving the front lens element, a movable frame holding the front lens element; a support member supporting the reflector and is immovable relative to an optical axis of the front lens element, in a reference state; and a support mechanism which supports the movable frame to spherically swing about a spherical-swinging center, positioned on an extension of the optical axis of the front lens element extending behind an underside of the reflection surface of the reflector.

An imaging apparatus includes a front lens group, which constitutes part of an imaging optical system, at a fixed position with respect to an optical axis direction, wherein the front lens group includes a front lens element and a reflector and the reflector reflects light rays exiting from the front lens element; a movable lens group provided closer to the image plane side than the front lens group and movable along the optical axis; a support member which supports the reflector; a movable frame which supports the front lens element and is supported by the support member to be movable along a plane orthogonal to the optical axis of the front lens element; and a driver which drives the movable frame in the plane, in accordance with vibrations applied to the photographing optical system, to reduce image shake.

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Tokyo, Japan

Toshiki Nakamura