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Isuzu Motors Limited

Ntt Electronics Corporation

Fuji Xerox Corporation

Toshio Watanabe

Isao Ichimura

Fumisada Maeda

Masahiko Sato

Hiroyuki Sakayori

Kenji Yamamoto

Shunpei Yamazaki

Akira Suzuki

Toshimitsu Konuma

Akira Mase

Ippei Kobayashi

Toshiharu Yamaguchi

Atsushi Fukumoto

Toru Takayama

Tetsuo Takahashi

Hideo Sato

Masahiro Matsumoto

Kiyoshi Ohsato

Akio Osabe

Kaoru Tabata

Osamu Aoyagi

Chizuru Isigaki

Seiichi Odaka

Kenya Suzuki

Junji Kajihara

Hidenori Mori

Shinji Katsuramoto

Yoshiaki Kato

Shunji Yoshimura

Kengo Hayasaka

Yoshiyuki Akiyama

Gakuji Hashimoto

Yuji Segawa

Takashi Goh

Tomohisa Suzuki

Kiyoshi Osato

Shinichi Kai

Kazunori Seno

Naoki Ooba

Masakazu Odaka

Hiroyuki Yamauchi

Shoei Kobayashi

Shigeru Tanaka

Kenichi Suzuki

Takashi Nakao

Masanobu Yamamoto

Masaki Saito

Hiroshi Takahashi

Takayuki Mizuno

Hidetoshi Watanabe

Atsushi Mori

Masamichi Fujiwara

Hideo Owa

Shin Masuhara

Kenji Kaneko

Hiromasa Tanobe

Manabu Oguma

Tsutomu Kitoh

Hiroyuki Matsuoka

Hiroshi Yamazaki

Yuzo Ishii

Tomoyuki Yamada

Yuichi Higuchi

Mitsunori Fukutoku

Akimasa Kaneko

Hironobu Tanase

Koichi Hadama

Kenji Suzuki

Masayoshi Akita

Kensuke Kojima

Tatsuo Maeda

Tomohiro Ono

Mitsuru Nagano

Hideyasu Nakamura

Naoto Yoshimoto

Susumu Sensyu

Yoshinari Kawashima

Atsushi Iida

Junichi Aoki

Kiyoshi Mano

Takanori Anaguchi

Takeshi Kawai

Mikitaka Ito

Chizuru Ishigaki

Katsuaki Aihara

Hirotsugu Zushi

Shunnei Yamazaki

Hidetaka Nakajima

Hideiaka Nakajima

Takeshi Fukui

Kiyoshi Ohsata

Ryousuke Minami

Takuma Nagata

Noriko Torigoe

A biometrics authentication system having a small and simple configuration and being capable of implementing both of biometrics authentication and position detection is provided. A biometrics authentication system includes a light source emitting light to an object, a microlens array section condensing light from the object, a light-sensing device obtaining light detection data of the object on the basis of the light condensed by the microlens array section, a position detection section detecting the position of the object on the basis of the light detection data obtained in the light-sensing device, and an authentication section, in the case where the object is a living body, performing authentication of the living body on the basis of the light detection data obtained in the light-sensing device.

Biometrics authentication system

According to some aspects, a microfluidic device is provided, comprising a sample holding chamber; and at least one flow path connected to the sample holding chamber configured to supply liquid into the sample holding chamber, wherein the sample holding chamber includes a first inner surface; and a light irradiation region intersecting the first inner surface and configured to receive light from outside of the sample holding chamber to irradiate liquid inside the sample holding chamber, wherein the first inner surface includes at least one recess shaped so as to contain gas bubbles present within the liquid, and wherein the at least one recess is located outside of the light irradiation region.

Microchip, analysis apparatus, and analysis method

There is provided a nucleic acid analysis apparatus including a heating unit configured to apply heat by contacting a microchip, and a chip holding unit configured to change a position between a first holding position that holds the microchip in midair and a second holding position that holds the microchip in contact with the heating unit.

Nucleic acid analysis apparatus, microchip for nucleic acid analysis, and method for mounting microchip in nucleic acid analysis apparatus

To provide an optical signal processing device that can collect light from an input waveguide to form a beam array having a small diameter. The optical signal processing device includes input waveguidesto, an array waveguideand a slab waveguidethat is connected to a first archaving the single point C as a center and input waveguidestoand that is connected to a second archaving the single point C as a center and an array waveguide

Optical signal processing device with an array waveguide coupled to a slab waveguide with two arcs

Disclosed herein is a microchip that allows a sample to be introduced into a region easily and accurately, and which makes it possible to obtain high analysis accuracy. The microchip includes an airtight region into which a solution is externally introduced; and positioning means for positioning a channel for injecting the solution into the region by penetrating a substrate layer forming the region with respect to a puncture part of the region.

Microchip

A waveguide type optical switch that can reduce the number of intersections in a matrix optical switch having the configuration of connecting unit optical switches and optical combining devices or optical branching devices to have a connecting function from 'multiple inputs to one output' to 'one input to multiple outputs'. To reduce the number of intersections in an entire matrix optical switch, an optical combining device of M inputs and one output is divided into (M&#x2212;1) pieces of unit optical combining elements each having two inputs and one output, which are arranged immediately after (N&#x2212;1) pieces of respective output ports excluding one piece of the output port closer to the input in the matrix optical switch out of N pieces of the output ports in the optical switch of one input and N outputs.

Waveguide type optical switch

The present invention relates to an optical coupling/splitting device that realizes the splitting of a down-signal and the coupling of up-signals by the same optical device, and reduces coupling losses of the up-signal. An optical coupling/splitting device in the present invention comprises an optical coupling/splitting means for coupling a plurality of up-signals in a multi-mode for output and splitting a down-signal in a single mode for output, and a two-way optical propagation means for propagating the up-signal that is output from the optical coupling/splitting means in a multi-mode for output and propagate the down-signal in a single mode to be output to the optical coupling/splitting means.

Optical coupling/splitting device, two-way optical propagation device, and optical-transmit-receive system

The discloser provides a multi-input and multi-output optical switch capable of switching over all WDM wavelengths. An optical switch according to one embodiment includes: an optical demultiplexing element () that demultiplexes an optical signal from at least one input port into individual wavelengths; a first optical deflection element (), which deflects an incident optical signal, that deflects the wavelength-separated optical signal incoming from the optical demultiplexing element to change a traveling direction for each wavelength to a switch axis direction perpendicular to a wavelength dispersion axis direction; a second optical deflection element () that deflects the optical signal incoming from the first optical deflection element to change the traveling direction to the switch axis direction for output to at least one of the output ports; and an optical multiplexing element () that multiplexes the optical signal with the different wavelengths incoming from the second optical deflection element.

Optical switch

A circuit board includes a board having a hole formed therein, and an imager that is bonded to a first region including at least a portion of the hole in a front surface of the board.

Circuit board

Disclosed herein is an imaging device including an imaging lens; a microlens array section; an imaging element; and a transporting section adapted to transport the microlens array section.

Imaging device and method with transporting microlens array

An image pickup apparatus capable of switching between image pickup modes is provided. An image pickup apparatus includes; an image pickup lens; an image pickup device receiving light from the image pickup lens to obtain image pickup data; an image processing section for performing image processing on the image pickup data obtained from the image pickup device; a microlens array section including a plurality of microlenses, and arranged between the image pickup lens and the image pickup device; and a driving section changing a relative distance between the microlens array section and the image pickup device.

Image pickup apparatus

Disclosed herein is a light detection device including, at least, a substrate provided with a plurality of detection regions where to perform detection of fluorescent light emitted from the inside of a sample upon irradiation of the sample with light, a light irradiation section operable to perform the irradiation with light, an optical control section configured to irradiate the detection regions with the light radiated from the light irradiation section, and a light detection section operable to detect the fluorescent light.

Light detection device

A biometrics authentication system includes: a light source applying light to a living body; a detection section on which the living body is to be placed; a microlens array section configured so that a plurality of microlenses each condensing light from the living body are arranged at intervals; a light shielding section arranged on at least one of a light incidence side and a light exiting side of the microlens array section and having apertures each facing a region where each of the microlenses is arranged; an image pickup device obtaining image pickup data of the living body on the basis of the light condensed by the microlens array section; and an authentication section performing authentication of the living body on the basis of the image pickup data obtained in the image pickup device.

Two AWG circuits are integrated while preventing degradation in quality of a multiplexing/demultiplexing function. An arrayed waveguide grating circuit includes: a first slab waveguide () connected to a first input waveguide () and second output waveguides (); a second slab waveguide () connected to first output waveguides () and a second input waveguide (); and an array waveguide () connecting the first slab waveguide () and the second slab waveguide (), wherein the input waveguides () are connected to the slab waveguides () at an interval of 1.5&#xd7; from the outermost second output waveguide out of the second output waveguides () connected at an interval x depending on a wavelength.

Arrayed waveguide grating circuit

An image-forming apparatus in which a replacement part is loaded includes a discrimination unit that discriminates whether or not identification data registered in the loaded replacement part correspond to either inherent data or group data registered in the image-forming apparatus; a determination unit that, when no correspondence is found in the discrimination unit, determines in accordance with a registration condition whether or not a value of the identification data is registered as the group data; and an establishment unit that establishes approval or disapproval of use of the loaded replacement part on the basis of a result of discrimination performed in the discrimination unit or determination performed in the determination unit.

Image-forming apparatus, control method thereof, and control program storing medium for image-forming apparatus

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Kanagawa, Japan

Toshio Watanabe