Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Stanley Electric Co., Ltd

Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.

Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Other

Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Piaa Corporation

Stanley Electric Cp., Ltd.

Toshiyuki Terada

Kazuaki Kawasaki

Mitsunari Yoshida

Tomonori Abe

Hidefumi Yasuda

Yuko Kato

Kazuyoshi Furukawa

Kenichi Tomita

Yasuharu Sugawara

Jun Inoue

Nobuyuki Toyoda

Akimichi Hojo

Tomio Nakaya

Tomotoshi Inoue

Akihiro Kojima

Takayoshi Fujii

Chiaki Takubo

Kazuhito Higuchi

Susumu Obata

Toru Tanabe

Shinichi Nakajima

Takashi Onishi

Akira Tanaka

Takeshi Okubo

Yoji Takeuchi

Osamu Inagaki

Hidetoshi Fukuda

Masashi Kamaya

Shoichi Shimizu

Katsuyuki Ishikawa

Kunio Yoshihara

Hideo Shiozawa

Takeshi Fujimura

Shunji Yoshitake

Nobuo Matsui

Keizo Sekido

Hitoshi Otomo

Daikichi Morohashi

Nobuo Koide

Ryuji Mimura

Tatsuya Goto

Yoshinori Shiigi

Motoki Kanematsu

Kenichi Akiyama

Kenji Ishida

Takamaro Mizoguchi

Kiyoho Kamei

Kimihiro Iritono

Naoya Hatsumi

Mayumi Hirose

Kazuhiro Ikezawa

Takashi Jyonai

Shigekazu Kato

A network game system is provided which can inhibit a user from disconnecting the power supply or communication connection of the user's game device during a competition for the user's own reasons. A condition storage () stores a plurality of game status conditions related to a game status. A condition judging unit () judges whether or not the game status satisfies each of the plurality of game status conditions. A partway-end judging unit () judges whether or not the competition has ended partway through the competition. A predetermined process executing unit () executes, in a case where the competition has ended partway through the competition, a predetermined process based on a judgment result of whether or not a game status at the time when the competition has ended partway through the competition satisfies each of the plurality of game status conditions.

Network game system, control method of network game system, game device, control method of game device, program, and information storage medium

To provide a game device which enables a user to relatively easily know of the existence of a player character suitable as a pass target or an area suitable as a movement destination. A display control unit () displays a partial area of a game space on a game screen based on a position of a reference player character selected from among player characters belonging to a first team and a second team or a position of a moving object. An acquiring unit () acquires, in a case where the first team is in possession of the moving object, a movement destination candidate or a pass target candidate of a player character belonging to the first team based on the positions of the player characters belonging to the second team. A control unit () controls the partial area based on the position of the reference player character or the position of the moving object, and the movement destination candidate or the pass target candidate acquired by the acquiring unit ().

Game device, method for controlling game device, program, and information storage medium

A semiconductor light emitting device includes a light emitting unit, a first and second conductive pillar, a sealing unit, a translucent layer, and a wavelength conversion layer. The light emitting unit includes a first and second semiconductor layer and a light emitting layer. The first semiconductor layer has a first and second major surface. The first major surface has a first and second portion. The second major surface is opposed the first major surface and has a third and fourth portion. The light emitting layer is provided on the first portion. The second semiconductor layer is provided on the light emitting layer. The first conductive pillar is provided on the second portion. The second conductive pillar is provided on the second semiconductor layer. The translucent layer is provided on the fourth portion. The wavelength conversion layer is provided on the third portion and on the translucent layer.

Semiconductor light emitting device

A game device capable of enhancing excitement in operating a game character is provided. The game device includes a microprocessor configured to acquire an operation value input by a user, read a parameter condition corresponding to the operation value, read an ability parameter of a player character corresponding to the parameter condition, and control the player character based on a determination of whether the ability parameter satisfies the parameter condition.

Game device for controlling action based on character ability, method for controlling game device, program, and information storage medium

A game device is provided. The game device includes a pass target selector, an operated target switcher, a first player controller, and a second player controller. The pass target selector selects a player character to be a pass target in a case where a first player character is in possession of a moving object. The switcher switches the user operated target from the first player character to a second player character. The first player controller moves the first player character and the moving object after switching, based on a position of an opponent player character, determines whether positions of the first player character or the moving object and the second character satisfy a condition, and causes, if the condition is satisfied, the first player character to make a pass to the second player character. The second player controller moves the second player character after switching.

A semiconductor light emitting device includes: a support substrate; a metal layer provided on the support substrate; a semiconductor layer provided on the metal layer and including a light emitting layer; a contact layer containing a semiconductor, selectively provided between the semiconductor layer and the metal layer, and being in contact with the semiconductor layer and the metal layer; and an insulating film provided between the semiconductor layer and the metal layer at a position not overlapping the contact layer.

Semiconductor light emitting device and method for manufacturing same

A game device executes a sport game. When a second team keeps the moving object, a first control unit controls the position of a player character belonging to a first team, based on both of either the position of a player character keeping the moving object or the position of the moving object, and the position of a predetermined area correlated to a first team, and a second control unit controls the position of the player character belonging to the first team, based on only one of either the position of the player character keeping the moving object or the position of the moving object, and the position of the predetermined area. In the case where a predetermined condition is satisfied, a control switching unit causes the second control unit to carry out the above-described control, instead of the first control unit.

Game device, game device control method, and information storage medium

A semiconductor light emitting device comprises: a semiconductor laminated body; an electrode provided on the first major surface of the semiconductor laminated body; and a reflecting layer provided on the second major surface side of the semiconductor laminated body. The semiconductor laminated body includes a light emitting layer and having a first major surface and a second major surface located on the opposite side of the first major surface. A light emitted from the light emitting layer is extracted from the first major surface. The reflecting layer is conductive and reflective of the light emitted from the light emitting layer. At least a portion of the reflecting layer, which is opposed to the electrode, has irregularities.

Semiconductor light emitting device and method of manufacturing same and semiconductor light emitting apparatus

A semiconductor light emitting device comprises: a stacked body of semiconductor including an active layer; a ridge stripe protruding and extending in a first direction on a first major surface of the stacked body; dummy ridges protruding on the first major surface of the stacked body on both sides of the ridge stripe; and a slit formed on the first major surface of the stacked body. The ridge stripe includes at least a portion of a waveguide that guides light emission generated by injected current. The slit extends along a second direction which crosses the first direction, and divides one of the dummy ridges.

Semiconductor light emitting device and semiconductor light emitting apparatus

Light source devices for photography using LED elements as a light source known in the prior art provide insufficient quantity of light, and the inability to avoid size increases in order to generate a sufficient quantity of light has been problematic. A photography light source deviceaccording to the present invention has a light source comprising a plurality of LED elementsgenerating white light or light of the three primaries and arranged in one or more rows parallel with the direction of the longer side of the photograph, a casehaving a lens on which linear fresnel cutshave been applied in a linear direction parallel to the arrangement direction is mounted on the LED element, and upon lighting of the LED element, drive is performed with a current of between 3 and 50 times the magnitude of the rated current thereof and a lighting duration of between 10 and 600 msec. Accordingly, the linear fresnel cutsincrease the efficiency of illumination by distributing light uniformly over the area of exposure, and in addition, a large current is applied in a pulse type pattern as the drive current, thus solving the problems by allowing sufficient brightness to be achieved with no associated increases in size.

Photography light source device

A semiconductor laser includes a substrate, a double hetero structure portion formed on the substrate, the double hetero structure including a first clad layer formed on the substrate, an active layer formed on the first clad layer and a second clad layer formed on the active layer, the second clad layer having a stripe-form projection on an upper surface thereof, the projection having an upper portion whose sidewalls are substantially vertically formed on the surface of the substrate and a step-shaped lower portion whose line width is larger than that of the upper portion, and a current blocking layer formed extending from side surfaces of the projection to the upper surface of the second clad layer except an upper surface of the projection.

Semiconductor laser and manufacturing method thereof

In an electronic flash device, a driving circuit ( ) drives a piezoelectric transformer ( ) in response to an oscillation signal of a predetermined frequency, which is output from an oscillation circuit ( ). A switch ( ) is provided in series in a line that connects the output of the piezoelectric transformer ( ) and a capacitor ( ). When the switch ( ) is ON, the output voltage from the piezoelectric transformer ( ) is rectified by a rectifier circuit, and charges the discharge capacitor ( ) as electric energy for discharging a discharge tube ( ). When the switch ( ) is turned off, and the output voltage from the piezoelectric transformer ( ) is applied to the discharge tube ( ), the discharge tube ( ) emits flash light by the electric energy stored in the discharge capacitor ( ) in response to that applied voltage as a trigger.

Electronic flash device

An image pickup apparatus for picking up an object comprises an image pickup device formed by arranging the photoelectric conversion elements constituting pixels in two-dimensional directions. A reading out circuit reads out from the image pickup device an electric signal obtained by photoelectric conversion with the image pickup device. A selecting portion selects from a plurality of reading out modes a reading out mode of the reading out circuit to carry out reading of the electric signal from the image pickup device. A memory circuit stores reading out positions of the image pickup device respectively in correspondence with the plurality of reading out modes. The reading out circuit reads out the electric signals from the image pickup device based on a reading out position corresponding to the reading out mode selected from the plurality of reading out modes by the selecting portion.

Image pickup apparatus capable of reading in optional reading mode

An electronic imaging apparatus composed of a solid-state sensor element for converting an image focused by an optical system into image data. The apparatus is selectively operable in a first drive mode for reading at least a large number of pixels of image data out of the solid-state sensor element, and in a second drive mode for reading a second number of selected pixels of image data out of the solid-state sensor element, the second number being smaller than the large number and the selected pixels being suited for foreground scene recognition. The apparatus further includes an optical black level correction process changing system for changing a process of detecting an optical black level corresponding to an optical black part of the sensor element and correcting image data according to the detected level, the process being changed according to whether the first drive mode or the second mode is selected to effect a first correction in the first drive mode and a second correction in the second drive mode, the first correction being achieved on the basis of a presently detected optical black level, and the second correction being achieved by a feedback control based on a difference between a previously detected optical black level and a desired optical black level.

Electronic imaging apparatus operable in two modes, with a different

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