Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Yoshio Nishihara

Hiroyuki Miyake

Mamoru Nobue

Keishi Shimizu

Katsunori Kawano

Shin Yasuda

Norikazu Yamada

Eigo Nakagawa

Yoshihide Sato

Yasuaki Kuwata

Kenichi Kobayashi

Takashi Ozawa

Tetsuro Kodera

Naoki Hiji

Kei Shimotani

Tetsuichi Satonaga

Shinji Hasegawa

Seigo Makida

Tomoko Miyahara

Teiichi Suzuki

Shinichiro Taniguchi

Kentarou Kishi

A lens manufacturing apparatus includes a conveying unit that conveys a workpiece having a sheet member and a resin base on the sheet member, an unevenness forming unit that moves a cutting blade in a direction different from the conveying direction of the workpiece and that makes a cut in the surface of the resin base to form concave and convex portions, a resin supply unit that includes nozzles supplying a lens resin to areas, in which the concave portions are not formed, between the convex portions formed on the surface of the resin base, and a resin curing unit that cures the supplied lens resin.

Lens manufacturing apparatus

A lens manufacturing apparatus includes a concave-convex shape forming unit that makes a notch in the surface of a workpiece to form a concave-convex shape portion, a resin supply unit that supplies resin for a lens onto the surface of the workpiece, a resin curing unit that cures the supplied resin for a lens, a moving unit that moves the concave-convex shape forming unit, the resin supply unit, and the resin curing unit relative to the workpiece, and a control unit that controls driving of the concave-convex shape forming unit, the resin supply unit, the resin curing unit, and the moving unit so as to form the concave-convex shape portion extending in a predetermined direction, supply the resin for a lens between adjacent concave-convex shape portions and cure the supplied resin for a lens.

Provided is a measuring apparatus that includes: a semiconductor laser device that emits a laser light beam to an object to be measured; a driving unit that provides a driving signal for modulation drive of the semiconductor laser device; a first detection unit that detects a first electrical signal that corresponds to the intensity of the laser light beam modulated due to the self-coupling effect, in a first half-cycle of the driving signal; a second detection unit that detects a second electrical signal that corresponds to the intensity of a second laser light beam modulated due to the self-coupling effect, in a second half-cycle of the driving signal being in an opposite phase of the first half-cycle; a calculation unit that calculates a difference between the first and second electrical signals; and a measuring unit that measures a change in the state of the object based on the calculated difference.

Measuring apparatus

Provided is a measuring apparatus including: a driving unit that outputs first and second driving signals each having an opposite phase; a first semiconductor laser device, driven by the first driving signal, that emits a first laser beam to an object to be measured; a second semiconductor laser device, disposed near the first device and driven by the second driving signal, that emits a second laser beam to the object; a first detection unit that detects a first electrical signal that corresponds to the intensity of the first laser beam modulated due to the self-coupling effect; a second detection unit that detects a second electrical signal that corresponds to the intensity of the second laser beam modulated due to the self-coupling effect; a calculation unit that calculates differences between the first and second electrical signals; and a measuring unit that measures a state change of the object from the difference.

A secondary battery comprising a power generating part and a charging part, wherein

Secondary battery and method of generating electric power

To provide a method of implementing cache logic technique in which total data processing time can be reduced, input data divided into block is sequentially processed in units of block in plural circuits using a programmable logic device provided with a circuit information input controller, a programmable logic circuit sector and a data cache. The plural circuits are sequentially reconfigured in the programmable logic device and execute processing per plural blocks which can be stored in the data cache. Intermediate data in units of plural blocks is stored in the data cache to be input data to a reconfigured circuit and intermediate data as the result of the processing by the reconfigured circuit is overwritten to the data cache. When the processing of the plural circuits is finished, the result of the processing is output to an external device without being stored in the data cache.

METHOD PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF RECONFIGURING CIRCUIT FOR SEQUENTIALLY PROCESSING DATA IN BLOCKS AND TEMPORARILY STORING DATA PROCESSED UNTIL NEXT CONFIGURATION

By reusing circuit information designed in the past, the amount of computation for combining circuit information for layout and wirings is significantly reduced. A memory part stores a plurality of pieces of circuit information for forming circuits in programmable logic circuits. Each of pieces of the circuit information has an identifier of its own circuit information, and in the case where part or all of the circuit information is formed with other circuit information, has the identifiers of the other circuit information as reference identifiers, as circuit data thereof. An acquisition part passes specification circuit information from an application program to an editing part, obtains circuit information of a specified circuit, sent from the editing part, and forms the specified circuit in the programmable logic circuits according to the circuit information. The editing part generates circuit information of a circuit specified by specification information from the acquisition part from circuit information of the specified circuit and other circuit information indicated by reference identifiers, obtained from the memory part.

Information processing system that processes portions of an application program using programmable logic circuits

The invention is made to implement technique similar to multicontext technique without using a configuration memory for storing plural circuit information pieces that causes deterioration of circuit performance, increase of power consumption, increase of processes and increase of the manufacturing cost. Therefore, in a programmable logic device, a circuit information storage different from the configuration memory and a circuit information editor for generating circuit information of a specified circuit using circuit information stored in the circuit information storage are provided. In the circuit information storage, circuit information of plural circuits is stored in a compressed state. When specification information of the circuit information of a reconfigured circuit is input to a programmable logic circuit, the circuit information editor reads required circuit information from the circuit information storage, decompresses compressed circuit information, generates circuit information specified in the specification information, transfers the generated circuit information to a configuration memory and reconfigures the circuit.

Programmable logic device, information processing system, method of reconfiguring programmable logic device and method compressing circuit information for programmable logic device

The present invention provides an information outputting apparatus which stores data in an information storage medium and forms an image based on the data on a recording sheet, and the information outputting apparatus comprises inputting means for inputting the data, image forming means for forming an image of at least a part of the data inputted by the inputting means on the recording sheet, storing means for storing the data inputted by the inputting means in the information storage medium, recording sheet ejecting means for ejecting the recording sheet on which the image is formed by the image forming means to the outside of the apparatus, and information storage medium ejecting means for ejecting the information storage medium in which the data is stored by the storing means to the outside of the apparatus in synchronization with the ejecting of the recording sheet by the recording sheet ejecting means.

Information outputting apparatus

An image enlarging reading device includes an image inputting device including an image sensor and an image displaying device, for example, a liquid crystal display for displaying a whole or a part of image information inputted by the image inputting device. A reading portion of the image inputting device and a displaying portion of the image displaying device are positioned on a front side and a rear side respectively of the image enhancement display device with the displaying portion positioned over an area being read, that is, an area of image inputting. The image may be enhanced by enlargement of an input image to a magnified output image.

Image information enlarging reading device

A thin film transistor comprising a gate electrode of electrically conductive material, a semiconducting material, a gate insulating material located between the gate electrode and the semiconducting material, a source electrode of electrically conductive material adjacent to the semiconducting material, a drain electrode of electrically conductive material adjacent to the semiconducting material, and a light intercepting material for preventing the incidence of light on the semiconducting material wherein the light interrupting material layer is formed of the same electrically conductive material as the source electrode and the drain electrode.

Thin film transistor

A close-contact image sensing device has at least a plurality of blocks each including the combinations each consisting of a photo sensing element and a photo sensing element select switch connected in series to the photo sensing element, and a common signal line used, when an image signal is read in each block. A read signal flows through the common signal line. An amount of charge as is stored in an equivalent capacitor of the photo sensing element in accordance with an amount of light incident on the photo sensing element, is transferred to a capacitor connected to the common signal line by turning on the photo sensing element select switch. In the image sensing device, a reset switch is connected at one end to a node between the photo sensing element and the photo sensing element select switch, and at the other end to a ground point. A photo sensing element select signal, which is applied to the photo sensing element select switch in a block in which a read operation will be executed, is also applied as a reset signal to the reset switch in a block in which a read operation has been completed, whereby the charge as still left in the photo sensing element after the charge transfer is drained to the ground point.

Close-contact image sensing device having a reset switch

A thin film transistor driven image sensor. The image sensor has a plurality of photodiodes. Each photodiode is connected to a storage load capacitor through a thin film transistor switching element. The photodiodes are arranged into a plurality of blocks. Each block is read out sequentially in response to a read pulse which activates the thin film transistor switching elements in the block. The storage capacitors are arranged in such a matter that the distance traveled by an electric charge between a photodiode and the associated storage capacitor is constant for each photodiode and the associated storage capacitor.

Image sensor with uniformly dispersed storage capacitors

A manuscript reading device for reading a manuscript comprises a plurality of photodiodes for storing electric charges in parasitic capacitances thereof corresponding to lightness-and-darkness information on each minute area of a picture image on the manuscript by way of biasing said photodiodes to a predetermined state, and a plurality of thin film transistors connected in series to associated one of the photodiodes for transferring the electric charges stored in said parasitic capacitances to a corresponding wiring capacitance of a rear wiring group in response to the application of a predetermined voltage to gate electrodes thereof, the electric charges transferred and stored in said wiring capacitance being sequentially outputted as picture information corresponding to said picture image on the manuscript, wherein the thin film transistor comprises an n-type thin film transistor to a gate electrode of which a positive voltage is applied, and the photodiode is biased by a positive voltage.

Manuscript reading device

Image signals of an original is obtained from a plurality of image sensors and are successively supplied to an output terminal. A switching element is provided for resetting the previous image signal, which adversely causes to produce noises. An image sensor driving device according to the invention is to cancel the noises by the provision of a noise accumulating circuit and a subtracting circuit for subtracting the noises as accumulated in the noise accumulating circuit from the image signal on which the noises are superimposed.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yoshio Nishihara