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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7694404 | Method for assembling mold for forming plastic lens A device (20) for assembling a plastic-lens-forming casting mold includes a gasket clamping mechanism (22) which clamps a gasket (2) from its axial direction, a first mold push-in mechanism (23) which pushes in an upper mold (3) fi... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7693407 | Anti-shake apparatus An anti-shake apparatus for image stabilizing comprises an angular velocity sensor and a controller. The angular velocity sensor detects an angular velocity. The controller controls the angular velocity sensor and performs an anti-shake operation on the basis of an ... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7692708 | Photometric apparatus A photometric apparatus having at least two photo-receivers, includes a single incidence optical system, wherein a light bundle carrying an object image which is passed through a focusing screen and exits out of an image-erecting system is incident on the single inc... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7692687 | Anti-shake apparatus An anti-shake apparatus of a photographing apparatus comprises a movable unit and a fixed unit. The movable unit has an imaging device and can be moved and rotated on a plane which is perpendicular to an optical axis of a camera lens of the photographing apparatus. ... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7691279 | Method of producing a glass substrate for a mask blank and method of producing a mask blank A method of producing a glass substrate for a mask blank has the steps of measuring a convex/concave profile of a surface of the glass substrate, controlling a flatness of the surface of the glass substrate to a value not greater than a predetermined reference value... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7689107 | Anti-shake apparatus An anti-shake apparatus of a photographing apparatus comprises a hand-shake quantity detector and a controller. The hand-shake quantity detector has a first detector having an angular velocity sensor and has a second detector having an angular displacement sensor. T... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7688360 | Imaging apparatus control unit and digital camera An imaging apparatus control unit, comprising a calculation block, a first control block, an output block, and a second control block, is provided. The calculation block calculates the number of possible photographs. The number of possible photographs is set as the ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7688354 | Image stabilizer An image stabilizer for counteracting image shake of an object image formed on an image pickup device includes an image-pickup-device holding member; a guide device which guides the image-pickup-device holding member so as to be allowed to move linearly in a plane o... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7687138 | Porous calcium phosphate ceramic and method for producing same A porous calcium phosphate ceramic body comprising a substrate 1, and three-dimensional nanotunnel layers 2 formed on wall surfaces of the substrate 1, the three-dimensional nanotunnel layers 2 having pluralities of three-dimensionally co... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7684113 | Imaging device including an optical member having a water-repellent or water/oil-repellent coating, an antireflection coating, an infrared-cutting glass, and a lowpass filter in this order from the side of the lens An imaging apparatus comprising an optical member in an optical path from a lens to an imaging device, said optical member comprising a water-repellent or water/oil-repellent coating, a first antireflection coating, an infrared-cutting glass, a lowpass filter, and a... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7683944 | Filter process for obtaining a soft focus picture image Original image data has original luminance data and color difference data. The original luminance data is separated into first luminance data and second luminance data. The second luminance data undergoes low-pass filter process so as to produce the third luminance ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7683936 | Angular velocity detection apparatus An angular-velocity detector includes a first sensor, a second sensor, and a controller. The first sensor is used for detecting motion around an axis of a second direction perpendicular to a first direction. The second sensor is used for detecting motion around an a... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7683410 | Image pickup device An image pickup device includes a plurality of photoelectric transducers; and a diffusion-reflection layer provided in front of the plurality of photoelectric transducers, wherein a part of light incident on the diffusion-reflection layer is reflected and dispersed ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7682537 | Mold-press forming apparatus and method of manufacturing a formed product A mold-press forming apparatus for applying a molding pressure to a mold containing a forming material to perform press forming includes a loading chamber (that is, an airtight chamber) P1 kept airtight. The loading chamber P1 is connected to a pressur... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7682531 | Process for producing optical member A method of manufacturing an optical member by mixing isocyanate terminal prepolymer component (A) and aromatic diamine component (B), and immediately after mixing, casting a mixture into a casting mold to obtain a molded article. A method of manufacturing a plastic... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7680409 | Camera system and interchangeable lens A camera system includes a camera body having an in-body motor; an interchangeable lens having an in-lens motor, the interchangeable lens being detachable from the camera body; a focusing mechanism for moving a focusing lens group provided in the interchangeable len... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7678509 | Method of producing phase shift masks A light-shielding film pattern 2a having a main opening 5 and auxiliary openings 6 is formed in a first process and, then, recess etching of a transparent substrate (formation of a substrate etched portion 8) is performed in a seco... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7678508 | Method of manufacturing mask blank and method of manufacturing mask To prevent foreign matters from adhering to a substrate, etc., thereby causing inconveniences during storing and transporting a mask blank, or during manufacturing the mask blank and a mask. Thin films 2 and 3 formed in a mask thin film forming step of... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7678447 | Protective cover for display panel and its use A protective cover for a display panel, comprising a transparent substrate, and an anti-reflection, transparent medium layer comprising hollow, transparent, fine particles dispersed in a transparent resin matrix and sealed without gap between the a transparent subst... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7677726 | Manufacturing method for spectacle lens and spectacle lens To ensure optical performance within a permissible range, making outward appearance excellent, and making binocular vision comfortable. In cases where a difference of prescription including dioptric power between the right and left eyes is equal to or more than pres... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7674563 | Pattern forming method and phase shift mask manufacturing method A phase shift mask manufacturing method comprises the steps of processing a light-shielding layer over a transparent substrate into a predetermined light-shielding pattern, forming a resist film on the predetermined light-shielding pattern, performing writing on the... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7674561 | Mask blanks and method of producing the same A method of producing a mask blank has a resist film forming (resist coating) process of dispensing a resist solution containing a resist material and a solvent onto a square-like substrate, and rotating the substrate to spread the dispensed resist solution over the... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7674262 | High-frequency treatment tool for endoscope A high-frequency treatment tool for an endoscope including a flexible sheath being made of electrically insulating material to be inserted through an insertion channel of the endoscope, a conductive operation wire, which is adapted to be advanced and retracted insid... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7672579 | Retractable lens barrel A lens barrel includes a standard optical element used in a standard photographing operation and an insertable optical element which is selectively inserted into and removed from a photographing optical path. The lens barrel includes an accommodating driving device ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7672577 | Lock mechanism for stage apparatus A lock mechanism for a stage apparatus, includes a movable stage provided on a stationary member which is movable in a reference plane; a pair of engaging members which are provided on the movable stage; a pair of lock members which are positioned between the engagi... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7671898 | Color-space transformation-matrix calculating method and image processing device A color space transformation matrix calculating method is provided that calculates a color space transformation matrix which transforms colors in a first color space to colors in a second color space. The method optimizes a plurality of constant color-space transfor... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7670978 | Optical glass, precision press molding preform and optical element The optical glass has a refractive index of equal to or greater than 1.65 and an Abbé number ranging from 50 to 60. In the optical glass, as molar basis, a ratio of SiO2 content to B2O3 content is greater than 0.5 and equal to or le... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7670974 | Optical glass, press molding preform, method of manufacturing same, optical element, and method of manufacturing same A low dispersion optical glass comprising, given as molar percentages, 28 to 50 percent of P2O5; more than 20 percent but not more than 50 percent of BaO; 1 to 20 percent MgO; a sum of Li2O, Na2O, and K2O exceed... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7670144 | Conductive layer, manufacturing method of the same, and signal transmission substrate There is provided a method of manufacturing a conductive layer of in a signal transmission substrate. The method includes sewing conductive thread in sheet-like material having an insulating property so as to form one of a plurality of low resistance regions using t... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7667175 | Imaging device driver and auto focus unit An imaging device driver that drives an imaging device, comprising a detector and a controller, is provided. The imaging device has a light-receiving surface. A plurality of pixels are arranged on the light-receiving surface. Each individual pixel generates a pixel ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7663694 | Digital camera A digital camera includes an image sensor unit which is fixed to a camera body, the image sensor incorporating an image sensor package including an image sensor, and a reference plate which serves as a positional reference when fixed to the camera body, the image se... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7663690 | Camera executing strobe photographing using filters A digital camera configured to carry out a strobe photographing is provided. The digital camera includes an imaging optical system, which forms an optical image of an object with its background, an image capturing system configured to capture the optical image of th... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7661188 | Method of manufacturing glass substrate for magnetic disk In a manufacturing method of a glass substrate for a magnetic disk including a cleaning process of the glass substrate, the cleaning process includes a process of contacting the glass substrate with a cleaning solution containing a compound, such as thioglycolic aci... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7660456 | Mask fabrication supporting method, mask blank providing method, and mask blank dealing system A mask blank is provided by forming a plurality of films, including at least a thin film to be a transfer pattern, on a board. At the time of patterning a resist film of the mask blank according to pattern data, film information to check with a pattern is obtained f... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660051 | Optical lens base with protective film and process for producing optical lens base A protective film (10) is eccentrically adhered to a concave-side transfer surface (3b) of a first mold (3) which is used in a plastic lens forming mold, and part (10a) of the peripheral portion of the protective film is pro... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657169 | Focus detection method and focus detection device A focus detection method includes moving a focusing lens group from the near extremity toward the far extremity in a search operation, and stopping the focusing lens group upon first detecting an in-focus state to determine an in-focus position of the focusing lens ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7656432 | Method and apparatus for photographing moving object An apparatus for photographing a moving object has a velocity detector that measures a velocity of an object, at least one camera that has an image sensor and is located so as to capture the object, an operating processor that calculates a photograph point in accord... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7655585 | Optical glass, precision press-molding preform, process for the production thereof, optical element and process for the production of the element Provided is a precision press-molding optical glass that is not easily degraded in quality by the occurrence of an altered layer such as fogging or yellowing on a surface and that comprises B2O3, ZnO, La2O3 and ZrO2 | 02/02/2010 |
| 7655364 | Methods of manufacturing mask blank and transfer mask In a method of manufacturing a mask blank adapted to be formed with a resist pattern by electron beam writing and having a light-shielding film and an etching mask film of an inorganic-based material resistant to etching of the light-shielding film which are formed ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7651823 | Optically semitransmissive film, photomask blank and photomask, and method for designing optically semitransmissive film The present invention provides an optically semitransmissive film that has a near-zero phase shift, has a desired transmissivity, and is relatively thin; a novel phase-shift mask that uses the optically semitransmissive film; a photomask blank that can manufacture t... | 01/26/2010 |
