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Mouse device with a built-in printer
A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184968 | Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus having a light receiving element having a micro lens array provided with a plurality of micro lenses, and a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, and outputting a light receiving signal obtained by receiving a light beam from an optica... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183686 | Semiconductor device Between a logic LSI (4) arranged on one side of a DRAM (1) and jointed to the DRAM and a radiating member (6) arranged on the other side of the DRAM (1) for irradiating the heats of the DRAM (1) and the logic LSI (4), there ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179517 | Exposure apparatus and method, maintenance method for exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method An exposure apparatus (EX) includes a setting apparatus (45) that sets an irradiation region (AR) of exposure light (EL) in a first state in which the irradiation light (EL) is irradiated onto a substrate (P) and irradiates, in a second state in which the exp... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176426 | Image reproduction apparatus and image reproduction program product An image reproduction apparatus that sequentially reproduces and displays a plurality of images, includes: a display effect setting unit that sets a display effect for each image based upon image data of the image stored in a storage means; and a display unit that r... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174668 | Exposure apparatus and method for producing device A lithographic apparatus includes a substrate table which holds a substrate, a projection system which projects a patterned beam of radiation onto the substrate, the projection system having a final optical element adjacent the substrate, a liquid supply system whic... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174088 | Solid state imaging device Storage capacitors Ctd and Cts are provided alternately side by side sequentially in a row direction. Each of the storage capacitors Ctd and Cts has an electrode layer 21 constituting a signal electrode and an upper side electrode layer 23 and a lower ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169723 | Vibration actuator, lens barrel and camera To provide a vibration actuator having good driving performance even when miniaturized, and a lens barrel and camera provided with the same. A first aspect of the present invention is to provide a vibration actuator comprising, an electromechanical conversion elemen... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169718 | Wide-angle zoom lens The present invention is directed to wide-angle zoom lenses dedicated to single-lens reflex digital cameras, which attains zoom ratio greater than 2. Such a wide-angle zoom lens has four groups of lens pieces, namely comprising the leading or foremost 1st lens group... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169592 | Exposure apparatus and method for producing device An exposure apparatus includes an optical element via which a patterned beam is projected onto a substrate through exposure liquid filled in a space between the optical element and the substrate. The apparatus also includes a member having a surface and movable to a... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169591 | Exposure apparatus, exposure method, and method for producing device An exposure apparatus is provided with a projection optical system, and the projection optical system includes a first optical element disposed most closely to an image plane of the projection optical system. The exposure apparatus includes a first liquid immersion ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169590 | Exposure apparatus and device fabrication method An exposure apparatus is provided which can supply and collect a liquid in a prescribed state, and that can suppress degradation of a pattern image projected onto a substrate. The exposure apparatus is provided with a nozzle member (70) having a supply outlet... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168959 | Reticle protection member, reticle carrying device, exposure device and method for carrying reticle A position measurement device 29 measures the position of a position measurement mark 26 formed on the lower surface of a reticle 1, thereby measuring the position of the reticle 1. A position measurement device 30 measures the pos... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167435 | Projection system and projector A projection system includes: a projection device mounted at a member that moves through space and projects an optical image; a detection device that detects relative position assumed in the space by a projection target surface onto which the optical image is projec... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164736 | Exposure method, exposure apparatus, and method for producing device An exposure method includes measuring coordinates of alignment marks before and after exposing a first wafer to determine a fluctuation amount of a parameter of the alignment; measuring coordinates of alignment marks before exposing a second wafer to determine a par... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164714 | Diffractive display device, finder device and camera There is provided a diffractive display device having small non-uniformity of luminance within a surface, and a finder device and a camera using the diffractive display device. The diffractive display device includes a pair of substrates 24a, 24... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164684 | Electronic camera with adjustable exposure sensitivity If an electronic camera is set in an image-capturing sensitivity automatic control mode, a program autoexposure calculation is executed based upon the subject brightness and the image-capturing sensitivity setting to determine a control aperture value and a control ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164679 | Image-capturing device, camera, method for constructing image-capturing device and image-capturing method for executing display of a live view and a focus detection operation simultaneously An image-capturing device includes: a plurality of first pixels disposed along a first direction; a plurality of second pixels different from the first pixels disposed along the first direction in admixture with the plurality of first pixels; and an adder that adds ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164649 | White balance adjusting device, imaging apparatus, and recording medium storing white balance adjusting program A white balance adjusting device includes a dividing unit which divides an image to be processed into plural small areas, a calculating unit which calculates evaluation values of each small area based on color information of the image, a judging unit which judges wh... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164642 | Image-capturing device with a destructive read-type image sensor An image-capturing device includes: a destructive read-type image sensor that executes photoelectric conversion of a light flux from an optical system at a plurality of pixels, stores electrical charges resulting from the photoelectric conversion at the plurality of... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159763 | Vibrating element, vibration actuator, lens barrel, camera system and method for driving vibration actuator To provide a vibrating element which can be driven by a low voltage, a vibration actuator, a lens barrel, a camera system and a method for driving a vibration actuator. A vibrating element (10) is provided with an elastically deformable tube-like member (1... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159744 | Laser scanning apparatus and laser scanning microscope To provide a laser scanning apparatus and a laser scanning microscope capable of securely conducting a condition setting at the time of laser scanning while suppressing a damage on a plane to be irradiated. Accordingly, a laser scanning apparatus includes a light de... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159675 | Observation device and wavelength limiting filter An observation device observing a sample cultured in a culture vessel includes an illuminating unit including an illumination optical system and illuminating the sample, an image-capturing unit including an imaging sensor and generating an image by capturing an imag... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159650 | Device manufacturing method, device manufacturing system, and measurement/inspection apparatus In the case where measurement/inspection of a wafer is performed in a measurement/inspection instrument before and after exposure is performed in an exposure apparatus, various kinds of conditions of the exposure apparatus and the measurement/inspection instrument a... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159649 | Exposure method, exposure apparatus, photomask and method for manufacturing photomask There is disclosed an exposure method is a method of projecting patterns (M1, M2) of a mask (M) onto a substrate to effect exposure thereof, through a plurality of projection optical units each having an enlargement magnification, and the exposure meth... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159594 | Electronic device A portable telephone device with incorporated projector 10 starts projection by a projection module 6 when a relative angle θ is set to a projection attitude of 80° and three seconds elapses. If a setting is made for performing vibration correction p... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159580 | Solid-state imaging device and imaging apparatus using the same Providing a solid-state imaging device having a degree of freedom capable of changing which of the pixels functions as a pixel having a photoelectric converter portion bisected in which direction. When a gate electrode 67 is high and a gate electrode 68 | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159561 | Digital camera with feature extraction device This invention includes an imaging device that photographs a subject image, a first storage device that stores image data output from the imaging device at a first time interval, a display device that reads the image data stored in the first storage device at the fi... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156349 | Electronic device and interface system An electronic device, comprising a USB connector through which another electronic device is connected to the electronic device; and a power supply circuit that supplies power from a power source to the other electronic device via a specified pin other than a power s... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155477 | Image processing method, carrier medium carrying image processing program, image processing apparatus, and imaging apparatus A proposition is to provide an image processing method, a carrier medium carrying an image processing program, an image processing apparatus, and an imaging apparatus capable of attaining line reproducibility and magnification distortion reduction in a well-balanced... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155472 | Image processing apparatus, camera, image processing program product and image processing method An image processing apparatus, includes: an information acquisition unit that obtains position information indicating a position of a first pixel group made up with pixels set along a predetermined direction among a plurality of pixels constituting an image; a smoot... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155439 | Image processing apparatus for correcting image color and image processing program An image processing device of the present application includes a color drift correcting section, a saturation reduction calculating section, and a color correcting section. The color drift correcting section corrects a color drift of an input image and generates a c... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154614 | Image playback device and method and electronic camera with image playback function An image playback device, which may be part of an electronic camera, reads out recorded information that has been recorded on a recording medium. A time period discriminator receives the recorded information read out by the image playback device and discriminates pe... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154605 | Image tracking apparatus, image tracking method and camera for improved recognition of a target object An image tracking apparatus includes: an imaging device that generates image information by capturing an image formed through an image forming optical system; a setting unit that sets, based upon the image information, first reference image information that includes... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154327 | Phase adjusting apparatus and camera A phase adjusting apparatus includes a comparison code generating section, a calculating section, and a delay section. The comparison code generating section individually generates a first comparison code having a phase of a head code advanced and a second compariso... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8153336 | Photomask substrate, photomask substrate forming member, photomask substrate fabricating method, photomask, and exposing method that uses the photomask A photomask substrate with a substantially uniform thickness comprises: a first surface, which is a continuous curved surface whereon a mask pattern is to be formed; and a second surface. The first surface exhibits a square shape that comprises an opposing pair of f... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8153247 | Method of manufacturing ABS resin molded part and ABS resin molded part An ABS resin molded part is manufactured by forming a molded part of an ABS resin into which a particulate filler is mixed, eluting butadiene particles from the surface of the molded part by etching, and forming a plating coat on the surface after the etching. ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150188 | Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus includes an imaging section, a subject extracting section, and an image processing section. The imaging section captures an object image and generates data of an image. The subject extracting section extracts a main subject from the image. The i... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150137 | Image processing device, image processing program, and observation system It is a proposition to reduce user's burden when performing tracking observation of a specimen. Therefore, an image processing apparatus includes a storage unit which takes in a plurality of slice images acquired from a specific area of a specimen by each of Z-stack... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150099 | Image processing device, image processing method, image processing program product, and imaging device An image processing device includes: a face detection unit that detects a face region of a person from an image formed by a plurality of pixels; and a scene judgment unit that judges a scene of the image according to a pixel value of the face region of the person de... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149382 | Surface position detection apparatus, exposure apparatus, and exposure method A surface position detection apparatus capable of highly precisely detecting the surface position of a surface to be detected without substantially being affected by relative positional displacement due to a polarization component occurring in a light flux having pa... | 04/03/2012 |
