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A projection exposure apparatus which has a projection optical system and projects a pattern onto a substrate through the projection optical system is disclosed. This apparatus includes a sensor unit which comprises a light-receiving element for detecting light incident through the projection optical system, a vessel in which the light-receiving element is arranged, and a sealing window which transmits the incident light and seals the vessel. A space between the sealing window and the light-receiving element is filled with a medium having a refractive index greater than 1.

Disclosed is a probing method comprising steps of moving a main chuck to align an object of inspection on the main chuck with probes of a probe card located over the main chuck, moving the main chuck toward the probe card, thereby bringing electrodes of the object of inspection into contact with the probes, overdriving the main chuck toward the probe card while measuring a load applied to the object of inspection by contact with the probes and controlling the movement of the main chuck in accordance with the measured load, and inspecting the electrical properties of the object of inspection by means of the probes.

A microchip includes a clad layer having a channel through which a sample flows, and an optical waveguide formed within the clad layer and having a higher refractive index than the clad layer. The optical waveguide is formed to act on the channel optically. Thus, the sample flowing in the channel can be analyzed with high accuracy even in the microchip having a fine structure.

The invention provides an organic electroluminescence device having an input function, including: an element substrate that has a light-emitting layer sandwiched between a pair of electrodes; a sealing substrate that seals the element substrate; a first detection electrode that is provided at the inner-surface side of the sealing substrate; a second detection electrode that is provided at the outer-surface side of the sealing substrate; the second detection electrode having a detection axis that is not the same as that of the first detection electrode; a dielectric film that is formed on the second detection electrode; and a detection unit that detects a position at which electrostatic capacitance is generated via the dielectric film between the first detection electrode and the second detection electrode.

The invention relates to high optical spectral image technique without harm to agricultural products. It can reflect the appearance of the agriculture products like color, shape, texture, dimension, scar and son on, and internal features like hardness, protein content and connected with knowledge base and experience of experts to make judgment. It can make quick, accurate, timely judgment of products, controlling the overall production with guarantee of the agriculture quality.

A position control method for controlling a position of a movable portion, includes: performing control of allowing the movable portion to approach a predetermined position by moving the movable portion; and performing control of moving the movable portion to the predetermined position by moving the movable portion and detecting a relative position of the movable portion with respect to the predetermined position by using an imaging unit.

In a mobile communication system, a base station controller has a handoff information management table for storing distance information for each mobile station notified from each of base stations and a detection unit for updating the handoff information management table each time a new handoff information was received from the base stations and detecting any of the mobile stations that is moving out of a service area into an out-of-communication range. The detection unit performs the out-of-range detection by selecting any of the mobile stations currently communicative only with one or more of the border cell base stations as a detection target and comparing the distance information in the handoff information management table with a predetermined threshold value.

When either a command value or an actually measured value is appropriately selected as an angular velocity used for the frictional torque calculation, the frictional compensation can be made valid at all times in both the case in which a robot is actively operated according to an angular velocity command and the case in which the robot is passively operated being pushed by an external force. In the case where a motor rotating direction and a collision direction are reverse to each other after a collision has been detected, the control mode is switched from the positional control to the electric current control and a torque, the direction of which is reverse to the direction of the motor rotation is generated by the motor, so that the motor rotating speed can be reduced and the collision energy can be alleviated. After that, when the motor rotating speed is reduced to a value not more than the setting value, the control mode is switched to the compliance control and the distortion caused in a reduction gear is dissolved. On the other hand, in the case where the motor rotating direction and the collision direction are the same, the control mode is directly switched from the positional control to the compliance control without passing through the electric current control. When the robot is operated whole following a collision force, the collision force can be alleviated.

Apparatus, system and method for synchronizing one or more clocks across a communication link. A slave clock may be synchronized to a master clock by means of a synchronization signal sent from the master to the slave clock side of the link. The synchronization signal may be an expected signal pattern sent at intervals expected by the slave side. The slave clock may correlate received signals with a representation of the expected synchronization signal to produce a correlation sample sequence at a first sample rate which is related as n times the slave clock rate. The synchronization signal receipt time indicated by the correlation sample sequence may be refined by interpolating the correlation sample sequence around a best correlation sample to locate a best interpolation at an interpolation resolution smaller than the sample resolution. The best interpolation may in turn be further refined by estimating between interpolator outputs adjacent to the best interpolation output. The synchronization signal receipt time thus determined is compared to the expected time based upon the slave clock, which is adjusted until the times match. After initialization, all slave clock errors are preferably accumulated to prevent long-term slip between the slave and master clocks. Formerly independent master and slave clocks synchronized across the communication link constitute a noncommon clock which may be compared on each side of the link to secondary independent clocks, and the secondary independent clocks may then be separately synchronized by adjusting one to have the same difference from its local noncommon clock as the secondary clock on the other side of the link has from its local noncommon clock.

To provide a technique capable of positioning of a semiconductor chip and a mounting substrate with high precision by improving visibility of an alignment mark. In a semiconductor chip constituting an LCD driver, a mark is formed in an alignment mark formation region over a semiconductor substrate. The mark is formed in the same layer as that of an uppermost layer wiring (third layer wiring) in an integrated circuit formation region. Then, in the lower layer of the mark and a background region surrounding the mark, patterns are formed. At this time, the pattern P1a is formed in the same layer as that of a second layer wiring and the pattern P1b is formed in the same layer as that of a first layer wiring. Further, the pattern P2 is formed in the same layer as that of a gate electrode, and the pattern P3 is formed in the same layer as that of an element isolation region.

An object of this invention is to provide an image sensing apparatus and image sensing method capable of eliminating a nonvolatile memory for storing position information of a defective pixel, and detecting a defective pixel at high precision even while sensing a complicated object. To achieve this object, there is provided an image sensing apparatus including a solid-state image sensing element having a plurality of pixels which output image sensing signals, a first determination device which determines whether a pixel of interest is a defective pixel candidate, by comparing the signal level of the pixel of interest subjected to defective pixel detection out of the plurality of pixels of the solid-state image sensing element, and the signal levels of a plurality of peripheral pixels around the pixel of interest, and a second determination device which, when the-first determination device determines that the pixel of interest is the defective pixel candidate, determines whether the determination result representing that the pixel of interest is the defective pixel candidate is erroneous detection, on the basis of the determination result of the first determination device representing whether a plurality of peripheral pixels around the pixel of interest are defective pixel candidates.

The invention discloses a paper currency detecting method. A paper currency recognition device is internally provided with an image acquisition unit, a light source and a currency delivering channel, wherein the image acquisition unit and the light source are respectively located on two sides of the currency delivering channel of the paper currency recognition device. The paper currency detecting method comprises the following steps: in a process for delivering a paper currency to be detected through the currency delivering channel, acquiring and processing the full-breadth image of the paper currency by the image acquisition unit through transmission light of the light source, transmitting through the paper currency; extracting anti-counterfeiting feature information from the processed full-breadth image; and judging the authenticity of the paper currency according to the processed image and/or the anti-counterfeiting feature information. The invention further provides a corresponding device. A paper currency detection scheme provided by the invention is beneficial to overcoming of the limitedness of processing with a reflection-type imaging algorithm, and is easy to realize with lower cost and fast and accurate detection, thus, false money can be accurately detected, and particularly, a more obvious effect on the false authentication can be achieved on a changed paper currency; and the paper currency detecting method and device can be used for accurately detecting complementary opposite printing type features of offset printing.

A fault detection device capable of detecting network faults by itself with high accuracy in multi-vendor environments, without the need to interoperate with an associated device according to an identical protocol. A monitoring control packet transmitter generates a fault monitoring control packet and transmits the generated packet to the associated device with which the fault detection device need not interoperate to detect faults according to the same protocol. A transmit packet counter keeps count of the transmitted fault monitoring control packet. A receive packet counter receives a control packet transmitted from the associated device, and keeps count of the received control packet. A fault detector monitors the count of transmitted packets and the count of received packets and, if at least one of the counts remains unchanged for a fixed period of time, judges that a fault has occurred and sends a fault notification to outside.

The present invention provides a route searching device that can detect an optimum route with higher precision, a route searching method, and a route searching program.

The route searching device detects an optimum route among possible routes from a first point to a second point, on the basis of link costs that are set for a plurality of links constituting the possible routes. The route searching device makes at least one of a determination on whether there is a restricting element for restricting the movement of a movable body at the time of moving from the road corresponding to one link to the road corresponding to another link via the connecting portion corresponding to a node to which at least two links are connected, a determination on the number of links connected to the node, a determination on the shape formed with the roads corresponding to the links connected to the connecting portion corresponding to the node, a determination on attributes of at least one of the roads corresponding to the links connected to the node, and a determination on the conditions of the roads. The route searching device then acquires a node cost that represents the difficulty of the movement from the road corresponding to the one link to the road corresponding to the another link, the node cost being in accordance with one or a combination of two or more of factors including the existence of a restricting element, the number of connected links, the shape formed with the roads corresponding to the links, the attributes of the roads, and the conditions of the roads, the factors being on the basis of the determination results of the determining means. On the basis of the link cost and the acquired node cost, the route searching device searches for the optimum route.

The invention relates to the technical field of agricultural product nondestructive test, and especially relates to a fruit appearance defect real-time on-line detection system and a fruit appearance defect detection method. The detection system comprises a delivering unit used for rotating fruit to be detected and horizontally moving the fruits passing an image acquisition position; an image acquisition unit comprising a light box arranged on the delivering unit and positioned at the image acquisition position and a CCD camera positioned in the light box, a sensor arranged on at least one side of the delivering unit and used for detecting whether the fruit is arriving the image acquisition position, and a computer. An image acquisition card used for controlling the CCD camera for taking fruit surface images is arranged in the computer. An image sorting model used for analyzing the acquired fruit surface images and for determining whether the fruit is qualified is pre-stored in the computer. According to the invention, analysis treatment is only carried out upon the surface images taken by the CCD camera, and detection and grading of the fruits can be rapidly and accurately carried out.

An information processing apparatus includes: touch operation sections provided to be spaced from each other by a specified distance and detect a position touched by an operating part; a drag detection section to detect a drag moved in a state where the operating part touches the touch operation sections; a vibration detection section to detect a vibration amount of the touch operation sections; a vibration acquisition section to acquire the vibration amount in a period after the drag detection section detects that an arbitrary touch operation section is dragged among the touch operation sections and before the drag detection section detects that another touch operation section adjacent to the arbitrary touch operation section is dragged; and a drag determination section to determine, based on the vibration amount, whether the drag on the arbitrary touch operation section is continuous with the drag on the another touch operation section.

An engine that re-circulates its exhaust gas suffers decreased accuracy in estimating an EGR rate real-time especially while the operating state of the engine is in a transitional state, which often results in torque fluctuations and deteriorated exhaust gas.

A sensor for directly detecting an EGR flow rate is disposed in an EGR path. An EGR rate and in-cylinder oxygen concentration are calculated from the output value of that sensor. In addition, when this EGR rate calculation method is used, the calculation is properly switched between a steady operation state characterized by a low load and small rotational fluctuations and a transitional operating state including the acceleration and deceleration. This makes it possible to correctly estimate the EGR rate and the in-cylinder oxygen concentration under a wide range of engine operation conditions, and thereby to avoid the fluctuation of torque and the deterioration of exhaust gas.

System comprised of a medical device and method for analyzing physiological and health data and representing the most significant parameters at different levels of detail which are understandable to a lay person and a medical professional. Low, intermediate and high-resolution scales can exchange information between each other for improving the analyses; the scales can be defined according to the corresponding software and hardware resources. A low-resolution Scale I represents a small number of primary elements such as intervals between the heart beats, duration of electrocardiographic PQ, QRS, and QT-intervals, amplitudes of P-, Q-, R-, S-, and T-waves. This real-time analysis is implemented in a portable device that requires minimum computational resources. The set of primary elements and their search criteria can be adjusted using intermediate or high-resolution levels. At the intermediate-resolution Scale II, serial changes in each of the said elements can be determined using a mathematical decomposition into series of basis functions and their coefficients. This scale can be implemented using a specialized processor or a computer organizer. At the high-resolution Scale III, combined serial changes in all primary elements can be determined to provide complete information about the dynamics of the signal. This scale can be implemented using a powerful processor, a network of computers or the Internet. The system can be used for personal or group self-evaluation, emergency or routine physiological monitoring and analysis, or continuous event, stress test or bedside physiological monitoring.

A masquerading detection system includes: an imaging unit (2) that obtains a first image by imaging an inspection object (12) from a first angle, and a second image by imaging the inspection object from a second angle which is different from the first angle; a unit (101) that detects first feature points from the first image, obtains first feature point coordinates of the detected feature points, detects second feature points from the second image, and obtains second feature point coordinates of the detected feature points; a unit (104) that obtains transformed coordinates by performing a plane projective transformation for the second feature point coordinates from the second image to the first image; and a unit (105) that determines that masquerading has been attempted when the difference between the transformed coordinates and the corresponding first feature point coordinates is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value.