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A blood vessel image input apparatus is provided which is capable of acquiring a high-precision image of blood vessels of a body part, such as a finger, even if the finger is swept at a non-constant speed. The apparatus includes a solid-state line image sensor, a light source for illuminating the inside of the finger with light, an imaging optical system adapted to focus the light, emitted from the light source and passed through the inside of the finger, on the solid-state line image sensor such that a blood vessel image representing a network structure of veins in the finger is formed on the solid-state line image sensor, and a blood vessel image forming unit adapted to form a complete image of blood vessels by connecting a plurality of partial blood vessel images captured by the solid-state line image sensor while sweeping the finger.

A toner capable of making compatible a transferring property, a fixing property and a cleaning property and forming a high-precision image. The toner comprises a binder resin and a colorant and is characterized in that the average circularity of the toner is at least 0.95, a ratio (D / S) between the total projection area (S) and the contact area (D) of the toner is 15% to 40%, and the contact area (D) is a total contact area between the toner and an object surface. The toner has such a shape as to be able to contact a latent image carrier with a proper contact area, has a high transferring rate and can prevent transferring dust.

An optical component includes: a multilayer inorganic thin-film on a substrate, wherein the inorganic thin-film is formed by laminating a plurality of layers made of silicon oxide and a plurality of layers made of metal oxide, the metal oxide is metal oxide containing any one of zirconium, tantalum, and titanium, the layers made of silicon oxide include a low-density silicon oxide layer and a high-density silicon oxide layer having a density higher than the low-density silicon oxide layer, the outermost layer of the inorganic thin-film is the low-density silicon oxide layer, and the surface roughness of the outermost layer of the inorganic thin-film is equal to or greater than 0.55 nm and equal to or smaller than 0.7 nm.

To propose an ultrasonic exploration method and an ultrasonic exploration apparatus that allow exploration of an exploration-target area such as a welded portion to provide a cross-sectional image of the exploration-target area accurately and stably.[Solution] An exploration operation, in which the transmission / reception position, at which ultrasonic waves are transmitted and received, is changed by a specified pitch distance, is performed for each of a plurality of incident angles. A nonlinear image in which echo signals acquired from harmonic waves of reflected waves are presented is generated for each incident angle. Each nonlinear image is converted into a frame conversion image in accordance with the cross-sectional shape of an exploration-target area. A signal intensity threshold for removing echo signals resulting from an orientation defect is determined in advance. Frame conversion images formed by only echo signals 41a whose signal intensity is the signal intensity threshold or more are overlapped to generate a nonlinear exploration image 35. Exploration of a welded portion 23 stably provides a nonlinear exploration image 35 in which the shape of an interface 25 of the welded portion 23 is shown accurately and clearly.

In a method for improving the imaging properties of a projection objective of a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus, an appropriate illumination angle distribution adapted to a mask (24; 224) to be projected is selected. Then locations (40a, 40b; 60a, 60b; 80a, 80b, 80c) in an exit pupil of the projection objective (20), which are illuminated under these conditions by projection light during a projection of the mask, are determined. For at least one image point, an actual value of an imaging quantity, e.g. a wavefront profile or a polarization state, is determined that influences the imaging properties of the projection objective. Finally, corrective measures are calculated such that the actual value of the imaging quantity approximates a desired value at these locations. In this last step, however, deviations of the actual value from the desired value are taken into account exclusively at said locations illuminated in the exit pupil.

An object is to provide an image forming process, an image forming apparatus, and a color electrophotographic print that can provide a color electrophotograph that has a sufficient density in its dark area, has gloss, has a high glossiness over the entire densities covering bright areas (a white area and a highlight area), areas at intermediate densities, and dark areas (a black area and a shadow area) and can achieve high image quality equivalent to silver halide photographs. An image forming process produces an electrophotographic print which has a black density of 2.0 or more, a black color satisfying the following condition in the CIE 1976 (L*a*b*) color space: (a*)2+(b*)2≦9, and a 20-degree minimum glossiness of 60 or more.

The present invention relates to a transmission line electromagnetic field and instantaneous inspection image acquisition device and method using an unmanned aerial vehicle. The image acquisition device includes: an electromagnetic field measurement unit acquiring an electromagnetic field exposure amount to measure a distance to a subject; an image acquisition unit for photographing with automatic adjustment using information obtained from the electromagnetic field measurement unit; a control unit obtaining image information via an image acquisition camera of the image acquisition unit; and a ground control system, wherein the electromagnetic field exposure amount acquired by the electromagnetic field measurement unit is used to adjust a focus of the image acquisition unit, thereby acquiring a precision image.

Blood-flow image display equipment for displaying a CFM image that is not affected by a motion of a tissue in an object area during capturing of images or is affected in a reduced manner. The blood-flow image display equipment has following components: a transmitting controller for controlling transmission triggers of a signal for B-mode and a signal for CFM based on a velocity of motion of an object; an ultrasonic transducer in which piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers each for transmitting / receiving an ultrasonic wave to / from the object are arranged in the form of an array; a B-mode image construction unit for constructing a B-mode image with received signals; a motion detector for measuring a motion vector of the object using the B-mode image; a receiving unit for CFM signal for receiving the signal for CFM from the ultrasonic transducer; a time-series signal storage unit for CFM that collects a CFM measurement region located in the same area of the object based on the motion vector measured by the motion detector and stores them in memory in time sequence; and an autocorrelation processing unit for performing autocorrelation processing on time-series CFM signals.

The vertical selection circuit of the imaging apparatus selects a selection line, a first shutter line, and a second shutter line to divide a single frame into three parts at arbitrary ratios. A first output signal is generated during a period from the first shutter line to the second shutter line and a second output signal generated during a period from the second shutter line to the selection line. By mixing the two output signals described above, an image with a large dynamic range can be obtained.

It in an object to acquire a high-precision polarization image. Provided is a polarization microscope comprising an illumination optical system 3 including a light source, a polarizer for converting a polarization state of illumination light from the light source, and a condenser lens for condensing the illumination light transmitted through the polarizer onto a specimen; an image-acquisition optical system including an objective lens for collecting observation light from the specimen, an analyzer for converting a polarization state of the observation light collected by the objective lens, and an image-acquisition device for acquiring the observation light transmitted through the analyzer; an observation-light angle correcting element for correcting changes in rotation angle of a polarization plane of the observation light in the image-acquisition optical system; and an observation-light phase-difference correcting element for correcting changes in phase difference between P-polarization and S-polarization of the observation light in the image-acquisition optical system, wherein amounts of correction of these correcting elements vary in directions intersecting an optical axis.

Disclosed is a fluorescent semiconductor microparticle assembly comprising at least three kinds of fluorescent semiconductor microparticles with an average particle size of from 1 to 10 nm, having the same chemical composition, a different average particle size and a different emission maximum wavelength in the emission spectra, wherein a standard deviation of emission intensity in each of the at least three kinds of fluorescent semiconductor microparticles is not more than 15%.

Provided is a mask inspection apparatus including: emitting unit for emitting electron beams onto a sample; electron detecting unit for detecting the quantity of electrons produced, by the emission of the electron beams, from the sample with patterns formed thereon; image processing unit for generating image data for the patterns on the basis of the electron quantity; and controlling unit for controlling the emitting unit, the electron detecting unit, and the image processing unit. The controlling unit calculates, from the size of a designated observation area of the sample, a division number of divisional images that are synthesized to form a joint image that covers the entire designated observation area. The controlling unit determines divisional areas so that adjacent divisional areas partially overlap each other. The controlling unit acquires SEM images for the respective divisional areas. The controlling unit synthesizes the SEM images of the divisional areas on the basis of coordinate data for the divisional areas and on the basis of edge information for patterns included in the overlapping regions, and thereby creates an SEM image of a wide field of view that covers the observation area.

A method for operating a driver assist system for supporting a driver during maneuvering and / or parking a motor vehicle includes recording with at least one environmental sensor three-dimensional environmental data of an environment of the motor vehicle; generating with the driver assist system a three-dimensional model based on the three-dimensional data recorded by the environmental sensor, said model describing at least a portion of the motor vehicle and at least a portion of the environment of the motor vehicle; generating with the driver assist system at least one image using the three-dimensional model, said image showing at least the at least one portion of the motor vehicle in relation to surrounding objects; and displaying the image on a display.

An image display device includes display regions, each having sub-pixels arranged therein, a pixel groups, each including a pixels, each pixel being composed of the sub-pixels included in the unit display regions adjacent to each other, a separating element which separates light of the image into light beams directing in different directions in the unit of one pixel group, an image signal supply unit which supplies an identical image signal or different image signals to the pixel groups, respectively, and a selection unit which selects a number of pixel groups or a number of pixels included in the pixel group.

A method of controlling a liquid droplet ejection apparatus includes: a pressure detecting step of detecting whether the pressure inside a functional liquid tank is below a lower-limit pressure of a working pressure or not; a step of confirming, when the pressure inside the functional liquid tank is below the lower-limit pressure, whether a functional liquid droplet ejection head is in imaging operation or not; and a pressurization control step of, upon confirmation that the functional liquid droplet ejection head is not in imaging operation, pressurizing the functional liquid tank to an upper-limit pressure of the working pressure.

A spectroscopic analysis apparatus includes a light source section that radiates light toward an object being imaged, an imaging section that captures light reflected off the object being imaged to acquire an image, a pixel detector that detects an abnormal pixel in the image which is a pixel where a reflectance ratio is greater than or equal to 1 and detects normal pixels in the image each of which is a pixel where the reflectance ratio is smaller than 1, and a light amount corrector that calculates a light amount correction value based on the amounts of light at normal pixels in a pixel area including the abnormal pixel in the image and replaces the amount of light at the abnormal pixel with the light amount correction value.

A method of controlling a liquid droplet ejection apparatus includes: a pressure detecting step of detecting whether the pressure inside a functional liquid tank is below a lower-limit pressure of a working pressure or not; a step of confirming, when the pressure inside the functional liquid tank is below the lower-limit pressure, whether a functional liquid droplet ejection head is in imaging operation or not; and a pressurization control step of, upon confirmation that the functional liquid droplet ejection head is not in imaging operation, pressurizing the functional liquid tank to an upper-limit pressure of the working pressure.

An imaging apparatus capable of capturing a moving image with an imaging device is equipped with a first image-processing device that uses hardware to process images captured by the imaging device and a second image-processing device that processes captured images with software. The imaging apparatus includes an image-processing switching device that selectively operates one of either the first image-processing device or the second image-processing device. The imaging apparatus includes a light-detection device that detects the amount of light received by the imaging device and a sensitivity adjustment device that increases the sensitivity of the imaging device as the amount of light decreases. The image-processing switching device operates the first image-processing device when the sensitivity is lower than a predetermined value and operates the second image-processing device when the sensitivity is higher than the predetermined value.

An imaging apparatus capable of capturing a moving image with an imaging device is equipped with a first image-processing device that uses hardware to process images captured by the imaging device and a second image-processing device that processes captured images with software. The imaging apparatus includes an image-processing switching device that selectively operates one of either the first image-processing device or the second image-processing device. The imaging apparatus includes a light-detection device that detects the amount of light received by the imaging device and a sensitivity adjustment device that increases the sensitivity of the imaging device as the amount of light decreases. The image-processing switching device operates the first image-processing device when the sensitivity is lower than a predetermined value and operates the second image-processing device when the sensitivity is higher than the predetermined value.

Intended is to provide an MRI contrast agent that tends not to be phagocytized by reticuloendothelial cells and that has improved dispersion stability. The present invention is an MRI contrast agent containing composite particles, wherein the composite particles are those with polymer graft chains bound to surfaces of microparticles at a very high density sufficient to allow steric repulsion to occur between the graft chains, the micoparticles are inorganic microparticles that exhibit superparamagnetism, and the polymer graft chains have a number average molecular weight (Mn) of at least 30,000. Preferably, the MRI contrast agent is for tumor diagnosis.

An image capturing system includes an imager, a detector, and a controller. The imager is configured to move relative to an object to be imaged and capture an image of the object. The detector is configured to detect a predetermined relative position of the object with respect to the imager. The controller is configured to switch from stop supplying a system clock to supplying the system clock based on the detected predetermined relative position. The system clock is used to control a timing to start capturing an image by the imager. After stops supplying the system clock, the controller resumes supplying the system clock to the imager according to a relative movement of the object, based on the detected predetermined relative position.

In a method for improving the imaging properties of a projection objective of a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus, an appropriate illumination angle distribution adapted to a mask (24; 224) to be projected is selected. Then locations (40a, 40b; 60a, 60b; 80a, 80b, 80c) in an exit pupil of the projection objective (20), which are illuminated under these conditions by projection light during a projection of the mask, are determined. For at least one image point, an actual value of an imaging quantity, e.g. a wavefront profile or a polarization state, is determined that influences the imaging properties of the projection objective. Finally, corrective measures are calculated such that the actual value of the imaging quantity approximates a desired value at these locations. In this last step, however, deviations of the actual value from the desired value are taken into account exclusively at said locations illuminated in the exit pupil.

An image search apparatus extracts a symmetric partial image based on acquired pairs of feature points, and divides the partial image at a symmetry axis of the partial image to decide two partial areas, as a first area and a second area based on the tendency of image features in the partial image. In determining the similarity between the query image and a comparison destination image, a coordinate transformation coefficient for a coordinate transformation process is set based on pairs of feature points extracted from the partial area decided as the first area of the two images, the coordinate transformation process using the coordinate transformation coefficient is applied to the pairs of feature points extracted from areas including areas other than the first area of the two images, and coordinates of the pairs of feature points after the coordinate transformation process are compared.

Methods and devices for three-dimensional navigation of magnetic nanoparticles are provided. A method can comprise introducing high-anisotropy magnetic nanoparticles to a mammal and directing the high-anisotropy magnetic nanoparticles towards a target region of the mammal. Direction control is achieved by subjecting the high-anisotropy magnetic nanoparticles to an alternating signal comprising a uniform magnetic field pulse having a strength greater than a coercivity of the high-anisotropy magnetic nanoparticles and a magnetic gradient pulse having a highest strength that is less than the coercivity of the high-anisotropy magnetic nanoparticles and a location of a lowest strength at the target region of the mammal, and the direction of the uniform magnetic field pulse being in an opposite direction of the magnetic gradient pulse.

The invention discloses a nondestructive testing system and method for a turbine disc by using a bilinear array transducer. The detection system is used for processing an image formed by ultrasonic echo data acquired by the bilinear array transducer by using a computer in which a Space-Defect method is stored so as to obtain a defect-imaging point on a tested object. According to the method, the Space-Defect method is adopted to solve the problem that a conventional phased array is difficult to solve the characteristic of small defects smaller than half wavelength, the Space-Defect method can achieve high-precision automatic recognition and high-precision imaging of a test piece of a complex structure, and a new way is provided for detection of diffusion welding area type defects of the aviation high-temperature alloy disc.

The present invention relates to an intermediate transfer recording medium, that can yield thermally transferred images which are excellent in various fastness properties even under severe service conditions, can transfer a protective layer on an image with good accuracy in a simple manner, and can provide an object with an image formed thereon which is highly difficult to be altered or forged, a process for producing the same, and a method for image formation. The intermediate transfer recording medium comprises: a sheet substrate provided with a resin layer; and a transparent sheet provided with a receptive layer, said transparent sheet provided with the receptive layer having been stacked on the sheet substrate provided with the resin layer, the transparent sheet portion including the receptive layer having been half cut, a hologram formation layer being stacked on the transparent sheet, the resin layer being separable from the transparent sheet.

A method referred to as a “cellular damascene method” utilizes a multiplicity of regularly arranged closed cavities referred to as “cells”, which are produced in a patterning layer. The dimensions of the cavities are on the order of magnitude of the microstructures to be produced. Selected cavities are opened by providing a mask and partitions situated between adjacent opened cavities are removed to provide trenches and holes which are filled with the material of the microstructure to be fabricated. Protruding material is removed by means of a chemical-mechanical polishing step. The microstructures are, in particular, interconnects and contact holes of integrated circuit.