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An object of the present invention is to provide an inorganic phosphor having fluorescence properties emitting an orange or red light which has a longer wavelength as compared with the cases of conventional sialon phosphors activated with a rare earth. The invention relates to a design of white light-emitting diode rich in a red component and having good color-rendering properties by employing a solid solution crystal phase phosphor which uses as a host crystal an inorganic compound having the same crystal structure as that of a CaSiAlN3 crystal phase and to which M Element (wherein M Element is one or two or more elements selected from the group consisting of Mn, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, and Yb) is added as an emission center.

A near field apparatus comprises a Radio Frequency (RF) coil including at least one of a shorting bridge from a first point to a second point along an electrical path of the RF coil and / or a discontinuity in the electrical path of the RF coil.

The invention provides a light emitting device which uses a color conversion layer, with high light emission efficiency and a low driving voltage. The light emitting device includes a light emitting element having a pair of electrodes and a layer containing an organic compound sandwiched between the pair of electrodes, and a color conversion layer which absorbs light emitted from the light emitting element and emits light with a longer wavelength than a wavelength of the absorbed light. A portion of the layer containing an organic compound includes a buffer layer containing a composite material including an organic compound having a hole transporting property and a metal compound. The thickness of the buffer layer is determined so that the light emission efficiency becomes high.

A near field apparatus comprises a Radio Frequency (RF) coil including at least one of a shorting bridge from a first point to a second point along an electrical path of the RF coil and / or a discontinuity in the electrical path of the RF coil.

Methods for image processing for detecting and recognizing an image object include detecting an image object using pose-specific object detectors, and performing fusion of the outputs from the pose-specific object detectors. The image object is recognized using pose-specific object recognizers that use outputs from the pose-specific object detectors and the fused output of the pose-specific object detectors; and by performing fusion of the outputs of the pose-specific object recognizers to recognize the image object.

A headlamp (1) includes a laser diode (2) for emitting a laser beam and a light-emitting section (5), which contains a fluorescent substance for emitting fluorescence upon receiving the laser beam emitted from the laser diode (2) and diffusing particles (15) for diffusing the laser beam.

An apparatus and method for low frequency asset tracking includes a low frequency transmitter tag associated with a cargo container or other high value commodity, a plurality of receivers that detect low frequency signals, and a microprocessor that uses algorithms and / or data pertaining to the propagation characteristics of the signal to locate the position of the container or high value commodity. The tag may include sensors to monitor container properties or conditions, such as temperature, motion, intrusion, RF fields, or other properties of interest. Sensor data may be modulated on the low frequency transmitter signal.

A light emitting device includes: a light emitting element; a first lead including a die pad portion at its one end portion, the light emitting element being bonded to the die pad portion; a second lead with its one end portion being opposed to the one end portion of the first lead; and a resin molded body including a recess with at least part of the die pad portion being exposed to the bottom thereof so that emission light from the light emitting element can be emitted upward, a lower surface with at least part of the lower surface of the first lead and at least part of the lower surface of the second lead being exposed thereto, and a lateral surface with at least part of the lateral surface of the die pad portion being exposed thereto, the resin molded body embedding the first lead and the second lead so that the other end portion of the first lead and the other end portion of the second lead are projected in directions opposite to each other. The at least part of the lateral surface of the die pad portion which is exposed is located on a first plane which is generally coplanar with the lateral surface of the other end portion of the first lead and the lateral surface of the other end portion of the second lead.

A color conversion layer is provided which is capable of converting light from an emitting medium effectively to light containing a ray having a longer wavelength and exhibits less deterioration so as to have a long lifetime. The color conversion layer comprising a fluorescent medium for converting light emitted from an emitting medium to light having a longer wavelength, and having a haze value of 50% to 95%. The color conversion layer can be made thin, since the layer can efficiently convert the color of light from an emitting medium. The processibility such as patterning thereof is then improved.

Methods for image processing for detecting and recognizing an image object include detecting an image object using pose-specific object detectors, and performing fusion of the outputs from the pose-specific object detectors. The image object is recognized using pose-specific object recognizers that use outputs from the pose-specific object detectors and the fused output of the pose-specific object detectors; and by performing fusion of the outputs of the pose-specific object recognizers to recognize the image object.

The present invention pertains to a method for monitoring a treatment of a patient, preferably for monitoring hemodialysis, hemodiafiltration and / or peritoneal dialysis, the method comprising the steps of irradiating a sample of a dialysis liquid used in the treatment with irradiation light of at least a first irradiation wavelength, detecting light emitted by the irradiated sample in at least a first detection wavelength, the detection wavelength being different from the first irradiation wavelength, and determining the presence and / or concentration of at least one analyte in the sample on the basis of the detected light.

Disclosed is a substrate with a transparent conductive film, wherein an underlying layer and a transparent conductive film are arranged in this order on a transparent insulating substrate. The transparent conductive film-side surface of the underlying layer is provided with a pyramid-shaped or inverse pyramid-shaped irregular structures, and the transparent conductive film comprises a first transparent electrode layer which is formed on the underlying layer and a second transparent electrode layer which forms the outermost surface of the transparent conductive film. By forming a zinc oxide layer that serves as the second transparent electrode layer by a reduced pressure CVD method, a substrate with a transparent conductive film that is provided with an irregular structure smaller than that of the underlying layer can be obtained. The substrate with a transparent conductive film can improve the conversion efficiency of a photoelectric conversion device through an increased light trapping effect.

The invention discloses a method for detecting and repairing a cycle slip by utilizing a BeiDou three-frequency observed quantity. The method mainly comprises the following steps of: 1, performing linear combination by utilizing the three-frequency observed quantity under the condition of providing a three-frequency signal by a BeiDou satellite navigation system, and constructing a combination noise detection quantity by selecting proper combination coefficients to detect the cycle slip; 2, after the cycle slip is detected, calculating and screening to obtain three sets of combination coefficients with superior performance in a pseudo-range carrier phase combination method, and calculating and repairing the cycle slip by utilizing the pseudo-range carrier phase combination method; and 3, finally, performing verification on a cycle-slip repairing effect by utilizing the combination noise detection quantity. The method for detecting and repairing the cycle slip is not related to the motion state of a carrier, can be used for reliably detecting and repairing the minimum cycle slip of which the time of losing lock reaches up to 30 seconds and can be used for detecting and repairing the cycle slip by the zero-difference, single-difference or double-difference carrier phase observed quantity when static measurement or dynamic measurement is performed.

The invention relates to a light guide (10) for illuminating a light output window (120) of an illumination system (100), the illumination system, a backlighting system (100) and a display device (200). The light guide comprises a first light guide part (10A) comprising a first light guide extension (70A) extending from a first edge wall (40A) of the first light guide part (10A), and comprises a second light guide part (10B) comprising a second light guide extension (70B) extending from a second edge wall (40B) of the second light guide part (10B), the first light guide extension (70A) being configured for positioning a first light input window (80A) at a side of the second light guide part (10β) facing a rear wall (30B) of the second light guide part (10B), the second light guide extension (70B) being configured for positioning a second light input window (80B) at a side of the first light guide part (10A) facing the rear wall (30A) of the first light guide part. An effect of the light guide according to the invention is that due to the configuration of the first light guide extension and the second light guide extension, the first light input window of the first light guide part is arranged behind the second light guide part, and the second light input window of the second light guide part is arranged behind the first light guide part.

Provided is a light-emitting element with high emission efficiency including a fluorescent material as a light-emitting substance. In a light-emitting element including a pair of electrodes and an EL layer between the pair of electrodes, a delayed fluorescence component due to triplet-triplet annihilation accounts for 20% or more of light emitted from the EL layer, and the light has at least one emission spectrum peak in the blue wavelength range. The EL layer includes an organic compound in which an energy difference between the lowest singlet excited energy level and the lowest triplet excited energy level is 0.5 eV or more. The EL layer includes a benzo[a]anthracene compound.

Methods are presented for analysing semiconductor materials (8), and silicon photovoltaic cells and cell precursors in particular, using imaging of photoluminescence (12) generated with high intensity illumination (16). The high photoluminescence signal levels (16) obtained with such illumination (30) enable the acquisition of images from moving samples with minimal blurring. Certain material defects of interest to semiconductor device manufacturers, especially cracks, appear sharper under high intensity illumination. In certain embodiments images of photoluminescence generated with high and low intensity illumination are compared to highlight selected material properties or defects.

Disclosed are polymer-based dielectric compositions (e.g., formulations) and materials (e.g. films) and associated devices. The polymers generally include photocrosslinkable pendant groups; for example, the polymers can include one or more coumarin-containing pendant groups.

A radiation detector assembly includes an optical element including a substrate and a partially reflective optical layer. The optical element is configured to receive an amount of radiation when the assembly is in use and reflect a first portion of the amount of radiation and transmit a second portion of the amount of radiation through the optical layer and the substrate. A radiation detector is configured to receive the second portion of the amount of radiation and provide a measurement signal. A measurement system is configured to receive the measurement signal from the radiation detector and derive from the measurement signal the amount of radiation, an intensity of the amount of radiation, or an amount of contamination of the optical layer.

This invention provides an NIR imaging lens assembly comprising a lens element with refractive power made of a visible-light-absorbable material, and a filter or a filter film formed on one lens element with refractive power for filtering out infrared light, wherein the number of lens elements with refractive power in the NIR imaging lens assembly is N, and wherein N≧2. The above lens arrangement allows light in a specific NIR wavelength range to pass through the lens assembly, thereby reducing interferences or influences from light in the other wavelength ranges. As a result, the resolution of the imaging lens assembly is improved, and its total track length is reduced effectively so that the entire lens system can be compact.

The present invention relates to a transition metal complex compound of a specific structure having a metal carbene bond and an organic electroluminescent device in which an organic thin film layer comprising a single layer or plural layers having at least a light emitting layer is interposed between an anode and a cathode, wherein at least one layer in the organic thin film layer contains the transition metal complex compound described above, and provided are an organic EL device having a high luminous efficiency and emitting blue light and a transition metal complex compound materializing the same.

A light based treatment method and apparatus removes unwanted hair from a target region of skin. The treatment method uses multiple wavelength bands of light or radiation. The ratio of the energies of the wavelength bands is selected according to a skin parameter, e.g., skin type, which can be differentiated by the amount of melanin in the skin. The treatment method can provide safe and effective permanent hair removal for any skin type.

An apparatus and method are provided for detecting presence in gas of transient particulate above its normal zero or acceptable level within a duct (4), said apparatus comprising at least one emitter (2) of illumination selected from infra-red, ultraviolet and visible radiation capable of being projected over essentially the entire cross section of the duct (4) and at least one detector (8, 18, 25) for detecting any sparkle of the illumination from the particulate. The apparatus and method are in particular useful for detecting monitoring particulate in areas where build up or presence of particulate can be disadvantageous, for example hospitals and electricity generating stations.

Luminescent compositions are described comprising lanthanide-containing nanoclusters comprising lanthanide atoms bonded to at least one semimetal or transition metal via an oxygen or sulfur atom. Novel compositions include an antenna ligand complexed with the nanoclusters. The rare earth-metal nanoclusters are in the size range of 1 to 100 nm. Articles, such as solar cells, are described in which the nanoclusters (with or without antenna ligands) are dispersed in a polymer matrix. Novel methods of making luminescent films are also described.

A method of growing a semi-polar nitride single crystal thin film. The method includes forming a semi-polar nitride single crystal base layer on an m-plane hexagonal system single crystal substrate, forming a dielectric pattern layer on the semi-polar nitride single crystal base layer, and growing the semi-polar nitride single crystal thin film on the semi-polar nitride single crystal base layer having the dielectric pattern layer in a lateral direction. The growing of the semi-polar nitride single crystal thin film in a lateral direction includes primarily growing the semi-polar nitride single crystal thin film in the lateral direction such that part of a growth plane on the semi-polar nitride single crystal base layer has an a-plane, and secondarily growing the semi-polar nitride single crystal thin film in the lateral direction such that sidewalls of the primarily grown semi-polar nitride single crystal thin film are combined to have a (11 22) plane.

The liquid crystal panel of the invention can restrain coloration following a change in the viewing angle when black is displayed, and can be produced into a relatively thin form. This panel has a liquid crystal cell 20 having a color filter having individual blue, green and red regions, a first polarizer 10 formed on one side of the cell 20, a second polarizer 40 formed on the other side of the cell 20, and a compensation layer 30 arranged between the first and second polarizers 10 and 40. The compensation layer 30 has an optical characteristic that the layer gives a larger retardation for a longer wavelength, and the cell 20 has a liquid crystal layer in a vertical alignment mode, and the thickness direction retardation values Rth(B), Rth(G) and Rth(R) of the liquid crystal cell to light transmitted through the individual color regions in the liquid crystal cell 20 satisfy: |Rth(B)|<|Rth(G)|<|Rth(R)|.

An underwater communication apparatus for performing an optical communication with an external device under water includes: a current control unit that modulates first data to be transmitted to the external device into a first current; and a light transmitting unit that transmits light with a wavelength of 450 to 500 nm corresponding to the first current to the external device.

An apparatus and method are provided for detecting presence in gas of transient particulate above its normal zero or acceptable level within a duct (4), said apparatus comprising at least one emitter (2) of illumination selected from infra-red, ultraviolet and visible radiation capable of being projected over essentially the entire cross section of the duct (4) and at least one detector (8, 18, 25) for detecting any sparkle of the illumination from the particulate. The apparatus and method are in particular useful for detecting monitoring particulate in areas where build up or presence of particulate can be disadvantageous, for example hospitals and electricity generating stations.

An optical measurement system and method are provided. Pump sample light and probe sample light are delivered through into an anatomical structure of a user. The anatomical structure has molecules having a resonant vibrational frequency equal to the difference between a first optical frequency of the pump sample light and a second optical frequency of the probe sample light, whereby a portion of the probe sample light is inelastically scattered by the molecules as signal light encoded with a physiological event occurring in the molecules, and whereby sample light comprising the signal light exits the anatomical structure. Signal light in the exiting sample light is detected, and an electrical signal representative of the signal light is outputted. The electrical signal is analyzed, and based on this analysis, the presence and the depth of the physiological event in the anatomical structure is determined.

An object of the present invention is to provide an exhaust muffling device having a simple structure, which is capable of suppressing air column resonance favorably, irrespective of a length of an outlet pipe of an exhaust pipe which communicates with a muffler, and with which it is possible to achieve appropriate reductions in weight and cost. The exhaust muffling device of the present invention comprises a muffler having an expansion chamber whose length is L in an exhaust direction, and an outlet pipe being in communication with the expansion chamber and whose pipe length is approximately 2nL in which n is a natural number.