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The present invention relates to a system for automatically evaluating oxygen saturation of the optic nerve and retina, said system comprising: image capturing system further comprising: a fundus camera (26), a four wavelengths beam splitter (27), a digital image capturing device (28), a computer system, image processing software performing in real-time the steps of: registering set of multi-spectral images (1) by, binarizing the multi-spectral image (7), find the all the border regions of each image by finding the region including the straight line that passes the most number of points in the region (8), use the orientation of the borders to evaluate the orientation of each spectral image (9), equalize the orientation of each spectral image by rotating the spectral image (10), edge detect each spectral image (11), estimate the translation between the spectral images based on the edges of adjacent images (12), transform the images to a stack of registered images (13), locating blood vessels (2) in each of the multi-spectral images by, retrieving registered spectral images (14), for each spectral image, remove defective pixels (15), enhance image contrast (16), perform top-hat transform using structuring element larger than the largest vessel diameter (17), binarize each image (18), apply filter for smoothing the image (19), combine all the spectral images using binary AND operator (20), skeletonize the resulting image (21), prune the skeleton image (22), re-grow the pruned image (23), locate junction points (24), evaluating the width of the blood vessels (3) by calculating the normal vector to the vessel direction to, estimate the direction and position of the vessel profile, evaluate positions of vessel walls based on the vessel profile obtained, evaluate vessel width based on the position of the vessel walls, selecting samples for calculating optical density, calculating the optical density ratio (4), evaluating oxygen saturation level (5), and presenting the results (6), wherein presenting the results may include presenting numerical and visual representation of the oxygen saturation.

A duplex touch panel comprising: a capacitive touch panel unit; a resistive touch panel unit which is overlapped to the capacitive touch panel unit to be formed as a plate body; a signal processing unit received sensing signals from the capacitive touch panel unit and resistive touch panel unit; a surface layer; a first axis sensing layer being a transparent film; the first axis sensing layer having a plurality of first axis sensing traces; an insulation layer being a transparent insulated film layer; a second axis sensing layer being a transparent film; a base substrate being a flexible highly transparent insulated film; and a first signal output wire bank having a plurality of conductive paths; wherein the first axis sensing traces and second axis sensing traces being arranged along different vertical directions so as to form as a matrix.

A circular polarizer includes at least an optically anisotropic element, a transmissive protection film and a polarizing element sandwiched therebetween. The optically anisotropic element has a liquid crystal layer aligned on a cellulose triacetate film and a retardation of approximately ¼ wavelength in the visible light region. The liquid crystal layer includes a liquid crystal film with a fixed twisted nematic alignment. The circular polarizer is suppressed in thickness by simplifying the layer structure without causing defects, such as peeling off the layers, even under elevated temperature and humidity condition and makes it possible to set arbitrarily the angle of the alignment axis direction of the optically anisotropic element including a liquid crystal layer with a fixed twisted alignment with respect to the absorption axis of the polarizing element, so that the optically anisotropic element and polarizing element both in the form of an elongate film can be laminated continuously to one another.

An image forming apparatus such as a tandem type color image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a transfer belt that rotates in a rotating direction in which a toner image is transferred. A plurality of color latent image carrying members are arranged successively along the rotating direction so as to form various color toner images, and a monochrome latent image carrying member is located at any one end of the color latent image carrying members so as to form a monochrome toner image. A plurality of color transfer rollers and a monochrome transfer roller are arranged opposite to the color image carrying members and the monochrome image carrying member, respectively, with the transfer belt therebetween. A roller supporting member supports all of the color transfer rollers. A roller shifting unit moves the roller supporting member in a direction in which the color transfer rollers move toward or away from the color latent image carrying members. The diameters of the color transfer rollers are smaller than the diameter of the monochrome transfer roller. The color transfer rollers press against the color image carrying members with an appropriate force so that hollow defects are prevented.

The present invention provides a photovoltaic cell manufacturing method, the photovoltaic cell including: a photoelectric converter in which at least a first electrode layer, a semiconductor layer, and a second electrode layer are stacked in layers in this order being formed on a face of a substrate; and a connection portion of the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer, the photoelectric converter having a plurality of compartment elements which are electrically separated by a predetermined size using scribing lines at which the semiconductor layer and the second electrode layer are removed, adjacent compartment elements being electrically connected to each other, the photovoltaic cell manufacturing method comprising: a defect region specifying step in which a region at which the structural defect exists is specified in the photoelectric converter; and a repairing step in which at least three repair lines in which the semiconductor layer and the second electrode layer are removed are formed by irradiating the photoelectric converter with a laser, the region at which the structural defect exists is surrounded by at least three repair lines described above and one of the scribing lines, and the structural defect is removed or separated off, wherein one of at least three repair lines described above are formed at a region between the structural defect and the connection portion and at a region α including a contact portion of the semiconductor layer and the substrate in the photoelectric converter.

A through-hole electrode substrate includes a substrate including a through-hole extending from a first aperture of a first surface to a second aperture of a second surface, an area of the second aperture being larger than that of the first aperture, the through-hole having a minimum aperture part between the first aperture and the second aperture, wherein an area of the minimum aperture part in a planer view is smallest among a plurality of areas of the through-hole in a planer view, a filler arranged within the through-hole, and at least one gas discharge member contacting the filler exposed to one of the first surface and the second surface.

Provided is a photomask defect correction method including: an observing step of scanning plurality of lines one after another while controlling a distance between the probe tip and a surface (2a) of the substrate so that displacement of the probe becomes constant to recognize a shape of the defect portion (5) through AFM observation; and a processing step of scanning a plurality of lines one after another while pressing the probe tip to the recognized defect portion with a predetermined force to subject the defect portion to cutting and removing processing, in which, at the observing step, the scanning for every one line is set in a parallel direction (C direction) to an edge (3a) of a mask pattern (3), and the scanning of the plurality of lines is performed one after another from the mask pattern side towards a tip side (D direction) of the defect portion.

A chip package structure and process are provided; the structure includes a substrate, a chip, a solder layer and at least a stud bump. The substrate has at least a contact pad, and the chip has an active surface where at least a bonding pad is disposed. The stud bump is disposed on the bonding pad of the chip or on the contact pad of the substrate, and the stud bump joints with the solder layer to fix the chip on the substrate. The stud bump is made of gold-silver alloy containing silver below 15% by weight.

The present invention relates to a method of forming a high voltage junction in a semiconductor device. The method includes forming a double diffused drain junction, and making amorphous the double diffused drain junction to a first depth by implanting an impurity having a high atomic weight than an impurity injected into the double diffused drain junction, implanting an impurity so that the concentration of the concentration of an impurity to a second depth lower than the first depth and then activating the impurities. Thus, the present invention can reduce the sheet resistance by prohibiting diffusion of an impurity, prohibit a channeling phenomenon by lowering the depth of the junction, and remove crystal defects by sufficiently activating an impurity and since a subsequent annealing process for activation can be performed at a high temperature, and thus improve reliability of a process and an electrical characteristic of the device.

The present invention relates, in general, to an optical pickup actuator and, more particularly, to an optical pickup actuator, in which a depression (120) is formed in a center portion of a rear surface of a wire holder (100) to be depressed, and the position of a bobbin (20) is adjusted by straining wires (30) while a center portion of a printed circuit board (200), closely attached to the rear surface of the wire holder, is pressurized using a control screw (300) to allow the printed circuit board to be arcuately deformed.

An optical modulation device includes: a first substrate and a second substrate that face each other; and a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate that includes a plurality of liquid crystal molecules. The first substrate includes a plurality of unit regions, a common electrode and a first aligner, and the second substrate includes a plurality of unit regions, a plurality of upper-plate electrodes that include a plurality of first electrodes extending in a first direction and a plurality of second electrodes extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, and a second aligner.

In areas on an optical disk wherein defects are detected frequently, recording is carried out while the recording density of information blocks is lowered and the amount of picture information is reduced at the same time so that digital video signals can be recorded even when defects owing to dust and flaws are present on the optical disk and so that picture losses can be prevented from occurring during reproduction.

The present invention provides a process for removing surface damage of a single-crystal diamond, which comprises implanting ions into a single-crystal diamond to form a non-diamond layer near a surface of the diamond, graphitizing the non-diamond layer, and removing a surface layer by etching. According to the invention, the surface damage can be removed or reduced without increasing the surface roughness of a single crystal diamond.

A monitoring method and apparatus applied to a computer system having a computer case, a controller and a register for changing the power state of the computer system according to the assembling state of the computer case is disclosed. The method comprises steps of detecting whether the computer case of the computer system is disassembled, generating a trigger signal to the controller when the computer case of the computer system is disassembled, generating a power management signal in response to the trigger signal for changing a system power state indicator of the register, and polling the system power state indicator and driving the computer system into a hibernation mode according to the change of the system power state indicator.

The present invention relates to a method of making bean curd using rice, in which 65-70 wt % of soya beans and 30-35 wt % of parched rice in about a total weight of 5 kg for one block of bean curd are soaked, and in which the soya beans are soaked for about 8-12 hours and the parched rice is soaked for about 2 hours in water.

The soya beans and parched rice are mixed and the mixture is put into a mill to grind it into powder, and then 15 g of a defoaming agent that suppresses foaming and 60 g of water are added into the mixture of ground soya beans and parched rice and they are mixed evenly.

Bean curd refuse is filtered by passing the mixture through a filter, and then the remaining parched rice/soya bean milk is boiled at 80-99° C.

42 g of magnesium chloride, which is a coagulant, is added to the heated parched rice/bean curd milk, 14 g of salt or JukYum (salt roasted in bamboo) is added together with 45 g of water, and they are mixed and coagulated.

The coagulated parched rice/bean curd milk is mashed to have a diameter of about 3-4 cm and then the mashed rice-bean curd is pressed, such that bean curd using rice is completed.

Accordingly, consumers' health can be improved by the bean curd containing rice, and it is possible to satisfy various tastes of the consumers by providing high-quality bean curd.

An engine control system may includes a meted for performing pre-mixed ignition strength using swirl control, in which when an ECU determines the difference between the initial optimum level and a detected pre-mixed ignition strength due to ignition pressure of cylinders, the opening amount of Swirl Control Valve is controlled by the ECU on the basis of swirls changing turbulent intensity of the air around fuel flowing into the cylinders and a swirl control optimization mode for matching the pre-mixed ignition strength with the initial optimum level through the control of the opening amount of the SCV is implemented, such that combustion keeps with the pre-mixed ignition strength maintained the initial optimum level.

A method for forming a semiconductor device includes steps as follows: Firstly, a semiconductor substrate having a circuit element with at least one spacer formed thereon is provided. Next, an acid treatment is performed on a surface of the spacer. A disposable layer is then formed on the circuit element and the spacer. Thereafter, an etching process is performed to form at least one recess in the semiconductor substrate adjacent to the circuit element. Subsequently, a selective epitaxial growth (SEG) process is performed to form an epitaxial layer in the recess.

An active air flap for a vehicle can absorb shock energy by means of a wing of a housing which pivots in a collision with a pedestrian and can minimize the pedestrian injury as possible.

Provided is a polishing composition which can sufficiently remove defects remaining on the surface of a polished object and which can make the polishing speeds of the respective materials substantially equal to each other when polishing the object to be polished containing a plurality of materials.

A polishing composition used for polishing an object to be polished containing a material having a silicon-silicon bond, a material having a silicon-nitrogen bond, and a material having a silicon-oxygen bond, the polishing composition including: organic acid surface-immobilized silica particles; a wetting agent; and a polishing speed inhibitor for the material having a silicon-silicon bond, wherein the polishing composition has a pH of less than 7.