515 results about "Maximum intensity" patented technology

An electronic device, with a touch-sensitive surface and a display, includes one or more sensors to detect intensity of contacts with the touch-sensitive surface. The device displays, on the display, a first control for controlling a first operation. The device detects, on the touch-sensitive surface, a first input that corresponds to the first control; and in response to detecting the first input: in accordance with a determination that the first input meets first control-activation criteria but does not include a contact with a maximum intensity above a respective intensity threshold, the device performs the first operation; and in accordance with a determination that the first input includes a contact with an intensity above the respective intensity threshold, the device displays a second control for performing a second operation associated with the first operation.

An optical system that controls laser beam spot profile for forming a high performance thin film by a laser heat treatment process is provided. In the optical system that irradiates a rectangular laser beam on a film formed on a substrate, intensity distribution forming, apparatus makes the intensity distribution uniform in the longitudinal direction while maintaining the properties of the laser beam 2 such as directivity in the direction of shorter side, making it possible to concentrate the light to a limit permitted by the nature of the laser beam and achieve the maximum intensity gradient on the film disposed on the substrate. Thus a steep temperature distribution can be generated on the film disposed on the substrate and, as a result, high performance thin film can be formed.

A load control system (e.g., a dimmer switch) operates in a normal mode of operation and an energy-saver mode and displays a visual indication when the system is operating in the energy-saver mode. The system comprises a controllably conductive device adapted to be coupled in series between a power source and a lighting load, a control circuit operatively coupled to the controllably conductive device for adjusting the intensity of the lighting load, and a visual indicator for providing the visual indication that the system is in the energy-saver mode of operation. The control circuit controls the intensity of the lighting load between a minimum intensity and a first maximum intensity when the system is in the normal mode of operation, and between the minimum intensity and a second maximum intensity less than the first maximum intensity when the system is in the energy-saver mode.

A first optical system guides a light beam from a light source to an optical deflector, and a second optical system converges the light beam deflected by the optical deflector on a surface to be scanned. The first optical system includes at least one resin lens having a diffractive surface. The second optical system includes at least one resin optical element. A beam diameter depth in a main scanning direction, Wm, that can have a maximum intensity of 1 / e2, satisfies conditions Δm1+Δm2+Δm3−Δd1×(f2 / f1)2<Wm / 40  (1) Δd1>0 and Δm2<0.  (2)

A graphical user interface includes a primary color palette including a first plurality of colors and a secondary color palette including a second plurality of colors. A first color is defined as a primary color and a second color is defined as a secondary color. The secondary color is different from the primary color. The graphical user interface also includes a plurality of styles, with a style defined as an initial style. The graphical user interface further includes an intensity scale ranging from a minimum intensity value to a maximum intensity value. An indicator is positioned in association with an initial intensity value. Moreover, the graphical user interface includes a display tile including an initial pattern that is displayed based on the primary color, the secondary color, and the initial style and a subsequent pattern that is modified from the initial pattern based on the initial intensity value.

Image sharpening is performed by applying variable contrast stretching to pixels of interest in a digital image. For each pixel of interest, the amount of contrast stretching is a function of minimum and maximum intensity values in a local pixel neighborhood.

A multi-beam optical scanning apparatus includes a semiconductor laser array slanted relative to a sub-scanning direction and emitting a plurality of optical beams; a coupling lens converting a shape of each optical beam emitted from the semiconductor laser array; and an aperture with an opening having a size of Am×As, arranged after the coupling lens in a direction in which the optical beam progresses, where Am is a dimension of the opening in a main scanning direction and As is a dimension of the opening in the sub-scanning direction. When a length in the main scanning direction of a contour line defined by 1 / e2 strength of a maximum strength of an optical beam at the position of the aperture is Lm, and a length in the sub-scanning direction of the contour line defined by 1 / e2 strength of the maximum strength of the optical beam at the position of the aperture is Ls, the following conditional expressions are satisfied:Am<Lm, and  (1)Ls / Lm×0.3<As / Am<Ls / Lm×1.7.  (2)

A system for tracking eye location is disclosed. Systems in accordance with the present invention include a scanner for sweeping a first optical signal across the surface of an eye, a detector for detecting a second optical signal reflected from the eye, and a detection circuit for determining a maximum intensity in the second optical signal. In operation, the scanner sweeps the first optical signal over the surface of the eye while the detection circuitry determines a plurality of intensity maxima in the second optical signal. The time between the intensity maxima during the sweep is indicative of the location of the cornea within the eye surface.

A modified photonic crystal fiber yielding a higher peak power for a given maximum intensity. The multi-mode signal core has a depressed index of refraction that pushes the mode distribution to the core edges while a pattern of larger air holes is used to flatten the mode distribution. The core is further surrounded by tuned cladding elements defined by a pattern of smaller air holes that cause loss in all of the core modes except the fundamental while maintaining robust guiding of the fundamental mode.

Image sharpening is performed by applying variable contrast stretching to pixels of interest in a digital image. For each pixel of interest, the amount of contrast stretching is a function of minimum and maximum intensity values in a local pixel neighborhood.

There is disclosed an adjustable light emitting device for selectively projecting light directionally and omnidirectionally, the device comprising a stepped surface lens having a focal point and a light source positioned substantially along an optical axis of the lens and adapted for movement along the axis between the focal point and the lens. There is also disclosed a light emitting device comprising a partially collimated light source and a lens. When light emitted by the light source passing through the lens is simultaneously projected in an arc of at least 180° and further wherein a measured intensity of the projected light within the arc is at least one half of a maximum intensity of the emitted light. Both devices may also include a light sensor, or the light sensor may be included together with the lens in a separate package for use in light sensing applications.

A merchandise display security system for displaying and protecting an item of merchandise having a movable or removable cover includes a sensor configured to be attached to the cover. The sensor may include a magnet assembly that produces a magnetic field defining a predetermined minimum strength when the sensor is attached to the cover and the cover is closed on the item of merchandise. A transducer detects the presence of the magnetic field, or alternatively, changes in the strength of the magnetic field and generates an electrical signal corresponding to the strength of the magnetic field, for example an output voltage. The transducer communicates the electrical signal to electronics that activate an alarm if the strength of the magnetic field is less than a predetermined minimum strength or greater than a predetermined maximum strength.

An analysis system includes a moveable focusing lens, a laser (typically an eye safe laser) having an output directed at the focusing lens, and a spectrometer outputting intensity data from a sample. A controller system is responsive to the spectrometer and is configured to energize the laser, process the output of the spectrometer, and adjust the position of the focusing lens relative to the sample until the spectrometer output indicates a maximum or near maximum intensity resulting from a laser output focused to a spot on the sample.

Provided is toner which is excellent in developing property, transferring property, and fixing property, hardly affected by its surrounding, and has good endurance. The toner has a peak temperature of maximum endothermic peak in the range of 60 to 100° C. in an endothermic curve of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measurement;silica particles in the toner contain a titanium element; andthe silica particles satisfy the following expressions.0.7≦(Ia1 / Ib1)≦2.00.7≦(Ia2 / Ib2)≦2.0where Ia1 represents a maximum intensity in the case of 2θ=25.3 deg, Ib1 represents a mean intensity in the cases of 2θ=25.3 deg+2.0 deg. and of 2θ=25.3 deg.−2.0 deg., Ia2 represents a maximum intensity in the case of 2θ=27.5 deg and Ib2 represents a mean intensity in the cases of 2θ=27.5. deg+2.0 deg. and of 2θ=27.5 deg.−2.0 deg.

It is made possible to form a silicon nitride film, an aluminum oxide film and a transition metal high-k insulation film of high quality. A manufacturing method includes: forming an insulation film having at least one kind of bonds selected out of silicon-nitrogen bonds, aluminum-oxygen bonds, transition metal-oxygen-silicon bonds, transition metal-oxygen-aluminum bonds, and transition metal-oxygen bonds on either a film having a semiconductor as a main component or a semiconductor substrate, and irradiating the insulation film with pulse infrared light having a wavelength corresponding to a maximum intensity in a wavelength region depending upon the insulation film and having a wavelength absorbed by the insulation film.

The invention provides a radio frequency positioning method, device and system. The radio frequency positioning method comprises the following steps that radio-frequency signals sent out by an electronic tag of a detected object are received at different azimuth angles and pitch angles in a first position; the radio-frequency signal with the maximum intensity value is screened out from the received radio-frequency signals, and the azimuth angle and the pitch angle which correspond to the radio-frequency signal with the maximum intensity value are determined as the azimuth angle and the pitch angle, relative to the first position, of the detected object; the relative distance, relative to the first position, of the detected object is obtained according to the radio-frequency signal with the maximum intensity value at the first position; according to the geographical coordinates of the first position, the azimuth angle and the pitch angle, relative to the first position, of the detected object, and the relative distance, relative to the first position, of the detected object, the geographical coordinates of the detected object are generated.

The present invention relates to two new wave field microscopes, type I and type II, which are distinguished by the fact that they each have an illumination and excitation system, which include at least one real and one virtual illumination source, and at least one objective lens (in the case of type II), i.e., two objective lenses (in the case of type I), with the illumination sources and objective lenses being so positioned with respect to one another that they are suited for generating one-, two-, and three-dimensional standing wave fields in the object space. The calibration method in accordance with the present invention is adapted to this wave field microscopy and permits geometric distance measurements between fluorochrome-labeled object structures, whose distance can be less than the width at half maximum intensity of the effective point spread function. The invention relates moreover to a method of wave-field microscopic DNA sequencing.

A method for analysis and processing of fluorescent images. Fluorescent light is emitted by tumor tissue in an illuminated surgical area detected by an image detection device and is forwarded to an image processing system. After determination of a maximal intensity, the image processing system determines a threshold value as a predefined fraction of the maximal intensity. With basic morphological operations of image processing, limit intensity lines which separate the tumor tissue of intensities above the threshold value and normal tissue of intensities below the threshold value are generated and imaged in a line profile image, wherein the line profile image can be superimposed on the fluorescent image.

A method for the quantitative representation of the blood flow in a tissue or vascular region is based on the signal of a contrast agent injected into the blood. Several individual images of the signal emitted by the tissue or vascular region are recorded and stored at successive points in time. For image areas of the individual images, the respective intensities of different points in time are compared and the maximum intensities of the signals are determined for these image areas. The maximum intensities are represented for these image areas.

A touch panel having high reading accuracy of an object to be detected is provided. In a method for driving a touch panel which is provided with a photo sensor in a pixel, an image is displayed in a display portion of a touch panel, a detection region is determined by detecting approach or contact of an object to be detected in a state in which the image is displayed, and the object to be detected is read while substantially equalizing the intensity of light of pixels in the detection region per unit time and unit area. The intensity of light of the pixels per unit time and unit area, which is to be substantially equal, is preferably the maximum intensity of light in the detection region before adjustment, more preferably, the intensity of light for white display.

The invention relates to a system, a device, and a method for the antibacterial treatment of a patient, using a combination of light and dye. The invention is characterised in that the maximum intensity of the light is at a wavelength which is different to the wavelength of a maximum absorption of the dye. Such a device can be used to obtain especially good bactericide and / or fungicide results.

A bulk wave acoustic resonant structure which is in accordance with the invention allows the difficulties encountered at high frequency, the impossibility of working at low frequency on simple structures and the absence of an adequate coupling level to be overcome. The invention therefore proposes the use of an additional layer of material which covers the upper electrode of a piezoelectric transducer in order to localize the position of maximum intensity of the dynamic stress close to the centre of the piezoelectric layer through the effect of propagation. The structure that is in accordance with the invention may be associated with Bragg mirrors and various uses are presented.

Provided is a toner that shows both developability and electrostatic offset resistance. The toner includes a charge controlling agent that is represented by the following formula (1), and that has peaks at 15.000°±0.150° and 20.100°±0.150° in CuKα X-ray diffraction spectrum obtained in 2θ range of 10° or more to 40° or less where θ represents Bragg angle, one of the peaks being a peak having a maximum intensity and the other being a peak having a second maximum intensity.

A first optical system guides a light beam from a light source to an optical deflector, and a second optical system converges the light beam deflected by the optical deflector on a surface to be scanned. The first optical system includes at least one resin lens having a diffractive surface. The second optical system includes at least one resin optical element. A beam diameter depth in a main scanning direction, Wm, that can have a maximum intensity of 1 / e2, satisfies conditionsΔm1+Δm2+Δm3−Δd1×(f2 / f1)2<Wm / 40  (1)Δd1>0 and Δm2<0.  (2)

A phosphor converted light emitting device includes a semiconductor structure comprising a light emitting layer disposed between an n-type region and a p-type region, the light emitting layer being configured to emit light having a first peak wavelength; a first phosphor configured to emit light having a second peak wavelength; and a second phosphor configured to emit light having a third peak wavelength. The second phosphor is an Eu3+-activated phosphor, configured such that in the excitation spectrum at 298K and 1.013 bar, a maximum intensity in a wavelength range between 460 nm and 470 nm is at least 5% of a maximum intensity in a wavelength range between 220 nm to 320 nm.

Polypropylene resins of the present invention give blow molded containers excellent in transparency, impact resistance and flexibility. Stretch blow molded containers obtained from the polypropylene resins enable volume reduction and weight reduction. A polypropylene resin includes a random polypropylene (P1) having MFR (ASTM D 1238, 230° C., 2.16 kg load) of 0.5 to 100 g / 10 min and an ethylene content of 3.0 wt % to less than 7.0 wt %, (i) the resin containing the random polypropylene (P1) at not less than 80 wt %, (ii) the resin showing a broad DSC melting curve which has a single melting point peak and in which the maximum intensity peak temperature (Tm) is not more than 120° C. and the half-value width on a higher temperature side from the maximum intensity peak is not less than 20° C.

A scanning X-ray fluorescence spectrometer includes a quantitatively analyzing device (18) which calculates the concentration of hexavalent chrome based on the fact that the peak spectroscopic angle, at which the maximum intensity is attained in Cr-Kα line (22), changes depending on the ratio of the concentration of the hexavalent chrome vs. the concentration of the intensity of the total chrome. A plurality of detecting device (23) having different resolutions as a combination of a divergence slit (11), a spectroscopic device (6), a receiving slit (20) and a detector (8) is provided such that when the change of the peak spectroscopic angle is to be detected, a detecting device (23B) having a higher resolution than that of the detecting device (23A), which is selected when the concentration or the intensity of the total chrome is to be determined, is selected.