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A gas supply mechanism includes a gas introduction member having gas inlet portions through which a gas is introduced into a processing chamber, a processing gas supply unit, a processing gas supply path, branch paths, an additional gas supply unit and an additional gas supply path. The gas inlet portions includes inner gas inlet portions for supplying the gas toward a region where a target substrate is positioned in the chamber and an outer gas inlet portion for introducing the gas toward a region outside an outermost periphery of the target substrate. The branch paths are connected to the inner gas inlet portions, and the additional gas supply path is connected to the outer gas inlet portion.

This invention provides an imaging optical lens assembly including: in order from an object side toward an image side: a first lens with positive refractive power and having a convex object-side surface, a second lens with negative refractive power and having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, a third lens with positive refractive power and having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, a fourth lens with negative refractive power and having a concave image-side surface, the object-side and image-side surfaces being aspheric, and a fifth lens having a concave image-side surface, the object-side and image-side surfaces being aspheric. The imaging optical lens assembly further comprises an aperture stop, disposed between an imaged object and the second lens, and an electronic sensor, disposed at the image plane for image formation.

The present invention provides an imaging lens assembly including, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface; a second lens element with negative refractive power; a third lens element with negative refractive power; a fourth lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface; a fifth lens element having a concave image-side surface, at least one inflection point being provided on the fifth lens element; and an aperture stop disposed between an imaged object and the third lens element. Such an arrangement of optical elements can effectively improve the image quality of the system and enable the imaging lens assembly to maintain a compact form. When the aperture stop is disposed near the object side, the telecentric feature is emphasized, resulting in a shorter total track length. When the aperture stop is disposed near the third lens element, the emphasis is on the wide field of view, and such an aperture stop placement helps to effectively reduce the sensitivity of the imaging lens assembly.

Disclosed are a toothbrushing pattern analyzing / correcting device, a toothbrushing pattern analyzing / correcting method, a method and a system for interactively correcting toothbrushing behavior. The toothbrushing pattern analyzing / correcting device of the present invention includes: a body part formed in the same direction as a toothbrush surface; a sensing unit having a sensor with at least one or more axes for sensing a user's toothbrushing motion and a sensor with one or more axes for sensing two or more toothbrushing positions; and a controller for operating signals input from the sensing unit to classify a user's toothbrushing motion into at least two or more patterns and at least two or more toothbrushing parts. Further, the toothbrushing pattern analyzing / correcting method includes the steps of: detecting the start of a user's toothbrushing; displaying a guiding screen in response to the start of a user's toothbrushing; detecting a user's toothbrushing pattern; analyzing the user's detected toothbrushing pattern; and providing a toothbrushing correction screen with the intention of increasing compliance in accordance with the analyzed result. Accordingly, toothbrushing behavior correction compliance can be further enhanced with a method of interactively correcting a user's toothbrushing behavior through multimedia image substances in real time, and more systematic management and health consultation are possible by building a database of information of the user's toothbrushing behavior.

The present invention provides a wide-viewing-angle imaging lens assembly comprising, in order from an object side to an image side: a front lens group, a stop, and a rear lens group. The front lens group comprises, in order from the object side to the image side: a first lens element with negative refractive power having a concave image-side surface and a second lens element. The rear lens group comprises, in order from the object side to the image side: a third lens element with positive refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, a fourth lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, and a fifth lens element with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surface. Such an arrangement of optical elements can effectively enlarge the field of view of the wide-viewing-angle imaging lens assembly, reduce the sensitivity of the optical system, and obtain good image quality.

The present invention provides an optical lens system comprising, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface; a second lens element with negative refractive power; a third lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; a fourth lens element; and a fifth lens element having a concave image-side surface, the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric and at least one inflection point being formed on the image-side surface. Such arrangement of optical elements can effectively minimize the size of the optical lens system, lower the sensitivity of the optical system, and obtain higher image resolution.

This invention provides a photographing optical lens assembly including, in order from an object side toward an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface, a second lens element with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, a third lens element with positive refractive power, a fourth lens element with negative refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, and at least one of surfaces thereof being aspheric, a plastic fifth lens element having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface with at least one inflection point. An aperture stop is positioned between an imaged object and the third lens element. The photographing optical lens assembly further comprises an electronic sensor on which the object is imaged.

A system and method for assessing the severity of medication errors associated with intravenous administration is provided. A harm index database includes harm index values for various parameters of medication administration. A medication administration device may access this database and assess the overall harm index for particular errors in order to provide appropriate alerts based on the severity of the error. Further, assessment of the harm index value may be used retrospectively to provide reports of event logs that include an overall harm index value associated with each alert.

This invention provides an optical imaging lens system including five lens elements with refractive power, in order from an object side toward an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface, a second lens element with negative refractive power, a third lens element having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, a fourth lens element having both surfaces being aspheric, a fifth lens element having a concave image-side surface with at least one inflection point formed thereon. By such arrangement, the total track length and the sensitivity of the optical imaging lens system can be reduced while achieving high image resolution.

The invention provides an intelligent controller used for a direct current (DC) frequency-conversion air conditioner compressor and a technical proposal of the control method thereof; the hardware proposal comprises a rectifier filter circuit and a power module which are electrically connected sequentially; the rectifier filter circuit (220) is also electrically connected with a single DSP controller used as a core processing unit by a switch power supply (240); the single DSP controller is also respectively and electrically connected with the power module, a communication isolation circuit which is used for communicating with the indoor machine of the air conditioner, a fan driving circuit (280), and a temperature sampling circuit (270); the control method comprises the steps as follows:the control software is embedded in the DSP controller; by a control type of dual close-ring FOC no-sensor magnetic field vector, the current ring at the internal ring realizes the decoupling controlto the driving current of the permanent magnetic synchronous motor of a compressor and indirectly controls the output torque of the motor; the speed ring at the external ring is used for controlling the working frequency of the compressor, thus not only meeting the stable requirement during fixed frequency but also meeting the dynamic response during the frequency conversion; and the control software comprises a primitive recursive function and a main interrupt function.

In an image processing apparatus of the present invention, which displays image data, such as images photographed by imaging apparatus such as a digital camera and photographing conditions as images before correction and images after correction, on an image display section, distortion and color tone of images obtained from an unused camera are corrected and joined to each other as viewing images before and after correction, so that the parameters used in the correction are stored in accordance with its apparatus, and the stored parameters are read out and used to correct in images obtained from previously used camera, and the joined image and image data are displayed on a monitor and output by a printer, or stored in a recording medium.

The present invention provides an optical lens system comprising, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface; a second lens element with negative refractive power; a third lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; a fourth lens element; and a fifth lens element having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric and at least one inflection point being formed on the image-side surface. Such arrangement of optical elements can effectively minimize the size of the optical lens system, lower the sensitivity of the optical system, and obtain higher image resolution.

Apparatus for monitoring a plurality of tissue viability parameters of a tissue layer element, in which two different illumination sources are used via a common illumination element in contact with the tissue. One illumination source is used for monitoring blood flow rate and optionally flavoprotein concentration, and collection fibers are provided to receive the appropriate radiation from the tissue. The other illuminating radiation is used for monitoring any one of and preferably all of NADH, blood volume and blood oxygenation state of the tissue element, and collection fibers are provided to receive the appropriate radiation from the tissue. In one embodiment, the wavelengths of the two illumination sources are similar, and common collection fibers for the two illuminating radiations are used. In another embodiment, the respective collection fibers are distanced from the illumination point at different distances correlated to the ratio of the first and second illuminating wavelengths.

A technique efficiently corrects multiple storage device failures in a storage array using a combination of a single diagonal parity group and multiple row parity groups. The storage array includes a plurality of concatenated sub-arrays, wherein each sub-array includes a set of data storage devices and a parity storage device. Each row parity group is associated with a sub-array of the array. The array further includes a global parity storage device holding diagonal parity computed across the concatenation of the sub-arrays. Instead of requiring that each parity group contain both a row parity device and a diagonal parity device, the array is composed of a collection of row parity groups. Diagonal parity is calculated across the full array.

This invention provides an optical imaging lens system including five lens elements with refractive power, in order from an object side toward an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface, a second lens element with negative refractive power, a third lens element having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, a fourth lens element having both surfaces being aspheric, a fifth lens element having a concave image-side surface with at least one inflection point formed thereon. By such arrangement, the total track length and the sensitivity of the optical imaging lens system can be reduced while achieving high image resolution.

The present invention provides a wide-angle imaging lens assembly comprising, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with negative refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface; a second lens element with negative refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface; a third lens element with positive refractive power; a fourth lens element with negative refractive power having a concave image-side surface; and a fifth lens element with positive refractive power; wherein the two lens elements with refractive power closest to the object side are the first lens element and the second lens element; and wherein the number of lens elements with refractive power does not exceed six.

A technique efficiently corrects multiple storage device failures in a storage array. The storage array comprises a plurality of concatenated sub-arrays, wherein each sub-array includes a set of data storage devices and a local parity storage device that stores values used to correct a failure of a single device within a row of blocks, e.g., a row parity set, in the sub-array. Each sub-array is assigned diagonal parity sets identically, as if it were the only one present using a double failure protection encoding method. The array further includes a single, global parity storage device holding diagonal parity computed by logically adding together equivalent diagonal parity sets in each of the sub-arrays.

An imaging lens with large aperture ratio, high-performance and low-cost is provided, which is applied to an imaging element of a small-size and high resolution, in which aberration is corrected satisfactorily and sufficient diffraction resolution is achieved. An imaging lens includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens arranged in sequence from an object side, wherein both surfaces of each lens are formed from aspheric surface, a diffraction optics surface exerting chromatic dispersion function is arranged on a surface on an image side of the second lens, each lens is configured from plastic material, and an aperture ratio is equal to or smaller than F / 2.4.

This invention provides an image capturing lens assembly, in order from an object side to an image side comprising: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface; a second lens element; a third lens element; a fourth lens element having at least one of an object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof being aspheric; a fifth lens element with positive refractive power having a convex image-side surface, at least one of an object-side surface and the image-side surface thereof being aspheric, and the fifth lens element is made of plastic; and a sixth lens element with negative refractive power having a concave image-side surface, at least one of an object-side surface and the image-side surface thereof being aspheric, and the sixth lens element is made of plastic. By such arrangement, the photo-sensitivity and the total track length of the image capturing lens assembly can be reduced. Furthermore, the aberration and astigmatism of the assembly can be effectively corrected for obtaining higher image resolution.

This invention provides an imaging lens assembly comprising: in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; a second lens with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surface; a third lens with positive refractive power having a convex image-side surface, at least one of both surfaces thereof being aspheric; and a fourth lens with negative refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface on which at least one inflection point is formed; wherein there are four lenses with refractive power, an on-axis spacing between an aperture stop and an electronic sensor provided therein is SL, an on-axis spacing between the object-side surface of the first lens and the electronic sensor is TTL, they satisfy the relation: 0.75<SL / TTL<0.90.

This invention provides an image capturing lens assembly in order from an object side to an image side comprising five lens elements with refractive power: a first lens element with negative refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, a second lens element with positive refractive power having a convex image-side surface, a third lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface, a fourth lens element with negative refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface; and a fifth lens element with positive refractive power. By such arrangement, sufficient field of view is provided, and the aberration of the lens assembly is corrected for obtaining higher image resolution.

An optical pickup apparatus for conducting recording and / or reproducing information of an optical information recording medium, comprises a light source; a converging optical system having an objective lens; and a photo-detector. The converging optical system comprises a plastic lens and a spherical aberration deviation correcting element to correct deviation of a spherical aberration of the converging optical system. A numerical aperture of the objective lens at an image-side is 0.65 or more.

An angle measurement device includes a light source configured to emit light along an optical path and a patterned member positioned along the optical path and configured to rotate about an axis of rotation. The patterned member includes a periodic optical variation. Light passing through the patterned member provides a spatially modulated optical waveform. The angle measurement device also includes an imaging device positioned along the optical path and including a plurality of photosensitive elements disposed in an array configuration. The imaging device is configured to receive the spatially modulated optical waveform and provide a signal associated with light intensity at each of the plurality of photosensitive elements. The angle measurement device further includes an angle determination unit coupled to the imaging device and configured to compute a rotation angle of the patterned member based on a reference waveform and the provided signal.

A semiconductor synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM) device capable of correcting bits having a low error rate in a Pause Refresh Tail distribution and of reducing a data holding current by lengthening a refresh period so that the refresh period exceeds a period for a Pause Refresh real power. The semiconductor memory device is made up of a 16-bit SDRAM having a Hamming Code and including an ECC (Error Correcting Code) circuit made up of an encoding circuit controlled by a first test signal to output a parity bit corresponding to an information bit, a decoding circuit controlled by second test signal to output an error location detecting signal indicating an error bit in codeword, and an error correcting circuit controlled by a third test signal to input an error location detecting signal and to output an error bit in a reverse manner.

An imaging lens includes: a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens having positive refractive power; a third lens having negative refractive power; a fourth lens having positive refractive power; a fifth lens having negative refractive power; and a sixth lens having positive or negative refractive power in vicinity of an optical axis, a peripheral portion of a surface on an image side of the sixth lens including one or more inflection points, the first to sixth lenses being provided in order from an object side.

This invention provides an optical image capturing lens system comprising: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface; a second lens element; a third lens element; a fourth lens element; and a fifth lens element with negative refractive power, at least one of the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric, and at least one inflection point is formed on at least one of the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof; wherein the system at least has one front stop and one rear stop; which are positioned between an imaged object and the third lens element as well as between the third lens element and the fifth lens element, respectively. By such arrangement, photosensitivity and total track length of the system can be reduced, and the aberration and astigmatism of the system can be effectively corrected. Moreover, the focusing performance thereof can be improved.

A liquid crystal lens element is provided, which can realize a small sized element having no moving part, and which has a lens function of switching the focal length among multiple focal lengths of at least 3 types according to an applied voltage. A liquid crystal lens element 10 is provided, which comprises a pair of transparent substrates 11 and 12 and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between these substrates, wherein focal lengths of light transmitted through the liquid crystal 16 is changed depending on a voltage applied to the liquid crystal 16, the liquid crystal lens element 10 has a Fresnel lens-shaped concave-convex portion 17 and a liquid crystal layer 16A, and configured so that the refractive index n of the liquid crystal layer 16A changes from a refractive index n1 at a time of no application to a refractive index n2 at a time of voltage application, a refractive index ns of the concave-convex portion 17 is a value between the refractive indexes n1 and n2 and satisfies a predetermined relation, and the maximum depth d of the concave-convex portion 17 satisfies a predetermined relation, the focal length can be switched by switching an applied voltage to the liquid crystal layer 16A under the predetermined conditions.

The present disclosure relates generally to data decoding, and more particularly to non-binary iterative decoders. Non-binary LDPC codes and LDPC decoders that may be used to decode non-binary LDPC codes are disclosed. Systems and methods are also disclosed that compute messages related to non-binary LDPC codes, in a LLRV form and in a metric vector form and to process these messages in non-binary LDPC decoders. Systems and methods are additionally disclosed that convert messages between the LLRV form and the metric vector form. The implementation and use of non-binary low density parity check code decoders, the computation of messages in the LLRV and metric vector forms, and the use of message conversion systems and methods, according to this disclosure, may provide increased information relating groups of codeword bits, increased computational efficiency, and improved application performance.