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A downscan imaging sonar utilizes a linear transducer element to provide improved images of the sea floor and other objects in the water column beneath a vessel. A transducer array may include a plurality of transducer elements and each one of the plurality of transducer elements may include a substantially rectangular shape configured to produce a sonar beam having a beamwidth in a direction parallel to longitudinal length of the transducer elements that is significantly less than a beamwidth of the sonar beam in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal length of the transducer elements. The plurality of transducer elements may be positioned such that longitudinal lengths of at least two of the plurality of transducer elements are parallel to each other. The plurality of transducer elements may also include at least a first linear transducer element, a second linear transducer element and a third linear transducer element. The first linear transducer element may be positioned within the housing to project sonar pulses from a first side of the housing in a direction substantially perpendicular to a centerline of the housing. The second linear transducer element may be positioned within the housing to lie in a plane with the first linear transducer element and project sonar pulses from a second side of the housing that is substantially opposite of the first side. The third linear transducer element may be positioned within the housing to project sonar pulses in a direction substantially perpendicular to the plane.

An endoscope including: a light source for emitting light; a solid state imaging unit comprising a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements for accumulating signal charges corresponding to an incidence light amount, transfer units for transferring signal charges accumulated in the photoelectric conversion elements, and a plurality of color filters formed above the photoelectric conversion elements; and a transmission tube accommodating the light source and the solid state imaging unit, wherein the color filters include red, green and blue color filters, and the number of red photoelectric conversion elements upon which light transmitted through the red color filters are incident is larger than the number of green photoelectric conversion elements upon which light transmitted through the green color filters are incident and the number of blue photoelectric conversion elements upon which light transmitted through the blue color filters are incident. The endoscope can obtain a high quality image.

The planar lighting device includes rod type light sources, a light guide plate having light guide plate blocks, each being formed of an integral assembly of at least two light guide plate units each having a rear surface with a groove formed to accommodate a rod type light source and a light exit surface that is away from the rear surface and which is for emitting the light from the light source and a transmittance adjuster unit that is provided on a side closer to the light exit surface, and which has a sheet type optical member capable of transmitting light and transmittance adjusters provided on at least one surface of the optical member. The transmittance adjusters at a position corresponding to a seam between adjacent light guide plate blocks are distributed at a different density than the transmittance adjusters at a position corresponding to a joint between adjacent light guide plate units.

A method is used to provide a pattern of a functional material for example on a receiving element. To provide this pattern, a laser-engraveable patternable element is imagewise exposed with laser-engraving radiation. This element has a laser-engraveable layer comprising a thermoplastic elastomeric interpolymer alloy. This interpolymer alloy comprises a non-crosslinked halogenated polymer, a partially crosslinked polyolefin, and a polyester. A laser-engraved patterned element is formed that has a relief image in the laser-engraveable layer, and this relief image can be contacted with a suitable functional material that is then transferred to the receiving element to provide the desired pattern.

The present invention discloses a mobile cantilever door-type container inspection system, in the art of radiation scanning imaging inspection technology. The system according to the present invention comprises a moveable scanning apparatus formed by a scanning frame and a remote control device, wherein the scanning frame comprises a radiation source and some detectors, wherein the radiation source or an apparatus cabin wherein the radiation source is disposed is connected with an L-shaped cantilever structure to form a door-type scanning frame, wherein beneath the radiation source or the apparatus cabin wherein the radiation source is disposed are provided with rollers that can reciprocatingly move on rails and are controlled by drive means. The detectors are disposed in a cross beam and a vertical beam of the cantilever structure of the door-type scanning frame. Rays of the radiation source are right in alignment with rows of detectors in the cantilever structure. The container truck to be inspected can pass through the door-like frame formed by the door-type scanning frame. Due to the cantilever structure, the inspection system is advantageous in stable operation, good-quality images, and high reliability.

A carrier for use with a toner as a two-component type developer for developing an electrostatic image, comprising spherical magnetic core particles, and a resin layer covering each of said core particles and containing at least two resistance controlling materials having different specific resistances, wherein each of the resistance controlling materials is in the form of particles having a number average particle diameter of no more than 1/10 of a number average particle diameter of the toner.

A manufacturing method of a thin film transistor includes: forming semiconductor layers for a plurality of thin film transistors over a substrate; forming an insulating layer covering the semiconductor layers; and forming a metal layer over the insulating layer. The method further includes: patterning the metal layer to form mask patterns; doping first ions using a first mask pattern among the mask patterns into a first semiconductor layer among the semiconductor layers to simultaneously form source region/a drain regions and an active region of the first thin film transistor; and doping second ions using a second mask pattern among the mask patterns into a second semiconductor layer among the semiconductor layers to form a source region and a drain region of the second thin film transistor.

A medical device having an imaging function includes a shaft main body portion having an image acquiring lumen and a guide wire lumen extending from a distal side to a proximal side of the shaft main body portion. A proximal portion of the shaft main body includes a first shaft proximal portion in which the image acquiring lumen is disposed, and a second shaft proximal portion in which the guide wire lumen is disposed, and which are bifurcated. A shaft distal portion has a common lumen in which the image acquiring lumen and the guide wire lumen converge, a first hub portion is interlocked with the first shaft proximal portion, a second hub portion is interlocked with the second shaft proximal portion, and a hub casing collectively covers the first shaft proximal portion, the second shaft proximal portion, the first hub portion and the second hub portion.

The invention discloses a switch cabinet operation state management monitoring system and method and a computing device. The method comprises the steps of monitoring a grounding knife-switch state, ahandcart position and arc light; in the grounding knife-switch state monitoring process, the current position of the grounding knife-switch is identified through the grounding knife-switch image collected by the first image collection device at present, and whether the grounding knife-switch is in an opening state or a closing state at present is judged; in a handcart position monitoring process,the position of the handcart is identified through the handcart image currently acquired by the second image acquisition equipment, and whether the handcart moves to an opening or closing state or notat present is judged; in the arc light monitoring process, whether the arc light phenomenon occurs currently or not is judged according to the comparison result of the gray feature value between thecontact image, collected by the third image collection device currently, of the switch cabinet without illumination and the contact image, collected by the third image collection device, of the arc light phenomenon; the operation state of the switch cabinet is monitored in real time in a non-contact mode, and accurate monitoring of the operation state of the switch cabinet can be achieved.

A print assembly is described, wherein the print assembly includes a dye-donor element having a dye-donor layer, wherein the dye-donor element includes a donor stick preventative agent; and a receiver having a dye image-receiving layer, wherein the receiver includes a receiver stick preventative agent of the formula:

wherein R₁ is an alkyl chain of C₉H₁₉ or greater; R₂ is an alkyl chain of C₃H₆ or greater; A is NH—R₃, NHNH₂, NHCO—R₃, NH—R₄—NH₂, or NHCO—R₄—NH₂; R₃ is an alkyl chain of C₂H₅ or greater; R₄ is an alkyl chain of C₂H₄ or greater; m is from about 0 to 95 weight percent; n is from about 0 to about 70 weight percent; p is from 0 to about 40 weight percent; and q is from 0 to 95 weight percent, with the proviso that when m is 0, then n is 0, and R₃ is an alkyl chain of C₈H₁₇ or greater, otherwise when m is greater than 0, n is from 0.1 to 70 weight percent, based on the total weight of the receiver stick preventative agent, and wherein the dye-donor element and receiver are in superposed position such that the dye-donor layer is adjacent the dye image-receiving layer. The use of stick preventative agents in both the dye-donor element and the receiver element can enable high speed printing without donor-receiver sticking.

An imaging hypercentric lens assembly comprising of a First Lens Group that includes: 1) At least a first high NA (0.40 or greater) aspheric lens element followed by 2) at least a second lens element that converges the light emitted from the first element to a small spot. It is further comprised of a Second Lens Group whose entrance pupil is placed at the same position as said small light spot. The Second Lens Group serves to refocus the light and form an image of an object placed in front of the First Lens Group. In this combination, the present invention allows high NA aspheric lens elements to produce good quality images of objects whose size is not limited to being considerably smaller than the diameter of the clear aperture of the high NA aspheric lens element.

Photo-sensitive element for electro-optical sensors realised with the CMOS technology, comprising a photo-sensitive reception member (11, 31) consisting of a diode connected to a conversion circuit to convert the current generated by the photo-sensitive reception member (11, 31) into a tension signal, and an amplification and reading circuit (20, 40). The circuit comprises two transistors (21, 22; 41, 42), arranged in a diode configuration with the drain short-circuited with its own gate, the two transistors (21, 22; 41, 42) being connected in series there between and able to perform a logarithmic conversion of the current, photo-generated by the reception member (11, 31), in continuous time and without requiring time to integrate the light. The photo-sensitive element further comprises a third transistor (23, 43) having its gate connected to a photo-sensitive node (25, 45) at an output of the photo-diode (11, 31) to achieve a first stage of amplification in current of the signal by transferring the tension present on the node (25, 45) to the drain of a fourth transistor (24, 44).

A digital image forming device and a digital image forming method used thereon are provided. The digital image forming device includes a light metering device, a processor, a frequency generator, a timing generator, and a light sensor. The light metering device detects a surrounding light value and transmits it to the processor. The processor generates an illumination parameter according to the surrounding light value and transmits it to the frequency generator. The frequency generator then generates a frequency based on the illumination parameter and transmits it to the timing generator. The timing generator generates an exposure time and controls the light sensor to detect the outside light and therefore form an image.

An X-ray computed tomography (=CT) apparatus (10) has a filter element (2) for attenuating an X-ray beam (1). The filter element (2) has a spatially varying X-ray absorption capability along a cross direction (y) which is perpendicular to both the beam axis (z) of the X-ray beam and to a rotation axis (x) of a gantry. The spatially varying X-ray absorption capability exhibits a maximum absorption along the cross direction (y) at a zero position (y0), wherein X-rays passing through the filter element (2) at the zero position (y0) intersect the rotation axis (x). The CT apparatus allows for further reduction of the radiation dose for an object to be investigated, while simultaneously retaining high image quality.

Photo-sensitive element for electro-optical sensors, including a photo-sensitive reception member, a current conversion circuit to convert the current generated by the photo-sensitive reception member into a tension signal, and an amplification and reading circuit. In at least one embodiment, the current conversion circuit comprises a P-channel transistor used as an ideal key and piloted with a tension that can vary between a high feed tension and a low feed tension. The photo-sensitive element is taken to a reset state if the pilot tension of the transistor is low, and to an integration state if the pilot tension is high.