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In a mask pattern forming method, a resist film is formed over a thin film, the resist film is processed into resist patterns having a predetermined pitch by photolithography, slimming of the resist patterns is performed, and an oxide film is formed on the thin film and the resist patterns after an end of the slimming step in a film deposition apparatus by supplying a source gas and an oxygen radical or an oxygen-containing gas. In the mask pattern forming method, the slimming and the oxide film forming are continuously performed in the film deposition apparatus.

A backlighting apparatus for a flat panel LCD display includes an elongate light guide having a front wall through which travels polarized light in a direction toward the LCD display. An RGB LED set is positioned adjacent a first end wall of the light guide so that light enters the light guide from the first end wall. A retardation and reflection film covers respective external surfaces of the bottom wall and a second end wall. Microlenses are formed in the front wall along its extent and each microlens is filled with a birefringent material. Light emitted by the LED set travels through a collimated light coupling module and exits the light guide through the birefringent microlenses in polarized form toward the LCD display. The viewing angles and angular light distributions of the LCD display in vertical and horizontal directions are optimized for enhancing the brightness without involving DBEF and BEF.

An intra prediction apparatus includes: a candidate narrowing-down unit which narrows down, from a plurality of intra prediction directions, an intra prediction direction candidate which is applied to a block of multiple pixels that constitutes a video in accordance with a characteristic of the video; and an intra prediction execution unit which executes intra prediction in the intra prediction direction narrowed down by said candidate narrowing-down unit. Through this, computational load can be lightened while contributing to improvement in picture quality and encoding efficiency.

An insurance method comprising a return-of-premium (ROP) benefit is disclosed. The ROP benefit is applied to property and casualty insurance and related insurance forms. The ROP benefit provides a return of all premiums after a set period of insurance, less the amount of any claims made by the insured. The policy may then be rolled over to again provide a ROP benefit to the policyholder. Fractional ROP benefit returns may be made on the policy after a minimum set period less than the full term of the policy. The ROP benefit may be provided by means of a rider to a standard property or casualty policy.

The invention discloses a deep convolutional GAN-based optical image and SAR image registration method. The method comprises the following steps of: obtaining a training sample; constructing two generative adversarial networks; expanding training sample data; constructing a feature extraction and matching network; training the feature extraction and matching network by adoption of a cross iteration strategy; predicting a matching relationship; removing mis-matching points; calculating a geometric transformation matrix; and registering images. According to the method, the problems that neural network training samples are lack of data, samples are single and extracted image features lose space information in the prior art are overcome, the robustness of different-source image registration iseffectively improved, and higher-precision registration for SAR images and optical images is realized.

In a gas barrier laminate film comprising a base material film containing an inorganic compound and at least one set of inorganic layer and organic layer formed on the base material film, the base material film is formed with a resin having a glass transition temperature of 250° C. or higher. A gas barrier laminate film that has superior durability, heat resistance and gas barrier performance, shows a small difference in coefficient of linear expansion relative to an contiguous layer and can maintain superior gas barrier property even if it is bent is provided.

The invention discloses a three-dimensional human body model attitude and shape reconstruction method through a video sequence, and the method comprises the steps: 1), extracting two-dimensional jointpoints of a person in a video frame; 2), extracting facial feature points of the person in the video frame; 3), extracting a two-dimensional contour line of the person in the video frame; 4), estimating camera parameters, and generating a perspective matrix according to the camera parameters; 5), carrying out the optimization of the model posture and shape through an optimization method; 6), obtaining the edge points of the 3D human body model at the camera angle and the matching relationship between the edge point and the 2D contour line; 7), carrying out the re-optimization of the shape ofthe model through the optimization method so that the sum of the differences between the distances from the positions of the edge points of the three-dimensional model at the camera angle after projection to the positions of the two-dimensional contour points in the video frame is minimized. The method can avoid the posture turnover in the reconstruction process, and also can accurately reconstruct the posture of a head under the condition that the overall similarity of the model is guaranteed.

The invention relates to a data carrier printed with a tactile halftone image, a method for producing it and a printing plate suitable therefor.

A dual-aperture zoom camera comprising a Wide camera with a respective Wide lens and a Tele camera with a respective Tele lens, the Wide and Tele cameras mounted directly on a single printed circuit board, wherein the Wide and Tele lenses have respective effective focal lengths EFL_W and EFL_T and respective total track lengths TTL_W and TTL_T and wherein TTL_W/EFL_W>1.1 and TTL_T/EFL_T<1.0. Optionally, the dual-aperture zoom camera may further comprise an optical OIS controller configured to provide a compensation lens movement according to a user-defined zoom factor (ZF) and a camera tilt (CT) through LMV=CT*EFL_ZF, where EFL_ZF is a zoom-factor dependent effective focal length.

There is provided an LC resonance type oscillation circuit with a wide frequency variable range with a small variation of Q and capable of reducing a chip size due to no external parts required, and a communication semiconductor circuit device (high-frequency IC) having the oscillation circuit. In the LC resonance type oscillation circuit, a capacitance element and a switch element are connected in parallel between both terminals of a secondary side inductance element which is placed facing an inductance element constituting the LC resonance circuit and is connected by mutual induction to the inductance element. It is designed so that an equivalent inductance increases as the capacitance element is connected between the both terminals of the secondary side inductance element in a state where the switch element is turned OFF, and that the equivalent inductance decreases as the both terminals of the secondary side inductance element are short-circuited in a state where the switch element is turned ON.

A fixing unit thermally fixes a toner on a recording medium by a fixing member having a plurality of internal heaters and an outer peripheral surface, and a temperature sensor detects a surface temperature of the fixing member at a temperature detecting position. At least one first heater, of the heaters, receives power from a first power supply, and remaining second heaters receive power from a second power supply. One of the second heaters closest to the temperature detecting position is the same distance from the temperature detecting position as or is closer to the temperature detecting position than a first heater which is closest to the temperature detecting position.

To provide a nonvolatile memory device suppressing a reduction of a data retention characteristic even if charges injected and stored into a local area of a nitride film is redistributed to achieve a reduction of voltage, the nonvolatile memory device in which hot electrons are injected into the local area of the nitride film at one or both of source•drain regions side to store data in a memory transistor is satisfied with a standard for evaluating a film quality of the nitride film, the standard being defined by one of the followings: a density of the bond group of silicon and hydrogen being under 1×10^{21 cm−3}; an extinction coefficient in an ultraviolet region at a wavelength of 240 nm being under 0.10 or the extinction coefficient in 230 nm being under 0.14; an optical energy, a peak wavelength of an luminance spectrum, or a peak energy thereof.

A head motion tracking method for three-dimensional facial model animation, the head motion tracking method includes acquiring initial facial motion to be fit to an image of a three-dimensional model from an image inputted by a video camera; creating a silhouette of the three-dimensional model and projecting the silhouette; matching the silhouette created from the three-dimensional model with a silhouette acquired by a statistical feature point tracking scheme; and obtaining a motion parameter for the image of the three-dimensional model through motion correction using a texture to perform three-dimensional head motion tracking. In accordance with the present invention, natural three-dimensional facial model animation based on a real image acquired with a video camera can be performed automatically, thereby reducing time and cost.

An apparatus and a method for encoding and decoding key data are provided. An apparatus for encoding DPCMed differential data of key data includes a DND operator which performs on input differential data a predetermined number of times a DND operation, in which a divide operation is performed on the input differential data so as to divide differential data belonging to a positive number region into halves and so as to convert one half of the differential data belonging to an upper range than the other half into negative values, and either a divide-up operation or a divide-down operation is selectively performed on the results of the divide operation depending on the range of the results of the divide operation so as to reduce the range of differential data belonging to a negative number region or the positive number region, respectively, a shift-up operator which performs a shift-up operation on the results of the DND operation so as to transfer the differential data having been through the DND operation to either the positive or negative number region, a differential data selector which selectively outputs either the differential data having been through the DND operation or the differential data having been through the shift-up operation, and an entropy encoder which entropy-encodes the differential data selected by the differential data selector.