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20100180203 | CONTENT RECOMMENDATION DEVICE AND CONTENT RECOMMENDATION METHOD - A content item recommendation device includes; a storage which stores information of a plurality of content items describing identifiers and usage characteristics of the resources used in the content items; a first specifying unit which specifies first content items which use at least S number of resources in common with a specified content item; a second specifying unit which specifies second content items which use at least K number of resources in common with each of the first content items; a calculator which calculates relationship levels between the specified content item and each of the second content items; a selector which selects recommended content items from the second content items based on the relationship levels. | 07-15-2010 |
20100198945 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - An apparatus includes unit storing scripts includes a tree structure, each of the scripts including at least one of a child-node script and content, unit selecting a parent-node script among the scripts, and acquiring to analyze a child-node script if the child-node script exists, unit acquiring content if content exists, unit retrieving substitute content if the acquisition of content ends in failure and if content indicates retrieving substitute content, unit retrieving the substitute-child-node script if the acquisition of the child-node script ends in failure and if the child-node script indicates retrieving the substitute-child-node script, and retrieving the substitute-parent-node script when content or the child-node script shows retrieving the substitute-parent-node script, unit acquiring substitute content when substitute content is found, unit acquiring the substitute-child-node script and the substitute-parent-node script when the substitute-child-node script and the substitute-parent-node script are found, respectively, and unit acquiring a change script. | 08-05-2010 |
20100241730 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus has an information acquiring unit which acquires a plurality of pieces of information over a network in accordance with an acquisition script included in a scenario, an information converting unit which extracts portions represented to a user from the respective pieces of acquired information in accordance with a conversion script included in the scenario, a movement adding unit which processes all or part of the presented portion so that display contents can be presented in such a form as to change and/or be accompanied with the sound output in accordance with a movement adding script included in the scenario, a statistics recording unit which records processing cost for each of the information acquiring unit, the information converting unit and the movement adding unit, an extraction unit which extracts dependency information showing a dependency relationship between the processes from the scenario, and a control unit which determines the priority of the processes to be carried out on the basis of the scenario, the dependency information and the processing cost, and controls the information acquiring unit, the information converting unit and the movement adding unit. | 09-23-2010 |
20120078909 | INFORMATION SELECT APPARATUS AND INFORMATION SELECT METHOD - According to one embodiment, an information select apparatus includes a storage, an acquisition module, and a selector. The storage is configured to store a script in which at least first information indicative of a search condition of articles, second information indicative of a select condition of articles, and third information indicative of an output order of articles are described, in order to select data which is to be provided to a user. The acquisition module is configured to acquire a data group from a network according to the first information of the script. The selector is configured to select data items from the data group according to the second information of the script, and to orderly arrange the selected data items according to the third information. | 03-29-2012 |
20140095878 | KEY CHANGE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND KEY CHANGE MANAGEMENT METHOD - According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes a permission/inhibition information storage which stores a permission/inhibition information file, a changer which changes a first encryption key of a first private key encrypted with the first public key to the second public key by using the first re-encryption key, a first storage which stores a second private key in a device private key temporary storage, a second storage which stores a second re-encryption key in a re-encryption key storage, a permission/inhibition information registration module which registers second permission/inhibition information in the permission/inhibition information file, and a transmitter which transmits the second private key in the re-encryption key storage to the second terminal. | 04-03-2014 |
20140096268 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA RETURNING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus provides a data storage service via a network for storing data of a user. The apparatus includes a recipient setting module and an account issuing module. The recipient setting module is configured to accept and set a recipient of data and recipient-receivable data, designated by the user. The account issuing module is configured to issue an account to the recipient set by the recipient setting module. The account has an access right for enabling the recipient to access the recipient-receivable data. | 04-03-2014 |
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20120132997 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - To provide a technology capable of manufacturing a semiconductor device equipped with a HK/MG transistor having a gate insulating film comprised of a high-k material and a gate electrode comprised of a metal material and having stable operation characteristics. A film stack configuring an Nch gate stack structure is formed only in a region located in an active region surrounded with an element isolation portion and in which a gate of a core nMIS is to be formed in a later step is formed, while a film stack configuring a Pch gate stack structure is formed in a region other than the above region. This makes it possible to reduce a supply amount of oxygen atoms to be attracted from the element isolation portion to the region in which the gate of the core nMIS is to be formed. | 05-31-2012 |
20130021840 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - In an n-channel HK/MG transistor including: a gate insulating film made of a first high dielectric film containing La and Hf; and a gate electrode which is formed of a stacked film of a metal film and a polycrystalline Si film and which is formed in an active region in a main surface of a semiconductor substrate and surrounded by an element separation portion formed of an insulating film containing oxygen atoms, a second high dielectric film which contains Hf but whose La content is smaller than a La content of the first high dielectric film is formed below the gate electrode which rides on the element separation portion, instead of the first high dielectric film. | 01-24-2013 |
20150187657 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - In an n-channel HK/MG transistor including: a gate insulating film made of a first high dielectric film containing La and Hf; and a gate electrode which is formed of a stacked film of a metal film and a polycrystalline Si film and which is formed in an active region in a main surface of a semiconductor substrate and surrounded by an element separation portion formed of an insulating film containing oxygen atoms, a second high dielectric film which contains Hf but whose La content is smaller than a La content of the first high dielectric film is formed below the gate electrode which rides on the element separation portion, instead of the first high dielectric film. | 07-02-2015 |
20150249145 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Provided is a semiconductor device having improved performance. Over a semiconductor substrate, a dummy control gate electrode is formed via a first insulating film. Over the semiconductor substrate, a memory gate electrode for a memory cell is formed via a second insulating film having an internal charge storage portion so as to be adjacent to the dummy control gate electrode. At this time, the height of the memory gate electrode is adjusted to be lower than the height of the dummy control gate electrode. Then, a third insulating film is formed so as to cover the dummy control gate electrode and the memory gate electrode. Then, the third insulating film is polished to expose the dummy control gate electrode. At this time, the memory gate electrode is not exposed. Then, the dummy control gate electrode is removed and replaced with a metal gate electrode. | 09-03-2015 |
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20130104081 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, DISPLAY METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A display apparatus including a display unit which receives input upon a tap on a display screen, comprises a property display unit configured, when a thumbnail image of data displayed on the display screen is tapped, to change a display region of the thumbnail image to a property screen indicating property information of the data corresponding to the thumbnail image. | 04-25-2013 |
20140026104 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - To make it easy for a user to find a target folder. A jump icon relating to a specific folder is displayed on a scroll bar lane. In the case where a jump icon is selected by a user's click operation, a file associated with a specific folder is displayed. | 01-23-2014 |
20140172931 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND MEDIUM FOR CREATING FOLDER SHORTCUTS - To provide a shortcut creating apparatus which creates folder shortcuts for a plurality of folders in a single flow without move to a target folder, and stores the created folder shortcuts in a selected folder. The shortcut creating apparatus according to the present invention includes: (1) a one-way shortcut creating unit configured to create a folder shortcut of a reference folder under a related folder, (2) a one-way shortcut creating unit configured to create a folder shortcut of the related folder under the reference folder, (3) a two-way shortcut creating unit configured to create a folder shortcut of the reference folder under the related folder, and create a folder shortcut of the related folder under the reference folder, and (4) a multiple-shortcut creating unit configured to create respective folder shortcuts of the reference folder and the related folders under folders except under the currently selected folder. | 06-19-2014 |
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20080288107 | Robot for training a rehabilitator - In a robot for training a rehabilitator, the driving of actuators is controlled to generate the forces acting in six directions at the distal end of a bi-articular arm device to reproduce the relationship between the muscular output of the upper or lower limb of the human body and the output direction at the distal end of the limb. The rehabilitator can experience the relationship between the outputs of his or her limb muscles and the output direction at the distal end of the limb. Thus, the six actuators are run in operation along a predetermined sequence. One or more of the actuators, selected so that the direction of the force generated at the distal end of the first link will be the selected direction, is run in operation. The rehabilitator holding the distal end of the first link may physically experience the direction of that force. | 11-20-2008 |
20090076769 | Non-contact capacitive sensor with gain and offset values calculated as adjustment values - In a capacitance type of non-contact sensor for detecting the position of an object to be detected, such as dielectric material, a detection gain is changed in a first case where the object to be detected is placed in a first position and also in a second case where the object to be detected is placed in a second position, and an offset value is adjusted for each gain to bring an output value to a predetermined value. The adjusted offset values are stored in order to define a gain and an offset value at a point, where the offset values in the first and second cases are closest, as adjustment values. | 03-19-2009 |
20100050765 | MUSCLE TRAINING DEVICE WITH MUSCULAR FORCE MEASUREMENT FUNCTION FOR CONTROLLING THE AXIAL TORQUE OF A JOINT AXLE - A training device measures, after its robot arm is mounted on a trainee, a change in angle of the joint axles of a limb of the trainee with angular sensors. Based on the angular change measured, a controller calculates an angular rate in the direction in which a load is applied, stores as the maximum muscular force a load at the time when the angular rate has exceeded a predetermined value, and stops applying the loads. | 03-04-2010 |
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20090105564 | LIVING BODY COMPONENT MEASURING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF PRECISELY AND NON-INVASIVELY MEASURING LIVING BODY COMPONENT - A living body component measuring apparatus emits light of a first wavelength being specific to a measuring target component from a light emitting unit ( | 04-23-2009 |
20090116006 | BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION MEASURING SENSOR - A biological information measuring sensor ( | 05-07-2009 |
20090128805 | BIOLOGICAL COMPONENT MEASURING SENSOR - A biological component measuring sensor comprising a plurality of light-receiving regions provided in a light-receiving element for receiving light from an organism, and a plurality of waveguides provided in correspondence with the plurality of light-receiving regions, each including an in-let side opening through which the light enters and an out-let side opening from which the light exits, and introducing the light to the plurality of light-receiving regions, respectively. The plurality of waveguides are provided in a waveguide formation member formed integrally, and the opening area of the in-let side opening of each of the waveguides is larger than the opening area of the out-let side opening. Consequently, the sensor can receive light from an organism more efficiently. | 05-21-2009 |
20090195781 | BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION MEASURING SENSOR - A biological information measuring sensor ( | 08-06-2009 |
20150038816 | DIABETES TREATMENT SUPPORT APPARATUS, DIABETES TREATMENT SUPPORT METHOD, DIABETES TREATMENT SUPPORT PROGRAM - A control unit obtains, from a memory unit, data of a plurality of pre-meal blood sugar levels that are blood sugar levels measured before meals and data of a plurality of post-meal blood sugar levels that are blood sugar levels measured after meals, calculates a pre-meal average value that is an average value of the plurality of pre-meal blood sugar levels, calculates a post-meal average value that is an average value of the plurality of post-meal blood sugar levels, calculates an average blood sugar level that is an average of the pre-meal average value and the post-meal average value, calculates an estimated HbA1c value using the average blood sugar level, and displays the calculated estimated HbA1c value in a display unit. | 02-05-2015 |
20150260676 | TEST STRIP FOR BIOLOGICAL COMPONENT MEASUREMENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A test strip for biological component measurement includes a substrate. A pair of a working electrode and a counter electrode, a sensor unit that produces an electrochemical reaction with a bodily fluid of a measurement subject and produces a change in electrical characteristics, a resistance portion having an electrical resistance expressing attribute information including a sensitivity of the test strip, and a pair of wires connected to both ends of the resistance portion are provided on the substrate. The resistance portion has a plurality of narrow patterns, each having a resistivity and provided so as to be distanced from each other. An end portion of each narrow pattern is near another narrow pattern. A substantially circular pattern is provided to overlap locations where the end portions of the narrow patterns are near each other, enabling the end portions to conduct with each other. | 09-17-2015 |
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20100234702 | DEVICE FOR ACCURATELY MEASURING CONCENTRATION OF COMPONENT IN BLOOD AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE DEVICE - A measurement device includes an electronic component device, a perspiration acceleration device, and a perspiration collection device. The perspiration acceleration device or the perspiration collection device is removably coupled to the electronic component device. The electronic component device is attached to a measurement site with a belt. A perspiration accelerating performance is made with respect to the measurement site with the perspiration acceleration device coupled to the electronic component device, and thereafter, the perspiration acceleration device is replaced with the perspiration collection device with the electronic component device attached to the measurement site, and the perspiration collection and measurement computation performance are made. | 09-16-2010 |
20100234711 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ACCURATELY MEASURING CONCENTRATION OF BLOOD COMPONENT - In a measurement computation device arranged in a measurement device, an elapse of a predetermined time is detected after acceleration of perspiration, and a concentration of a first component in the perspiration obtained thereafter is converted to concentration of the first component in blood. | 09-16-2010 |
20100234712 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ACCURATELY MEASURING CONCENTRATION OF BLOOD COMPONENT - A measurement computation device arranged in a measurement device detects a first component and a second component from perspiration in a first component detection unit and a second component detection unit, and the respective concentration in the perspiration is calculated in a concentration calculation unit. In a conversion computation unit, the concentration of the first component in the perspiration is corrected using the concentration of the second component, and then converted to the concentration of the first component in the blood. | 09-16-2010 |
20110275918 | BODY FLUID COLLECTING DEVICE FOR EFFICIENTLY COLLECTING BODY FLUID AND BODY FLUID ANALYZER FOR ACCURATE ANALYSIS - In a body fluid analyzer, a body fluid extracting unit for holding medicine to promote discharge of body fluid and collecting body fluid is arranged at a lower surface of a body fluid collecting chip. A body fluid discharge promoting medicine storage unit is connected to a medicine injecting hole formed in the body fluid collecting chip. A test unit is arranged in the body fluid collecting chip, and the body fluid extracting unit and the test unit are connected by a body fluid feeding path. A discarding body fluid storage unit is connected to the exit of the body fluid feeding path. A medicine supplying mechanism including a pump is operatively connected. | 11-10-2011 |
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20080204608 | Liquid Crystal Element, Optical Path Deflecting Element, and Image Displaying Apparatus - A liquid crystal element comprising a pair of transparent substrates, a liquid crystal layer which fills in between the pair of substrates and can form a chiral smectic C phase in homeotropic orientation, and an electrode which generates, at least, an electric field (parallel electric field) in directions parallel to a principal face of the substrate for the liquid crystal layer is provided, wherein the liquid crystal layer comprises, at least, a chiral compound of the following general formula (1-I) or a chiral compound of the following general formula (2-I) and a chiral compound of the following general formula (2-II) in a base liquid crystal material which can provide a phase sequence of an isotropic liquid phase, a nematic phase, a smectic A phase and a smectic C phase from a higher temperature side, wherein R | 08-28-2008 |
20090080907 | OPTICAL PATH SWITCHING DEVICE, OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A disclosed optical path switching device includes a polarization bistable VCSEL that emits a beam having a rising polarization plane, a laser light source configured to emit a beam having a polarization plane orthogonal to the rising polarization plane, and an optical path switching unit configured to switch an optical path of the beam emitted from the polarization bistable VCSEL by switching the angle of the rising polarization plane of the beam emitted from the polarization bistable VCSEL. The beam emitted from the polarization bistable VCSEL is incident on an entrance window of the optical path switching unit, and the beam emitted from the laser light source is incident on an exit window of the polarization bistable VCSEL. | 03-26-2009 |
20100118366 | POLARIZATION SPLITTING DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING POLARIZATION BEAM SPLITTER, OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A polarization splitting device includes a polarization beam splitter having a polarization splitting surface and allows P-polarized light to transmit therethrough and reflects S-polarized light. A subwavelength structure grating is formed on the polarization splitting surface with a grating pitch smaller than wavelength of incident light. The polarization splitting device also includes a polarizer that is arranged on an optical path of light reflected from the polarization beam splitter and has a transmission axis that is parallel to a polarization direction of the S-polarized light. | 05-13-2010 |
20100328417 | OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An optical scanning device includes four light sources, a pre-deflector optical system, a polygon mirror, an optical scanning system, etc. The optical scanning system includes deflector-side scanning lenses made of glass, imaging-surface-side scanning lenses made of resin, polarized light splitters, and reflecting mirrors. The deflector-side scanning lenses, the imaging-surface-side scanning lenses, the polarized light splitters, and the reflecting mirrors are arranged in this order on an optical path of light going from the polygon mirror toward drum-shaped photosensitive elements. | 12-30-2010 |
20110002025 | POLARIZATION-SEPARATION DEVICE, OPTICAL SCANNING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A polarization-separation device includes: a beam splitter that includes a beam-separating surface, on which a light beam that contains a first light beam and a second light beam impinges, wherein polarization direction of the first light beam and polarization direction of the second light beam are perpendicular to each other, and incident angle of the first light beam and incident angle of the second beam vary independently while incident into the beam-separating surface; a first polarizer arranged in an optical path of light beams having transmitted through the beam splitter, and allows the first light beam to transmit therethrough; and a second polarizer arranged in an optical path of light beams reflected from the beam splitter, and allows the second light beam to transmit therethrough. | 01-06-2011 |
20110235132 | OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - An optical scanning device includes a light source that emits first and second light beams, and an optical splitter to which the first and second light beams deflected by an optical deflector are incident. Principal rays of the first and second light beams incident to the optical splitter are nonparallel to each other in a plane orthogonal to a main-scanning direction. Transmitted light from the optical splitter out of the first light beam and reflected light from the optical splitter out of the second light beam are guided to corresponding scanning target surfaces, and transmitted light from the optical splitter out of the second light beam and reflected light from the optical splitter out of the first light beam reach none of the scanning target surfaces. | 09-29-2011 |
20110316959 | OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An optical scanning device, arranged on one side of at least two to-be-scanned members in a second direction, and the two to-be-scanned members being arranged in a first direction perpendicular to the second, includes: an illuminating system that emits beams including a first beam and a second beam whose polarization directions are different from each other; an optical deflector that deflects the beams; and a scanning optical system that includes a polarization separation element that transmits one of the first and second beams and reflects the other; a first mirror group including reflecting mirrors for guiding the first beam to a to-be-scanned member; and a second mirror group including reflecting mirrors for guiding the second beam to a to-be-scanned member. Last-stage reflecting mirrors in the first and second mirror groups are arranged on one side of the beams deflected by the optical deflector in the second direction. | 12-29-2011 |
20130070323 | OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An optical scanning device separately scanning plural scan target surfaces in a first direction with light includes: a light source unit configured to emit first and second light beams mutually different in polarization state; an optical deflector configured to rotate around an axis parallel to a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and deflect the emitted light beams; an imaging optical element provided on respective optical paths of the deflected light beams; a polarization adjustment element provided on the optical paths of the light beams transmitted through the imaging optical element, and configured to correct respective changes in polarization state of the light beams occurring during the transmission of the light beams through the imaging optical element; and a polarization separation element provided on the optical paths of the light beams emitted from the polarization adjustment element, and configured to separate the light beams from each other. | 03-21-2013 |
20130076851 | OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An optical scanning device scanning scan target surfaces in a first direction with light includes: a light source emitting first and second light beams corresponding to two of the scan target surfaces; an optical deflector including a reflection surface on which the emitted first and second light beams are obliquely incident while being separated from each other in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and deflecting the first and second light beams; a scanning lens disposed on respective optical paths of the deflected first and second light beams; and a branching optical element transmitting therethrough most of the first light beam transmitted through the scanning lens, and reflecting most of the second light beam transmitted through the scanning lens. The deflected first and second light beams intersect between the optical deflector and the branching optical element, when projected on a plane perpendicular to the first direction. | 03-28-2013 |
20130155166 | OPTICAL SCANNING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - An optical scanning apparatus includes a light source, an optical deflector having a rotary polygon mirror to deflect a light beam from the light source, a scanning optical system configured to focus the light beam deflected by the optical deflector on a target surface, a sync detecting sensor configured to determine a write start timing on the target surface, and a processing unit configured to correct detection data of the sync detecting sensor based on a measured value of a time needed for one revolution of the rotary polygon mirror. | 06-20-2013 |
20130201536 | OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An optical scanning device includes: a light source device that emits five light beams corresponding to four basic colors and a single specific color; and five scanning optical systems corresponding the five light beams. One light beam in a first waveband among the light beams corresponding to the four basic colors enters one scanning optical system of the five scanning optical systems. The one scanning optical system includes a dichroic mirror that transmits a light beam in a second waveband different from the first waveband. An angle θb formed between a normal to the incidence plane of the dichroic mirror and orthogonal projection to an assumed plane orthogonal to the main scanning corresponding direction of the incident path of the light beam to the incidence plane of the dichroic mirror is set at an angle of 0° or more and an angle of 45° or less. | 08-08-2013 |
20130250029 | EXPOSURE DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An exposure device to expose an exposure element includes a light source; an optical system to guide light emitted from the light source to the exposure element; and an optical housing, configured with a plurality of plates, to support the light source and the optical system. At least one of the plurality of plates configuring the optical housing is formed with a plurality of grooves on each of a first face and a second face with a given pitch on the one of the plurality of plates, the first face and the second face being opposite faces with each other. The plurality of grooves are arranged by shifting the center of each of grooves formed on the first face and the center of each of grooves formed on the second face. | 09-26-2013 |
20150092994 | ELIGIBLE OPERATOR DETERMINATION DEVICE AND ELIGIBLE OPERATOR DETERMINATION METHOD - An eligible operator determination device includes a three-dimensional light measurement unit configured to measure three-dimensional coordinates of respective parts in a visual field including a posture of a monitor target operating a device; a motion recognition unit configured to recognize a predetermined ineligible motion from a measurement result obtained by the three-dimensional light measurement unit; and an ineligibility coping unit configured to execute a predetermined process according to the predetermined ineligible motion, when the predetermined ineligible motion is recognized by the motion recognition unit. | 04-02-2015 |
20150301690 | INPUT-OPERATION DETECTION DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, PROJECTOR APPARATUS AND PROJECTOR SYSTEM - According to an aspect of the present invention, an input-operation detection device for detecting a user input operation performed on at least a portion of a displayed image includes; a light emitter that emits detection light, an imaging unit including an imaging optical system and an image sensor and configured to capture an image of at least one of the displayed image and the input operation, and a processing unit that detects position, at which the input operation is performed, or motion, by which the input operation is provided, based on a result of image capture output from the imaging unit. The position where optical axis of the imaging optical system intersects a display surface of the displayed image and center of the displayed image are on the same side relative to a position where the imaging unit is mounted. | 10-22-2015 |