Abstract:
Resource information and status information concerning devices connected to a network is acquired and the information is stored in memory. Icons that are capable of identifying the types of devices connected to the network based upon the stored resource information and status of utilization of the devices that is based upon the stored status information are displayed in combination on a display unit. In order to select (S504, S505, S506) either one or both of the resource information and status information and update this information, a device for which information is to be updated is specified from among the displayed icons. Both the resource information and status information, or whichever information has been selected, of the device that has been specified is acquired and the information in memory is updated (S507) based upon this information. Either or both of resource information and status information concerning a device designated on a network by a user can be acquired and the information can be updated.
Abstract:
This invention provides a load distributed printing technique which efficiently uses a plurality of printing apparatuses by using small resources. To accomplish this, an information processing apparatus, which can transmit a print job to a plurality of printing apparatuses, is provided. The information processing apparatus comprises print queue setting means for setting one of a plurality of print queues corresponding to the plurality of printing apparatuses as a basic print queue and setting remaining print queues other than the basic print queue as backup print queues, print job registration means for registering print job information in the basic print queue, backup job registration means for generating backup job information corresponding to the print job information registered in the basic print queue and registering the backup job information in the backup print queue, and job control means for, when the print job information is registered in each of the basic print queue and the backup print queue, preferentially outputting a print job corresponding to the print job information to a corresponding printing apparatus, and when no print job information is registered, and a print job corresponding to the backup job information can be output, changing the backup job information to print job information and outputting the print job to a corresponding printing apparatus.
Abstract:
In a print system including a print server and a plurality of printers, when the occurrence of a failure in a first printer is detected, the print job to be processed first from among the print jobs accumulated in the first printer is identified as the first print job. Print jobs other than the first print job in the first printer are transferred to a second printer, and then deleted from the first printer.
Abstract:
A phase shift mask including a first phase shifter through which light passes by a first optical path length; a second phase shifter through which light passes by a second optical path length inverted in an optical phase from the first optical path length, the second phase shifter formed away from the first phase shifter by a predetermined distance; a light-blocking part formed around the first phase shifter and second phase shifter; and a correction pattern provided at a part of at least one of the first phase shifter and second phase shifter for correcting a distribution of light intensity between light passing through the first phase shifter and light passing through the second phase shifter, and method of exposure and method of producing a semiconductor device using the phase shift mask.
Abstract:
When a Levenson phase-shift mask is manufactured, the relationship of optical conditions (numerical aperture, partial coherence factor, and others) of an optical system of an exposure device used for exposure and a mask structure (amount of excavation of a substrate, thickness of a phase shifter, or the like) with displacement of a pattern to be transferred by exposure is sought by simulation, and optical conditions and a mask structure that limit displacement of the pattern within a required range are selected, taking manufacturing errors of the mask into consideration. Then the selected optical conditions and mask structure are examined to determine whether they ensure a desired exposure tolerance and a desired focal depth, and this procedure is repeated until an acceptable result is obtained. Once an acceptable result is obtained, the optical conditions and the mask structure are employed to fix the exposure device to the determined optical conditions and actually start fabrication of the mask having the determined mask structure. Thereby, upon exposure using the phase-shift mask, displacement of the transfer pattern is minimized, which results in improvement of the transfer positional accuracy, while ensuring a lithography process tolerance.
Abstract:
A washing machine uses a turbidimeter to measure turbidity of cleaning water for controlling the duration of its washing and cleaning cycles. Quality of this control is improved by taking measurements when the water flow is weak so that the effects of foams are negligible and waiting until turbidity drops at the beginning of the cycle to detect the initial value used in subsequent steps. Sensitivity of the turbidimeter is automatically adjusted for accuracy when the operation is temporarily stopped and restarted during a cycle.
Abstract:
A timepiece with mobile decorations includes a casing incorporating a timepiece movement; a drive motor encased in the casing and functioning at arbitrarily set hours; a dial disposed in front of the casing and bilaterally openable and closable about a fixed shaft; a dial opening/closing mechansim, encased in the casing and operable by the drive motor, for opening and closing the dial; and mobile decorations interposed between the dial and a front face of the casing and functioning while the dial is opened so as to be visually recognizable from outside.
Abstract:
A solid-state imaging element includes a light-receiving element portion disposed in a semiconductor layer, an insulating layer made of a material having a refractive index n0, disposed over the semiconductor layer, and an antenna structure disposed over the light-receiving element portion and surrounded by an insulating layer. The antenna structure is made of a material having a refractive index higher than the refractive index of the insulating layer. The energy of light having entered the antenna structure and the insulating layer is concentrated in the light-receiving element portion.
Abstract:
This invention provides a load distributed printing technique which efficiently uses a plurality of printing apparatuses by using small resources. To accomplish this, an information processing apparatus, which can transmit a print job to a plurality of printing apparatuses, is provided. The information processing apparatus comprises print queue setting means for setting one of a plurality of print queues corresponding to the plurality of printing apparatuses as a basic print queue and setting remaining print queues other than the basic print queue as backup print queues, print job registration means for registering print job information in the basic print queue, backup job registration means for generating backup job information corresponding to the print job information registered in the basic print queue and registering the backup job information in the backup print queue, and job control means for, when the print job information is registered in each of the basic print queue and the backup print queue, preferentially outputting a print job corresponding to the print job information to a corresponding printing apparatus, and when no print job information is registered, and a print job corresponding to the backup job information can be output, changing the backup job information to print job information and outputting the print job to a corresponding printing apparatus.
Abstract:
An embodiment of the invention provides a solid-state image pickup device, including a pixel portion in which a plurality of light receiving areas corresponding to different wavelengths, respectively, are disposed, and transistors used commonly to the plurality of adjacent light receiving areas in the pixel portion, and disposed so as to be brought near to a side of the light receiving area, corresponding to the shorter wavelength, of the plurality of adjacent light receiving areas.