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20080215525 | MEDICAL IMAGE RETRIEVAL SYSTEM - A medical image retrieval system includes an image database which stores medical images. An interpretation unit acquires a currently diagnosed image for use in performing interpretation of one of the medical images and provides the currently diagnosed image to a computer terminal. An image requesting unit issues an image request associated with the currently diagnosed image. An image retrieval unit retrieves a reference image from the image database in accordance with the image request and provides the reference image to the computer terminal in order to propose the reference image as references for diagnosis. An evaluation input unit prompts to input an evaluation indicating whether the reference image has been helpful for diagnosis based on the currently diagnosed image. | 09-04-2008 |
20080232767 | TIMER-RECORDING MANAGING APPARATUS, TIMER-RECORDING MANAGING METHOD AND RECORDER - A timer-recording managing apparatus for a recorder that includes a plurality of recording resources that enable the recorder to simultaneously record broadcast programs. The apparatus includes a registration unit configured to register schedule information of the broadcast programs; a registration change unit configured to make a change on the schedule information; a schedule group extraction unit configured to extract a schedule group including a plurality of timer-recording schedules that are affected by an allocation of the recording resources to a start-vertex timer-recording schedule, when the registration change unit makes a change on the schedule information with respect to the start-vertex timer-recording schedule; and a resource allocation unit configured to collectively re-allocate the recording resources to the plurality of timer-recording schedules. | 09-25-2008 |
20090119145 | ROLLING STOCK SCHEDULING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A rolling-stock-scheduling apparatus includes a creation unit creating a graph from an initial day to a target day, the graph including nodes representing initial-day sites, target-day sites, and first operations, the first operations being defined by a departure time, a departure site, an arrival time, and an arrival site, the graph including arcs each of which indicates nodes' connectability, a setting unit setting paths that connect second operations on each day from the initial day to the target day, an exchange unit exchanging, if there is a first car which does not exist at the target-day site on the target day, each arc so that all the cars exist at target-day sites on the target day, and an output unit outputting, if second paths on which all the cars exist at the target-day sites are found, third operations corresponding to each of the second paths as a car-operation. | 05-07-2009 |
20090136206 | VIDEO RECORDER AND METHOD OF PROCESSING RECORDING SCHEDULE - A video recorder includes a schedule reconfiguration section having: a local deterioration determining module that determines whether a local deterioration in a recording state occurs by performing simulating the recording state obtained when the reallocated resources are used for performing the programmed recordings and comparing the simulated recording state with a recording state obtained when the resources before the reallocation is used for performing the programmed recordings; and an allocation restoring module that restores the reallocated resources at a part causing the local deterioration to the resources allocated before the reallocation when the local deterioration determining module determines the occurrence of the local deterioration. | 05-28-2009 |
20130079937 | POWER DEMAND AND SUPPLY SCHEDULING APPARATUS - A power demand and supply scheduling apparatus a includes a transceiver that mutually exchanges power supply reservation information including at least information of a total suppliable power amount, a suppliable state start time, a suppliable state end time, and a maximum suppliable amount per unit time zone, and power request reservation information including at least information of a total request power amount, a receivable state start time, a receivable state end time, and a maximum receivable amount per unit time zone, with scheduling apparatuses for other energy management systems each of which manage other power equipment, and a plan creating unit that plans a power reception amount and a power supply amount in each of the unit time zone which are delivered to and received from the other power equipment, and creates a power delivery and reception plan. | 03-28-2013 |
20130119939 | CHARGE/DISCHARGE SCHEDULING SYSTEM AND CHARGE/DISCHARGE SCHEDULING METHOD - There is provided a charge/discharge scheduling system in which a measurer measures temperature of a battery unit, a current/voltage measurer measures a voltage and a current at the battery unit, an estimating unit estimates an internal resistance of the battery unit, a scheduler creates, based on a charge/discharge instruction specifying charge amount or discharge amount, a charging schedule or a discharging schedule for the battery unit, a temperature estimating unit estimates time-transition of temperature of the battery unit, based on the internal resistance of the battery unit, the load estimator estimates a load amount applied to the battery unit based on the temperature time-transition of the battery unit provided that the charging schedule or the discharging schedule is carried out, the charge/discharge scheduler creates the charge schedule or the discharge schedule so that the load amount applied to the battery unit is a minimum or smaller than a threshold value. | 05-16-2013 |
20130253717 | SCHEDULING APPARATUS, SCHEDULING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A scheduling apparatus includes a first calculator, a storage, and a second calculator. The first calculator is configured to calculate an assignment of plural time slots to a consumer. Each of the plural time slots is classified into at least any of plural categories. The storage is configured to store a first demand, from the consumer, regarding an extent to which the categories associated with the assignment are biased. The second calculator is configured to calculate an extent to which the categories associated with the assignment calculated by the first calculator are biased and calculate a first evaluation value representing a deviation between the first demand and an extent to which the categories associated with the assignment calculated by the first calculator are biased. The first calculator calculates the assignment so as to optimize an evaluation function including the first evaluation value. | 09-26-2013 |
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20090083856 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PLAYBACK OF DIGITAL CONTENT - There is provided with a digital content playback apparatus which generates new digital content by replacing a content part in digital content by an other content parts, including: a storage to store license conditions defined for the content parts in the digital content, each of which includes at least a replacement permission condition and a replacement target specification condition, a specifying unit configured to allow a user to specify a replacement source content part as a content part to be replaced, and a replacement target content part as a content part for adding to the digital content for replacing the replacement source content part, and a verifying unit to verify whether license conditions of content parts in the digital content and the replacement target content part would be satisfied when replacing the replacement source content part in the digital content by the replacement target content part. | 03-26-2009 |
20120245750 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING SCHEDULING SYSTEM - A charging prediction database stores information on electric vehicles expected to arrive for charging. A profile/charging information database stores information on electric vehicles that have arrived and been waiting for charging. A power database stores information on a power source including at least one of a power grid and a stationary battery. An energy calculating unit calculates energy available from the power source based on the power database. A scheduling unit schedule charging of the electric vehicles waiting for charging in consideration of the electric vehicles expected to arrive. | 09-27-2012 |
20140143002 | CHARGE/DISCHARGE SCHEDULING-OPERATION SYSTEM AND A METHOD THEREOF - According to one embodiment, a system manages energy between a charge/discharge facility positioned at each of points and electric vehicles to travel among the points. The system includes an electric vehicle sign-in unit, a route information acquisition unit, and a facility usage scheduling unit. The electric vehicle sign-in unit is configured to dynamically sign in and sign out an electric vehicle among the electric vehicles. The route information acquisition unit is configured to acquire a route information representing a traveling schedule of the electric vehicle being signed in. The facility usage scheduling unit is configured to generate a facility usage schedule representing a charge/discharge schedule of the charge/discharge facility at each point, by using the route information. | 05-22-2014 |
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20150268072 | SENSOR ASSIGNMENT APPARATUS AND SENSOR DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - In one embodiment, a sensor assignment apparatus includes a measured value storage, a generator, a calculator, and a selector. The measured value storage stores measured values of a plurality of sensors. The generator generates combinations of sensors and arguments of a function to diagnose sensors by assigning sensors to its arguments. The calculator calculates evaluation values which are based on the function values. The function values are obtained by applying diagnostic functions to measured values for all combinations generated by the generator. The selector selects at least one combination from the resulting set of the generator by considering the evaluation values of combinations calculated by the calculator. | 09-24-2015 |
20150269195 | MODEL UPDATING APPARATUS AND METHOD - In one embodiment, a model updating apparatus includes a determiner, a selector, an obtainer, an updater. The determiner determines labels to be provided to each of data sets, using two or more models. Each of the data sets include at least one measured value measured by a sensor and a measurement target area of the sensor. The models are functions of the measured values. The selector selects a check target data set from the data sets, based on two or more labels determined by using the two or more models, respectively. The obtainer obtains a label provided by a user to the check target data set selected by the selector. The updater updates the models based on the check target data set and the label obtained by the obtainer. | 09-24-2015 |
20150269293 | DIAGNOSTIC MODEL GENERATING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND ABNORMALITY DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - In one embodiment, a diagnosis model generating apparatus includes a physical parameter calculator, a first residual calculator, a physical model determiner, a second residual calculator, a searcher, and a generator. | 09-24-2015 |
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20110181358 | DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT, OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIER INCLUDING DIFFERENCE AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT, AND VOLTAGE REGULATOR CIRCUIT - A differential amplifier circuit includes a differential input stage comprising first and second transistors whose sources are connected with each other, a constant current source connected between the sources of the first and second transistors and a ground, a current mirror circuit comprising third and fourth transistors whose sources are connected with a power supply source, a fifth transistor of a same conductive type as that of the first transistor, connected at a drain to a drain of the third transistor, connected at a source to a drain of the first transistor and connected at a gate to a reference voltage source; and a sixth transistor of a same conductive type as that of the second transistor, connected at a drain to a drain of the fourth transistor, connected at a source to a drain of the second transistor, and connected at a gate to the reference voltage source. | 07-28-2011 |
20130240716 | METHOD OF VARYING GAIN OF AMPLIFYING PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE AND VARIABLE GAIN PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE - Provided is a method of varying the gain of an amplifying photoelectric conversion device and a variable gain photoelectric conversion device which are capable of achieving both signal processing under low illuminance and high-current processing under high light intensity, and thereby capable of securing a wide dynamic range. An amplifying photoelectric conversion part includes a photoelectric conversion element and amplification transistors forming a Darlington circuit. The sources and the drains of field-effect transistors are connected to the bases and the emitters of the amplification transistors, respectively. The gates of the field-effect transistors each function as a gain control part. | 09-19-2013 |
20130284931 | INFRARED SENSOR DEVICE - An infrared sensor device includes a plurality of infrared sensors that is provided in a plurality of divided areas in which an infrared-receiving area is radially divided in one plane; a detector that detects presence or absence of movement of an object in the infrared-receiving area for each of the divided areas based on an output of the infrared sensor; and a determiner that determines whether the object is in a detection area in a predetermined distance range from the infrared sensor, based on an arrangement pattern of the divided areas in which the movement of the object is detected, in an alignment of the divided areas in the infrared-receiving areas. | 10-31-2013 |
20150070546 | IMAGING DEVICE, METHOD OF DRIVING IMAGING DEVICE, AND CAMERA - An imaging device includes at least one pixel having a phototransistor which converts light energy into signal charge and varies an amplification factor relative to the intensity of the received light energy, wherein the signal charge of the phototransistor is read out while receiving the light energy with the phototransistor for each pixel. | 03-12-2015 |
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20130187030 | SENSE CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF AND PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ARRAY - A sense circuit includes a differential amplifier circuit including an inverting input section, a non-inverting input section and an output section, an electrical capacitor connected between the inverting input section and the output section, and a field effect transistor including a source, a drain, and a gate. One of the source and the drain is connected to the inverting input section, and the other of the source and the drain is connected to the output section. A reference potential is supplied to the non-inverting input section, and an output section of a photoelectric conversion cell having an added switching function is connected to the inverting input section. | 07-25-2013 |
20140367550 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE - A photoelectric conversion device includes a first output line, a second output line; and a photoelectric conversion cell. The photoelectric conversion cell further includes, a photoelectric conversion element configured to generate an output current corresponding to an intensity of incident light, a first switch element configured to transmit the first output current to the first output line according to a first control signal, and a second switch element configured to transmit the second output current to second output line according to a second control signal. As a result, the photoelectric conversion device can be provided to generate rapidly the image data with wide dynamic range without the need for complex control outside of the photoelectric conversion device. | 12-18-2014 |
20150076572 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged on the semiconductor substrate to collectively form an image sensor, a plurality of trenches each formed between the photoelectric conversion elements adjacent to each other, and a plurality of impurity diffusion layers each provided at a bottom of the trench at a position deeper than a p-n junction of the photoelectric conversion element. | 03-19-2015 |
20150264280 | IMAGING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An imaging device includes a photoelectric conversion element which photoelectrically converts incident light and generates a charge, accumulates and amplifies the charge, and outputs a photocurrent, wherein a level of an output signal when a charge which is accumulated in the photoelectric conversion element is outputted over a saturated amount of accumulable charge includes a level of an output signal of a charge of a photocurrent of DC component which is generated in the photoelectric conversion element and outputted during a readout time when the charge which is accumulated in the photoelectric conversion element is outputted. | 09-17-2015 |