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20100054580 | IMAGE GENERATION DEVICE, IMAGE GENERATION METHOD, AND IMAGE GENERATION PROGRAM - The image generation device includes distance calculation means for calculating a distance between a space model and an imaging device arrangement object model which is a model such as a vehicle having a camera mounted, according to viewpoint conversion image data generated by viewpoint conversion means, captured image data representing captured image, a space model, or mapped space data. When displaying an image viewed from an arbitrary virtual viewpoint in the 3D space, the image display format is changed according to the distance calculated by the distance calculation means. When displaying a monitoring object such as a vicinity of a vehicle, a shop, a house or a city as an image viewed from an arbitrary virtual viewpoint in the 3D space, it is possible to display the monitoring object in such a manner that the relationship between the vehicle and the image of the monitoring object can be understood intuitionally. | 03-04-2010 |
20110317017 | PREDICTIVE DUTY CYCLE ADAPTATION SCHEME FOR EVENT-DRIVEN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS - Embodiments of a method for controlling access to a shared communications medium by a plurality of nodes are disclosed. The method may comprise predicting, for each node of the plurality of nodes, whether an event will occur within a sensing field of that node at a future time and adapting a communications schedule of each node in response to the prediction regarding that node. Wireless sensor networks and computer readable media implementing embodiments of a method for controlling access to a shared communications medium by a plurality of nodes are also disclosed. | 12-29-2011 |
20120320224 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, SERVER SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION STORAGE DEVICE - An information processing device (first processing device) includes a captured image acquisition section that acquires a captured image from an imaging section (imaging device), a trimming range setting section that sets a trimming range to the captured image acquired by the captured image acquisition section, the trimming range corresponding to an image processing target area that is processed by a server system (second processing device), and a communication section that transmits image information to the server system via a network, the image information being information about an area of the captured image that has been set as the trimming range by the trimming range setting section. | 12-20-2012 |
20140218565 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE READING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus is configured comprising a necessary/unnecessary determination data generating unit configured to generate necessary/unnecessary determination data; an image encoding unit assigning identification information respectively to, and recording, in a recording unit, each piece of data after division of each moving image of a moving image after encoding, a necessary/unnecessary determining unit configured to determine an unnecessary moving image frame based on necessary/unnecessary determination data; and a moving image file managing unit configured to rewrite information indicating a state of data at a recording unit in the recording unit corresponding to a moving image frame determined as unnecessary moving image frame by the necessary/unnecessary determining unit into information that there is no data. | 08-07-2014 |
20150212681 | HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY, UNLOCKING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING UNLOCKING SYSTEM - A head-mounted display includes a display section that displays a display image, and a display control section that performs a control process that displays the display image on the display section. The display control section displays an unlocking screen on the display section, the unlocking screen being used by the user to unlock the head-mounted display, and displays an unlocked state notification screen on the display section when the head-mounted display has been unlocked using the unlocking screen, the unlocked state notification screen notifying the user that the head-mounted display has been unlocked. | 07-30-2015 |
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20080297742 | Projector apparatus - A projector apparatus capable of adjusting a projecting image without the user manually adjusting the image or selecting the past setting information for every usage opportunity. A projector apparatus according to the present invention is a projector apparatus capable of performing automatic adjustment based on past setting information related to before-use adjustment; the projector apparatus including an identification information receiving device for receiving, at an arbitrary installation location, information specific to the installation location; and a CPU for executing the automatic adjustment based on the specific information received by the identification information receiving device. | 12-04-2008 |
20110134895 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION TERMINAL, RECEPTION TERMINAL, AND TRANSMISSION METHOD - The transmission terminal in a wireless communication system includes: a communication unit for intermittently transmitting a radio signal; a transmission-side beacon reception unit; a beacon analysis unit for analyzing the received beacon signal; and a transmission output level change unit for estimating an emission time period of a beacon signal to be received by the transmission-side beacon reception unit on the basis of the beacon period information and the beacon reception time information, thereby obtaining an estimated emission time period; wherein the transmission output level change unit instructs the transmission-side communication unit to transmit the radio signal having a raised transmission output level during at least the estimated emission time period, the raised transmission output level being higher than a transmission output level during a time period other than at least the estimated emission time period. | 06-09-2011 |
20110267476 | VIDEO SIGNAL TRANSMITTING DEVICE, RECEIVING DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a communication system in which a transmitting device transmits a video signal to a receiving device, one or both of these devices includes a beacon analyzer that analyzes beacon signals transmitted by other wireless systems operating in the same frequency band and predicts periods during which beacon transmission is expected. During these predicted periods, video transmission is suspended and the video signal is stored in a buffer in the transmitting device. At the end of each predicted period, the stored video signal is read from the buffer and transmitted without horizontal and vertical blanking periods until the buffering delay is made up. The receiving device displays the received video signal with standard video timing. A normal unbroken video picture is thereby obtained despite beacon interference. | 11-03-2011 |
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20110298732 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD METHOD - An information processing apparatus including a display device; pointed position detecting means for detecting a specified position by a touch operation of a pointing device on a screen of the display device; sensor means for detecting a position of the pointing device when the pointing device is not in contact with the screen of the display device; and control means for recognizing the touch operation detected by the pointed position detecting means and controlling the information processing apparatus in accordance with the recognized touch operation and the position of the pointing device detected by the sensor means. | 12-08-2011 |
20120078398 | SOUND PROCESSING DEVICE, SOUND DATA SELECTING METHOD AND SOUND DATA SELECTING PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus that stores a plurality of pieces of audio data, displays information corresponding to each of the plurality of pieces of audio data, receives an input selecting at least one of the plurality of pieces of audio data, reproduces a first piece of the plurality of pieces of audio data, and initiates simultaneous reproduction of a second piece of the plurality of pieces of audio data based on an input received at the interface, processes the first and second pieces of the audio data such that the first and second pieces of the audio data are separately audible by the user, and outputs the processed first and second pieces of the audio data. | 03-29-2012 |
20120078399 | SOUND PROCESSING DEVICE, SOUND FAST-FORWARDING REPRODUCTION METHOD, AND SOUND FAST-FORWARDING REPRODUCTION PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus stores audio data, receives an input instruction of a user, reproduces a first channel of the audio data, which corresponds to normal playback of the audio data, and a second channel of the audio data, which corresponds to a fast-forwarding playback of the audio data based on an instruction received at the input unit, processes the first and second channels of the audio data such that the first and second channels of the audio data are separately audible by the user, and outputs the processed first and second channels of the audio data. | 03-29-2012 |
20120294583 | DISPLAY IMAGE GENERATING METHOD - An image processing apparatus including an input terminal that receives a plurality of image units that are temporally or spatially continuous; an image processing unit that performs image processing on the plurality of image units by iteratively performing the image processing on subsets of the plurality of image units; and a display image generating unit that controls a display to display the plurality of image units when the image processing unit begins performing the image processing; display, at a time of a completion of intermediate processing of a subset of the plurality of image units by the image processing unit, an intermediate processed image including the processed subset of the plurality of image data units; and display, after completion of the processing of the plurality of image units by the image processing unit, a complete processed image including the processed plurality of image data units. | 11-22-2012 |
20130076944 | IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHY APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus that includes a camera unit including an imaging sensor that captures an image; a display that displays an image; and a processor that: clips an image region having a size corresponding to a photography zoom power from an image captured by the camera unit; adjusts a clipping position at a time of clipping the image region from the image; and controls the display to display the clipped image region on the display. | 03-28-2013 |
20140354850 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CAPTURING IMAGES - An image capturing apparatus that includes one or more image sensors configured to capture a plurality of images and store the captured images in a memory. The apparatus also includes a circuitry that detects an input trigger and continues to capture new images in response to the trigger. The numbers of new images captured are equal in magnitude to half the magnitude of the capacity of the memory. The first new image captured after detecting the trigger is tagged as a reference image. In response to the number of new images captured, the sensors are deactivated and the reference image is displayed immediately on a display panel. On detecting an input operation, the apparatus displays a target image from the plurality of images captured in a quick and efficient manner. | 12-04-2014 |
20150040741 | SOUND PROCESSING DEVICE, SOUND DATA SELECTING METHOD AND SOUND DATA SELECTING PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus that stores a plurality of pieces of audio data, displays information corresponding to each of the plurality of pieces of audio data, receives an input selecting at least one of the plurality of pieces of audio data, reproduces a first piece of the plurality of pieces of audio data, and initiates simultaneous reproduction of a second piece of the plurality of pieces of audio data based on an input received at the interface, processes the first and second pieces of the audio data such that the first and second pieces of the audio data are separately audible by the user, and outputs the processed first and second pieces of the audio data. | 02-12-2015 |
20150104147 | DIGEST VIDEO GENERATION APPARATUS - A terminal device includes circuitry configured to acquire designated image data stored in a memory. The circuitry may sort the designated image data based on a time at which the designated image data was captured. The circuitry may divide the sorted image data into a plurality of time slots and calculate, based on features of the designated image data corresponding to each time slot of the plurality of time slots, a time slot score for each of the plurality of time slots. The circuitry may allocate, based on the time slot score, a portion of a digest video to each of the plurality of time slots. The circuitry may generate, for each time slot, a local digest video by assigning an amount of the designated image data to the local digest video corresponding to the time slot, and generate the digest video by connecting the generated local digest videos. | 04-16-2015 |
20150350559 | IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHY APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus that includes a camera unit including an imaging sensor that captures an image; a display that displays an image; and a processor that: clips an image region having a size corresponding to a photography zoom power from an image captured by the camera unit; adjusts a clipping position at a time of clipping the image region from the image; and controls the display to display the clipped image region on the display. | 12-03-2015 |
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20130010025 | INK-JET PRINTING APPARATUS AND INK STAIN DETECTION METHOD IN THE SAME - An apparatus includes a printing unit configured to eject ink from a print head onto a sheet conveyed in a direction to perform printing on the sheet; a conveying unit configured to be provided on a downstream side of the print head in the direction, and configured to include a rotating member in contact with the sheet; and a reading unit configured to read a surface of the sheet on a downstream side of the rotating member in the direction, in which information on ink adhesion to the rotating member is obtained based on a result read by the reading unit. | 01-10-2013 |
20130076811 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - An inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head configured to discharge ink, a first ink tank configured to store ink to be supplied to the recording head, a circulation path configured to circulate ink between the first ink tank and the recording head, a measurement unit configured to measure an ink temperature in the circulation path, a second ink tank configured to replenish ink to the circulation path, and a control unit configured to control replenishment of ink from the second ink tank to the circulation path based on the ink temperature measured by the measurement unit. | 03-28-2013 |
20130093809 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND INKJET PRINTING METHOD - There is provided an inkjet printing apparatus which can output a stable image without density unevenness by performing appropriate drive control to print elements based upon an appropriate representative temperature of a chip whatever image data is printed on a print medium. For this purpose, detection temperatures of a plurality of temperature sensors are lined up in high temperature order, and coefficients by which the respective detection temperatures are multiplied, are determined to be associated with that order at the lining-up, determining a representative temperature by the weighted average method. The common drive pulse associated with to the individual chip based upon the representative temperature thus obtained, to be applied thereto. Thereby even if temperature variations of print elements on the chip exist, it is possible to appropriately control the entire chip in temperature. | 04-18-2013 |
20130328969 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND INKJET PRINTING METHOD - The effects on an image are maximally decreased with respect to ejection by printing elements included in the low flow rate areas of a serial channel in an inkjet printing apparatus that uses a joined head in which multiple chips provided with multiple printing element arrays are disposed. For this purpose, print data is distributed to individual printing elements at a joining portion between two chips, such that fewer printing elements execute ejection operations on a printing element array A distanced farther from the center line of a base plate than a printing element array D nearer the center line. Doing so suppresses ejection by printing elements included in low flow rate areas which manifest near the turns of an ink channel, and reduces density defects due to ejection by such printing elements. | 12-12-2013 |
20130335471 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - One aspect of this invention is directed to suitable drive control in accordance with an output from the temperature sensor of a printhead. More specifically, a printing apparatus by using a printhead that includes heaters and a temperature sensor on a substrate and discharges ink by driving the heaters executes the following steps. First, when printing a test pattern by using a predetermined driving pulse in a maintenance mode, a detected temperature is stored as a reference temperature in a memory. Then, in a normal printing mode, the difference between a detected temperature and the stored reference temperature is calculated, and a driving pulse for driving the printhead is selected from a plurality of driving pulses based on the difference. The printhead is controlled to be driven using the selected driving pulse and print. | 12-19-2013 |
20150042715 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - The present invention provides a printing apparatus including, a printhead; a preliminary discharge unit; a detecting unit detecting a size of a printing medium; and a scaling process unit. The scaling process unit scales an image to be formed on the printing medium in accordance with a detected size when a size of a printing medium indicated by size setting information and the detected size do not match each other. The preliminary discharge unit causes the printhead to perform preliminary discharge in accordance with a scaling result of the scaling process unit. | 02-12-2015 |
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20090087336 | High-carbon steel wire rod of high ductility - A high-carbon steel wire rod of high ductility for steel cord and the like is provided that experiences little breakage during drawing. The high-carbon steel wire rod of high ductility is a high-carbon steel wire rod fabricated by hot rolling that that has a carbon content of 0.7 mass % or greater, wherein 95% or greater of the wire rod metallographic structure is pearlite structure and the maximum pearlite block size of pearlite at the core of the hot-rolled wire rod is 65 μm or less. The high-carbon steel wire rod of high ductility has a tensile strength in a range of {248+980×(C mass %)}±40 MPa} and a reduction of area of {72.8−40×(C mass %) %} or greater. The high-carbon steel wire rod of high ductility is characterized in that the average pearlite block size at the core of the hot-rolled wire rod constituted by ferrite grain boundaries of an orientation difference of 9 degrees or greater as measured with an EBSP analyzer is 10 μm or greater and 30 μm or less. | 04-02-2009 |
20110168302 | HIGH-STRENGTH ULTRATHIN STEEL WIRE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The present invention provides a steel wire, including chemical components of: C: 0.7-1.2 mass %; Si: 0.05-2.0 mass %; and Mn: 0.2-2.0 mass %, with a balance including Fe and inevitable impurities, in which the steel wire has a pearlite structure, the average C concentration at a center portion of a ferrite phase in an outermost layer of the steel wire is 0.2 mass % or lower, and a residual compressive stress in the longitudinal direction of the steel wire in the outermost layer is 600 MPa or more. | 07-14-2011 |
20110284139 | High-carbon steel wire rod of high ductility - A high-carbon steel wire rod of high ductility for steel cord and the like is provided that experiences little breakage during drawing. The high-carbon steel wire rod of high ductility is a high-carbon steel wire rod fabricated by hot rolling that that has a carbon content of 0.7 mass % or greater, wherein 95% or greater of the wire rod metallographic structure is pearlite structure and the maximum pearlite block size of pearlite at the core of the hot-rolled wire rod is 65 μm or less. The high-carbon steel wire rod of high ductility has a tensile strength in a range of {248+980×(C mass %)}±40 MPa} and a reduction of area of {72.8−40×(C mass %) %} or greater. The high-carbon steel wire rod of high ductility is characterized in that the average pearlite block size at the core of the hot-rolled wire rod constituted by ferrite grain boundaries of an orientation difference of 9 degrees or greater as measured with an EBSP analyzer is 10 μm or greater and 30 μm or less. | 11-24-2011 |
20120070687 | HIGH-STRENGTH ZN-AL COATED STEEL WIRE FOR BRIDGES WITH EXCELLENT CORROSION RESISTANCE AND FATIGUE PROPERTIES AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Disclosed is a high-strength Zn—Al coated steel wire for bridges with excellent corrosion resistance and fatigue properties, the Zn—Al coated steel wire includes: a steel wire; and a Zn—Al coating having a coating body layer and an Fe—Al alloy layer formed in an interface between a surface layer of the steel wire and the coating body layer, wherein a chemical composition of a core material of the steel wire includes, by mass %: C: 0.70% to 1.2%; Si: 0.01% to 2.5%; Mn: 0.01% to 0.9%; P: limited to 0.02% or less; S: limited to 0.02% or less; N: limited to 0.01% or less; and the balance including Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein wire-drawn pearlite is most abundant microstructure among microstructures of the core material of the steel wire; wherein an average composition of the Zn—Al coating includes, by mass %, Al: 3.0 to 15.0%; and Fe: limited to 3.0% or less, and wherein the Fe—Al alloy layer has a thickness of 5 μm or less. | 03-22-2012 |
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20130032817 | POWER AMPLIFIER - A power amplifier includes a semiconductor substrate including transistor cells, a drain electrode for the transistor cells located on the semiconductor substrate, a drain pad located on the semiconductor substrate and connected to the drain electrode, an ion-implanted resistance located in the semiconductor substrate and extending along and in contact with the drain pad, a floating electrode located on the semiconductor substrate and in contact with the ion-implanted resistance, and an output matching circuit located outside the semiconductor substrate. The power amplifier further includes a wire connecting the drain pad to the output matching circuit. | 02-07-2013 |
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20090290192 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An object of the present invention is to provide an image processing apparatus which provides an image with an extended region of a size suitable for performing block processing. In order to achieve the object, the image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes an input unit for inputting image data and printer setting information of the image data; and an extended region computing unit for dividing the image data into a block region and computing an extended region of the divided block region based on the printer setting information. The apparatus also includes a generating unit for generating a processed block region with the extended region added to the block region; and a processing unit for performing image processing on the processed block region produced by the generating unit. | 11-26-2009 |
20100220929 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus extracts an object area (e.g., character, picture, line drawing, and table) from an input image and acquires a metadata to be associated with the object. The image processing apparatus generates a transparent graphics description for an object area having an attribute that requires generation of the transparent graphics description, and generates an electronic document while associating the transparent graphics description with the metadata. As transparent graphics description, an arbitrary shape of graphics can be used. Accordingly, the image processing apparatus can generate electronic document data suitable for a highlight expression, which is easy for users to recognize in a search operation using a keyword to search an object included in an electronic document. | 09-02-2010 |
20110167081 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to the present invention, it is possible to create electronic document data capable of highlighting an object detected through a search so that a user can easily recognize it. An image processing apparatus extracts an object from an input image and extracts metadata related to the object. The image processing apparatus, when determines to describe with a shape in accordance with the shape of the object, creates a vector path description of frame described with a shape in accordance with the shape of the object. Then, the image processing apparatus creates an electronic document including data of the input image and the vector path description of frame with which the metadata is associated. When a keyword search is performed on the created electronic document, highlight display is performed in accordance with the vector path description of frame with which metadata that matches the keyword is associated. | 07-07-2011 |
20110229035 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Even when captions of a plurality of objects use an identical anchor expression, the present invention can associate an appropriately explanatory text in a body text as metadata with the objects. | 09-22-2011 |
20110252315 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A region division portion extracts an “object”, an “anchor expression accompanying the object” and a “text including the anchor expression” from image data based on a paper document and an electronic document. A link processing portion generates link information that associates, in two ways, the “object”, the “anchor expression included in the text” or the “text including the anchor expression” with each other. Then, a format conversion portion converts the link information into electronic document data including two-way link information. When this electronic document data is displayed by an application and one of the “object” and the “anchor expression included in the text” is selected, the other can be displayed according to the link information. | 10-13-2011 |
20120008174 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus comprises: a character information acquisition unit configured to acquire character information included in each of a body region and a caption region; an accumulation unit configured to divide the character information acquired from the body region into predetermined set units and to accumulate the character information and position information of the divided set unit in a memory; an anchor term extraction unit configured to extract an anchor term from the character information acquired from the caption region; an anchor term search unit configured to search, based on the character information accumulated in the memory for each set unit, for the set unit including the anchor term extracted; a link information generation unit configured to generate link generation information that associates the set unit found by the anchor term search unit with the object region to which the caption region including the anchor term is appended. | 01-12-2012 |
20120008864 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An apparatus comprises: unit configured to divide input document data into a body region, a caption region, and an object region; unit configured to acquire text information included in each of the body region and the caption region; unit configured to search the text information in the body region for an anchor term, to extract an anchor term from the text information in the caption region, and to generate a bi-directional link between a portion corresponding to the anchor term in the body region and a portion of the object region to which the caption region is appended; and unit configured to convert the input document data into digital document data in which the portion corresponding to the anchor term in the body region and the portion corresponding to the object region to which the caption region is appended are bi-directionally linked based on the link. | 01-12-2012 |
20120011429 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus successively designates each page of an input page image as a processing target, detects an anchor expression constituted by a specific character string, and associates a highlight position corresponding to the anchor expression with a link identifier. When the anchor expression and the link identifier are registered in a link configuration management table, if the same anchor expression is already registered in the table, the apparatus updates the table in such a way as to mutually associate the link identifiers of the same anchor expression. The apparatus generates page data of an electronic document based on a link identifier relating to a processing target page image and its highlight position and transmits the generated page data. The apparatus generates information usable to link the relevant link identifiers based on the link configuration management table, after completing the processing for all pages, and transmits the generated information. | 01-12-2012 |
20140043655 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus is provided, which makes it possible to classify and store documents after scanning the documents by intuitive operations such as physically classifying the documents. The image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire image data obtained by capturing an image of a document placed in an image capturing area; and a classification unit configured to classify the acquired image data according to at least one of a direction to which the document is framed-out from the image capturing area and a direction from which the document is framed-in to the image capturing area. | 02-13-2014 |
20150317784 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A user's operability in an image processing apparatus such as a camera scanner is improved. The image processing apparatus has: a pickup image obtaining unit for obtaining a pickup image on a stage through an imaging unit; a distance image obtaining unit for obtaining a distance image on the stage through a solid measuring unit; a solid information obtaining unit for obtaining solid information of a solid object put on the stage based on the obtained pickup image of the solid object and the obtained distance image of the solid object; a projecting unit for projecting a projection image showing a contents area onto the solid object through a projector based on the obtained solid information; and a processing unit for executing the contents in accordance with a user's gesture to the projected projection image. | 11-05-2015 |
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20100104313 | POWER SOURCE DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A power source device includes an oscillator generating a clock, a frequency division unit dividing the clock to output a pulse, a sequence generation unit generating sequences “N” with respect to each switching of the pulse, a frequency division ratio setting unit setting frequency division ratio, a switching element driven by the pulse, and a piezoelectric transformer outputting alternating high voltage from a secondary-side when a primary-side is applied with voltage. The generated sequence and the set frequency division ratio are compared to output the pulses of fractional-M, −M+1 frequencies. An average frequency division ratio of the pulses of fractional-M, −M+1 frequencies determined by (M×α)+(M+1)×β/(α+β), where α and β respectively represent the number of pulses of “M” and “M+1” per unit time. The average frequency division ratio and frequency division ratio become equal at a sequence generation cycle and approximated in a period shorter than the sequence generation cycle. | 04-29-2010 |
20100188011 | PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSFORMER DRIVING DEVICE, COLD-CATHODE TUBE INVERTER, COLD-CATHODE TUBE DRIVING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A piezoelectric transformer driving device including: an oscillator; a frequency-divider outputting a pulse by dividing a clock signal from the oscillator by a frequency-divide ratio received thereto; a switching element driven by the pulse and intermittently applying a voltage to a primary side of a piezoelectric transformer; a frequency-divide ratio instructing unit holding a frequency-divide ratio instruction value of a real number having an integer part and an fractional part; a binarization unit binarizing the frequency-divide ratio instruction value into two different integer frequency-divide ratios and selectively outputting the frequency-divide ratios. The binarization unit adjusts an appearance ratio of the frequency-divide ratios such that an average of the frequency-divide ratios output from the binarization unit is equal to an average of the frequency-divide ratio instruction value. | 07-29-2010 |
20100202794 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A power supply device includes: an oscillator configured to output a clock signal; a pulse output unit configured to output a pulse by dividing the frequency of the clock signal; a switching element driven by the pulse; a piezoelectric transformer configured to intermittently receive a voltage from the switching element and to output a high alternating current voltage; a rectifier configured to convert the high alternating current voltage to a high direct current voltage; an output voltage conversion unit configured to convert the high direct current voltage to a low direct current voltage; a target setter configured to output a target value; and a comparison unit configured to compare the low direct current voltage with the target value and to output a comparison result. A frequency division ratio of the pulse is controlled according to the comparison result, and thereby is changed so as to obtain the target value. | 08-12-2010 |
20100302809 | Piezoelectric transformer driving device and image forming device - A piezoelectric transformer driving device includes a piezoelectric transformer for outputting an alternating high voltage, a switching control part configured to control the control frequency of the control signal, a reference voltage waveform generation part configured to switch between a first voltage value, a second voltage value and a third voltage value, a monitor voltage generation part configured to generate a monitor voltage waveform based on the high voltage output from the piezoelectric transformer, and a comparison part configured to compare the reference voltage waveform with the monitor voltage waveform to generate a comparison result, and configured to supply the comparison result to the switching control part. | 12-02-2010 |
20110051466 | POWER UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A power unit includes: a frequency divider to divide a clock signal in a second frequency-division ratio based on a first frequency-division ratio and to output a driving pulse; a switching device driven by the driving pulse; a piezoelectric transformer to output an alternating-current high voltage when receiving an intermittent voltage from the switching device; a comparison device to compare a digital signal corresponding to the piezoelectric transformer output voltage with a target voltage and to output a comparison result; a controller to control the first frequency-division ratio based on the comparison result; a first holding device to hold the controlled first frequency-division ratio; a first computing device to determine the second frequency-division ratio by performing computation using a first correction value and the first frequency-division ratio held by the first holding device; and a second holding device to hold the second frequency-division ratio determined by the first computing device. | 03-03-2011 |
20120321338 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - A power supply device includes a voltage output unit configured to output a DC voltage corresponding to a control signal from a first controller and an output evaluator configured to perform a judgment process of judging whether or not the DC voltage is a voltage corresponding to a set value received from the fist controller, and to output a result of the judgment to the first controller. The output evaluator includes a storage for storing correspondence information which shows a correspondence relationship between the set value and a voltage value of the DC voltage outputted from the voltage output unit. The output evaluator performs the judgment process by outputting the correspondence information to the first controller, and receiving a set value determined on the basis of the correspondence information from the first controller. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323383 | POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - A power supply apparatus includes an arithmetic unit configured to successively update a N-bit division ratio at every step whose processing timing is managed by a timer, by adding or subtracting of preset data read from a data memory to or from the N-bit division ratio in accordance with a comparative output. An arithmetic unit performs an arithmetic operation to make a feedback data value approach a target data value by a negative feedback control, the arithmetic operation using, as the preset data, data read from the address specified by data with a predetermined bit width of M (M12-20-2012 | |
20120327689 | POWER SUPPLY, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, AND PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCER CONTROL METHOD - A power supply with a digital control circuit generates an output voltage by driving a piezoelectric transducer with an alternating current voltage at a digitally controlled driving frequency. To skip over a spurious frequency, the driving frequency is switched between a first range above the spurious frequency and a second range below the spurious frequency. Within the first and second ranges, the driving frequency is varied in directions that make the output voltage track a target voltage. If the driving frequency arrives at the lower limit of the first range, it jumps to a switchover frequency in the second range. The first range can be used to generate a comparatively low output voltage, and the second range to generate a comparatively high output voltage. | 12-27-2012 |
20120328322 | PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCER DRIVER, POWER SUPPLY DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - A piezoelectric transducer driver configured to drive a piezoelectric transducer for converting an inputted alternating-current voltage, includes: a drive circuit configured to generate the alternating-current voltage to be inputted into the piezoelectric transducer; a frequency controller configured to control a frequency of the alternating-current voltage as a drive frequency to be applied to the piezoelectric transducer; and a pulse generation circuit configured to generate a drive pulse having a switching frequency corresponding to the drive frequency, and to output the drive pulse to the drive circuit. The drive circuit includes a switching element configured to generate the alternating-current voltage by executing a switching operation corresponding to a pulse width of the drive pulse, and the pulse generation circuit changes the pulse width depending on the switching frequency. | 12-27-2012 |
20130045023 | HIGH-VOLTAGE POWER-SUPPLY APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - A high-voltage power-supply apparatus comprises a controller configured to output a control signal containing a pulse with a variable drive frequency; a switching unit configured to be switched by the control signal and output a drive signal; a piezoelectric transducer having a predetermined resonant frequency, and configured to be driven by the drive signal and output a high-voltage output voltage; a current detector configured to detect an electric current of a load connected to an output side of the piezoelectric transducer and output a current-detection result; and a lower-limit-value setup unit configured to set a frequency lower limit value for the drive frequency of the controller. The controller is configured to vary the frequency lower limit value in accordance with the current-detection result. | 02-21-2013 |
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20150055972 | POWER-SUPPLY DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - A power-supply device includes: a rectifier circuit configured to output a rectified voltage by rectifying an output from a transformer; a comparator circuit configured to compare a comparison voltage corresponding to an output voltage or an output current that are generated based on the rectified voltage with the indicator voltage and to control an operation of the transformer drive circuit so as to reduce the difference between the comparison voltage and the indicator voltage; a constant voltage element configured to limit the output voltage or the output current by operating as a constant voltage source when the value of the output voltage or the output current reaches a threshold; and a current mirror circuit. The current mirror circuit is configured to lower the indicator voltage by allowing a current proportional to the current flowing through the constant voltage element to flow through the current path. | 02-26-2015 |
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20150074019 | HEALTH GUIDANCE RECEIVER SELECTION CONDITION GENERATION SUPPORT DEVICE - A memory that stores health checkup data of a person and a label value representing whether or not the person fell under a predetermined health guidance criterion in the subsequent period, and a processor connected with the memory are provided. The processor learns a discriminant model with use of the health checkup data of each person and the label value. The discriminant model, in which health checkup items of the health checkup data are used as explanatory variables, is represented as a polynomial including the explanatory variables and coefficients of the respective explanatory variables, and is used for discriminating whether or not the person falls under the health guidance criterion in the subsequent period. The processor generates, as a selection condition, combinations of the health checkup items as the explanatory variables and values of the coefficients in the discriminant model after learning. | 03-12-2015 |
20150094983 | FEATURE EXTRACTION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USE IN CASUAL EFFECT ANALYSIS - A feature extraction method and apparatus for use in causal effect analysis, pertaining to data analysis, which includes: determining a feature time point for use in causal effect analysis on a resultant event; acquiring a predetermined number of time intervals according to the determined feature time point, where the predetermined number of time intervals are prior to the determined feature time point, and the interval length from the time interval to the determined feature time point is in positive correlation to the span of the time interval; and extracting features for use in causal effect analysis on the resultant event according to event information of potential causal events occurred in each of the time intervals. According to the present disclosure, considering the short-period and long-period potential causal event, the number of extracted features is controlled, thereby reducing the calculation workload, preventing overfitting, and improving the accuracy in causal effect analysis. | 04-02-2015 |