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20090181714 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO BASE STATION, AND MOBILE STATION CONTROL METHOD - A radio base station includes: a table storage unit storing a table in which an E-TFCI indicating a transport format combination indicator of the physical data channel to be transmitted by a mobile station is associated with βed that is used to determine a SG and is an offset value of transmission power of the physical data channel to be transmitted by the mobile station; a parameter selector selecting the βed associated with the E-TFCI from the table; and a communication controller determining a SG based on the βed thus selected and an E-TFCI associated with the selected βed, and controlling transmission power of the mobile station by using the SG thus determined. | 07-16-2009 |
20100056065 | WIRELESS BASE STATION EQUIPMENT AND MONITORING CONTROL METHOD - To allow an amplifier to be added or changed to perform a maintenance monitoring control smoothly without causing restriction on the card configuration of the amplifier and the functional section and without causing any influence on the operating amplifier (e.g., suspension of the service). | 03-04-2010 |
20110317550 | RADIO BASE STATION, RADIO EQUIPMENT CONTROL AND RADIO EQUIPMENT - A radio base station wherein, when a radio equipment control detects an uplink communication failure on a physical circuit, a downlink communication processing unit is configured to transmit a downlink IQ data for all combinations of antennae and carriers to a radio equipment with all values of the downlink IQ data set to “0,” and a downlink radio equipment is configured to stop a transmission of a downlink signal of all the carriers through all the antenna when the downlink IQ data whose values are all “0” is received. | 12-29-2011 |
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20120307713 | RELAY DEVICE - A relay device | 12-06-2012 |
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20110122172 | Display panel, manufacturing method thereof and display apparatus - A display panel includes a substrate and a light emitting element array including a plurality of light emitting elements provided on the substrate. The light emitting elements are driven by driving signals to emit light. The display panel further includes a lens array that focuses the light emitted by the light emitting elements, and a driving circuit provided on the substrate for driving the light emitting elements. The lens array includes a plurality of lens pillars formed on the light emitting elements, and a plurality of lens portions formed to cover the lens pillars and to have curved lens surfaces. | 05-26-2011 |
20130002730 | DISPLAY MODULE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display module includes a light emitting element array and a lens array. The light emitting element array includes a plurality of light emitting elements arranged on a substrate and driven by driving signal to emit light. A lens array is configured to focus light emitted by the respective light emitting elements. The lens array includes a plurality of first lens pillars respectively provided on the light emitting elements, a plurality of second lens pillars respectively provided on the first lens pillars and having curved surfaces at tops thereof, and a plurality of lens portions formed so as to cover the first lens pillars and the second lens pillars, the lens portions having curved surfaces at tops thereof. A driving circuit is provided on the substrate. | 01-03-2013 |
20130208026 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAYING APPARATUS, MOBILE TERMINAL, HEAD-UP DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE PROJECTOR, HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A semiconductor light emitting apparatus includes a substrate. A plurality of first electrode wirings are formed on the surface of the substrate. At least one second electrode wiring is formed on the surface of the substrate. A light emitting section is connected between a corresponding one of the plurality of first electrode wirings and the at least one second electrode wiring. The light emitting section includes a plurality of light emitting elements. | 08-15-2013 |
20140038324 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF LIGHT EMITTING APPARATUS - In a manufacturing method of a light emitting apparatus, an array of light emitting elements is formed on a substrate. A first lens-pillar-material layer is formed on the array, and first lens pillars are formed on the light emitting elements of the array by performing a photolithographic process on the first lens-pillar-material layer. A lens-portion-material layer is laminated on the first lens pillar using a dry film resist so that gaps are left between the first lens pillars. A plurality of lens portions that correspond to the first lens pillars are formed by performing a heat treatment on the first lens-portion-material layer so that it is softened and enters the gaps. The first lens pillars and the lens portions constitute a lens array that focuses light emitted by the light emitting elements. | 02-06-2014 |
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20130092500 | CLUTCH COVER ASSEMBLY - In a clutch cover assembly, accurate abrasion compensation is constantly enabled by stabilizing the actuation of an abrasion amount detecting mechanism. The present clutch cover assembly includes a clutch cover fixed to a flywheel, a pressure plate, a diaphragm spring, an abrasion amount detecting mechanism and an abrasion tracking mechanism. The abrasion amount detecting mechanism is a mechanism having a plurality of meshing positions and includes a mobile detecting member configured to release meshing in a first meshing position and move to a second meshing position when the abrasion amount of a friction member reaches a predetermined amount. The abrasion tracking mechanism moves the diaphragm spring to an initial posture side thereof in accordance with the displacement of the mobile detecting member. | 04-18-2013 |
20130140125 | CLUTCH COVER ASSEMBLY - A clutch cover assembly is equipped with a clutch cover that is fixed to a flywheel, a pressure plate, a fulcrum ring, and a ring movement regulating mechanism. The pressure plate is for pressing a friction member against the flywheel and is coupled to the clutch cover in such a way as to be relatively non-rotatable with respect to the clutch cover. The fulcrum ring is placed on the pressure plate and moves in a direction away from the pressure plate in accordance with the wear-amount of the friction member. The ring movement regulating mechanism regulates the movement of the fulcrum ring in the direction away from the pressure plate when the rotational speed of the pressure plate has exceeded a predetermined rotational speed. | 06-06-2013 |
20130140126 | CLUTCH COVER ASSEMBLY - A clutch cover assembly is equipped with a clutch cover that is fixed to a flywheel, a pressure plate, a diaphragm spring, an wear-amount detecting mechanism, and a wear tracking mechanism. The wear-amount detecting mechanism has a contact member, an opposing member, and a wedge member. The contact member is attached to the pressure plate and is in contact with the flywheel. The opposing member is attached to the contact member and opposes the pressure plate. The wedge member fits between the opposing member and the pressure plate and moves in a circumferential direction in accordance with the wear-amount of a friction member. The wear tracking mechanism moves the pressing member to an initial posture side in accordance with the amount of movement of the wedge member. | 06-06-2013 |
20130168200 | CLUTCH COVER ASSEMBLY - A clutch cover assembly is provided whereby accurate wear compensation can be executed. The present clutch cover assembly includes a clutch cover, a pressure plate, a diaphragm spring, an wear-amount detecting mechanism and an wear tracking mechanism. The wear-amount detecting mechanism includes a detection member for detecting the wear-amount of a friction member and a moving member configured to be movable in accordance with the wear-amount of the friction member. The detection member is engaged with the fulcrum rings and detects the wear-amount through the fulcrum rings, while being engaged with the moving member and being configured to be disengaged from the moving member at a predetermined wear-amount. | 07-04-2013 |
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20090091659 | MOTION DETECTION DEVICE AND METHOD, LUMINANCE/CHROMINANCE SIGNAL SEPARATION DEVICE AND METHOD, NOISE REDUCTION DEVICE AND METHOD, AND VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD - The motion detection device includes an oblique correlation detection section, a motion detection section and a motion determination section. The oblique correlation detection section detects a correlation in an oblique direction (oblique correlation) of a composite video signal. The motion detection section detects a motion amount based on an inter-frame difference of the composite video signal. The motion determination section determines the presence/absence of a motion in the composite video signal based on the motion amount detected by the motion detection section. The motion determination section determines the presence/absence of the motion considering the detection results of the oblique correlation by the oblique correlation detection section. | 04-09-2009 |
20100277647 | NOISE DETECTION METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD USING THE NOISE DETECTION METHOD - An image processing method includes a difference extraction step ( | 11-04-2010 |
20120033136 | FILM-ORIGINATED VIDEO REGION DETECTION METHOD - Film-originated video detection is performed on an input video signal in each of regions into which an entire screen is divided. Based on the detection result, a case where there is not film-originated video is separated from a case where film-originated video covers the entire screen. When both a film region and a non-film region are contained, film-originated video detection is performed in sub-regions into which a region which has been determined to be a film region is subdivided. Based on the detection result, it is determined whether or not all the sub-regions are film regions. The determination is repeatedly performed until it is determined that all sub-regions are film regions. If it is determined that all sub-regions are film regions, a film-originated video region is determined, and the process is ended. Thus, a film-originated video region can be accurately detected in a screen containing film-originated video and non-film-originated video. | 02-09-2012 |
20140028909 | METHOD FOR CONVERTING FRAME RATE AND VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A method for converting the frame rate of a video signal includes a film footage detection step of detecting a M:N (M and N are integers) pulldown video signal from an input video signal; a frame rate conversion step of performing frame rate conversion for a series of frames of the input video signal; and a switching control step of, if the M:N pulldown video signal is detected based on a detection result obtained at the film footage detection step, switching, at the frame rate conversion step, the frame rate conversion for the series of frames to frame rate conversion for M:N pulldown, and controlling the switching at a frame in which there is no difference between time required for the frame rate conversion for the series of frames and time required for the frame rate conversion for M:N pulldown. | 01-30-2014 |
20140036148 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONVERTING FRAME RATE OF VIDEO SIGNAL, AND VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - In order to convert frame repetition information generated by pulldown processing for generating repeat frames from each frame of an input video signal generated at 24 fps into phase information for pulldown processing, and to perform frame rate conversion using the phase information, an apparatus for converting the frame rate of the video signal includes a repeat frame generation unit configured to generate, according to the predetermined number of repeat frames, a plurality of identical frames from each frame of the input video signal; and a frame rate conversion unit configured to perform frame rate conversion based on the frame phase information indicating the number of repeat frames generated by the repeat frame generation unit. Thus, even if a video picture generated at 24 fps is input, judder of a video picture displayed on a screen can be reduced upon frame rate conversion until pulldown processing is determined. | 02-06-2014 |
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20090085416 | YOKE-INTEGRATED BONDED MAGNET AND MAGNET ROTATOR FOR MOTOR USING THE SAME - This invention provides a soft magnetic yoke-integrated bonded magnet in which a soft magnetic yoke has been integrally compression molded in such a state that the soft magnetic yoke is engaged in a joined face formed by bringing a binding material-containing magnetic powder into contact with a binding material-containing soft magnetic powder. The soft magnetic yoke part and the bonded magnetic part are constructed so that, when the soft magnetic yoke part and the bonded magnet part are compression molded separately from each other, the spring back level is identical upon the release of the compression force. | 04-02-2009 |
20090194202 | MAGNETIC ALLOY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - Disclosed is a novel process for producing an NaZn | 08-06-2009 |
20100148611 | ARMATURE CORE, MOTOR USING SAME, AND AXIAL GAP ELECTRICAL ROTATING MACHINE USING SAME - An armature core includes a core portion formed of a lamination of plural noncrystalline metallic foil bands and resin for bond-fixing the non-crystalline metallic foil bands, wherein the armature core is provided with at least two cut surfaces with respect to the lamination layers. Amorphous metal is used as the iron base of the non-crystalline metallic foil bands. The cut surfaces are perpendicular to the lamination-layers of the non-crystalline foil bands. For the amorphous core, a resin mold is formed. The contact portions between winding wires and amorphous are provided with edge roundness. Further, an axial gap motor using cut cores of amorphous lamination as stator cores is provided. Still further, the stator includes: a plurality of stator cores in a bar shape, the stator cores being disposed along circumferential direction, wherein the axial line of the rotor shaft is the central axis of the circumferential direction, and wherein an axial direction of the stator cores is along the axial line direction AX of the rotor shaft; a stator core holding member in a disc form, the stator having a plurality of holes or recessions that are substantially in the same shape as a cross-sectional shape of the stator cores and are arranged along the circumferential direction, wherein the axial line of the rotor shaft is the central axis of the circumferential direction; and coils wound around the stator cores, and wherein the stator cores are inserted in the holes or recessions of the stator core holding member and held by fixing in vicinities of respective central portions thereof, the central portions being with respect to the axial direction thereof. | 06-17-2010 |
20120248930 | WOUND CORE, ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPONENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT - A wound core formed of a magnetic thin band, an electromagnetic component and a manufacturing method therefor and electromagnetic equipment in which iron loss and cost reduction can be achieved are provided. The wound core is a wound core formed by winding a magnetic thin band in the axial direction. A cutout portion is formed from place to place on an end face of the thin band in the axial direction and the cutout portions are arranged in random directions in the direction of the radius of the wound core. | 10-04-2012 |
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20100079854 | RARE-EARTH DOPED CORE MULTI-CLAD FIBER, FIBER AMPLIFIER, AND FIBER LASER - A rare-earth doped core multi-clad fiber includes a core that includes a rare-earth element and a plurality of cladding layers that surround the core. An outermost cladding of the plurality of cladding layers is made of a polymer cladding, the plurality of cladding layers have a polygonal inner cladding, and a shape of a boundary between a second cladding from the outside and the outermost cladding does not have two-fold rotational symmetry. As a result, it is possible to provide a rare-earth doped core multi-clad fiber for an optical amplifier and a fiber laser that has low skew and is inexpensive. | 04-01-2010 |
20100118897 | MULTI-CORE FIBER FOR OPTICAL PUMPING DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, OPTICAL PUMPING DEVICE, FIBER LASER AND FIBER AMPLIFIER - A multi-core fiber for an optical pumping device is provided. The multi-core fiber includes a plurality of optical fibers that are inserted into holes of an alignment member. The optical fibers and the alignment member are integrated by heating. The alignment member includes a material that has a lower softening temperature than a softening temperature of the optical fibers. | 05-13-2010 |
20110026106 | YTTERBIUM-DOPED OPTICAL FIBER, FIBER LASER, AND FIBER AMPLIFIER - An ytterbium-doped optical fiber of the present invention includes: a core which contains ytterbium, aluminum, and phosphorus and does not contain germanium; and a cladding which surrounds this core. The ytterbium concentration in the core in terms of ytterbium oxide is 0.09 to 0.68 mole percent. The molar ratio between the phosphorus concentration in the core in terms of diphosphorus pentoxide and the above ytterbium concentration in terms of ytterbium oxide is 3 to 30. The molar ratio between the aluminum concentration in the core in terms of aluminum oxide and the above ytterbium concentration in terms of ytterbium oxide is 3 to 32. The molar ratio between the above aluminum concentration in terms of aluminum oxide and the above phosphorus concentration in terms of diphosphorus pentoxide is 1 to 2.5. | 02-03-2011 |
20110142083 | YTTERBIUM-DOPED OPTICAL FIBER, FIBER LASER AND FIBER AMPLIFIER - An ytterbium-doped optical fiber includes: a core which contains at least ytterbium, aluminum, and phosphorus; and a cladding which encircles the core, wherein an aluminum oxide equivalent concentration of the aluminum in the core is 0.2 mol % or more, a diphosphorus pentaoxide equivalent concentration of the phosphorus is higher than the aluminum oxide equivalent concentration, and the core either does not contain germanium or contains less than 1.1 mol % of germanium in a germanium dioxide equivalent concentration. | 06-16-2011 |
20110206341 | YTTERBIUM-DOPED OPTICAL FIBER - Provided is an ytterbium-doped optical fiber including a core containing at least ytterbium, aluminum and phosphorous and a clad surrounding the core, wherein a molar concentration of diphosphorus pentoxide with respect to phosphorus in the core is equal to a molar concentration of aluminum oxide with respect to aluminum in the core, wherein a ratio of a molar concentration of diphosphorus pentoxide with respect to phosphorus in the core to the molar concentration of ytterbium oxide with respect to ytterbium in the core is higher than or equal to 10 and lower than or equal to 30, and wherein a relative refractive index difference between the core and the clad is higher than or equal to 0.05% and lower than or equal to 0.30%. | 08-25-2011 |
20110305251 | MULTI-CLADDING OPTICAL FIBER, OPTICAL FIBER MODULE, FIBER LASER, AND FIBER AMPLIFIER - Provided is a multi-cladding optical fiber which includes: a core with an average refractive index n | 12-15-2011 |
20120014653 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR OPTICAL FIBER PREFORM AND OPTICAL FIBER - Provided is a manufacturing method for an optical fiber preform of which the core is doped with a rare earth element. The method includes: depositing glass particles within a silica tube by the modified chemical vapor deposition method, the glass particles mainly consisting of silicon dioxide; adding the rare earth element and aluminum to the glass particles within the silica tube by the solution doping method; heating the silica tube while flowing a phosphorous-containing gas into the silica tube to sinter the glass particles within the silica tube while adding the phosphorous; and heating and collapsing the silica tube to which the rare earth element, the aluminum, and the phosphorous are added. | 01-19-2012 |
20120033923 | HOLEY SINGLE-MODE OPTICAL FIBER AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM USING SAME - Provided is a holey single-mode optical fiber including a core not having holes, and a clad having holes extending in a longitudinal direction, in which a refraction index of the core is larger than that of a portion of the clad other than the holes, a radius r | 02-09-2012 |
20120042696 | MEASURING METHOD OF LONGITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION OF BENDING LOSS OF OPTICAL FIBER, MEASURING METHOD OF LONGITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION OF ACTUAL BENDING LOSS VALUE OF OPTICAL FIBER, TEST METHOD OF OPTICAL LINE, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF OPTICAL FIBER CABLE, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF OPTICAL FIBER CORD, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF OPTICAL FIBER - A measuring method of a longitudinal distribution of bending loss of an optical fiber includes calculating an arithmetical mean value I(x) from two backscattering light intensities of two backscattering light at a position x obtained by bidirectional OTDR measurement of the optical fiber; and obtaining a bending loss value at the position x from a mode field diameter 2W(x) and a relative refractive index difference Δ(x) at the position x calculated from the arithmetical mean value. | 02-23-2012 |
20120044482 | MEASURING METHOD OF HOLE DIAMETER, HOLE POSITION, HOLE SURFACE ROUGHNESS, OR BENDING LOSS OF HOLEY OPTICAL FIBER, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF HOLEY OPTICAL FIBER, AND TEST METHOD OF OPTICAL LINE OF HOLEY OPTICAL FIBER - A measuring method of a hole diameter of a holey optical fiber includes calculating an arithmetical mean value I(x) from two backscattering light intensities at a position x of two backscattering light waveforms of the holey optical fiber, in which the two backscattering light waveforms are obtained by OTDR measurement; and obtaining the hole diameter at the position x, based on a correlation between an arithmetical mean value I(x) and an hole diameter of the holey optical fiber that is obtained in advance. | 02-23-2012 |
20120288247 | OPTICAL FIBER - Each of a first clad region ( | 11-15-2012 |
20130044988 | COUPLED MULTICORE FIBER - A coupled multi-core fiber | 02-21-2013 |
20130044989 | METHOD OF PRODUCING PREFORM FOR COUPLED MULTI-CORE FIBER, METHOD OF PRODUCING COUPLED MULTI-CORE FIBER, AND COUPLED MULTI-CORE FIBER - Provided is a method of producing a preform | 02-21-2013 |
20130209046 | SOLD PHOTONIC BAND GAP FIBER, FIBER MODULE USING SOLD PHOTONIC BAND GAP FIBER, FIBER AMPLIFIER, AND FIBER LASER - A solid photonic band gap fiber includes: a core area located at a central portion of a cross-section with respect to a longitudinal direction of the fiber, the core area being formed of a solid substance having a low refractive index; cladding areas having base portions formed of a solid substance having a low refractive index, the cladding areas surrounding the core area; and a plurality of fine high refractive index scatterers provided in the cladding areas, and disposed in a dispersed manner so as to surround the core area, the number of fine high refractive index scatterers being formed of a solid substance having a high refractive index, wherein in a state that the solid photonic band gap fiber is held at a predetermined bending radius, propagation in a high-order mode is suppressed by using a difference in a bending loss between a fundamental mode and the high-order mode, and only the fundamental mode is substantially propagated, the fundamental mode and the high-order mode being caused by bending. | 08-15-2013 |
20130308913 | MULTICORE FIBER - A multicore fiber has a plurality of cores; and a clad which surrounds an outer peripheral surface of each of the cores, and at least one of the cores is spirally arranged such that the core rotates around a center axis of the clad. By arranging the cores in this way, it is possible to prevent crosstalk between specific cores from escalating even when the multicore fiber is disposed in a bent state. | 11-21-2013 |
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20090028563 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION DEVICE AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING THE SAME - An optical transmission/reception device includes at least one light emitting portion and at least one light receiving portion on the same substrate. The light emitting portion includes at least a lower multilayer reflector and an active layer provided on the lower multilayer reflector. A metal layer including a plurality of opening portions is provided in an upper portion of the light emitting portion. Each of the opening portions has a size smaller than a light emission wavelength of the light emitting portion. | 01-29-2009 |
20110204418 | TERAHERTZ WAVE RADIATING ELEMENT - A terahertz wave radiating element includes: a first nitride semiconductor layer formed on a substrate; a second nitride semiconductor layer formed over the first nitride semiconductor layer, and having a wider bandgap than the first nitride semiconductor layer; and source, gate, and drain electrodes formed on the second nitride semiconductor layer. The source electrode is formed by a plurality of source electrode fingers that are arranged periodically, and the drain electrode is formed by a plurality of drain electrode fingers that are arranged periodically. | 08-25-2011 |
20140104377 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes a first detector configured to detect an elapsed time after starting to shoot an image in a specific shooting mode for shooting the image by moving the imaging apparatus in a predetermined shooting direction, a second detector configured to detect amount of movement of the imaging apparatus, and a controller configured to control display of a display unit to display, in the specific shooting mode, a first indicator fixedly positioned on the display unit and a second indicator movably positioned on the display unit. The controller decides a first amount of movement in the predetermined shooting direction according to the detected elapsed time and a second amount of movement in an opposite direction according to the detected amount of movement of the imaging apparatus, and controls a display position of the second indicator based on the first and second amounts of movement. | 04-17-2014 |
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20110019031 | BRIGHTNESS SENSING SYSTEM AND ILLUMINATION SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A brightness sensing system includes an image pickup unit for taking an image of a target space and a calculation unit for calculating the brightness of an image pickup area based on the image taken by the image pickup unit. In the brightness sensing system, if the difference or the ratio between an image as a whole and a pixel block formed of one or more pixels is equal to or greater than a threshold in terms of brightness change between a previously-taken reference image and a currently-taken target image, the calculation unit excludes the pixel block from comparison candidates and compares the brightness of the target image with the brightness of the reference image based on the remaining pixels other than the pixel block. | 01-27-2011 |
20110260654 | ILLUMINATION SYSTEM - An illumination system includes illumination devices, an imaging device and a control device. Each of the illumination devices includes a light source, a lighting circuit unit and a transmission control unit. The control device includes a storage unit, a transmission processing unit and a main control unit for selecting a control-target illumination area, reading out the identification code corresponding to the selected illumination area from the storage unit and causing the transmission processing unit to transmit a signal containing a control command on the illumination device. The main control unit is operable in an initial setting mode in which the correlations between the identification codes of the illumination devices and the illumination areas are set by causing the imaging device to take an image of the illumination space while turning on the illumination devices and detecting the illumination area of each of the illumination devices from the image thus taken. | 10-27-2011 |
20120091901 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE - An illumination device, includes: a photovoltaic power generation unit; a battery unit for storing the electric power generated in the photovoltaic power generation unit; a light source to be turned on using the battery unit as a power source; a human detecting sensor; a human determining unit for determining presence/absence of the human based on a detection result of the human detecting sensor; a season determining unit; and a lighting control unit for, if the human determining unit determines that the human exists, turning on the light source at a specified dimming rate for a specified on-duration. The lighting control unit is configured to, based on a season determination result of the season determining unit, make power consumption of the light source in a season having a reduced daytime period smaller than power consumption of the light source in a season having an increased daytime period. | 04-19-2012 |
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20110258808 | SUBSTRATE CLEANING APPARATUS - A substrate cleaning apparatus includes a cleaning plate, a vibration unit for vibrating the cleaning plate, a suction unit having an intake opening in the vicinity of a tip end portion of the cleaning plate, for sucking an upper surface of a substrate to be cleaned without being in contact with the substrate, and a moving mechanism for moving the cleaning plate relative to the substrate. In the substrate cleaning apparatus, the tip end portion of the cleaning plate is pressed against the upper surface of the substrate to cause the cleaning plate to be elastically deformed, and the cleaning plate moves relative to the substrate in the cleaning direction of the substrate, with the tip end portion of the cleaning plate being in line contact or surface contact with the upper surface of the substrate. Such a configuration allows the substrate to be cleaned stably while preventing scratching the substrate. | 10-27-2011 |
20140031981 | AUTONOMOUS LOCOMOTION APPARATUS, AUTONOMOUS LOCOMOTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR AUTONOMOUS LOCOMOTION APPARATUS - The autonomous locomotion apparatus has a human information acquisition unit which detects a person. When there is probability of contact between the detected person and the autonomous locomotion apparatus based on movement information of the person, the autonomous locomotion apparatus controls a traveling speed or a rotational speed of the autonomous locomotion apparatus to perform a guide operation which presents a path of the autonomous locomotion apparatus which is intended to cause the person to predict, so that it causes the person to avoid the path without giving the person a sense of uneasiness. | 01-30-2014 |
20140039676 | AUTONOMOUS LOCOMOTION APPARATUS, AUTONOMOUS LOCOMOTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR AUTONOMOUS LOCOMOTION APPARATUS - An attribute about person's mobility capability is judged by a human movement attribute acquisition unit. Candidate paths for a detected person to move along are created by a human path candidate creation unit based on information about the person and a predicted time left for a collision between the autonomous locomotion apparatus and the person. A movement load for each candidate path is evaluated by a human path load evaluation unit based on an attribute of person's movement. A path which imposes a minimum movement load on the person, i.e., a path suitable for the person's mobility capability and the easiest for the person to avoid the autonomous locomotion apparatus is selected by a human path determination unit. A path for the autonomous locomotion apparatus to guide the person to the selected path is planned by a guide path planning unit. | 02-06-2014 |
20140306827 | ACCIDENTAL INGESTION DETECTION APPARATUS, ACCIDENTAL INGESTION DETECTION SYSTEM, AND ACCIDENTAL INGESTION DETECTION METHOD - An accidental ingestion detecting apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a swallowing sensing unit which senses swallowing by an animal; a swallowing detecting unit which detects swallowing based on sensing data outputted by the swallowing sensing unit and which outputs swallowing information that is information related to the swallowing; a feeding information inputting unit which accepts input of information related to feeding of the animal and which outputs the information as feeding information; and an accidental ingestion determining unit which determines accidental ingestion by the animal, wherein the accidental ingestion determining unit determines accidental ingestion by the animal based on date/time information included in the swallowing information and date/time information included in the feeding information. | 10-16-2014 |
20140311415 | EXCREMENT DETECTION SYSTEM, EXCREMENT DETECTION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THAT CONTROLS EXCREMENT DETECTION SYSTEM - An excrement detection system of this disclosure includes: an excretion information acquiring apparatus acquiring excretion information indicating whether a pet in a living space has performed excretion; a toilet observing apparatus observing inside of a pet toilet to acquire toilet information regarding inside of the pet toilet; an excretion information processing unit determining whether the pet has performed excretion based on the excretion information; a toilet information processing unit determining whether the pet is in the pet toilet based on the toilet information; an excretion position determining unit determining that the pet has performed excretion outside of the pet toilet when determined that the pet has performed excretion and that the pet is absent from the pet toilet; and a notifying unit notifying a pet's owner that the pet has performed excretion outside of the pet toilet when determined that the pet has performed excretion outside of the pet toilet. | 10-23-2014 |
20140316216 | PET MEDICAL CHECKUP DEVICE, PET MEDICAL CHECKUP METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A pet medical checkup device of the present disclosure includes a shooting section that shoots a moving image of a pet, a first storage section that stores the moving image of the pet shot by the shooting section, a first database that stores motion information representing a specific motion made by the pet when the pet has a disease for each disease of the pet, a first determination section that determines whether or not the pet is making the specific motion represented by the motion information stored in the first database using the moving image of the pet stored in the first storage section, and an estimation section that estimates the disease of the pet based on a determination result of the first determination section. | 10-23-2014 |
20150069915 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING COMMUNICATIONS TERMINAL AND PROGRAM - A method for controlling a communications terminal is provided. The method includes causing a computer included in the communications terminal to store first illumination setting information and second illumination setting information in the memory; causing the computer of the communications terminal to transmit, at a certain illumination start time at which the illumination device is to be turned on, a first control signal corresponding to the first illumination setting information to the illumination device such that the illumination device is set to the first illumination state; and causing the computer of the communications terminal to transmit, in a case where the sensor senses a motion of the communications terminal after the certain illumination start time has passed, a second control signal corresponding to the second illumination setting information to the illumination device such that the illumination device is set to the second illumination state. | 03-12-2015 |
20150100158 | AUTONOMOUS RUNNING CONTROL METHOD AND DEVICE OF AUTONOMOUS RUNNING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR AUTONOMOUS RUNNING CONTROL DEVICE - In a running control method of a running apparatus, person moving direction and speed are estimated based on a person position history for predetermined time. It is decided whether contact with a person is likely to be made based on the estimation and running information about the running apparatus. When it is decided that the contact is likely to be made, a first route where the running apparatus avoids the person is generated for controlling running of the running apparatus therealong. It is decided whether the person has the intention to contact with the running apparatus based on the decision in the contact possibility deciding unit after the running along the first route. When it is decided that the person has the contact intention, a second route where the running apparatus approaches the person is generated for controlling the running of the running apparatus therealong. | 04-09-2015 |
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