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20090035628 | FUEL CELL AND FUEL CELL APPARATUS - In a case of consuming a power generation reaction inducing gas, which causes lowering in performance and degradation of a fuel cell during suspension of operation thereof, and in a case of performing warm up at a time of activation at low temperatures, in order to automatically perform short circuiting control, there is provided a fuel cell having a structure including a switch which is switchable in accordance with a state of containing water generated in a power generation portion. | 02-05-2009 |
20090095363 | PRESSURE CONTROL VALVE, PRODUCTION METHOD OF PRESSURE CONTROL VALVE, AND FUEL CELL SYSTEM WITH PRESSURE CONTROL VALVE - There are provided a pressure control valve which has sealing characteristics and durability, functions also as a temperature-dependent cutoff valve, and can be reduced in size; a method of producing the pressure control valve; and a fuel cell system having the pressure control valve mounted thereon. The pressure control valve includes a movable part which operates by a differential pressure, a valve part, and a transmission mechanism for transmitting an action of the movable part to the valve part, wherein either one of the movable part and the valve part is separated from the transmission mechanism. | 04-16-2009 |
20090208787 | FUEL CELL STACK - A conductance at an oxidizer flow path forming member is defined as C | 08-20-2009 |
20090274946 | FUEL CELL - In forming a fuel cell stack by stacking a plurality of fuel cell units, in order to provide a fuel cell in which the fuel cell stack can be stably bound, the supply of fuel and conduction of respective cells can be surely performed, and stable power generation is possible, the fuel cell includes a fuel cell stack | 11-05-2009 |
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20120257898 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA BY USING VISIBLE LIGHT - Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for transmitting data by using visible light. The transmission apparatus includes: a Serial-to-Parallel (S/P) converter for performing a Serial-to-Parallel conversion on transmission data, and generating multiple parallel data; a modulation means for modulating the multiple parallel data generated by the S/P converter, and generating multiple modulation signals; an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) means for performing an IFFT on the multiple modulation signals so that the multiple modulation signals are orthogonal to one another, and generating an IFFT signal; and a light-emitting means for causing a light source to emit light based on the IFFT signal generated by the IFFT means. | 10-11-2012 |
20120275796 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION - A transmitter in a visible light communication system is provided, in which a plurality of light sources emit light in different colors, a data converter converts data to predetermined chromaticity coordinates, a data transmitter emits light having a chromaticity corresponding to the chromaticity coordinates by controlling light intensity of each of the light sources, and a pre-light emitter emits light having chromaticities corresponding to all chromaticity coordinates by controlling the light intensity of each of the light sources, before the light intensity control of the data transmitter. | 11-01-2012 |
20140055420 | DISPLAY IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display identification system includes: a plurality of display devices, each of the display devices having a light source; and an identification device configured to identify the plurality of display devices. Each of the plurality of display devices includes a configured to perform luminance modulation to luminance-modulate an output light of the corresponding light source in a predetermined range, by combining a specific signal, which is different for each of the display devices, with a driving signal of the corresponding light source. The identification device includes: a receiver configured to receive an optical signal obtained by performing the luminance modulation; and an identification device configured to identify the plurality of display devices based on the optical signal received by the receiver. | 02-27-2014 |
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20080210854 | FOREIGN MATTER OR ABNORMAL UNSMOOTHNESS INSPECTION APPARATUS AND FOREIGN MATTER OR ABNORMAL UNSMOOTHNESS INSPECTION METHOD - A foreign matter or abnormal unsmoothness inspection apparatus is constituted by a detecting member for detecting a foreign matter or abnormal unsmoothness by measuring smoothness of a surface of a substrate-like measuring object, a marking device for providing an dent on the surface of the measuring object with a predetermined horizontal distance from the foreign matter or abnormal unsmoothness, and a mass spectrum measuring device for measuring a mass spectrum of secondary ion emitted from a position with a predetermined distance from the dent by detecting the dent through impact and scanning of the surface of the measuring object with a primary ion beam. | 09-04-2008 |
20080293832 | SOLID SAMPLE, SOLID SAMPLE FABRICATING METHOD, AND SOLID SAMPLE FABRICATING APPARATUS - A solid sample fabricating method includes preparing a specimen containing a first substance, which is in a liquid phase at normal temperature and normal pressure, and a second substance different from the first substance, which is in a solid or a liquid phase at the normal temperature and the normal pressure, the second substance being dispersed in the first substance, and attaching the specimen as a droplet to a surface of a cooled stage, whereby an entire region to be observed is converted into an amorphous state. | 11-27-2008 |
20100038531 | Foreign Matter or Abnormal Unsmoothness Inspection Apparatus and Foreign Matter or Abnormal Unsmoothness Inspection Method - A foreign matter detecting apparatus includes a detecting device for detecting foreign matter by measuring smoothness of a surface of an object undergoing measurement, a marking device for providing a dent on the surface of the object with a predetermined horizontal distance from the foreign matter detected by the detecting device, and a mass spectrum measuring device for irradiating and scanning a small area with a primary ion beam, as a part of the object, including the foreign matter and the dent, so as to measure a mass spectrum of secondary ions emitted from the foreign matter located at a position within a predetermined horizontal distance from the dent. | 02-18-2010 |
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20090316996 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present invention enables inclination detection by detecting an inclination of a document image based on a feature of a document area. In order to achieve this, reduction processing is performed on document image data including the document area so as to generate a reduced document image corresponding to the document area that has been extracted. Thereafter, filter processing is performed on the reduced document image so as to generate an edge image by extracting at least one edge of the document area. Then, a straight line adjoining an edge of the edge image is detected using a Hough transformation so that the inclination of the document image is determined based on an inclination of the straight line. Consequently, inclination detection with high accuracy can be performed based on the feature of the document area. | 12-24-2009 |
20100104131 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD - Character string heights and line spacing values are acquired as character string information on a document image, and fluctuations in the character string height and fluctuations in the line spacing value are calculated as variances. If the calculated variance is equal to or lower than a threshold value, the character string information is determined as being appropriate for use in extracting line-spacing watermarks, and line-spacing watermark information is extracted from the character string information. | 04-29-2010 |
20110090520 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image processing apparatus for generating a print image which can be easily visually recognizable under a particular light source, without using special ink, by utilizing a characteristic of a print medium. A color information holding unit holds first color information and second color information indicating different ink use amounts in a print unit per unit area on a print medium, and a color difference equal to or less than a predetermined value under ordinary light. In accordance with a value of a pixel of binary latent image data delivered from a latent image generator, a discrimination image data generator print-outputs one of the first color information and the second color information as print data with respect to the pixel. | 04-21-2011 |
20120127492 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - This invention can generate printed matter on which a multi-valued discrimination image of three values or more cannot be visually confirmed under ordinary light but can be visually confirmed via an infrared camera under infrared light. To this end, a holding unit holds items of color information C | 05-24-2012 |
20120127493 | INFORMATION GENERATION APPARATUS, INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - For a selected pixel value, amounts of color material used of respective color materials used to print a background region, and those of respective color materials used to print a latent image region are calculated. The calculated amounts of color material used are stored in a memory in association with the selected pixel value. Amounts of color material used corresponding to respective pixel values of a pixel value group are read out from the memory, and are output to a printing apparatus. | 05-24-2012 |
20120127545 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - When a lightness level expressed by a selected pixel value is equal to or larger than a threshold, the use amounts of respective color materials of a first color material group, and those of respective color materials of a third color material group are stored in a memory in association with the selected pixel value. On the other hand, when the lightness level expressed by the selected pixel value is smaller than the threshold, the use amounts of respective color materials of the first color material group, and those of respective color materials of a second color material group are stored in the memory in association with the selected pixel value. | 05-24-2012 |
20130057880 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A array including array elements in a number smaller than the minimum number of pixels, having values larger than Th_c, and a plurality of array elements having values smaller than Th_c is generated. A formation array having the same size as that of a latent image is generated from the generated array. An image obtained by replacing the pixel value at a pixel position within the first region in the latent image with the value at the pixel position in the formation array is generated as a configuration image. The pixel value at each pixel position in the configuration image, that corresponds to each pixel position in the input image, is output as the amount of a highly infrared absorbent color material used to print a pixel at this pixel position in the input image. | 03-07-2013 |
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20140161413 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHODS FOR THE SAME - The information processing apparatus which plays video sent from a image capturing apparatus, comprises a list requesting unit which sends a request for segment list to the image capturing apparatus to acquire the segment list, a determination unit that determines a segment to be requested among the segments indicated in the acquired segment list, a first segment requesting unit that sends a request for the determined segment to the image capturing apparatus, a first segment acquisition unit that acquires the requested segment, and a playing unit that plays the acquired segment, wherein the list requesting unit sends a request for a latest segment list to the image capturing apparatus, whenever the segment is acquired a predetermined number of times by the first segment acquisition unit, and the determination unit determines a segment to be requested, based on the latest segment list. | 06-12-2014 |
20150022676 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An information processing apparatus which communicates with an image capturing apparatus and reproduces video data obtained by the image capturing apparatus, comprises a unit which requests a segment list in which information of segments of video data is written; a unit which acquires the requested segment list; a unit which decides which segment, from the segments in the acquired segment list to request; a unit which requests the decided segment from the image capturing apparatus; and a unit which acquires the requested segment, in the case where a number of segments in the acquired segment list is greater than a first threshold, a predetermined segment from the segments in the segment list is requested and the predetermined segment is neither the latest segment nor the earliest segment in the segment list. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026751 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An information processing apparatus which communicates with an image capturing apparatus and reproduces video data obtained by the image capturing apparatus, comprises a unit which requests a segment list in which information of segments of video data is written; a unit which acquires the requested segment list; a unit which decides which segment, from the segments in the acquired segment list to request; a unit which requests the decided segment from the image capturing apparatus; a unit which acquires the requested segment; and a unit which calculates a delay time for segment transmission based on a number of segments in the segment list. | 01-22-2015 |
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20110273776 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, OPTICAL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ZOOM LENS SYSTEM - Including, in order from an object side: a first lens group G | 11-10-2011 |
20120105966 | ZOOM LENS, OPTICAL APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ZOOM LENS - A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side along an optical axis, a first lens group G | 05-03-2012 |
20120188647 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, OPTICAL APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ZOOM LENS SYSTEM - With including, in order from an object side along an optical axis: a first lens group having positive refractive power; a second lens group having negative refractive power; a third lens group having positive refractive power; a fourth lens group having negative refractive power; and a fifth lens group having positive refractive power, upon zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, the first lens group being moved with respect to an image plane, a distance between the first lens group and the second lens group increasing, a distance between the second lens group and the third lens group decreasing, a distance between the third lens group and the fourth lens group varying, and a distance between the fourth lens group and the fifth lens group varying, and a given conditional expression being satisfied, thereby providing a zoom lens system having sufficiently high optical performance. | 07-26-2012 |
20140334013 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, OPTICAL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ZOOM LENS SYSTEM - In a zoom lens system, an optical apparatus, and a manufacturing method, there are provided, in order from an object side: a first lens group having positive power, a second lens group having negative power, a third lens group having positive power, a fourth lens group having negative power, a fifth group having positive power, and an aperture stop disposed to an image side of the second lens group. Upon zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, a distance between the first lens and second lens groups increases, a distance between the second and third lens groups decreases, a distance between the third and fourth lens groups varies, and a distance between the fourth and fifth lens groups varies. With given conditions being satisfied, high optical performance with suppressing variation in aberrations are achieved. | 11-13-2014 |
20150055221 | ZOOMING OPTICAL SYSTEM, OPTICAL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ZOOMING OPTICAL SYSTEM - A zooming optical system includes, in order from an object side along an optical axis: a first lens group having positive refractive power; a second lens group having negative refractive power; a third lens group having positive refractive power; and a fourth lens group having positive refractive power; upon zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, a distance between the first lens group and the second lens group is varied, a distance between the second lens group and the third lens group is varied, and a distance between the third lens group and the fourth lens group is varied; the third lens group is composed of one positive lens; and a focus from an infinite-distance object up to a near-distance object is conducted by moving the third lens group in a direction of the optical axis. | 02-26-2015 |