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| 20090109145 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - When not receiving the next display-switch starting signal even after a specified time elapses from the application of a previous display driving voltage, a driving unit applies another preparatory driving voltage for generating a preparatory electric field capable of improving the response of colored particles to a driving electric field to an extent so as not to change the arrangement of the colored particles between pixel electrodes and a transparent electrode for a preparatory driving time. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20110019356 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, coupling capacitance in a state in which a first heat radiation member is arranged between parallel flat plates of a first capacitor formed by a surface of a housing opposed to one surface of a printed circuit board and the printed circuit board is smaller than coupling capacitance in a state in which an object having a relative dielectric constant of 5.8 is arranged solid between the parallel flat plates of the first capacitor. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110273834 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, coupling capacitance in a state in which a first heat radiation member is arranged between parallel flat plates of a first capacitor formed by a surface of a housing opposed to one surface of a printed circuit board and the printed circuit board is smaller than coupling capacitance in a state in which an integrally formed object having a relative dielectric constant of 5.8 is arranged between the first capacitor to cover a first radiating region containing the controller and the first nonvolatile semiconductor memories. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20140307382 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, coupling capacitance in a state in which a first heat radiation member is arranged between parallel flat plates of a first capacitor formed by a surface of a housing opposed to one surface of a printed circuit board and the printed circuit board is smaller than coupling capacitance in a state in which an integrally formed object having a relative dielectric constant of 5.8 is arranged between the first capacitor to cover a first radiating region containing the controller and the first nonvolatile semiconductor memories. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20150082365 | DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, AND DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT METHOD - A distribution management apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires terminal management information that indicates locations of multiple communication terminals, a determination unit that determines cutout position information of video data based on the terminal management information acquired by the acquisition unit and operation data received from any one of the communication terminals, a cutout unit that cuts out multiple pieces of video data from the video data based on the cutout position information determined by the determination unit, and a distribution unit that distributes the video data cut out by the cutout unit to each of the communication terminals based on the terminal management information. The determination unit modifies the cutout position information of the video data based on the operation data. | 03-19-2015 |
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| 20080233433 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE - An organic electroluminescent device is provided and includes: a pair of electrodes; and at least one organic layer between the pair of electrodes, the at least one organic layer including a light-emitting layer. At least one of the at least one organic layers contains an iridium complex having a 5-membered heterocyclic structure consisting of a carbon atom and a nitrogen atom, and a deuterium atom on an SP2 carbon atom in the iridium complex. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20090026938 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE ELEMENT - An organic electroluminescence element including an organic layer including a light-emitting layer disposed between a pair of electrodes, wherein the light-emitting layer contains at least one hole transporting light-emitting material and at least one electron-transporting host material, and a concentration of the hole transporting light-emitting material in the light-emitting layer decreases from an anode side toward a cathode side. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090026940 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE ELEMENT - An organic electroluminescence element including an organic layer including at least a light-emitting layer between a pair of electrodes, wherein the light-emitting layer comprises at least two hole transporting materials and an electron transporting host material, with at least one of the hole transporting materials being a hole transporting light-emitting material, and a total concentration of the at least two hole transporting materials in the light-emitting layer decreases from an anode side toward a cathode side. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20110245502 | LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT AND IRIDIUM COMPLEX - A light-emitting element having excellent light-emitting properties and with which it is possible to emit blue light at a high luminance for a long period of time, and an iridium complex for realizing the same. The light-emitting element has an external quantum efficiency of at least 5% and a light emission maximum wavelength λ max of no more than 500 nm. Further, there is provided a light-emitting element including a light-emitting layer or a plurality of organic compound layers having the light-emitting layer, with at least one of the compound layers including at least one kind of a compound having a partial structure represented by the general formula K-0. In the general formula K-0, R | 10-06-2011 |
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| 20080288674 | Storage system and storage device - A storage system includes: a plurality of data input and output parts through; a data storing part that stores the data inputted and outputted through the plurality of data input and output parts; a range information storing part that stores range information; first control part controlling the data storing part to read and write the data in accordance with the stored range information, and that rewrites the stored range information to predetermined range information in a case where a prescribed signal is inputted from the data input and output part; and a plurality of second control parts that are provided correspondingly to the plurality of data input and output parts to input and output the data, and that input the prescribed signal to the data input and output parts in a prescribed case. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20100037021 | STORAGE DEVICE, STORAGE DEVICE ARRAY AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM - A storage device includes a data storage section, a first control section, a communication section, a second control section and a wireless transmission/reception section. The data storage section stores data. The first control section controls reading and writing the data from and into the data storage section. The communication section transmits and receives the data through a transmission line to and from a host device. The second control section transmits and receives the data to and from the first control section and the communication section. The wireless transmission/reception section is connected to the first and second control sections, is directed toward a predetermined direction, and wirelessly transmits and receives data to and from another storage device provided in the predetermined direction. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100104239 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS - An optical transmission apparatus includes an optical element that has at least one of a light emitting part and a light receiving part on a surface opposed to a mounting surface of the optical element, an optical waveguide that is made of a polymer material, and has an optical path deflecting part in a through hole or an opening, wherein the optical path deflecting part deflects an optical path of the optical with respect to the at least one of the light emitting part and the light receiving part of the optical element, and a substrate that has a mounting region on which the mounting surface of the optical element is mounted, and a plurality of waveguide holding parts, each holding the optical waveguide so that the optical path deflecting part of the optical waveguide is arranged opposite to the at least one of the light emitting part and the light receiving part of the optical element. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100128597 | DATA CONTROL DEVICE, STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONNECTING DATA CONTROL DEVICE - A data control device includes: a switch portion that has a plurality of first terminals on an upstream side, a plurality of second terminals on a downstream side, and a circuit portion that optionally switches a connection between the first terminals and the second terminals based on an external switching signal; and at least one control portion that has a first input/output portion on the upstream side and a second input/output portion on the downstream side, wherein the second input/output portion is connected to the first terminal of the switch portion and the first input/output portion is connected to the second terminal of the switch portion, and wherein the at least one control portion controls an input/output of data between the first input/output portion and the second input/output portion. | 05-27-2010 |
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| 20110310440 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing device includes a screen processing unit and a correction processing unit. The screen processing unit executes screen processing for an image to be processed. The correction processing unit performs correction processing of correcting a distortion of an output image from an original image, based on the amount of the distortion, for (i) the image before the screen processing and (ii) the image after the screen processing. The correction amount relating to the correction processing for the image after the screen processing is a small value as compared with the correction amount relating to the correction processing for the image before the screen processing. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20120008171 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - The image processing apparatus includes a combining module that respectively combine a plurality of first patterns and a plurality of second patterns each corresponding to the first patterns. Respective densities of the first patterns are different from each other. At least one of the second patterns include a plurality of regions where respective coverages are different in a main scanning direction. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120086985 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing device includes a processor. The processor executes a screen process by using different screens for respective color components which are newly used in response to N colors ranging from a primary color in an output color space to a Nth color, in the output color space, obtained by mixing the primary color with other primary colors in order, where N denotes natural number equal to or larger than 2. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20150029518 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a calculation unit and a white layer density determination unit. The calculation unit calculates, based on multiple color component signals to be used for image formation, an image layer halftone percentage of an image layer to be formed on a recording medium. The white layer density determination unit determines, based on the image layer halftone percentage, a white layer halftone percentage of a white layer to be formed as an underlying layer of the image layer on the recording medium. | 01-29-2015 |
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| 20100214999 | Wireless Local Area Network (LAN) System - A situation is circumvented where wireless communication becomes impossible in a wireless LAN system under the influence of a blocking object, noise caused by an electromagnetic wave, or the like. A wireless LAN system comprises: a relay which can communicate with an external system; a master which can communicate with the relay; and a plurality of slaves which can wirelessly communicate with the master, the plurality of slaves including a first group and a second group, the first group comprising an alternative slave having a function of transmitting, when a portion of the slaves cannot receive a synchronization signal from the master, an information signal received from the master to the portion of slaves, and the second group comprising non-alternative slaves and not having the function of transmitting the information signal to the portion of slaves. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20120066470 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ALLOCATING MEMORY TO A PIPELINE - A method, and associated system, for allocating memory to a first pipeline that includes a sequence of filters. Each filter is configured to execute a process specific to each filter, receive input data, and generate output data. The output data from each filter, except the last filter in the sequence, serves as the input data to the next filter in the sequence. An optimum memory capacity is allocated to the first pipeline if possible. Otherwise, a guaranteed memory bandwidth is allocated to the first pipeline if possible. Otherwise, extra memory currently allocated to a second pipeline is currently released if the second pipeline not currently performing processing or subsequently released when the second pipeline subsequently completes performing processing that is currently being performed, followed by allocating the extra memory to the first pipeline. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20130195094 | Wireless Local Area Network (LAN) System - A situation is circumvented where wireless communication becomes impossible in a wireless LAN system under the influence of a blocking object, noise caused by an electromagnetic wave, or the like. A wireless LAN system comprises: a relay which can communicate with an external system; a master which can communicate with the relay; and a plurality of slaves which can wirelessly communicate with the master, the plurality of slaves including a first group and a second group, the first group comprising an alternative slave having a function of transmitting, when a portion of the slaves cannot receive a synchronization signal from the master, an information signal received from the master to the portion of slaves, and the second group comprising non-alternative slaves and not having the function of transmitting the information signal to the portion of slaves. | 08-01-2013 |
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| 20100026792 | Method for manufacturing stereoscopic image display apparatus and stereoscopic image display apparatus - A method for manufacturing a stereoscopic image display apparatus includes a bonding step of bonding an image display panel and a phase difference element by disposing an adhesive layer between the entire surfaces thereof, the image display panel displaying a right-eye image and a left-eye image by regularly mixing them in a plane, the phase difference element including a right-eye image display section corresponding to the right-eye image and a left-eye image display section corresponding to the left-eye image, the phase difference element achieving different polarizations between the right-eye image display section and the left-eye image display section, the adhesive layer being composed of a transparent gel acrylic adhesive with a thickness of 25 to 100 μm, hardness of the adhesive being more than 0 and 350000 μN or less, holding strength of the adhesive at 40° C. after bonding being 8 to 20 N/20 mm. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100026793 | Stereoscopic image display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same - A stereoscopic image display apparatus includes an image display panel displaying an image for a right eye and an image for a left eye in a regularly mixed manner in a plane, a phase difference element including a right-eye image display portion corresponding to the image for the right eye and a left-eye image display portion corresponding to the image for the left eye to provide different polarization states, a light shield layer formed to project only in an area including a boundary between the right-eye image display portion and the left-eye image display portion of the phase difference element, and a binder layer interposed between the phase difference element and the image display panel to levelly coat and fill projections and recesses formed by the light shield layers, thus bonding the image display panel, the phase difference element, and the light shield layers together. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100026796 | Stereoscopic image display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same - A stereoscopic image display apparatus includes an image display panel displaying an image for a right eye and an image for a left eye in a regularly mixed manner in a plane, a phase difference element including a right-eye image display portion corresponding to the image for the right eye and a left-eye image display portion corresponding to the image for the left eye to provide different polarization states, a light shield layer formed in a projected shape corresponding to only an area including a boundary between the right-eye image display portion and the left-eye image display portion of the phase difference element, and a binder layer interposed at least between a top surface of the light shield layer and the image display panel, thus bonding the image display panel, the light shield layer, and the phase difference element together. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100033557 | Stereoscopic image display and method for producing the same - A stereoscopic image display includes an image display panel that displays right-eye images and left-eye images in a regularly mixed pattern in a plane; a retarder disposed on an image output side of the image display panel and including right-eye-image display portions, corresponding to the right-eye images, and left-eye-image display portions, corresponding to the left-eye images, that cause polarization so that the right-eye images and the left-eye images have different polarization states; a polarizer disposed between the image display panel and the retarder; and a light-shielding layer disposed between the image display panel and the polarizer so as to correspond to regions including boundaries between the right-eye-image display portions and the left-eye-image display portions of the retarder. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100033558 | Stereoscopic image display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same - A stereoscopic image display apparatus includes an image display panel displaying an image for a right eye and an image for a left eye in a regularly mixed manner in a plane, a phase difference element including a right-eye image display portion corresponding to the image for the right eye and a left-eye image display portion corresponding to the image for the left eye to provide different polarization states, a light shield layer formed to project only in an area including a boundary between the right-eye image display portion and the left-eye image display portion of the phase difference element, and a binder layer interposed between the phase difference element and the image display panel, except for a portion between a top surface of the light shield layer and the image display panel, thus bonding the image display panel, the phase difference element, and the light shield layer together. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20110069275 | Glasses for image viewing - Glasses of present invention includes a frame portion which includes an opening through which an image displayed on a displaying device is viewed with bilateral eyes, a temple portion configured to be capable of being opened and closed against the frame portion and which includes spring material capable of being inelastically deformed, a movable portion arranged at one of the temple portion and the frame portion and which contacts to the other of the temple portion and the frame portion when the temple portion is opened to the maximum while the contacting position is movable, and a contacting portion which is arranged at the other of the temple portion and the frame portion and which contacts to the movable portion when the temple portion is opened to the maximum and varies the maximum open amount of the temple portion corresponding to movement of the movable portion. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20120069294 | IMAGE VIEWING GLASSES - A glasses-type shutter holder may include left and right temple parts connected respectively to left and right frame end parts of frame. The left and right temple parts may be foldable respectively with respect to the left and right frame end parts in accordance with movement, for each frame end part and temple part pair, of a contact position at which a movement part provided with one of the temple part and the frame end part of the pair is in contact with a contact part of the other of the temple part and the frame end part of the pair. For each of the pairs, the contact part is in contact with the movement part when the temple part is unfolded to a maximum degree, and a maximum degree of opening of the temple part is varied in accordance with the movement of the movable part. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120257126 | GLASSES FOR IMAGE VIEWING - Glasses of present invention includes a frame portion which includes an opening through which an image displayed on a displaying device is viewed with bilateral eyes, a temple portion configured to be capable of being opened and closed against the frame portion and which includes spring material capable of being inelastically deformed, a movable portion arranged at one of the temple portion and the frame portion and which contacts to the other of the temple portion and the frame portion when the temple portion is opened to the maximum while the contacting position is movable, and a contacting portion which is arranged at the other of the temple portion and the frame portion and which contacts to the movable portion when the temple portion is opened to the maximum and varies the maximum open amount of the temple portion corresponding to movement of the movable portion. | 10-11-2012 |
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| 20090067744 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - For each pixel read from an imaging device, a horizontal counter value and a vertical counter value corresponding to the pixel are supplied from a signal generator to a distance computation section via an optical-axis-center coordinate setting section and an up-and-down and right-and-left weighting section. In the distance computation section, the distance to the optical-axis center is computed, and correction coefficients for the zoom wide end and for the zoom tele end, which correspond to the distance, are obtained by look-up tables. The two obtained correction coefficients are blended at a mixture ratio determined by a blend ratio setting section. The blended shading correction coefficients are gain adjusted by a gain adjustment section, after which they are supplied to a correction section. As a result, a correction corresponding to the distance to the optical-axis-center position is performed on the signal of each pixel supplied from an imaging section. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090087038 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, PROCESSING METHOD FOR THE APPARATUSES, AND PROGRAM FOR THE APPARATUSES - An image processing apparatus includes an object-feature-information storage unit configured to store feature information of a predetermined object; an image inputting unit configured to input an image; an object detecting unit configured to detect an object contained in the input image; an attribute determining unit configured to determine an attribute of the detected object; a feature-point determining unit configured to determine, according to the determined attribute, positions of feature points to be set in the input image; and a similarity calculating unit configured to calculate, by comparing feature information stored in the object-feature-information storage unit to feature information at feature points set in the input image, similarity between an object corresponding to the feature information stored in the object-feature-information storage unit and the detected object. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090256926 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD FOR THE IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND THE IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - An image capturing device includes: an image capturing unit that captures a subject and generates a captured image; a resolution converting unit that converts the captured image into a plurality of images with different resolutions; an image storing unit that stores the converted plurality of images with different resolutions as a set of images; a first image analysis processing unit that performs a first image analysis process of analyzing the captured image by using a combination of a plurality of images among the images included in the set of images; and a second image analysis processing unit that performs a second image analysis process that is different from the first image analysis process and is a process of analyzing the captured image by using, among the images included in the set of images, a combination of a plurality of images different from the combination of a plurality of images. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20100002940 | IMAGE DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE DATA PROCESSING METHOD - An image-data processing apparatus. The image-data processing apparatus includes: an imaging section capturing an image of a subject and generating image data; a feature-extraction processing section extracting a visual feature from the generated image data; a feature-comparison processing section comparing a visual feature, having been extracted from recorded image data in a recording medium and related to the recorded image data, with the visual feature extracted by the feature-extraction processing section; and a control section reading image data having the visual feature extracted by the feature-extraction processing section from the recording medium on the basis of the comparison result. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100054550 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes: a subject information storage unit configured to store feature quantities and attributes relating to a plurality of subjects; a subject detecting unit configured to detect a subject included in an image; an attribute determining unit configured to determine the attributes of the detected subject; a feature quantity extracting unit configured to extract a feature quantity relating to the detected subject; and a similarity calculating unit configured to select one or a plurality of feature quantities from feature quantities relating to a plurality of subjects stored in the subject information storage unit based on the determined attributes to calculate similarity between a subject according to the selected feature quantities, and the detected subject, based on the selected feature quantities and the extracted feature quantity. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20120113278 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed is an imaging apparatus including a plurality of imaging units; a correction unit that executes a correction process for images captured by a plurality of the imaging units; and a control unit that computes a correction parameter applied to a correction process in the correction unit, wherein the correction unit executes distortion aberration correction and hand-vibration correction for each of the captured images and an image characteristic matching correction process for matching characteristics between a plurality of images captured by a plurality of the imaging units. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120114179 | FACE DETECTION DEVICE, IMAGING APPARATUS AND FACE DETECTION METHOD - A face detection device for detecting the face of a person in an input image may include the following elements: a face detection circuit including a hardware circuit configured to detect a face in an input image; a signal processing circuit configured to perform signal processing based on an input image signal in accordance with a rewritable program including a face detection program for detecting a face in an input image; and a controller configured to allow the face detection circuit and the signal processing circuit to perform face detection on an image of a frame or on respective images of adjacent frames among consecutive frames, and to control face detection by the signal processing circuit on the basis of a face detection result obtained by the face detection circuit. | 05-10-2012 |
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| 20120225771 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CATALYST-SUPPORTING CARRIER AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING SAME - Disclosed is a method for producing a catalyst-supporting carrier, including a step of supplying subcritical carbon dioxide or supercritical carbon dioxide to a dissolving tank containing a catalyst precursor generated when a catalyst is reduced to dissolve the catalyst precursor in the subcritical carbon dioxide or the supercritical carbon dioxide; a step of supplying the subcritical carbon dioxide or the supercritical carbon dioxide in which the catalyst precursor is dissolved to a supporting tank containing a carrier and reducing the catalyst precursor to cause the catalyst to be supported on the carrier; and a step of supplying the sub-critical carbon dioxide or the supercritical carbon dioxide to the supporting tank containing the carrier on which the catalyst is supported to clean the carrier. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20130134106 | WASTE LIQUID TREATMENT APPARATUS AND WASTE LIQUID TREATMENT METHOD - A first decomposition reaction part and a second decomposition reaction part are arranged with respective catalysts of different types from each other, or, of those reaction parts, only the second decomposition reaction part is arranged with a catalyst. In addition, a fluid outlet side of the first decomposition reaction part and a fluid inlet side of the second decomposition reaction part are directly communicated with each other without being narrowed. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130153477 | LIQUID WASTE TREATMENT APPARATUS - An inner tube is provided with a protruding portion protruding from an outer peripheral surface of the tube, in a position extending throughout the entire area of the outer peripheral surface of the tube, in a region located outside an outer tube, of the entire area in a longitudinal direction of the inner tube inserted into a through-hole of a discharge side wall of the outer tube, and the protruding portion of the inner tube is pressed by an outlet joint toward the discharge side wall along an axial direction of the outer tube, and thereby, the inner tube is cantilevered by the discharge side wall. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20140048464 | FLUID PURIFYING APPARATUS - A fluid purifying apparatus that purifies fluid containing organic matter has a reactor including a first transfer part that receives the fluid from outside and transfers the fluid in a vertical direction from an upper side to a lower side while heating and pressurizing the fluid and mixing the fluid with an oxidant, a second transfer part that receives the fluid that has passed through the first transfer part and transfers the fluid in the vertical direction from the lower side to the upper side, and a partition member that partitions an upper part of the reactor into the first transfer part and the second transfer part, and a solid storage part that communicates with the first transfer part and the second transfer part below the partition member and receives solid matter contained in the fluid that settles while the fluid is transferred. | 02-20-2014 |
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| 20100220922 | LEARNING APPARATUS AND OBJECT DETECTING APPARATUS - Feature values calculated from a peripheral image area of feature points extracted in a detection target object in a training image each are labeled with a label indicating a class of the detection target object, feature values calculated from a peripheral image area of feature points of a non detection target object in the training image each are labeled with a label indicating the non detection target object, voting positions in a parameter space are calculated by relative positions of the feature points of the detection target object from the detection target object on the training image, and a first classifier is learned using the labeled feature values extracted in the training image so that a class distribution is concentrated and the voting positions in the parameter space are concentrated. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20120026083 | INTERFACE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A DEVICE - A specific site of a user's body is detected from an input image, it is detected on the basis of a moving speed and a moving direction of the specific site whether the specific site makes a feeding motion in which the specific site moves in any direction, and when the feeding motion is detected, a control command for a device is changed. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20130027300 | RECOGNITION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - In an embodiment, a recognition apparatus includes: an obtaining unit configured to obtain positions of a specific part in a coordinate system having a first axis to an n-th axis (n≧2); a calculating unit configured to calculate a movement vector of the specific part; a principal axis selecting unit configured to select a principal axis; a turning point setting unit configured to set a position at which there is a change in the principal axis, and set a position at which there is a change; a section setting unit configured to set a determination target section, and set a previous section; a determining unit configured to calculate an evaluation value of the determination target section and an evaluation value of the immediately previous section and, determine which of the first axis to the n-th axis is advantageous; and a presenting unit configured to perform the determined result. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130036389 | COMMAND ISSUING APPARATUS, COMMAND ISSUING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a command issuing apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire an image obtained by capturing a subject; a detector configured to detect a specific region of the subject from the image; a first setting unit configured to set a specific position indicating a position of the specific region; a second setting unit configured to set a reference position indicating a position that is to be a reference in the image; a first calculator configured to calculate a position vector directing toward the specific position from the reference position; a second calculator configured to calculate, for each of a plurality of command vectors respectively corresponding to predetermined commands, a first parameter indicating a degree of coincidence between the command vector and the position vector; and an issuing unit configured to issue the command based on the first parameter. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130070105 | TRACKING DEVICE, TRACKING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a tracking device includes an acquiring unit, a first calculator, a second calculator, and a setting unit. The acquiring unit images a tracking target object to time-sequentially acquire an image. The first calculator calculates a first likelihood representing a degree of coincidence between a pixel value of each pixel included in a search region within the image and a reference value. The second calculator calculates a difference value between the pixel value of each pixel in the search region and the pixel value of a corresponding pixel in an image in a past frame. The setting unit sets weights of the first likelihood and the difference value so that as a distance between each pixel in the search region and a position of the tracking target object in the past increases, the weight of the first likelihood decreases and the weight of the difference value increases. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130182126 | CAMERA DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND CAMERA SYSTEM - An example camera device includes an image capturing unit configured to capture an image, and a storage unit configured to store first attribute information of a target object used for identifying the target object from the image. The camera device also includes an identification unit, a requesting unit, and a storage control unit. The identification unit is configured to identify the target object in the image captured by the image capturing unit based on the first attribute information. The requesting unit is configured to request an external device to identify the target object when the identification unit is not able to identify the target object. The storage control unit is configured to receive second attribute information of the target object from the external device that is requested to identify the target object, and control the storage unit to store the second received attribute information. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130188860 | MEASUREMENT DEVICE, MEASUREMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a second calculator calculates a three-dimensional position of a measurement position and error in the three-dimensional position using a first image, the measurement position, a second image, and a correspondence position. A selection unit determines whether there is an image pair, in which error in the three-dimensional position becomes smaller than the error calculated by the second calculator, from among image pairs of the plurality of images, when there is an image pair, selects the image pair, and when there is no image pair, decides on the three-dimensional position. Each time an image pair is selected, the second calculator calculates a new three-dimensional position of the measurement position and error using new first and second images each included in the image pair, and first and second projection positions where the three-dimensional positions are projected onto the new first and second images, respectively. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130321261 | RECOGNITION APPARATUS - The acquiring unit is configured to acquire positions of a particular part of a user in time series. The calculator is configured to calculate a feature value of a motion of the particular part from the positions acquired in time series. The comparing unit configured to compare the feature value and a first threshold. The recognizing unit is configured to recognize the motion of the particular part using a first recognition method and a second recognition method which is different from the first recognition method. The control unit configured to control the recognizing unit to select the first recognition method for recognizing a position or a motion of the particular part when the feature value is smaller than the first threshold, and select the second recognition method when the feature value is equal to or larger than the first threshold. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20140098222 | AREA IDENTIFYING DEVICE, AREA IDENTIFYING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - According to an embodiment, an area identifying device includes a projecting unit, an image capturing unit, a calculating unit, and an identifying unit. The projecting unit is configured to project a pattern so that the pattern performs a predetermined movement. The image capturing unit is configured to capture, in sequential order, multiple images of an area on which the pattern is projected, the image having a plurality of areas. The calculating unit is configured to calculate an amount of change of pattern appearances for each region in the multiple images. The identifying unit is configured to identify, as a reflective area, at least one area having a different amount of change of the pattern appearances from a reference amount of change of the pattern appearances based on the predetermined movement, among the amounts of change of the pattern appearances that are calculated by the calculating unit. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140104386 | OBSERVATION SUPPORT DEVICE, OBSERVATION SUPPORT METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, an observation support device includes an acquiring unit, a determining unit, and a generating unit. The acquiring unit is configured to acquire observation information capable of identifying an observing direction vector indicating an observing direction of an observing unit that observes an object for which a three-dimensional model is to be generated. The determining unit is configured to determine whether or not observation of the object in a direction indicated by an observed direction vector in which at least part of the object can be observed is completed based on a degree of coincidence of the observing direction vector and the observed direction vector. The generating unit is configured to generate completion information indicating whether or not observation of the object in the direction indicated by the observed direction vector is completed. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140139663 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a wireless communication device includes a detector to detect a mobile object by referring to sensing information; a first communicating unit to communicate mobile object information, which is related to a detection result of the mobile object, with another wireless communication device; a first calculator to calculate a moving path of the mobile object between wireless communication devices by referring to the detection result of the mobile object and mobile object information received from the other wireless communication device; a second communicating unit to communicate movement information, which is related to the moving path of the mobile object, with the other wireless communication device; and a second calculator to calculate distances between wireless communication devices that are dependent on the number of times of movement in the moving path by referring to the calculated moving path and movement information received from the other wireless communication device. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140141823 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMUNICATION METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a communication device includes an analyzer, a switching unit and a communication unit. The analyzer is configured to analyze an image taken at a periphery of the communication device. The switching unit is configured to switch a communication counterpart from a first communication device to a second communication device based on an analysis result of the image. The communication unit is configured to communicate with the second communication device after switching. | 05-22-2014 |
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| 20090000085 | Fastener - According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a fastener including: a fastener body including: a cylindrical portion having an insertion hole formed therethrough; and a locking portion protruding outward from the cylindrical portion; and an unlocking member inserted into the insertion hole, wherein the locking portion is inserted into an attachment hole of an attachment object from a front side thereof, and exposed from a rear side of the attachment hole, wherein the locking portion has an elastic claw locked to an edge of the attachment hole at the rear side, wherein the elastic claw is elastically reducible in diameter, wherein the unlocking member is movable in a position rearward of the elastic claw, and wherein the locking portion is reduced in diameter when the unlocking member is pushed. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090188086 | CLIP - According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a clip including: a flange and a leg. The leg includes: a pillar portion that vertically extends from the flange; a tip portion provided at a distal end in an axial direction; a rib that outwardly extends from the pillar portion to be connected to the flange and the tip portion; and an elastic engagement piece that extends from a distal end of the rib in a circumferential direction. The elastic engagement piece includes: a rigid portion that is connected to the rib and that is connected to the flange and the tip portion; and a deformable portion that is extended from the rigid portion and that is disconnected from the flange and the tip portion. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090265900 | Clip - According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a clip including: a flange to be abutting a panel having an attaching hole; and a leg portion to be inserted into the attaching hole. The leg portion includes: an engaging part; and a guide part connected thereto. The guide part include: a distal-end tapered part formed to be gradually reduced in an outer diameter toward an inserting direction of the leg portion; a base-end reversely tapered part formed to be gradually reduced in an outer diameter toward the opposite direction; and a diameter enlarged part formed therebetween to have an outer diameter largest among the guide part. The largest outer diameter of the diameter enlarged part is larger than that of a distal end part of the engaging part. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20110116890 | FASTENER - There is provided a fastener which can be brought into firm engagement with a mounting hole without being affected by a change in thickness of a member in which the mounting hole is provided or a larger or smaller inside diameter of the mounting hole. This fastener | 05-19-2011 |
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| 20110235100 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus includes: a deciding unit that decides whether in-monitoring assertion information representing is recorded in the information storing unit by another image forming apparatus or not; a recording unit that generates new in-monitoring assertion information; an acquiring unit that acquires information to be an image forming target; and an executing unit that executes an image formation processing. The recording unit decides that the condition of the expiration is satisfied when an expiration date represented by information indicative of the expiration date elapses if the information is included in the in-monitoring assertion information recorded by the another image forming apparatus, and the recording unit does not generate the in-monitoring assertion information and the executing unit does not execute the image formation processing in that case when the predetermined condition of the expiration is not satisfied. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20120230590 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a registering unit that registers a first language and a second language different from the first language, a character string extracting unit that extracts one or more character strings from reading information acquired by reading an original, plural feature character string creating sections that create a feature character string of the original on the basis of the one or more character strings extracted by the character string extracting unit, and a switching unit that switches the feature character string creating section used to create the feature character string on the basis of a combination of the registered first language and the registered second language. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120250991 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes the following elements. A document-type determining unit determines what type of document a document is on the basis of read information obtained as a result of reading the document by using a document reader. A compression-format setting unit sets, on the basis of the type of document determined by the document-type determining unit, a compression format used for generating image data from the read information. A generator compresses the read information by using the compression format set by the compression-format setting unit so as to generate image data corresponding to the document. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20130182293 | IMAGE READER, MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image reader includes a reading unit that reads an image; a detection unit that detects marks from the read image read by the reading unit; a creation unit that creates a hiding image, which hides a region including the marks, on the basis of the marks detected by the detection unit; and a combining unit that combines the read image and the hiding image to create an electronic document. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20140093166 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes the following elements. A document-type determining unit determines what type of document a document is on the basis of read information obtained as a result of reading the document by using a document reader. A compression-format setting unit sets, on the basis of the type of document determined by the document-type determining unit, a compression format used for generating image data from the read information. A generator compresses the read information by using the compression format set by the compression-format setting unit so as to generate image data corresponding to the document. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140099038 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a reading unit, a recognition unit, a table-of-contents analysis unit, a main-body analysis unit, and a creation unit. The reading unit reads a table of contents page and a main body page as images. The recognition unit performs character recognition on the images of the table of contents and main body pages. The table-of-contents analysis unit analyzes the image of the table of contents page, and acquires at least a heading item in accordance with a result of character recognition. The main-body analysis unit analyzes the image of the main body page, and associates an image including the heading item with the heading item in accordance with a result of character recognition. The creation unit creates electronic bookmarked information in which bookmark information for associating the heading item with the image of the main body page is added to electronic information of the read images. | 04-10-2014 |
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| 20090279874 | Recording device and driving state controlling method - A recording device including: a medium drive section configured to rotation-drive a disk recording medium, and write data to the disk recording medium through a head section; a determining section configured to determine whether the recording device is in a falling state when the medium drive section is in an idle state in which state the disk recording medium is rotation-driven and the head section is off a track; and a controlling section configured to make determination as to the falling state by the determining section when the determining section determines that the recording device is in the falling state, and when the determining section determines that the recording device is not in the falling state, controlling the medium drive section so as to set the medium drive section in an active state in which state the disk recording medium is rotation-driven to be in an accessible state and the head section is on track. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20100014841 | VIDEO RECORDING APPARATUS, VIDEO RECORDING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A video recording apparatus optimally records partial images made up of a partial area from an original image and containing a feature point such as person's face. An imaging unit acquires the original image by imaging at a resolution higher than the pixel count used for video recording. A feature point detector detects one or more feature points from the original image. A partial image clipper clips, from the original image, a partial image containing a feature point selected by the user. An encoder encodes the clipped partial image. A recording unit then records the encoded partial image to a recording medium. In so doing, the user is able to select a recording subject from a summary of detected feature points before or during video recording, and thus record a desired face. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100183277 | VIDEO REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND VIDEO REPRODUCTION METHOD - A lateral shake prevention when a video picked up by a digital camera is reproduced is realized, and viewing on a large screen television set is made comfortable. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100266269 | Imaging equipment, photographic setting determination method, and photographic setting determination program - Imaging equipment includes: a position acquisition unit that acquires a current position; a memory unit in which a plurality of pieces of setting information representing photographic settings suitable for photography at positions and being associated in advance with the positions is stored; a control unit that reads setting information, which represents a photographic setting suitable for photography at the current position acquired by the position acquisition unit, from the memory unit, and determines a photographic setting according to the setting information; and an imaging unit that images a subject according to the photographic setting determined by the control unit. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20110001800 | Image capturing apparatus, image processing method and program - An image capturing apparatus includes a plurality of image capturing units that photograph images from a plurality of viewpoints, a recording controller that performs a process of recording a plurality of subject distances, which are measured by each of the plurality of image capturing units, on a recording unit as attribute information of the photographed images, and an image selection controller that performs a highlight scene extraction process by using subject distance information included in the attribute information. The image selection controller performs a process of determining whether a subject is located at a center area of an image frame by using the plurality of subject distances, which correspond to each of the plurality of image capturing units and are included in the attribute information, and selecting an image, for which the subject is determined to be located at the center area, as a highlight scene. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110007131 | Information processing apparatus and information processing method - An information processing apparatus includes a depth-information detecting section, a comparison/detection section, and a control unit. The depth-information detecting section is provided for detecting a peak position of an object in a depth direction, at which the object is displayed at the front in an additional information display area. The comparison/detection section is provided for making a comparison between depth information of the additional information and the peak value of the stereoscopic video data to detect a positional relationship between the stereoscopic data and the display position of the additional information in the depth direction. The control unit is provided for controlling the stereoscopic video data and the display position of the additional information in response to the positional relationship between the stereoscopic video data and the display position of the additional information. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110007135 | Image processing device, image processing method, and program - An image processing apparatus includes: an imaging unit configured to generate an imaged image by imaging a subject; a depth information generating unit configured to generate depth information relating to the imaged image; an image processing unit configured to extract, from the imaged image, an image of an object region including a particular subject out of subjects included in the imaged image and a surrounding region of the subject, based on the depth information, and generate a difference image to display a stereoscopic image in which the subjects included in the imaged image are viewed stereoscopically based on the extracted image; and a recording control unit configured to generate a data stream in which data corresponding to the imaged image and data corresponding to the difference image are correlated, and record the data stream as a moving image file. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110261160 | IMAGE INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS, IMAGE INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to an image information processing apparatus, an image capture apparatus, an image information processing method, and a program that allow a depth value to smoothly transition in a scene change of stereoscopic content. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20140063286 | IMAGING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD - There is provided an imaging device including an imaging element that acquires a captured image of a subject, a light emission unit that emits light to the subject, and a control unit that is capable of controlling a timing of exposure performed by the imaging element and a timing of light emission performed by the light emission unit. In a mode in which imaging is performed with a plurality of times of consecutive light emission by the light emission unit, the control unit controls at least one of a timing of the exposure and a timing of the light emission so that light amounts effective for exposure in each imaging are substantially the same. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140253761 | CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A control device includes: a detection section configured to detect setting to a predetermined imaging mode; and a control section configured to set a predetermined method of zooming in response to the setting to the imaging mode, and to perform zoom control with a subject distance fixed. | 09-11-2014 |
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| 20080239102 | Camera Controller and Zoom Ratio Control Method For the Camera Controller - Camera control apparatus enabling a user to intuitively understand a photographing direction and zoom magnification of a camera at the time of switching over an image, and enabling camera control to be started immediately. At camera control apparatus ( | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080297601 | CAMERA CONTROL UNIT, CAMERA DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND CAMERA CONTROL METHOD - To control a camera so that when an image from the camera is displayed on plural arranged screens, an object that is being captured does not cross the border between the screens. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20090021580 | CAMERA CALIBRATION DEVICE AND CAMERA CALIBRATION METHOD - One objective of the invention is to simplify a calibration correction operation. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090172808 | ACCESS CONTROL DEVICE - An object of the invention is to provide an access control apparatus for lessening the occasions of invading a place where no entry is permitted without setting any separate access condition for a temporary user of a visitor, etc., in a room entering and leaving management apparatus using personal identification information of an IC card, etc. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20110222676 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, TELECONFERENCING DEVICE, AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - A purpose of the invention is to provide an image display apparatus capable of allowing a user at its own location to recognize a position of a subsidiary display region on a display screen at a counterpart location. The image display apparatus can configure a plurality of display regions on the display screen. The image display apparatus receives, via a network | 09-15-2011 |
| 20120127261 | TELECONFERENCING DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY PROCESSING METHOD - A teleconferencing device includes an image receiving section which receives images from corresponding base, a zoom magnification setting receiving section which receives zoom magnification setting information of a camera of the corresponding base, an image enlargement and reduction ratio derivation section which derives an enlargement or reduction ratio, at which each subject in an image captured by each camera of the corresponding base is displayed on a display of a host base in life-size, on the basis of the zoom magnification setting information and screen size information of the display of the host base, an image enlargement and reduction section which enlarges or reduces the image transmitted from the corresponding base on the basis of the enlargement or reduction ratio, and an image display control section which performs control such that the enlarged or reduced image from each corresponding base is displayed on the display of the host base. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20130288113 | NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE STORAGE ELEMENT - To provide a non-aqueous electrolyte storage element, including: a positive electrode which includes a positive-electrode active material capable of intercalating or deintercalating anions; a negative electrode which includes a negative-electrode active material capable of storing or releasing metallic lithium or lithium ion, or both thereof, a first separator between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; and a non-aqueous electrolyte which includes a non-aqueous solvent and a lithium salt dissolved in the non-aqueous solvent, wherein the non-aqueous electrolyte storage element includes a solid lithium salt at 25° C. and a discharge voltage of 4.0V, wherein the non-aqueous electrolyte storage element includes an ion-exchange membrane between the first separator and the positive electrode, between the first separator and the negative electrode, or between the first separator and the positive electrode and between the first separator and the negative electrode. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20140186696 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY - To provide a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, containing: a positive electrode, which contains a positive electrode active material capable of inserting and detaching anions; a negative electrode, which contains a negative electrode active material capable of accumulating and releasing metal lithium, or lithium ions, or both thereof; and a nonaqueous electrolyte formed by dissolving a lithium salt in a nonaqueous solvent, wherein the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery contains a solid lithium salt at 25° C., and discharge voltage of 4.0 V. | 07-03-2014 |
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| 20140146101 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a recording-head carrier including a recording head for ejecting a liquid droplet onto a recording medium, a relative moving unit configured to relatively move the recording-head carrier and the recording medium; an image recording unit configured to drive the recording head by a driving signal having a driving waveform to eject liquid droplets toward the recording medium while relatively moving the recording-head carrier and the recording medium; a driving-waveform determining unit configured to determine the driving waveform of the driving signal based on a detected temperature near the recording head; a drive-timing determining unit configured to determine drive timing at which the recording head is driven by the driving signal, based on the detected temperature; and a drive control unit configured to set the driving waveform and the drive timing to the image recording unit to drive the recording head. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140152735 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus which reads a test pattern formed by ejecting liquid droplets onto a recording medium to adjust an ejection timing of the liquid droplets is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes a reading unit including a light emitting unit and a light receiving unit; a sensitivity adjusting unit; a relative movement unit; a first correction unit which detects a position of the test pattern; a second correction unit which detects the position of the test pattern; and a correction method selecting unit which selects the first correction unit or the second correction unit based on adjusting results of sensitivity adjusted by the sensitivity adjusting unit. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140152737 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR FORMING TEST PATTERN, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An image forming apparatus includes a recording head in which a plurality of nozzles for discharging liquid droplets; and a pattern forming unit configured to form a test pattern used for positional deviation adjustment including a first pattern serving as a reference pattern and a second pattern serving as an adjustment pattern. The first pattern and the second pattern each are a linear pattern that is parallel to a nozzle arrangement direction and has a disconnected portion. The disconnected portion of the first pattern and the disconnected portion of the second pattern are shifted from each other in the nozzle arrangement direction. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140153006 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF ADJUSTING IMAGE POSITIONAL DEVIATION, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An image forming apparatus forms adjustment patterns having a predetermined edge interval on a recording medium, while moving a carriage mounted with recording heads that eject a liquid droplet on the recording medium and formed of a sub-scanning motor and the like in a main-scanning direction by a main-scanning motor. The image forming apparatus performs a positional deviation correction process in which the adjustment pattern formed on the recording medium is read by a reading sensor mounted on the recording heads, while moving the carriage in the main-scanning direction, to correct a positional deviation of a landing position of the liquid droplet ejected from the recording heads based on an ideal interval between the adjustment patterns and a read result of the reading sensor repeatedly at least twice. | 06-05-2014 |
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| 20090073608 | Perpendicular magnetic recording head - Embodiments of the present invention provide a perpendicular magnetic recording head suitable for high density recording that suppresses erasure after recording by reducing the remanent magnetization Mr of the main magnetic pole and thereby decreasing the squareness S. Accordingly to one embodiment, a main magnetic pole piece of a perpendicular magnetic recording head includes a FeCo ferromagnetic layer, into which a NiFe soft magnetic layer is inserted. Inserting the NiFe soft magnetic layer in a position in the FeCo ferromagnetic layer 1 to 7 mm away from a nonmagnetic layer allows a remanent magnetization Mr to be decreased without changing the number of layers of the nonmagnetic layer or a film thickness of the FeCo ferromagnetic layer. This helps suppress erasure after recording. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090236307 | Method for manufacturing perpendicular magnetic recording head - Embodiments of the present invention help to provide a method for manufacturing a perpendicular magnetic recording head including a main magnetic pole having a width that does not generally vary. According to one embodiment, a magnetic film, a first inorganic mask film, an organic film, a second inorganic mask film, and a resist pattern are formed in this order. Reactive ion etching (RIE) is performed using the resist pattern as a mask to etch the second inorganic mask film and the organic film and form a mask for the subsequent step. A flow rate of an Ar gas is then controlled, and ion milling is performed, to correct a difference between the width of the mask located at the central portion of the wafer and the width of the mask located at the outer peripheral portion of the wafer. The magnetic film is processed to have a uniform track width. Ion milling is then performed to form the main magnetic pole having an inverted trapezoidal shape. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20100157484 | PERPENDICULAR RECORDING MAGNETIC HEAD WITH A VARYING INTERVAL BETWEEN THE MAIN POLE AND THE SHIELD, AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF - A perpendicular recording magnetic head is provided, according to one embodiment, in which even if a thickness of a main pole is reduced corresponding to a reduction in a recording track width, recording performance is not degraded. A magnetic-field auxiliary pole and a nonmagnetic layer are stacked on a main pole, and a nonmagnetic portion is provided on each side face on a flying surface side of the magnetic-field auxiliary pole and the nonmagnetic layer, in one approach. In all regions except for a region near a flying surface, an interval between the main pole and a shield is increased by the nonmagnetic portion and the nonmagnetic layer, so that magnetic field loss is prevented, and consequently magnetic field strength and a magnetic field gradient are increased. Other systems and methods are also disclosed for retaining magnetic recording performance while reducing a thickness of a main pole. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20110116192 | HEAD-SLIDER INCLUDING THIN-FILM MAGNETIC-RECORDING HEAD HAVING REDUCED THERMAL PROTRUSION - A head-slider. The head-slider includes a slider, and a thin-film magnetic-recording head. The thin-film magnetic-recording head includes: a read element; a write element; a non-magnetic insulating protective layer disposed around both read and write elements; a resist disposed at a position further away from an air-bearing surface than the read element; and, a hard-material member including a material selected from the group consisting of silicon carbide and tungsten, which is disposed at a position further away from the air-bearing surface than the read element and the write element. Both an end of the resist and an end of the hard-material member overlap the write element when viewed in a stacking direction. A ratio of a distance from the air-bearing surface to a deepest end of the hard-material member to a distance from the air-bearing surface to a deepest end of the resist is at least 0.9. | 05-19-2011 |
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| 20110222139 | ELECTROCHROMIC DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An electrochromic display apparatus is disclosed that includes a stacked body which includes a display electrode and an electrochromic layer that are stacked on each other; a film which includes through holes, and is disposed on one of the display electrode and the electrochromic layer of the stacked body; and an opposed substrate on which an opposed electrode that faces toward the display electrode is formed. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110272781 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A package-on-package includes a semiconductor package, and a coil provided at the semiconductor package. The semiconductor package includes a bottom face, and a solder ball protruded from the bottom face. An axis of the coil is inclined with respect to the normal line of the bottom face. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110309347 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE HAVING ANODE INCLUDING METAL OXIDE AND CONDUCTIVE POLYMER, LIGHT EMISSION APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF FABRICATING ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE - An organic electroluminescence device includes a cathode, a stacked structure provided on the cathode and including an organic layer that includes an organic light emitting layer, and a transparent anode provided on the stacked structure, The transparent anode includes a metal oxide and a conductive polymer. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20120139824 | ELECTROCHROMIC DISPLAY ELEMENT, DISPLAY DEVICE AND INFORMATION APPARATUS - A disclosed electrochromic display element includes a display substrate, a counter substrate facing the display substrate, display electrodes arranged between the display substrate and the counter substrate, electrochromic layers formed on the respective display electrodes, a plurality of drive elements arranged on the counter substrate at predetermined intervals, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged on the drive elements, a charge retention layer formed over the pixel electrodes as a continuous layer, the charge retention layer being formed of a mixed film including a polymer and one of electric conductive microparticles and semiconductor microparticles, and an electrolyte layer sandwitched between the display substrate and the charge retention layer. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120139825 | ELECTROCHROMIC DISPLAY DEVICE - An electrochromic display device includes a display substrate, a counter substrate facing the display substrate, counter electrodes arranged on the counter substrate, an electrolyte layer arranged between the display substrate and the counter electrodes, display electrodes separately arranged from one another between the display substrate and the counter electrodes, electrochromic layers to develop or reduce a color by redox reactions, the electrochromic layers being formed on the respective display electrodes arranged such that the electrochromic layers face the set of the counter electrodes, a voltage applying unit to select one of the display electrodes to connect the selected display electrode and the counter electrodes to apply a voltage between the connected display electrode and counter electrodes, a disconnecting unit to disconnect the unselected display electrodes from the counter electrodes, and an interelectrode connecting unit to connect the display electrodes. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120154892 | ION CONDUCTOR AND ELECTROCHROMIC DISPLAY DEVICE - An ion conductor includes a mixture including an electrolyte including a salt including inorganic or organic pairs of negative and positive ions, and a low-molecular liquid crystal material. Further, an impedance of the ion conductor varies in accordance with an increase of a voltage applied to the ion conductor due to an orientation response of the low-molecular liquid crystal material, the impedance being determined by an AC impedance method. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20130250394 | ELECTROCHROMIC DISPLAY DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN ELECTROCHROMIC DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is an electrochromic display device including a display substrate, a display electrode provided on the display substrate, a first electrochromic layer provided on the display electrode, an intermediate display electrode provided above the first electrochromic layer separately from the first electrochromic layer, a second electrochromic layer provided on and contacting the intermediate display electrode, an opposed substrate, an opposed electrode provided on the opposed substrate, and an electrolyte solution provided between a surface of the display substrate on which the display electrode is formed and a surface of the opposed substrate on which the opposed electrode is formed, wherein the intermediate display electrode contains a rod-shaped, whisker-shaped, or long-fiber-shaped electrically conductive fine particle, and at least a portion of a space in the electrically conductive fine particle is filled with a material forming the second electrochromic layer. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130258439 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN ELECTROCHROMIC DISPLAY DEVICE AND AN ELECTROCHROMIC DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a method for manufacturing an electrochromic display device, including a step of applying and attaching a fine particle with a predetermined particle diameter to a display substrate, a step of film-forming a transparent electrically conductive film after the fine particle is applied thereto, a step of removing the fine particle to remove a transparent electrically conductive film attached to a surface of the fine particle and to form a display electrode having a fine through-hole at a position at which the fine particle has been attached thereto, and a step of forming an electrochromic layer on the display electrode. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130335802 | ELECTROCHROMIC DISPLAY DEVICE - An electrochromic display device includes an electrochromic display element including a display electrode, an electrochromic layer provided on the display electrode, an opposing electrode facing the display electrode, and an electrolyte layer sandwiched between the display electrode and the opposing electrode. The electrochromic display device further includes a switching element, and a electric storage element. The display electrode is connected with the opposing electrode by a power source or the electric storage element via the switching element, and when performing driving, part of electric charges, which are stored in the electrochromic display element, are applied for charging the electric storage element, or electric charges in the electric storage element that has been charged are used for driving the electrochromic display element. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20140078569 | ELECTRO-CHROMIC DISPLAY ELEMENT, DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND DRIVING METHOD - An electro-chromic display element, and a display apparatus and a driving method using the same are provided. | 03-20-2014 |
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