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20110042360 | PROCESS CONTROL APPARATUS AND LASER PROCESSING APPARATUS - A process control apparatus controls a focus position of a laser beam, while a laser processing mechanism converges the laser beam into a predetermined focus position and performs a laser processing on a workpiece. The process control apparatus includes: a calculator that, based on the magnitude of an output of the laser beam that changes during the laser processing, calculates a change amount of a positional deviation of the focus position in an optical axis direction that changes during the laser processing at a laser beam radiation position; and a control unit that, based on the change amount of the positional deviation that has been calculated by the calculator, controls the focus position of the laser beam during the laser processing so as to resolve the positional deviation of the focus position. | 02-24-2011 |
20140045956 | HYDROPHILIZING AGENT COMPOSITION, HYDROPHILIZING METHOD, HYDROPHILIZED RESIN POROUS MATERIAL AND ITS PRODUCTION METHOD - A hydrophilizing agent composition comprising a copolymer having an alternating copolymerization ratio of repeating units represented by the following formula (1) and repeating units represented by the following formula (2) of at least 95%, and a solvent: | 02-13-2014 |
20150137004 | LASER PROCESSING DEVICE - A laser processing device including: a laser oscillator; a processing table; a transmission optical system for transmitting laser light emitted from the laser oscillator to the processing table; a processing head for condensing and radiating the laser light transmitted via the transmission optical system to an object to be processed; a moving mechanism for changing a relative position between the object to be processed and the laser light to be radiated to the object to be processed; and a variable curvature spherical mirror. The transmission optical system includes a reflective beam expander mechanism for collimating and magnifying the laser light from the laser oscillator. The reflective beam expander mechanism includes a spherical mirror and a concave mirror having different curvatures in two orthogonal axes. | 05-21-2015 |
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20110013093 | CAPTURED IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - The present invention is directed to a captured image display apparatus that allows a user to swiftly confirm an image concerning a captured image even before receiving of the captured image is completed. A captured image display apparatus includes alive view image receiving unit configured to receive a live view image concerning a captured image from an imaging apparatus, a live view image display unit configured to display the live view image on a display unit when a release notification has been received from the imaging apparatus, a captured image receiving unit configured to receive a captured image from the imaging apparatus, and a captured image display unit configured to display the captured image on the display unit when receiving of the captured image has been completed by the captured image receiving unit. | 01-20-2011 |
20110038675 | STEEL PIPE FOR REINFORCING GROUND, METHOD OF REINFORCING GROUND USING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF REINFORCING STRUCTURE - A steel pipe ground reinforcement of the present invention is driven into a ground and injects a grouting material into the ground. The steel pipe ground reinforcement includes: a recess portion and a smooth portion that are arranged on an outer peripheral surface thereof; and a plurality of through-holes that are arranged in the recess portion or the smooth portion that communicates between the inside and outside of the steel pipe ground reinforcement. | 02-17-2011 |
20110205595 | SYSTEM FOR CREATING MEDIUM HAVING IMAGE LAID OUT THEREON, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS IN THE SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A preferred method is provided for promoting sales in a system that is designed for creating a medium having one or more images laid out thereon. More specifically, an image removed from a predetermined layout frame by an image replacement operation during a layout operation for laying out an image in the predetermined layout frame is identified. Then, at least one image identified is determined to be a recommended image whose purchase is to be recommended. | 08-25-2011 |
20120182604 | LASER OSCILLATOR AND LASER AMPLIFIER - A laser oscillator includes: a optical resonator having an orthogonal mirror and a partial reflection mirror; a laser gas acting as a laser medium; and a 90-degree folding mirror acting as a polarization selecting element. The orthogonal mirror has two reflecting surfaces orthogonal to each other. The 90-degree folding mirror is arranged such that the polarization direction of the laser oscillated light is parallel to the reference axis set in a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the optical resonator. The orthogonal mirror is arranged such that the polarization direction of the laser oscillated light is parallel to the valley line of the orthogonal mirror. This configuration can compensate anisotropy of optical characteristics in a laser medium, and stably generate linearly polarized laser light having excellent isotropy in a simple manner. | 07-19-2012 |
20130027588 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing apparatus including a distortion component calculation unit calculating a distortion component in a time series, based on an image signal indicating a moving image composed of a frame image, for each of a first region corresponding to the whole frame image, a second region corresponding to one region obtained by dividing the frame image, and a third region corresponding to the other region obtained by dividing the frame image, and a decision unit deciding a scanning pattern of an imaging device having captured the moving image, which the image signal indicates, based on a combination of a correlation of distortion between the second region and the first region and a correlation of distortion between the second region and the third region. | 01-31-2013 |
20130235894 | GAS LASER DEVICE - A tri-axially orthogonal gas laser device in which an optical axis of an optical resonator, a direction in which a laser gas is supplied into the optical resonator, and a direction of discharge for exciting the laser gas are mutually orthogonal to one another, the device including: an exciting unit including a blower supplying the laser gas in −X direction to the optical axis of the optical resonator, and a discharge electrode pair which is shifted on a gas upstream side with respect to the optical axis; and an exciting unit including a blower for supplying the laser gas in +X direction to the optical axis of the optical resonator, and a discharge electrode pair which is shifted on a gas upstream side with respect to the optical axis | 09-12-2013 |
20130341309 | LASER MACHINING DEVICE - A laser machining apparatus, including: a laser light source; a transparent member that is set on an optical path of a laser beam and transmits the laser beam; a contact type temperature difference sensor, set on a surface of the transparent member outside an irradiation range of the laser beam, for detecting a temperature difference between a surface of the transparent member, which is spaced apart from a center of the transparent member by a first distance, and another surface of the transparent member, which is spaced apart from the center of the transparent member by a second distance larger than the first distance; and a controller correcting a focal position based on the temperature difference detected by the contact type temperature difference sensor to stabilize a beam diameter of the laser beam condensed onto a machining object. | 12-26-2013 |
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20140187728 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING FLUORINATED OLEFIN/VINYL ALCOHOL COPOLYMER AND FILM MADE BY FORMING A COMPOSITION CONTAINING THE COPOLYMER - To provide a process for producing a fluorinated olefin/vinyl alcohol copolymer having a high molecular weight which can be formed into a strong film with high productivity. | 07-03-2014 |
20150136590 | ELECTRO PLATING DEVICE - An electro plating device includes a pipe inside seal mechanism which occludes an inner channel of a steel pipe, a tubular insoluble electrode which is disposed in a pipe end so as to be opposite to a female screw, a plating solution feed mechanism which includes a plurality of nozzles which extend radially with a pipe axis of the steel pipe as a center, and a pipe end seal mechanism which accommodates the nozzles thereinside and is mounted to the pipe end, when viewed in the pipe axial direction, a tip of each of the nozzles is positioned between the female screw and the insoluble electrode, and each of the nozzles injects the plating solution toward a direction which intersects an extension direction of the nozzle, the direction being a rotational direction of a clockwise direction or a counterclockwise direction in which the pipe axis is the center. | 05-21-2015 |
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20090157375 | POWER INDEX COMPUTING APPARATUS, METHOD OF COMPUTING POWER INDEX, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - A power index computing apparatus that computes a power index for a circuit having one or more modules includes an obtaining unit that obtains estimated power consumption for a module in the circuit and a first computing unit that computes entropy based on a transition probability of an output signal of the module during a simulation period. The entropy is indicative of an expected value of a data volume output from the module, and the output signal is output to a destination that is external to the module. The power index computing apparatus further includes a second computing unit that computes a power index based on the estimated power consumption and the entropy, where the power index concerns power consumption for output of the output signal with respect to the estimated power consumption. An output unit of the power index apparatus outputs a result of the second computing unit. | 06-18-2009 |
20100082943 | DYNAMIC RECONFIGURATION SUPPORT APPARATUS, DYNAMIC RECONFIGURATION SUPPORT METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - An apparatus controls a circuit having rewritable processor elements and includes an acquiring unit that acquires information concerning a first task under execution by the circuit; a reading unit that, when the information concerning the first task is acquired, reads from a memory, a completion time of the first task; a first calculating unit that calculates a deadline time using the read completion time; an identifying unit that refers to scheduling information in the memory and identifies for a second task, the quantity of processor elements to be rewritten by the deadline time; a second calculating unit that divides the identified quantity of the processor elements by the deadline time to calculate the quantity of processor elements to be rewritten per unit time; and an executing unit that causes the circuit to rewrite the processor elements for the second task, in the quantity per unit time calculated. | 04-01-2010 |
20100146257 | Dynamic reconfiguration computer product, apparatus, and method - A computer-readable recording medium stores therein a dynamic reconfiguration program that switches process by process, execution of a series of processes for which reconfiguration is to be performed, from execution by software over to execution by hardware. The dynamic reconfiguration program causes a computer to execute detecting in an order reverse to that in which the series of processes is executed, a process that is among the series of processes and under execution by the software; building on the hardware, a logic circuit realizing a function of the detected process; and switching execution of the process from execution by the software over to execution by the built logic circuit. | 06-10-2010 |
20110197172 | Design verification apparatus and design verification program - A design verification apparatus includes a processor to produce and place constraint conditions on verification datasets provided to verify a first design specification of a target product. The processor produces those constraint conditions from a second design specification of the target product, based on links from units of processing which constitute a procedure defined for each verification item in the second design specification to units of processing in the first design specification. The processor outputs data identifying the resulting verification datasets having the constraint conditions, together with their corresponding verification items. | 08-11-2011 |
20110283131 | Computer-readable recording medium, method, and apparatus for calculating power consumption information - A computer is disclosed that performs calculating power consumption information. The computer reads out, from a storage part, data indicating an execution procedure of process steps which each of function units of an integrated circuit executes, and reads out, from the storage part, a coefficient corresponding to each of the process steps. Then, the computer calculates an index value of power consumption based on the coefficient corresponding to each of the process steps included in each of unit steps into which the execution procedure is divided. The computer outputs the index value for each of the unit steps to be stored in the storage part. | 11-17-2011 |
20120310564 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING REMAINING AMOUNT OF BATTERY CHARGE - An information processing apparatus driven by a battery, includes: a recording unit configured to record a value representing a magnitude of a load of the information processing apparatus; a determining unit configured to determine a lower threshold related to the load based on the value; a control unit configured to activate a program based on an amount of increase in the load caused by activation of the program, when the value is smaller than the lower threshold; and a calculating unit configured to calculate remaining time of the battery by using a function associated with a slope representing change in the value. | 12-06-2012 |
20130132048 | DESIGN-AIDING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A calculation unit performs statistical analysis of functions used in a software program under development. From the result of this statistical analysis, the calculation unit calculates indicators of possibility that executing a plurality of functions in combination improves power consumption, relative to the case of executing these functions separately, thus producing a table that associates combinations of functions with such indicators. The produced table is stored in a storage unit. A searching unit searches source code of the software program under development to find a source code portion that includes one of the combinations of functions in the stored table. A displaying unit displays the found source code portion in a manner distinguishable from other portions of the source code. | 05-23-2013 |
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20090002035 | COMPARATOR CIRCUIT - A comparator circuit according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a comparator configured to compare an input signal voltage with a reference voltage obtained by smoothing the input signal by use of a resistor and a capacitor, and output a result of the comparison, a discharge circuit configured to compare a first addition signal which is obtained by adding a positive first voltage to the input signal voltage, with the reference voltage, and discharge the capacitor when the first addition signal is lower than the reference voltage, and a charge circuit configured to compare a second addition signal which is obtained by adding a negative second voltage to the input signal voltage, with the reference voltage, and charge the capacitor when the second addition signal is higher than the reference voltage. | 01-01-2009 |
20100052733 | COMPARATOR CIRCUIT - A comparator circuit according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a comparator configured to compare an input signal voltage with a reference voltage obtained by smoothing the input signal by use of a resistor and a capacitor, and output a result of the comparison, a discharge circuit configured to compare a first addition signal which is obtained by adding a positive first voltage to the input signal voltage, with the reference voltage, and discharge the capacitor when the first addition signal is lower than the reference voltage, and a charge circuit configured to compare a second addition signal which is obtained by adding a negative second voltage to the input signal voltage, with the reference voltage, and charge the capacitor when the second addition signal is higher than the reference voltage. | 03-04-2010 |