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20130014545 | DRUM-TYPE WASHING MACHINEAANM Ushijima; HideakiAACI KyotoAACO JPAAGP Ushijima; Hideaki Kyoto JPAANM Inoue; YutakaAACI ShigaAACO JPAAGP Inoue; Yutaka Shiga JPAANM Itami; MasahiroAACI OsakaAACO JPAAGP Itami; Masahiro Osaka JPAANM Taguchi; TomoyukiAACI ShigaAACO JPAAGP Taguchi; Tomoyuki Shiga JP - In a drum-type washing machine, a plurality of dampers include a first damper and a second damper, the second damper is provided in such a manner that compression force on the second damper from a rotary drum rotated in the forward direction is larger than that on the first damper, the second damper and a vibration detection portion are arranged posterior to a gravity center of a water tank in the front and rear direction, and the first damper is arranged anterior to the second damper. Thus, precise imbalance determination is performed, so that low vibration is realized. | 01-17-2013 |
20130014546 | DRUM-TYPE WASHING MACHINEAANM Kobayashi; ShinichiroAACI OsakaAACO JPAAGP Kobayashi; Shinichiro Osaka JPAANM Inoue; YutakaAACI ShigaAACO JPAAGP Inoue; Yutaka Shiga JPAANM Itami; MasahiroAACI OsakaAACO JPAAGP Itami; Masahiro Osaka JPAANM Ushijima; HideakiAACI KyotoAACO JPAAGP Ushijima; Hideaki Kyoto JP - A drum-type washing machine includes left and right side plates formed of steel plates, the side plates defining side surfaces of an outer case, a front cover provided with an openable and closable door, the front cover defining a front surface of the outer case, an upper cover defining an upper surface of the outer case, a water tank oscillatably arranged in the outer case, and a rotary drum axially supported in the water tank, wherein a plurality of concave portions are formed on the left and right side plates, and the concave portion closer to the front surface of the outer case as a door side has an arc shape with a larger curvature. Thus, rigidity of the side plates in the up and down direction and the left and right direction is increased, so that vibration at the time of spin-drying is reduced. | 01-17-2013 |
20130125596 | DRUM-TYPE WASHING MACHINE - A front-loading-type washing machine of the invention includes a rotary drum; a water tub; a motor; a filter case that communicates with the water tub via a drain pipe connected to the bottom of the water tub and has a filter provided therein; a circulating pump that communicates with the filter case via a circulating water suction pipe connected to the filter case; a channel that communicates with the circulating pump via a circulating water discharge pipe connected to the circulating pump, and is formed on the front inner side of the water tub; a plurality of jetting ports that are provided on the inner peripheral side of the channel and discharge washing water into the water tub; and a control device. The opening area of the jetting port provided at the farthest position from a connecting portion between the circulating water discharge pipe and the channel is larger than the opening area of the jetting port provided at the nearest position from the connecting portion. | 05-23-2013 |
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20080306919 | DOCUMENT SEARCH METHOD - A document search apparatus capable of an index-type search and a scan-type search performs a search in a combination of the two search types while compensating for the disadvantages of the two search types with each other. A search query for index-type search and a search query for scan-type search are constructed based on a search query consisting of a logical formula of keywords. Then, a character 2-gram for performing an index search is set to shorten the whole search time, and the index-type search is performed. Finally, a scan-type search is performed on this search result of the index-type search. | 12-11-2008 |
20100211577 | DATABASE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Provided is a database system in which sorting of query results is sped up. The database system stores storage location information in which storage locations of the pieces of data are recorded in a given order. When there is no second task, which is executed based on data that is fetched in a first task, whether every piece of data requested in a third task, which is executed before the first task, has been fetched is determined. In the case where every piece of data requested in the third task has been fetched, data fetched in the first task is output. In the case where some of the data requested in the third task has not been fetched, data fetched in the first task is kept in a temporary buffer until every piece of data requested in the third task is fetched, and then output. | 08-19-2010 |
20100293156 | DATABASE PROCESSING METHOD AND DATABASE PROCESSING SYSTEM - Provided is a database processing system including: a computer for outputting data in response to a received query request; and a storage system including a storage device for storing the data, in which: the storage device stores a plurality of partial indices indicating a storage location of the data; the data stored in the storage device is grouped; and the computer is configured to: receive the query request for the data; acquire one of the plurality of partial indices; specify, based on the query request for the data and the acquired one of the plurality of partial indices, a location at which the requested data is stored; and send a request to acquire the data stored at the specified location to the storage system. Accordingly, in the database processing system, a time period necessary to input and output the data is shortened. | 11-18-2010 |
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20120151138 | DATA ARRANGEMENT METHOD AND DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - According to this invention, a data arrangement method, the computer connected to a storage system which provides a plurality of logical storage devices comprising a plurality of physical storage devices arranges data in a logical storage volume constructed by integrating the plurality of logical storage devices. The method includes: a step wherein the computer receives an instruction to build the logical storage volume using the plurality of logical storage devices or to rebuild the constructed logical storage volume; a step wherein the computer obtains information about the plurality of physical storage devices constituting each of the plurality of logical storage devices included in the received instruction; and a step wherein the arrangement position of data into the logical storage volume is determined on the basis of the obtained information about the plurality of physical storage devices. | 06-14-2012 |
20130144867 | DATABASE PROCESSING METHOD, DATABASE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND DATABASE SERVER - It is provided a database processing method including: a first step of receiving a query request instructing to output the requested data as query results in a designated order; a second step of generating a query execution plan including an order of accessing tables for storing the data based on the received query request; a third step of acquiring the data requested based on the query request from the database based on the generated query execution plan; a fourth step of generating intermediate results including the acquired data; a fifth step of sorting the generated intermediate results in the designated order; a sixth step of judging, for each of the intermediate results, whether an order of the sorted intermediate results has been determined; and a seventh step of outputting the intermediate results whose order has been determined as the query results in order from a head thereof. | 06-06-2013 |
20130159303 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, DATA RETRIEVAL METHOD AND DATABASE MANAGEMENT COMPUTER - A computer system, comprising: a computer for outputting a result in response to a request; and a storage system for storing data output based on the request, the computer including: a request reception module for receiving the request; a processing procedure generation module for generating a plurality of processing procedures including an order of access to the data stored in the plurality of storage devices; a data division module for dividing the data; an information obtaining module for obtaining load information indicating a load condition of the storage system; an allotment determination module for determining, based on the obtained load information, allotments for allocating the divided data to be processed by the generated plurality of processing procedures; and a processing execution module for executing, based on the determined allotments, the generated plurality of processing procedures in parallel. | 06-20-2013 |
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20090031994 | MULTI LINK TYPE PISTON-CRANK MECHANISM OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A multi link type piston-crank mechanism comprises an upper link that has one end pivotally connected to a piston of the engine through a piston pin, a lower link that is pivotally connected to the other end of the upper link through an upper pin and rotatably disposed on a crank pin of a crankshaft of the engine; and a control link that has a base end part swingably held by a body of the engine and a leading end pivotally connected to the lower link through a control pin. An axis of the piston pin is offset relative to an axis of the piston in thrust and counter thrust directions. When the piston comes to BDC, a part of the piston takes a position below a lower edge of a corresponding cylinder of the engine and the upper pin is offset relative to the axis of the piston pin in the same direction as a pin offset direction in which the axis of the piston pin is offset in the thrust and counter thrust directions relative to the axis of the piston. | 02-05-2009 |
20090044782 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - In an internal combustion engine, comprising: an upper link ( | 02-19-2009 |
20090107452 | MULTI-LINK ENGINE - A multi-link engine has a piston coupled to a crankshaft to move inside an engine cylinder. A piston pin connects the piston to an upper link, which is connected to a lower link by an upper link pin. A crank pin of the crankshaft rotatably supports the lower link thereon. A control link pin connects the lower link to one end of a control link, which is connected at another end to the engine block body by a control shaft. The crank pin has a center arranged on a straight line joining centers of the upper link pin and the control link pin such that an angle formed between the straight line and a horizontal axis that is perpendicular to a center axis of the cylinder and that passes through an axial center of a crank journal is the same for at top dead center and at bottom dead center. | 04-30-2009 |
20090107453 | MULTI-LINK ENGINE - A multi-link engine has a piston coupled to a crankshaft to move inside an engine cylinder. A piston pin connects the piston to an upper link, which is connected to a lower link by an upper link pin. A crank pin of the crankshaft rotatably supports the lower link thereon. A control link pin connects the lower link to one end of a control link, which is connected at another end to the engine block body by a control shaft. The upper link has an upper link axis that forms an angle with the cylinder axis, as viewed along a crank axis direction of the crankshaft, such that the angle reaches a minimum when a crank angle of the engine is within a range where the bottom end of a piston skirt is positioned below a topmost part of the bottom end of the cylinder liner. | 04-30-2009 |
20090107468 | MULTI-LINK ENGINE - A multi-link engine has a piston that moves inside a cylinder. A piston pin connects the piston to an upper link, which is connected to a lower link. A crank pin of a crankshaft supports the lower link thereon. The lower link is pivotally connected to one end of a control link, which is connected at another end to the engine block body by a control shaft. The control shaft is lower than a crank journal of the crankshaft, and disposed on a first side of a plane that is parallel to a cylinder center axis and that contains a center rotational axis of the crank journal. The cylinder center axis is located on a second (i.e., opposite the first side) plane. The control link has a center axis that is parallel to the cylinder center axis when the piston is near top and bottom dead centers. | 04-30-2009 |
20130255619 | BONDING METHOD AND MEMBERS TO BE BONDED - A bonding method includes bonding a pair of members together made of conductive material and having bonding surfaces which are not positioned on the same plane. In the bonding method, the bonding surfaces of the members to be bonded are positioned to face each other, an electric current is supplied from one of the members to be bonded to the other for carrying out resistance heating while the pair of members to be bonded are slid relative to each other. In this way, the bonding surfaces are bonded to each other. Split or partition surfaces that form a hollow passage and extending along the axis of the hollow passage are set as the bonding surfaces which are not on the same plane. | 10-03-2013 |
20140053797 | LUBRICATING STRUCTURE OF MULTI-LINK PISTON-CRANK MECHANISM FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A lubricating mechanism of a multilink, piston-crank mechanism for an internal combustion engine is provided. At a predetermined crank angle at which the crank pin oil passage and the lower link oil passage are communicative, viewed in the direction of the crankshaft, along a straight line connecting the center of rotation of the crank shaft and the end of the lower link oil passage at the side opposed to the pin boss opposing surface, the pin boss portion is disposed as the lubricating object. On the axial side of the pin boss portion, a recess portion is provided. | 02-27-2014 |
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20120187351 | COLORANT MULTIMER, COLORED CURABLE COMPOSITION, COLOR FILTER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND ORGANIC EL DISPLAY WITH THE COLOR FILTER - A colorant multimer includes, as a partial structure of a colorant moiety, a dipyrromethene metal complex compound or tautomer thereof obtained from:
| 07-26-2012 |
20120242940 | RADIATION-SENSITIVE COLORED COMPOSITION, COLOR FILTER, METHOD FOR PRODUCING A COLOR PATTERN, METHOD FOR PRODUCING COLOR FILTER, SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided is a radiation-sensitive colored composition that enables formation of color cured films in which color concentration unevenness is inhibited and which have uniform color and exhibit a superior development property and excellent pattern formability in the formation of color patterns. | 09-27-2012 |
20130133538 | RESIN COMPOSITION FOR FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE, FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE PRECURSOR AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE AND PROCESS FOR MAKING SAME - A resin composition for a flexographic printing plate that comprises comprising (Component A) a polyester resin having an ethylenically unsaturated bond in the interior and at a terminal. | 05-30-2013 |
20130152809 | RESIN COMPOSITION FOR LASER ENGRAVING, FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE PRECURSOR AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE AND PROCESS FOR MAKING SAME - A resin composition for laser engraving that comprises (Component A) an epoxy resin; (Component B) an epoxy resin curing agent; and (Component C) a silica, Component B comprising an amine curing agent having an amine value of no greater than 0.01 eq/g or an acid anhydride curing agent having an acid anhydride value of no greater than 0.0050 eq/g. | 06-20-2013 |
20130186292 | RESIN COMPOSITION FOR FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE, LASER-ENGRAVING TYPE FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE PRECURSOR AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE AND PROCESS FOR MAKING SAME - Disclosed is a resin composition for a flexographic printing plate, comprising (Component A) a binder resin and (Component B) a compound represented by Formula (1) and/or Formula (2), Component B being contained at 1 to 50 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of Component A, | 07-25-2013 |
20140154616 | COLORING COMPOSITION, COLORING RADIATION-SENSITIVE COMPOSITION, COLOR FILTER AND SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - Disclosed is a coloring composition with satisfactory heat resistance, no discoloration, excellent developability, and no development residues on a substrate and pixels of other colors, providing, a coloring composition for a color filter including (A) a polymer having a dye skeleton and (B) an organic solvent, wherein the content of an unreacted monomer component having the dye skeleton which is capable of forming (A) the polymer having the dye skeleton is less than or equal to 1 mass % with regard to (A) the polymer having the dye skeleton. | 06-05-2014 |
20150075399 | RESIN COMPOSITION FOR LASER ENGRAVING, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING RELIEF PRINTING PLATE PRECURSOR FOR LASER ENGRAVING, RELIEF PRINTING PLATE PRECURSOR, PROCESS FOR MAKING RELIEF PRINTING PLATE, AND RELIEF PRINTING PLATE - A relief printing plate precursor for laser engraving is provided. The precursor has high ink resistance toward both an aqueous ink and a solvent ink and is excellent in terms of engraving sensitivity. A process for producing the precursor is also provided. Further, a resin composition for laser engraving is provided which can suitably be used for such a printing plate precursor. The resin composition for laser engraving includes (Component A) a compound that has a crosslinkable group and that is a plastomer at 20° C. and (Component B) a crosslinking agent, Component A and Component B having a (meth)acryloyl group as a crosslinkable group, and at least one of Component A and Component B having an ionic group. | 03-19-2015 |
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20120244422 | BATTERY CASE - The present invention provides a battery case configured by fixing a joined portion where plate sections overlap with each other using a fixation member, and two different types of sealing members are disposed at the joined portion. It is possible to ensure high sealing properties by using sealing members suitable for the respective shapes of portions of the joined portion. | 09-27-2012 |
20130171478 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE - A power supply device includes: a power storage element having an electrode terminal; and a fixing portion fixed to the power storage element on a second surface of the power storage element which is different from a first surface on which the electrode terminal is arranged. The fixing portion has a connection terminal for electrically connecting the electrode terminal and an external load. | 07-04-2013 |
20140295215 | ENERGY STORAGE APPARATUS - An energy storage apparatus includes: an energy storage device including an electrode terminal; an outer housing containing the energy storage device; a first outer electrode attached to an outside of the outer housing; an electrical device disposed inside the outer housing; a first electrical conductor electrically connecting the first outer electrode and the electrical device; and a second electrical conductor electrically connecting the electrical device and the electrode terminal. The electrode terminal and the first outer electrode are disposed on opposite sides of the electrical device in a plane along a surface of the energy storage device. | 10-02-2014 |
20140295250 | ENERGY STORAGE APPARATUS - An energy storage apparatus including: an energy storage device; and an outer housing including a bottom surface, a side wall extending from the bottom surface in a first direction that intersects the bottom surface, and a support member that supports the side wall. An end of the side wall in the first direction is positioned in a first region that is further in the first direction than an end of a case of the energy storage device in the first direction. The support member is connected to the side wall in at least the first region and supports the side wall. | 10-02-2014 |
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20100216400 | Portable terminal device and on-vehicle device - A portable terminal device that is communicable with other devices includes a start record table, an application relation table, a device application correspondence table, an acquiring unit, and a sending unit. Upon receiving a predetermined signal from a communication device, the acquiring unit acquires first application information for specifying an application corresponding to the communication device from the device application correspondence table, and acquires, with respect to a combination of applications of which first application information is started second, second application information for specifying the first application of the combination from the application relation table. When the latest record stored in the start record table is equivalent to the second application information, the sending unit sends information representing that a priority level is high as a response to the predetermined signal that is received from the communication device. | 08-26-2010 |
20110170785 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method - An image processing apparatus includes a face detection processing unit that reduces an image of a frame to be processed to a first level among several reduction levels to generate a reduced image of the frame to be processed, with one of frames included in a moving image as the frame to be processed, and compares the reduced image generated by the reducing unit and the learning data to extract a face image from the reduced image. When the extraction of the face image from the frame to be processed is ended, the face detection processing unit updates the frame to be processed to a next frame subsequent to the frame to be processed and generates a reduced image that is reduced to another level other than reduction levels adjoining the first level. | 07-14-2011 |
20120154622 | ARC DETECTING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING ARC DETECTING PROGRAM - An arc detecting apparatus includes an input unit that inputs an image; a line-segment detector that detects line segments from the image; a determiner that determines whether two of the line segments are associable with each other, on a basis of positions of the two line segments and angles of the two line segments relative to corresponding references; and an arc detector that detects an arc approximated by at least two line segments including the two line segments, on a basis of the two line segments being associated with each other according to a result of the determination. | 06-21-2012 |
20130004019 | IMAGE RECOGNITION DEVICE, IMAGE RECOGNITION METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR IMAGE RECOGNITION PROGRAM - An image recognition device includes a processor, and a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the processor executes a process includes detecting a plurality of contour points arranged on a contour line of a given region in an image, detecting a first contour point and a second contour point, in the contour points, the first and second contour points corresponding to respective ends of a first shortcut line formed by connecting portions of the contour line across an external area of the given region, and determining, based on a length of the first shortcut line or a length of a first route that extends along the contour line between the first and second contour points, whether or not a portion surrounded by the first shortcut line and the first route, not contained in the given region, is a depressed portion. | 01-03-2013 |
20130057701 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING - An image processing device includes: an extractor configured to extract a region of interest which includes a point of interest and satisfies a specified condition in a first image frame; a divider configured to divide the region of interest into a first subregion including the point of interest and a second subregion not including the point of interest at a narrow portion of the region of interest; and a specifying unit configured to specify a specified pixel in the first subregion as a point of interest of a second image frame. | 03-07-2013 |
20130057728 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING - An image processing device includes: an extractor configured to extract a region of interest which satisfies a specified condition from a first image frame; a size decision unit configured to decide an image size according to a size of the region of interest extracted by the extractor; and an image converter configured to change the size of an image frame to be processed according to the image size decided by the size decision unit to generate a transformed image frame. The extractor extracts a region of interest which satisfies the specified condition from the transformed image frame. | 03-07-2013 |
20150178586 | TARGET LINE DETECTION DEVICE AND METHOD - A target line detection device includes a processor configured to execute a process. The process includes: detecting transition points in a brightness image obtained from a brightness component of an input image between pixels with a luminosity gradient in a first direction and pixels with a luminosity gradient in a second direction opposite to the first direction; and, based on a shape or a length or a combination thereof, of lines connecting together transition points that are within a specific distance of each other, extracting a line representing a detection target from the lines connecting together the transition points. | 06-25-2015 |
20150221100 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes: a storage unit that stores a table including information on regions respectively occupied by a plurality of solids whose vertices are defined by a plurality of reference colors that are set in a color space, each of the solids having an evaluation value less than a setting value, the evaluation value decreasing as the length of edges thereof decreases, the solids being arranged such that faces thereof do not cross each other; and a computing unit that specifies a solid containing an input color with use of the table, and performs interpolation processing of the input color with use of the reference colors corresponding to the vertices of the specified solid. | 08-06-2015 |
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20110065998 | ENDOSCOPIC FLUID CONTROL APPARATUS - An endoscopic fluid control apparatus includes a cylinder which is attachable to an attachment part attached to an endoscope, and includes a first channel which transfers fluid to an insertion channel of the endoscope, a piston which is set on the cylinder and includes a valve part movable relative to the cylinder between a position where the first channel is opened relative to the insertion channel and a position where the first channel is closed relative to the insertion channel, a connection port part for connecting a fluid tube, and a second channel which transfers the fluid from the connection port part to the insertion channel, an elastic member which holds the piston to be movable relative to the cylinder between the position where the first channel is closed and the position where the first channel is opened, a first engagement part which engages the piston and the elastic member with each other so as not to rotate about an axis of movement of the piston, and a second engagement part which engages the cylinder and the elastic member with each other so as not to rotate about an axis of movement of the cylinder. | 03-17-2011 |
20110071357 | ENDOSCOPIC FLUID CONTROL APPARATUS - An endoscopic fluid control apparatus is provided in an endoscope including a channel for performing suction and air-feed, and controls the suction and air-feed for the channel. The endoscopic fluid control apparatus includes air-feed channels which communicate with the one channel, a suction channel which communicates with the one channel, a first valve which is provided on the air-feed channels and opens only during the air-feed, and a second valve which is provided on an operation button to be operated for suction operation, and shuts off communication between one of the air-feed channels and another of the air-feed channels among the air-feed channels into which the operation button is inserted, when the operation button is operated to carry out the suction operation. | 03-24-2011 |
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20090242649 | Two-dimensional code having rectangular region provided with specific patterns for specify cell positions and distinction from background - A two-dimensional code having a rectangular region is provided. In the rectangular region, there are code blocks composed of a plurality of cells, a first specific pattern specifying the positions of the cells, and a second specific pattern separating the code blocks from a background of the code. The first specific pattern is located at a specified corner of the rectangular region. The second specific pattern is located along one or more of first borders along which the first specific pattern is located, the first borders being part of the borders of the rectangular region. The code blocks include error-correction code blocks, which are located along second borders which are different from a border of the borders along which the second specific pattern is located. The second borders are part of the borders. Compressed data code blocks are also arranged in the same way as the error-correction code blocks. | 10-01-2009 |
20090242650 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL CODE HAVING RECTANGULAR REGION PROVIDED WITH SPECIFIC PATTERNS FOR SPECIFICATION OF CELL POSTIONS AND DISTINCTION FROM BACKGROUND - A two-dimensional code having a rectangular region is provided. In the rectangular region, there are a plurality of code blocks, a first specific pattern, and error-correction code blocks. Each code block is composed of a plurality of cells aggregated together and formed to have both a specified corner in the rectangular region and the plurality of code blocks arranged in the rectangular region. The specific pattern is used to specify the positions of the cells. The error-correction code blocks are contained in the code blocks and formed to correct an error. The error-correction code blocks are arranged contiguously to part of the borders of the rectangular region. The part of the borders is displaced from the first specific pattern. Compressed data code blocks are also arranged in the same way as the error-correction code blocks. | 10-01-2009 |
20120132721 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL CODE HAVING RECTANGULAR REGION PROVIDED WITH SPECIFIC PATTERNS FOR SPECIFY CELL POSITIONS AND DISTINCTION FROM BACKGROUND - A two-dimensional code having a rectangular region is provided. In the rectangular region, there are code blocks composed of a plurality of cells, a first specific pattern specifying the positions of the cells, and a second specific pattern separating the code blocks from a background of the code. The first specific pattern is located at a specified corner of the rectangular region. The second specific pattern is located along one or more of first borders along which the first specific pattern is located, the first borders being part of the borders of the rectangular region. The code blocks include error-correction code blocks, which are located along second borders which are different from a border of the borders along which the second specific pattern is located. The second borders are part of the borders. Compressed data code blocks are also arranged in the same way as the error-correction code blocks. | 05-31-2012 |
20120138694 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL CODE HAVING RECTANGULAR REGION PROVIDED WITH SPECIFIC PATTERNS FOR SPECIFY CELL POSITIONS AND DISTINCTION FROM BACKGROUND - A two-dimensional code having a rectangular region is provided. In the rectangular region, there are code blocks composed of a plurality of cells, a first specific pattern specifying the positions of the cells, and a second specific pattern separating the code blocks from a background of the code. The first specific pattern is located at a specified corner of the rectangular region. The second specific pattern is located along one or more of first borders along which the first specific pattern is located, the first borders being part of the borders of the rectangular region. The code blocks include error-correction code blocks, which are located along second borders which are different from a border of the borders along which the second specific pattern is located. The second borders are part of the borders. Compressed data code blocks are also arranged in the same way as the error-correction code blocks. | 06-07-2012 |
20120138695 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL CODE HAVING RECTANGULAR REGION PROVIDED WITH SPECIFIC PATTERNS FOR SPECIFY CELL POSITIONS AND DISTINCTION FROM BACKGROUND - A two-dimensional code having a rectangular region is provided. In the rectangular region, there are code blocks composed of a plurality of cells, a first specific pattern specifying the positions of the cells, and a second specific pattern separating the code blocks from a background of the code. The first specific pattern is located at a specified corner of the rectangular region. The second specific pattern is located along one or more of first borders along which the first specific pattern is located, the first borders being part of the borders of the rectangular region. The code blocks include error-correction code blocks, which are located along second borders which are different from a border of the borders along which the second specific pattern is located. The second borders are part of the borders. Compressed data code blocks are also arranged in the same way as the error-correction code blocks. | 06-07-2012 |
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20090039716 | OSCILLATOR DEVICE, OPTICAL DEFLECTOR AND OPTICAL INSTRUMENT USING THE SAME - An oscillator device includes an oscillator, a resilient support member configured to support the oscillator for oscillatory motion about an oscillation central axis, a magnetic member provided on the oscillator, and a magnetic-field generating member disposed opposed to the oscillator, wherein the oscillator has a through-hole extending through the oscillator from its top surface to its bottom surface, and wherein the magnetic member is provided in the through-hole. | 02-12-2009 |
20100002277 | OSCILLATOR AND OPTICAL DEFLECTOR HAVING OSCILLATOR - An oscillating device includes an oscillator, an elastic supporting member for movably supporting the oscillator, a first supporting frame for supporting the elastic supporting member, and a second supporting frame extending along the elastic supporting member with a spacing maintained therebetween, the second supporting member extending from the first supporting frame, wherein the second supporting frame is provided in a cantilever shape relative to the first supporting frame. | 01-07-2010 |
20100019779 | POTENTIAL MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A potential measurement apparatus for measuring a surface potential of an object of measurement detects a change in electric charge induced at a detection electrode due to electrostatic induction by changing a distance between the detection electrode and the object of measurement in accordance with a predetermined period, using a neutral distance as reference, as a signal representing a change in electric current. The potential measurement apparatus includes a first detection unit for detecting a signal representing a fundamental period of the change in electric current and a signal representing a second harmonic period, a second detection unit for detecting information representing a capacitance between the detection electrode at the neutral distance and the object of measurement and an arithmetic unit for computationally obtaining information on the surface potential of the object of measurement, with eliminating an influence of the neutral distance and the capacitance, according to an outcome of detection of the first detection unit and an outcome of detection of the second detection unit. | 01-28-2010 |
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