Washio, JP
Hidetoshi Washio, Nara JP
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20090283127 | Method of Manufacturing Photoelectric Conversion Element and the Photoeletric Conversion Element - Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a photoelectric conversion element including a substrate and a stacked body configured of a plurality of compound semiconductor layers of different compositions sequentially stacked on the substrate, and having at least one pn junction in the stacked body. This method includes the steps of forming the stacked body configured of the plurality of compound semiconductor layers of different compositions sequentially stacked on the substrate; forming a protective film on the stacked body; forming a groove by removing at least a portion of the stacked body by at least one method selected from the group consisting of a mechanical removing method, dry etching and laser scribing; etching a side wall of the groove using an etching solution after forming the protective film and the groove; and cutting a portion corresponding to the groove for separation into a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements. Also disclosed is a photoelectric conversion element obtained by this method. | 11-19-2009 |
Isao Washio, Chiba-Shi, Chiba JP
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20150329670 | SEMIAROMATIC POLYAMIDE, SEMIAROMATIC POLYAMIDE RESIN COMPOSITION, AND MOLDED ARTICLE - To provide: a semiaromatic polyamide which has excellent moldability, heat resistance, chemical resistance and mechanical characteristics; and a molded article of this semiaromatic polyamide. A semiaromatic polyamide (I) of the present invention contains 35-50% by mole of a structural unit derived from terephthalic acid [A], 25-40% by mole of a structural unit derived from isophthalic acid [B], 15-35% by mole of a structural unit derived from an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid [C] (provided that the total of [A], [B] and [C] is 100% by mole), and a structural unit derived from an aliphatic diamine [D] having 4-12 carbon atoms. The molar ratio ([A]/[B]) is from 65/35 to 50/50, and the molar ratio ([C]/[B]) is from 30/70 to 50/50. The melting enthalpy ([increment]H) of the semiaromatic polyamide (I) as determined by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) is 20-40 mJ/mg, and the intrinsic viscosity of the semiaromatic polyamide (I) is 0.7-1.6 dl/g. | 11-19-2015 |
20160090482 | POLYESTER RESIN COMPOSITION FOR REFLECTIVE MATERIAL AND REFLECTOR INCLUDING SAME - The present invention is directed to a polyester resin composition for providing a reflector having excellent mechanical strength and heat resistance, maintaining high reflectance even in a heated environment such as an LED manufacturing process or a reflow soldering process, and having small change in shrinkage rate. The polyester resin composition for a reflective material is a composition comprising 30 to 80% by mass of a polyester resin (A) with a melting point or a glass transition temperature of 250° C. or more, 10 to 35% by mass of a glass fiber (B) with a minor axis of 3 to 8 μm, 5 to 50% by mass of a white pigment (C), and 0.3 to 1.5% by mass of an olefin polymer (D) containing 0.2 to 1.8% of a functional group structural unit (all based on a total of (A), (B), (C) and (D) which is 100% by mass). | 03-31-2016 |
Isao Washio, Chiba-Shi JP
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20150274964 | POLYESTER RESIN COMPOSITION, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, AND CAMERA MODULE CONTAINING SAID POLYESTER RESIN COMPOSITION - The purpose of the present invention is to provide a polyester resin with improved mechanical properties, molding performance, and, preferably, fire retardancy. This polyester resin composition contains the following: a polyester resin (A) that has a melting point or glass transition temperature of at least 250° C.; a thermoplastic resin (B) that has an olefin-derived constitutional unit and an aromatic hydrocarbon structure and has an intrinsic viscosity ([η]), as measured in decalin at 135° C., of 0.04 to 1.0 dl/g; and a copolymer (C) that has an olefin-derived constitutional unit, an α,β-unsaturated-carboxylic-ester-derived constitutional unit, and a cyclic oxy-hydrocarbon structure. | 10-01-2015 |
Isomi Washio, Tokyo JP
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20130276602 | SAWING MACHINE AND CUTTING METHOD OF A SAWING MACHINE - Traditionally, in order to avoid interfering with a work-piece such as a round material and an hexagonal material etc., an insert plate used as a saw blade side support of a band saw machine or a circular saw machine is provided at a position apart from the cutting site after passing the maximum cutting width, which results in the bending, vibration and noise of the saw blade, thereby decreasing the life of the saw blade. This problem is solved with two insert plates located at two positions on left and right of a work-piece to support the saw blade in a manner of moving them closing to the work-piece along the external shape of the work-piece from the cutting start and after passing the maximum cutting width by enabling them to move along the external side of the work-piece, therefore, one side of the insert plates takes a tapered shape so as to get into under the work-piece. | 10-24-2013 |
Isomi Washio, Kanagawa JP
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20080202306 | Workpiece Cutting Method and Band-Saw Machine - A workpiece cutting method utilizing a band-saw machine, includes the following steps of: guiding tooth tips of an endless band-saw blade ( | 08-28-2008 |
20100175530 | WORKPIECE CUTTING METHOD AND BAND SAW MACHINE - A workpiece cutting method utilizing a band-saw machine, includes the following steps of: guiding tooth tips of an endless band-saw blade provided on the band-saw machine in a direction of a workpiece by a band-saw blade guiding apparatus; and applying vibrations to the band-saw blade in a cutting direction to the workpiece so as to perform cutting of the workpiece by a vibration applying unit provided on the band-saw blade guiding apparatus. | 07-15-2010 |
20100175531 | WORKPIECE CUTTING METHOD AND BAND-SAW MACHINE - A workpiece cutting method utilizing a band-saw machine, includes the following steps of: guiding tooth tips of an endless band-saw blade provided on the band-saw machine in a direction of a workpiece by a band-saw blade guiding apparatus; and applying vibrations to the band-saw blade in a cutting direction to the workpiece so as to perform cutting of the workpiece by a vibration applying unit provided on the band-saw blade guiding apparatus. | 07-15-2010 |
Katsuyoshi Washio, Tokorozawa JP
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20090221259 | ACTIVE MIXER CIRCUIT AND A RECEIVER CIRCUIT OR A MILLIMETER-WAVE COMMUNICATION UNIT USING IT - The present invention provides a semiconductor integrated circuit including an active mixer circuit that is operated at low voltage, low noise, and low power consumption. It includes a transconductance amplifier, a transformer, and a multiplier, connects a transformer between the transconductance amplifier and the multiplier, and separates between the transconductance amplifier and the multiplier with respect to direct current inside the transformer. Further, each of the tranconductance amplifier and the multiplier is configured of transistors that are single-stacked between the supply voltage terminal and ground terminal. | 09-03-2009 |
20100271122 | VARIABLE-GAIN AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT EQUIPPED THEREWITH - There is disclosed a variable-gain amplifier circuit that operates on a low voltage, exhibits low distortion, provides a wide range of variation, and is suitable for use in a low-power-consumption wireless communication system. The variable-gain amplifier circuit is configured so that a variable-load circuit, which includes three reactance function elements and provides a wide range of impedance variation, is connected to a conductor circuit whose output terminal generates a positive-phase output current proportional to conductance with respect to an input voltage. | 10-28-2010 |
Katsuyoshi Washio, Tokyo JP
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20110102947 | MAGNETORESISTANCE DEVICE - A magnetoresistance device comprises a substrate, an elongate semiconductor channel extending in a first direction and at least two conductive leads providing a set of contacts to the channel. The device may comprise an optional semiconductor shunt in contact with the channel. The optional shunt, channel and set of contacts are stacked relative to the substrate in a second direction which is perpendicular to the first direction and the surface of the substrate. The device has a side face running along the channel. The device is responsive to a magnetic field generally perpendicular to the side face. | 05-05-2011 |
Kazunori Washio, Chiyoda-Ku JP
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20100192048 | TRANSMITTING APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A transmitting apparatus included in a communication system that performs message communication using an error detection code with a receiving apparatus, the transmitting apparatus includes a transmission interval determining means that, based on a parameter related to a transmission error non-detection probability of a message per time, a data length of the message, and a code length of the error detection code used for the message, determines a transmission interval for transmitting the message, so that the transmission error non-detection probability of the message satisfies a condition related to a transmission error non-detection probability included in the parameter, wherein the message is transmitted to the receiving apparatus, based on the transmission interval determined by the transmission interval determining means. | 07-29-2010 |
Kazunori Washio, Tokyo JP
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20110302466 | SIGNAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE FOR ELEVATOR - Each of a control panel node | 12-08-2011 |
20120043166 | ELEVATOR DEVICE - In an elevator device, a signal diagnosis device includes: a signal input section to which a sensor signal from a sensor is input; a disconnection detecting section for outputting a diagnosis signal for detecting disconnection to the sensor and detecting a state of a signal turned back at the sensor to be input so as to detect whether or not disconnection of the signal from the sensor occurs; a switch for turning ON/OFF an input of the signal to the disconnection detecting section; and a disconnection-detection diagnosis section for operating the switch to diagnose whether or not the disconnection detecting section functions normally. Further, a car is stopped when occurrence of the disconnection is determined by the signal diagnosis device or when an abnormality is detected by the disconnection-detection diagnosis section. | 02-23-2012 |
20120292136 | ELEVATOR SAFETY CONTROL DEVICE - An elevator safety control device realizing suppression in increase in cost and labor hour of installation and maintenance without deteriorating safety of normal safety control functions even when a plurality of safety control functions are provided. The elevator safety control device includes an independence assurance unit assuring independence of a safety control function. The independence assurance unit assures independence of each of the safety control functions by monitoring whether or not the safety control function accesses a memory other than a permitted region. When the independence assurance unit detects an access to the memory other than the permitted region by a predetermined safety control function, the elevator safety control device stops a car. | 11-22-2012 |
20130318406 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE USING PLURALITY OF COMMUNICATION PATHS - There are included an opposite-side transmitter unit for transmitting the same messages to plural communication paths, respectively; and a host-side receiver unit for receiving the messages flowing through the plural communication paths, respectively; wherein, the receiver unit, compares the plural received messages to perform verification using error-detection code on any one of the messages when they are identical, or on all of the messages when there is a mismatch; and when detected error of message due to error inclusion or reception failure, discards all of the messages received at that time, and calculates an accumulated number of error detections for each of the communication paths through which the messages has been transmitted, so as to stop receiving the control-related message, when the number of error detections has reached a given number, from the communication path where the number of error detections has reached the given number. | 11-28-2013 |
20150117465 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A communication control apparatus includes a high-reliability-signal transmission and reception control unit configured to perform control for continuously transmitting the high-reliability signal a specified number of times according to transmission timing specified within a transmission period, a transmission scheduler unit configured to calculate, on the basis of the specified transmission timing, a free time in which the high-reliability signal is not transmitted, and a non-high-reliability-signal transmission and reception control unit configured to perform, when the non-high-reliability signal cannot be transmitted within the free time, control for dividing the non-high-reliability signal into a size transmittable in the free time and transmitting the non-high-reliability signal as two or more packets. The transmission scheduler unit transmits the high-reliability signal at the specified transmission timing and transmits the divided non-high reliability signal in the free time. | 04-30-2015 |
Keisuke Washio, Okayama JP
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20110008550 | ATOMIC LAYER GROWING APPARATUS AND THIN FILM FORMING METHOD - An atomic layer growing apparatus includes a deposition container, a gas supply unit, and an exhaust unit. In the deposition container, an antenna array and a substrate stage are provided. The antenna array is formed by disposing a plurality of antenna elements in parallel, each of the antenna elements being configured by coating a rod-shaped antenna body with a dielectric material. The antenna array generates plasma using one of an oxidizing gas and a nitriding gas. The substrate is placed on the substrate stage. The gas supply unit alternately supplies the source gas and the oxidizing gas toward the substrate stage from a supply hole made in a sidewall of the deposition container when a film is formed on the substrate. The exhaust unit exhausts the source gas and one of the oxidizing gas and the nitriding gas, which are alternately supplied into the deposition container. | 01-13-2011 |
Keisuki Washio, Okayama JP
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20090291232 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GROWING PLASMA ATOMIC LAYER - Oxygen gas, for example, is introduced into a film forming chamber, and high-frequency power is supplied to a plurality of monopole antennas arranged above a silicon substrate ( | 11-26-2009 |
Kenichi Washio, Kanagawa JP
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20080297184 | SEMICONDUCTOR TEST APPARATUS - The present invention provides a semiconductor test apparatus that can reduce influence of noise in high-frequency measurement and that can be manufactured inexpensively by simplification of the constitution. A semiconductor test apparatus according to the present invention is one for use in an electrical test of a semiconductor wafer in which numerous integrated circuits each having electrode pads are incorporated. It comprises a probe card and a tester having a connection portion to the probe card. The probe card has numerous probes that can be connected to the electrode pads of the semiconductor wafer and a probe board having on one surface probe lands to which the probes are attached, having on the other surface tester lands corresponding to the probes, and having wiring paths each connecting the probe land and the tester land corresponding to each other. The tester is directly connected to the probe card as the connection portion contacts the tester lands. | 12-04-2008 |
20110095779 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTING APPARATUS AND TESTING SYSTEM USING THE SAME - An embodiment of an electrical connecting apparatus includes a chip unit having a plurality of electronic components arranged on the upper side of a chip supporting body, a probe unit having a plurality of contacts arranged on the lower side of a probe supporting body, and a connecting unit arranged between the chip unit and the probe unit and having a connecting member supporting body and a plurality of connecting members electrically connecting the chip unit to the probe unit. The chip unit, the probe unit and the connecting unit are vacuum-coupled. | 04-28-2011 |
Kenichi Washio, Yokohama-Shi JP
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20080224723 | METHOD FOR TESTING A SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER AND APPARATUS THEREOF - Reliability of results of a test such as a wafer burn-in test is raised. The present invention is a method for testing a plurality of semiconductor devices in a semiconductor wafer held in a cartridge. Each of the semiconductor devices has electrodes and the cartridge has a lower cartridge portion provided with a chuck holding the semiconductor wafer thereon, and an upper cartridge portion provided with a probe assembly having probes capable of contacting said electrodes. After constituting the cartridge and before placing the cartridge in the thermostatic chamber, a contact check to determine whether or not electrical contact between the electrodes of the semiconductor devices in the cartridge and the probes of the probe assembly is appropriate is performed. | 09-18-2008 |
20110001506 | TESTING APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An apparatus for testing an integrated circuit comprises: a chip unit with a plurality of electronic parts such as chip units arranged on the upside of a chip support; a probe unit having a plurality of contacts arranged on the underside of a probe support and spaced downward from the chip unit; a connection unit supporting the probe unit spaced downward from the chip unit on a pin support so as to penetrate the pin support in an up-down direction; and a coupling unit which couples separably the chip unit, the probe unit and the connection unit and displaces one of the chip support and the probe support and the pin support in a direction to approach each other and to be away from each other relative to the connection unit. | 01-06-2011 |
Kenichi Washio, Tokyo JP
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20100289514 | INSPECTION APPARATUS - An inspection apparatus is provided to perform an accurate temperature control, cut a noise wave, overcome contact failure, and improve inspection accuracy. The inspection apparatus includes a probe device having a contact for contacting with an electrode of an inspected object and having a built-in heater for correcting dislocation of the contact to the electrode caused by temperature difference between the probe device and the inspected object; a tester for testing probe device and supplying electric power to the heater; an electric power supply system, provided on the tester, for supplying electric power to the heater; and a temperature control unit for controlling electric power to the heater of the probe device through the electric power supply system, wherein the electric power supply system includes at least one open/close switch for switching on and off power supply to the heater. A connector including a male connector and a female connector provided on the other end are provided. A continuity-checking device checks to be able to supply electric power to the heater from the electric power supply system. | 11-18-2010 |
20110018564 | WAFER PROBER FOR SEMICONDUCTOR INSPECTION AND INSPECTION METHOD - A wafer prober is provided with a tray which supports a wafer at a set position, transports it to a processing position of the wafer and is placed at the processing position; one or more alignment units which position the wafer at the set position with respect to the tray; contact units arranged in number larger than that of the alignment units and performing inspection processing in contact with the wafer at the processing position; and a tray transport portion for transporting the tray supporting the wafer between the alignment unit and the contact unit. The tray is provided with three or more pin holes for allowing movement of the chuck pin in the XYZθ directions, an alignment mark for positioning the wafer, and an alignment portion for positioning the tray itself. | 01-27-2011 |
20140118018 | INSPECTION UNIT, PROBE CARD, INSPECTION DEVICE, AND CONTROL SYSTEM FOR INSPECTION DEVICE - An inspection unit in which a probe card is united with a connection body via a vacuum chamber. It prevents flatness of tips of probes provided on the probe card from worsening when the probe card is united with a connection body by suction force (negative pressure) of the vacuum chamber. The inspection unit includes a probe card with probes on a first surface and a connection body united with a second surface of the probe card via a first vacuum chamber. The first chamber is formed with a plurality of chambers. | 05-01-2014 |
Kenichi Washio, Musashino-Shi JP
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20130187676 | INSPECTION APPARATUS - An inspection apparatus includes a probe card having a plurality of probes arranged to correspond to each chip of a semiconductor wafer under inspection and contacting a plurality of electrodes of each chip and a test head electrically connected to the respective probes of the probe card and applying test signals from a tester, and a plurality of tester lands of a probe substrate electrically connected respectively to the plurality of probes. A plurality of electrical connecting portions on the tester side of the test head, corresponding to the respective tester lands, are arranged to constitute a plurality of arrangement areas sectioned to correspond to the respective chips under inspection, and the plurality of probes of the probe substrate are connected to the corresponding tester lands provided in the arrangement areas in units of chips under inspection. | 07-25-2013 |
Koji Washio, Tokyo JP
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20090074289 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus comprises: an edge extraction section for extracting an edge of an object of a character or a line drawing included in an image; a judgment section for judging, based on the image, a possibility that the object is an image including a plurality of colors and the object is a black object having a pixel value of an image of each color being not less than a certain value; and an edge processing section for adjusting the pixel value of the extracted edge of the object according to a result obtained by the judging by the judgment section. | 03-19-2009 |
20110019209 | THRESHOLD MATRIX GENERATING DEVICE AND THRESHOLD MATRIX GENERATING METHOD - Disclosed is a threshold matrix generating device including a basic dot pattern generating unit for obtaining a basic dot pattern by carrying out a filter process by a convolution filter to an initial dot pattern in which dots are arbitrarily arranged, by obtaining a dot density of the dots included in the initial dot pattern and by repeating a process of moving dots to a pixel in which the dot density is smallest from a pixel in which the dot density is greatest and a threshold setting unit for generating a threshold matrix of a FM screen by increasing or decreasing dots from the basic dot pattern and by repeating a process of setting a threshold to a pixel in which the dots are increased or decreased, and the threshold matrix has a shape which is to be arranged in an oblique direction by having an angle. | 01-27-2011 |
20110216381 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including a color converter for converting cyan, magenta and yellow components of a first image signal to equivalent neutral density, calculating a first gray component from cyan, magenta and yellow components of equivalent neutral density, subtracting the first gray component from each of the cyan, magenta and yellow components of equivalent neutral density, subjecting each of the cyan, magenta and yellow components of equivalent neutral density from which the first gray component is subtracted to an inverse conversion of the equivalent neutral density conversion, and outputting a second image signal comprising cyan, magenta and yellow components which are obtained by carrying out the inverse conversion to the cyan, magenta and yellow components of equivalent neutral density from which the first gray component is subtracted, the first black component and the first gray component; an image forming section for forming an image on a paper based on the second image signal by using cyan, magenta, yellow, black and gray toners; and a controller for controlling the color converter and the image forming section. | 09-08-2011 |
20120099802 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - Disclosed is an image processing method for processing image data having pixels consecutively arranged in two directions orthogonal to each other including setting a first pixel area configured by a first and a second predetermined numbers of pixels, summing up the individual pixel values of the first predetermined number of pixels in a column-wise manner with respect to first pixel columns arranged in one direction summing up the individual pixel values of the second predetermined number of pixels in a column-wise manner with respect to second pixel columns arranged in the other direction, identifying a count of stairs given by differences among the pixel values of the individual pixels in the first pixel area, respectively for one direction and for the other direction, and determining a pixel value of a predetermined pixel contained in the first pixel area. | 04-26-2012 |
20120163730 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS WHICH PERFORMS ANTI-ALIASING ON INPUT IMAGE DATA AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed in an image processing apparatus for performing anti-aliasing on input image data including a viewing window setting section which sets a viewing window of a predetermined size which includes a focused pixel, a difference determination section which extracts a plurality of combinations of two predetermined adjacent pixels in the viewing window and determines a difference between input pixel values of the two extracted pixels for each combination, a determination information obtaining section which obtains combination determination information based on a combination of determination results, and a pixel value calculation section which obtains an output pixel value of the focused pixel by carrying out a weighted addition of an input pixel value of the focused pixel and an input pixel value of a predetermined neighboring pixel which is adjacent to the focused pixel based on the combination determination information. | 06-28-2012 |
20130004098 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a thinning processing unit which performs thinning processing on image data and a smoothing processing unit which performs smoothing processing on the image data. The image processing apparatus further includes an edge direction determination unit which determines an edge direction with respect to each pixel of the image data, a blending processing unit which decides a pixel value of a target pixel of when the smoothing processing and the thinning processing are realized at the same time, and a thinning adjustment unit which determines whether a thinned pixel becomes isolated, and the thinning adjustment unit resets the change amount in pixel value due to the thinning processing of the thinned pixel to a value of zero, if the thinned pixel is determined to be isolated. | 01-03-2013 |
20130004099 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a smoothing processing unit which performs smoothing processing, a thinning processing unit which performs thinning processing, an edge direction determination unit which determines an edge direction with respect to each pixel of the image data and a blending processing unit which decides a pixel value of each pixel of when the thinning processing and the smoothing processing are realized at same time. In the image processing apparatus, the blending processing unit decides a pixel value of a target pixel of when the thinning processing and the smoothing processing are realized at the same time depending on a combination of whether the thinning processing is performed or not and whether the smoothing processing is performed or not on the target pixel. | 01-03-2013 |
20130216137 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a first edge extraction unit, an edge processing unit, a second edge extraction unit, a third edge extraction unit and a gradation processing unit. The gradation processing unit performs gradation processing on image data on which edge processing has been performed by the edge processing unit, and switches contents of the gradation processing on the basis of whether a pixel of the image data is a third edge pixel or a no-third edge pixel to enhance a third edge region as compared with another region. The third edge extracted by the third edge extraction unit is constituted of a first edge extracted by the first edge extraction unit as an edge pixel of an object and a second edge extracted by the second edge extraction unit as a pixel having a pixel value changed by the edge processing. | 08-22-2013 |
Kota Washio, Shizuoka-Ken JP
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20150064053 | PSEUDOELASTIC MAGNESIUM ALLOY, PSEUDOELASTIC MAGNESIUM ALLOY COMPONENT, AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - A pseudoelastic magnesium alloy contains magnesium as the main component thereof, and at least one element selected from Sc, Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, and Lu, wherein the pseudoelastic magnesium alloy has a unidirectional crystal structure. | 03-05-2015 |
Kota Washio, Susono-Shi JP
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20100230299 | Hydrogen storage alloy, preparation process thereof, and hydrogen storage device - The hydrogen storage alloy has, as a main phase thereof, a bcc structure phase having a composition represented by Ti | 09-16-2010 |
Kota Washio, Aichi JP
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20150083285 | MAGNESIUM ALLOY, MAGNESIUM ALLOY MEMBER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, AND METHOD FOR USING MAGNESIUM ALLOY - A magnesium alloy of the present invention has the chemical composition that contains 0.02 mol % or more and less than 0.1 mol % of at least one element selected from yttrium, scandium, and lanthanoid rare earth elements, and magnesium and unavoidable impurities accounting for the remainder. A magnesium alloy member of the present invention is produced by hot plastic working of the magnesium alloy in a temperature range of 200° C. to 550° C., followed by an isothermal heat treatment performed in a temperature range of 300° C. to 600° C. The magnesium alloy is preferred for use in applications such as in automobiles, railcars, and aerospace flying objects. The magnesium alloy and the magnesium alloy member can overcome the yielding stress anisotropy problem, and are less vulnerable to the rising price of rare earth elements. | 03-26-2015 |
Kota Washio, Sunto-Gun JP
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20150047756 | HIGH STRENGTH Mg ALLOY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - Provided is an Mg alloy and a method for producing same able to demonstrate high strength without requiring an expensive rare earth element (RE). The high-strength Mg alloy containing Ca and Zn within a solid solubility limit and the remainder having a chemical composition comprising Mg and unavoidable impurities is characterized in comprising equiaxial crystal particles, there being a segregated area of Ca and Zn along the (c) axis of a Mg hexagonal lattice within the crystal particle, and having a structure in which the segregated area is lined up by Mg | 02-19-2015 |
20160071635 | MAGNETIC COMPOUND AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - Provided is a magnetic compound represented by the formula (R | 03-10-2016 |
Kota Washio, Suntou-Gun JP
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20130323541 | AIR ELECTRODE FOR AIR BATTERY, METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME, AND AIR BATTERY - An air electrode for an air battery is provided constituting an air battery that is provided with an air electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte interposed between the air electrode and the negative electrode, and containing the air electrode contains a magnet, and also an air battery having this air electrode is provided. A method of producing an air electrode for an air battery is provided constituting an air battery that is provided with an air electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte interposed between the air electrode and the negative electrode, wherein a magnetization treatment is performed on an air electrode molding provided by molding an air electrode material that contains at least a magnet material. | 12-05-2013 |
Masakazu Washio, Tokyo JP
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20120231220 | MICROSTRUCTURAL MATERIALS AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF - There are provided a microstructural material allowing a concavo-convex pattern of a mold to be imprinted thereon by hardening a pattern formative layer through an unprecedented method, and a fabrication method thereof. A PTFE dispersion liquid is used in a pattern formative layer | 09-13-2012 |
Masanobu Washio, Kobe-Shi JP
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20120288121 | ACOUSTIC CONTROL DEVICE - A DSP performs a sound volume adjustment processing that adjusts a playback sound volume in accordance with a signal level of acoustic data in acoustic contents. Further, when the DSP detects that the acoustic data is switched, the DSP initializes the adjustment to perform a reset processing that performs adjustment in accordance with the acoustic data which is a new playback target. When the changing instruction of the playback position of the acoustic data is accepted, an audio microcomputer instructs the DSP to perform the reset processing. | 11-15-2012 |
20120294461 | SOUND EQUIPMENT, VOLUME CORRECTING APPARATUS, AND VOLUME CORRECTING METHOD - Sound equipment is configured to average an average value of a signal level at each predetermined frequency band of a sound signal at a different averaging time, to weight the average value calculated at a different averaging time by using an individual weighting value, to obtain a representative value based on a weighted average value, to determine a gain of a sound signal based on an obtained representative value, to correct a volume based on the corresponding gain, and to correct a volume based on the gain. The representative value is obtained by selecting the average value at which a gain becomes minimum within each weighted average value. The averaging performs at least a first averaging using the averaging time corresponding to the sound signal that the signal level changes rapidly, and a second averaging using the averaging time longer than the averaging time of the first averaging. | 11-22-2012 |
20120296459 | AUDIO APPARATUS - An audio apparatus according to an embodiment includes an audio signal receiving unit, a music gap signal receiving unit, a playback unit, and a determining unit. The audio signal receiving unit receives an audio signal in which successive multiple music data are contained in a single block of data. The determining unit determines a boundary of the music data on the basis of the time at which the music gap signal that indicates the boundary of the music data by the music gap signal receiving unit and the duration of a silent period in the audio signal that is played back by the playback unit. | 11-22-2012 |
20150094052 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - Each of a plurality of commands is intermittently transmitted to an electronic apparatus in accordance with an operating procedure. Thus, the plurality of commands are intermittently executed on the electronic apparatus in accordance with the operating procedure, and an operation screen is displayed in stages. Therefore, a user can grasp the operating procedure until an intended operation screen is displayed. | 04-02-2015 |
Nobuyuki Washio, Akashi JP
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20130173267 | SPEECH RECOGNITION APPARATUS, SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD, AND SPEECH RECOGNITION PROGRAM - A apparatus includes: a storage unit to store a model representing a relationship between a relative time and an occurrence probabilities; a first detection unit to detect first speech period of a first speaker; a second period detection unit to detect second speech period of a second speaker; a unit to calculate a feature value of the first speech period; a detection unit to detect a word using the calculated feature value; an adjustment unit to make an adjustment such that in detecting a word for a reply by the detection unit, the adjustment unit retrieves an occurrence probability corresponding to a relative position of the reply in the second speech period, and adjusts a word score or a detection threshold value for the reply; and a second detection unit to re-detect, using the adjusted word score or the adjusted detection threshold value, the detected word by the detection unit. | 07-04-2013 |
20150112681 | VOICE RETRIEVAL DEVICE AND VOICE RETRIEVAL METHOD - A voice retrieval device includes a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute: setting detection criteria for a retrieval word, based on a characteristic of the retrieval word, such that the higher the detection accuracy of the retrieval word or the lower the pronunciation difficulty of the retrieval word or the lower the appearance probability of the retrieval word, the stricter the detection criteria; performing first voice retrieval processing on voice data according to the detection criteria and detecting a section that possibly includes the retrieval word as a candidate section from the voice data; and performing second voice retrieval processing different from the first voice retrieval processing on each candidate section and determining whether or not the retrieval word is included in each candidate section. | 04-23-2015 |
Nobuyuki Washio, Kawasaki JP
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20090248412 | Association apparatus, association method, and recording medium - There is provided an association apparatus for associating a plurality of voice data converted from voices produced by speakers, comprising: a word/phrase similarity deriving section which derives an appearance ratio of a common word/phrase that is common among the voice data based on a result of speech recognition processing on the voice data, as a word/phrase similarity; a speaker similarity deriving section which derives a result of comparing characteristics of voices extracted from the voice data, as a speaker similarity; an association degree deriving section which derives a possibility of the plurality of the voice data, which are associated with one another, based on the derived word/phrase similarity and the speaker similarity, as an association degree; and an association section which associates the plurality of the voice data with one another, the derived association degree of which is equal to or more than a preset threshold. | 10-01-2009 |
20100004932 | SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM, SPEECH RECOGNITION PROGRAM, AND SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD - A speech recognition system includes the following: a feature calculating unit; a sound level calculating unit that calculates an input sound level in each frame; a decoding unit that matches the feature of each frame with an acoustic model and a linguistic model, and outputs a recognized word sequence; a start-point detector that determines a start frame of a speech section based on a reference value; an end-point detector that determines an end frame of the speech section based on a reference value; and a reference value updating unit that updates the reference value in accordance with variations in the input sound level. The start-point detector updates the start frame every time the reference value is updated. The decoding unit starts matching before being notified of the end frame and corrects the matching results every time it is notified of the start frame. The speech recognition system can suppress a delay in response time while performing speech recognition based on a proper speech section. | 01-07-2010 |
20100169093 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR GENERATING ACOUSTIC MODEL - An information processing apparatus for speech recognition includes a first speech dataset storing speech data uttered by low recognition rate speakers; a second speech dataset storing speech data uttered by a plurality of speakers; a third speech dataset storing speech data to be mixed with the speech data of the second speech dataset; a similarity calculating part obtaining, for each piece of the speech data in the second speech dataset, a degree of similarity to a given average voice in the first speech dataset; a speech data selecting part recording the speech data, the degree of similarity of which is within a given selection range, as selected speech data in the third speech dataset; and an acoustic model generating part generating a first acoustic model using the speech data recorded in the second speech dataset and the third speech dataset. | 07-01-2010 |
20100191524 | NON-SPEECH SECTION DETECTING METHOD AND NON-SPEECH SECTION DETECTING DEVICE - A non-speech section detecting device generating a plurality of frames having a given time length on the basis of sound data obtained by sampling sound, and detecting a non-speech section having a frame not containing voice data based on speech uttered by a person, the device including: a calculating part calculating a bias of a spectrum obtained by converting sound data of each frame into components on a frequency axis; a judging part judging whether the bias is greater than or equal to a given threshold or alternatively smaller than or equal to a given threshold; a counting part counting the number of consecutive frames judged as having a bias greater than or equal to the threshold or alternatively smaller than or equal to the threshold; a count judging part judging whether the obtained number of consecutive frames is greater than or equal to a given value. | 07-29-2010 |
20110016363 | ABNORMALITY DETECTING APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND ABNORMALITY DETECTING METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - An abnormality detection apparatus for communication terminal that detects an abnormality based on terminal information regarding operations and callings on the communication terminal, and an abnormality detection method are provided to prevent frauds using communication terminals such as a telephone set. A abnormality detection apparatus for communication terminal, including: a pattern model storage unit configured to store behavior pattern models as a probabilistic model of transition relations of events relevant to operations and calls on a communication terminal; a terminal information obtaining unit configured to detect terminal information about the operations and the calls on the communication terminal; a pattern determination unit configured to determine whether or not a current behavior pattern is a normal behavior pattern by comparing the terminal information detected by the terminal information obtaining unit with the behavior pattern models stored in the pattern model storage unit; and a warning generation unit configured to output predetermined warning information when the pattern determination unit determines that the terminal information detected by the terminal information obtaining unit is not within a normal behavior pattern. | 01-20-2011 |
20110218805 | SPOKEN TERM DETECTION APPARATUS, METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A spoken term detection apparatus includes: processing performed by a processor includes a feature extraction process extracting an acoustic feature from speech data accumulated in an accumulation part and storing an extracted acoustic feature in an acoustic feature storage, a first calculation process calculating a standard score from a similarity between an acoustic feature stored in the acoustic feature storage and an acoustic model stored in the acoustic model storage part, a second calculation process for comparing an acoustic model corresponding to an input keyword with the acoustic feature stored in the acoustic feature storage part to calculate a score of the keyword, and a retrieval process retrieving speech data including the keyword from speech data accumulated in the accumulation part based on the score of the keyword calculated by the second calculation process and the standard score stored in the standard score storage part. | 09-08-2011 |
20110282666 | Utterance state detection device and utterance state detection method - An utterance state detection device includes an user voice stream data input unit that gets user voice stream data of an user, a frequency element extraction unit that extracts high frequency elements by frequency-analyzing the user voice stream data, a fluctuation degree calculation unit that calculates a fluctuation degree of the high frequency elements thus extracted every unit time, a statistic calculation unit that calculates a statistic every certain interval based on a plurality of the fluctuation degrees in a certain period of time, and an utterance state detection unit that detects an utterance state of a specified user based on the statistic obtained from user voice stream data of the specified user. | 11-17-2011 |
20120239402 | SPEECH RECOGNITION DEVICE AND METHOD - A speech recognition device includes, a speech recognition section that conducts a search, by speech recognition, on audio data stored in a first memory section to extract word-spoken portions where plural words transferred are each spoken and, of the word-spoken portions extracted, rejects the word-spoken portion for the word designated as a rejecting object; an acquisition section that obtains a derived word of a designated search target word, the derived word being generated in accordance with a derived word generation rule stored in a second memory section or read out from the second memory section; a transfer section that transfers the derived word and the search target word to the speech recognition section, the derived word being and set to the outputting object or the rejecting object by the acquisition section; and an output section that outputs the word-spoken portion extracted and not rejected in the search. | 09-20-2012 |
20130073281 | NON-SPEECH SECTION DETECTING METHOD AND NON-SPEECH SECTION DETECTING DEVICE - A non-speech section detecting device generating a plurality of frames having a given time length on the basis of sound data obtained by sampling sound, and detecting a non-speech section having a frame not containing voice data based on speech uttered by a person, the device including: a calculating part calculating a bias of a spectrum obtained by converting sound data of each frame into components on a frequency axis; a judging part judging whether the bias is greater than or equal to a given threshold or alternatively smaller than or equal to a given threshold; a counting part counting the number of consecutive frames judged as having a bias greater than or equal to the threshold or alternatively smaller than or equal to the threshold; a count judging part judging whether the obtained number of consecutive frames is greater than or equal to a given value. | 03-21-2013 |
Nobuyuki Washio, Kanagawa JP
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20100163529 | ELECTRODE WIRE FOR WIRE ELECTRODISCHARGE MACHINING, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND SYSTEM FOR MANUFACUTRING BASE WIRE FOR THE SAME - An electrode wire for wire electrodischarge machining includes a core made of copper or copper alloy, a pure zinc layer formed by hot-dip galvanizing the core, and a relatively thin copper-zinc alloy layer formed by mutual thermal diffusion across the interface between the pure zinc layer and the core and having a zinc concentration gradient. The electrode wire is not cracked during its production. | 07-01-2010 |
Nobuyuki Washio, Kawasaki-Shi JP
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20100100559 | SEARCHING DEVICE, SEARCHING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A searching device includes a history storing unit storing a search target obtained by a search and a search date in a storage unit; a relevancy storing unit storing in the storage unit a previous searching keyword including a plurality of date-related words as well as the search target and an attribute of the search target in association with one another; a change unit changing the previous searching keyword, based on the search date stored in the storage unit and a date output from a clock unit; a reception unit receiving a previous searching keyword and the search target or attribute that are entered by voice; and an extraction unit extracting a search target corresponding to the previous searching keyword and the search target or attribute received by the reception unit, by referring to the previous searching keyword that is obtained after changing, the search target and the attribute. | 04-22-2010 |
20120000889 | ELECTRODE WIRE FOR WIRE ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE MACHINING, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE MACHINING USING THE SAME - A wire material having a copper-zinc alloy layer, which is formed by action of thermal diffusion, and a zinc layer on its circumference surface is subjected to processes, including from a step of drawing the wire material to a step of reducing the diameter of the product, to reliably crash the copper-zinc alloy layer into particles. The particles are embedded in the circumference surface of a core to integrate the diffusion alloy layer and zinc layer with the core and prevent the diffusion alloy layer and zinc layer from falling off from the core. In addition, in order to cover cracks formed in the copper-zinc alloy layer during wire drawing with a zinc thin film, wire drawing is performed at temperatures appropriate for maintaining good malleability and ductility of zinc. | 01-05-2012 |
Satoshi Washio, Hokkaido JP
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20080248831 | Mobile Terminal Device - When a mobile terminal is brought close to an external R/W, a FeliCa chip in the mobile terminal detects an information signal via a communication section. A header identifying section identifies a header of the information signal received via the communication section, and when Felica content is included in the information signal, stores the FeliCa content in the FeliCa ship. Based on a control signal, a FAM refers to a table, and instructs the representation corresponding to the FeliCa content to a mobile terminal OS. According to the instruction from the FAM, the mobile terminal OS performs the representation using a speaker, lamp, display and/or vibrator. | 10-09-2008 |
20080290158 | Mobile Terminal Device and Data Acquistion Method Using the Same - In a system according to the invention, a communication section of a mobile terminal detects a carrier from an external R/W, starts communication with the external R/W, and acquires content simplified data of contactless card function content from the external R/W. The acquired content simplified data is transferred to a control section using the contactless card function content and stored. Further, in this system, by connecting to a URL contained in the content simplified data, content body data of the contactless card function content corresponding to the content simplified data is downloaded and stored in the mobile terminal. | 11-27-2008 |
Satoshi Washio, Chuo-Ku JP
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20110275754 | POLYMER EMULSION AND AQUEOUS INKJET RECORDING LIQUID CONTAINING SAID POLYMER EMULSION - An object of the present invention is to provide a pigment-type aqueous inkjet recording liquid capable of improving the clogging in nozzles and providing stable discharge, and having excellent physical properties required as an inkjet recoding liquid, in particular an OD value and wear-resistance. An aqueous inkjet recording liquid according to the present invention contains a polymer emulsion obtained by radically polymerizing a radically-polymerizable unsaturated monomer (a) containing radically-polymerizable unsaturated monomer having a specific amount of an alkoxysilyl group (a2) as an essential ingredient by using a specific amount of an emulsifier, water, and an aqueous polymerization initiator, and a pigment, in which a number of ultra-large particles of 1.5 μm or greater in the polymer emulsion when converted to a solid content concentration 0.1% is 5.0×10 | 11-10-2011 |
20140114020 | POLYMER EMULSION AND AQUEOUS INKJET RECORDING LIQUID CONTAINING SAID POLYMER EMULSION - An object of the present invention is to provide a pigment-type aqueous inkjet recording liquid capable of improving the clogging in nozzles and providing stable discharge, and having excellent physical properties required as an inkjet recoding liquid, in particular an OD value and wear-resistance. An aqueous inkjet recording liquid according to the present invention contains a polymer emulsion obtained by radically polymerizing a radically-polymerizable unsaturated monomer (a) containing radically-polymerizable unsaturated monomer having a specific amount of an alkoxysilyl group (a2) as an essential ingredient by using a specific amount of an emulsifier, water, and an aqueous polymerization initiator, and a pigment, in which a number of ultra-large particles of 1.5 μm or greater in the polymer emulsion when converted to a solid content concentration 0.1% is 5.0×10 | 04-24-2014 |
Seiichi Washio, Okayama JP
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20080210097 | Deaerator and Deaerating Method - The present invention provides a deaerator and a deaerating method which enable the continuous deaeration of a liquid at a low cost. That is, with respect to a pipe which supplies a fluid by a supply means, a rip-out portion which rips out a fluid from an inner peripheral surface of the pipe is provided at a predetermined position in the inside of the pipe, and the fluid is supplied at a predetermined flow rate by a flow control means which adjusts the flow rate of the liquid which is supplied through the pipe so as to form a cavity on a downstream side of the rip-out portion. A through hole which communicates with the cavity is formed in the pipe, and deaeration of the liquid is performed by exhausting gases in the inside of the cavity by suction means such as a vacuum pump via the through hole. | 09-04-2008 |
Seiichi Washio, Okayama-Shi JP
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20090308253 | Deaerating and Dissolving Apparatus, and Deaerating and Dissolving Method - The present invention provides a deaerating and dissolving apparatus and a deaerating and dissolving method which can carry out a process of deaerating a liquid or a process of dissolving a gas in the liquid as continuous processes, and moreover, at a relatively low cost. The deaerating and dissolving apparatus or the deaerating and dissolving method includes: a pipe which is configured to feed a liquid; a flow rate control section which is provided to a middle portion of the pipe and is configured to feed the liquid at a predetermined flow rate to a downstream side; a cavity forming section which is provided to a middle portion of the pipe downstream of the flow rate control section and is configured to produce a stationary cavity which is in contact with the liquid, and a pressurization/depressurization section which pressurizes or depressurizes the inside of the cavity, wherein the liquid is deaerated when the inside of the cavity is depressurized with the pressurization/depressurization section, and a gas is dissolved into the liquid when the inside of the cavity is pressurized with the gas supplied through the pressurization/depressurization section. | 12-17-2009 |
Suguru Washio, Yokohama JP
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20120278694 | ANALYSIS METHOD, ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND ANALYSIS PROGRAM - A data structure analysis means reads out document data A and document data B from a document data storage means, and analyzes the reference relationship between the documents to generate the structure information of the documents. Also, the data structure analysis means analyzes the relationship between items to generate the structure information between the items. A change information analysis means detects unassociated files and unassociated items which are present only in one document. An information matching means associates the unassociated files with one another on the basis of the structure information of the documents. Also, the information matching means associates the unassociated items with one another on the basis of the structure information between the items. | 11-01-2012 |
20150127689 | MAPPING DEVICE, MAPPING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium has stored therein a mapping program that causes a computer to execute a process. The process includes: first calculating a matching rate between top-level parent items in a hierarchical relationship between a first plurality of items of a first data and a second plurality of items of a second data based on an item information relating to the first plurality of items and the second plurality of items, the first data including one or a plurality of items before a change, the second data including one or a plurality of items after the change; and associating the parent items of the first data and the second data with each other based on the calculated matching rate. | 05-07-2015 |
Taichi Washio, Okazaki-Shi JP
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20150045183 | VEHICLE - In a vehicle including a continuously variable transmission, an ECU sets an accelerator opening degree for shift control in accordance with an actual accelerator opening degree and controls shifting of the continuously variable transmission by using accelerator opening degree for shift control. The ECU updates accelerator opening degree for shift control whenever an amount of increase in actual accelerator opening degree with respect to accelerator opening degree for shift control reaches a prescribed value or whenever an amount of decrease in actual accelerator opening degree with respect to accelerator opening degree for shift control reaches a prescribed value. | 02-12-2015 |
Taichi Washio, Okazaki-Shi Aichi-Ken JP
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20140297142 | SPEED RATIO CONTROL DEVICE OF CONTINUOUSLY VARIABLE TRANSMISSION FOR VEHICLE - Speed change inhibition control for inhibiting change of the speed ratio of a continuously variable transmission (CVT) is executed when an input shaft speed of the CVT is lower than a predetermined ABS-operating-time upper-limit input shaft speed. Therefore, the speed ratio of the CVT can be changed to the largest reduction ratio until it is determined that the input shaft speed of the CVT is lower than the predetermined ABS-operating-time upper-limit input shaft speed. Thus, during ABS operation of an ABS control device before the vehicle is stopped, the speed ratio can be returned to the largest reduction ratio in a condition where engine brake force is not excessively applied, and sufficient driving force of the vehicle or starting response is obtained when the vehicle is re-started. | 10-02-2014 |
Takahiro Washio, Aomori-Shi JP
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20150123095 | ORGANIC EL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - An organic Electro Luminescence device that equalizes heat generated in an organic EL element while preventing the intrusion of moisture. A light emitting element is covered with an inorganic sealing layer, an adhesive layer, an insulating resin film, and a metallic foil. The organic EL device includes a current carrying area located outside and along an edge of an emission area. A heat-conductive sealing stacked layer structure is formed in the current carrying area and includes the following layers in direct contact with each other in the following order: a first electrode layer extended from the emission area, auxiliary electrode layers having heat conductivity larger than that of the first electrode layer, the inorganic sealing layer, the adhesive layer, and a heat-conductive sealing layer. The heat-conductive sealing stacked layer structure having a linear shape is located near at least one side of a transparent substrate. | 05-07-2015 |
20150228926 | ORGANIC EL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - Provided is an organic EL device which can prevent invasion of moisture to an organic EL element. The organic EL device has an organic EL element in which a first electrode layer, a functional layer, and a second electrode layer are stacked in sequence on a transparent substrate having a planar expanse, and an inorganic sealing layer for sealing at least an emission area of the organic EL element. A soft adhesion layer is stacked directly onto the inorganic sealing layer with a planar expanse, and the soft adhesion layer is made of a resin, and has flexibility. | 08-13-2015 |
Takashi Washio, Osaka JP
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20100274756 | MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA ANALYSIS METHOD, MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA ANALYSIS APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - A highly-usable multidimensional data analysis method for performing interactive analysis on, for example, medical/administrative data stored in a hospital information system to support knowledge discovery about clinical decision-making is proposed. A multidimensional data analysis apparatus ( | 10-28-2010 |
20110004631 | FREQUENT CHANGING PATTERN EXTRACTION DEVICE - A frequent changing pattern extraction device ( | 01-06-2011 |
Takumi Washio, Ibaraki JP
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20110007083 | DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING METHOD - According to an aspect of the embodiment, a user apparatus transmits a parameter on generation of drawing data to each of drawing data generation apparatuses through a network, to assign generation processing of the drawing data to each of drawing data generation apparatuses. The user apparatus receives the drawing data generated based on the parameter by each of the plurality of drawing data generation apparatuses through the network, and displays the received drawing data. The user apparatus changes the parameter corresponding to the displayed drawing data, and displays a new drawing data corresponding to the changed parameter. | 01-13-2011 |
20130041639 | SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING MEMBRANE STRESS ON ARBITRARY-SHAPED CURVILINEAR SURFACE BASED ON CURRENT CONFIGURATION DATA - A stress estimating system includes a polygon data input unit of polygon data modeling a vascular wall, an interactive analysis condition setting unit for setting the tensile force acting on the vascular wall boundary, blood pressure and constraint estimated as proper on the boundary, a stress analysis unit for obtaining two-dimensional stress by solving a mechanical equilibrium equation with respect to the membrane stress on a curvilinear surface of the vascular wall under the condition given by the polygon data input unit and the interactive analysis condition setting unit, and an interactive visualization unit for displaying a distribution of a stress component designated by a system user. Without assuming any symmetry for the curvilinear configuration and stress distribution, a complicated stress distribution is estimated only out of the mechanical equilibrium equation with respect to membrane stress. | 02-14-2013 |
Takumi Washio, Tsukuba-Shi JP
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20120084014 | MODELING DEVICE, PROGRAM, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND METHOD OF ESTABLISHING CORRESPONDENCE - A modeling device is disclosed that easily projects characteristic information obtained from an object onto a differently-shaped object, even if the object, from which the characteristic information is obtained, has a complex shape. A modeling device in one embodiment of the present invention includes a virtually electrifying section to calculate an electric potential at a spot in a heart at the time when a predetermined voltage is applied to the heart, and a projecting section to project a fiber orientation onto a heart model created on the basis of shape information that is input to the input section. The projecting section specifies a spot to be a target of projection on the basis of the electric potential obtained by the virtually electrifying section. Use of the electric potential in specifying the spot makes it possible to easily project the fiber orientation onto any heart having complex and various shapes. | 04-05-2012 |
20130342217 | MODELING DEVICE, PROGRAM, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND METHOD OF ESTABLISHING CORRESPONDENCE - A modeling device is disclosed that easily projects characteristic information obtained from an object onto a differently-shaped object, even if the object, from which the characteristic information is obtained, has a complex shape. A modeling device in one embodiment of the present invention includes a virtually electrifying section to calculate an electric potential at a spot in a heart at the time when a predetermined voltage is applied to the heart, and a projecting section to project a fiber orientation onto a heart model created on the basis of shape information that is input to the input section. The projecting section specifies a spot to be a target of projection on the basis of the electric potential obtained by the virtually electrifying section. Use of the electric potential in specifying the spot makes it possible to easily project the fiber orientation onto any heart having complex and various shapes. | 12-26-2013 |
Takumi Washio, Bunkyo-Ku JP
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20110288834 | FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION SIMULATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A fluid structure interaction simulation method includes a graph information forming process to form graph information of nodes obtained by discretising a computing region for each of a fluid and a structure that are represented by meshes, and a main time development loop process to simulate a physical phenomenon. The loop process includes arranging IMEs (Interaction Mediating Elements) that move with a displacement of the structure, on a boundary of the structure, defining, within the IME, correcting functions of a pressure and a velocity of the fluid that interact with the pressure and the velocity of the fluid and the displacement of the structure, and executing a simulation based on the correcting functions, in a state in which the meshes of the fluid are mismatched to the meshes of the structure. | 11-24-2011 |
Takumi Washio, Tokyo JP
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20110235883 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL TEMPLATE TRANSFORMATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method includes: obtaining designated 3D template for a designated part in a heart; generating 3D annulus data representing an annulus of a heart valve identified as a reference of transformation, from a cross-section image in a plane passing through an axis within the annulus of the identified heart valve in 3D volume data generated from tomographic images; identifying a first point on the annulus of the identified heart valve in the designated 3D template and a second point on the annulus represented by the 3D annulus data; arranging n starting points from the first point on the annulus of the identified heart valve in the designated 3D template and n target points from the second point on the annulus represented by the 3D annulus data; and calculating movement destination coordinates of vertices of polygons relating to the designated 3D template to transform the designated 3D template. | 09-29-2011 |
20110292039 | VISUALIZATION PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - This method includes: generating data of a mask surface with respect to visualization data arranged in a virtual three-dimensional space, for calculation values at respective calculation points; identifying, from a first data storage storing, as time-series data, positions of the calculation points and calculation values at the calculation points, a first point whose position is closest to a predetermined point on the mask surface; reading out, from the first data storage, a position of the identified first point in each time; arranging the mask surface in each time based on a direction of a user's sight line and the read position in each time so as to make the mask surface perpendicular to the direction of the user's sight line and have the predetermined point on the mask surface arranged at the read position; and drawing polygon data of the visualization data and the mask surface in time series. | 12-01-2011 |
20120301053 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - The disclosed method includes: carrying out scale conversion for a first pixel value of each of a plurality of pixels included in an image to generate a second pixel value of the plurality of pixels; applying a reaction-diffusion equation including a diffusion element and a reaction element that is set according to at least the number of types of regions to be extracted, to the second pixel value of each of plural pixels within a certain region of the image a predetermined number of times to generate a third pixel value of each of the plurality of pixels included in the image; and carrying out scale inverse-conversion that is inverse-conversion of the scale conversion, for the third pixel value of each of the plurality of pixels included in the image to generate a fourth pixel value of the plurality of pixels. | 11-29-2012 |
20130002677 | SHAPE DATA GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A disclosed method is a shape data generation method including: identifying, from among a plural vertices of a first shape to be transformed, one or plural first vertices satisfying a predetermined condition including a condition that a normal line of a vertex to be processed crosses with a second shape that is a shape of a transformation target, which is identified from image data; transforming the first shape so as to move each of the one or plural identified first vertices a predetermined distance toward a corresponding normal direction of the identified first vertex; and storing data concerning the plural vertices of the transformed first shape after the identifying and the transforming are executed the predetermined number of times. | 01-03-2013 |
20130304445 | SIMULATION METHOD AND SIMULATOR APPARATUS - A geometric model of an organ represents its shape as a collection of elements formed from nodes and connections among them. A first vessel network model represents a network of first vessels whose diameters are larger than or equal to a threshold. A plurality of second vessel networks each represent a network of second vessels whose diameters are smaller than the threshold. In a simulator apparatus, a first analysis unit analyzes hemodynamics in the first vessels, based on the geometric model and first vessel network model of the organ and reflecting the motion of the organ. A second analysis unit analyzes hemodynamics in the second vessel network models connected to the nodes, by using output data of the first analysis unit which indicates the hemodynamics in the first vessels at each of the nodes. | 11-14-2013 |
20130328868 | COMPUTER PRODUCT, RENDERING METHOD, AND RENDERING APPARATUS - A computer-readable recording medium stores a rendering program that causes a computer to execute process that includes acquiring an internal organ model that is a set of elements having physical values according each position of an internal organ; setting a plurality of planes that form given angles with a line of sight from a viewpoint position, and intersect the internal organ model; assigning among the set of elements, a physical value of an element intersected by a plane set at the setting, to an element cross section that is a plane where the plane set at the setting intersects the element; and rendering, based on the physical value, the element cross section to which the physical value has been assigned. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332126 | COMPUTER PRODUCT, RENDERING APPARATUS, AND RENDERING METHOD - A computer-readable recording medium stores a rendering program that renders simulation results and causes a computer to execute a process that includes detecting a range of physical values of a rendering element group to be rendern and of an area specified in a simulation model that is a set of elements each having a physical value for each position to be simulated; identifying from the simulation model, an adjacent element group that is a set of elements adjacent to rendering elements included in the rendering element group; determining whether the physical value of each adjacent element included in the adjacent element group is within the range; adding to the rendering element group, an adjacent element for which the physical value is determined to be included in the range; and rendering the simulation model according to the rendering element group to which the adjacent element has been added. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332134 | COMPUTER PRODUCT, DISPLAY METHOD, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A computer-readable recording medium stores a display program for displaying simulation results and causing a computer to execute detecting from a first element group having physical values according to position in a simulation model of a first unit time, a first element string along a first line that passes through the simulation model; extracting from the first element string, first physical values of the first element string; setting a second line that passes through the simulation model of a second unit time subsequent to the first unit time; detecting from a second element group having physical values according to position in the simulation model of the second unit time, a second element string along the second line and corresponding to the first element string; extracting from the second element string, second physical values of the second element string; and displaying the first physical values and the second physical values. | 12-12-2013 |
20140002450 | VISUALIZATION METHOD, AND VISUALIZATION APPARATUS | 01-02-2014 |
20140022252 | RENDERING PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A disclosed method includes extracting a region from each of plural cross sections in a volume data representing a solid to be rendered, based on data of brightness values of texels for each of the plurality of cross sections, wherein the plural cross sections are perpendicular to an axis set for the volume data; deleting any one of two adjacent cross sections among the plural cross sections based on a correlation between a region extracted for one cross section of the two adjacent cross sections and a region extracted for the other cross section of the two adjacent cross sections; and rendering the solid by using data of the cross sections after the deleting. | 01-23-2014 |
20140022253 | MODEL GENERATION METHOD AND MODEL GENERATION APPARATUS - A computer sets a first point on a first part in a plurality of tomographic images of an organ. The computer determines a relative position of the first point with respect to reference positions of the first part and a second part in the tomographic images. The computer sets a second point in association with the first point, on the first part in a 3D model representing a structure of the organ, such that a relative position of the second point with respect to reference positions of the first part and the second part in the 3D model matches the relative position of the first point. Then, the computer deforms the 3D model such that, when the tomographic images and the 3D model are placed in the same coordinate system, the position of the second point matches that of the first point. | 01-23-2014 |
20140022259 | DISPLAY PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A disclosed display processing method includes: first generating data of a faying surface region between a first line element, for which a greatest radius is defined, and a second line element, for which a second greatest radius is defined, at a point where end points of plural line elements are connected, by using data of plural line elements for which a radius and coordinates of both end points are defined and data representing connection relationships between line elements; and second generating, for each line object of the plural line elements, data of a tubular object that is defined based on a faying surface region generated for the line element. | 01-23-2014 |
20140023261 | DISPLAY PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A disclosed method includes: identifying an axis that is a straight or curved line inside of a space; first generating plural surface regions that are orthogonal to the identified axis; second generating, from a first vector provided at each vertex of an unstructured grid disposed inside of the space, a second vector at each point of plural points on a surface region for each of the generated plural surface regions; and displaying an arrow corresponding to the generated second vector. | 01-23-2014 |
20140114633 | DISPLAY PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A disclosed method includes: defining two first points in a model cross section of a model of an object and two corresponding second points in an image that is a cross section of the object for a reference time; performing first transforming including expansion or reduction for the model cross section so that a position of a second point is identical to a position of a corresponding first point; superimposing the image and the model cross section after the performing; second transforming a second model cross section for a second time after the reference time, so that positions of two second points in a second image for the second time are almost identical to positions of corresponding two first points in the second model cross section; and superimposing the second image and the second model cross section after the second transforming. | 04-24-2014 |
20140214389 | BIOLOGICAL SIMULATION METHOD AND BIOLOGICAL SIMULATION DEVICE - A biological simulation method of causing a computer to execute following steps. Firstly, the computer calculates states of a plurality of actins and states of a plurality of myosins in a sarcomere contained in a muscle of a biological body using a model that defines a plurality of states of the actins and a plurality of states of the myosins and transition rates between the states. Secondly, the computer calculates behaviors of the respective actins and behaviors of the respective myosins based on the states of the actins and the states of the myosins, respectively. Thirdly, the computer calculates a behavior of the sarcomere based on the behaviors of the actins and the behaviors of the myosins. Fourthly, the computer calculates a behavior of the muscle based on the behavior of the sarcomere. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214390 | BIOLOGICAL SIMULATION METHOD AND BIOLOGICAL SIMULATION DEVICE - A biological simulation method includes calculating a behavior of a material contained in a cell of an organ of a biological body, calculating a behavior of the cell based on the calculated behavior of the material, calculating a behavior of the organ based on the calculated behavior of the cell, reflecting the calculated behavior of the organ to the behavior of the cell, and reflecting the behavior of the cell to which the behavior of the organ has been reflected to the behavior of the material. | 07-31-2014 |
20140306960 | DISPLAY PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A disclosed method includes: performing a processing for adjusting positions of voxel data for an object and data of a geometric model for the object; calculating, for each voxel included in a range defined by a cross section among plural voxels that are included in the voxel data, a voxel value of the voxel from physical values in elements of the geometric model, which are included in a predetermined range of the voxel, based on a relation between the cross section and vectors; and rendering an image by using the voxel value calculated for each voxel. A vector of the vectors is set for one element of plural elements included in the geometric model, the vectors represent a direction of an inner structure of the object, and the cross section is set for the voxel data and the geometric model data. | 10-16-2014 |
20150046139 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING VASCULAR DATA - In a vascular data generation apparatus, a processor generates first vascular data based on anatomical statistics data about vessels of an organ. This first vascular data has a tree structure representing a vascular network in the organ. The processor further generates second vascular data representing a plurality of vessels that connect a plurality of nodes in a geometric model of the organ with the vascular network represented by the first vascular data. | 02-12-2015 |
20150130804 | SHAPE DATA GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A shape data generation method includes: generating a target shape of transformation from plural tomographic images of an object; specifying, from among plural vertices of a first shape that is a reference shape of the object, plural first vertices, each first vertex of which satisfies a condition that a normal line of the first vertex passes through a point that is located on the target shape and is located on a boundary of the object in any one of the plural tomographic images; identifying, for each of the plural first vertices, a second vertex that internally divides a segment between the first vertex and the point; transforming the first shape so as to put each of the plural first vertices on a corresponding second vertex; setting a shape after the transforming to the first shape; and executing the first specifying and the subsequent processings a predetermined number of times. | 05-14-2015 |
20150131914 | SHAPE DATA GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - This shape data generation method include: setting an input shape that has a simple shape that has a same topology as the target shape for a target shape that is a shape of a transformation target identified from image data; identifying first vertices that satisfy a predetermined condition including a first condition that a normal line of a certain vertex of the plural vertices crosses with the target shape, among plural vertices of the input shape; transforming the input shape so that a first vertex is moved in a direction of a normal line of the first vertex by a first distance that is shorter than a distance up to the target shape; and performing the identifying and the transforming a predetermined number of times while changing the input shape after the transforming as the input shape to be processed. | 05-14-2015 |
20150146954 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An information processing method includes: converting voxel data to node data in which a voxel, which has a brightness value that is outside a certain brightness value range, is set as a first node, and a voxel, which has a brightness value that is within the certain brightness value range, is set as a second node that has a capability to extract relating nodes based on a neighborhood relationship between voxels; performing, for each second node, a calculation processing to calculate an output. value of a reaction-diffusion equation by using a value corresponding to a brightness value of the second node and values corresponding to brightness values of relating nodes extracted from the second node, a predetermined number of times; and determining a brightness value of each second node from the output value of the reaction-diffusion equation after performing the calculation processing the predetermined number of times. | 05-28-2015 |
20150154282 | DATA SEARCH APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A storage section stores positional information and a physical amount for each of a plurality of physical amount set points arranged in a three-dimensional model. A division section generates division data corresponding to each of a plurality of second regions obtained by dividing a first region including the three-dimensional model so as to make the number of physical amount set points included in each second region equal. When a position in the three-dimensional model is designated, a search section acquires from the storage section a physical amount for a physical amount set point corresponding to the designated position of physical amount set points which division data corresponding to a second region, of the plurality of second regions, including the designated position includes. | 06-04-2015 |
20150161297 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING SHAPE DATA - A shape data generation apparatus includes a detection unit and a generation unit. With reference to model information indicating the thicknesses and the positions of both ends of a plurality of elements each having a cylindrical surface, the detection unit detects a connection point where two or more elements are connected to each other, on the basis of the positions of both ends of the elements. The generation unit generates a curved surface collectively covering the connecting ends of the two or more elements, on the basis of the thicknesses and the positions of both ends of the two or more elements connected at the connection point. | 06-11-2015 |
20150193930 | TECHNIQUE FOR PRESUMING POSITIONS OF ORGANS - An apparatus for presuming positions of organs is configured to transform plural organs included in a template that is a model including the plural organs so as to match a predetermined target organ among the plural organs in the template to a corresponding organ in volume data; and perform a first processing and a second processing a predetermined number of times. The first processing includes transforming a first organ selected among the plural organs in the template according to a corresponding first organ in the volume data, and the second processing includes transforming, for each of second organs that are predetermined organs, which are influenced by transformation of the first organ, the second organ according to transformation performed for third organs that are predetermined organs, which influence the second organ in the template. | 07-09-2015 |
20150193961 | VISUALIZATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - In this visualization method, for each brightness value for voxels included in a predetermined Region Of Interest (ROI) in a three-dimensional volume data, opacity is set according to an appearance frequency of the brightness value. Then, three-dimensional image data is generated for a portion on and under a cross section set for the three-dimensional volume data, by using color data that corresponds to a brightness value of each voxel included in the ROI and the opacity of each brightness value. Then, a cross section image generated from data of voxels on the cross section and the three-dimensional image data are superimposed and displayed. | 07-09-2015 |
20150199840 | SHAPE DATA GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A shape data generation method relating to this invention includes: first generating first three-dimensional voxel data that represents a target object by using first tomographic images, in which a first region occupied by the target object is designated, among plural tomographic images; extracting, from the first tomographic images, brightness values of voxels included in the first region; second generating a function for calculating a probability that a voxel is included in the first region by using the extracted brightness values; calculating, for each voxel among voxels in a voxel space that includes the plural tomographic images, a probability by using a brightness value of the voxel and the function; and third generating second three-dimensional voxel data that represents the target object by using the first three-dimensional voxel data and probabilities calculated for the voxels in the voxel space. | 07-16-2015 |
20150348310 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR VISUALIZATION - A visualization apparatus includes a storage unit and a computation unit. The storage unit stores a three-dimensional model of a heart, excitation propagation data indicating temporal variations of electrical signal strength in myocardium during propagation of excitation in the heart, and infarct area data indicating locations of infarct areas in the heart. The computation unit places a measurement point on an accessory pathway between the infarct areas. Then based on the excitation propagation data, the computation unit determines a variation range of electrical signal strength as a range between its minimum and maximum values at the measurement point. The computation unit outputs a picture that visualizes propagation of cardiac excitation in the three-dimensional model, based on the excitation propagation data, by varying a visual property in the picture to represent variations of the electric signal strength within the determined variation range. | 12-03-2015 |
20150379755 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR VISUALIZATION - Based on heart behavior data, a computation unit determines a first time step at which a heart exhibits a first behavior in response to a first wave of an electrical signal, as well as a second time step at which the heart exhibits a second behavior in response to a second wave of the same. The computation unit reproduces the heart's behavior over time by updating a three-dimensional model of the heart according to the heart behavior data, simultaneously with variations in electrical signal strength over time according to electrocardiogram data. The computation unit coordinates this reproduction such that a first shape of the heart at the first time is reproduced step simultaneously with the first wave of the electrical signal, and such that a second shape of the heart at the second time step is reproduced simultaneously with the second wave of the electrical signal. | 12-31-2015 |
20160140418 | MODELING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A disclosed modelling method includes: calculating a first function for generating data of a closed surface that contains plural points representing an annular structure in an object, based on positional information of the plural points; generating data of a first point set representing a boundary of the object, from tomographic image data; detecting data of points which are included in the first point set and located inside the closed surface by using the first function; removing the detected data of points from the data of the first point set to generate data of a second point set; calculating a second function for generating data of a shape of the object using the data of the second point set and data of the plural points; and storing data of the shape of the object, which is generated by using the second function, in the memory. | 05-19-2016 |
Takuya Washio, Tokyo JP
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20110306621 | ACYLGUANIDINE DERIVATIVES - An object of the present invention is to provide an excellent agent for treating or preventing dementia, schizophrenia based on a serotonin 5-HT | 12-15-2011 |
20120041036 | SUBSTITUTED ACYLGUANIDINE DERIVATIVES (AS AMENDED) - An object of the present invention is to provide an excellent agent for treating or preventing dementia, schizophrenia based on serotonin 5-HT | 02-16-2012 |
20120142727 | NITROGENOUS-RING ACYLGUANIDINE DERIVATIVE - [Object] An excellent agent for preventing or treating dementia, schizophrenia, and the like, based on serotonin 5-HT | 06-07-2012 |
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Tomoto Washio, Tokyo JP
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20150378542 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR COMPUTER SYSTEM - A management system is configured to display, on the basis of management information defining hierarchical relationships of a plurality of elements of a computer system, two or more element objects, which are GUI (Graphical User Interface) objects respectively corresponding to two or more elements belonging to the same hierarchical level, without displaying an element object of a lower-level element therewithin. The management system is configured to control, upon receiving a magnify indication conforming to a magnify operation for a first element object from among the two or more element objects, whether or not to display an element object of a lower-level element belonging to the first element inside the first element object in accordance with whether or not the zoom level reaches a prescribed level when the first element object is magnified in response to the magnify indication. | 12-31-2015 |
Tomoto Washio, Sango JP
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20130110811 | COMPUTER AND METHOD FOR MAKING SEARCH ENGINE SEARCH RESOURCE OF COMPUTER SYSTEM INCLUDING STORAGE SYSTEM AND FOR DISPLAYING RESULT OF THE SEARCH | 05-02-2013 |
Toshifumi Washio, Kawasaki JP
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20100127673 | Power feed system and voltage stabilization method - A voltage stabilizing circuit is provided between an insulated converter and a non-insulated converter. When an input voltage Vin from the insulated converter rises, a base current Ib is caused to flow into a transistor via a capacitor, thereby causing a collector current Ic that is hfe times larger than the base current Ib to flow into a collector of the transistor. As a result, a capacitance C of the capacitor is caused to produce approximately the same effect as that produced in a case where a capacitor whose capacitance is equivalent to a value obtained by multiplying the capacitance by the current amplification factor hfe of the transistor is inserted between a power supply line and a ground. | 05-27-2010 |
Yasushi Washio, Kanagawa JP
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20090285985 | Resin composition and coating method using the same - To provide a resin composition capable of forming a thin film layer so as to cause tenting over concave portions by conventional coating processes without depending on dry films, and also a coating method so as to cause tenting of the resin composition. A resin composition, which, by spin coating, causes tenting over concave portions formed on a substrate, the resin composition including a resin component (a) and a solvent (b) and has a viscosity of at least 200 cP, and tenting can be achieved by using the resin composition, allowing the resin composition to fall drop wise onto a substrate on which concave portions are formed, and spin coating the substrate at a rotating speed of 300 to 4000 rpm. | 11-19-2009 |
20130230801 | POSITIVE-TYPE PHOTORESIST COMPOSITION, PHOTORESIST LAMINATE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING PHOTORESIST PATTERN, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING CONNECTING TERMINAL - What is provided is a positive-type photoresist composition containing an acid generator (A) capable of generating an acid when irradiated with an active ray or radiation, a resin (B) whose solubility in alkali increases under the action of acid, and an organic solvent (S), the photoresist composition further containing an alkali-metal salt (C). | 09-05-2013 |
Yasushi Washio, Kawasaki-Shi JP
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20090068341 | POSITIVE PHOTORESIST COMPOSITION, THICK FILM PHOTORESIST LAMINATE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THICK FILM RESIST PATTERN, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING CONNECTING TERMINAL - This positive photoresist composition is a positive photoresist composition for exposing to light having one or more wavelengths selected from g-rays, h-rays and i-rays, comprising: (A) a compound which generates an acid under irradiation with active rays or radiation, and (B) a resin whose solubility in an alkali is enhanced by an action of an acid, wherein the component (A) contains an onium salt (A1) having a naphthalene ring in the cation moiety. | 03-12-2009 |
20100047715 | CHEMICALLY AMPLIFIED POSITIVE-TYPE PHOTORESIST COMPOSITION FOR THICK FILM, CHEMICALLY AMPLIFIED DRY FILM FOR THICK FILM, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF THICK FILM RESIST PATTERN - Disclosed are a chemically amplified positive-type photoresist composition for a thick film, a chemically amplified dry film for a thick film, and a method for producing a thick film resist pattern, all of which are capable of obtaining a satisfactory resist pattern with high sensitivity even on a substrate having a portion formed of copper on an upper surface thereof. The chemically amplified positive-type photoresist composition for a thick film comprises component (A) which includes at least one compound capable of producing an acid upon irradiation with an actinic ray or radiation, and component (B) which includes at least one resin whose alkali solubility increases by the action of an acid, in which the component (A) includes an onium fluorinated alkyl fluorophosphate having a specific structure. | 02-25-2010 |
20120141940 | CHEMICALLY AMPLIFIED POSITIVE-TYPE PHOTORESIST COMPOSITION FOR THICK FILM, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THICK FILM RESIST PATTERN - A chemically amplified positive-type photoresist composition for a thick film capable of forming a thick film resist pattern having superior resolving ability and controllability of dimensions, and being favorable in rectangularity, as well as a method for producing a thick film resist pattern using such a composition. The photoresist composition comprises an acid generator including a cationic moiety and an anionic moiety, and a resin whose alkali solubility increases by the action of an acid. | 06-07-2012 |
20130171572 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING THICK FILM PHOTORESIST PATTERN - A method for producing a thick film photoresist pattern including laminating a thick photoresist layer including a chemically amplified positive-type photoresist composition for thick film on a support; irradiating the thick photoresist layer; and developing the thick photoresist layer to obtain a thick film resist pattern; in which the composition includes an acid generator, a resin whose alkali solubility increases by the action of an acid, and an organic solvent having a boiling point of at least 150° C. and a contact angle on a silicon substrate of no greater than 18°, in an amount of at least 40% by mass with respect to total mass of the organic solvent. | 07-04-2013 |
20150268553 | CHEMICALLY AMPLIFIED POSITIVE-TYPE PHOTOSENSITIVE RESIN COMPOSITION - A chemically amplified positive-type photosensitive resin composition capable of suppressing the phenomenon of footing in which the width of the bottom (the side proximal to the surface of a support) becomes narrower than that of the top (the side proximal to the surface of a resist layer) when a resist pattern serving as a template for a plated article is formed on a metal surface of a substrate using the composition. A mercapto compound is contained in the composition which includes an acid generator capable of producing an acid when irradiated with an active ray or radiation and a resin whose solubility in alkali increases under the action of acid. | 09-24-2015 |
Yasushi Washio, Niigata JP
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20100045593 | DIRECTIONAL INPUT DEVICE - The object of the invention is to provide a directional input device that changes the distance between electrodes that are included in a capacitative element in correspondence with a sliding direction (that is, input direction) to which an input unit is made to slide, thereby changing the electrostatic capacity of the capacitative element. | 02-25-2010 |
Yoshiaki Washio, Tsukuba-Shi JP
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20090291949 | SUBSTITUTE ISOQUINOLINES USEFUL IN THE TREATMENT OF DISEASES SUCH AS CANCER AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS - A compound of Formula (I): | 11-26-2009 |
Yoshiaki Washio, Mobara-Shi JP
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20120104932 | Fluorescent Display Device - A fluorescent display device is disclosed. The fluorescent display device includes an anode plate, aluminum anode wirings arranged on the anode plate, a first light shielding aluminum film arranged on the anode plate, an insulation layer arranged on both the anode wiring and the first light shielding film, a second light shielding graphite film arranged on the insulation layer, an anode electrode arranged on the insulation layer, and an outer light source display formed by removing a portion of the first light shielding film. The outer light source display is illuminated by a LED to display a predetermined pattern. The second light shielding film is formed along a wiring array arranged on the first light shielding film and the wiring so that a gap between the first light shielding film and the wirings is covered with the second light shielding film. | 05-03-2012 |
Yoshikata Washio, Toyota-Shi JP
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20080281506 | START CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME - The start control device for a vehicle has previously stored a plurality of coolant temperature maps in association with information on a plurality of engines in which determination rotational speeds for use in determining whether or not the each engine has achieved complete combustion are determined for several different engine coolant temperatures. The start control device for a vehicle starts cranking when detecting a signal from an engine starting switch, selects a coolant temperature map associated with engine information acquired out of the plurality of coolant temperature maps, determines a determination rotational speed NE determined for the coolant temperature at start in the selected coolant temperature map, and terminates the cranking when the engine rotational speed reaches the determination rotational speed NE. | 11-13-2008 |
Yosuke Washio, Hiroshima JP
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20110241358 | LOCK MECHANISM OF MOBILE MEMBER - A lock mechanism (for example, a small object storage device for a vehicle) includes a base (for example, a housing), a mobile member, and a lock device. The lock device includes a lock portion; a knob; a return spring; an elongate hole for movably supporting at least one end portion of a rotational axis along a moving direction (for example, a sliding direction) of the mobile member; an urging device (for example, the return spring also serving as the urging device) for urging one end portion of the rotational axis toward a position of a front side of the elongate hole; and a rotation blocking portion for blocking a rotation of the knob when the one end portion of the rotational axis moves toward a deep side of the elongate hole against an urging force of the urging device (for example, the return spring also serving as the urging device). | 10-06-2011 |
Yosuke Washio, Hiroshima-Shi JP
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20120279612 | FUELING-ERROR PREVENTION DEVICE - A fueling-error prevention device is provided in an inside of a fuel flow path between a fueling opening and a fuel tank. A flap valve is provided on one of the first and the second sliders which are disposed opposite each other with the fuel flow path positioned therebetween. Accompanied by an insertion of a fueling nozzle having a predetermined diameter, the fueling nozzle abuts against either the first or the second slider so as to move one slider in a separating direction. Thus, the other of the first or the second slider is allowed to move in the separating direction, and due to the movement of the other slider in the separating direction by abutment of the fueling nozzle, the flap valve is allowed to be opened. | 11-08-2012 |
20140138975 | SLIDE STRUCTURE - A slide structure has a first member maintaining a constant width; a second member covering at least two side portions of the first member in a width direction, and slidably assembled relative to the first member; and an urging device interposed between the first member and the second member. In at least one member of either the first member or the second member, an inclined face inclining relative to the width direction of the first member is provided at a portion wherein the first member and the second member slide, and in the other member of either the first member or the second member, the urging device is interposed between a portion facing the inclined face of the one member and the inclined face to be urged in a direction to separate the facing portion and the inclined face from each other. | 05-22-2014 |
Yuichi Washio, Matsumoto JP
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20150145921 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDING METHOD - The invention includes an aggregating agent coating section configured and arranged to apply an aggregating agent in a form of a powder to a recording medium and an ink discharge section configured and arranged to discharge an ink that is aggregated by the aggregating agent onto the recording medium to which the aggregating agent is applied. According to this configuration, applying the aggregating agent in the form of a powder the recording medium makes it possible to apply the aggregating agent to the recording medium without having to apply a treatment liquid that contains the aggregating agent to the recording medium. As such, the need for a step for drying a recording medium, which has been performed in instances where a treatment liquid was applied to the recording medium, is obviated. | 05-28-2015 |
20150174918 | RECORDING APPARATUS - An recording apparatus includes a rotating drum with which a recording medium is fed along an outer peripheral surface, a reaction solution application section configured to apply a reaction solution onto the recording medium at a first position in an outer peripheral surface feed path that runs along the outer peripheral surface of the rotating drum, and an ink ejecting section configured to eject an ink that reacts with the reaction solution onto the recording medium onto which the reaction solution has been applied, at a second position that is more on a downstream side in a direction of feeding of the recording medium than the first position, in the outer peripheral surface feed path. | 06-25-2015 |
Yuichi Washio, Matsumoto-Shi JP
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20160129702 | PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing method uses a reaction liquid containing an aggregating agent capable of causing the aggregation of a color material. This printing method includes: applying a first reaction liquid to a recording medium; applying a background color ink that contains a color material for a background color to a region of the recording medium which is coated with the first reaction liquid; drying the recording medium coated with the background color ink by heating the recording medium; applying a second reaction liquid to a region of the dried recording medium which is coated with the background color ink; and applying an image forming ink that contains a color material having a color different from that of the background color ink to a region of the recording medium which is coated with the second reaction liquid. | 05-12-2016 |