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20110089755 | TRAIN BRAKING DEVICE - To provide a train braking device including a controller that controls a brake cylinder pressure acting on a brake cylinder based on a service brake command or an emergency brake command, the train braking device includes a supply valve for supplying compressed air to the brake cylinder and an exhaust valve for adjusting a pressure of the supplied compressed air. The controller includes an electromagnetic-valve drive circuit, which includes a first switch circuit that a first switch for slide control is connected in parallel to ends of a serially connected circuit of a first switch for emergency brake and a first switch for service brake control with its one end being connected to a circuit power supply and the other end being connected to the supply valve, and a second switch circuit that a second switch for slide control is connected in parallel to ends of a serially connected circuit of a second switch for emergency brake and a second switch for service brake control with its one end being connected to the first switch circuit and the other end being connected to the exhaust valve. | 04-21-2011 |
20110160943 | REGULATOR - A regulator includes a regulation computing section for computing and outputting an operation signal allow a process value from a controlled target to agree with a target value, and an output limiting section for restricting the operation signal from the regulation computing section for output to the controlled target. The output limiting section includes a function for outputting a limit deviation signal indicative of the degree of deviation from a predetermined limit. The regulator also includes an over-integration computing section for calculating a previous over-integration signal corresponding to a previous over-integration occurred during a previous control cycle on the basis of the speed-type integration regulating signal delivered by the regulation computing section and the limit deviation signal. The regulation computing section includes a function for allowing the previous over-integration signal to eliminate the previous over-integration by correcting an integral stored in itself. | 06-30-2011 |
20140351148 | MAINTENANCE INFORMATION COORDINATION SYSTEM - A maintenance information coordination system coordinates maintenance-related information held by a user of a machine or held by an independent maintenance service provider company of the machine. Maintenance-related information is held by a provider of the machine. A user machine inference unit of the maintenance information coordination system infers a machine identifier provided by the provider of the machine, which operates in a zone for which maintenance work information has been recorded from a provider machine information storage unit, a user information storage unit and an operation information storage unit. It further infers a mapping relation between the machine identifier assigned by the provider and an identifier of the machine assigned by its user from operation information of the machine and information in a user machine information storage unit, and a maintenance work information storage unit and stores the mapping relation into an integrated maintenance information storage unit. | 11-27-2014 |
20150044058 | AXIAL FLOW FAN AND AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A leading edge of a blade has a first curved portion provided with a leading-edge rearmost point, and a trailing edge of the blade has a second curved portion located on the inner circumferential side of the trailing edge and a third curved portion located on the outer circumferential side of the blade on the trailing edge. The third curved portion has a trailing-edge foremost point, and the second curved portion has a trailing-edge rearmost point. The trailing edge and a first concentric circle, which is one of concentric circles having as their center an axis of rotation and passes through the leading-edge rearmost point, intersect each other at a first intersection. The first intersection is located between the trailing-edge rearmost point and the trailing-edge foremost point. | 02-12-2015 |
20150209922 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING WRITING HEAD UNIT - An assembly device for a writing head unit includes a head holder; a writing head; an imaging unit to image the writing head temporarily mounted on the head holder; an adjuster to adjust relative positions of the head holder and the writing head using the image of the writing head imaged by the imaging unit; and an optical unit to focus images of reference marks indicating a reference position of the writing head disposed in a direction different from the writing head, and the writing head on the same viewing field. The adjuster adjusts the writing head using the images of the writing head and the reference marks imaged simultaneously by the imaging unit. | 07-30-2015 |
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20090238265 | Decoding apparatus, decoding method, and program - Disclosed herein is a decoding apparatus including: a pixel group information storage section configured to include memory areas each of which stores, as pixel group information, information concerning a corresponding pixel group and is referred to with a horizontal address of the pixel group, and an additional memory area that is located at a left end and stores a value indicating invalid pixel group information; a decoding information generation section configured to acquire the pixel group information identified by an address of a pixel group to be decoded and an address to the left thereof, and generating decoding information; a decoding section configured to perform a decoding process based on the decoding information; and a pixel group information update section configured to generate pixel group information and allowing it to be stored in the memory area identified by the address of the pixel group. | 09-24-2009 |
20090273491 | ARITHMETIC DECODING DEVICE - Disclosed herein is an arithmetic decoding device including: an arithmetic decoding unit configured to decode coded data resulting from arithmetic coding on a basis of a context variable indicating a probability state and a most probable symbol; a plurality of arithmetic registers configured to supply the context variable to the arithmetic decoding unit and retain a result of operation by the arithmetic decoding unit; and a plurality of save registers configured to save contents retained in the arithmetic registers. | 11-05-2009 |
20110058612 | MOTION-VECTOR COMPUTATION APPARATUS, MOTION-VECTOR COMPUTATION METHOD AND MOTION-VECTOR COMPUTATION PROGRAM - A motion-vector computation apparatus includes: a motion-vector correction section configured to correct a referenced motion vector to be used in a process to compute a motion vector of a second macro block pair so as to make the referenced motion vector compatible with a specific structure; a motion-vector holding section configured to store the referenced motion vector corrected to a motion vector compatible with the specific structure at an address determined in accordance with the structure of a first macro block pair; and a motion-vector computation section configured to read out the referenced motion vector from the motion-vector holding section in accordance with the structure of the second macro block pair and compute a motion vector of the second macro block pair on the basis of the referenced motion vector read out from the motion-vector holding section. | 03-10-2011 |
20120331234 | CACHE MEMORY AND CACHE MEMORY CONTROL UNIT - Data transfer between processors is efficiently performed in a multiprocessor including a shared cache memory. Each entry in a tag storage section | 12-27-2012 |
20140281271 | CACHE CONTROL DEVICE, PROCESSOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND CACHE CONTROL METHOD - A cache control device includes: a tag storage section configured to manage, for each cache line of a cache memory, whether or not the cache line is valid, and whether or not a write-back instruction to a shared storage section is provided; and a tag control section configured not to invalidate a cache line for which the write-back instruction is already provided, and to invalidate a cache line for which the write-back instruction is not provided, when a predetermined instruction is provided. | 09-18-2014 |
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20100040494 | CEILING FAN - A ceiling fan includes a motor for rotating multiple blades. This motor includes a hollow shaft that is disposed upright on the center of a disc-like stator, and a rotor around an outer periphery of the stator. The rotor integrally rotates with the blades. This motor further includes a cylindrical bearing housing, and a pair of upper ball bearing and a lower ball bearing housed in this bearing housing. This bearing housing has a base in its center. The upper ball bearing is disposed over the base, and the lower ball bearing is disposed under the base in this bearing housing. Both bearings are fixed onto the hollow shaft. | 02-18-2010 |
20110002783 | CEILING FAN - A ceiling fan comprising a motor which rotates a plurality of blades provided in a horizontal direction, a shaft projecting from an upper portion of the motor, a pipe which is connected to an upper end of the shaft and which hangs from a ceiling surface, a connecting rod for connecting the pipe and the shaft with each other via through holes formed in the pipe and the shaft, respectively, a female screw which is threadedly engaged with the connecting rod, a displacement-correspondence tool which is displaced or which detects a displacement amount in correspondence with a relative positional displacement amount between the shaft and the pipe, and a power source control tool which controls energization to the motor in accordance with the displacement of the displacement-correspondence tool or the detected displacement amount. | 01-06-2011 |
20110052411 | CEILING FAN - A ceiling fan including a connecting fitting fixed to a ceiling, and a ceiling fan main body suspended from the connecting fitting via a suspension device. The ceiling fan main body includes a motor for rotating a plurality of blades attached in a horizontal direction, a shaft protruding to an upper part of the motor, and a joint portion fixed on an upper part of the shaft. The suspension device includes a first connecting portion capable of being movably mounted on the connecting fitting, and a second connecting portion located in a lower part of the first connecting portion. The joint portion is movably mounted on the second connecting portion. | 03-03-2011 |
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20090015823 | INSPECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD - An inspection apparatus includes a captured image acquiring unit configured to acquire a captured image that is acquired by shooting an inspection target, an acquiring unit configured to acquire from the captured image a first image region and a second image region whose intensity distributions of reflected light with respect to an incident angle of illumination light emitted to the inspection target are different, and an image processing unit configured to perform image processing for performing different surface inspections on the first image region and the second image region respectively. | 01-15-2009 |
20100111515 | ILLUMINATION APPARATUS AND APPEARANCE INSPECTION APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - An illumination apparatus which illuminates a surface of an object having a three-dimensional shape includes a light source, a guide configured to guide light from the light source to a surface of the object, and a diffuser which has a diffusion-reflection surface that faces a light exit surface of the guide via the object, wherein the diffuser is arranged at such a position that the light which is emitted from the guide and is not directly incident on the object is incident on the diffusion-reflection surface while a part of the light reflected and diffused by the diffusion-reflection surface is incident on a surface of the object. | 05-06-2010 |
20100220338 | MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING SURFACE SHAPE AND ROUGHNESS - A measurement apparatus includes an illumination light setting unit which sets illumination light having an optical characteristic corresponding to a microstructure which is formed on the surface of a measurement target and is to be measured, a measurement unit which measures reflected light when the measurement target is irradiated with the illumination light, and an extraction unit which extracts, from the measured reflected light, information about the surface shape of the measurement target and the microstructure formed on the surface. | 09-02-2010 |
20100299103 | THREE DIMENSIONAL SHAPE MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, THREE DIMENSIONAL SHAPE MEASUREMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A 3D shape measurement apparatus for measuring a 3D shape of an object existing on a measurement area, comprising, a pattern projection unit for projecting a pattern having a periodicity onto the measurement area, and a capturing unit for capturing an image of the area where the pattern is projected, wherein the measurement area is specified by a reference plane, a projection area of the pattern projection unit, and a capturing area of the capturing unit, and the pattern projection unit projects the pattern to be focused on the reference plane. The apparatus further comprises a first calculation unit for calculating phase information of a pattern of the captured image, a second calculation unit for calculating defocus amounts of the pattern in the captured image, and a third calculation unit for calculating a 3D shape of the object based on the phase information and the defocus amounts. | 11-25-2010 |
20110037984 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain first information regarding a distribution of reflected light from a target to be measured and second information regarding geometrical-optics components of the reflected light, a calculating unit configured to calculate third information on the basis of the first information and the second information, the third information indicating an approximation of the distribution of reflected light, and an output unit configured to output information regarding wave-optics components of the reflected light on the basis of the third information. | 02-17-2011 |
20120133954 | MEASURING APPARATUS, MEASURING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A measuring apparatus includes a projection control unit configured to cause a projection unit to project, onto an object, a first light pattern with light and dark portions, a second light pattern, which is smaller in distance between the light and dark portions than that of the first light pattern and has a boundary position between the light and dark portions common to the first light pattern, and a third light pattern in which the light and dark portions of the second light pattern are reversed to each other, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a first captured image of the object onto which the first light pattern is projected, a second captured image of the object onto which the second light pattern is projected, and a third captured image of the object onto which the third light pattern is projected, and a calculation unit configured to calculate the boundary position between the light and dark portions of the first captured image based on the second and the third captured image to measure the position of the object. | 05-31-2012 |
20120154577 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, DISTANCE MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a projection unit adapted to project pattern-light onto an object; an image capturing unit adapted to capture the object; a calculation unit adapted to calculate a line direction of the pattern-light in each predetermined region of the image; a decision unit adapted to decide an epipolar-line based on a relationship between the projection unit and the image capturing unit; a determination unit adapted to determine whether an angle made by the direction of the epipolar-line and the line direction is not more than a predetermined value; and a detection unit adapted to detect a first-region when the angle is not more than the predetermined value, and detect a second-region when the angle is more than the predetermined value. The projection unit projects the pattern-light having a line component parallel to the epipolar-line. | 06-21-2012 |
20130242090 | DISTANCE MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, DISTANCE MEASUREMENT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A distance measurement apparatus comprising: modulation means for modulating a luminance value of measurement pattern light to be projected on a measurement object for each two-dimensional position of the pattern light within a predetermined luminance value range; projection means for projecting, on the measurement object, the pattern light modulated by the modulation means; image capturing means for capturing the measurement object on which the pattern light has been projected by the projection means; and distance calculation means for calculating a distance to the measurement object based on the captured image captured by the image capturing means. | 09-19-2013 |
20140118539 | MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A dark region as a region on which light is not projected by a light projection unit is set. Disturbance light projected on a measurement target object is estimated from the set dark region. A captured image is corrected based on the estimated disturbance light. Distance to the measurement target object is executed from the corrected captured image. | 05-01-2014 |
20140168662 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEASURING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - According to the invention, reliability is calculated in consideration of an uncertain error due to noise in three-dimensional measurement, thereby obtaining correct reliability as compared with a conventional technique. To achieve this, a three-dimensional measuring apparatus includes a projector which projects a striped light pattern onto an object, a camera which captures a reflected light pattern from the object onto which the striped light pattern is projected, and a calculation processing unit which executes various arithmetic operations. The calculation processing unit includes a noise calculating unit and a reliability calculating unit. | 06-19-2014 |
20150116582 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A captured image obtained by capturing, by an image capturing unit, a target object to which a pattern has been projected is acquired. At least either of a first parameter for controlling brightness of the pattern projected from a projection unit configured to project the pattern, and a second parameter for controlling the exposure amount of the image capturing unit is adjusted in accordance with the luminance value of the pattern in the acquired captured image. | 04-30-2015 |
20150124055 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - To perform a high-accuracy three-dimensional measurement by performing an appropriate calibration in accordance with various temperature changes, an information processing apparatus that decides a temperature-dependent parameter of a projection apparatus configured to project a pattern onto a measurement target object to perform a three-dimensional measurement includes a holding unit configured to hold a relationship in which the temperature-dependent parameter of the projection apparatus is set as a temperature function, a temperature input unit configured to input a temperature of the projection apparatus, and a temperature-dependent parameter decision unit configured to decide the temperature-dependent parameter of the projection apparatus based on the temperature of the projection apparatus which is input by the temperature input unit and the relationship. | 05-07-2015 |
20150276383 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, GRIPPING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus comprises: an image acquisition unit that acquires a captured image of a target object onto which a pattern is projected; a distance acquisition unit that acquires, based on the image, a plurality of distance values, each indicating a distance to the target object; a determination unit that determines whether each of the acquired distance values is noise generated by multiple reflection of the pattern; a first processing unit that performs first processing, using distance values obtained by removing a distance value that is determined to be the noise from the plurality of distance values; and a second processing unit that performs second processing, using the plurality of distance values that are acquired by the distance acquisition unit and from which the distance value determined to be the noise has not been removed. | 10-01-2015 |
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20090209919 | Adhesive For Injection Needle, A Method For Bonding Injection Needle, A Syringe Front-Assembly And A Syringe - The present invention inhibits the occurrence of the foreign matters attributable to an adhesive for bonding an injection needle to a needle-base member so as to enhance the yield of a syringe when producing the same. A front-assembly ( | 08-20-2009 |
20100015533 | NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY - A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including: a positive electrode that contains a transition metal oxide capable of absorbing and desorbing lithium ions; a negative electrode that is capable of absorbing and desorbing lithium ions; a porous film that is interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; and a non-aqueous electrolyte, wherein at least one selected from inorganic oxide and polyamide is contained in the porous film, and 5 to 15 vol % of ethylene carbonate is contained in a non-aqueous solvent that is contained in the non-aqueous electrolyte. | 01-21-2010 |
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20110114560 | SPIRAL TYPE MEMBRANE ELEMENT AND SPIRAL TYPE MEMBRANE FILTERING DEVICE HAVING THE MEMBRANE ELEMENT, AND MEMBRANE FILTERING DEVICE MANAGING SYSTEM AND MEMBRANE FILTERING DEVICE MANAGING METHOD USING THE DEVICE - Provided are a spiral type membrane element that can ensure a larger amount of electric power without performing a cumbersome work and a spiral type membrane filtering device having the element, as well as a membrane filtering device managing system and a membrane filtering device managing method using the device. The spiral type membrane element comprises a sensor for detecting a property of liquid, a power generating section that generates electric power by using said liquid, and a wireless transmitting section that receives the electric power supplied from said power generating section and wirelessly transmits a detection signal from said sensor. By generating electric power in the power generating section with use of the liquid detected by the sensor, a larger amount of electric power can be ensured without performing a cumbersome work. | 05-19-2011 |
20110114561 | SPIRAL TYPE MEMBRANE FILTERING DEVICE AND MOUNTING MEMBER, AND MEMBRANE FILTERING DEVICE MANAGING SYSTEM AND MEMBRANE FILTERING DEVICE MANAGING METHOD USING THE SAME - Provided are a spiral type membrane filtering device by which an electric component can be re-used and a mounting member, as well as a membrane filtering device managing system and a membrane filtering device managing method using the same. An interconnector ( | 05-19-2011 |
20110121574 | SPIRAL TYPE MEMBRANE ELEMENT, AND SPIRAL TYPE MEMBRANE FILTERING DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - Provided are a spiral type membrane element that can re-collect the electric power that is used in a good manner, and a spiral type membrane filtering device having the same. The spiral type membrane element comprises a power generating section that generates electric power by using a liquid, and an electric power outputting section that outputs, either in a wired manner or in a wireless manner, the electric power supplied from said power generating section. The electric power that is generated in the power generating section using the liquid (raw water, permeated water, or concentrated water) can be output from the electric power outputting section in a wired manner or in a wireless manner. Therefore, the electric power that is output from the aforesaid electric power outputting section can be used in an electric component disposed outside or can be stored into a capacitor section disposed outside. | 05-26-2011 |