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20120182340 | INKJET PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD - To more appropriately carry out generation of a drive waveform signal used in an actuator drive in an inkjet head. An inkjet printer ( | 07-19-2012 |
20150202902 | Ink jet printer, and print method - An ink jet printer that performs printing on the three-dimensional object using an ink jet scheme is provided, the printer includes an ink jet head, and a print object retaining section, the print object retaining section includes a first shaft, a second shaft, a third shaft, and a rotation driving section, a distance between the first shaft and the second shaft is larger than a distance between the first shaft and the third shaft, and in a case of performing printing on a three-dimensional object having a cylindrically shaped portion, the print object retaining section retains the three-dimensional object by mounting the cylindrically shaped portion on the first shaft and the second shaft, or on the first shaft and the third shaft, and the rotation driving section causes the three-dimensional object to rotate by causing at least the first shaft to rotate. | 07-23-2015 |
20150210086 | INK JET PRINTER, PRINT OBJECT RETAINING MEMBER, AND PRINT METHOD - An ink jet printer that appropriately performs printing with high accuracy on a three-dimensional object for a portable terminalis provided. The ink jet printer includes an ink jet head that discharges ink droplets, and a print object retaining section that retains a three-dimensional objects. The print object retaining section includes a shaft member extending in a direction perpendicularly intersecting a discharging direction of the ink droplets, a housing section being a shaft retaining section that retains the shaft member in a rotatable manner, a work set member being a three-dimensional object fixing member that is a fixing member fixing the three-dimensional objects relative to the shaft member, and causes the three-dimensional objects to rotate together with the shaft member by being fixed relative to the shaft member, and a rotation driving section being a rotation stopping means for stopping rotation of the shaft member at a predeterminedly set position. | 07-30-2015 |
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20090071701 | LAMINATED STRUCTURE, FORMING METHOD OF THE SAME, WIRING BOARD, MATRIX SUBSTRATE AND ELECTRONIC DISPLAY APPARATUS - A disclosed laminated structure includes a wettability variable layer containing a wettability variable material whose surface energy changes when energy is applied thereto and including at least a high surface energy area having high surface energy and a low surface energy area having low surface energy; and a conductive layer disposed on the high surface energy area. The conductive layer includes a first high surface energy area, a second high surface energy area smaller in width than the first high surface energy area, and a third high surface energy area smaller in width than the second high surface energy area. The first high surface energy area and the second high surface energy area are connected by the third high surface energy area. | 03-19-2009 |
20090095958 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR ARRAY AND DISPLAYING APPARATUS - A thin film transistor array is disclosed. The thin film transistor array includes plural gate electrodes formed on an insulation substrate, plural source electrodes formed above or under the gate electrodes via a gate insulation film so that the source electrodes cross the gate electrodes in a planar view, plural drain electrodes formed at corresponding positions surrounded by the gate electrodes and the source electrodes in a planar view in the same layer as that of the source electrodes, semiconductor layers formed via the gate insulation film to face the gate electrodes for forming corresponding channel regions between the source electrodes and the drain electrodes. The plural gate electrodes are linearly formed, and the channel regions are disposed to face the gate electrodes. | 04-16-2009 |
20090103036 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE AND ELECTRONIC DISPLAY DEVICE - A disclosed active matrix substrate includes plural pixels arranged in a matrix form. At least one of a source electrode, a gate electrode, and a capacitor electrode of pixel component electrodes of each of the pixels is shared by adjacent pixels. | 04-23-2009 |
20090278138 | LAMINATED STRUCTURE AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A laminated structure includes a wettability variable layer formed on a substrate, including a material whose critical surface tension varies by receiving energy so that high and low surface energy regions are formed; a conductive layer formed in one of the high surface energy regions; and an insulating layer formed in such a manner as to cover the conductive layer, wherein another one of the high surface energy regions is formed in such a manner as to surround a periphery of a circuit formation region in which a plurality of the conductive layers are formed; and the insulating layer is formed in such a manner as to also cover the another one of the high surface energy regions so that an adhesive guard ring region is formed between the wettability variable layer and the insulating layer. | 11-12-2009 |
20090321727 | ORGANIC TRANSISTOR ARRAY, DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING DISPLAY DEVICE - An organic transistor array includes gate electrodes provided on a substrate, source and drain electrodes provided above or below the gate electrodes via a gate insulator layer, and an organic semiconductor layer opposing the gate electrodes via the gate insulator layer, and forming a channel region between mutually adjacent source and drain electrodes. The organic transistor array in a plan view is sectioned into sections each forming a single pixel, and each section has a closest packed structure. | 12-31-2009 |
20100181571 | LAMINATE STRUCTURE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A laminate structure is disclosed that has a region having high surface free energy and a region having low surface free energy that are well separated, has high adhesiveness between an underlying layer and a conductive layer, and can be formed easily with low cost. The laminate structure includes a wettability-variable layer including a first surface free energy region of a first film thickness and a second surface free energy region of a second film thickness, and a conductive layer formed on the second surface free energy region of the wettability-variable layer. The second film thickness is less than the first film thickness and the surface free energy of the second surface free energy region is made higher than the surface free energy of the first surface free energy region by applying a predetermined amount of energy on the second surface free energy region. | 07-22-2010 |
20100273628 | HORIZONTAL CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATOR - A horizontal centrifugal separator is provided in which the hermeticity of the casing can be improved by using sealing means having a simple structure. | 10-28-2010 |
20110215336 | LAMINATED STRUCTURE, MULTILAYER WIRING BOARD, ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LAMINATED STRUCTURE - A method for manufacturing a laminated structure includes a step of supplying a droplet of a functional fluid selectively to at least a first region of a high surface energy area formed in a wettability variable layer of the laminated structure. In the step, the droplet is supplied by inkjet printing, and a center position of the droplet is determined in such a manner as to satisfy both Equations (1) and (2) below: | 09-08-2011 |
20110266549 | LAMINATED STRUCTURE, PRODUCTION METHOD OF THE SAME, MULTILAYER CIRCUIT BOARD, ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, AND ELECTRONIC DISPLAY - A disclosed laminated structure includes a wettability-variable layer containing a wettability-variable material whose surface energy changes when energy is applied thereto and including at least a high-surface-energy area having high surface energy and a low-surface-energy area having low surface energy; and a conductive layer formed on the high-surface-energy area. The high-surface-energy area includes a first area and a second area extending from the first area and having a width smaller than that of the first area. | 11-03-2011 |
20120312583 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING INTERCONNECTION MEMBER AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE, INTERCONNECTION MEMBER, MULTILAYERED INTERCONNECTIONS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE ARRAY AND DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE METHOD - A method of manufacturing an interconnection member includes forming on a substrate a wettability changing layer containing a material in which critical surface tension is changed by giving energy; forming a depression part in the wettability changing layer by a laser ablation method using a laser of an ultraviolet region; and coating the depression part with an electrically conductive ink to form an electrically conductive part. At the same time when a pattern of the depression part is formed in the wettability changing layer, a pattern of a high surface energy area is formed as a result of the critical surface tension being changed. | 12-13-2012 |
20130069087 | MULTI-LAYER WIRING SUBSTRATE, ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE SAME, AND MULTI-LAYER WIRING SUBSTRATE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A multiple-layer wiring substrate having a first conductive layer; an interlayer insulating layer; and a second conductive layer is disclosed, wherein the interlayer insulating layer includes a material whose surface energy is changed by receiving energy, and has a first region which does not include a contact hole and a second region which is formed such that its surface energy is higher than that of the first region, wherein a region within the contact hole of the first conductive layer has surface energy which is higher than surface energy of the second region of the interlayer insulating layer, and wherein the second conductive layer is formed by laminating, wherein the second conductive layer is in contact with the second region of the interlayer insulating layer along the second region, and is connected to the first conductive layer via the contact hole. | 03-21-2013 |
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20110079206 | TWO-STROKE ENGINE - In a two-stroke engine ( | 04-07-2011 |
20120174889 | AIR CLEANER - There is provided an air cleaner that is capable of suppressing or reducing malfunctions and problems caused by mixed fuel that back flows from a carburetor, thereby prolonging filter life, reducing filter maintenance frequency, etc. The air cleaner comprises: a fuel accumulation part; and a back flow guide member that guides the mixed fuel that back flows into the air cleaner, wherein the plurality of return flow paths are provided in a radial fashion about the cleaner outlet. | 07-12-2012 |
20140143853 | NETWORK QUARANTINE SYSTEM, NETWORK QUARANTINE METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - To isolate a terminal from a network immediately after a quarantine agent is uninstalled therefrom, a policy readout unit reads out a policy from a policy database and a policy check unit determines whether or not a terminal satisfies the policy that was read out. If it is determined that the terminal satisfies the read out policy, a quarantine server control unit instructs a bridge to destroy a packet with no VLAN tag among the packets sent from the terminal while controlling a quarantine agent to send a packet with a VLAN tag when sending the packet from the terminal. | 05-22-2014 |
20150102511 | ROTARY CARBURETOR - In a carburetor, three downstream body passages in the body communicate with three valve passages in the valve element, and the valve element rotates between a closed position and an opened position. The carburetor is a one-bore type carburetor in which the body passages and the valve passages are respectively partitioned with the body partitions and the valve partitions. When rotating the valve element from the closed position to the opened position, the second body passage and the second valve passage for mixture start to communicate in advance than the first and third body passages and the first and third valve passages for air. | 04-16-2015 |
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20090053853 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - A chip element in the form of a substantially rectangular parallelepiped having end surfaces and side surfaces is formed (step of forming chip element). An electrically conductive green sheet is formed (step of forming electrically conductive green sheet). An electrically conductive paste is applied to the end surfaces of the chip element (step of application electrically conductive paste). A chip element is formed in which the electrically conductive green sheet is attached to the end surface via the electrically conductive paste applied to the end surface of the chip element (step of attaching electrically conductive sheet). In the step of attaching, the end surface of the electrically conductive green sheet on the side of the side surfaces is positioned on the outside of the side surfaces, and the electrically conductive paste applied to the end surface is pressed out into a space between the electrically conductive green sheet and ridge portions. | 02-26-2009 |
20100043221 | External electrode forming method - A method of forming an external electrode of an electronic component involving: a paste preparation step, a removal step, an element preparation step, a contact step, and a formation step. A jig with a groove into which an element forming the electronic component can be inserted is prepared. A conductive paste is filled in the groove, and then removed, so as to leave the conductive paste along a first wall surface of the groove and remove the rest. Then, element immediately above the groove is located, and inserted into the groove and moved toward the first wall surface. Finally, the element is moved along the first wall surface and toward the aperture in a state in which the ridgeline of the element is kept in contact with the first wall surface, and moved away from the first wall surface so as to separate the ridgeline from the first wall surface. | 02-25-2010 |
20110051314 | CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - There are provided a ceramic electronic component and a method for producing the ceramic electronic component, where a ground electrode layer can be directly coated with lead-free solder without lowering reliabilities. Terminal electrode | 03-03-2011 |
20130240776 | LANGASITE-TYPE OXIDE MATERIAL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND RAW MATERIAL USED IN THE PRODUCTION METHOD - An oxide material having a langasite-type structure having a desired surface condition and a desired outer shape is obtained stably. By adding at least one selected from the group consisting of Ir, Pt, Au, and Rh to a raw material which is a composition used for producing a desired oxide material as an additive element, it is possible to control the wettability between a die portion at a bottom end of a crucible and a melt of the raw material, thereby implementing stable production of the oxide material while controlling the wetting and spread of the melt of the raw material leaked out through a hole of the crucible. | 09-19-2013 |
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20100230133 | Multilayer Insulated Electric Wire - A multilayer insulated electric wire includes a conductor and three or more insulating layers covering the conductor. In the multilayer insulated electric wire, the outermost layer (A) of the insulating layers includes a coating layer formed of a resin composition of a polyamide resin containing copper iodide, and the innermost layer (B) of the insulating layers includes a coating layer formed of a resin composition of 100 parts by mass of a polyester-based resin (B1), all or a part of which is formed of an aliphatic alcohol component bonded with an acid component, and 5 to 40 parts by mass of an ethylene-based copolymer (B2) having side chains of a carboxylic acid or a metal salt of a carboxylic acid. | 09-16-2010 |
20110098987 | NUMERICAL ANALYSIS DATA EVALUATION APPARATUS AND THERMAL FLUID PRESSURE DATA EVALUATION APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A numerical analysis data evaluation apparatus includes: a shell generation model which converts a three-dimensional shape model into a three-dimensional shell model so that a thickness on an analysis model becomes zero; a front surface-side physical quantity projector and a rear surface-side physical quantity projector which interpolate physical quantities of front surface-side elements and physical quantities of rear surface-side elements of the three-dimensional shape model obtained as a result of the numerical analysis in on-shell model element data obtained by spatially discretizing the three-dimensional shell model, and project the physical quantities on front surface-side physical quantities and rear surface-side physical quantities of on-shell elements; an on-shell element front surface-side physical quantity data storage unit; an on-shell element rear surface-side physical quantity data storage unit; and an arithmetic unit which calculates differences between the front surface-side physical quantities and the rear surface-side physical quantities of the on-shell elements. | 04-28-2011 |
20130330554 | INSULATING PAINT, INSULATED WIRE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING INSULATED WIRE - Insulating paint, containing a resin that can form an insulating film by application and baking, and a reducing agent having a boiling point of 160° C. or higher. | 12-12-2013 |
20140354394 | INSULATED WIRE HAVING A LAYER CONTAINING BUBBLES, ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING INSULATED WIRE HAVING A LAYER CONTAINING BUBBLES - An insulated wire, containing: an insulating film made from a thermosetting resin disposed on a conductor directly or via an insulating layer interposed therebetween, in which the insulating film made from a thermosetting resin is a layer containing bubbles prepared by baking a varnish of thermosetting resin, and a layer containing no bubbles is formed as an upper or lower layer of the layer containing bubbles. | 12-04-2014 |
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20100092218 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a first rotary body; a second rotary body provided to face the first rotary body, wherein the first rotary body and the second rotary body form a nip portion by coming in contact with each other to rotate, at which a sheet bearing a toner image is conveyed while being heated and pressed, thereby fixing the toner image onto the sheet; a first nozzle which blows air to a first air blowing position established on a circumferential surface of the first rotary body and on a side of an outlet of the nip portion; and a second nozzle which blows air to a second air blowing position established on a circumferential surface of the second rotary body and established downstream of the first air blowing position in a traveling direction of the sheet. | 04-15-2010 |
20110229169 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming system including: a fixing device for fixing a toner image on the recording sheet; a curl flattening section for flattening a curl formed on the recording sheet, and conveying the recording sheet in a downstream direction against the fixing device; a first conveying route for conveying the recording sheet having been processed by the fixing device to the curl flattening section; a second conveying route, being longer than the first conveying route, for conveying the processed recording sheet to the curl flattening section; a switching section for switching the conveying route, to guide to the first conveying route or the second conveying route; and a control section for controlling the switching section to guide the recording sheet to the first conveying route or the second conveying route, based on a type of the recording sheet, having been processed by the fixing device. | 09-22-2011 |
20110299897 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CLEANING METHOD - An image forming apparatus, capable of cleaning a fixing member by conveying a blank sheet, including: an image forming section for forming a toner image on a sheet; a feeding section for feeding a sheet to the image forming section; a fixing section for fixing a toner image onto a sheet at a nip formed between a fixing member and a pressure member; and a control section for controlling the image forming section and the fixing section to feed a sheet from the feeding section, wherein, when a toner is adhered to a fixing section, the control section controls to feed a sheet from the feeding section, convey to the fixing section without forming a toner image thereon, and transfer a toner, having been adhered onto the fixing member, onto a downstream side of the sheet from a leading edge area of the sheet in a sheet conveying direction. | 12-08-2011 |
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20090169951 | MANUFACTURING METHODS OF CATALYSTS FOR CARBON FIBER COMPOSITION AND CARBON MATERIAL COMPOUND, MANUFACTURING METHODS OF CARBON FIBER AND CATALYST MATERIAL FOR FUEL CELL, AND CATALYST MATERIAL FOR FUEL CELL - The carbon fibers of this invention is characterized in that irreducible inorganic material particles in a mean primary particle size below 500 nm and reducible inorganic material particles in a mean primary particle size below 500 nm were mixed by pulverizing and then, the mixture was heat treated under the reducing atmosphere and metal particles in a mean particle size below 1 μm were obtained, and the mixed powder of the thus obtained metal particles with the irreducible inorganic material particles are included in the carbon fibers. | 07-02-2009 |
20110275001 | FUEL CELL - According to one embodiment, a fuel cell includes a membrane electrode assembly including a plurality of unit cells which are composed of an electrolyte membrane, an anode including anode catalyst layers arranged at intervals on one of surfaces of the electrolyte membrane, and anode gas diffusion layers stacked on the anode catalyst layers, and a cathode including cathode catalyst layers arranged at intervals on the other surface of the electrolyte membrane and opposed to the anode catalyst layers, respectively, and cathode gas diffusion layers stacked on the cathode catalyst layers, wherein a thickness of at least one of the anode catalyst layer and the cathode catalyst layer of one of the unit cells, which neighbor each other, gradually decreases toward the other of the unit cells. | 11-10-2011 |
20120153559 | SHEET FEEDING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is a sheet feeding device having a sheet surface detecting mechanism installed to be movable up and down between adjacent adsorption conveyance belts | 06-21-2012 |
20120205856 | SHEET FEEDING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet guiding rib protrudes below a sheet suction surface of a plurality of suction conveyer belts, the sheet guiding rib being provided at a position on a downstream side in a sheet conveying direction of a sheet suction region, in which a sheet can be sucked, of the sheet suction surface of the plurality of suction conveyer belts, and between the plurality of suction conveyer belts. At a time of conveying a topmost sheet sucked and deflected downward at a part of pressing a sheet surface detecting flag, a deflection amount of the topmost sheet is reduced by bringing the deflected part of the topmost sheet into abutment against the sheet guiding rib. | 08-16-2012 |
20130161902 | SHEET CONVEYANCE APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet conveyance apparatus includes a sheet conveyance path provided in an apparatus main body and configured to convey a sheet, a jamming handling cover configured to be openable and closable and to expose the sheet conveyance path to an exterior by being opened, a unit configured to be able to be drawn out of the apparatus main body, a lever member provided in the sheet conveyance path and configured to rotate by contacting the sheet passing through the sheet conveyance path, and a stopper member configured to move to a restriction position to restrict the drawing-out of the unit, in conjunction with the rotation of the lever member. | 06-27-2013 |
20130223879 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing member (drum); a movable belt; an operating lever movable between a contact position (state) between the belt and the drum and a second position (state) between the belt and the drum, wherein between the contact position and the spaced position, a passing position is located; a cam for transiting the belt and the drum between the contact and spaced states by transmitting thereto a driving force for moving the operating lever to rotate the cam; a driving force transmitting mechanism; and a rotation stopping mechanism for stopping, when the operating lever is moved from the first position to the third position, rotation of the cam to maintain the spaced state so that the belt and drum are prevented from being transited from the spaced state to the contact state by continuation of the rotation of the cam by inertia. | 08-29-2013 |
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20090314747 | WIRE ELECTRIC DISCHARGE MACHINE - A wire electric discharge machine includes a wire electrode; a machining power supply that supplies a machining current to between the wire electrode and a workpiece; a first power feed contact and a second power feed contact that respectively feed power to the wire electrode; a first machining-current loop that lets a first machining current to flow from the first power feed contact toward the workpiece; a second machining-current loop that lets a second machining current to flow from the second power feed contact toward the workpiece; an impedance switching circuit that is provided in at least any one of the first machining-current loop and the second machining-current loop; and a control unit that controls a flow ratio of the first machining current and the second machining current by changing an impedance of the impedance switching circuit. | 12-24-2009 |
20100133237 | Wire-Discharge Machining Apparatus - A wire-discharge machining apparatus controls a short circuit between a wire electrode and a workpiece and wire-breakage, and makes it easy to improve productivity, by performing power supply control to mix an upper-side power supply state in which a high-frequency pulse voltage is applied from an upper-side power supplying unit, a lower-side power supply state in which the high-frequency pulse voltage is applied from a lower-side power supplying unit, and a both-sides power supply state in which the high-frequency pulse voltage is applied to the wire electrode from both power supplying units in synchronization with each other during a period of electric discharge machining. | 06-03-2010 |
20110226742 | WIRE ELECTRIC DISCHARGE MACHINING APPARATUS - An object is to enable highly accurate machining by correcting machining conditions by referring to a programmed trajectory to obtain a desired machining shape. A wire electric discharge machining apparatus includes a machining-condition correcting unit that corrects machining conditions in each machining stage corresponding to a circular arc radius of a portion corresponding to a corner portion of a programmed trajectory, in the corner portion formed by changing a direction of relatively moving a wire electrode, when the wire electrode is moved on a wire center trajectory, which is offset from the programmed trajectory prestored in order to obtain a desired machining shape to perform finish machining in each machining stage with an offset amount being changed. | 09-22-2011 |
20120103943 | WIRE ELECTRIC DISCHARGE MACHINING APPARATUS - A wire electric discharge machining apparatus that performs an electric discharge machining by applying a pulse voltage between a wire electrode ( | 05-03-2012 |
20150283635 | ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE MACHINING SYSTEM - An electric discharge machining system is provided which distinguishes an abnormal discharge caused by an immediate discharge and an abnormal discharge caused not by the immediate discharge to suitably control in each case. The electric discharge machining system according to the present invention that machines a workpiece by producing a discharge between an electrode and the workpiece, includes: a no-load-time detection means that detects no-load time of inter-electrode voltage between the electrode and the workpiece; an immediate-discharge determination means that compares the no-load time detected by the no-load-time detection means with predetermined time to determine whether or not the discharge is an immediate discharge; a voltage detection means that detects the inter-electrode voltage; an abnormal-discharge determination means that compares the voltage detected by the voltage detection means with a predetermined value to determine whether or not the discharge is a normal discharge; a discharge state assessment means that assesses a state of the discharge on the basis of the determination result of the immediate-discharge determination means and the determination result of the abnormal-discharge determination means; and a machining condition control means that controls a machining condition on the basis of the discharge state assessed by the discharge state assessment means. | 10-08-2015 |
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20090167889 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE - A control unit monitors a state of captured image sequentially outputted by an image capturing unit. The control unit carries out a first determination that determines whether or not the state of a captured image satisfies a prescribed condition. When the result is that the prescribed condition is satisfied, the captured image is recorded in a recording unit. The control unit also carries out a second determination that determines whether or not the state of the captured image is appropriate for being subjected to the first determination. When the result is that the state is not appropriate for being subjected to the first determination, a warning is issued to the user to this effect. | 07-02-2009 |
20090167890 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE THAT RECORDS IMAGE ACCORDANT WITH PREDETERMINED CONDITION AND STORAGE MEDIUM THAT STORES PROGRAM - An image capture device sets a central vicinity of a frame of a predetermined area as a focus region upon detecting a half-press operation of a shutter button in a through-the-lens image displaying, designates a central vicinity pixel region of the region as a pixel region to be tracked, and determines whether or not the designated pixel region is adequate as an object of tracking. If the pixel region is adequate, the pixel region is tracked until the shutter button is detected as pressed down fully. When a fully-press operation of the shutter button is detected, the frame of a predetermined area is displayed in a fixed manner on a display unit. Upon a detection that a change of the pixel region has occurred, or the pixel region has contacted or exceeded the frame of a predetermined area, a recording processing is started immediately by a high speed consecutive capture. | 07-02-2009 |
20090237529 | IMAGE RECORDING METHOD, IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image recording comprising: an initialization step of generating a predetermined number of search points in a specified region of an image, a filtering step of updating coordinates of a plurality of search points, comparing a characteristic value of the specified region with a characteristic value of each of the search points after updated in the image, assigning to the search points weights determined so as to he increased in proportion to a degree of similarity therebetween, screening the search points according to the weights, calculating a variance and a weighted average of the coordinates of the screened search points, and an image recording determination step of determining, based on the variance and weighted average of the coordinates of the screened search points, and the tracking range, whether or not to record the image, and recording the image if it is determined to record the image. | 09-24-2009 |
20110319948 | INTRACARDIAC DEFIBRILLATION CATHETER SYSTEM - An intracardiac defibrillation catheter system equipped with a defibrillation catheter, a power source device and an electrocardiograph. The defibrillation catheter is equipped with a first DC electrode group and a second DC electrode group. The power source device is equipped with a DC power source unit, a catheter-connected connector, an electrocardiograph-connected connector, an arithmetic processing unit, which controls the DC power source unit and has an output circuit for outputting a direct current voltage from the DC power source unit, and a changeover unit, in which the catheter-connected connector is connected to a common contact. The electrocardiograph-connected connector is connected to a first contact, and the arithmetic processing unit is connected to a second contact. In the intracardiac defibrillation catheter system, electric energy necessary and sufficient for defibrillation can be surely supplied. The defibrillation catheter can be used as an electrode catheter for cardiac potential measurement when a defibrillation treatment is not performed. | 12-29-2011 |
20140211040 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE - A control unit monitors a state of captured image sequentially outputted by an image capturing unit. The control unit carries out a first determination that determines whether or not the state of a captured image satisfies a prescribed condition. When the result is that the prescribed condition is satisfied, the captured image is recorded in a recording unit. The control unit also carries out a second determination that determines whether or not the state of the captured image is appropriate for being subjected to the first determination. When the result is that the state is not appropriate for being subjected to the first determination, a warning is issued to the user to this effect. | 07-31-2014 |