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Hirohata, JP
Hitoshi Hirohata, Osaka JP
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| 20090274374 | METHOD FOR MATCHING IMAGES, IMAGE MATCHING DEVICE, IMAGE DATA OUTPUT APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - In an image matching device of the present invention, a feature point calculation section calculates feature points on an input document image from inputted data of the input document image; a features calculation section calculates features of the input document image in accordance with a relative position between the calculated feature points; and a voting process section and a similarity determination section compare the calculated features of the input document image with features of a reference document image, so as to determine whether or not the input document image is similar to the reference document image. When it is determined that the input document image is similar to the reference document image, a document discrimination section determines a position of an image which is on the input document image and similar to the reference document image, in accordance with the positions of the coordinates of the feature points on the input document image and the feature points on the reference document image which coincides with the input document image in features, so as to discriminate whether or not the input document image is an image of an N-up document. With this, whether or not an input document is an N-up document can be discriminated by utilizing the function of an image matching process. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20100141991 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes: a document detection section for detecting, according to image data of a document image, an image processing condition to be applied at a time when the document image is displayed or printed; a draw command generation section for generating a draw command for controlling a computer so as to cause the computer to perform display or printing after image processing in accordance with the image processing condition, at the time when the document image is displayed or printed; a formatting process section for generating an image file in which the draw command is added to the image data that has not been subjected to the image processing. This makes it possible to rapidly generate an image file of image data obtained by reading a document and also makes it possible to cause a device that displays or prints the image data to perform appropriate image processing. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20110246947 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - When displaying a N-up image view in which a plurality of thumbnail images displayed in given windows are grouped and displayed in a single window by using a detecting section for detecting a contact position on a display screen of a display section, position specifications for the N-up image view of thumbnail images in the windows are received based on a contact position in the window in selecting thumbnail images to be displayed in the N-up image view by making contact with the thumbnail images, and the thumbnails images are displayed in the N-up image view based on the received position specifications. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110310414 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE READING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An object area containing a text or a graphic is extracted from a document image containing the text or the graphic. Then, on the basis of the extracted object area and stored size information, a cropping area is determined that surrounds the object area with given margins. Further, setting of margins is received. Then, on the basis of the object area and the received setting of the margins, the cropping area is determined. Then, the cropping area determined on the basis of the object area and the size information or alternatively the cropping area determined on the basis of the object area and the setting of the margins is cropped from the document image. | 12-22-2011 |
Keishiro Hirohata, Shiga JP
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| 20110155511 | SAFETY DEVICE FOR ELEVATOR - In a safety device for an elevator, on one car door among a pair of car doors, a light-emitting/light-receiving unit is disposed facing downward at an upper end position of a vertical line separated by a predetermined distance from an end face in a closing direction, which is to abut the other car door, toward the side of the other car door, and a first reflecting member is disposed facing upward at a lower end position of the vertical line. A housing space that houses the light-emitting/light-receiving unit in a state where both car doors are closed is formed on the other car door, and a second reflecting member is disposed facing upward at a bottom portion of the housing space and extends from the same position as an end face in a closing direction of the other car door toward the back of the housing space. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110192684 | ELEVATOR SAFETY DEVICE - There is provided an elevator safety device that can prevent a light beam from being looked into. The elevator safety device according to the present invention includes light emitting means for emitting a light beam crossing an entrance; light receiving means for detecting the light beam emitted from the light emitting means; foreign matter detection means for generating a foreign matter detection signal when detection of the light beam by the light receiving means is interrupted; and control means. The control means causes the light emitting means to stop an emission in a fully opened state of car doors, and causes the light emitting means to start the emission at a start of or during a closing operation of the car doors. | 08-11-2011 |
Makoto Hirohata, Kawasaki-Shi JP
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| 20120076357 | VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, a video processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a first extraction unit, a generation unit, a second extraction unit, a computation unit and a selection unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire video streams. A first extraction unit is configured to analyze at least one of the moving pictures and the sounds for each video stream and to extract feature values. A generation unit is configured to generate segments by dividing each video stream, and to generate associated segment groups. A second extraction unit is configured to extract the associated segment groups that number of associated segments is greater than or equal to threshold as common video segment groups. A computation unit is configured to compute summarization score. A selection unit is configured to select segments used for a summarized video as summarization segments from the common video segment groups based on the summarization score. | 03-29-2012 |
Makoto Hirohata, Tokyo JP
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| 20100079673 | Video processing apparatus and method thereof - A video processing apparatus according to the invention detects telops displayed in an entered video, selects specific telops which satisfy arbitrary conditions from among the telops, acquires a plurality of specific telops within an arbitrary time range as one group from among the plurality of specific telops, coordinates two of the specific telops from the group, and extracts a specific segment interposed between the two of the specific telops. | 04-01-2010 |
Makoto Hirohata, Kanagawa JP
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| 20080215324 | Indexing apparatus, indexing method, and computer program product - Acoustic models to provide features to a speech signal are created based on speech features included in regions where similarities of acoustic models created based on speech features in a certain time length are equal to or greater than a predetermined value. Feature vectors acquired by using the acoustic models of the regions and the speech features to provide features to speech signals of second segments are grouped by speaker. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20090067807 | Signal processing apparatus and method thereof - A signal processing unit includes a feature quantity extracting unit, a segmentalizing unit, a clustering unit, an existence probability function deriving unit, an existence probability function similarity calculating unit, a cluster integrating unit and a cluster information output unit. The signal processing unit classifies the signal feature quantity which characterizes the content signal segmentalized into segments according to the similarity with respect to each other, obtains functions which indicate the existence probabilities for clusters of classified segments, and integrates the clusters whose obtained functions are at the high level of similarity. | 03-12-2009 |
Makoto Hirohata, Kanagawa-Ken JP
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| 20110222785 | Signal classification apparatus - An acquisition unit acquires feature vectors (the number is N). A first selection unit selects first neighbor features (k (1≦k≦N)) of each feature vector in order of higher similarity from the feature vectors. A second selection unit generates a plurality of groups each including similar feature vectors from the feature vectors, and selects second neighbor features (u (1≦k+u≦N−2)) of each feature vector in order of higher similarity. Each of the second neighbor features is differently included in a group. A determination unit calculates a density of each feature vector by using a threshold, the first neighbor features and the second neighbor features, and determines feature vectors to be classified into the same class as each feature vector by using the density and a threshold. A classification unit classifies the feature vectors into a plurality of classes by using the selection result. A control unit controls each threshold. | 09-15-2011 |
Naoto Hirohata, Yokohama-Shi JP
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| 20090189834 | Display with multiple emission layers - A display has light emitting elements, a first driver, a power source, and a second driver. Each light emitting element includes “n” emission layers formed one over another to form a color dot in each pixel. The first driver drives the emission layers to emit light or no light. The power source passes a current through the first driver to the light emitting element. The second driver individually weights the n emission layers and makes the emission layers emit light so that each dot may express a gradation level. | 07-30-2009 |
Naoto Hirohata, Kanagawa-Ken JP
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| 20100238378 | Optical unit, backlight device, liquid crystal module and liquid crystal display apparatus - An optical unit for use in a backlight device of a liquid crystal display apparatus, includes a light-diffusing component to diffract incident light and a light-collecting component having multiple microlenses each having a shape of a hemisphere- or semi-oval-like protrusion on a light-emitting side of the light-collecting component. The components are provided in this order on an optical path of light emitted from a light source of the backlight device. The light-diffusing component includes a diffusing section having a first surface that faces the light source and an opposite second surface, and first and second prisms provided on the first and second surfaces, respectively. Each prism has a cross section like a teeth of a saw. Each first prism has a summit protruding towards the light source. Each second prism has a summit protruding in an opposite direction of the first prism. | 09-23-2010 |
Noriaki Hirohata, Osaka-Shi JP
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| 20090123775 | Method for producing Cr containing nickel-base alloy tube and Cr containing nickel-base alloy tube - To form a chromium oxide film on the inner surface of a Cr containing nickel-base alloy tube inexpensively and uniformly, the Cr containing nickel-base alloy tube is heated in atmospheric gas of carbon dioxide gas and non-oxidation gas to form an oxide film consisting of chromium oxide having a thickness of 0.2 to 1.5 μm on the inner surface of the Cr containing nickel-base alloy tube. The atmospheric gas may contain oxygen gas of 5 vol % or less and/or water vapor of 7.5 vol % or less. | 05-14-2009 |
Noriaki Hirohata, Osaka JP
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| 20100032061 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A Ni-BASED ALLOY ARTICLE AND PRODUCT THEREFROM - A method for manufacturing a Ni-based alloy article which elutes little Ni even when used in a high-temperature water environment for a long period comprises heating the Ni-based alloy in a carbon dioxide-containing atmosphere for a set period of time at an elevated temperature to form an oxide film comprising chromium oxide on a surface thereof. Using carbon dioxide as an oxidizing gas produces an oxide film of generally uniform thickness along a length of the article being treated so that resistance to nickel elution is more uniform over the entire article. | 02-11-2010 |
Satoshi Hirohata, Okayama-Shi JP
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| 20110023155 | NOVEL DNA FRAGMENT AND USE THEREOF - The invention relates to a DNA consisting of the nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1, or a nucleotide sequence the same or substantially the same as a partial nucleotide sequence thereof containing at least one HRE consensus sequence, which transiently has a transcription promoting activity in a vascular endothelial cell-specific manner in a hypoxic state, or a vector containing a promoter containing the DNA, and the like. The prophylaxis and/or treatment, as well as diagnosis, of acute ischemic diseases are enabled by connecting a prophylactic and/or therapeutic gene or a reporter gene to the downstream of the vector and administering same to mammals. | 01-27-2011 |
Takahiko Hirohata, Hyogo JP
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| 20100006793 | Valve Gear - The reliability of a valve gear in which a cobalt-based alloy is welded by plasma powder building-up welding is improved. Disclosed is a valve gear including a bearing | 01-14-2010 |
Takeshi Hirohata, Osaka JP
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| 20080240690 | Hot Air Heater - A hot air heater includes heating wires ( | 10-02-2008 |
Toru Hirohata, Hamamatsu-Shi JP
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| 20090032797 | PHOTOCATHODE - When to-be-detected light is made incident from a support substrate | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090273281 | PHOTOCATHODE AND ELECTRON TUBE HAVING THE SAME - The photocathode of the present invention is provided with a supporting substrate composed of a single-crystal compound semiconductor, a light absorbing layer which is formed on the supporting substrate and smaller in an energy band gap than the supporting substrate to absorb incident light transmitted through the supporting substrate, thereby generating photoelectrons, and a surface layer which is formed on the light absorbing layer to lower a work function of the light absorbing layer, in which the supporting substrate comprises Al | 11-05-2009 |
| 20100148667 | PHOTOCATHODE, ELECTRON TUBE, FIELD ASSIST TYPE PHOTOCATHODE, FIELD ASSIST TYPE PHOTOCATHODE ARRAY, AND FIELD ASSIST TYPE ELECTRON TUBE - When light is incident to an antenna layer AA | 06-17-2010 |
Yoshinari Hirohata, Kanagawa JP
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| 20090237523 | IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - An image signal processing apparatus is disclosed. A peaking signal generation section extracts and amplifies high frequency components contained in an input image signal to generate a peaking signal. An operation section allows a target area for which contour correction is to be performed using the peaking signal to be accepted. A control section generates an area gate signal describing position information corresponding to the designated target area. A mask processing section performs a mask process of outputting an image signal to which the peaking signal has been added to the target area designated through the operation section based on the area gate signal supplied from the control section. A scaling processing section converts pixels of the image signal for which the mask process has been performed is converted at a predetermined scaling ratio. | 09-24-2009 |