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20090122141 | CAMERA MOUNTING STRUCTURE, CAMERA MOUNTING METHOD AND EXTERIOR PANEL COMPONENT OF A VEHICLE - A camera mounting structure for mounting an on-vehicle camera on a vehicle, in which the on-vehicle camera includes an imaging module having a lens and an imaging element, and in an exterior panel component making up an exterior of the vehicle, a bracket part for attaching the imaging module is molded integrally with the exterior panel component as a portion of the exterior panel component. | 05-14-2009 |
20100231719 | Camera Mounting Structure, Camera Mounting Method and Exterior Panel Component of a Vehicle - A camera mounting structure for mounting an on-vehicle camera on a vehicle, in which the on-vehicle camera includes an imaging module having a lens and an imaging element, and in an exterior panel component making up an exterior of the vehicle, a bracket part for attaching the imaging module is molded integrally with the exterior panel component as a portion of the exterior panel component. | 09-16-2010 |
20120092524 | CAPTURING DEVICE, CAPTURING SYSTEM, AND CAPTURING METHOD - A capturing device includes: an image sensor generating an image signal; a storage unit setting a second region in a first region; a timing adjusting unit adjusting a timing at which the image signal is read out to write the image signal in the storage unit, and a timing at which the image signal is read out from the storage unit; an image conversion processing unit performing a predetermined process on the image, alternately writing a first image signal corresponding to a full image or a second image signal corresponding to a partial image in the first region in a different frame period, and writing an image signal that is different from the image signal written in the first region in the second region; and an output unit converting and outputting the first and second image signals into an image signal in a predetermined format. | 04-19-2012 |
20120092530 | CAPTURING DEVICE, CAPTURING SYSTEM AND CAPTURING METHOD - A capturing device includes an image sensor that generates an image signal by performing photoelectric conversion for light from a subject, a control unit that generates a setting value for setting a range where an image resulting from the image signal is cut, based on a first instruction input from a user, a setting value storage unit that stores the setting value generated by the control unit, an image conversion unit that reads the setting value from the setting value storage unit, and cuts a specific region specified by the setting value from the image and enlarges the cut region, when there is a second instruction input from the user, and an output unit that converts a signal of the image cut and enlarged by the image conversion unit into an image signal of a predetermined format and outputs the converted image signal. | 04-19-2012 |
20130286207 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGING PROCESSING SYSTEM - An imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor; a signal processing unit repeatedly performing processing different from each other in a given number of sequential frames to imaging signals obtained by the image sensor to thereby obtain image data of respective frame; and an image data output unit sequentially outputting the image data of respective frames. | 10-31-2013 |
20130325205 | CRUISE-ASSIST IMAGE GENERATION DEVICE, CRUISE-ASSIST IMAGE GENERATION METHOD, IN-VEHICLE CAMERA AND EQUIPMENT-CONTROL ASSIST IMAGE GENERATION DEVICE - A cruise-assist image generation device includes a steering-angle information acquisition unit, an additional line generation unit generating a cruise assist additional line corresponding to acquired steering angle information and formed by combination of a given number of segments, and an additional line superimposing unit superimposing the generated cruise assist additional line on a taken image of the vehicle periphery to obtain a composite image. The additional line generation unit generates respective curved lines forming at least some of the segments by quadratic curve approximation using coordinate data corresponding to the acquired steering angle information and including coordinates of points representing each segment, and generating respective straight lines forming any remaining segments by collinear approximation using coordinate data corresponding to the acquired steering angle information. | 12-05-2013 |
20150070505 | CAPTURING DEVICE, CAPTURING SYSTEM AND CAPTURING METHOD - A capturing device includes an image sensor that generates an image signal by performing photoelectric conversion for light from a subject, a control unit that generates a setting value for setting a range where an image resulting from the image signal is cut, based on a first instruction input from a user, a setting value storage unit that stores the setting value generated by the control unit, an image conversion unit that reads the setting value from the setting value storage unit, and cuts a specific region specified by the setting value from the image and enlarges the cut region, when there is a second instruction input from the user, and an output unit that converts a signal of the image cut and enlarged by the image conversion unit into an image signal of a predetermined format and outputs the converted image signal. | 03-12-2015 |
20150070514 | CAPTURING DEVICE, CAPTURING SYSTEM AND CAPTURING METHOD - A capturing device includes an image sensor that generates an image signal by performing photoelectric conversion for light from a subject, a control unit that generates a setting value for setting a range where an image resulting from the image signal is cut, based on a first instruction input from a user, a setting value storage unit that stores the setting value generated by the control unit, an image conversion unit that reads the setting value from the setting value storage unit, and cuts a specific region specified by the setting value from the image and enlarges the cut region, when there is a second instruction input from the user, and an output unit that converts a signal of the image cut and enlarged by the image conversion unit into an image signal of a predetermined format and outputs the converted image signal. | 03-12-2015 |
20150070515 | CAPTURING DEVICE, CAPTURING SYSTEM AND CAPTURING METHOD - A capturing device includes an image sensor that generates an image signal by performing photoelectric conversion for light from a subject, a control unit that generates a setting value for setting a range where an image resulting from the image signal is cut, based on a first instruction input from a user, a setting value storage unit that stores the setting value generated by the control unit, an image conversion unit that reads the setting value from the setting value storage unit, and cuts a specific region specified by the setting value from the image and enlarges the cut region, when there is a second instruction input from the user, and an output unit that converts a signal of the image cut and enlarged by the image conversion unit into an image signal of a predetermined format and outputs the converted image signal. | 03-12-2015 |
20150156381 | LENS MOUNTING MECHANISM, LENS MOUNTING METHOD, AND IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE - An insertion part inserted into an insertion hole of a front case in an insertion direction which is a direction of an optical axis and a regulation part for regulating the insertion are formed in a lens holder for holding an image pickup lens. Projections of an engaging part are formed surrounding the insertion part, and projections of another engaging part are formed surrounding the insertion hole. An interval of the projections of the engaging part is wider than that of the projections of the other engaging part, and an interval of the projections of the other engaging part is formed wider than that of the projections of the engaging part. Accordingly, the position of the lens holder relative to the front case is adjusted in a state where the engaging parts and are engaged. | 06-04-2015 |
20150202663 | CLEANING APPARATUS, CLEANING METHOD, AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A determining unit | 07-23-2015 |
20150288886 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING SYSTEM, AND IMAGING METHOD - An imaging device includes: an image sensor that photoelectrically converts subject light to generate image signals; a storage portion that sets a second area within a first area so as to correspond to a specific area specified by a setting value for setting an extracting range of an image based on the image signals; a timing adjustment unit that adjusts the timing at which the image signals are read from the image sensor and written to the storage portion and the timing at which the image signals are read from the storage portion; an image conversion processor that performs predetermined processing on the image based on the image signals read from the image sensor; an output unit that converts processed image signals with continuous scanning timing into image signals of a predetermined format and outputs the image signals to a display unit. | 10-08-2015 |
20150326775 | CAMERA DEVICE, CAMERA SYSTEM AND CAMERA CONTROL METHOD - A camera device includes: an imaging unit taking image light to obtain a video signal; an output unit outputting the video signal obtained in the imaging unit to a connected cable; a detection unit detecting current variation or voltage variation of the video signal to be outputted from the output unit; and a control unit determining a control signal transmitted through the cable based on the signal variation detected by the detection unit and performing operation control corresponding to the determined control signal. | 11-12-2015 |
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20120206340 | DISPLAY METHOD AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - To provide a display method capable of displaying the original power saving effect if a monitoring display of the power saving effect is not made when the monitoring display of the power saving effect is made. Provided is a display method including capturing an image in front of an image display surface included in a display apparatus that displays the image and detecting presence of a moving body positioned in front of the image display surface, deciding a power saving amount of the display apparatus including the power saving amount of the image display surface by using an analysis result of the presence or absence of a human face and a detection result of the moving body in the captured image, and deriving and displaying the actual power saving amount when no display is made on the image display surface on the image display surface when information about the power saving amount is displayed on the image display surface. Accordingly, when a monitoring display of a power saving effect is made, an original power saving effect if no monitoring display of the power saving effect is made can be displayed. | 08-16-2012 |
20130095762 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - The present invention relates to a communication system and a communication method for simply and quickly starting communication. A cellular phone is loaded with a non-contact IC card that communicates with a reader/writer of a personal computer using an electromagnetic wave. When the non-contact IC card receives the electromagnetic wave emitted from the reader/writer with the cellular phone placed close to the personal computer, the cellular phone notifies the personal computer of a card ID set in the non-contact IC card. When the personal computer acquires Bluetooth device names of the cellular phone and PDA with intra-piconet synchronization established between the cellular phone and the PDA, the personal computer identifies the cellular phone as a communication partner based on the Bluetooth device names already notified of as the card ID. The present invention is applicable to an information processing apparatus such as a personal computer and a cellular phone. | 04-18-2013 |
20140259110 | Communication System And Method, Information Processing Terminal and Method, And Information Processing Device And Method - The present invention relates to a communication system and method, an information processing terminal and method, and an information processing device and method which enable simple and secure restricted access. When a PDA | 09-11-2014 |
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20130240720 | FOCUSED ION BEAM APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ADJUSTING ION BEAM OPTICS - Provided is a focused ion beam apparatus including a control portion configured to: store in advance, in a condenser voltage table, a calculation value of a condenser voltage for obtaining a reference beam current for all each of a plurality of apertures; obtain an experimental value of the condenser voltage for obtaining the reference beam current for a reference aperture; obtain a correction value of the condenser voltage by subtracting the calculation value stored for the reference aperture from the experimental value for the reference aperture; obtain setting values of the condenser voltage by adding the correction value to the calculation values stored for each of the plurality of the apertures; and store the obtained setting value in the condenser voltage table. | 09-19-2013 |
20130248732 | ION BEAM APPARATUS - An ion beam apparatus including: an ion source configured to emit an ion beam; a condenser lens electrode configured to condense the ion beam; a condenser lens power source configured to apply a voltage to the condenser lens electrode; a storage portion configured to store, a first voltage value, a second voltage value, a third voltage value, and a fourth voltage value; and a control portion configured to retrieve the third voltage value from the storage portion and set the retrieved third voltage value to the condenser lens power source when an observation mode is switched to a wide-range observation mode, and retrieve the fourth voltage value from the storage portion and set the retrieved fourth voltage value to the condenser lens power source when a processing mode is switched to the wide-range observation mode. | 09-26-2013 |
20140291542 | EMITTER STRUCTURE, GAS ION SOURCE AND FOCUSED ION BEAM SYSTEM - There is provided an emitter structure, a gas ion source including the emitter structure, and a focused ion beam system including the gas ion source. The emitter structure includes a pair of conductive pins which are fixed to a base member, a filament which is connected between the pair of conductive pins, and an emitter which is connected to the filament and has a sharp tip. A supporting member is fixed to the base material, and the emitter is connected to the supporting member. | 10-02-2014 |
20140292189 | FOCUSED ION BEAM APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A focused ion beam apparatus is configured to perform at least one of a process of controlling an operation of a cooling unit so that a temperature of a wall surface contacting a source gas in an ion source chamber is maintained at a temperature higher than a temperature at which the source gas freezes and a process of controlling an operation of a heater so that an emitter is temporarily heated when the source gas is exchanged. | 10-02-2014 |
20150047079 | Iridium Tip, Gas Field Ion Source, Focused Ion Beam Apparatus, Electron Source, Electron Microscope, Electron Beam Applied Analysis Apparatus, Ion-Electron Multi-Beam Apparatus, Scanning Probe Microscope, and Mask Repair Apparatus - There is provided an iridium tip including a pyramid structure having one {100} crystal plane as one of a plurality of pyramid surfaces in a sharpened apex portion of a single crystal with <210> orientation. The iridium tip is applied to a gas field ion source or an electron source. The gas field ion source and/or the electron source is applied to a focused ion beam apparatus, an electron microscope, an electron beam applied analysis apparatus, an ion-electron multi-beam apparatus, a scanning probe microscope or a mask repair apparatus. | 02-12-2015 |
20150053866 | Repair Apparatus - There is provided a repair apparatus including a gas field ion source which includes an ion generation section including a sharpened tip, a cooling unit which cools the tip, an ion beam column which forms a focused ion beam by focusing ions of a gas generated in the gas field ion source, a sample stage which moves while a sample to be irradiated with the focused ion beam is placed thereon, a sample chamber which accommodates at least the sample stage therein, and a control unit which repairs a mask or a mold for nano-imprint lithography, which is the sample, with the focused ion beam formed by the ion beam column. The gas field ion source generates nitrogen ions as the ions, and the tip is constituted by an iridium single crystal capable of generating the ions. | 02-26-2015 |
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20110060123 | CHARGE CONVERSIONAL TERNARY POLYPLEX - Disclosed is a polymer composite (polyplex) that contains nucleic acid, a cationic polymer, and an anionic polymer. The anionic polymer covers the surface of the composite comprising the cationic polymer and nucleic acid, has a negative charge at neutral pH, and can change so as to have a positive charge at mildly acidic pH. | 03-10-2011 |
20120076836 | POLYION COMPLEX OF DOUBLE-STRANDED RIBONUCLEIC ACID - Provided are a delivery system that is useful in delivering a double-stranded ribonucleic acid that functions in gene silencing in glomeruli, particularly in mesangial cells and the like, to the tissue or cells, and the like. A polyion complex in the form of a non-polymeric micelle consisting of a double-stranded ribonucleic acid and a block copolymer represented by the formula (I) or (II) below, which are electrostatically bound together, wherein the polyion complex has an average particle diameter of less than 100 nm as measured by a dynamic light scattering measuring method: | 03-29-2012 |
20150141575 | CHARGE CONVERSIONAL TERNARY POLYPLEX - Disclosed is a polymer composite (polyplex) that contains nucleic acid, a cationic polymer, and an anionic polymer. The anionic polymer covers the surface of the composite comprising the cationic polymer and nucleic acid, has a negative charge at neutral pH, and can change so as to have a positive charge at mildly acidic pH. | 05-21-2015 |
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20100259558 | Underline removal apparatus - To remove an underline even if a business document includes a chart or even if the underline touches a character string, provided is an underline removal apparatus that removes an underline area from binary image data including the underline area touching a character string, the underline removal apparatus including: an underline search processing unit that executes a line template matching process by setting a point on the binary image data as a starting point to set a rectangular line template, tracing pixels included in the line template, and extracting a polyline indicating underline position coordinates; and an underline removal processing unit that uses the polyline to execute a process of obtaining background borderline coordinates between the underline area and a background area and character borderline coordinates between the underline area and the character string obtained by applying an interpolation process to a part in the underline area touching the character string and to execute a process of replacing an area surrounded by the background borderline coordinates and the character borderline coordinates by a color of pixels of the background area. | 10-14-2010 |
20110135209 | BUSINESS DOCUMENT PROCESSOR - A seal impression is removed while keeping character string information when applying OCR to a business document stored in grayscale, even if the character string and the seal impression overlap with each other. The character string that overlaps is extrapolated by matching a character string present near the seal impression against a database. First, a seal impression region in a document inputted in grayscale is removed. Next, character information that is present near the removed seal impression region and of which a portion of the characters is unclear due to the seal impression region is extracted. Then, an attribute of the extracted seal impression related information is identified, a customer database storing character string candidates containing customer information is referred to, and based on the seal impression related information classified by attribute, the character string that overlaps with the seal impression region and that is thus unclear is extrapolated. | 06-09-2011 |
20110179072 | BUSINESS DOCUMENT PROCESSOR - To create and manage vouchers by fully checking the contents of the vouchers so that the vouchers will not contain any flaws in description. Information described in a voucher is analyzed through the analysis of the logical structure of the voucher. It is checked, based on RCM (risk control matrix) prepared for internal control purposes, if an item described in the voucher satisfies a predetermined relationship and also if items described in vouchers, which are generated through a series of operations, satisfy a predetermined relationship. Then, a warning is displayed and entry of modification is accepted. | 07-21-2011 |
20120110046 | FILE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND FILE MANAGEMENT METHOD - In order to make more efficient virtual folder creation work which is required at the time of virtually classifying files, the present invention provides a system having: a function of extracting keywords and frequencies thereof included in metadata; and a function of creating a virtual folder on the basis of the extracted keywords and the extracted frequencies thereof. At the time of extracting the keywords, character strings which can be considered as the keywords are comprehensively extracted. In addition, at the time of creating the virtual folder, the virtual folder is provided with a hierarchical structure including at least two hierarchical levels of a parent folder and a child folder. At the time of creating the child folder, in the case where child folder candidates having equivalent frequencies exist, a candidate having a longer character string is adopted. | 05-03-2012 |