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20090270299 | Composition for removing protective layer in fabrication of MEMS and method for removing same - There is provided a composition that can effectively remove a protective coating and a primer coating that have a resistance to etching solutions and are rendered unnecessary after wet-etching treatment in MEMS fabrication processes, and a method for removing the protective layer. The composition contains (A) at least one organic solvent selected from the group consisting of amides, lactones, pyrrolidones and ketones, (B) water, and (C) a fluoride, in an amount of 80.00 to 99.90 mass %, 0.05 to 12.00 mass %, and 0.05 to 8.00 mass %, respectively. The composition may further contain (D) phosphoric acid, phosphonic acid or phosphinic acid in an amount over 0 mass part to 5.5 mass parts, or (E) an organic amine in an amount over 0 mass part to 45 mass parts, based on 100 mass parts of the composition. | 10-29-2009 |
20090270300 | Composition for removing protective layer in fabrication of mems and method for removing same - There is provided a composition that can effectively remove a protective coating and a primer coating that have a resistance to etching solutions and are rendered unnecessary after wet-etching treatment in MEMS fabrication processes, and a method for removing the protective layer. The composition contains (A) at least one organic solvent selected from the group consisting of amides, lactones, pyrrolidones and ketones, (B) water, and (C) a fluoride, in an amount of 80.00 to 99.90 mass %, 0.05 to 12.00 mass %, and 0.05 to 8.00 mass %, respectively. The composition may further contain (D) phosphoric acid, phosphonic acid or phosphinic acid in an amount over 0 mass part to 5.5 mass parts, or (E) an organic amine in an amount over 0 mass part to 45 mass parts, based on 100 mass parts of the composition. | 10-29-2009 |
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20130220461 | DIAPHRAGM DEVICE AND PRESSURE REGULATING RESERVOIR USING THE SAME - A diaphragm device comprising: a supporting member; a flexible membrane that is supported by the supporting member; and a housing that accommodates the flexible membrane and the supporting member, and wherein the flexible membrane air-tightly separates a first chamber and a second chamber connected to the outside through a through-hole formed in a membrane supporting portion of the supporting member, inside the housing, wherein an avoidance recessed portion to avoid interference with an opening edge of the through-hole is formed at a position corresponding to the through-hole in the flexible membrane, wherein the avoidance recessed portion is provided at a thick portion thicker than the other portion of the flexible membrane, and the thick portion protrudes toward the first chamber. | 08-29-2013 |
20130298758 | DIAPHRAGM DEVICE AND PRESSURE CONTROL RESERVOIR USING THE SAME - A diaphragm device that supports a diaphragm with sandwiching an annular attaching portion, in an axis direction, provided at outer circumference of a flexible film by the support member having a diaphragm mounting portion, wherein at least three protrusions are provided at an outer circumference of the annular attaching portion, and each of the at least three protrusions equally protrudes in a radial direction, and wherein when the annular attaching portion is compressed in the axis direction, each of the at least three protrusions contacts with an inner circumference of the diaphragm mounting portion which faces an outer circumference of the annular attaching portion. | 11-14-2013 |
20140130925 | PRESSURE CONTROL RESERVOIR WITH CHECK VALVE - A pressure control reservoir includes a valve ball and a shaft which is movable to move the valve ball to open or close a fluid path leading to a fluid reservoir chamber. The shaft has a tip with a slant surface which has a peripheral edge of a polygonal shape with even numbers of vertices and is inclined to the longitudinal center line of the shaft. Such a polygonal geometry increases an entire or inclined length of the slant surface, which results in an increased range where an angle which the slant surface makes with a plane extending perpendicular to an axial direction of the tip is permitted to be increased without causing the point of contact between the valve ball and the slant surface to be shifted close to the tip of the slant surface when the tip of the shaft moves the valve ball. | 05-15-2014 |
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20090190826 | WORKING APPARATUS AND CALIBRATION METHOD THEREOF - A working apparatus comprises a working unit which executes work on a work subject, and a calibration jig on which a plurality of markers is arranged in a radial pattern from a center point of markers, the plurality of markers being arranged in three dimensions, and the calibration jig being attached to a working unit such that a calibration reference point set of a working unit coincides with a center point of markers. According to such a composition, it becomes possible to calibrate a position of a working unit even when a portion of the jig containing a center point of markers is occluded during image measurement. | 07-30-2009 |
20100131235 | WORK SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - In a work system which measures 3D information of a target object by a light-section method, high measurement precision is realized. The invention includes a robot arm, a hand position detection member which is arranged at the distal end portion of the robot arm, a slit laser projector which irradiates slit light, a camera which is fixed at a position independent of the robot arm, and senses an image of the target object, and a computer which calculates a light-section plane of the slit light based on a light-section line formed on the hand position detection member which is included in image data of the target object obtained by image sensing by the camera, and calculates the position and orientation of the target object based on the calculated light-section plane and the light-section line formed on the target object. | 05-27-2010 |
20100161125 | WORK APPARATUS AND CALIBRATION METHOD FOR THE SAME - A work apparatus sets a virtual target point on an image plane in an imaging apparatus, and obtains a plurality of coordinate values of a moving unit at which a work reference point of a work unit and the virtual target point are caused to match in an image captured by the imaging apparatus. Further, the work apparatus obtains, in the image, coordinate values of the moving unit at which a position of light projection by a distance information obtaining unit and the virtual target point are caused to match, and a plurality of pieces of distance information obtained from the distance information obtaining unit at those coordinate positions. Then, the work apparatus calculates, based on the plurality of coordinate values and the plurality of pieces of distance information obtained through the above processing, a calibration parameter for the moving unit and the distance information obtaining unit. | 06-24-2010 |
20110103652 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A feature amount cluster holding unit extracts respective feature amounts from N images sensed under N respective types of image sensing conditions, and manages the feature amounts extracted from each sensed image as a feature amount cluster in association with corresponding one of the image sensing conditions. A feature space distance calculation unit specifies the second feature amount cluster containing a feature amount similar to the feature amount of interest in the first feature amount cluster. An image sensing condition setting unit specifies sets of feature amounts associated with the N respective types of image sensing conditions from the first and second feature amount clusters. The image sensing condition setting unit specifies a set having a largest distance between feature amounts in the set among the specified sets. An image sensing condition associated with the specified set is output as an image sensing condition for discriminating the feature amount clusters. | 05-05-2011 |
20110206237 | RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A recognition apparatus for recognizing a position and an orientation of a target object, inputs a captured image of the target object captured by an image capturing apparatus; detects a plurality of feature portions from the captured image, and to extract a plurality of feature amounts indicating image characteristics in each of the plurality of feature portions; inputs property information indicating respective physical properties in the plurality of feature portions on the target object; inputs illumination information indicating an illumination condition at the time of capturing the captured image; determines respective degrees of importance of the plurality of extracted feature amounts based on the respective physical properties indicated by the property information and the illumination condition indicated by the illumination information; and recognizes the position and the orientation of the target object based on the plurality of feature amounts and the respective degrees of importance thereof. | 08-25-2011 |
20120099798 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus for matching a position and/or orientation of a measurement object with that of a model of the measurement object includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image of the measurement object, a calculation unit configured to calculate information indicating a surface shape of the measurement object based on the captured image, and a limitation unit configured to limit a position and/or orientation of the model based on the information indicating the surface shape. | 04-26-2012 |
20120128204 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a selection unit configured to select a plurality of specific areas of a target object, a learning unit configured to learn a detection model that relates to each of the plurality of specific areas, a generation unit configured to generate an area combination as a combination of specific areas selected from the plurality of specific areas, a recognition unit configured to recognize the target object based on the detection model and the area combination, and an addition unit configured to add a new specific area based on a recognition result obtained by the recognition unit. If the new specific area is added by the addition unit, the learning unit further learns a detection model that relates to the new specific area. | 05-24-2012 |
20120155751 | OBJECT RECOGNITION APPARATUS, OBJECT RECOGNITION METHOD, LEARNING APPARATUS, LEARNING METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A learning method of detectors used to detect a target object, comprises: a selection step of selecting a plurality of specific regions from a given three-dimensional model of the target object; a learning step of learning detectors used to detect the specific regions selected in the selection step; an evaluation step of executing recognition processing of positions and orientations of predetermined regions of the plurality of specific regions by the detectors learned in the learning step; and a normalization step of setting vote weights for outputs of the detectors according to recognition accuracies of results of the recognition processing in the evaluation step. | 06-21-2012 |
20120259462 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus for performing recognition processing by a recognizer for a position and orientation of a work subject to undergo work by a working unit of a robot arm, comprising: an obtaining unit adapted to obtain, for each of a plurality of positions and orientations of the work subject, a position and orientation of the working unit in which the working unit can perform the work; and a restriction unit adapted to restrict a position and orientation of the work subject used in the recognition processing by the recognizer to a position and orientation of the work subject corresponding to the position and orientation of the working unit that have been obtained by the obtaining unit. | 10-11-2012 |
20140198951 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A dictionary for detection of an object is created from an image obtained by performing an image process, which depends on a first image process parameter, on the training image of the detection target object. The dictionary created based on the image process depending on the first image process parameter is determined, based on a result of detecting the object from an image obtained by performing an image process, which depends on the first image process parameter, on a photographed image based on the dictionary. A second image process parameter is determined, based on a result of detecting the object from an image obtained by performing an image process, which depends on the second image process parameter, on the photographed image using the determined dictionary. | 07-17-2014 |
20140294292 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - In a case where generating a training image of an object to be used to generate a dictionary to be referred to in image recognition processing of detecting the object from an input image, model information of an object to be detected is set, and a luminance image of the object and a range image are input. The luminance distribution of the surface of the object is estimated based on the luminance image and the range image, and the training image of the object is generated based on the model information and the luminance distribution. | 10-02-2014 |