Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080252765 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE - The present invention resides in an image pickup device capable of reducing the deformation of the image of the photographed object. An image pickup element included in the image pickup device has a matrix of pixels, for which the control of the charge storage and the readout of image signal data is performed on a row-by-row or column-by-column basis. The storage controller controls the charge storage operation of the image pickup element. On the other hand, the readout controller controls the readout of the image signal data from the image pickup element, while keeping constant the unit period for the readout of the image signal data from the image pickup element. A synchronization signal generator provides a synchronization signal as a timing reference for the frame-based operation of the image pickup element. The synchronization signal period controller variably controls the repetition period of the synchronization signal, while the photographing is under way. | 10-16-2008 |
20080273741 | Electronic Watermark Embedding Method, Electronic Watermark Detecting Method, Electronic Watermark Detecting Apparatus and Program - An electronic image into which an electronic watermark is to be embedded is divided into a plurality of image regions spatially, and pixels each having a property of being difficult to visually recognize a variation in a pixel value are extracted as adaptive pixels from each of the plurality of image regions. A variation between the pixel values of the adaptive pixels in one of the plurality of image regions and those of the adaptive pixels in an adjacent one of the plurality of image regions is produced, and the pixel values of the adaptive pixels of the plurality of image regions are varied in a time direction according to the value of an embedded bit set of the electronic watermark. An electronic-watermark-embedded image is then generated by making the variation in the pixel values of the adaptive pixels vary step by step at a boundary between the two of the plurality of image regions and/or in the time direction so that the variation makes a slow transition. | 11-06-2008 |
20080285789 | Information Processing Apparatus and Information Processing Method - An information processing apparatus includes an additional information conversion means for converting a text of related information into additional information and outputting this additional information, and for outputting an amount of additional information for each point of interest, an embedding region allocating means for outputting region management information including the amount of additional information, for allocating an embedding region for the additional information in an original digital input image on the basis of image size information and the amount of additional information, and for outputting information on the embedding region as region information, and an information embedding means for embedding the region management information in a predetermined region in the original digital input image, and also embedding the additional information in the original digital input image on the basis of the region information to generate and output a watermarked image. | 11-20-2008 |
20080304301 | Power Converting Apparatus For System Connection - A grounding wire from a commercial power system is connected to a series-connection end of a series connection between two capacitors connected in series between a positive electrode and a negative electrode. A current detector monitors an output current of an inverter unit in which four switching elements and two diodes convert voltages at both ends of the series circuit of the capacitors at three levels. An operation control circuit controls a generation of a PWM signal to be applied to the four switching elements, to minimize a difference between a current value detected by the current detector and a target current value. | 12-11-2008 |
20090085537 | Power supply apparatus - A first booster circuit and a second booster circuit include input capacitors, reactors, diodes, switch elements, and output capacitors, and are arranged to be symmetric to each other on a positive side and a negative side. The reactors are magnetically coupled to each other. With such configuration, the switch elements are on/off controlled simultaneously based on terminal voltages of the input capacitors and the output capacitors. | 04-02-2009 |
20090136084 | DIGITAL WATERMARK DETECTING DEVICE - Provided is a digital watermark detecting device for improving the accuracy of reliability judgment of detected information thereby to prevent misdetection. The digital watermark detecting device includes a pixel extracting unit ( | 05-28-2009 |
20090264701 | ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS - An endoscope apparatus includes a transparent member provided at a distal end of an insertion portion of an endoscope to face an image pickup optical system, an ultrasonic transducer attached to an inner surface of the transparent member, and a deflection portion provided at an outer surface of the transparent member which changes a direction of propagation of an ultrasonic wave from the ultrasonic transducer. With the configuration, an ultrasonic wave for stain removal is efficiently propagated from the ultrasonic transducer into a region of an observation field of view in an observation window. | 10-22-2009 |
20090285442 | ELECTRONIC WATERMARK EMBEDDING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC WATERMARK DETECTION DEVICE - A digital watermark embedding device and a digital watermark detecting device are obtained, which can realize stable digital watermark detection using fewer, and embed and detect a larger amount of digital watermark information with an identical number of pixels used for digital watermark embedding in a conventional technology. The digital watermark embedding device includes: an embedding-information converting unit ( | 11-19-2009 |
20100014335 | THREE-PHASE POWER CONVERTING APPARATUS - A three-phase inverter circuit ( | 01-21-2010 |
20100085456 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE-PICKUP SENSOR AND DEVICE - A solid-state image-pickup sensor comprises a plurality of vertical scan circuits, a plurality of horizontal scan circuits, a pixel section including pixels arranged in a two-dimensional array and performing photoelectric conversion, each of the pixels being connected to one of the plurality of vertical scan circuits and connected to the plurality of horizontal scan circuits, and a selection unit for controlling each of the horizontal scan circuits to independently select and output photoelectrically converted signals read from plural ones of the pixels arrayed in the horizontal direction. | 04-08-2010 |
20100087712 | ENDOSCOPE - An endoscope according to the present invention has an insertion portion and characterized by comprising an electronic component housed in an end portion of the insertion portion and a Joule-Thomson cooling apparatus provided in a tube of the endoscope to cool the electronic component. | 04-08-2010 |
20100172539 | DIGITAL WATERMARK EMBEDDING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND DIGITAL WATERMARK DETECTION DEVICE AND METHOD - A digital watermark embedding device according to the present invention includes: a watermark pattern generation part ( | 07-08-2010 |
20100249737 | ABSORBER, SANITARY ARTICLES USING THE ABSORBER, AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - It is an object to provide an absorber wherein crushed tea leaves having a particle size of 0.05 to 4.6 mm are dispersed and held within a pulp fiber material having a fiber length of 0.1 to 7 mm, the absorber is superior in water-absorbing, drying, and odor-eliminating performances, exhibits a good visual quality, and can maintain sanitary conditions for a longer time, and sanitary articles using the absorber. | 09-30-2010 |
20100332062 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR HYBRID VEHICLE - A control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle includes an internal combustion engine and a generator motor, a capacitor, and a driving force assisting unit. Further, the control device includes a switching unit that selects an appropriate traveling range from a plurality of traveling ranges including at least a normal traveling range and a charging priority range for preferentially charging the capacitor and switches the range, and a threshold value increasing unit that increases, when the charging priority range is selected by the switching unit, the predetermined determination threshold value as compared to when the normal traveling range is selected by the switching unit. | 12-30-2010 |
20110082336 | ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS - An endoscope apparatus includes a transparent member that is provided at a distal end of an insertion portion of an endoscope and opposed to an image pickup optical system, a transducer that is attached to an inner surface of the transparent member, a diffraction grating that is provided on an outer surface of the transparent member, and converts an ultrasound vibration f from the transducer into a surface acoustic wave φ which propagates on the outer surface of the transparent member, and absorption portions that are provided at an outer peripheral portion of the transparent member, and deflect the propagated surface acoustic wave φ to a surface different from the outer surface to absorb the surface acoustic wave. | 04-07-2011 |
20110128763 | POWER CONVERTING APPARATUS - A power converting apparatus is provided with three sets of half-bridge inverters ( | 06-02-2011 |
20110211381 | POWER CONVERTING APPARATUS - A neutral point clamped three-phase three-level inverter is connected to a first DC power supply and single-phase inverters are connected in series with AC output lines of individual phases of the three-phase three-level inverter such that sums of output voltages of the three-phase three-level inverter and output voltages of the respective single-phase inverters are output to a load through a smoothing filter. An output control unit controls the three-phase three-level inverter so that the individual phases of the three-phase three-level inverter output primary voltage pulses at a rate of one pulse per half cycle and controls the individual single-phase inverters by PWM, so that output voltages to the individual phases of the load form sine waves of which phases are offset by 2π/3 from one phase to another, the sine waves having the same peak value. | 09-01-2011 |
20110313253 | ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS - An endoscope apparatus includes a transparent member provided at a distal end of an insertion portion of an endoscope, opposed to an image pickup optical system, a transducer attached to an inner surface of the transparent member, a diffraction grating provided on an outer surface of the transparent member, for converting ultrasound vibration from the transducer to a surface acoustic wave Φ that propagates on the outer surface of the transparent member and a conversion section provided in an outer peripheral corner of the transparent member for converting the surface acoustic wave Φ to a bulk wave Φb that scatters into the transparent member. | 12-22-2011 |
20120025405 | LIQUID ENCAPSULATING RESIN COMPOSITION, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE USING LIQUID ENCAPSULATING RESIN COMPOSITION, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Disclosed is a liquid encapsulating resin composition containing an epoxy resin (A), an amine type curing agent (B), and a basic compound (C), wherein, in case that the liquid encapsulating resin composition is filled between a semiconductor element and a substrate connected to each other by solder bumps, the residue of a fluxing agent used for forming the solder bump connection is removed. | 02-02-2012 |
20120105925 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND MEDIA CONVEYING APPARATUS - An image reading apparatus according to the present invention comprises an image reading unit arranged on a conveying path of a first medium and reading an image on the first medium, a conveying unit conveying the first medium and a second medium to the image reading unit, a width of the second medium being smaller than the first medium, and guide portions guiding the second medium introduced from a discharge port along the conveying path. | 05-03-2012 |
20120119140 | WATER-ABSORBING MATERIAL - A water absorbing material includes a waste material. The waste material has a content of 20 wt % to 90 wt % to a total weight of the water absorbing material. The waste material is a water absorbing material which is granular and which comprises two or more plastic materials. The water absorbing material has an ignition point of 400° C. or greater, an ash content of 20 wt % or less, a calorific value in a range of 2930 J/g (700 kcal/kg) to 10465 J/g (2500 kcal/kg) in a state after absorbing moisture that has a weight in a range of 1.1 to 1.6 times the total weight, and a carbon dioxide yield in a range of 1700 g/kg to 2500 g/kg. | 05-17-2012 |
20120216505 | AIRCRAFT - A bird knocking-off rod of a bird knocking-off device is disposed outside a jet engine, in front of an air inlet of the jet engine and capable of rotating with a rotation area that is larger than an opening area of the air inlet of the jet engine. The rotary drive unit contains a rotary drive source and is capable of rotationally driving the bird knocking-off rod independently of rotation of the jet engine. Thus, bird strike against aircraft can be prevented. | 08-30-2012 |
20120219692 | WATER-IN-OIL TYPE FAT OR OIL COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - An object of the present invention is to provide a water-in-oil type fat or oil composition which exhibits satisfactory demulsification in the mouth regardless of a low salt content, and which makes a consumer feel moderate saltiness, and a method for producing the same. | 08-30-2012 |
20120230884 | WATER ABSORBING MATERIAL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - Provided is a water absorbing material having a granular core portion and a coating layer portion coating the granular core portion, which does not produce color before use and with which a test result can be determined only after use. In the water absorbing material, the coating layer portion is composed of 90 wt % to 96 wt % of a substrate and 10 wt % to 4 wt % of an excretion test material, the excretion test material contains a porous adsorbent having an adsorbance of 25 wt % or greater and including micropores, and an excretion test indicator adsorbed on the micropores of the porous adsorbent, and the excretion test indicator is added in an amount in the range of 0.015 wt % to 0.10 wt % relative to the total amount of the coating layer portion. | 09-13-2012 |
20120245777 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR HYBRID VEHICLE - A control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle includes an internal combustion engine and a generator motor, a capacitor, and a driving force assisting unit. Further, the control device includes a switching unit that selects an appropriate traveling range from a plurality of traveling ranges including at least a normal traveling range and a charging priority range for preferentially charging the capacitor and switches the range, and a threshold value increasing unit that increases, when the charging priority range is selected by the switching unit, the predetermined determination threshold value as compared to when the normal traveling range is selected by the switching unit. | 09-27-2012 |
20120245778 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR HYBRID VEHICLE - A control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle includes an internal combustion engine and a generator motor, a capacitor, and a driving force assisting unit. Further, the control device includes a switching unit that selects an appropriate traveling range from a plurality of traveling ranges including at least a normal traveling range and a charging priority range for preferentially charging the capacitor and switches the range, and a threshold value increasing unit that increases, when the charging priority range is selected by the switching unit, the predetermined determination threshold value as compared to when the normal traveling range is selected by the switching unit. | 09-27-2012 |
20120245779 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR HYBRID VEHICLE - A control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle includes an internal combustion engine and a generator motor, a capacitor, and a driving force assisting unit. Further, the control device includes a switching unit that selects an appropriate traveling range from a plurality of traveling ranges including at least a normal traveling range and a charging priority range for preferentially charging the capacitor and switches the range, and a threshold value increasing unit that increases, when the charging priority range is selected by the switching unit, the predetermined determination threshold value as compared to when the normal traveling range is selected by the switching unit. | 09-27-2012 |
20120288955 | WATER ABSORBING MATERIAL - Provided is a water absorbing material having a granular core portion and a coating layer portion coating the granular core portion, which enables a test result after use to be clearly determined by developing vivid and uniform color. In the water absorbing material, the coating layer portion is composed of 90 wt % to 96 wt % of a substrate and 10 wt % to 4 wt % of an excretion test material, the excretion test material contains a porous adsorbent having an adsorbance of 20 wt % or greater and including micropores, and an excretion test indicator adsorbed on the micropores of the porous adsorbent, and the excretion test indicator is added in an amount more than 0.1 wt % and not more than 1.0 wt % relative to the total amount of the coating layer portion. | 11-15-2012 |
20130011260 | VIBRATION REDUCTION DEVICE AND VIBRATION REDUCTION METHOD - A vibration reduction device according to the present invention includes: an elastic body; a dynamic mass; and a controllable mass. The dynamic mass is supported by an object of vibration reduction through the elastic body. The actuator causes the controllable mass to move with respect to the dynamic mass. Such a vibration reduction device can vary the frequency and the amplitude at which the dynamic mass vibrates with respect to the object of vibration reduction by causing the controllable mass to move appropriately with respect to the dynamic mass, thereby enabling the vibration of the object of vibration reduction to be reduced more reliably. In addition, such a vibration reduction device can reduce vibration of a certain frequency of the object of vibration reduction even when the controllable mass is fixed with respect to the dynamic mass. | 01-10-2013 |
20130021011 | DC/DC POWER CONVERSION APPARATUS - A DC/DC power conversion apparatus includes a reactor connected to a DC power supply and a DC voltage conversion section connected to the reactor. The DC voltage conversion section includes a plurality of switching devices, a charge-discharge capacitor which is charged or discharged by ON/OFF operations of the switching devices, a plurality of diodes which provide a charging route and a discharging route for the charge-discharge capacitor. The DC/DC power conversion apparatus also includes a smoothing capacitor on an output side, which is connected to the DC voltage conversion section and including a plurality of voltage division capacitors connected in series to each other, and a switching device for voltage equalization provided on a connection line provided between the negative terminal of the charge-discharge capacitor and a connection point between the voltage division capacitors. | 01-24-2013 |
20130029040 | WATER ABSORBING MATERIAL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - Provided is a water absorbing material having a granular core portion and a coating layer portion coating the granular core portion, which does not produce color before use and with which a test result can be determined only after use. In the water absorbing material, the coating layer portion is composed of 90 wt % to 96 wt % of a substrate and 10 wt % to 4 wt % of an excretion test material, the excretion test material contains a porous adsorbent having an adsorbance of 25 wt % or greater and including micropores, and an excretion test indicator adsorbed on the micropores of the porous adsorbent, and the excretion test indicator is added in an amount in the range of 0.015 wt % to 0.10 wt % relative to the total amount of the coating layer portion. | 01-31-2013 |
20130033202 | VIBRATION REDUCTION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A vibration reduction apparatus according to the present invention includes: an actuator apply a force to a beam supporting a cabin so as to bend the beam; an acceleration sensor measuring the acceleration of the cabin; and a controller controlling the actuator based on the measured acceleration. When a vibration containing a plurality of vibration components is transmitted to the cabin via the beam, the vibration reduction apparatus thus structured can achieve the vibration reduction more certainly by applying a bending load to the beam so that the bending load caused by the vibration is cancelled; this allows providing damping of the cabin more certainly. | 02-07-2013 |
20130158841 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE AND INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE DIAGNOSTIC METHOD - An internal combustion engine diagnostic device and an internal combustion engine diagnostic method identify an abnormal cylinder having an abnormal air-fuel ratio among a plurality of cylinders during the operation of an internal combustion engine. The internal combustion engine diagnostic device comprises: an air-fuel ratio control unit for changing the air-fuel ratio in a stepwise manner by controlling a fuel injection amount adjusting means that adjusts the fuel injection amount of each of the plurality of cylinders; and an abnormal cylinder identification unit for identifying an abnormal cylinder on the basis of the relationship between each air-fuel ratio changed in a stepwise manner and the number of misfires occurring in the plurality of cylinders, the number being counted by a misfire counter for each air-fuel ratio changed in a stepwise manner. | 06-20-2013 |
20130175948 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING ILLUMINATION APPARATUS - A method of controlling an illumination apparatus includes a malfunction detecting step for detecting a malfunction of an organic electroluminescence element based on its electrical characteristic, a short-circuit malfunction restoration step for applying a short-circuit malfunction restoration pulse to an element that is determined to be a short-circuit malfunction, a short-circuit malfunction restoration determination step for determining whether the element that is determined to be the short-circuit malfunction is restored, a malfunctioning element determination step for storing into a storage, when an element that is determined to be the short-circuit malfunction is not restored, individual information including identification information on the element as a malfunctioning element, and a turn-on control step for controlling the turn-on state of a light-emitting surface based on a state of distribution of the malfunctioning organic electroluminescence elements. | 07-11-2013 |
20130196046 | Plastic Oil and Fat Composition, and Production Method and Usage Thereof - A plastic oil and fat composition provides a plastic oil and fat food that has a good filling operability, keeps the feeling of melt-in-the-mouth after long preservation, and is excellent in spreadability, oil-off resistance and the like. In the plastic oil and fat composition, a content of PPP is from 5.5 to 12% by weight, a content of PPLi+PLiP is from 5.5 to 15.5% by weight, a content of PPO+POP is from 7 to 20% by weight, and a value of PPO/(PPO+POP) is from 0.55 to 0.7. A method for producing the plastic oil and fat composition is also provided. | 08-01-2013 |
20130218401 | FAULT DIAGNOSIS METHOD AND FAULT DIAGNOSIS DEVICE - A fault diagnosis device and a fault diagnosis method read a diagnostic trouble code from an Electronic Control Unit to the fault diagnosis device, and display a work guide screen for guiding work in accordance with the read diagnostic trouble code. The work guide screen includes an entire work flowchart consisting of a plurality of work items for identifying a fault occurrence location at which the fault event corresponding to the diagnostic trouble code is caused, and includes an entire work display area in which a work item selected among the plurality of work items is highlighted and a concrete work display area in which concrete work details about the highlighted work item are indicated. | 08-22-2013 |
20130227776 | COLLAPSIBLE TOILET - A collapsible toilet in which waste of materials used is minimized and which is simple in structure, has a predetermined strength, and can be used repeatedly is provided. A collapsible toilet made from a rectangular board demarcated into five rows×three columns of rectangular segments by foldable division lines or perforation lines, the rectangular board being shaped into a rectangular parallelepiped when assembled, includes a first row section that forms a first side face, a second row section that forms a top face, a third row section that forms a third side face, a fourth row section that forms at least a second side face, a fourth side face, and a bottom face, and a fifth row section that forms a first reinforcing portion for the top face, a second reinforcing portion for the top face, and the first side face. | 09-05-2013 |
20140023773 | PALM-BASED FRACTIONATED OIL AND FAT, OIL AND FAT COMPOSITION AND FOOD PRODUCT CONTAINING THE SAME - An oil and fat composition is provided having superior operability and processability, in terms of a liquefying phenomenon of sugar, tackiness and texture of fried doughnuts, filling condition and hardness of shortening, and solidifying time of coating chocolate, by the superior crystallization-promoting effect. A palm-based fractionated oil and fat has 70-90% by weight of the tripalmitin content to triglyceride and 1-8% by weight of the unsaturated fatty acid content to total fatty acid. The oil and fat comprises a hard part obtained by, for example, performing a crystallization operation of palm super stearin with iodine value 10-17 so that the slurry SFC is 20% or less, and fractionating the slurry so that the hard part yield is 26% by weight or less. The fractionation is preferably performed so that a numerical value of the hard part yield/the slurry SFC is 10 or less. | 01-23-2014 |
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20140190420 | EXCREMENT TREATMENT MATERIAL - The present invention provides an excrement treatment material capable of being treated by a water-disintegration treatment after use. The excrement treatment material contains a water retaining material including at least one material of papers, fibers, woods, plants, plastics, rubbers, organic sludge and animal waste, an adhesive and a water absorbing resin, and is formed in a granular shape, wherein the water retaining material has a grain size of 0.6 mm or less, and the adhesive is contained in an amount of 5 wt % to 20 wt % with respect to a total weight of the excrement treatment material. | 07-10-2014 |
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