Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Tdk Corporation

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Nec Corporation

Sony Corporation

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Hitachi, Ltd.

Olympus Corporation

Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Kao Corporation

Ebara Corporation

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Akira Suzuki

Takahiro Imada

Hajime Gotoh

Kensuke Yamaji

Takuya Seshita

Toshihiko Shimokawa

Masaaki Yoshikawa

Hiroshi Yoshinaga

Shuutaroh Yuasa

Kenji Ishii

Hiromasa Takagi

Tadashi Ogawa

Arinobu Yoshiura

Teppei Kawata

Kazuya Saito

Takamasa Hase

Naoki Iwaya

Takeshi Uchitani

Masahiko Satoh

Yuji Arai

Yutaka Ikebuchi

Takayuki Seki

Ryuuichi Mimbu

Takeshi Yamamoto

Yoshiki Yamaguchi

Takayuki Ishida

Akio Ohba

Hisao Yabe

Yasunori Ishigaya

Hideo Ito

Munetaka Tsuda

Hiroyuki Segawa

Minoru Yamazaki

Takeshi Ikeda

Robert Dale Hartman

Masakazu Aoki

Akira Hasegawa

Kazuo Kobayashi

Kenichi Suzuki

Koji Yamamoto

Takeaki Nakamura

Hiroshi Yagi

Kazuo Aoki

Tetsuo Takematsu

Yoshio Hattori

Koji Maeda

Takashi Tsuruoka

Tsutomu Takahashi

Shinichi Namekata

Tomokazu Kake

Shuntaroh Tamaki

Shuntaro Tamaki

Satoshi Hara

Yoshihiro Iida

Shuji Hiramatsu

Ryota Yamashina

Shusuke Ichihashi

Yoshio Tashiro

Yasuhiro Ueda

Nobuo Iizuka

Osamu Tamada

Masao Shimizu

Takeshi Nishiyama

Nobuaki Akui

Hiroyuki Hashimoto

Yoshinao Oaki

Hiroyuki Sasa

Hiroshi Miyazaki

Yasuhito Kura

Shigeharu Inouye

Masaaki Hayashi

Koji Yamaya

Akio Ogawa

Nobuyoshi Inoue

Hideo Adachi

Atsushi Nakamura

Hidehiko Ogasawara

Fumisada Maeda

Motoyoshi Yamano

Toshiaki Sugimura

Yoshinori Murakami

Masakazu Hirose

Takashi Shomura

Makoto Konnai

Hirotaka Nakano

Motoharu Tanaka

Michinari Kohno

Shinya Wada

Yuichiro Nakamura

Kazushi Tachimoto

Tatsuya Yamaguchi

Akitaka Kimura

Yukio Yoshikawa

Shigeru Nakajima

Shinichi Honda

Norihiko Inaba

Masaaki Nido

Toshihiro Kusunoki

Michio Sato

Akihisa Tomita

Based on image data obtained by imaging a state of the preliminary cleaning of an endoscope by manual work, a cleaning status determination unit determines whether or not the preliminary cleaning has been performed on the endoscope. A notification control unit generates notification data regarding the determination result in the cleaning status determination unit and outputs the notification data from the output apparatus. When the cleaning status determination unit identifies a step that has not been properly performed, the notification control unit generates notification data including information regarding the step that has not been properly performed. The notification control unit may generate notification data including image data obtained by imaging the state of the step.

Cleaning support system, processing apparatus, and cleaning support method

A lens drive device includes a movable unit, a fixed unit, and a support portion. The movable unit includes a magnet and a lens holder for holding a lens. The fixed unit includes a coil board and a base board. The coil board includes a coil facing the magnet and a coil wiring connected thereto. The base board is disposed opposite to the magnet across the coil board and includes a base wiring and an opening through which the optical axis of the lens passes. The support portion relatively movably connects the movable unit to the fixed unit and supports the movable unit to the fixed unit. A first conductive portion conductively connecting the coil wiring and the base wiring in the fixed unit is disposed away from an opening periphery of the opening to an outside in a radial direction.

Lens drive device

The present invention more suitably adjusts a pressure at a tip of a shaft in an actuator configured to generate a negative pressure at the tip of the shaft, to pick up a workpiece with the shaft. A negative pressure-generating structure to be applied to the actuator includes an insertion hole into which the shaft is inserted in a state where a space is formed between the shaft and a wall surface of the insertion hole, an inner space formed inside the negative pressure-generating structure, which communicates with a hollow part of the shaft through a communication hole formed in the shaft, and an air passage connected to the inner space, the air passage being a passage of air when air in the inner space is sucked to generate the negative pressure at the tip of the shaft.

Negative pressure-generating structure and actuator

Methods and apparatus provide for: generating virtual space images by specifying from among a plurality of viewpoint positions and a plurality of directions of line of sight in the virtual space; and displaying the virtual space images on a head-mounted display, where the generating includes changing from a currently selected viewpoint position among the plurality of viewpoint positions to a newly selected viewpoint position among the plurality of viewpoint positions, which is selected in accordance with operation by a user, when generating the virtual space images in response to changing to the newly selected viewpoint position, the display control section specifies a new direction of line of sight among the plurality of directions of line of sight, and at least some of the plurality of viewpoint positions are separated from each other.

Display control apparatus and display control method

Provided is a sensing device to be applied to an actuator including a shaft that is movable in an axial direction, the shaft including a hollow part formed on at least a tip side of the shaft such that an interior of the shaft is hollow, the actuator being configured to generate a negative pressure in the hollow part to suction a workpiece to a tip of the shaft, thereby picking up the workpiece. The sensing device includes a flow sensor provided in a middle of an air passage to detect a flow rate of air flowing through the air passage, the air passage being a passage through which air sucked out from the hollow part flows when the negative pressure is applied to the hollow part, and a pressure sensor provided in a middle of the air passage, to detect a pressure in the air passage.

Actuator sensing device and actuator control system

The present invention reduces tact time for a pick-and-place operation by an actuator. In a housing of the actuator, an air passage being a passage of air when sucking air from a hollow part of a shaft is provided. Furthermore, a sucking valve that sucks air from the hollow part of the shaft through the air passage and a suction detecting sensor to detect that a workpiece is suctioned onto a tip of the shaft are provided in the air passage. Then, in the housing, the air passage is disposed at a position on a side opposite to a linear motion motor that moves the shaft in an axial direction of the shaft, via the shaft.

Actuator

An actuator system that picks up workpieces aims to shorten tact time and to reduce damages to workpieces. The actuator system includes an actuator that picks up a workpiece, an external force detection sensor that detects a physical quantity that is correlated with an external force that is applied to the workpiece, a head unit that is connected to the actuator and the external force detection sensor without a communication network, the head unit being configured to control the actuator based on a sensing result from the external force detection sensor when a pickup request signal that is a signal requesting pickup of the workpiece is received, and a control device that is connected to the head unit over the communication network, the control device being configured to transmit the pickup request signal to the head unit.

Actuator system

Provided is an actuator in which a load applied to a shaft and a workpiece is controlled. The actuator includes a support part that rotatably supports the shaft, a linear motion motor that moves the shaft in a direction of a central axis, a connecting member that is at least a part of a member connecting a mover of the linear motion motor and the support part, a strain gauge that detects strain of the connecting member, and a control device that controls the linear motion motor, based on the strain detected by the strain gauge.

Methods and apparatus provide for: generating virtual space images by specifying from among a plurality of viewpoint positions and a plurality of directions of line of sight in the virtual space; and displaying the virtual space images on a head-mounted display, where the generating includes changing from a currently selected viewpoint position among the plurality of viewpoint positions to a newly selected viewpoint position among the plurality of viewpoint positions, which is selected in accordance with operation by a user, when generating the virtual space images in response to changing to the newly selected viewpoint position, the generating includes specifying, as a new direction of line of sight among the plurality of directions of line of sight, a direction in which a first position in the virtual space is seen from the newly selected viewpoint position, and at least some of the plurality of viewpoint positions are separated from each other.

In an actuator, an unnecessarily large load is prevented from being applied to a shaft and a workpiece. There are included a force sensor, an output of which is according to a force applied to a connecting member connected to the shaft, an amplifier that amplifies the output of the force sensor, and a low-pass filter, and a load applied to the shaft is detected based on an output from the amplifier until the shaft or a member associated with the shaft comes in contact with another member, and thereafter, the load applied to the shaft is detected based on an output from the low-pass filter.

An actuator includes a first magnet whose magnetic pole surface has an N pole and a second magnet whose magnetic pole surface has an S pole. When current flows from one end of a first wiring to the other end, the current circulates in one direction at least partially on the first magnet in a first area, while it circulates in a direction opposite to the one direction at least partially on the second magnet in the first area. When current flows from one end of a second wiring to the other end, the current circulates in the direction opposite to the one direction at least partially on another first magnet in the second area, while it circulates in the one direction at least partially on another second magnet in the second area.

Actuator capable of performing rational motion

In a fee-setting system, an assessment unit assesses the degree of appropriateness in a medical facility regarding the use of a device relating to medical treatment used in the medical facility based on the degree of deviation and information regarding the medical facility, in which the degree of deviation that is obtained by comparing information indicating the usage status of the device that has been detected by a detection unit for detecting the usage status of the device with reference information regarding the method of using the device. A calculation unit calculates a fee to be charged to the medical facility based on the degree of appropriateness.

Fee-setting system and fee-setting method

A video display system that includes a display device and an image processing device. The display device is mounted on the head of a user for use. The image processing device generates a plurality of unsynthesized images having different resolutions that are to be used for display by the display device, and transmits the generated unsynthesized images to the display device. The display device receives the unsynthesized images transmitted from the image processing device, and displays a display image that is obtained by synthesizing the unsynthesized images.

Video display system

A lens drive device includes a movable unit, a fixed unit, and a support portion. The movable unit includes a magnet and a lens holder for holding a lens. The fixed unit includes a coil board and a base board. The coil board includes a coil facing the magnet. The base board is disposed on the other side of the magnet across the coil board and includes an opening through which the optical axis of the lens passes. The support portion relatively movably connects the movable unit to the fixed unit and supports the movable unit to the fixed unit. In the fixed unit, a metal-particle-containing resin portion containing metal particles unevenly distributed in a resin covers at least one of a first conductive portion and a second conductive portion.

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Akira Suzuki