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Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

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Yamauchi Corporation

Sankyo Company, Limited

Fujitsu Corporation

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Sony Group Corporation

International Business Machines Corporation

Sony Corporation

Renesas Technology Corp.

Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.

Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha

Akira Yoshida

Takeshi Murakami

Nobutaka Takeuchi

Kohta Fujimori

Kayoko Tanaka

Shin Hasegawa

Masataka Kawahara

Hitoshi Ishibashi

Kozo Oda

Shuichi Matsumoto

Kaname Watariguchi

Yushi Hirayama

Tetsuya Muto

Yoshiaki Miyashita

Yuuichiroh Uematsu

Jun Komiyama

Hiroshi Oishi

Takashi Taya

Shunichi Suzuki

Hideki Anayama

Takakazu Tanaka

Yoshihisa Abe

Kenichi Eriguchi

Teiichiro Koga

Takamitsu Ozeki

Harunobu Ogaki

Shuji Hirai

Sadao Ishihara

Takahide Nishi

Natsumi Matsue

Hiroo Koyama

Ichiro Hayakawa

Hiroshi Kogen

Eiichi Kitazawa

Takashi Kasai

Koichi Hirai

Keita Gotoh

Yuji Iwano

Shinji Kato

Shinichi Akatsu

Keiichi Tanabe

Yoshikazu Yoshida

Keita Sone

Shuji Nakamura

Hirofumi Kishita

Akio Kosuge

Yuka Ishiduka

Hideo Suzuki

Hiroyuki Koike

Kenichi Kaku

Hiroshi Adachi

Naoki Okamoto

Kazushige Nakamura

Keiko Matsumoto

Hidetoshi Hirano

Tomohide Takenaka

Yoichi Sakurai

Hirotoshi Uesugi

Sadao Oida

Eichi Koizumi

Fujio Saito

Atsuo Tanaka

Kazufumi Kimura

Kousei Shimada

Akira Horikawa

Taro Tokui

Satoru Hirano

Shuhei Kouno

Kiyoshi Kuwahara

Masako Kuwahara

Koza Oda

Tatsuya Igarashi

Kazuhisa Fujimoto

Hirotaka Tamura

Hideto Kato

Hironao Fujiki

Hidekiyo Ozawa

Michiyo Sekiya

Yuhki Mitsufuji

Hiroki Kanai

Noriyuki Meguriya

Yasushi Yamamoto

Takeroh Kurenuma

Hiroshi Inomata

Wataru Kitamura

Hirotsugu Matoba

Masaki Nonaka

Koichi Yamaguchi

Kazuaki Kamihara

Hiroyuki Uenishi

Itaru Takaya

Keiichi Yoshida

Kohtaroh Gotoh

Itaru Yamazaki

Hiroshi Nozue

Masaaki Kurihara

Kohei Matsumoto

Kazuo Hasegawa

Yoichi Kawamorita

Yuki Aritsuka

Provided is an information processing device that performs processing on a content. An information processing device is provided with an estimation unit that estimates sounding coordinates at which a sound image is generated on the basis of a video stream and an audio stream, a video output control unit that controls an output of the video stream, and an audio output control unit that controls an output of the audio stream so as to generate the sound image at the sounding coordinates. A discrimination unit that discriminates a gazing point of a user who views video and audio is further provided, in which the estimation unit estimates the sounding coordinates at which the sound image of the object gazed by the user is generated on the basis of a discrimination result.

Information processing device and information processing method

Provided are an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a video sound output system that execute an output process of an acoustic signal in synchronization with a video signal. The information processing apparatus includes a control section that detects a position of a sound source appearing in a video displayed on a screen of a display unit and that uses one or more vibrators to vibrate the display unit and thereby control output of sound such that a sound image of sound in synchronization with the video is localized at the position where the sound source appears on the screen displaying the video. In a case of displaying videos of two or more video sources on individual windows, the control section localizes a sound image of a sound source detected from the video of each video source at a position where the sound source appears in the corresponding window.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and video sound output system

A hot press cushioning material includes: a fiber material comprised of a multiplicity of randomly oriented fibers (); rubber () present in voids between the fibers () of the fiber material; and independent pores () dispersedly present in the rubber ().

Hot press cushioning material and production method thereof

A hot press cushioning material includes a base material layer that is in the form of a plate and that contains fibers; and an end face seal covering an outer end face of the base material layer. The end face seal includes a heat resistant elastic body having penetrated the outer end face of the base material layer and a heat resistant resin attached to an outer surface of the heat resistant elastic body.

Hot press cushioning material

The information processing apparatus includes a control section that detects a position of a sound source appearing in a video displayed on a screen of a display unit and that uses one or more vibrators to vibrate the display unit and thereby control output of sound such that a sound image of sound in synchronization with the video is localized at the position where the sound source appears on the screen displaying the video. In a case of displaying videos of two or more video sources on individual windows, the control section localizes a sound image of a sound source detected from the video of each video source at a position where the sound source appears in the corresponding window.

A hot press cushioning material includes a cushioning material body in the form of a plate; and surface materials provided on the front and back sides of the cushioning material body. The surface material includes a core layer composed of a heat resistant fiber material for a nonwoven structure, and a front-side resin layer covering the entire front side of the core layer. The core layer has an air permeability of 5 cm&#xb7;cm&#xb7;sor less and a bulk density of 0.8 g/cmor more.

Provided is an information processing device that processes a dialogue of an audio agent. The information processing device includes an acquisition unit that acquires audio information of an agent device that is played back through interaction with a user and audio information of other contents different from the audio information of the agent device, and a controller that performs sound field control processing on an audio output signal based on the audio information of the agent device acquired by the acquisition unit. The controller performs wavefront composition of pieces of audio output from a plurality of speakers, controls a sound field of the agent device, and avoids mixing with the other contents different from the audio information of the agent device.

Information processing device, information processing method, and information processing system

A hot press cushioning material includes: a first nonwoven fabric forming an inner layer; and second nonwoven fabrics placed on both surfaces of the first nonwoven fabric and forming outer layers. Copolymerized para-aramid fibers having a basis weight of 80 to 400 g/mare used as a material of the second nonwoven fabrics. Fibers that are more rigid than the copolymerized para-aramid fibers are used as a material of the first nonwoven fabric. Each of the first nonwoven fabric and the second nonwoven fabrics has a heat resistant temperature of 270&#xb0; C. or more.

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device, an image density detector, and a processor. The processor controls the image forming device to form a first test toner image, and controls the image density detector to detect an image density at the plurality of positions of the first test toner image. The processor adjusts an image forming condition so that the image density detected at each of the plurality of positions becomes a target image density, controls the image forming device to form a second test toner image based on the adjusted image forming condition, controls the image density detector to detect an image density at the plurality of positions of the second test toner image, determines whether a streak exists in the second test toner image based on the detected image densities, and executes a countermeasure to prevent an occurrence of the streak.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method

A hot press cushioning material () of the present invention includes, as a base material, a woven fabric layer () using bulky yarn () as at least one of the warp and weft, and a nonwoven fabric layer () placed on one surface side of the woven fabric layer (), a part of the nonwoven fabric layer () being embedded in the woven fabric layer (). A nonwoven fabric-resin composite layer () is formed in the opposite surface of the nonwoven fabric layer () from the woven fabric layer () by impregnation with resin (). A woven fabric-rubber composite layer () is formed in the other surface of the woven fabric layer () by impregnation with rubber (). The nonwoven fabric-resin composite layer () and the woven fabric-rubber composite layer () have voids () therein.

Hot press cushioning material and manufacturing method thereof

An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearer, a toner image forming device, an image reader, and a control unit. The toner image forming device forms a test toner image on the image bearer. The image reader reads the test toner image and a predetermined reference member. The control unit calculates an amount of toner contained in the test toner image based on image data from the test toner image. Based on image data from the reference member, the control unit selects a position of a pixel to be used for calculation of the amount of toner contained in the test toner image from pixels included in the image data from the reference member, to calculate the amount of toner contained in the test toner image from data of a pixel located at the position thus selected among pixels included in the image data from the test toner image.

Image forming apparatus incorporating image reader

An image forming apparatus includes an image bearer, an image forming device to form a toner image on the image bearer, a transfer device to transfer the toner image to a recording medium, a line sensor as an image density sensor to detect image density of the toner image, and a controller operatively connected to the image density sensor. The image density sensor is disposed so as to be shorter in a rotational direction of the image bearer than in a width direction of the image bearer perpendicular to the rotational direction of the image bearer. The controller forms a shading pattern image including a plurality of patches on the image bearer, and detects image density of the plurality of patches, so as to control image density. The shading pattern image is shorter in the rotational direction of the image bearer than in the width direction of the image bearer.

Image forming apparatus incorporating line sensor

An image forming apparatus includes an image bearer to bear a black toner pattern formed with a black toner image under an increased exposure amount and an increased developing bias. A first optical sensor detects an amount of reflection light reflected by the black toner pattern on the image bearer. The first optical sensor includes a light-emitting element to emit light toward the black toner pattern on the image bearer and a light-receiving element to receive the reflection light reflected by the black toner pattern on the image bearer. A toner adhesion amount converter converts the amount of the reflection light detected by the first optical sensor into a toner adhesion amount of toner adhered to the image bearer and adjusts an image density according to the toner adhesion amount.

Image forming apparatus having an optical sensor for converting a toner adhesion amount and image forming method

In order to provide an electrophotographic photosensitive member with which a ghost is suppressed even under a low temperature and low humidity environment, and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus having the electrophotographic photosensitive member, the electrophotographic photosensitive member has a support, an undercoat layer formed on the support, and a photosensitive layer formed on the undercoat layer and comprising a charge generating material and a hole transporting material, wherein the undercoat layer comprises a particular amine compound.

Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge and electrophotographic apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing belt of a multi-layer structure, a toner image forming device, a nip forming device, a transfer power source, an environment-condition detector, and a controller. The toner image forming device forms a toner image on a surface of the image bearing belt. The transfer power source outputs a transfer bias including a superimposed voltage, in which a direct current voltage is superimposed on an alternating current voltage to transfer the toner image from the image bearing belt onto a recording medium at a transfer nip. The environment-condition detector detects an environment condition. The controller controls the transfer bias output from the transfer power source to perform a bias switching process to switch the transfer bias between a transfer bias including the superimposed voltage and a transfer bias including a direct current voltage based on a detected result of the environment-condition detector.

Image forming apparatus that switches transfer bias based on detected environment condition

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