Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Other

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Daisuke Ishikawa

Kenichi Komiya

Koji Tanimoto

Yuji Inagawa

Tatsuya Yamazaki

Masahiro Shibata

Hitoshi Yasuda

Kazunori Ishii

Hideo Kawahara

Yoshikazu Ishikawa

Koji Kawai

Takaya Kitawaki

Toshihiko Tomosada

Takeshi Watanabe

Kazuki Taira

Hiroyuki Ishikawa

Shoko Shimmura

Kazutoshi Takahashi

Taishi Fukazawa

Daisuke Harayama

Jun Sakakibara

Hirofumi Honda

Ryozo Akiyama

Hiroshi Kiyomoto

Yoshiyuki Takaishi

Maiko Miyoshi

Hidehito Sasaki

Akira Sakuma

Seiya Shimizu

Shungo Miyata

Hiroyuki Kunugi

Yui Hiyoshi

Nozomi Tsukuda

Koki Nishimura

An image capturing apparatus that communicates with an information processing apparatus that performs processing of combining an image of a real space and an image of a virtual space, the image capturing apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to capture an image of a subject formed by an imaging optical system, a determination unit configured to determine at least one mode among a plurality of modes related to a viewing angle of the image capturing apparatus, a generation unit configured to generate camera data including a first parameter indicating the mode determined by the determination unit and a second parameter corresponding to a lens position of the imaging optical system, and a transmission unit configured to transmit camera setting information including the camera data to the information processing apparatus, wherein the first parameter and the second parameter are used to identify the viewing angle of the image capturing apparatus.

Image capturing apparatus, information processing apparatus, control method, and storage medium

An apparatus for an optical system including a first magnification varying lens configured to move with zooming, a second magnification varying lens of which a position is controlled based on a position of the first magnification varying lens, and a focus lens configured to adjust an in-focus position includes a detector configured to detect the position of the second magnification varying lens, and at least one processor and a memory coupled to the processor storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to function as a setting unit configured to set a driving range of the focus lens based on the position of the second magnification varying lens.

Control apparatus, lens apparatus, and imaging apparatus

A decolorizing apparatus includes a translucent heater, a casing, and a controller. The translucent heater is configured to generate heat according to an applied voltage. The casing is configured to support the translucent heater. The controller is configured to apply a voltage to the translucent heater. The voltage is associated with a temperature at which a thermochromic colorant.

Decolorizing apparatus

According to one embodiment, a position determination unit of a printing system determines a printing position of printing information printed on an object to be printed conveyed by a conveyance machine. An erasing unit erases the printing information printed using thermochromic ink by emitting heat from a heat source, a height position of which is adjusted according to the printing position, from a direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction according to a timing at which the printing position, determined based on the printing position, passes. A printing unit includes a printer using the thermochromic ink, disposed behind the heat source along the conveyance direction, and prints information on the object to be printed from the direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction by the printer, a height position of which is adjusted according to the printing position, according to the timing at which the printing position passes. A facing mechanism causes a printing surface of the object to be printed to face a printer head of the printer at least when the printing unit prints the information.

Printing system

According to one embodiment, a mobile printer includes a first housing, a second housing, a hinge, and a print head. The first housing has a first surface on which a printing medium can be disposed. The second housing faces the first surface. The hinge connects the first housing and the second housing and permits the first and second housings to rotate relative to each other. The print head is provided in the second housing and is configured to print an image by discharging on to the print medium when the print medium is on the first surface between the first and second housings.

Mobile printer

According to at least one embodiment, a mobile printer includes a casing, a sensor, a print head, an interface, a controller, and a decolorizing device. The casing includes a power supply. The sensor detects the movement of the casing. The print head discharges ink containing a thermochromic colorant. The interface acquires image data. The controller discharges the ink from the print head based on the image data acquired by the interface and the movement of the casing detected by the sensor. The decolorizing device is coupled to the casing and includes a translucent film in which heat is generated by an applied voltage and a translucent substrate that is heated to a temperature at which the thermochromic colorant is decolorized by the heat generated in the translucent film.

A stepping motor includes a slit rotating plate that rotates together with a rotor and two photo interrupters. A motor control device includes a rotation phase detection unit that acquires an output of the photo interrupter and detects a rotation phase of the rotor, and a drive waveform generation unit that generates a drive waveform of the stepping motor. An advance angle control unit performs speed control of the stepping motor by detecting an advance angle corresponding to a phase difference between the rotation phase of the rotor and the drive waveform and setting an advance angle at which a relationship between an amplitude and an advance angle of the drive waveform changes abruptly as a target advance angle to control an amplitude of the drive waveform.

Motor control device and motor control method, and optical device

A control device includes at least one processor which functions as an advance angle detection unit, a storage unit configured to store information indicating a plurality of loci each indicating a relationship between the advance angle and a rotation speed of a rotor at each driving voltage, a target advance angle calculation unit configured to calculate a target advance angle based on the information, an advance angle control unit, a voltage control unit, and a switching unit configured to switch between a first control state for setting a target rotation speed by controlling the advance angle along one locus among the plurality of loci and a second control state for setting the target rotation speed by controlling the voltage in a state where the advance angle is fixed, according to the locus, the target advance angle, and the driving voltage.

Control device, optical apparatus, control method, and storage medium

In one embodiment, an exhaust chamber cooling apparatus measures output of a generator driven by a steam turbine, a temperature in an exhaust chamber of the turbine, and a pressure in a condenser that changes steam from the turbine back to water. The apparatus further outputs a first signal when it is detected that a measurement value of the output is larger than a first setting value and a measurement value of the temperature is larger than a second setting value, and a second signal when it is detected that the measurement value of the output is smaller than the first setting value and a measurement value of the pressure or a calculation value obtained from the measurement value of the pressure is larger than a third setting value. The apparatus further controls supply of a cooling fluid into the chamber, based on the first or second signal.

Exhaust chamber cooling apparatus and steam turbine power generating facility

A deformation detecting device comprises a vibration module configured to vibrate a first point of a measuring plane of a measured object in a non-contact manner; a transmission time measurement module configured to measure transmission time of vibration from the first point to a second point of the measuring plane in a non-contact manner; an inclination measurement module configured to measure an inclination of the measuring plane to a reference surface in a non-contact manner; and a determination module configured to determine presence/absence of deformation in the measured object by comparing the transmission time with reference transmission time serving as transmission time of vibration from the first point to the second point in a case in which there is no inclination of the measuring plane and corrects the reference transmission time in response to the inclination of the measuring plane.

Noncontact deformation detecting device with inclination measurement

The position detection apparatus includes the first optical position detector used with an optical scale having periodic patterns. The first position detector receives lights from the periodic patterns when moving relatively to the optical scale with a movement of a movable member to generate first detection signals respectively changing at periods corresponding to periods of the periodic patterns. The second non-optical position detector generates a second detection signal changing with the movement of the movable member. The calculator produces a first position signal by using the first detection signals, produces a second position signal whose resolution is different from that of the first position signal, by using the second detection signal, and performs a calculation for combining the first and second position signals together to produce an absolute position signal.

Position detection apparatus, apparatus including the same and position detection method

A crack sensor for detecting the extension of a crack comprises an insulator base material made from an insulating material, a common line formed on the insulator base material along a first direction and a plurality of gauge lead wires which is formed on the insulator base material and each of which has an end connected with the common line at an interval and another end extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, wherein the extending end reaches a position to which the extending end retreats in a direction opposite to the first direction with respect to the end connected with the common line.

Crack sensor and crack monitoring device

A vibration measuring apparatus comprises a wave transmission section configured to vibrate a measurement object with sound wave output from a parametric speaker towards the measurement object and an optical measurement section configured to emit laser light towards the measurement object, receive the laser light reflected from the measurement object and measure vibration of the assumed object (measurement object) according to the received laser light. The wave transmission section and the optical measurement section are mounted integrally, and the optical measurement section makes an optical axis of laser light emitted to/received from the measurement object coincident with a central axis of the sound wave output from the parametric speaker.

Vibration measuring apparatus using parametric speaker and two-dimensional scanning mirror

A lens control apparatus and a control method thereof are disclosed. The lens control apparatus includes a microprocessor which obtains a correction defocus amount so that the correction defocus amount obtained by the microprocessor when a zoom speed is a first speed is greater than the correction defocus amount obtained by the microprocessor when a zoom speed is a second speed which is less than the first speed.

Lens control apparatus and control method

A post-processing apparatus includes a side edge removing unit that removes a side edge of a sheet, and a rigidity imparting unit that imparts rigidity to the side edge that is removed by the side edge removing unit such that the side edge has a higher rigidity in a longitudinal direction of the side edge than a body of the sheet from which the side edge is removed.

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Shizuoka-ken, Japan

Daisuke Ishikawa