Olympus Corporation

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Renault S.a.s.

Toho Titanium Co., Ltd.

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Daisuke Suzuki

Takayuki Hamamoto

Matsuhide Horikawa

Takashi Masuda

Hideki Fujii

Masanori Hirano

Masakazu Yoshida

Hirofumi Tsuchida

Eiji Furukawa

Mitsushi Tabata

Kengo Yonekura

Kenji Yasaka

Tetsuya Kobara

Haruka Yamamoto

A delay adjustment circuit according to an embodiment includes: a plurality of delay adjustment units connected in series, each of the plurality of delay adjustment units including one or more first delay elements () connected in series that delay an input signal on the basis of a clock, and a first selector () that outputs one of the input signal and an output of the first delay element at a last stage among the one or more first delay elements; and an output unit () that outputs a clock according to an output of the first selector included in a delay adjustment unit at a last stage among the plurality of delay adjustment units, in which each of the plurality of delay adjustment units includes a different number of the first delay elements.

Delay adjustment circuit and distance measuring device

A method for producing metal titanium by carrying out electrolysis using an anode and a cathode in a molten salt bath, the method using an anode containing metal titanium as the anode, the method comprising a titanium deposition step of depositing metal titanium on the cathode, wherein, in the titanium deposition step, a temperature of the molten salt bath is from 250&#xb0; C. or more and 600&#xb0; C. or less, and an average current density of the cathode in a period from the start to 30 minutes later of the titanium deposition step is maintained in a range of 0.01 A/cmto 0.09 A/cm.

Method for producing metal titanium

A negative pressure control valve () is disposed in a part of an intake passage () upstream of a confluence () of an EGR passage () and the intake passage (). When in an EGR region (Regr) where an EGR gas is recirculated to the intake passage () through the EGR passage (), the negative pressure control valve () is controlled in a manner to ensure a differential pressure between an exhaust passage () and the intake passage (). When in an operation region (R) lower in load than the EGR region (Regr), the negative pressure control valve () is controlled in a closing direction so as to suppress occurrence of noise.

Control method and control device for internal combustion engine

A control method for an internal combustion engine including: setting a target valve opening degree of the first throttle valve in accordance with a load, sensing a valve opening degree of the second throttle valve, judging whether or not the valve opening degree of the second throttle valve is an opening degree on a closing side relative to a predetermined set valve opening degree, and correcting the valve opening degree of the first throttle valve to the opening degree on the closing side relative to the target valve opening degree when it is judged that the valve opening degree of the second throttle valve is the opening degree on the closing side relative to the predetermined set valve opening degree.

Method for controlling internal combustion engine and device for controlling internal combustion engine

A molten salt electrolyzer having a metal collection chamber, an electrolysis chamber, and two or more electrolytic cell units positioned in the electrolysis chamber. Each electrolytic cell unit has a cathode having an inner space in a prism form; at least one bipolar electrode in a rectangular cylinder form and disposed in the cathode inner space; and an anode in a prism form and disposed in an inner space of the bipolar electrode. At least part of individual planes forming an outer side of the bipolar electrode closest to the cathode faces a plane forming the prism-form inner space of the cathode. At least part of individual planes forming the inner side of the bipolar electrode closest to the anode faces a plane forming the prism of the anode. At least one plane of the cathode constitutes one plane of a cathode of another electrolytic cell unit.

Molten salt electrolyzer, and method for producing metal magnesium using the same and method for producing a titanium sponge

An image processing device includes: a frame memory that saves a cyclic image of an immediately preceding frame as a reference image; and a processor comprising hardware. The processor is configured to: decompose an input image into a plurality of resolution images; set, as a base image, an image having a lower resolution than the input image among the plurality of resolution images and that detects a motion vector between the base image and the reference image; subject the reference image to motion compensation on the basis of the motion vector to generate a motion-compensated image; combine the base image with the motion-compensated image to generate a noise-reduced base image that serves as a new cyclic image; and combine the noise-reduced base image with the resolution image or resolution images other than the base image among the plurality of resolution images.

Image processing device, image processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing image processing program

An internal combustion engine includes an intake passage of the internal combustion engine, an exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine, and an EGR passage connecting the intake passage and the exhaust passage. The internal combustion engine further includes a throttle valve provided downstream of a connected part to the EGR passage in the intake passage, and configured to control an intake air quantity toward a downstream side of the connected part, and an intake throttle valve provided upstream of the connected part to the EGR passage in the intake passage. In a control device of the internal combustion engine, an opening degree of the intake throttle valve is determined on the basis of an opening degree of the throttle valve.

Control device for internal combustion engine and control method for internal combustion engine

An original image is subjected to reduction processing while minimizing cutting of intrinsically-reproducible frequency bands. A solid-state image-capturing device is provided with: a photoelectric conversion unit that is formed by arraying pixels of a plurality of colors having predetermined color-array periodicity in two-dimensionally, vertically and horizontally; a pixel mixing and reading unit that mixes pixel signals obtained by the photoelectric conversion unit, in each of pixels of the same colors in an n&#xd7;n (n denotes a desired integer of 2 or more) block, and that outputs multi-channel reduced image signals with a reduction ratio 1/n; and an inter-channel displacement correcting unit that corrects inter-channel displacements of the reduced image signals output by the pixel mixing and reading unit and that outputs corrected reduced image signals.

Solid-state image-capturing device which reduces number of signal channels

An image-processing device is provided with: a flicker detecting portion that detects a flicker component in an input image signal for each frame and that generates a first signal; a storing portion that stores the generated first signal for a plurality of latest continuous frames; a phase-displacement detecting portion that selects, from the stored past first flicker correction signals, the first signal having substantially the same phase as the most-recent first signal, and that detects a phase displacement level with respect to the most-recent first signal; a phase-displacement correcting portion that corrects the selected past first signal on the basis of the detected phase displacement level; an infinite-impulse-response combining portion that generates a second signal by combining, at a predetermined ratio, the corrected past first signal and the most-recent first signal; and a flicker correcting portion that corrects the input image signal on the basis of the generated second signal.

Image-processing device and image-processing method

An image processing apparatus includes an imaging unit that is configured to acquire a plurality of images with different exposure times, a position offset detection unit that is configured to detect a position offset between a plurality of images filmed by the imaging unit, a combining ratio calculation unit that is configured to calculate a combining ratio in case of combining the plurality of images based on pixel values of at least one image among the plurality of images filmed by the imaging unit and the amount of the position offset detected by the position offset detection unit, and an image combining unit that is configured to combine the plurality of images based on the combining ratio calculated by the combining ratio calculation unit.

Combining images based on position offset detection of a series of images

A digital camera has an image pickup unit which can obtain a set of plural input images with different exposure amounts by photographing the same subject; an image synthesizing unit which creates a synthesized image from the set of plural input images; a live-view image output unit which outputs a live-view image on the basis of the synthesized image obtained by synthesizing a set of n pieces of (n is an integer not less than 2) input images with different exposure amounts obtained from the photographing unit during a view display operation; and a recorded image creating unit which creates an image for recording on the basis of the synthesized image obtained by synthesizing a set of m pieces of (m is an integer not less than 2) input images with different exposure amounts obtained from the image pickup unit during main photographing in the image synthesizing unit.

Image pickup apparatus, image pickup method and recording device recording image processing program

An image processing method processes image data to be output to an image forming apparatus that is capable of making a two-way recording to form an image on a recording medium by recording in a forward path and a return path of a scan by an ink-jet recording head. The image processing method includes a halftone process that is based on an inclined line-group keytone and maintains keytone continuity, including a dither process in which the inclined line-group keytone appears at a stage where the recording in the forward path is made.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Daisuke Suzuki