Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Fujitsu Corporation

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nhk Spring Co., Ltd.

Boston University

Hideki Kobayashi

Akinori Hongu

Futoshi Izumi

Hiroaki Tomofuji

Toshihiro Ohtani

Takuji Maeda

Tsukasa Takahashi

Shota Mori

Taizo Maeda

Ryohei Orihara

Tetsuo Wada

Toshimitsu Kumazawa

Takashi Koiso

Naoki Imasaki

Tatsuo Nagayoshi

Norio Takeyama

James Joseph Collins

Timothy Kuan-Ta Lu

Takehiro Fujita

Ari E Friedland

Tomoko Murakami

Shinichi Horibata

Yoshiyuki Hondo

Tomio Matsufuji

Shin Maezawa

Mads Kearn

Michihiro Araki

Hiroaki Taga

Ken Imai

Ichiro Toyoshima

A projection welding structure including plural projection portions that are provided to an end face at an open side end portion of a reinforcement member flange portion and are disposed at intervals along the length direction of the reinforcement member. The plural projection portions are each abutted and welded to welding projections formed in a surface of a panel frame. Contact between the welding member and the welded member is suppressed at locations other than at the welding projections by such a structure.

Protection welding structure

An optical apparatus includes a first optical amplifier for adjusting an output value to a constant level; an optical signal processor located before the first optical amplifier and processing the optical signal; a second optical amplifier located before the optical signal processor and subjected to automatic gain control for adjusting a gain constant; and a controller detecting a level of the optical signal at an output of the second optical amplifier. The controller adjusts a level of an output value of the first optical amplifier such that the level of the optical signal at the output of the second optical amplifier is held at the optimum value if the detected level of the optical signal differs from an optimum value, compensates for a loss caused in the optical signal processor and maintains the level of the optical signal at the output of the second optical amplifier at the optimum value.

Optical transmission device

An imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor that converts an optical image to electronic image information; an image processor that carries out image processing on the electronic image information obtained via the image sensor to obtain image data; a tilt angle detector that detects a tilt angle of the imaging apparatus; an image display that displays the image data; and a blurred area setter that sets a blurred area and a non-blurred area to the image data in cooperation with the image processor and the image display, wherein a blurred area automatic changer that automatically changes the blurred area and the non-blurred area on the image display in accordance with the tilt angle of the imaging apparatus obtained by the tilt angle detector is provided in the image processor.

Imaging apparatus

The present invention provides engineered bacteriophages that express at least one biofilm degrading enzyme on their surface and uses thereof for degrading bacterial biofilms. The invention also provides genetically engineered bacteriophages expressing the biofilm degrading enzymes and proteins necessary for the phage to replicate in different naturally occurring biofilm producing bacteria. The phages of the invention allow a method of biofilm degradation by the use of one or only a few administration of the phage because the system using these phages is self perpetuating, and capable of degrading biofilm even when the concentration of bacteria within the biofilm is low.

Engineered enzymatically active bacteriophages and methods of uses thereof

A behavior estimation apparatus inputs a prediction period, an annual consumption expenditure, extracts, from behavioral statistical data including an occurrence probability of each of behaviors of human during each time period, the occurrence probability of each behavior within the prediction period as a prior probability distribution, obtains a consumption time ratio between replaceable behaviors, and calculates estimated occurrence probabilities of the behaviors which minimize a Kullback-Leibler divergence with respect to the prior probability distribution and satisfy a condition that a ratio between estimated occurrence probabilities of the replaceable behaviors within the prediction period equals a consumption time ratio between the replaceable behaviors, a condition that a sum of expenditures of the behaviors per unit time equals an expenditure per unit time calculated from the annual consumption expenditure, and a condition that a sum of the occurrence probabilities and a sum of the estimated occurrence probabilities are '1'.

Behavior prediction apparatus and method

A behavior prediction apparatus includes an input unit inputting sole behaviors of a human and simultaneous occurrence probability of behaviors, a behavior discrimination unit specifying a behavior pattern based on correspondence between behaviors corresponding to simultaneous occurrence probability and actual behaviors, an information generation/recording unit generating behavior history information of the specified behavior pattern, and to generate and record information of each of a behavior transition probability, a behavior time and a behavior occurrence probability based on the behavior history information, a behavior prediction unit obtaining a starting behavior from the behavior occurrence probability, select another behavior pattern in order of behavior occurrence probability, and add the behavior time to the selected behavior pattern to output behavior prediction information, and a social value calculation unit obtaining a social value per unit time using the behavior prediction information, social value unit information and the prediction period.

Behavior prediction apparatus and method therefor

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided with a behavior determining apparatus including: an elemental-behavior extracting unit configured to extract, from trajectory data in which positions of a traveling body in an observation area are held at predetermined time intervals, L (L is an integer equal to or larger than 1) elemental behavior quantities among a stopping time, a stop frequency, a walking time, a running time, a direction change frequency, a sum of angle change quantities at the times when the traveling body changes a traveling direction, a sum of absolute values of angle change quantities at the times when the traveling body changes a traveling direction, a gravitational center set vector, and a pre-stop average speed; and a behavior determining unit configured to determine a behavior of the traveling body from the L elemental behavior quantities.

Behavior recognition using vectors of motion properties based trajectory and movement type

An evaluation apparatus which evaluates environmental load of circulated life cycle in which group of products recovered from one of markets which differ from each other in value lifetime of group is introduced into another of markets, cost thereof and profit thereof generates attribute data of group, attribute data of group including remaining useful lifetime and product age, determinates introduction order and introduction rule which are used for introducing group into markets, based on remaining useful lifetime at point in time when group is recovered from one of markets and remaining value lifetime of group which is obtained by subtracting product age at point in time when group is recovered from one of markets from value lifetime of another of markets, and evaluates environmental load of circulated life cycle in which group is introduced into markets in accordance with introduction order and rule, cost thereof and profit thereof.

Evaluation apparatus, evaluation method and computer program product

An optical transmission system with automatic startup functions to optimize the power level of optical signals entering each optical amplifier and operate those amplifiers in appropriate mode. In the process of starting up an optical transmission system, upstream and downstream optical transmission devices set up themselves under the coordination of their internal controllers. The downstream device controller adjusts its local variable optical attenuator by utilizing optical noise emission from a post-amplifier in the upstream optical transmission device, and it selects and sets a preamplifier unit to work in appropriate operating mode. The upstream device controller, on the other hand, selects and sets operating mode of its local post-amplifier unit. During this process, the upstream and downstream device controllers exchange messages over supervisory control channels to achieve the purpose.

Optical transmission system with automatic signal level adjustment and startup functions

An environmental impact estimation method comprising storing information related to reuse and recycle objects in a memory unit, performing life cycle modeling to make a life cycle model, the life cycle modeling including reading information related to the reuse and recycle objects, selecting some of the reuse and recycle objects which can be diverted to a new product, and combining the reuse and recycle objects selected together to assemble new product, predicting, as a superposition of two or more arbitrary shapes, recovery distribution of products by the life cycle modeling to predict a recovery quantity of the reuse and recycle objected, using the life cycle model, determining the arbitrary shapes as a peak of the product worth life or product useful life, and evaluating an environmental impact and a cost to bear in reuse or recycle based on prediction result.

Environmental impact estimation method and apparatus

An apparatus calculates, based on unimproved behavior amounts, behavior amount variations of living behaviors when each of living behaviors increases by one unit behavior amount, calculates environmental load variation of living behavior when the living behavior increases by one unit behavior amount, by calculating sum of values each obtained by multiplying one of behavior amount variations by corresponding one of basic units, to obtain environmental load variations of living behaviors, assigns messages to living behaviors based on environment load variations of living behaviors, calculates environmental load reduction of living behavior by (a) calculating variation between one of unimproved behavior amounts and one of improved behavior amounts of living behavior, and (b) multiplying variation by environmental load variation of living behavior, to obtain environmental load reductions of living behaviors, and selects one of messages which is assigned to one of living behaviors has the largest environmental load reduction.

Method and apparatus for reducing environmental load generated from living behaviors in everyday life of a user

An apparatus comprising a storage device which stores information concerning first objects to be reused and second objects to be recycled, and a modeling device which performs life cycle modeling. The life cycle modeling includes reading information concerning the first objects and the second objects that configure a product from the storage device, selecting some of the first and second objects which are diverted to a new product from a recovery product using the information, and combining selected ones of the first and second objects to fabricate the new product to generate a life cycle model.

Apparatus for environmental impact estimation and method and program stored in a computer readable medium for executing the same

A method for aiding product life cycle planning, including setting a threshold value concerning reuse of parts with respect to cost and environment; reading cost of parts and environment load information from a database; displaying parts on a map displayed on a display device and divided into a plurality of domains based on the threshold; selecting reuse candidate parts from the displayed parts with reference to the displayed map; calculating a useful life based condition formula for determining that parts are possible to reuse only in the case where a remaining useful life of parts j to be included in a reuse source product i remains more than a use period of a reuse destination product i' even if the use period of the reuse source product i is elapsed; determining whether the useful-life based condition formula is satisfied; and determining possibility of reuse with respect to the reuse candidate parts when the useful life based condition formula is satisfied.

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Yokohama, Japan

Hideki Kobayashi