Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Nippon Steel Corporation

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.v.

Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation

Hiroaki Uchiyama

Masato Takahashi

Tomoyuki Goto

Kazuki Kitazawa

Koji Kuwata

Kiyoto Igarashi

Nobumasa Gingawa

Naoki Tsunoda

Shuntaro Imai

Yoshinaga Kato

Masahito Hanao

Kohei Fujimoto

Masatoshi Miyahara

Ryousuke Takata

Takahiro Asai

Tatsuya Nagase

Kazuo Sasaki

Daisuke Miki

Hideaki Sakurai

Daisuke Sakai

Toshiaki Mizoguchi

Seiji Nagao

Akihiro Mihara

Masahiko Katoh

Hitoshi Tamura

Mitsuru Kitamura

Yasuo Maruki

Shinji Nagai

Masashi Murayama

Katsushi Yamaguchi

Mitsutoshi Jotoku

Mitsutaka Hattori

Migifumi Ikeda

Shigeki Watabe

Toshihiro Shu

Tadashi Nozawa

Provided is a slab warpage detection apparatus detecting warpage of a slab drawn from a mold in continuous casting equipment. The slab warpage detection apparatus includes a pair of pressing roils that pinches the slab on a rear side of a roll segment, supporting the slab drawn from the mold, in a slab drawing direction, a movement unit that supports the pair of pressing rolls to be movable in a thickness direction of the slab, and a position detecting unit that detects positions of the pressing rolls in the thickness direction of the slab.

Slab warpage detection apparatus and method of detecting warpage of slab

A continuous-cast slab is provided where central porosity is reduced by surly crushing the slab. A method and apparatus of manufacturing the slab is also provided. The continuous-cast slab having horizontally symmetrical granular equiaxed crystals at least in the center in the thickness direction includes a first reduction dent and a second reduction dent that further dents from the bottom surface of the first reduction dent and is narrower than the first reduction dent at least on one long side surface. Such a configuration can makes it possible to achieve the continuous-cast slab of no more than 2.5&#xd7;10cm/g in a maximum porosity volume while segregation is reduced.

Continuous-cast slab, method and apparatus of manufacturing the same, and method and apparatus of manufacturing thick steel plate

A primary object of the present invention is to provide a technique of avoiding occurrence of surface defects caused by an electromagnetic brake while checking internal defects with this electromagnetic brake, so that cleanliness of a cast steel can be improved compared with prior arts, and the present invention provides a method for continuously casting steel, the method comprising supplying molten steel into a funnel mold while applying an electromagnetic brake to an outlet flow discharged from an outlet port of an immersion nozzle, wherein magnetic flux density (B) of the electromagnetic brake is within a range of the following (Formula 1): 

Method for continuously casting steel

A primary object of the present invention is to provide a technique of avoiding occurrence of surface defects caused by an electromagnetic brake while checking internal defects with this electromagnetic brake, so that cleanliness of a cast steel can be improved compared with prior arts, and the present invention provides a method for continuously casting steel, the method comprising supplying molten steel into a mold while applying an electromagnetic brake to an outlet flow discharged from an outlet port of an immersion nozzle, wherein magnetic flux density (B) of the electromagnetic brake is within a range of the following (Formula 1): 

A video delivery terminal includes: an image capturer configured to perform image capture to generate an image of a subject; and a developing processor configured to crop an area of a portion of the image to generate a cropped image, perform first adjustment regarding the cropped image based on characteristics of the cropped image, and perform second adjustment regarding settings of the image based on characteristics of the image having undergone the first adjustment.

Video delivery terminal, non-transitory computer-readable medium, and video delivery method

An information processing apparatus for transmitting image data to an information terminal, the information processing apparatus being capable of performing communication with the information terminal via a network is disclosed. The information processing apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine persons from the image data captured by an imaging unit; a speaker estimating unit configured to estimate a speaker among the persons captured in the image data; a measurement unit configured to measure a speech time of the speaker estimated by the speaker estimating unit; an acquisition unit configured to obtain from the image data, based on the speech time measured by the measurement unit, a speaker image including the speaker that continuously speaks for a certain duration; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the speaker image obtained by the acquisition unit to the information terminal.

Information processing apparatus and image processing system

An apparatus includes: an acquirer acquiring an image; a locator that, upon receiving coordinate information of a specified area being a part of a video displayed on an output device connected to the other apparatus, locates coordinates on the image corresponding to the coordinate information based on association information, in which coordinates on the video and coordinates on the image are associated; a cropping part that crops, from the image, an image of an area defined by the coordinates on the image; a controller that controls directionality of a microphone array including a plurality of microphones on the apparatus so that the directionality of one microphone related to the coordinates on the image is focused to a position indicated by the coordinate on the image; and a first transmission controller that controls transmitting output information containing the cropped image and voice captured with the controlled directionality to the other apparatus.

Communication apparatus, communication method, and communication system

Continuous casting equipment includes a casting product reduction apparatus and a casting product drawing apparatus, the casting product reduction apparatus including a pair of casting product reduction rolls that sandwich and apply pressure to a casting product and being configured to apply reduction to the casting product, the casting product drawing apparatus being provided in a following stage of the casting product reduction apparatus and configured to sandwich and draw the casting product with a pair of casting product drawing rolls. At least one of the pair of casting product reduction rolls includes a large-diameter part that projects radially outward in an axial-direction center region and applies pressure to a width-direction center region of the casting product. The casting product that is subjected to reduction by the casting product reduction apparatus has a depressed part corresponding to the large-diameter part. At least one of the pair of casting product drawing rolls of the casting product drawing apparatus includes a depressed part supporting part that contacts with and supports the depressed part, and is driven by a driving mechanism. An axial-direction length Lof the depressed part supporting part and an axial-direction length Lof the large-diameter part of the casting product reduction roll satisfy 0.5&#xd7;L&#x2266;L&#x3c;L.

Continuous casting equipment

An information processing apparatus includes an imaging unit, a voice input unit, a cutting-out unit, a transmitting unit, an acquiring unit, and a cutting-out control unit. The voice input unit switches a sound pickup direction for voice. The cutting-out unit cuts out, as a cut-out image, a cutting-out area which is at least a part of an image captured by the imaging unit. The transmitting unit transmits video information including the cut-out image and voice data of voice input to the voice input unit. The acquiring unit acquires setting information including layout information indicating arrangement of seat areas at a time of a conference and priority information indicating a priority of each of the seat areas indicated by the layout information. The cutting-out control unit controls the sound pickup direction of the voice input unit and the cutting-out area of the cutting-out unit in accordance with the acquired setting information.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program product

An information processing apparatus, method, and recording medium. The information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry that starts second software stored in a second medium to execute a second maintenance program when a type of a first medium is a maintenance type, and starts a first software stored in the first medium to execute a first maintenance program when the type of the first medium is not the maintenance type, the processing circuitry does not start the second software when the type of the first medium is not the maintenance type.

Apparatus, method, and recording medium of information processing

An imaging apparatus includes a storage unit to store information about one or more persons, the information about each of the persons including a direction in which the person exists, and permission for imaging the person by an imaging unit, and the information about each of the persons being associated with identification information to uniquely identify the person; a detection unit to detect a direction in which a person who speaks exists; a determination unit to determine whether the person in the detected direction is permitted for imaging, based on the information about the person stored in the storage unit; and a control unit to control an imaging direction of the imaging unit to turn towards the detected direction of the person, in a case where the determination unit has determined that the person in the detected direction is permitted for imaging.

Imaging apparatus, medium, and method for imaging

A communication apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive an image through a network so that the communication apparatus displays at least a part of the received image received from the receiver on a display unit; a reception unit configured to receive the number of images to be displayed as clipped images on the display unit and a type of display order in which the clipped images are displayed; an area clipping unit configured to provide the clipped image including a speaker from the received image; and a control unit configured to give the display unit an instruction to display as many clipped images provided from the area clipping unit as the number of images to be displayed in the type of display order received by the reception unit.

Communication apparatus, conference system, computer-readable recording medium, and display control method

A video image processing apparatus including, a generation unit configured to generate a video image frame from an image area to be used included in a video image captured by a camera, a spatial area in the video image being defined by the image area to be used, an encoding unit configured to encode the video image frame into any one of a first video image frame and a second video image frame, and a detection unit configured to detect a trigger for changing the image area to be used to report the detection of the trigger to the generation unit, wherein the encoding unit reports a encoded video image frame type to the generation unit in advance, and in response to receiving the detection of the trigger, the generation unit changes the image area to be used in a video image frame based on the reported type.

Video image processing apparatus and recording medium

A transmission system includes a transmission management system including: a first receiving unit that receives user identification information from transmission terminals; a user identification information management unit that stores user identification information in association with transmission terminal identification information of transmission terminals serving as transmission sources of the user identification information in the first storage unit; a first extracting unit that refers to, when the first receiving unit receives request for presentation from a certain transmission terminal, the first storage unit and extracts transmission terminal identification information of transmission terminals in transmission and user identification information associated with the transmission terminal identification information; and a second transmitting unit that transmits the extracted transmission terminal identification information and the extracted user identification information in association with each other to the transmission terminal serving as the transmission source of the request for presentation.

Transmission system

A transmission terminal transmits content data to another transmission terminal via a network. A transmission management system processes a session among a plurality of the transmission terminals or for the single transmission terminal. The transmission terminal requests a user to input execution authentication information when an authentication medium is connected thereto. The authentication medium associates program identification information with the execution authentication information and stores them. The transmission terminal determines whether the execution information from the user is coincident with the stored one and transmits the associated program identification information to the transmission management system at a time of coincidence. The transmission management system then transmits a transmission instruction to the program providing apparatus to transmit the corresponding program to the transmission terminal.

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Hiroaki Uchiyama