Konica Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

Topcon Corporation

Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.

Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon

Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.

Hirokazu Sato

Shigeo Tanaka

Shigeto Hirabayashi

Hiroshi Kita

Nobuo Kochi

Takashi Suzuki

Hitoshi Otani

Tetsuji Anai

Katsuhiko Watanabe

Motoi Nishimura

Yoshiharu Taga

Kiyoshi Arima

Yuta Aoki

Satoru Ikesu

Mitsuhiro Okumura

Hideaki Hashimoto

Kazuhiro Miyazawa

Mitsuharu Yamada

Fumio Ozaki

Takashi Murakami

Hiroyuki Aoki

Toyoki Nishijima

Shigeto Ohmori

Junji Oaki

Akira Sato

Masaru Iwagaki

Eiichi Sakamoto

Makoto Kajiwara

Nobuo Kubo

Tomomi Yoshizawa

Katsumasa Yamazaki

Koji Tasaka

Shinri Tanaka

Kunimasa Hiyama

Nobuyuki Fukaya

Koji Daifuku

Shigeki Oka

Hirokazu Koyama

Kazuhiro Murai

Masaki Tanji

Shigeo Chino

Tsuyoshi Ikeda

Masahiro Shibuya

Takeshi Hakii

Akihiko Fujita

Junji Ooaki

A switch device for a vehicle includes an emergency notification switch, an operation switch other than the emergency notification switch, and a cover that is movable between a closed position at which the emergency notification switch and the operation switch are covered and an open position at which the emergency notification switch and the operation switch are exposed. In the switch device, an operating surface of the emergency notification switch is located at a position lower than an operating surface of the operation switch, and the cover is provided with an opening through which the operating surface of the operation switch is exposed at the closed position.

Switch device cover permitting partial accessibility

A method of drawing an optical fiber in which a glass optical fiber is drawn while fusing by heating and pulling by a pulling mechanism one end of an optical fiber preform made of glass, includes drawing the glass optical fiber from the one end of the optical fiber preform while controlling a drawing speed to make an external diameter of the glass optical fiber larger than an external diameter of a product-to-be glass-optical fiber to be used to manufacture a product. The method includes adjusting an external diameter of the glass optical fiber to an external diameter passable through a die for forming a coating. The method also includes arranging the die around the glass optical fiber having the external diameter passable through the die.

Method of processing glass optical fiber and method of drawing optical fiber

A method of processing an optical fiber includes introducing fiber that has passed a pulling mechanism to a shredding unit with an introducing unit. The introducing unit includes a movable unit including a notch configured to fit with a capstan roller included in the pulling mechanism, a sliding mechanism that attaches the movable unit slidably with respect to a main body of the introducing unit, and a restoring mechanism configured to restore the movable unit to an initial position when the movable unit has slid. The method includes shredding the fiber introduced by the introducing unit into fiber pieces, and suctioning, carrying, and collecting the fiber pieces. A method of drawing an optical fiber includes drawing the fiber while controlling a drawing speed, adjusting a diameter of the fiber to a diameter passable through a die, and arranging the die around the fiber having the diameter passable through the die.

Apparatus for and method of processing glass optical fiber, method of manufacturing and method of drawing optical fiber

An apparatus includes: an introducer to introduce a glass optical fiber that has passed a pulling mechanism pulling, to draw the glass optical fiber, one end of an optical fiber preform that has been fused by heating; a shredder including a casing connected to the introducer and a shredding mechanism to shred the glass optical fiber introduced by the introducer in the casing into glass optical-fiber pieces; a pipe connected to the casing of the shredder and to carry the glass optical-fiber pieces; and a suction unit connected to the pipe and to suction the glass optical-fiber pieces via the pipe.

A position measurement device is provided that can precisely measure the photographing position or posture of a photographing device or the coordinates of an object based on sequentially changing photographed images. A position measuring deviceof the invention comprises: an image acquisition sectionfor acquiring a series of photographed images changing continuously or little by little along with position displacement relative to an object to be photographed; a positional relationship measurement sectionfor measuring position displacement and posture change of the image acquisition section; a feature extraction sectionfor extracting feature points from the photographed images obtained with the image acquisition section; a feature point tracking sectionfor tracking the feature points by searching corresponding points corresponding to the feature points on a plurality of the photographed images; an image selection sectionfor selecting an image to be processed from the series of photographed images based on a measurement result made with the positional relationship measurement section; and a position measurement sectionfor measuring the photographing position and the photographing posture of the image acquisition sectionbased on the image to be processed selected with the image selection section

Device and method for position measurement

An image processing apparatus comprises an inputting section for inputting a plurality of continuous images which were photographed by a photographing section progressively moving relative to a photographed object; an extracting section for extracting characteristic points from images input by the inputting section; a tracking section for tracking the points corresponding to the characteristic points in the plurality of continuous images; an embedding section for embedding tracking data, which includes data of extracted and tracked points by the extracting section and the tracking section, into each image; and an outputting section for outputting the plurality of continuous images sequentially in which the tracking data was embedded by the embedding section.

Image processing apparatus

A technique is provided that can precisely measure the photographing position and posture of a photographing device and the coordinates of an object from moving images or photographed images that sequentially change gradually, even in the case with the need to process the sway of the photographing device and the disappearance and reappearance of characteristic points. An image processing deviceaccording to the present invention includes: a photographed image acquisitionsection for sequentially acquiring photographed images, that change gradually, of a relatively moving object; a characteristic extraction sectionfor extracting characteristic points from a photographed image acquired with the photographed image acquisition section; a characteristic point tracking sectionfor searching a plurality of the photographed images acquired before or after the photographed image from which the characteristic points have been extracted, for candidate corresponding points corresponding to the characteristic points, to keep track of the characteristic points; and a processing sectionfor determining corresponding points from the candidate corresponding points based on tracking results to calculate coordinates of a photographing position or the object using the determined corresponding points.

Image processing device and method

A manufacturing method of an optical film provided with a convexoconcave structure, comprises the steps of: coating a resin solution including a first resin solved by a solvent onto an endless or roll-like mold provided with a convexoconcave structure, and forming a resin solution layer on the mold; laminating a film substrate onto the resin solution layer to make a laminated film before the solvent in the resin solution layer is completely dried, the film substrate including a second resin, which is capable of absorbing the solvent or is soluble by the solvent; and peeling the laminated film from the mold before the solvent in the laminated film is completely dried.

Method for manufacturing an optical film having a convexoconcave structure

A robot controller according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a base; a first link; a first actuator which drives to rotate the first link relative to the base; a first torque transmission mechanism which transmits the torque of the first actuator to the first link at a speed reducing ratio of N; a first angular sensor which detects a rotating angle &#x3b8;of the first actuator; a first angular velocity sensor which detects an angular velocity &#x3c9;of the first link rotating relatively to the base; and a processor which calculates an angle of the first link relatively to the base by using a high frequency content of an integrated value of &#x3c9;and a low frequency content of &#x3b8;*N, the high frequency content being equal to a first frequency or higher and the low frequency content being equal to a first frequency or lower.

Robot controller and robot controlling method

A main control apparatus is connected to a single signal line. A plurality of equipments is respectively connected to a multipoint line. Each multipoint line diverges from the single signal line. The main control apparatus sends a control signal to each equipment through the single signal line using a frequency band. Each equipment receives the control signal from the main control apparatus through the multipoint line using the frequency band. Each equipment is assigned a unique frequency from within the frequency band.

System for controlling a plurality of equipments

A stereo image displaying device comprising: a feature element specifying sectionfor specifying feature elements contained in a pair of stereo images taken with a stereo image taking sectionan image controlling sectionfor controlling the stereo images based on the positions of the specified feature elements in the stereo images to provide finished stereo images; and a displaying sectionfor displaying the finished stereo images in stereovision.

Device and method for displaying stereo image

A print management server comprises a receiving device to receive order data including image data from a customer terminal; a production management information preparing device to prepare production management information to administrate a production amount and a production time for a light sensitive material based on the order data received by the receiving device; a production management information transmitting device to transmit the production management information prepared by the production management information preparing device; and an order data transmitting device to transmit the order data received by the receiving by the device to a printing section terminal.

Print management server, printing management system and printing method

A silver halide color photographic material is disclosed, comprising support having thereon a yellow image forming layer, a magenta image forming layer and a cyan image forming layer, each of which contains light sensitive silver, halide, wherein when the photographic material having been exposed to light for 10 to 10 sec. per pixel and processed, an effective tone range of a color image obtained in each of the color image forming layers is 0.65 to 0.84.

Silver halide color photographic material

In a silver halide photographic light sensitive material having at least one emulsion layer provided on a support, a silver halide photographic light sensitive material characterized in that at least one of the silver halide emulsion layer comprises a magenta dye forming coupler represented by a formula (M-1) or (M-1&prime;) described below, and a molar ratio MA/MC of silver halide and the magenta dye forming coupler in the silver halide emulsion layer containing the magenta dye forming coupler is 3.1 to 3.7 wherein MA is mols per unit area of silver halide in the silver halide emulsion layer, and MC is mols per unit area of the magenta dye forming coupler in the silver halide emulsion layer.

Silver halide photographic light sensitive material and image forming method using thereof

A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The light-sensitive material comprises a support having on one surface thereof photographic layers including a silver halide emulsion layer, at least one of the photographic layers contains a fluorescent whitening agent, and satisfies the following equation 1:

Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material

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Hino, Japan

Hirokazu Sato