Hitachi, Ltd.

Shiseido Company, Limited

Jujo Paper Co., Ltd.

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Japan, Ltd.

Sony Corporation

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.v.

The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.

Nec Corporation

Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited

Hamamatsu-photonics K.k.

Hitachi Metals, Ltd.

Toda Kogyo Corporation

Shiseido Research Center

The Ritsumeikan Trust

Hiroshi Fukui

Moriaki Fuyama

Toshimi Satake

Tomoaki Nagai

Akio Sekine

Miyuki Yokoyama

Matahiro Komuro

Kazuhisa Ohno

Katsuya Mitsuoka

Shun-ichi Narumi

Hiroyuki Hoshiya

Tomohiro Okada

Takashi Kawabe

Shin Kimura

Tadayuki Iwakura

Masaaki Sano

Masafumi Mochizuki

Yutaka Sugita

Yohji Maruyama

Nobuo Yoshida

Kazue Kudo

Shinji Narishige

Katsumi Hoshino

Susumu Soeya

Yokuo Saitoh

Yutaka Ohtsu

Hisao Amano

Takashi Ogawa

Yoshiaki Kawato

Kanji Kawakami

Makoto Morijiri

Reiko Arai

Yoji Maruyama

Kaori Suzuki

Taketoshi Kanda

Kimitoshi Etoh

Tomiyuki Nanba

Asa Kimura

Hirotsugu Fukuoka

Masanori Tanabe

Eiji Ashida

Masato Hatao

Hisashi Takano

Hiroshi Ikeda

Masaaki Hayashi

Takahiro Nagano

Tsutomu Yatsuo

Kazuhiro Nakamoto

Tetsuo Ito

Hajime Aoi

Michihiro Yamaguchi

Isao Nunokawa

Kenichi Tomita

Kazuo Nakagoshi

Masaru Suetsugu

Kiminori Araki

Masayoshi Sato

Saburo Oikawa

Makoto Saito

Atsushi Nakamura

Yoshihiro Shiroishi

Yasuo Nishikawa

Kenichi Onda

Yasuo Matsuda

Shigekazu Otomo

Takao Imagawa

Norikazu Tokunaga

Hideo Hata

Noboru Shimizu

Kenichi Meguro

Takayoshi Ohtsu

Tetsuo Kobayashi

Masanobu Hanazono

Masashi Yoshida

Takuji Ogawa

Shigeru Tadokoro

Yasutaka Ota

Yoshihiro Takiguchi

Keiichi Uehara

Takakuni Douseki

Osamu Sakurai

Shuichi Kojima

Shinji Yamada

Yoshio Terasawa

Yasushi Nishimura

Sadaki Takata

Masayasu Fujisawa

Mineyuki Yokoyama

Jun Naruse

Yoshihiro Hamakawa

Issei Takemoto

Katsuki Ogawa

Osamu Shirota

Kazuo Honda

Yoshimasa Miura

Kouji Kataoka

Ichiro Oodake

Harunobu Saito

Kenichi Sakuma

An object tracking apparatus () includes: a first generation unit (-) for generating, based on a first position information (PI) related to a position of an object (O) in a first image (IM) captured at a first time (t-τ) and a second position information (PI) related to a position of an object (O) in a second image (IM) captured at a second time (t), first and second feature vectors (CV, CV); and a second generation unit () for generating, as a correspondence information (AM) indicating a correspondence relationship between the object in the first image and the object in the second image, an information that is obtained by a calculation processing using the first and the second feature vectors.

Object tracking apparatus, object tracking method and recording medium

Provided is a method for producing a one-component moisture-curing polyurethane composition, the method comprising: a mixing step in which a liquid component (A) containing a polyol compound is mixed with a powder component (B) containing a filler so as to obtain a paste-like mixture of the liquid component (A) and the powder component (B); a dehydration step in which, following the mixing step, at least a portion of the residual moisture in the paste-like mixture is removed; a prepolymer generation step in which a polyisocyanate compound (C) is mixed with the paste-like mixture following the dehydration step so as to obtain a mixture containing a urethane prepolymer generated by a reaction between the polyisocyanate compound (C) and the polyol compound in the paste-like mixture; and a composition generation step in which the mixture is mixed with an aliphatic isocyanate compound (D) so as to obtain a one-component moisture-curing polyurethane composition.

Method for producing one-component moisture-curing polyurethane composition

A massaging device includes a base part, vibrators configured to be brought into contact with target parts of a user and to massage the target parts with vibration, and springs each including a first end fixed to the base part and a second end attached to the corresponding one of the vibrators. The spring constants of the springs are set based on skin stress of the target parts.

Massaging device

An invisible information embedding apparatus for embedding invisible information at a position in an obtained image includes an image analysis unit configured to obtain object information and positional information of an object included in the image, an embedding target image determining unit configured to determine whether the image is an embedding target based on the object information obtained by the image analysis unit, and an image synthesizing unit configured to combine the image with the invisible information based on the determination result of the embedding target image determining unit.

Invisible information embedding apparatus, invisible information detecting apparatus, invisible information embedding method, invisible information detecting method, and storage medium

A method for adhering glass including cleaning ceramic printed glass using a first solution containing dodecylbenzenesulfonic acid, p-toluenesulfonic acid, and a solvent, and cleaning the glass using a second solution containing an alkoxysilane compound. Thereafter, a glass primer is applied to the glass, an adhesive is applied, and the glass is adhered to an adherend. The first solution includes not less than 0.1 mass % and not more than 10 mass % of the dodecylbenzenesulfonic acid, and not less than 0.01 mass % and not more than 5 mass % of the p-toluenesulfonic acid, per 100 mass % of the solvent.

Method for adhering glass

An ultraviolet radiation detector, detecting an ultraviolet radiation transmitted through or reflected from a measurement samplefrom a light beam including at least the ultraviolet radiation, is characterized by spectral meansfor spectrally splitting the ultraviolet radiation from the light beam and photodetection meansfor detecting the ultraviolet radiation spectrally split by the spectral means, the photodetection meansincluding a photoelectric surface detecting only the ultraviolet radiation and formed of an element selected from In, Ga, N, Al, O and Cs.

Ultraviolet radiation detector and apparatus for evaluating ultraviolet radiation protection effect

Embodiments in accordance with the present invention provide a magnetic head in which broadening of the write-field distribution in the track-width direction can be decreased without reducing the write-field intensity. A main pole includes a pole tip having a part which provides the write track-width and a yoke part recessed from the air bearing surface in the element height direction, the pole tip including at least two magnetic films having different track-width directions, and the throat height at the trailing side being made smaller than the throat height at the leading side.

Magnetic head and magnetic disk storage apparatus mounting the head

Embodiments in accordance with the present invention provide a magnetic head in which broadening of the effective track width can be decreased without reducing the write-field intensity and a variation of the track width can be decreased. A main pole consists of a pole tip having a part which provides the write track-width and a yoke part recessed from the air beating surface in the element height direction, and the pole tip consists of a pole tip at the trailing side where the width in the track-width direction is large and a pole tip at the leading side where the width in the track width direction is small. Moreover, the throat height of the pole tip at the trailing side is made greater than the throat height of the pole tip at the leading side.

Embodiments of the invention provide a thin film magnetic head suitable for high density recording having a small erase band &#x394;E and a small fringe magnetic field, and a large recording magnetic field. In one embodiment, a width LW of a lower magnetic pole piece protuberance of a leading side magnetic pole piece, at a face in contact with a write gap layer, is made smaller than a width TW of an upper magnetic pole piece front layer of a trailing side magnetic pole piece, at a face in contact with the write gap layer, and the width of the lower magnetic pole piece protuberance adjacent to the write gap layer is made larger, in a direction from the write gap layer.

Thin film magnetic head for high density recording and having a leading side magnetic pole piece of variable width at the media facing surface

Embodiments of the invention provide a magnetic head (magnetic disk storage) which does not erase data on a recording medium even when a stray field is applied. In one embodiment, the head has a structure that d&#x3c;tand d&#x3c;tare satisfied where ddenotes the positional difference between edges of an auxiliary pole and an upper shield in the cross-track direction, ddenotes the positional difference between edges of the upper shield and a lower shield in the cross-track direction, tthe film thickness of the auxiliary pole or upper shield, whichever magnetic layer is larger in cross-track width, and tthe film thickness of the upper shield or lower shield, whichever magnetic layer is larger in cross-track width.

Magnetic head to prevent undesired data erasure and magnetic disk storage having the same

Embodiments of the invention provide a magnetic head which prevents data on a recording medium from being erased even when a stray field is applied. In one embodiment, a magnetic head includes a perpendicular write head having a main pole and an auxiliary pole; and a read head having a lower shield, an upper shield and a magneto-resistive element formed between the lower shield and the upper shield. At least one of the auxiliary pole, lower shield and upper shield has a recessed portion, whose height in an element height direction is lower than the height of edges thereof in a track width direction, on a surface opposite to the air bearing surface.

Magnetic head with recessed portion, and magnetic recording and reproduction apparatus comprising the same

The present invention enables prevention of influence of a trigger pulse in an image from an image pickup apparatus, with a simple structure and irrespective of exposure time and the cycle of the trigger pulse. The present invention provides an image pickup apparatus having a CCD image sensorin which electric charges obtained by photoelectric conversion of incident light from an object are stored, the stored electric charges are swept away when a shutter pulse SUB is supplied, and after a read-out pulse SG is supplied, an image pickup signal based on the stored electric charges is read out synchronously with a horizontal synchronizing signal HD, and the image pickup apparatus comprises a timing generatorfor generating the read-out pulse during a blanking period of the horizontal synchronizing signal, first shutter pulse generation meansfor generating a first shutter pulse subduring every horizontal blanking period of the horizontal synchronizing signal except for a period from generation of a trigger pulse TRIG until generation of the read-out pulse, second shutter pulse generation meansfor generating a second shutter pulse subat the timing of the trigger pulse, and a switchfor selecting either the first shutter pulse subor the second shutter pulse sub

Driving control method for image pickup device, image pickup apparatus, and image pickup system

A magnetic head comprises a retrieving unit for converting magnetic information output from a recording medium into an electric signal, a writing unit having the function of electromagnetic conversion for writing the magnetic information in the recording medium in response to the electric signal, and a first protective film formed on the retrieving unit. A second protective film is formed on the first protective film. The coefficient of linear expansion of the second protective film is reduced in comparison with that of the first protective film. Furthermore, the first protective film is an alumina film; in contrast, the second protective film is a film made of an alumina film containing silicon oxide therein.

Magnetic head having first and second protective films with different coefficients of linear expansion

Embodiments of the invention provide a magnetic head which prevents data on a recording medium from being erased even when a stray field is applied. In one embodiment, an auxiliary pole is sandwiched between a stray-field shield composed of a magnetic layer recessed from the air bearing surface and a main pole. The stray-field shield may be formed on the leading side of the auxiliary pole. A face of the stray-field shield on a medium side may be recessed from an air-bearing-surface of the magnetic head.

There is provided a thin film magnetic head, with letting a distance of a portion, where a width of a track portion in an upper magnetic pole changes, from a flying plane from a medium be Ly, and letting a distance of a portion, where a distance between right and left of a surface portion in a lower magnetic pole in a track width direction is wider than the width of the upper magnetic pole in the track width direction, from the flying plane from a medium be Tp, by creating a thin film magnetic head that is equipped with a recording head that has a relation of Tp&#x2266;Ly, it becomes possible to reduce a needless leakage magnetic field in the track width direction with securing magnetic field strength.

Thin film magnetic head having magnetic pole edge layer for achieving both improvement of recording magnetic field and reduction of unnecessary leakage magnetic field, and method of manufacturing same

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Ibaraki, Japan

Hiroshi Fukui