Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Pfizer Corporation

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Sumitomo Metal Industries, Inc.

Other

Fujitsu Corporation

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Ngk Spark Plug Company, Limited

Tenyo Co., Ltd.

Nintendo Co., Ltd.

Calsonic Kansei Corporation

Meiji Seika Kaisha, Ltd.

Sony Precision Technology Inc.

Hiroshi Kondo

Takashi Sakaki

Tetsuo Yoshizawa

Fumitaka Ito

Yoshimi Terayama

Toyohide Miyazaki

Nobuyoshi Takehara

Satoshi Ishii

Yasushi Kaneda

Yasuteru Ichida

Kazuo Kondo

Yasuo Nakatsuka

Yoichi Tamura

Takahiro Okabayashi

Yuichi Ikegami

Masaki Konishi

Koh Ishizuka

John Adams Lowe, Iii

Masami Nakane

Kaoru Shimada

Shunichi Haga

Shigekiyo Fujii

Seishi Yasuhara

Masaaki Imaizumi

Terry J Rosen

Naoki Manabe

Yuki Nakamura

Masao Suzuki

Tohru Yashiro

Tomohiro Inoue

Tetsuharu Nishimura

Yuichi Nakase

Ko Ishizuka

Seiji Kurokami

Shin Hasegawa

Naoyuki Ueda

Hideyuki Nishida

Yukiko Abe

Shigenobu Hirano

Kazuki Miyamoto

Yasuo Sato

Yuji Sone

Takeshi Shibuya

Akihiko Kanemoto

Kenji Iwano

Hirohide Noguchi

Yousuke Takagi

Shinichi Yokoi

Fuminao Matsumoto

Yoshiyuki Yoshizumi

Ryo Tabei

Ichiro Kataoka

Kazuhiko Umemura

Tomoaki Sugawara

Shigeki Kato

Satoru Tomita

Yasuyuki Ogawa

Hidenori Tomono

Yasushi Ueda

Kazunori Masuda

Koji Tsuduki

Takanori Tano

Kenneth C Knowlton

Mark Setteducati

Tatsuya Sato

Tatsuya Yamagishi

Makoto Nishizaki

Kou Ishizuka

Tadashi Kosaka

Tohru Ohsaka

Fredric J Vinick

Hisatane Komori

Susumu Nakanishi

Yasushi Imamura

Hitoshi Kondoh

Nobuaki Noguchi

Tomoaki Kato

Hirotaka Ochi

Chika Kikuchi

Kenji Gotsubo

Masahiko Morita

Kou Kumura

Eijirou Umemura

David L Hageman

Sadao Ichikawa

Shohji Tanaka

Yoriko Ohashi

Yohei Shiren

Kazutaka Maruoka

Yoshinari Wakiyama

Satomi Masaki

Kazutaka Ueda

Tsuneo Itoh

Shinji Oota

Hiroyoshi Isozaki

Noboru Joutaki

Yoshimi Tarayama

Tomoyasu Yamada

Harumasa Oota

Hiroyoshi Kondo

An imaging element which outputs an image signal acquired by an imaging unit having a plurality of pixel portions is provided. The imaging element receives a target luminance value from an imaging device and executes exposure control in the imaging element on the basis of an accumulation time of the pixel portion and a gain for an output signal of the imaging unit, which correspond to the target luminance value. The imaging element instructs the imaging device to perform exposure control if a luminance value of a subject exceeds an exposure control range in the imaging element.

Imaging element, imaging device, and control method

An eye-gaze tracker wearable by a user, includes: an infrared irradiation unit to irradiate an eyeball of the user with infrared light; an infrared sensor provided on a lens, the infrared sensor being translucent at least to visible light and to output a signal when the infrared light reflected from the eyeball is incident on the infrared sensor; and processing circuitry to determine a gaze direction of the user based on the signal output from the infrared sensor.

Eye-gaze tracker, eye-gaze tracking method, and recording medium

A method includes applying solder pastes separately to first and second portions of the first member; bringing the solder paste applied to the first portion of the first member and a first portion of the second member into contact with each other, and bringing the solder paste applied to the second portion of the first member and a second portion of the second member into contact with other; and causing the solder paste brought into contact with the first portion of the second member and the solder paste brought into contact with the second portion of the second member to melt. In the melting, molten solder formed by melting the solder paste brought into contact with the first portion of the second member and molten solder formed by melting the solder paste brought into contact with the second portion of the second member are joined to each other.

Method for producing a module

A transparent solar heat absorbing apparatus includes a transparent member allowing sunlight to pass through, a wavelength selective member disposed beneath the transparent member, a heating tank formed between the transparent member and the wavelength selective member. The wavelength selective member allows light in a transmission range including at least a visible wavelength range to pass through and reflects light in a reflection range including at least an infrared wavelength range. At least one of the transparent member and the wavelength selective member has a waveform structure on at least one of its upper surface and bottom surface.

Transparent solar-heat collecting apparatus, solar water heating system, and solar cogeneration system

A server having a plurality of system boards, comprising: a panic processing unit configured to stop (panic) the server; a system board information storage unit configured to store information to identify a system board having a memory used by a kernel; a system board detaching processing unit configured to detach the system board having the memory used by the kernel before server stoppage; and a reboot processing unit configured to reboot the server using system boards other than the separated system board among the plurality of system boards, after detaching the system board having the memory used by the kernel.

Server having memory dump function and memory dump acquisition method

An image processing apparatus that makes it possible, when executing processing on image data groups classified according to classification information, to perform the processing on an image data item having a plurality of pieces of classification information added thereto, in a user-friendly manner adapted to a type of the processing. A system controller selects an image data group of image data items to which specific classification information is added. The controller designates processing to be executed on the image data group. When a plurality of image data groups are selected, the controller causes the processing designated by said designation unit to be executed on an image data item belonging to a plurality of selected image data groups such that the number of times of execution of the processing on the image data item is made different according to a type of the processing.

Image processing apparatus that processes image data to which a plurality of pieces of classification information are added, method of controlling image processing apparatus, and storage medium

A mosaic puzzle set has a predetermined number of pieces () with unique, directionally visible, identifiers and different brightness characteristics, three for grey scale and five for color, comprising average brightness(es), and direction and magnitude of brightness gradients, enabling assembly to copy any user selected target picture () by following a dedicated table/chart (). An internet server () storing piece characteristics and accessible for target picture upload and chart download by an access code in the purchased set, divides (S) the target picture () into a same number of data areas () as pieces, analyzes their brightness characteristics and assembles the chart () by provisionally assigning pieces to respective target areas () and exchanging them for each other when sums of respective mismatch values between pieces and respective target areas are thereby reduced (S-S). Alternatively, pieces are divisions of an iconic source picture or only screen images. Pieces in a humped brightness histogram, population distribution provide greater detail. A grid-form tray supports and aligns pieces during assembly. Internet () billing is possible.

Personalized mosaic puzzle set

An embedded semiconductor device substrate having a semiconductor device integrated therein is formed by disposing a semiconductor device in an opening provided on an insulating resin, and sandwiching the semiconductor device and the insulating resin with a front surface wiring layer and a rear surface wiring layer and performing heat pressing. Connection between bumps of the semiconductor device and the front surface wiring layer is made with a connection wiring pattern. The connection wiring pattern is formed by patterning a resist film by direct exposure thereof with a light beam, and then performing etching. Thereby, it becomes possible to absorb a mounting error of a semiconductor device to a printed wiring board and a positional error of electrodes between semiconductor devices accompanying the tendency of reduction of the pitch of a semiconductor device, and to perform electric connection with a wiring pattern securely.

Embedded semiconductor device substrate and production method thereof

A disclosed electronic element includes: a substrate; a first electrode layer formed on a portion of the substrate; an insulating layer formed on the first electrode layer; a conductive layer formed on the insulating layer formed on an area where the first electrode layer is formed; a second electrode layer formed on one area where the first electrode layer on the substrate is not formed; a third electrode layer formed on the other area where neither the first electrode layer on the substrate nor the second electrode layer is formed; and a semiconductor layer formed so as to cover between the conductive layer and the second electrode layer and to cover between the conductive layer and the third electrode layer.

Electronic element, current control device, arithmetic device, and display device

A hearing aid adjustment device () has a comparator () and a setting section (). The comparator () compares a user evaluation given by a user (T) of a hearing aid () in response to sound obtained by hearing aid processing based on fitting theories and hearing level data for the user (T), with a reference evaluation that has been acquired ahead of time and corresponds to each of customers (A to C) and is given by the customers (A to C) in response to sound obtained by hearing aid processing based on fitting theories and hearing level data for the customers (A to C). The setting section () sets the value of a user parameter designating hearing aid processing to be given to a user (T), to a value that is the same as the value of a reference parameter that has been acquired ahead of time and that designates hearing aid processing suited to a customer (A) who gave a reference evaluation similar to the user evaluation, out of the customers (A to C).

Hearing aid adjustment device, hearing aid adjustment method, and program for hearing aid adjustment

With the hearing aid device of the present invention, when the power is turned on, communication starts between the first and second hearing aids, and until this communication is established, it is recognized that the power has not been switched on to the second hearing aid, and the user is notified. Also, if the battery of the second hearing aid should die during use, a dead battery notification is sent to the first hearing aid, and if communication between the first and second hearing aids is blocked, the user is notified on the side of the first hearing aid that is operating.

Hearing aid device

There is provided a behind-the-ear hearing aid that makes it easy for a hearing aid wearer to estimate a position of a sound source with respect to a front-back direction and that enables an increase in aesthetic property when the hearing aid is worn. A behind-the-ear hearing aid of the present invention is used while fitted to an ear of a human body, and includes at least a microphonewhich collects ambient sound, thereby generating an input signal and signal processing unitthat generates an output signal from the input signal. The hearing aid also has a behind-the-ear portionthat can be fitted to the ear and a receiverthat reproduces output sound from the output signal. When the behind-the-ear portionis fitted to the ear, the microphoneis arranged in an entrance of an ear canal that lies in the extension of an ear canaland that is disposed closer to an eardrum than to a plane that is defined by a helix, a tragus, and an earlobe

Behind-the-ear hearing aid whose microphone is set in an entrance of ear canal

A hearing aid () comprises a microphone () converting sound into an electrical signal, a processor () disposed inside a main body case (), a first volume adjuster () having a variable resistor, and a receiver () converting an electrical signal into sound. The processor () has an amplifier () amplifying an electrical signal from the microphone (), a second volume adjuster () setting a degree of amplification by the amplifier (), and a controller () controlling the second volume adjuster () and the amplifier (). The controller () detects the resistance value of the variable resistor, determines whether or not the resistance value has exceeded a specific threshold, acquires a specific value for the degree of amplification by the amplifier (), and sets the degree of amplification by the amplifier () to this specific value when the controller determines that the resistance value has exceeded the specific threshold.

Hearing aid and method of controlling volume of hearing aid

The present invention provides a display control apparatus comprising a read out unit configured to read out an image from a recording medium, a classification unit configured to classify a plurality of images into a plurality of groups in accordance with attribute information of each image, a display control unit configured to control to display a representative image which represents each of the plurality of groups, a comparison unit configured to compare an image included in one of the plurality of groups classified by the classification unit with an image included in another group, and a determination unit configured to determine one of images included in the one group as a representative image of the one group based on comparison by the comparison unit, the image not overlapping a representative image of the other group.

Display control apparatus, display control method, and recording medium

The invention provides a conjuring assisting toy which can make a viewer feel the supernatural force and interestedness which are inherent in a conjuring trick by displaying the result of a conjuring trick through simple operations, there is provided a conjuring assisting toy including a display means for displaying an image, a coordinate inputting means for designating coordinates relative to a display area of the display means, and a central control means, wherein the central control means includes a main control unit, a conjuring data storage unit, an input analyzing unit and an operation unit, an operation result storage unit, an inputted diagram storage unit, and an image data forming and outputting unit, an inputted position signal is analyzed by the input analyzing unit, the main control unit causes position information based on the inputted position signal to be stored in the inputted diagram storage unit, causes the display means to display a line image, determines specific feature information from information stored in the conjuring data storage unit based on an input order, and causes part or the whole of the line image which is caused to be displayed on the display means to be changed to display a time-varying image.

Conjuring assisting toy

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Kanagawa, Japan

Hiroshi Kondo