Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Komatsu Corporation

Synaptics Corporation

Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Tokyo Heat Treating Company, Ltd.

Hiroshi Shimura

Masaaki Ishikawa

Takashi Saitoh

Haike Guan

Taeko Ishizu

Noboru Murayama

Koichi Suzuki

Yasushi Abe

Hideaki Yamagata

Hiroyuki Yoshida

Motohiro Kuroda

Toshio Miyazawa

Masaichi Niro

Michiyoshi Tachikawa

Koji Kuwata

Yasunori Ishikawa

Daiki Inaba

Wataru Hatanaka

Tsutomu Sato

Kiyoshi Suzuki

Keiichi Yoshida

Ryota Yamashina

Tetsuo Tanemura

Takayuki Noto

Hiroshi Okamoto

Hiroshi Arai

Nobuki Hasegawa

Yuka Kihara

Hirokazu Hatayama

Akihiro Mihara

Masaaki Shiomura

Yukio Sugano

Eichi Koizumi

Fumitaka Abukawa

Guan Haike

Tomohiro Hirakawa

Hitoshi Goi

Hitoshi Nakanishi

Hiroaki Nagatsuka

Atsuo Kawaguchi

Kazuyoshi Fujita

Taku Kitahara

Miwa Kawano

Tadayoshi Juge

Nobuo Nishioka

Yoshiaki Shimizu

Keishichi Namba

Yuichi Takasu

Tsutomu Ooishi

Wenchang Chen

Yoriaki Miyoshi

A crawler type traveling body includes a drive wheel, an in-wheel motor incorporated in the drive wheel, a plurality of rotating wheels disposed below the drive wheel, a crawler, and a tensioner. The crawler is wound around the drive wheel and the rotating wheels and configured to be rotated by the drive wheel. The tensioner is coupled to a drive shaft of the in-wheel motor and configured to press the drive wheel against the crawler and apply tension to the crawler.

Crawler type traveling body and traveling apparatus

A processing system includes a timing controller and source driver circuitry. The timing controller is configured to stop scanning of a plurality of gate lines of a display panel in response to a detection of a communication failure between the processing system and a controller. The source driver circuitry is configured to update a plurality of display elements of the display panel to cause a black display in response to expiration of a time limit after the detection of the communication failure. The timing controller may be further configured to resume the scanning of the plurality of gate lines in response to the expiration of the time limit.

Device and method for driving a display panel

A robot includes a three-dimensional shape detecting sensor to detect a three dimensional shape of a travel surface existing in a forward travelling direction of the robot, a posture stabilizer to stabilize a posture of a body of the robot, a feature data generator to generate feature data of the detected three dimensional shape, an inclination angle prediction generator to generate a prediction value of an inclination angle of the body when the robot is to reach a position on the travel surface in the forward travelling direction at a future time point based on the feature data and a prediction model, and an overturn prevention controller to control the posture stabilizer to prevent an overturn of the robot based on the prediction value.

Robot, information processing system, and storage medium

An information processing apparatus includes: a travel purpose acquisition unit that acquires a travel purpose of a mobile object; a setting unit that sets multiple travel routes in different travel directions in a forward area with respect to the mobile object; a calculation unit that calculates, regarding each of the multiple travel routes, a predictive value of a travel state in which the mobile object travels along each of the multiple travel routes; a computing unit that computes, regarding each of the multiple travel routes, an evaluation value for the mobile object to realize traveling according to the travel purpose from weighting values that are predetermined according to the travel purpose and the predictive values; and a determining unit that determines, as a travel route to be followed next, a travel route with the highest evaluation represented by the evaluation value among the multiple travel routes.

Information processing apparatus, computer-readable recording medium, and information processing system

An image analyzing device, an image analyzing method, and a recording medium storing an image analyzing program are provided. Each of the image analyzing device, the image analyzing method, and the recording medium storing the image analyzing program recognizes an area where a target is displayed based on a feature value of an input image, generates space recognition information to recognize spatial properties of each portion of the input image, divides the image into a plurality of similar areas according to similarity in feature value of the input image, the similar area having a similar feature value, obtains specified attribute data of the spatial properties to be referred to, from image areas around the recognized area where the target is displayed, recognizes the spatial properties according to the space recognition information, and determines whether a result of recognition is appropriate at the portion where the target is displayed.

Image analyzing device, image analyzing method, and recording medium storing image analyzing program

In a method of input object sensing, a plurality of transmitter electrodes are driven in a first way to acquire a first sub-frame image with the plurality of transmitter electrodes and a plurality of receiver electrodes of a sensor electrode pattern during a first sub-frame of a transcapacitive sensing frame. The plurality of transmitter electrodes is also driven in a second way to acquire a second sub-frame image with the plurality of transmitter electrodes and the plurality of receiver electrodes during a second sub-frame of the transcapacitive sensing frame, wherein the first way and the second way differ. A capacitive image is determined by combining the first sub-frame image with the second sub-frame image such that a motion artifact associated with an input object and present in at least one of the sub-frame images is suppressed by the combining.

Transcapacitive input object sensing

In an image processing apparatus, an input part inputs additional information to be embedded when printing a document. A developing part develops a character contained in the document, into which character the additional information is to be embedded, using a form deformed according to the additional information.

Image processing apparatus embedding additional information in document data

An apparatus, method, and system of generating a confidential document by adding additional information to image data are described, each of which obtains administrator setting information set by an administrator, and user setting information set by a user. Information for display to the user is controlled based on at least the administrator setting information to satisfy the requirement set by the administrator setting information even when the user setting information differs from the administrator setting information.

Apparatus, method, and system of controlling setting information for confidential document

An apparatus, system, and method for image processing are disclosed, each of which obtains a mark from image data, detects additional information in the mark, determines whether the mark is detected in the mark to generate a determination result, and controls processing performed by an image processing apparatus with respect to the image data based on the determination result.

Apparatus, system, and method of process control based on the determination of embedded information

An image processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit, an area setting unit, and an adding unit. The obtaining unit obtains an adding method by which additional information is to be added to image data containing content information. The area setting unit sets an additional-information area to which the additional information is to be added based on the adding method and the content information. The adding unit adds the additional information to the additional-information area by the adding method.

Apparatus, method, and computer product for image processing

A confidential document is generated by encoding distribution destination information specifying a destination to which the confidential document will be distributed.

Apparatus, system, and method for image processing for generating and/or managing a confidential document

An image processing apparatus configured to embed embedment information in image data includes an embedment information acquisition unit configured to acquire embedment information to be embedded in the image data, an information embedment manner determination unit configured to determine an information embedment manner to embed the embedment information according to one of the acquired embedment information and image data to be generated by embedding the acquired embedment information in the image data, and an information embedment unit configured to embed the acquired embedment information in image data according to the information embedment manner determined by the information embedment manner determination unit.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program product

An image processing apparatus embedding information in an image by combining multiple predetermined patterns with the image is disclosed that includes a level determination part configured to determine at least one of the levels of conditions to be added regarding the disposition of the predetermined patterns, to which at least one of the levels the information to be embedded belongs; and a pattern combining part configured to combine the predetermined patterns with the image in accordance with the condition corresponding to the information to be embedded at the determined at least one of the levels. If the information to be embedded belongs to two or more of the levels, the pattern combining part combines the predetermined patterns so that the conditions corresponding to the information to be embedded are satisfied at the two or more of the levels.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

An image processing method is disclosed that is capable of efficient information extraction when embedding information in an image by using plural information embedding methods. The image processing method includes steps of embedding target information in the image by using one or more methods selected from plural information embedding methods; and embedding identification information in the image for identifying the selected one or more methods. The identification information is embedded in a method allowing an amount of the embedded information to be less than an amount of the embedded information in each of the selected one or more methods.

Image processing device and image processing method for identifying a selected one or more embedding methods used for embedding target information

An image processing apparatus processes image data that contains a confidential image portion. The image processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives designation of the confidential image portion; a generating unit that generates specification information that specifies the confidential image portion; an adding unit that adds the specification information to the image data thereby generating first processed image data; and an output unit that outputs the first processed image data.

Image processing method and image processing apparatus

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Hiroshi Shimura