Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Marvellworld Trade Ltd.

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.

Marvell Technology Japan Y.k.

Hiroyuki Kimura

Kenichi Nagasawa

Chikara Sato

Susumu Kozuki

Katsuji Yoshimura

Isao Harigaya

Kenji Kyuma

Yuji Tsuda

Kyoji Tamura

Tadayoshi Nakayama

Masayoshi Sekine

Yoshitake Nagashima

Toshiaki Kondo

Ryo Fujimoto

Jun Tokumitsu

Tomohiko Sasatani

Yasushi Shimizu

Hiroshi Ohmura

Susumu Matsumura

Shigeyuki Suda

Minoru Yoshii

Masahide Kinoshita

Makoto Katsuma

Masaaki Saito

Masahiko Yokota

Keiji Okano

Haruhisa Oshida

Hisataka Hirose

Soichi Isono

Kazunobu Urushihara

Akira Domon

Hiroyuki Fukuoka

Minoru Tsukada

Tomoki Oura

Masaki Nakano

Teruo Hieda

Naoya Kaneda

Akihiro Fujiwara

Masahiko Enari

Masamichi Toyama

Eisaku Ito

Taiji Torigoe

Masamitsu Kuwabara

Toshiyuki Masui

Yuusuke Minagawa

Minoru Arimitsu

Takashi Amikura

Masahiko Mega

Yushi Kaneko

Shuji Tanigawa

Junichiro Masada

Keizo Tsukagoshi

Youichi Iwasaki

Yoshifumi Okajima

Yoshitaka Uemura

Chifuyu Tanaka

Naoki Kawamata

Hiromichi Nagane

Yasuhiko Tsuru

Shigenari Horie

Daisuke Kudo

Naotoshi Okaya

Shuichi Kadowaki

Toshihiko Nishikori

An erosion test apparatus includes a combustor configured to obtain a combustion gas by mixing and combusting compressed air and a fuel, and an erodent supply unit configured to supply an erodent to the combustion gas. The erosion test apparatus further includes an accommodation support unit configured to accommodate and support a test piece having a front surface coated through thermal barrier coating, and an accelerator configured to accelerate the combustion gas including the erodent to collide with the test piece.

Erosion test apparatus, accelerator and erosion test method

A magnetic disk controller includes an error check code generating unit that generates error check codes associated with the encoded pieces of writing data; a first buffer that stores a first encoded piece of writing data and a first error check code associated with the first encoded piece; a second buffer that stores a second encoded piece of writing data and a second error check code associated with the second encoded piece; and a buffer control unit that, in a first period, substantially concurrently with a writing of the first encoded piece and the first error check code from the first buffer into a first sector of the magnetic disk, stores the second encoded piece and the second error check code into the second buffer.

Magnetic disc controller and method

A magnetic disk controller includes a first buffer that includes a first storage area that stores former portions of pieces of writing data, and a second storage area that stores latter portions of pieces of writing data; an encoding unit that encodes a former portion of the first piece of writing data; a second buffer that stores the encoded former portion of the first piece of writing data; and a buffer control unit that writes the encoded former portion of the first piece of writing data into a first sector of the magnetic disk. The encoding unit encodes the latter portion of the first piece of writing data. The second buffer stores the encoded latter portion of the first piece of writing data. The buffer control unit, writes the encoded latter portion of the first piece of writing data into the first sector of the magnetic disk.

A system, method, and a computer-readable medium storing a program to execute the method includes a reading unit or step for reading, from a storage medium which stores plural still image information and time information for each still image information, the still image information and the time information, a setting unit or step for inputting start and end times for setting a time period, a unit or step for determining the stored still image information whose time information is within the set time period between the start and end times, and a print unit or step for printing all the still image information read by the reading unit or step whose time information is determined by the determining unit or step to be within the set time period between the inputted start and end times.

Image reproduction system for reproducing a still image from a video tape

An image signal processing apparatus includes an inputting unit, an electrical image stabilizing unit, and a compression encoding unit. The inputting unit is arranged to input an image signal representing a sequence of images of a subject produced by an image sensing unit. The electrical image stabilizing unit is arranged to detect unintentional movement of the image caused by shaking of an image sensor unit on the basis of the image signal and to correct the image signal, after the input signal is input by the input unit, by removing the effect of the unintentional movement, so as to yield a corrected sequence of images in which a position of the subject is stabilized. The compression encoding unit is arranged to interpicture encode the image signal stabilized by the electrical image stabilizing unit.

Signal processing device

An image reproduction system includes a data bus for transmitting a compressed and coded digital image signal, in which compression mode information related to the compressing and coding of the digital image signal is added to the digital image signal. The system also includes a first input device that inputs the digital image signal transmitted by the data bus and a second input device that inputs an analog image signal. A converter converts the analog image signal inputted by the second input device to a digital signal. A buffer memory selectively stores either the digital image signal inputted by the first input device or the digital signal converted by the converter.

An image pickup device capable of exposure control utilizing the iris aperture, shutter speed and gain as three control parameters, comprising means for setting a photometry area in the image frame; means for setting an input parameter as a reference for evaluation, based on the luminance information in an image signal obtained from the photometry means; means for determining the values of the three control parameters for exposure control, according to the value of the input parameter; switch means for switching, according to the phototaking mode, a program setting the control caharacteristics of each control parameter as a function of the input parameter; and photometry area switch means for switching the set state of the photometry area in the image frame, in linkage with the switching operation of the switch means, wherein the phototaking mode is switched according to the phototaking conditions, thereby controlling the parameters and the light metering area according to a program matching the phototaking mode, and enabling to constantly effect the optimum phototaking operation under any phototaking situation or conditions.

Image pickup device

A drive circuit for a motor/generator, having a first rotating electrical machine which is mainly used as a motor and a second rotating electrical machine which is mainly used as a generator, is characterized in that a booster circuit is disposed at a position where the current for rotating the first rotating electrical motor cancels out with the current generated by the second rotating electrical machine. In this manner, the booster circuit comprising small capacity elements can be used in the drive circuit for the motor/generator.

Drive circuit for motor/generator

A method of processing an image comprises the steps of: supplying a photographing condition and/or a conversion process condition, e.g., at the time of photographing; using the supplied photographing condition and the supplied conversion process condition as parameters; and performing a processing, such as a conversion process, for an image signal of an image by using the parameters.

Method of processing an image such as a still image

A printer system, including both digital and analog image reproducing apparatuses and a printer apparatus for printing image information reproduced by said digital and analog reproducing apparatuses, has a data bus connecting the digital image reproducing apparatus to the printer apparatus, and a status information supplying device coupled to the printer apparatus. The device supplies status information indicative of an operation condition of the printer apparatus through the data bus from the printer apparatus to the digital image reproducing apparatus. The printer system also includes first and second image information supplying devices. The first image information supplying device is coupled to said digital image reproducing apparatus and supplies the digital image information reproduced according to the status information through the data bus from the digital information reproducing apparatus to the printer apparatus. The second image information supplying device supplies the analog image information to the printer apparatus. The printer system also includes a device enabling at least one of the first image information supplying device and the second image information supplying device.

Image reproduction system for reproducing a still image from a video

A video signal recording apparatus which records a video signal on a recording medium after separating a fixed time portion of an input video signal and extending the time axis of the separated video signal.

Video signal recording apparatus

A sheet supplying apparatus is provided including a sheet stacking unit for stacking a plurality of sheets, a first roller for supplying an uppermost sheet on the sheet stacking unit and a second roller for supplying a lowermost sheet on the sheet stacking unit. A separation roller is disposed between the first and second sheet supply rollers to pass a single sheet toward a predetermined direction and to separate the other sheets from the single sheet for return. The first and second sheet supply rollers and the separation roller are made of the same material, and the first and second sheet supply rollers are disposed upstream of the separation roller in a sheet supplying direction. The apparatus also includes a controller for controlling (i) a motor for driving the separation roller and the first and second sheet supply rollers, (ii) a pendulum gear train for selectively connecting the first or second sheet supply rollers to the motor and for reversing a rotational direction of the separation roller and (iii) a solenoid for shifting the sheet stacking unit to position the sheets thereon at a predetermined position with respect to the first and second sheet supply rollers.

Sheet supplying apparatus including first and second sheet supply

A video camera having a plurality of photographing modes each having different control characteristics in accordance with the photographing condition, comprising:

Image pickup device having selectable photographing modes

Image pickup device using plural control parameters for exposure control

An image reading apparatus includes a stacking unit for stacking a plurality of originals, a separating unit for sequentially separating the original in the bottom portion among the originals on the stacking unit, a conveying unit for conveying the original which was sequentially separated by the separating unit along a conveying path, a first reading unit for reading the original surface which faces up when it is stacked onto the stacking unit when the original passes through the conveying path, a second reading unit for reading the original surface which faces down when it is stacked onto the stacking unit when the original passes through the conveying path, and a control unit for controlling the first and second reading units in accordance with a copy mode and a facsimile transmission mode, wherein the control unit allows the first reading unit to read the original in the copy mode and allows the second reading unit to read the original in the facsimile transmission mode.

Image reading apparatus useable in a copy mode or a facsimile mode

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Yokohama, Japan

Hiroyuki Kimura