Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Daiwa House Industry Co., Ltd

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Fujitec Co., Ltd.

J-oil Mills, Inc.

Toyo Shutter Co., Ltd.

Osaka Prefecture University Public Corporation

Hiroyuki Yoshida

Tadanori Tezuka

Bunpei Toji

Shinji Kanayama

Tsukasa Nakano

Takashi Orime

Kenji Hirosawa

Hiroyuki Yajima

Kenji Takahashi

Ken Mashitani

Satoshi Shida

Takashi Shimizu

Satoshi Ando

Yasuharu Ueno

Tatsumi Watanabe

Noriaki Yoshida

Makoto Morikawa

Hiroyuki Otani

Toshiro Sato

Satoshi Kajita

Hiroki Taoka

Ryoji Inutsuka

Kenichi Nishino

Shiro Iwasaki

Shuichi Hirata

Yoshifumi Kitayama

Eiichi Hatae

Takaharu Nakagawa

Yuichi Kawaguchi

Shuichi Kamo

Masaru Hidaka

Kohei Enchi

Yosuke Isobe

Kouhei Enchi

Taiji Sawada

Mitsuru Morotome

Atsushi Irie

Mizuki Yamauchi

Toyoyuki Urabe

Tetsuya Maekawa

Hidemi Nakamura

A communication unit prevents a malfunction which initiates communication against a user's will when communication for the purpose of remote dialog, without requiring a complex operation on the part of the user. This communication unit, used when a sender transmits his or her image or speech information to a recipient, comprises: a device that acquires image and speech information; a home server that transmits communication data indicating the information acquired by the information acquisition device to a device possessed by the recipient; and a detection unit that detects an object to be detected which is generated or changed by an action of the sender. The detection unit detects mutually different types of the objects each to be detected. Then, the home server starts transmitting the communication data when each detection result from each of two or more types of the detection units satisfies a predetermined condition.

Communication unit

A system and method are provided to hold a dialog between communicators while the communicators are viewing their images each other and which prevents the presence of an image display screen from being noticeable in a non-communication state. A first unit for the communicator generates and transmits first data indicating the image of the communicator. A second unit for the communication partner expands the first data received via a communication line to display the image of the communicator on the display screen, and generates and transmits second data indicating the image of the communication partner in front of the display screen. A human sensor is configured to detect that the communication partner is at a predetermined position in a home. Only during the period of the human sensor detecting that the communication partner is at the predetermined position, the display-cum-mirror forms a display screen, and otherwise, a mirror.

Dialogue system and dialogue method

The present application relates to a display apparatus comprising: a display portion which displays a first image and a second image different from the first image to create a stereoscopic image; a separator which separates the first and second images from each other; and an adjuster which adjusts a shape of the separator. The separator includes a barrier portion which blocks image light emitted from the display portion. The barrier portion includes a contour portion which defines a shape of at least one opening that allows transmission of the image light. The contour portion includes a first contour and a second contour facing the first contour. The first and second contours define a continuous opening region inclined at a predetermined angle from a vertical line. At least one of the first and second contours forms protrusions which periodically protrude toward the opening region. Shapes of the protrusions are heterogeneous.

Display apparatus

It is intended to provide a method for producing aglycone from a glycoside efficiently at low cost without using an acid catalyst or an organic solvent. The method for producing aglycone, characterized by bringing a glycoside into contact with high temperature high pressure water. The temperature of the high temperature high pressure water is generally from 100 to 374&#xb0; C., preferably from 140 to 320&#xb0; C., more preferably from 200 to 300&#xb0; C. The pressure of the high temperature high pressure water may be not lower than the saturated water vapor pressure at the temperature, i.e., a pressure at which the liquid state is maintained.

Method for producing glycoside aglycone

A content-transmitting apparatus transmits reproduction control information including order of reproduction, reproducing section, and reproduction date information of contents which transmitted in the past. In a content-receiving apparatus, when a transmission destination chooses a specific television channel using a receiving side input unit, a receiving side control unit reproduces contents according to the reproduction control information. When the transmission source controls contents including the contents which transmitted in the past to the transmission destination, the transmission destination can view and listen to the contents that the transmission source intends to reproduce, with easiness just like changing television channels.

Content-transmitting apparatus, content-receiving apparatus, content transmitting/receiving system, methods, and recording medium thereof

A method of controlling contact load in an apparatus for mounting electronic components on a substrate, in which a head is lowered at high speed to slow down starting position where there is no risk that the electronic component makes contact with the substrate (S), and from there the head is lowered at low speed until a predetermined target contact load is detected. The process of lowering the head at low speed includes the steps of moving down the head a predetermined distance (S), measuring load after the step of moving down the head (S), and determining whether the measured contact load has reached the target contact load (S). The steps of moving down the head (S) and measuring the load (S) are repeated until the measured load reaches the target contact load. The actual load is precisely controlled to be close to a very small set level of target contact load. Accordingly, electronic components using low dielectric constant material are mounted without the risk of damage.

Method of controlling contact load in electronic component mounting apparatus

In an elevator comprising an entrance frame provided on an entrance leading from a landing hall to a hoistway and having an upper frame () and a vertical frame (), and landing doors () arranged on the entrance frame with a gap and to be guided by a sill () for opening-closing an opening of the entrance frame, the landing doors () have smoke shielding members () which are provided on a top portion, side portion, and a bottom portion of the landing doors () for preventing the infiltration of smoke. The smoke shielding member () on the side portion is in contact with the smoke shielding member () on the bottom portion at a lower position, and is in contact with the smoke shielding member () on the top portion at an upper position.

Door device of elevator

Color sub-pixel display is performed with a display device that has three light emitting elements for emitting three primary colors R, G, and B, respectively, aligned in an x-y matrix. Color information at pixel accuracy is separated into luminance data at pixel accuracy and chroma data at pixel accuracy. From the luminance data at pixel accuracy, luminance data at sub-pixel accuracy is generated. The luminance data at sub-pixel accuracy and chroma data at pixel accuracy are synthesized, whereby color information at sub-pixel accuracy is obtained.

Display apparatus, display method, and display apparatus controller

A three-times magnified pattern of a central target pixel and horizontally contiguously adjacent sub-pixel patterns next thereto are determined on the basis of a reference pattern that has a rectangular profile and further that consist of eight-neighboring pixel about the target pixel. The determined three-times magnified pattern is allocated to three sub-pixels that form the target pixel. The determined sub-pixel patterns are allocated to horizontally adjacent sub-pixels next to the target pixel. As a result, a black area defined by the target pixel is displaced rightward by an amount of a sub-pixel without any change in black area size that corresponds to three sub-pixels. This feature inhibits a variation in output image density, which otherwise would conspicuously occurs as a result of a varied object line width.

Display equipment, display method, and recording medium for recording display control program

When a sub-pixel of B having a small contribution to luminance emits light in isolation, a sub-pixel of R is caused to emit light or sub-pixels of B and R are caused to emit light. As a result, a sub-pixel of R having, a larger contribution to luminance than the sub-pixel of B, is caused to emit light. When an adjacent set of sub-pixels B and R having a small contribution to luminance emits light in isolation, a set of sub-pixels R and G is caused to emit light. As a result, a set of sub-pixels R and G having a higher degree of contribution to luminance than the set of sub-pixels B and R is caused to emit light. Therefore, contrast degradation from any allocation of light-emitting patterns to sub-pixels having poor luminance is eliminated and a high quality display is achieved.

Display method and display apparatus

A display method includes obtaining three-times magnified image data, which is made up of sub-pixels and with which a raster image to be displayed currently is magnified by three in the first direction. A filtering process on the three-times magnified image data is based on factors that are weighed in accordance to the degrees of contribution to luminance of the three primary colors of R, G, and B. The weighted data are allocated to sub-pixels of the three-times magnified image data that have been subject to the filtering process. The sub-pixels are formed by the three light-emitting elements that form a pixel to thereby enable the display device to perform display.

Display method by using sub-pixels

A per sub-pixel luminance information-generating unit enters per-pixel luminance information, and generates respective pieces of luminance information on target pixel-forming three sub-pixels using luminance information on the target pixel and an adjacent pixel. A per sub-pixel chroma information-generating unit enters per-pixel chroma information, and generates respective pieces of chroma information on the target pixel-forming sub-pixels using chroma information on the target pixel and an adjacent pixel. The target pixel and the pixel adjacent to the target pixel are used to generate respective pieces of the luminance information on the target pixel-forming three sub-pixels. Since the pixels used to generate the luminance information on a per sub-pixel basis are the same ones used to generate the luminance information, the occurrence of color irregularities is inhibited between an original image and a multi-value image displayed on a per sub-pixel basis.

Display method and display equipment

A line image which comprises one line parallel to the juxtaposing direction of light-emitting elements is extracted from a three-time image, and a work region is determined, in which, in the juxtaposing direction, an M sub-pixel is added to the front side of the line image and an N sub-pixel is added to the rear side thereof. A background image of a region corresponding to the work region is read out from the frame memory. The read out background image whose precision is made the same as that of the three-time image in a pseudo state, and the line image are blended to obtain a blend image. Image data resulting from the blend image are written in a region corresponding to the work region of the frame memory. The above process is repeated for all lines of the three-time image.

Displaying method, displaying apparatus, filtering unit, filtering process method, recording medium for storing filtering process programs, and method for processing images

In a display device, three light-emitting elements, which respectively emit light of the three primary colors of R, G, and B, are aligned in a fixed order in a first direction to form one pixel. A plurality of such pixels are aligned in a the direction to form one line. A plurality of such lines are aligned in a second direction, which is orthogonal to the first direction, to form a display screen. With this display device, a three-times magnified pattern, with which a target pixel in a raster image to be displayed currently is magnified by three in the first direction, is determined dynamically in accordance with a rectangular reference pattern of 3&#xd7;3 pixels consisting of the target pixel and pixels surrounding the target pixel. Display is performed upon allocating this three-times magnified pattern to the three light-emitting elements that comprise one pixel. Character interval adjustment and color display of sub-pixel precision precision are enabled.

Display equipment, display method, and storage medium storing a display control program using sub-pixels

An object of the present invention is to reduce information volume going through a network when a multi-media E-mail is transmitted/received therethrough, which includes various types of media information being temporally and/or spatially related to one another. To attain the object, a return mail is composed by utilizing any object (received object) included in an incoming mail. Thereafter, the return mail is structured in a format for a multi-media E-mail including every object included in the return mail exclusive of the already-utilized object(s) and control information indicating how the objects in the return mail are temporally and/or spatially positioned, and then is transmitted to a computer system from which the incoming mail was transmitted.

Multi-media E-mail system and device for transmitting a composed return E-mail

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Kasuya-gun, Japan

Hiroyuki Yoshida