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Nagoya University

Kazunari Taki

Tsuyoshi Ohashi

Takuya Nagai

Hideo Ueno

Riki Matsuda

Makoto Suzuki

Kunihiro Yasui

Takahiro Ikeno

Masashi Suzuki

Hiroshi Koie

Takahiro Hosokawa

Yumiko Ohashi

Hideo Maruyama

Yasunori Nakamura

Yutaka Hattori

Shoji Yamada

Toshio Takahashi

Akihiro Suzuki

Akira Ito

Nobuhiko Funato

Akihiko Niwa

Tatsuhiro Ikedo

Kazuyuki Miyaki

Yasumitsu Miyazaki

Shuzo Mizutani

Koshiro Yamaguchi

Masayuki Yoshida

Mitsugi Tanaka

Kentaro Ushiyama

Yoshitsugu Tomomatsu

Ryohei Komiya

Mitsuyoshi Watanabe

Yuji Kiyohara

Tomoyasu Fukui

Shiro Yamada

Mika Matsushima

Yasuo Kimura

Yoshinori Bessho

Hideki Kanada

Koji Sugiyama

Koji Takito

Yoshiaki Komatsu

Hiroshi Kuno

Mitsuo Hirota

Katsumi Toda

Shinichi Hirahata

Katsuyuki Kuramoto

Hiroshi Uchigashima

Hiroyuki Kousaka

Hironobu Wakayama

Hiroshi Miyashita

Masao Ito

Mitsuaki Koketsu

Osamu Nishikawa

Kentaro Shinoda

Takuya Hamaguchi

Yasuyuki Takaoka

Yumiko Watanabe

A film forming device includes: a microwave supplying unit configured to supply microwaves for generating plasma along a treatment surface of a conductive workpiece; a negative voltage applying unit configured to apply to the workpiece a negative bias voltage for expanding a sheath layer thickness along the treatment surface of the workpiece, and a controller configured to control the microwave supplying unit and the negative voltage applying unit, wherein the microwave supplying unit has a microwave transmitting window configured to propagate the supplied microwaves to the expanded sheath layer, wherein the controller is configured to control the microwave supplying unit and the negative voltage applying unit while supplying of the microwaves so that a sheath thickness of the sheath layer changes.

Film forming device, film forming method, and film forming program

A head mounted display capable of displaying necessary and sufficient number of display information in an easily viewable manner even when a large number of identifying objects are detected is provided. A see-through-type head mounted display includes a display unit which is configured to project image light corresponding to display information onto an eye of a user thus allowing the user to visually recognize an image corresponding to the image light while allowing an external light to pass therethrough. The head mounted display selects identifying objects about which associated information associated with the identifying objects are displayed by the display unit based on a result detected within an imaging area. The head mounted display displays the selected associated information associated with the identifying objects in association with the identifying objects which are visually recognized by the user through the display unit in a see-through manner.

Head mounted display

An image processing apparatus includes: a receiving unit which receives print data; a determining unit which determines whether or not the print data received by the receiving unit includes confidential information; a printing unit which prints an image on a recording medium including an IC tag, in accordance with the print data; and a writing unit which writes, into the IC tag of the recording medium, distinctive information indicating that confidential information is printed on the recording medium when it is determined that the print data includes confidential information.

Image processing apparatus and information writing apparatus

There is provided a radio communication system capable of distinguishing objects from one another while taking advantage of the low power consumption and distance measurement ability of the radio communication of the UWB method. A radio tag TGn includes: a characteristic impedance unit () for generating a response signal by using a pulse signal received from a broad-band antenna (); a transmission path () having a predetermined length, transmitting the pulse signal received by the broad-band antenna () from the broad-band antenna () to the characteristic impedance unit (), and transmitting the generated response signal from the characteristic impedance unit () to the broad-band antenna (); and the broad-band antenna () for receiving the pulse signal and transmitting the response signal. The aforementioned pulse wave is transmitted to the radio tag TGn by the UWB method. The response signal from the radio tag TGn is received and the radio tag TGn is identified from the reception waveform.

Position detecting system, responder and interrogator, wireless communication system, position detecting method, position detecting program, and information recording medium

An RFID-tag fabricating apparatus for fabricating an RFID tag provided with an IC circuit, including a substrate-accommodating device for accommodating a first substrate in the form of a tape having a printable surface and a second substrate in the form of a tape to be bonded to the first substrate, a printing device operable to form a predetermined printed indicium on the printable surface of the first substrate, a tag-tape forming device operable to form a tag tape, by bonding together the first and second substrates such that a plurality of IC circuit portions are interposed between the first and second substrates, a tag-tape cutting device operable to cut the tag tape formed by the tag-tape forming device, and a tag-tape cutting control portion operable to change a length of a segment of the tag tape to be obtained as the RFID tag by cutting of the tag tape by the tag-tape cutting device, on the basis of a length of the printed indicium formed on the first substrate, and such that the segment includes at least one of the IC circuit portions, whereby the dimensions of the RFID tag can be changed depending upon the dimensions of the printed indicium formed on the first substrate.

RFID-tag fabricating apparatus and cartridge

An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit; a controller that controls the image forming unit to form, on a recording medium, an image based on image data in accordance with a first print setting; and a data recording unit that records original data of the image data and the first print setting on a non-contact tag attached to the recording medium.

Image forming apparatus for reading information from and writing information to a non-contact medium

A radio-frequency device includes a PAA processing portion configured to control a directivity of reception of a receiver antenna device, a received-signal-strength detecting portion configured to detect a strength of the received signal received by the receiver antenna device, and a direction detecting portion configured to detect the direction toward the communication object, on the basis of a direction in which a higher one of two strength values of the received signal respectively detected in first and second maximum-reception-directivity directions of a predetermined angular difference established by the PAA processing portion is minimal. Accordingly, the direction toward the radio-frequency tag can be suitably detected.

Radio-frequency device, and radio-frequency tag communication device

An RFID-tag communication device including (a) an antenna from which a transmission signal is transmitted toward an RFID tag and through which a reply signal transmitted from the RFID tag in response to the transmission signal is received, for radio communication with the RFID tag, (b) a first-cancel-signal output portion operable to generate a digital first cancel signal for suppressing a leakage signal from a received signal which is received through the antenna and which contains the leakage signal as well as the rely signal, the leakage signal being a part of the transmission signal which is transmitted from the antenna and which is returned to and received by the antenna, (c) a first-cancel-signal control portion operable to control an amplitude and/or a phase of the first cancel signal generated by the first-cancel-signal output portion, (d) a first-cancel-signal D/A converting portion operable to convert the first cancel signal generated by the first-cancel-signal output portion, into an analog signal, (e) a first signal combining portion operable to combine together the analog first cancel signal generated by the first-cancel-signal D/A converting portion, and the received signal, to obtain a first composite signal.teh

RFID-tag communication device

A method for producing a RFID label comprises conveying a first label base material which is transparent from a first holding portion holding the first label base material, forming an image on a surface of the first label base material, conveying a second label base material including at least one of a RFID antenna conductor and an IC chip from a second holding portion holding the second label base material and joining the second label base material and the first label base material on which an image has been formed together, wherein, when an image is formed on the first label base material, the image is formed on a surface of the first label base material, the surface being joined to the second label base material.

RFID label, method for producing the RFID label, device for producing the RFID label, sheet member (tag sheet) used for the RFID label, and cartridge attached to the device for producing the RFID label

A data processing apparatus includes a data reading unit that reads data from a non-contact tag, and a restoration unit that restores a file when the data reading unit reads, from the non-contact tag, (i) location information indicating a storage location where the file is previously stored and (ii) at least one of a flag indicating that the file is to be restored and a restoration program for restoring the file, in accordance with the read at least one of the flag and the restoration program.

Data processing apparatus and recording medium

There are included an antenna transmitting and receiving information through a radio communication with a RFID circuit element, a signal processing circuit and a transmission portion of a radio frequency circuit configured to execute write or read of information with respect to an IC circuit part of the RFID circuit element, a tape-feeding-roller drive shaft for feeding out a base tape from a first roll, a cutter configured to cut the base tape fed out by this tape-feeding-roller drive shaft to a predetermined length to produce a RFID label, a print head making a print in a predetermined print region of the base tape, and a control circuit configured to control this print head so as to be capable of being switched between the print in a forward direction and the print in a rotation direction inverting this forward direction with respect to a predetermined print region.

Apparatus for communicating with a RFID tag, tape cartridge and tag tape

An RFID tag reader/writer having a high degree of stability of communication with only a desired RFID tag. The frequency of a carrier wave to be transmitted from the RFID tag reader/writer is set on the basis of a resonance frequency of an antenna of the RFID tag located within a predetermined nearby communication area, which resonance frequency changes due to mutual coupling between the antenna of the RFID tag and an antenna of the RFID tag reader/writer. According to this setting, the RFID tag located within the nearby communication area has a high degree of sensitivity, and the RFID tag located outside the nearby communication area has a low degree of sensitivity, so that it is possible to effectively prevent an interference between the communication of the RFID tag reader/writer with the selected RFID tag and the communication of the reader/writer with the other or non-selected RFID tag.

RFID tag reader/writer

An image forming apparatus includes an interface unit which receives print data and file data; a printing unit which prints an image on a recording medium; a writing unit which stores tag data in a non-contact type tag when the recording medium provides the non-contact type tag; a buffer unit in which file data is stored in the non-contact type tag; and a control unit which controls the printing unit and the writing unit. The control unit stores the file data in the buffer unit when the file data is received. The control unit controls the printing unit to form an image on the recording medium based upon content of the print data when the print data is received. The control unit controls the writing unit to store the file data stored in the buffer unit in the non-contact type tag.

Image forming apparatus

An apparatus for communicating with a RFID tag that can improve versatility of the apparatus for communicating with a RFID tag, and further simplify equipment configuration and reduce costs of users by enabling information transmission/reception with a RFID circuit element in and outside the apparatus is provided. The apparatus for communicating with a RFID tag is provided with a housing constituting an outer profile of an apparatus main body and communicable regions both inside and outside the housing and has a loop antenna LC that can transmit/receive information with a RFID circuit element for a label production and a RFID circuit element for an information reading provided with an IC circuit part storing information and a loop antenna that transmits/receives information and a driving roller provided in the housing and configured to feed a tag label tape with print.

Apparatus for communicating with a RFID tag

To realize smooth manufacturing of tag tape and RFID labels. The RFID tag label producing apparatuscomprises a tag inserterfor inserting at predetermined intervals RFID tags Tg between an adhesive layerAa of a first tapeA fed out from a first tape rolland an adhesive layerBa of a second tapeB fed out from a second tape roll, and a base tape rollfor taking up a base tapeproduced by bonding of the first tapeA and the second tapeB and attachment of the RFID tags Tg by the tag inserter, and making this a tag tape roll. The REID tag comprises RFID circuit elements To provided with an IC circuit partfor storing information and an tag antennaconnected to the IC circuit partfor performing transmission and reception of information.

Tape processing apparatus, tag label producing apparatus, tag assembly, and tape processing method

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Nagoya, Japan

Kazunari Taki