Hitachi, Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Nisca Corporation

Seiko Corporation

Nippon Seimitsu Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Hitachi Engineering Co., Ltd.

Teijin Fibers Limited

Kenji Baba

Takaaki Enohara

Nobutaka Nishimura

Shoji Watanabe

Shuhei Noda

Kazumi Nagata

Mikio Yoda

Hayao Yahagi

Naoki Hara

Harumi Matsuzaki

Shunsuke Nogita

Ichiro Enbutsu

Hiroshi Matsumoto

Shunji Mori

Fumio Maruhashi

Chiaki Osada

Hirokazu Tanaka

Masahiko Ishida

Hiroyuki Muto

Kazushige Hatori

Ichiro Embutsu

Yusuke Takahashi

Masaya Maeda

Yasuo Takagi

Akira Sawada

Yoshihiko Suzuki

Akira Higeta

Kazuyuki Kubota

Junzo Kawakami

Takahiro Azeta

Tomoyuki Hamamura

Bunpei Irie

Toru Kameyama

Toshifumi Moritani

Masayoshi Kubota

Harukazu Sekiya

Yuka Watanabe

Hitoshi Ogasawara

Masakatsu Hiraoka

Yuji Hasebe

Kazushi Tsumura

Hiromune Suetsugu

Yasuo Morooka

Toshiyuki Ono

Masatoshi Suzuki

Hiroshi Yokoyama

Takayoshi Yokota

Yukio Saito

Yasunori Katayama

Masaaki Tanizaki

Akihiro Yamada

Seiitsu Nigawara

Ryoichi Haga

Ryoichi Kurata

Nobuhiro Hamada

Shinji Goto

Kazunori Takahashi

Tadayoshi Saito

Masahide Nomura

Takashi Iida

Mamoru Akiyama

Kenji Inagaki

Makoto Shimoda

Akira Kaji

Yoshio Naganuma

Yosuke Ito

Nobuko Nishimura

Kiyoshi Kumagai

Takeshi Matoba

Masaru Nanba

Yuusaku Nishimura

Masao Takato

Bunji Yoshitomi

Toyokazu Itakura

Wataru Tamaki

Masaki Fukuda

Ying Piao

Yoshikatsu Asada

Akihiro Tanaka

Masataka Araki

Setuo Saitoh

Yoshinori Hoshino

Ryuji Kiyokawa

Setuo Saitou

Masako Ueda

Akira Miyashiro

Ichiro Toyoshima

Hirokazu Yamauchi

Syoji Watanabe

Yasufumi Tahara

Yuzi Yamasawa

Toshimitu Akiyama

Takashi Katori

Kunio Kasai

Koutaro Yamanaka

Atsushi Suzuki

A service design assistance apparatus includes an input apparatus, a storage, a display, and an arithmetic apparatus. The arithmetic apparatus, in response to a specific request received via an input apparatus, placing objects for a service of a new design target in corresponding areas on the design screen, the objects representing a relevant business, a problem with the business, a value to be obtained by solving the problem, a service to provide the value, and an apparatus or technology needed for the service.

Service design assistance system and service design assistance method

The invention provides a punching system that has a relatively simple structure to provide an apparatus reduced in overall size and having a low profile, and can produce a high-quality punched hole while conveying a sheet. The punching system includes a punching device that has a punching member moving back and forth perpendicularly to the sheet being conveyed, a frame, and a sheet conveyance mechanism. The punching device is attached to the frame by an attachment unit in such a manner that it is movable in the sheet conveyance direction. The sheet conveyance mechanism includes carry-out rollers that sandwich the downstream end of the sheet at the start of sheet punching motion of the punching member and that are installed at positions downstream from and transversely corresponding to the punching position.

Punching system

A sheet cutter is operable by one hand for maintaining a sheet on a placing table and by other hand for cutting the sheet to ensure safety of finger of the one hand. The sheet cutter includes a pressing operating member adapted to be depressed from a non-pressing position to a pressing position for maintaining the sheet on the placing table against a biasing force of a spring, and a cutting operating member for travelling a cutter unit between one end and another end of the placing table, wherein the pressing operating member and the cutting operating member are arranged at different positions with a certain interval to set their operating directions orthogonal to each other. Accordingly, a sheet on the placing table can be cut by operating the cutting operating member horizontally with the other hand while operating the pressing operating member vertically with the one hand.

Sheet cutter

According to one embodiment, a power control apparatus includes a receiving unit, an environment-data acquiring unit, and a calculation unit. The receiving unit receives, from a power supplying side, a power-consumption reduction request for reducing power consumption at a power demanding side. The environmental data acquiring unit acquires, from the power demanding side, environmental data representing environmental state of the power demanding side. The calculating unit calculates a power-reduction value based on the environmental data, in response to the power-consumption reduction request.

Method and apparatus for power control

An information processing apparatus is communicatively connected to a plurality of image sensors that capture images of surroundings of a control target device which is to be a target of power controlling. The information processing apparatus includes an attribute information generation unit and a management unit. The attribute information generation unit generates, by using the images captured by each of the image sensors, attribute information of the control target device which is under jurisdiction of at least one of the image sensors. The management unit manages the attribute information of the control target device generated by the attribute information generation unit in association with the control target device and the at least one of the image sensors having jurisdiction over the control target device.

Information processing apparatus and method to control a target device based on detection of people in the vicinity of the target device

An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire input data used to generate an image, a conversion unit configured to generate intermediate data by performing data conversion on the input data with a first data conversion filter activated as a first process, and to generate image data by performing data conversion on the intermediate data with a second data conversion filter activated as a second process different from the first process, and an output unit configured to output the image data.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer-readable storage medium

An energy demand prediction apparatus according to an embodiment includes an image analysis unit and a prediction unit. The image analysis unit generates analysis data including at least one of human information and environment information of a prediction target area based on image data acquired by an image sensor. The prediction unit generates prediction data by executing an energy demand prediction based on the analysis data and an energy demand prediction model generated using previous data corresponding to the analysis data.

Energy demand prediction apparatus and method

A trimming apparatus, which carries out trimming with cutter blades running from one end of a material to be cut to the other end thereof, includes an apparatus frame, a bed surface having a bed plate for the material to be cut, a first and a second guide plates disposed in parallel above and under and holding the bed surface therebetween, a first holder member slidably supported by the first guide member and holding the first cutter blade, a second holder member slidably supported by the second guide member and holding the second cutter blade, a connector which connects one of the second cutter blade and the second holder member to the first cutter blade, and a drive device which makes at least one of the first holder member and the second holder member run from one end of the material to be cut to the other end.

Trimmer apparatus

According to one embodiment, an air conditioning control system is connected to a camera device, which is installed in an interior as an inside of a room and an air conditioning control target, and to an air conditioner that performs air conditioning for the interior as the air conditioning target, the air conditioning control system includes: an activity amount calculation unit; a current comfort index value calculation unit; a control parameter calculation unit; and an air conditioner control unit. The activity amount calculation unit acquires and analyzes image information formed by imaging the interior as the air conditioning control target from the camera device, and calculates an activity amount of a person present in the room based on the image information. The current comfort index value calculation unit calculates a current comfort index value of the person present in the room based on the activity amount. The control parameter calculation unit calculates a control parameter regarding an operation of the air conditioner based on the current comfort index value. The air conditioner control unit controls the operation of the air conditioner based on the control parameter.

Air conditioning control system and air conditioning control method

A sorting system is provided with conveying section, distance detecting section, article detecting section, determining section, acquisition section, and sorting section. The conveying section conveys an article. The distance detecting section acquires distance data indicating a distance, from above the conveying section, from the distance detecting section to an object included in a detection area including an area through which the article conveyed by the conveying section passes. The article detecting section detects one or a plurality of the articles based on the distance data. The determining section determines, when a plurality of the articles are detected, whether a plurality of the articles are sortable. The acquisition section acquires sorting information of the article.

Sorting system and sorting method

Information processing apparatus, method, and computer readable medium to control a target device based on detection of people in the vicinity of the target device

A sorting device has sensors, a plurality of a feature extracting unit, a feature searching unit, a determining unit and a sorting unit. The sensors detect physical quantities of an object. The feature extracting unit extracts values of a plurality of types of feature values from the physical quantities detected. The feature searching unit specifies identification information of the object based on values of various feature values extracted with reference to a feature database which associates and stores the values of the various feature values and the identification information of the object in advance. The determining unit determines sorting information of the object based on the identification information of the object specified with reference to a sorting database which associates and stores the identification information of the object and the sorting information in advance. The sorting unit sorts the object based on the sorting information determined.

Sorting device and sorting method

A trimming apparatus trims by cutter blades running from one end of a sheet bundle to the other end thereof, includes a bed surface for the sheet bundle, cutter blades for cutting the sheet bundle supported on the bed surface, a drive device for running the cutting blades from one end of the sheet bundle to the other end thereof, a support member having a support face, and a shift device for moving the support member between a working position for the support member supporting cut sheet dust pieces and a retreating position not to hinder the cut sheet dust pieces from dropping. The shift device displaces the support face from the working position to a retreating position after the cutter blades move at a predetermined distance toward the other end of the sheet bundle from one end thereof.

There are provided a retaining unit that retains a basic model indicating a plurality of relations for a plurality of subject conditions between a plurality of illuminances and a plurality of luminance of a plurality of captured images, which are obtained when a subject is imaged by changing an illuminance condition under the subject conditions; a reference image acquiring unit that acquires a captured image captured in a target space for illuminance estimation as a reference image; a reference illuminance acquiring unit that acquires illuminance of the target space at a time of imaging the reference image as reference illuminance; and an illuminance estimation model generating unit that generates an illuminance estimation model indicating a relation between illuminance and luminance in the target space from a data value indicated as a pair of the reference illuminance and luminance of the reference image based on the basic model.

Luminance estimation model generation device, image sensor device, and computer program product

According to one embodiment, an illumination control system includes a motion sensor and a central management server. The motion sensor acquires position information and action information of a person. The central management server holds holding position information of an illumination unit and necessary light amount information for action information of the person, acquires a necessary amount of light corresponding to the action information of the person based on the necessary light amount information, calculates a brightness control amount based on the position information of the illumination unit, and controls the illumination unit using the brightness control amount.

Illumination control system and method for controlling illumination

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Kenji Baba