Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

Zeon Kasei Co., Ltd.

Kenji Iwamoto

Yuji Horiuchi

Osamu Nojima

Satoshi Kurosawa

Kazuo Fujimoto

Ryuji Takano

Hitoshi Tanaka

Yoshiyuki Kato

Katsunori Suzuki

Junichi Ono

Kazunori Yanagi

Tomohiko Murakami

Kenji Yoshizawa

Takashi Onoda

Kazuaki Hagiwara

Yoshihiro Takayama

Ken Fujita

Naoya Okamoto

Kenzo Sashida

Genki Kumazaki

Hiroshi Nakatsui

Masamiki Ogata

Masato Mochizuki

An expansion apparatus includes: a first expander for irradiating with electromagnetic waves emitted from a lamp a thermal conversion layer for conversion of the electromagnetic waves to heat, to cause at least a portion of a thermal expansion layer to expand, the thermal conversion layer being laminated to a molding sheet including a base and the thermal expansion layer laminated to a first main surface of the base; and a second expander for causing expansion of a region (C) of the thermal expansion layer that is smaller in size than a region (B) of the thermal expansion layer expanded by the first expander.

Expansion apparatus, shaping system, and manufacturing method of shaped object

There is provided a computer readable storage medium storing a program executable by a computer, and the program causes the computer to execute functions including: forming a first image in accordance with an electronic circuit diagram, in which a resistance value of a wiring portion is defined, to form the wiring portion by printing with a conductive ink; and correcting the first image in accordance with a second image, which is formed with a photothermal conversion material, when the first image is formed at least partially overlapping the second image, wherein the second image is an image for expanding a thermally expandable layer that thermally expands with heat and, when the image is irradiated with light, expanding the thermally expandable layer by converting the light into heat with the photothermal conversion material.

Computer readable storage medium and method of forming electronic circuit diagram

In a setting apparatus including a control unit, the control unit is configured to: set, by a user operation, an irradiation condition of a laser beam for a thermally expandable sheet, a surface of the thermally expandable sheet being heated and expanded by being irradiated with the laser beam; and control an output and a scanning speed of the laser beam in accordance with the set irradiation condition, and in the setting, (i) a surface state of the thermally expandable sheet after expansion is selectable from a plurality of mutually different surface states, and (ii) the irradiation condition is set by the user operation according to the surface state selected from among the plurality of surface states.

Setting apparatus, shaping system, setting method, and computer-readable recording medium

A thermally expandable material includes microcapsules and a binder having a conducting property, each microcapsule including a shell having an insulating property, and a thermally expandable component contained in the shell and having a property of expanding by heating, the shell deforming due to expansion of the thermally expandable component to come in contact with another capsule and have an insulating state with the other capsule.

Thermally expandable material, sheet material, circuit board, method for manufacturing circuit board, computer readable storage medium, electronic apparatus, and structure to analyze heat-generation position

A microcapsule includes a shell including a conducting component, and a thermally expandable component contained in the shell and having a property of expanding by heating. The shell is deformable in accordance with expansion of the thermally expandable component when the thermally expandable component is heated.

Microcapsule, sheet material, circuit board, method for manufacturing circuit board, and computer readable storage medium

To present a measurement result on the motion of a subject more easily, a processorof an analysis system S includes an image acquisition unit, a sensor information acquisition unit, an analysis unit, and an image creation unit. The image acquisition unitacquires a taken image of the subject. The sensor information acquisition unitacquires a measurement result of the motion of the subject measured with a sensor. The analysis unitcreates an index indicating the motion of the subject based on the measurement result acquired by the sensor information acquisition unit. The image creation unitmakes an output unitdisplay an image acquired by the image acquisition unitand an index created by the analysis unittogether.

Image processing apparatus, analysis system, and method for processing images

A microcapsule includes a shell including a conducting component; and a thermally expandable component contained in the shell and having a property of expanding by heating, the shell deforming due to expansion of the thermally expandable component to come in contact with another capsule and have a conducting state with the other capsule.

An image processing apparatus including a CPU which is operable to function as units comprising a processing unit which sets, as a first area, an area that is not a peripheral edge area in a captured image acquired by an imaging unit, sets an area including the peripheral edge area as a second area, and performs predetermined processing on one of the first area and the second area, and a specification unit which specifies whether the first area is subjected to the predetermined processing or the second area is subjected to the predetermined processing, based on orientation information of the imaging unit when the captured image is acquired.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method and storage medium

An electronic device includes a chargeable battery, a system section, and a charging control section. The charging control system allocates electrical current supplied from the external device to the system section for use thereby and the battery for charging. The charging control section stops charging of the battery temporarily when a prescribed condition is met in the system section and the electrical current supplied via the cable is not a maximum current for the cable, and regulates the electrical current supplied via the cable to be at a constant level below the maximum current. The charging control section supplies electrical current from the battery to the system section as needed to meet a power demand by the system section that is not met by the electric current via the cable, while the electrical current supplied via the cable is being regulated to be at the constant level.

Electronic device having chargeable battery, method of charging, and storage medium

When a continuous imaging mode is set, a screen is displayed for allowing input of a number of images to shoot and the imaging parameters for each of the images, a determination is made as to whether the number of images to shoot and the imaging parameters for each of the images have been input by the user. When the number of images to shoot and the imaging parameters for each of the images have been input, the input number of images and the imaging parameters are stored, and a direct image display is started. Moreover, when there is an imaging instruction, a continuous imaging process is started in which still imaging is performed continuously based on the stored number of images and the imaging parameters. When the continuous imaging process has been completed, the plurality of still image data, obtained with differing imaging parameters, is recorded.

Imaging apparatus including function for performing imaging in accordance with sets of imaging parameters corresponding to pre-registered imaging scenes, and method and recording medium having program stored thereon for the same

An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup unit to pick up an image of a subject which a user desires. The image pickup apparatus detects a face image area which includes a face of the subject person in the picked-up image based on the image information of the picked-up image, recognizes an expression of the face in the detected face image area, ranks the face image areas in order of good smile from among the recognized expressions, and displays the face image areas arranged in the order of ranking and the entire picked-up image on a same screen.

Image pickup apparatus equipped with face-recognition function

Without depending on the conventional standard, relationships between a location of user's apparatus and locations where images have been shot affect a display on a display screen. In shooting operation, image data is stored in a memory with image-location data added, which represents locations where images have been shot (step S). When the user of a digital camera moves from a current location, vectors are calculated, having an initial point at the current location and terminal points at locations represented by image-location data of the image data (step S). It is judged whether any vector projects from a display target region (display screen) (step S). The vector projecting from the region is adjusted to fall within the region (step S), whereby all the thumbnail images fall within the display target region and are displayed at locations represented by the image-location data within a marginal displaying region (step S).

Image processing apparatus and recording medium

The image pickup apparatuscomprises the image pickup unitto pick up an image of the subject which a user desires, a detecting of the face image area which includes the face of the subject person in the picked-up image based on the image information of the picked-up image, a recognizing of the expression of the face in the detected face image area, a ranking of the face image areas in the order of good smile of the recognized expressions and a displaying of the face image areas F arranged in the order of ranking and the entire picked-up image G on the same screen.

A control unit controls brightness of a liquid crystal display unit such that the brightness becomes darker as a distance between an electronic view finder and an operator measured by a distance measuring sensor becomes shorter. With this structure, even if the operator takes his or her eye off from the electronic view finder, the liquid crystal display unit is not switched from an OFF state to an ON state. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the brightness of the liquid crystal display unit from becoming burdensome to an operator when the eye of the operator approaches the electronic view finder.

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Kenji Iwamoto