Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Teijin Limited

Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

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Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited

Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.

Kayaba Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Kawaguchi Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.

Kenji Suzuki

Hiroshi Takagi

Yasuo Suda

Keiji Ohtaka

Akira Ishizaki

Shinya Watanabe

Morimi Hashimoto

Koji Furuya

Takayuki Yagi

Shinichi Kawai

Keisuke Aoyama

Nobuyuki Saito

Tokuichi Tsunekawa

Akihiko Nagano

Kazuki Konishi

Hidehiko Fukahori

Yuji Kasanuki

Makoto Handa

Hiroshi Tomita

Akira Shinmi

Ryoji Tsukamoto

Akira Akashi

Kenji Ito

Takeshi Koyama

Masahiro Arai

Makoto Kano

Hiroshi Okamoto

Hiroki Sakamoto

Masahiro Iriyama

Takahiro Yoshino

Masashi Ono

Hirofumi Tsuchida

Terutake Kadohara

Ryo Fujimoto

Hideshi Kurihara

Fumio Kishi

Takenori Hashimoto

Hidenobu Matsuyama

Masaomi Teranishi

Kenichi Ushiyama

Kenji Kumagai

Tadahiko Katsura

Takeo Asai

Ingi Kim

Daisuke Takaki

Tamaki Kanai

Hirofumi Yoshikawa

Yoshikatsu Ohta

Kenji Tsushima

Takashi Yamagishi

Mitsuru Teramoto

Takao Sasakura

Shinji Ueyama

Mitsuhiko Kubota

Senji Ito

Shigenori Ichinose

Masahiko Kosuge

Sadayoshi Miura

Shinichiro Shoji

Mitsumasa Ono

Katsumi Arisaka

Manabu Kimura

Yoshihisa Oka

Koichi Miyake

Ryuji Ninomiya

Mitsunori Numata

Takafumi Kudo

Hideto Fukuda

Yasuhiro Osame

Ryouichi Ootaki

Hirofumi Miyauchi

Tsuyoshi Nagai

Tomoki Onishi

Tokio Matsumoto

Tomokatsu Ura

Naoya Onozato

Yutaka Sugiyama

Takeshi Ojiro

Yukiyo Yamada

Taichi Ando

Seiji Ito

Rieko Kanome

Shuji Tanahashi

Kazuyoshi Saitoh

Kazuhiko Sugawara

Hironori Horie

Tomoki Itou

Hiroshi Takada

Hideki Sekiguchi

Sigetaka Konishi

Tsukasa Kato

Takao Muto

Tsutomu Yamada

Makoto Furukawa

Yuya Kamada

Nobuyuki Harada

Shinji Yano

Takafumi Miyahara

Kohtaro Katoh

Takashi Yamagichi

An inspection device improves accuracy characteristics of an (MRAM), the inspection device including a stage on which a MRAM element is fixed, and electromagnets generating a first magnetic field. A magnetic field having a component in a direction perpendicular to the stage is changeable from a first direction to a second direction according to a position on the stage. A second magnetic field in which a direction of a magnetic field component is parallel to the stage changes from a third direction to a fourth direction according to the position on the stage, an optical system illuminating the MRAM element with light including polarized light, and condensing reflected light from reflected illumination light from the MRAM element, and a detector detecting reflected light when the position of the MRAM element is changed, and when the position of the MRAM element in the second magnetic field is changed.

Inspection device

An image processing device includes an artificial image determining unit configured to determine whether a pixel is in an artificial image by using two or more different determination criteria or conditions based on an input image signal, where the determination criteria include any one or more of a first determination criterion for determining whether the pixel is part of an artificial image by determining whether a predetermined area including the pixel represents a flat area, a second determination criterion for determining whether the pixel is part of an artificial image by determining whether the predetermined area represents a gradation area, or a third determination criterion for determining whether the pixel is part of an artificial image by determining whether the predetermined area represents a color change area.

Image processing method and device for adaptive image enhancement

An image processing device includes an edge direction determination unit, a filter coefficient calculation unit, and a filter processing unit. The edge direction determination unit determines a first edge direction of an edge including a first pixel of input image data, and calculates a first reliability value of the determined edge direction corresponding to the first pixel. The filter coefficient calculation unit calculates a first filter coefficient corresponding to the first pixel, a second filter coefficient corresponding to a second pixel, and a third filter coefficient corresponding to a third pixel at least based on the first reliability value of the first edge direction. The filter processing unit performs filter processing on the input image data on the basis of the calculated first through third filter coefficients, and outputs output image data.

Image processing device, and an image processing method

An image processing apparatus includes a gain calculation unit that calculates a plurality of first gains that respectively correspond to a plurality of predetermined edges based on a target pixel value and values of pixels adjacent to the target pixel, a blend ratio calculation unit that calculates a plurality of characteristic amounts that represent an accuracy of detecting the plurality of edges based on the target pixel value and the adjacent pixel values and calculates a plurality of weights that respectively correspond to the plurality of first gains based on the plurality of characteristic amounts, a gain adjustment unit that calculates a second gain based on the plurality of first gains and the plurality of weights and an output image generation unit that applies the second gain to the target pixel value to generate output image data.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method with edge enhancement

An image processing device includes a line gain calculator, a line gain corrector, and a gain adjustor. The line gain calculator calculates an absolute value of Gradient and an absolute value of Laplacian of the input image, and calculates a line gain based on the absolute value of the Gradient and the absolute value of the Laplacian. The line gain corrector calculates a blend coefficient based on the input image and the line gain and to correct the line gain based on the blend coefficient. The gain adjuster processes the input image based on the corrected line gain to generate an output image.

Device and method for processing image

A control device for internal combustion engine mounted in a vehicle includes a throttle valve provided in an intake passage of the internal combustion engine and capable of changing a cross-sectional area of the intake passage, a variable valve capable of changing opening and closing timings of an intake valve of the internal combustion engine, basic target torque calculation means for calculating a basic target torque of the internal combustion engine according to an operating state of the internal combustion engine, vibration control target torque calculation means for calculating a vibration control target torque of the internal combustion engine to suppress vehicle vibration according to a vibration component of the vehicle, and cylinder intake air amount control means for controlling a cylinder intake air amount by controlling one of the throttle valve and the variable valve according to the vibration control target torque and controlling the other of the throttle valve and the variable valve according to the basic target torque.

Control device for internal combustion engine

A process for the production of a carbodiimide, comprising the steps of:   

Process for the production of a carbodiimide

A stereo image device includes a representative point selection unit for selecting a plurality of representative points in a first image of a stereo-pair image; a corresponding point control unit detecting a plurality of corresponding points corresponding to the plurality of representative points in a second image of the stereo-pair image and excluding any corresponding point(s) judged to be a deviating point; a deviation value calculation unit for judging whether corresponding points are the deviating points or not; an approximation curve calculation unit performing a curve approximation on all the corresponding points except the excluded corresponding points; a height correction value calculation unit calculating a height correction value from a plurality of approximation curves drawn up by the curve approximation; a parallelization execution unit performing parallelization of the second image on the basis of the height correction value.

Stereo image processing method, stereo image processing device and display device

A design support method executed by a computer includes: detecting a layout position of a first terminal in a cell as a first layout position from layout data including a cell of a macro which is arranged at a plurality of orientations, the first terminal being arranged at a first orientation; calculating a second layout position of a first terminal which is arranged at a second orientation which is different from the first orientation based on a variation from the first orientation to the second orientation and the first layout position; associating the second layout position with the first layout position and the layout data; and outputting an association result.

Apparatus and method for design support using layout positions of first and second terminals

A software optimization device includes performance data storage unit to store data indicating performance of each system call, corresponding to a plurality of system calls, system call extraction unit to extract a system call described in a program source and similar-system-call detection unit to detect, from among the system calls the data indicating the performance of which is stored in the performance data storage unit, a system call having a function similar to that of the system call extracted by the system call extraction unit and having a performance better than that of the extracted system call.

Software optimization device and software optimization method

A method executed by a computer and for designing a semiconductor integrated circuit, includes detecting, from layout data of a semiconductor integrated circuit, a clock path that propagates the clock signal and of which clock buffers are single-gate inverting clock buffers; selecting sequentially data holding elements connected to the detected clock path; identifying an input clock buffer of each selected data holding element; determining whether the identified clock buffer outputs the clock signal according to non-inverting logic or inverting logic, based on the number of gates from the clock source to the clock buffer; replacing, based on a determination result, the data holding element with a first data holding element that takes in data in synchronization with a rising edge of the clock signal or with a second data holding element that takes in data in synchronization with a falling edge of the clock signal; and outputting a replacement result.

Supporting method, design supporting device, computer product, and semiconductor integrated circuit

A filler wire for laser-welding an aluminum alloy is described, which comprises a base material of Aluminum-Silicon based alloy and a flux of Aluminum-Potassium-Fluorine-based composition. The amount of the flux in the base material is greater than 0 (zero) wt. % and less than approximately 1.0 wt. %.

Filler wire for laser-welding aluminum alloy member, method of welding aluminum alloy member by using the filler wire, and welded-aluminum alloy member produced by using the filler wire

A hydraulic drive unit is disclosed which can prevent the occurrence of cavitation at the time of turning OFF of a hydraulic motor without greatly modifying the circuit configuration and the entire system and which, as a result, can improve the deceleration feeling of the hydraulic motor and prevent the occurrence of a low noise. More specifically, a hydraulic drive unit is disclosed which comprises a pair of main circuits ( ), ( ) each connecting an oil pressure source with a hydraulic motor (M); a counter-balancing valve ( ) disposed halfway of the main circuits ( ), ( ) so as to be capable of being changed over from one position to another, said counter-balancing valve ( ) being provided with a pair of discharge passages ( ), ( ) and a pair of return passages ( ), ( ), both of which are adapted to be opened and closed for the main circuits ( ), ( ), a pair of first check valves ( ), ( ) disposed halfway of the discharge passages ( ), ( ), a pair of orifices ( ), ( ) disposed halfway of the return passages ( ), ( ); and a pair of branch passages ( ), ( ) which are connected to the discharge passages ( ), ( ) on upstream sides of the first check valves ( ), ( ) and selectively connected to the by-pass circuit( ); return circuits ( ), ( ) each connected to the main circuits ( ), ( ) in a position therebetween; a pair of second check valves ( ), ( ) disposed halfway of the return circuits ( ), ( ); and a by-pass circuit ( ) connected to the return circuits ( ), ( ) in a position between the second check valves ( ), ( ).

Hydraulic drive unit

A valve seat ( ) is formed by build-up cladding by irradiating a laser beam on a copper alloy powder ( ) provided in the rim of a port ( ) formed in an engine cylinder head ( ). The copper alloy powder ( ) consists of copper (Cu), 6-9 wt % nickel (Ni), 1-5 wt % silicon (Si), and 1-5 wt % of one of molybdenum (Mo), tungsten (W), tantalum (Ta), niobium (Nb) and vanadium (V). Due to this composition, the valve seat ( ) has few microcracks and excellent abrasion resistance.

Abrasion resistant copper alloy, copper alloy powder for build-up cladding, and engine cylinder head

An aromatic polyester film, which comprises an aromatic polyester comprising 2,6-naphthalenedicarboxylic acid as the main dicarboxylic acid component and 1,3-propanediol as the main diol component and having a density of at least 1.310 g/cm . A laminated film comprising another polyester layer can be formed from this aromatic polyester film. An aromatic polyester containing a small amount of a sulfonic acid phosphonium salt used as one of the aromatic polyesters forming this laminated film is excellent in electrostatic casting properties and resistance to the contamination of an electrostatic wire, and an aromatic polyester containing an inorganic anti-fungus agent is used for antifungal application.

Trimethylene-2, 6-naphthalene dicarboxylate (co)polymer film, quaternary phosphonium sulfonate copolymer and compositions thereof

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