Ricoh Company, Ltd.

International Business Machines Corporation

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Kibun Shokuhin

Nihon Kohden Corporation

The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd.

Ricoh Technology Research, Inc.

Nikkei Techno-research Co. Ltd.

Koji Masuda

Hidemasa Suzuki

Susumu Momma

Kazuo Asano

Yuji Suemitsu

Yasuhiro Nihei

Masao Tokunari

Paul Francis Fortier

Masahiro Itoh

Takeshi Ueda

Patrick Jacques

Takeshi Ogawa

Shu Takahashi

Hiroaki Tanaka

Takashi Hisada

Akinori Komura

Elaine Cyr

Masaru Harada

Masayuki Imai

Satoshi Suzuki

Masahiro Ito

Eiji Nakamura

Koichi Kudo

Hiroyoshi Funato

Atsushi Takaura

Seiji Takeda

Kazuo Maruyama

Hsiang Han Hsu

Yoichi Ichikawa

Hiromi Suzuki

Masahito Hoashi

Kikuo Tashima

Noboru Katoh

Susumu Tokushige

Hiroyuki Abe

Gakuto Kurata

Kazuyuki Shimada

Hiroshi Koizumi

Daiju Nakano

Tetsuro Morimura

Shigeaki Imai

Nobuo Sakuma

Takashi Nagao

Taku Amada

Yoshihiko Fujimura

Hirokatsu Suzuki

Kiyoshi Horie

Toshiyuki Yamane

Shigeru Nakagawa

Koichi Saitoh

Kazuya Miyagaki

Tsutomu Sugimoto

Kenichi Shimizu

Hajime Nakamura

Tomoya Ohsugi

Tatsuo Suzuki

Toshiro Yamamoto

Alexander Janta-Polczynski

Tsuneo Noami

Masahiro Tanazawa

Tetsuro Wada

Katsuyuki Kitao

Yoshihiro Niiyama

Kazuyou Mizuno

Asato Tamura

Ken Ebihara

Tetsuro Saitoh

Masashi Ogasawara

Takuo Kusano

Hyuga Masu

Rikiya Tanabe

Ryoko Nakayama

Shiori Ohta

Atsushi Hiraizumi

Koichi Shintomi

Tatsuya Hamada

Vincent Langlois

Kazunari Saeki

A technique for performing a function by utilizing chemical reactions is disclosed. In the technique, solution including an input chemical species having a concentration is provided. A chemical reaction network that includes at least a sequence of chemical reactions starting with the input chemical species to generate a plurality of output chemical species is also prepared. The solution is exposed to the chemical reaction network to present a pattern formed by the plurality of output chemical species depending on the concentration of the input chemical species.

Chemical reaction network for estimating concentration of chemical species based on an identified pattern of output chemical species

A communication device includes a transmission unit and a processing unit. The transmission unit transmits a packet group including multiple packets. In a case in which the communication device itself is not trusted by a destination communication device to which to transmit the packet group, the processing unit performs a process of instructing each of multiple nodes of a management unit that registers and manages management information distributed among the multiple nodes to register header information as the management information, the header information being partial information of a header included in each packet of the packet group transmitted by the transmission unit.

Communication device, communication system, and non-transitory computer readable medium

A computer implemented method of generating new chemical compounds is provided. The method includes preparing a data-driven substructure feature vector for each of a plurality of chemical compounds for which a chemical or physical property is known. The method further includes preparing a predefined component feature vector, creating a regression model to predict a target value for the chemical or physical property, and performing a search algorithm to identify substructure features that affect the target value for the chemical or physical property. The method further includes generating a candidate structure having the target value for the chemical or physical property, and synthesizing the candidate structure.

Creation of new chemical compounds having desired properties using accumulated chemical data to construct a new chemical structure for synthesis

A computer-implemented method for efficient assembly of oligonucleotides for nucleic acid based data storage includes receiving encoded data including binary data encoded into nucleic acid sequence data, and assembling a target nucleic acid data strand based on the encoded data by, concatenating one or more selected codeword oligonucleotides obtained from a codeword stack strand.

Efficient assembly of oligonucleotides for nucleic acid based data storage

A blood analyzing method for detecting a short sample of blood in a suction tube, when blood is sucked by the suction tube constituting a blood analyzing apparatus, includes measuring a first blood parameter by using blood that is present in a first area of a blood analysis area, blood in the blood analysis area being used to analyze the blood in the suction tube, measuring a second blood parameter by using blood that is present in a second area of the blood analysis area, the second area being different from the first area, and detecting the short sample of blood based on the first blood parameter and the second blood parameter.

Method and apparatus for analyzing blood

A method for forming an embedded mirror structure is disclosed. The method includes preparing a structure that has a substrate and a waveguide layer on the substrate. The waveguide layer includes a core. Also, the waveguide has a top surface and a cavity side surface that defines a cavity opened at the top surface and aligned to the core. The method further includes coating metal particles on the cavity side surface inside the cavity of the waveguide layer to form a metal particle film on the cavity side surface.

Embedding mirror with metal particle coating

An optical device includes: a substrate including plural waveguide cores; and an optical component provided on the substrate, the optical component including plural lenses, each of the plural lenses transmitting light passing through one of the corresponding plural waveguide cores on the substrate. The substrate and the optical component are each provided with a positioning structure. The positioning structure includes plural protrusions and plural recesses provided on the substrate and the optical component. Each of the plural recesses accommodates a corresponding one of the plural protrusions, and an outer surface of each of the plural protrusions contacts a positioning surface of a corresponding one of the plural recesses. The positioning surface is a part of an inner surface of each of the plural recesses having accommodated the corresponding one of the plural protrusions to position the plural lenses relative to the substrate.

Microlens array assembling process

A range-finding device including a light-emitting device, an imaging unit, a calculator, and a controller. The image unit receives pulsed light reflected from an object within the space for a plurality of time periods in a time-division manner, electrically converts the pulsed light into an electrical signal, and accumulates electric charge of the electrical signal for each of the plurality of time periods. The calculator calculates a time difference between emission of the pulsed light and reception of the pulsed light reflected from the object based on the electric charge accumulated for each of the plurality of time periods and determine a distance to the object based on the time difference. The controller controls the timing of reception of the pulsed light for each of the plurality of time periods at the imaging unit according to an intensity of the pulsed light reflected from the object.

Range-finding device

An optical device includes a substrate including plural waveguide cores and an optical component provided on the substrate. The plural waveguide cores allowing light to pass through the plural waveguide cores and the optical component including plural lenses Each of the plural lenses transmitting light passing through a corresponding one of the plural waveguide cores on the substrate, wherein the optical component includes a body and a protrusion The body being provided with the plural lenses, the protrusion being protruded from a side of the body, and the protrusion is fixed to the substrate with an adhesive.

Optical device with adhesive connection of recess or side protrusion

An optical structure includes a substrate including a cavity on a first surface of the substrate, an optical component on the substrate and an adhesive applied to a side of the optical component to fix the optical component to the substrate. The optical component includes a recess on a second surface of the optical component, the second surface is opposed to the first surface of the substrate, and the recess is provided along an edge of the second surface.

Fluid control structure

A distance measurement device includes a projection optical system, a light-receiving system to receive light projected from projection optical system and reflected by an object; and a correction system to correct a difference in timing of light emission between the plurality of light sources. The projection optical system includes a plurality of light sources and a plurality of drive circuits to drive the plurality of light sources.

Distance measurement device, moveable device, and distance measuring method

An optical structure is presented. The optical structure includes a substrate including a cavity on a first surface of the substrate. The optical structure further includes an optical component on the substrate, the optical component including a second surface opposed to the first surface of the substrate. The optical structure also includes an adhesive in a gap between the first surface of the substrate and the second surface of the optical component affixing the optical component to the substrate, wherein at least one of the first surface of the substrate and the second surface of the optical component includes a predetermined portion arranged around the cavity, wherein the predetermined portion prevents the adhesive from infiltrating.

Optical structure

A range finding apparatus includes a light emission unit including a light source and a light source driver, a light detection unit, and circuitry. The light source driver supplies a plurality of drive pulses having different pulse width at different time periods. The light detection unit receives the light emitted from the light emission unit and then reflected from an object. The circuitry calculates a range to the object based on a time difference between one time point when a pulse light is emitted from the light source and another time point when light reflected from the object is received by the light detection unit. One of the drive pulses set with a smaller pulse width is set with a sine wave pattern, and another one of the drive pulses set with a greater pulse width is set with a rectangular wave pattern.

Range finding apparatus, moveable apparatus, robot, three dimensional measurement apparatus, method of measuring three dimensional information, and storage medium

A method and system are provided for predicting chemical structures. The method includes receiving, at a user interface, intended structural feature values and intended chemical property values, as vectors. The method further includes constructing, by a hardware processor, a prediction model, wherein the prediction model predicts other structural feature values from the intended structural feature values and the intended chemical property values, and automatically configuring, by the hardware processor, at least one chemical structure candidate from the other structural feature vectors. The method additionally includes evaluating the at least one chemical structure candidate to determine structural feature values and chemical property values of the at least one chemical structure candidate and performing, by the hardware processor, machine learning of a chemical structure predicting system based on the evaluated structural feature values and the evaluated chemical property values of the at least one chemical structure candidate.

Scheme of new materials

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Kanagawa, Japan

Koji Masuda