Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Panasonic I-Pro Sensing Solutions Co., Ltd.

Leader Electronics Corporation

Koji Yano

Takeyuki Sone

Otto Albrecht

Hisaaki Kawade

Kiyoshi Takimoto

Etsuro Kishi

Ryo Kuroda

Akira Kuriyama

Kohei Okamoto

Kazuhito Shimomura

Akihiko Takeo

Sotomitsu Ikeda

Koji Osafune

Yoichi Otsuka

Hideaki Takahashi

Manabu Nakamura

Takae Oguchi

Hidetoshi Kinoshita

Tetsuo Tayama

Shinpei Hagisu

Akira Tsuboyama

Masayuki Takagishi

Kenichiro Yamada

Yusuke Tomoda

Takashi Kamio

Eisaku Miyata

Genichi Imamura

Kunihiro Mitsutake

Masayoshi Tabata

Norio Saitou

Provided is a reducing gas detection sensor which has sensitivity improved as compared to that of the related art, and in which power consumption is decreased. The reducing gas detection sensor includes: a reducing gas detection material including a palladium compound and a carbon compound, and having reactivity with a reducing gas; and a unit configured to measure a conductivity of the reducing gas detection material.

Reducing gas detection material and reducing gas detection sensor

There is provided a person monitoring system including at least one camera and a server that is communicably connected to the at least one camera. The server, based on reception of detection information of a predetermined event from a gate that regulates passage in response to a detection of the predetermined event, requests a first camera, that captures an image of a capturing area including the gate, for a face image of a person near the gate when the predetermined event occurs. The first camera captures an image of the person near the gate when the predetermined event occurs and transmits, to the server, a face image obtained by cutting out a range having a face of the person from the image of the person. The server outputs alarm information based on the face image and register the face image in a database.

Person monitoring system and person monitoring method

A camera device generates a captured image, extracts flow line information relating to a staying position or a passing position of a moving object, and transmits the generated captured image and the extracted flow line information of the moving object to a server device for each predetermined transmission period. The server device generates a flow line analysis image in which the flow line information of the moving object is superimposed on the captured image and displays the generated flow line analysis image on a displayer. Furthermore, the server device switches a first flow line analysis image in a first predetermined period to a second flow line analysis image in a second predetermined period according to an operation of changing the period, and displays the resulting flow line analysis image.

Flow line analysis system and flow line analysis method

A camera device transmits a captured image and flow line information of moving objects to a server device for each predetermined transmission period. The server device generates a flow line analysis image in which the flow line information of the moving objects is superimposed on the captured image and displays the generated flow line analysis image on a display. The server device displays a first flow line analysis image generated based on a captured image and flow line information in a first period which is arbitrary designated, and receives an instruction by a user operation to shift the first period by an amount. The server device sets a second period by shifting the first period by the amount without changing a length in period, and displays a second flow line analysis image generated based on a captured image and flow line information in the second period.

According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a disk, a head including a main pole configured to apply a recording magnetic field to the disk, and side shields provided in a first direction with respect to the main pole and possessing a magnetic field in the magnetization direction of the first direction, and a controller configured to output a recording current in which a magnitude of a first electric current and a magnitude of a second electric current opposite to the first electric current in direction of the current are different from each other to the head according to the magnetic field of the side shields.

Magnetic disk device and write processing method

The invention provides a novel block polymer applicable to a light-emitting device. The block polymer has an electron-transporting block and a hole-transporting block, wherein the main chain backbone of the block polymer is polyacetylene.

Block polymer

Provided is a film-forming method based on an LB method by which a uniform alignment film using a helical polyacetylene can be obtained. The method based on the LB method includes: developing a helical polyacetylene onto a liquid surface; and transferring a monolayer film of the helical polyacetylene formed on the liquid surface onto a substrate to form a film, in which a compressibility P represented by the following formula (1) at a time of the film formation is 1&#xd7;10m/mN or less: P=(1/(dH/dS))&#xd7;(1/S) (1), where H represents a surface pressure (mN/m) of the monolayer film of the helical polyacetylene, and S represents an area (m) of the monolayer film of the helical polyacetylene developed onto the liquid surface.

Film-forming method based on LB method

A device is provided by use of a helical substituted polyacetylene. The device comprises a structure comprised of a helical substituted polyacetylene having a helical main chain, and a pair of electrodes for applying a voltage or electric current to the structure, wherein the molecule of the helical substituted polyacetylene has a length larger than the distance between the pair of the electrodes.

Electrical device containing helical substituted polyacetylene

A helical substituted polyacetylene structure including a substrate and a substituted polyacetylene with a periodic main chain having a helical periodic structure, wherein the substituted polyacetylene is disposed inclined on the surface of the substrate with the inclination angle between the main helical axis of the substituted polyacetylene and the surface of the substrate falling in a range of 60&#xb0; or more and 90&#xb0; or less. A device structure in which a first electrode, the substituted polyacetylene with the periodic main chain having a helical periodic structure and a second electrode are sequentially disposed on a substrate.

Helical substituted polyacetylene structure, method for producing the same, device structure, ion transport film and gas separation film

The invention provides a block polymer capable of being used as a molecular wire facilitating injection of carriers between itself and an electrode, and a device in which electrodes are bridged by one molecule. The block polymer has a main chain composed of polyacetylene having a spiral structure, and includes a coating insulating block and a conductive block. The coating insulating block has a polyacetylene unit structure having alkyl chains at its side chains through functional groups, the alkyl chains being arranged in a direction parallel to the major axis of the main chain. The conductive block has a polyacetylene unit structure having hydrogen atoms at its side chains through functional groups, the hydrogen atoms being arranged in a direction parallel to the major axis of the main chain. The device has the above-mentioned block polymer, and two or more electrodes.

Block polymer and device

A display method and apparatus are provided for enabling a user, whether or not he has experience, to readily detect a luminance level of a video image with high accuracy. A luminance level of a video signal of a video image is converted to color information to display a change in the luminance of the video image as a change in color. The conversion preferably involves a method of converting the luminance level to color information of three primary colors, red, green, blue, in accordance with a plurality of weights, respectively, a method of converting a luminance level in a predetermined range to color information having a changing rate larger than a changing rate of the luminance level, a method of converting a luminance level out of the predetermined range to color information of a maximum or a minimum level, or the like. Also, the input video signal is preferably displayed together with a converted video image side by side or one on another.

Luminance information display apparatus and method

A method and an apparatus for easily making a continuous oriented structure of a polymer are provided. In making a polymer assembly, single crystals are bonded to each other, an external force, such as an electrical field or a magnetic field, is applied to the single crystals, or a solution of the polymer is applied on a substrate such that the applied solution is linear in shape.

Method and apparatus for forming a continuous oriented structure of a polymer

According to one embodiment, a disk drive has a magnetic disk and a magnetic head having a spin-torque oscillator. The disk drive further has a head amplifier IC configured to supply a write signal and a drive signal to the magnetic head. The write signal corresponds to write data. The drive signal is supplied to generate a high-frequency magnetic field. The head amplifier IC continuously supplies a drive signal of normal level to the spin-torque oscillator, and supplies a drive signal of high level higher than the normal level, only for a prescribed time after the polarity inversion of the write signal.

Method and apparatus for controlling head with spin-torque oscillator in a disk drive

A process for producing a periodic structure comprises the steps of preparing a working object, the property of which changes in view of a photoreaction caused by an exciting energy, generating a light having a photonic energy of intensity of one fraction of natural number divisions of the exciting energy by each of the light sources of light-source groups arranged regularly in a two-dimensional arrangement, and concentrating the light emitted from the light source group at each of the light-concentrating points arranged at regular intervals in the working object to cause a photoreaction at and around the light-concentrating point to form a periodic structure comprised of regions each of which has a changed property in the working object.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Koji Yano