Sony Corporation

Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Kunihiko Hayashi

Hisashi Ohba

Kimihiro Saito

Toshiaki Iwafuchi

Yoshiyuki Yanagisawa

Tadahiko Kubota

Akira Yamaguchi

Yuzuru Fukushima

Masahiro Miyamoto

Masaki Kuratsuka

Hirotaka Miyamoto

Hironori Sato

Hiroyuki Suzuki

Akira Ichihashi

Kimio Tajima

Hideto Watanabe

Nobuhiro Kihara

Goro Fujita

Toshihiro Horigome

Shinji Watanabe

Tomoyuki Nakamura

Hisayuki Yamatsu

Norihiro Tanabe

Toru Mitome

Tetsuya Makino

Hiroshi Takabayashi

Yosuke Konishi

Seiji Kobayashi

Kenji Tanaka

Takashi Yamamoto

Shigeru Fujita

Haruo Watanabe

Takashi Kawakami

Yosuke Hosoya

Koji Morita

Hideki Nakai

Takao Kondo

Yoshikazu Kato

Yoshihiro Kudo

Ichiro Yamada

Sakuya Tamada

Tomoyo Ooyama

Ryu Narusawa

Takashi Iwamura

Shunsuke Saito

Yutaka Watanabe

Masaru Minami

Shuhei Sugita

Akira Sasaki

Hitoshi Komatsu

Muneyasu Maeda

Shinichi Katayama

Tatsuya Ichikawa

Nobuya Okano

Akira Saito

Noritoshi Araki

Hiroshi Shiota

Masae Takabayashi

Ryosuke Hironaka

Muneaki Ando

Akira Otsu

Takuma Suwa

An image processing apparatus includes an output value obtaining unit, a first interpolation unit, a second interpolation unit, an image generation unit, and a first edge detection unit. The output value obtaining unit obtains respective output values of a plurality of light-receiving elements from an image sensor including the plurality of light-receiving elements arranged two-dimensionally. The first interpolation unit uses a first interpolation algorithm to interpolate a pixel value. The second interpolation unit uses a second interpolation algorithm to interpolate a pixel value. The image generation unit generates an image based on a pixel value, which is interpolated by the first interpolation unit. The first edge detection unit detects an edge using a first edge detection algorithm based on a pixel value, which is interpolated by the second interpolation unit.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

An image forming apparatus includes a memory and a processor configured to, when humidity detected by a humidity sensor is equal to or above a preset value with paper sheets stacked in a paper sheet holder being fed to an image forming unit, perform control to set a separation operation time used to separate in a separation operation a single paper sheet from multiple paper sheets stacked in the paper sheet holder to be longer than the separation operation time used when the detected humidity is lower than the preset value.

Image forming apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium

An image processing apparatus, an image processing program, and an image processing method for achieving visibility of the entire image used for capturing a microscopic image while concurrently retaining accuracy of image processing are disclosed. The image processing apparatus includes an output value obtaining unit, a first interpolation unit, a second interpolation unit, an image generation unit, and a first edge detection unit. The output value obtaining unit obtains respective output values of light-receiving elements. The first interpolation unit uses a first interpolation algorithm to interpolate a pixel value. The second interpolation unit uses a second interpolation algorithm to interpolate a pixel value. The image generation unit generates an image based on a pixel value, which is interpolated by the first interpolation unit. The first edge detection unit detects an edge using a first edge detection algorithm based on a pixel value, which is interpolated by the second interpolation unit.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method for achieving visibility of an entire image used for capturing a microscopic image and accuracy of edge detection

A battery is provided including an anode, a cathode and an electrolyte; wherein the electrolyte includes one or both of fluoro ethylene carbonate and difluoro ethylene carbonate in an amount of 0.5% by mass or more and 10% by mass or less, wherein the anode includes an anode active material layer provided on an anode current collector, and wherein a thickness of the anode active material layer, after charging the battery, is 58 um or more and 75 um or less.

Battery

Embodiments of a novel control device and associated techniques for controlling a light path length of a resonator to allow resonance in a mode of higher strength are described herein. The control device includes: a drive section that moves at least one reflecting unit in the resonator; and a control section that controls a light path length of the resonator, by causing the drive section to move the at least one reflecting unit so that the laser light that enters into the resonator changes from a state in which the laser light resonates in a first mode of the plurality of modes to a state in which the laser light resonates in a second mode different from the first mode, on the basis of a detection result of a reflected light from the resonator.

Device for controlling resonator light path length

A non-aqueous electrolyte battery includes a battery device in which a positive electrode is faced to negative electrode through a separator; a non-aqueous electrolyte; a laminate film which is formed by laminating a metal layer, an outside resin layer formed in outer face of the metal layer, and an inside resin layer formed in the metal layer, and in which the battery device and the non-aqueous electrolyte is packaged by heat welding and housed; a positive electrode lead which is electrically connected to the positive electrode, and drawn from portion heat-welded of the laminate film to an exterior thereof; a negative electrode lead which is electrically connected to the negative electrode, and drawn from portion heat-welded of the laminate film to an exterior thereof; and a porous polymer layer containing, as a component, vinylidene fluoride formed between the laminate film and the battery device.

Non-aqueous electrolyte battery having porous polymer layer between laminate film and battery device

There is provided a secondary battery including a battery device that has a thickness of 3 to 20 mm, and a battery discharge capacity of 3 to 50 Ah, and an exterior material that packages the battery device. The battery device includes a positive electrode that has a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode active material layer, a negative electrode that has a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode active material layer, a separator that is interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode that are alternately laminated, a positive electrode tab that is electrically connected to a positive electrode current collector exposed portion and is led-out to the outside of the exterior material, and a negative electrode tab that is electrically connected to a negative electrode current collector exposed portion and is led-out to the outside of the exterior material.

Secondary battery for large current charge and discharge characteristic

The present application provides a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery that includes, a cathode capable of being electrochemically doped/dedoped with lithium, an anode capable of being electrochemically doped/dedoped with lithium, and an electrolyte placed between the cathode and the anode, wherein the electrolyte contains at least one of fluoro ethylene carbonate represented by Chemical Formula (1) and difluoro ethylene carbonate represented by Chemical Formula (2) as a solvent and the ratio of a discharge capacity B during discharging at a 5C rate to a discharge capacity A during discharging at a 0.2C rate ((B/A)&#xd7;100) is 80% or more.

Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery

A battery is composed of a positive electrode in which a positive electrode active material layer including a positive electrode active material is formed on a positive electrode collector, a negative electrode in which a negative electrode active material layer including a negative electrode active material is formed on a negative electrode collector, a separator provided between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and an electrolyte impregnated in the separator. The battery further includes at least one of a heteropoly acid and a heteropoly acid compound as an additive at least in one of the positive electrode, the negative electrode, the separator, and the electrolyte.

Non-aqueous electrolyte battery including an amorphous material

A nonaqueous electrolyte battery is provided. The nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes an anode; a cathode; a separator; an electrolytic solution including a solvent and an electrolyte salt; wherein the solvent includes a fluoro ethylene carbonate, wherein the nonaqueous electrolyte battery has a discharge capacity ratio of a discharge capacity B when discharging at a 5 C rate to a discharge capacity A when discharging at a 0.2 C rate ((B/A)&#xd7;100%), and wherein the discharge capacity ratio is 80% or more. An electrical apparatus including a nonaqueous electrolyte battery is also provided.

Nonaqueous electrolyte battery and electrical apparatus

To provide a shutter mechanism that has high durability and is capable of operating at high speed and a microscope that includes the shutter mechanism. A microscope according to the present technology includes an optical system, a first light-receiving element, and a shutter mechanism. The shutter mechanism includes a rotation power source that generates rotation power, a crank that converts the rotation power generated by the rotation power source into a back-and-forth movement, and a shutter connected to the crank, the shutter moving back and forth according to the crank between a first position at which a first optical path from the optical system to the first light-receiving element is blocked and a second position at which the first optical path is not blocked.

Microscope and shutter mechanism

An optical disc apparatus includes a light separator configured to separate a light beam emitted from a light source into a main beam and a sub-beam, an objective lens configured to, when the light beam is condensed and irradiated to an optical disc having a uniform recording layer in which a track is formed by record marks, irradiate at least part of the sub-beam to an area where the main beam is not irradiated in a radial direction which is defined as a direction of radius of the optical disc, and a signal generating unit configured to generate a mark layer distance signal, representing a distance between a focus of the light beam and a mark layer to which the track belongs, based on a return light beam resulting from at least one of the main beam and the sub-beam, which has been irradiated to the track.

Optical disc apparatus and signal generation method

Disclosed is an optical disc device that is able to increase accuracy in reproducing information from an optical disc. The optical disc devicecalculates a focus error signal SFEand a sum signal SSwhile reciprocating an objective lensin a focus direction until a distance between a focal point FS and a focal point FMbecomes close to the depth d of a target position PG at the time of a pull-in operation, and when a trigger signal STgenerated on the basis of the sum signal SSis at low level, starts focus control on the basis of the focus error signal SFE. Therefore, focus control can start in a state where the focus error signal SFEcurves in an S shape with sufficient amplitude.

Optical disc device and focus control method

An optical disc apparatus can highly accurately record a hologram representing information on or reproduce such a hologram from an optical disc. When recording information on an optical disc, the optical disc apparatus controls the position of an objective lens OLaccording to the outcome of detection of a red reflected light beam Lrso as to make the focus Fr thereof follow a target track and it also makes the focus Fbof a blue light beam Lbagree with a target mark position by the objective lens OLand also the focus Fbagree with the target mark position by controlling the position of another objective lens OLaccording to the outcome of detection of the blue light beam Lbby way of the objective lenses OLand OLso as to make the focus Fbof the blue light beam Lband the focus Fbof the blue light beam Lbagree with the target mark position and the blue light beam Lband the blue light beam Lbinterfere with each other. Thus, as a result, the optical disc apparatus can record a recording mark RM at the target mark position.

Optical disc apparatus, focus position control method and recording medium

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Kunihiko Hayashi