Rakuten, Inc.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Adeka Corporation

Makoto Okabe

Hiromi Hirano

Rikio Onai

Masahiro Sanjo

Tatsuya Kurihara

Tomoharu Yoshino

Akihiro Nishida

Katsumasa Sakamoto

Shohei Sakiyama

Yasunari Yamato

Go Maeda

Atsushi Sakurai

Soh Masuko

Hiroshi Nakashima

Naoki Ogawa

Tsuyoshi Uchida

Reiji Morioka

Masaki Enzu

Takashi Oishi

Yuta Kawate

Kazufumi Watanabe

Masumi Handa

Maiko Shibata

Nana Sugiura

Tatsuya Kurihar

A vanadium compound represented by following General Formula (1).  In General Formula (1), Rrepresents a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 7 carbon atoms and n represents a number from 2 to 4. Rpreferably represents a secondary alkyl or a tertiary alkyl. It is preferred that in General Formula (1), n is 2 and Ris tert-butyl group or tert-pentyl group, since the compound has a broad ALD window and high thermal decomposition temperature to be able to form a good quality vanadium-containing thin film that has a small carbon residue when used as an ALD material.

Vanadium compound

A refrigerator, a refrigerator management system, and a control method for a refrigerator are capable of enhancing a power-saving effect of the refrigerator. The refrigerator includes: a main body having a storage chamber; a refrigeration cycle device including a compressor and a cooler; an air blower configured to blow cooling air cooled by the cooler to the storage chamber; a blowout volume control device configured to control a blowout volume of the cooling air to be blown out to the storage chamber; input means for receiving input of schedule information that is information about a schedule of a user; storage means for storing the schedule information input into the input means; and control means for controlling at least one of the compressor, the air blower, and the blowout volume control device based on the schedule information.

Refrigerator, refrigerator management system, and control method for refrigerator

A refrigerator includes a casing including storage compartments, doors attached to the casing to expose or cover the storage compartments, hinges connecting the doors to the casing and supporting the doors so that the doors are openable and closable, electrically non-conductive hinge covers detachably attached to the casing and covering the hinges, and a wireless adapter disposed on the hinge cover and including an antenna unit configured to transmit and receive radio waves.

Refrigerator and household appliance networking system

An information processing device sets a second scaling factor used to display a character image extracted from an image. The second scaling factor is different from a first scaling factor used to display a background image extracted from the image. The information processing device adjusts at least either the character image changed in display size with the second scaling factor or the background image changed in display size with the first scaling factor, based on the relationship between the display state of the character image changed in display size and the display state of the surrounding area of the character image that has been changed in display size and is overlaid on the background image changed in display size.

Information processing device, information processing method, and information processing program

A power management system includes a plurality of electric devices including a refrigerator, and a centralized controller configured to control the plurality of electric devices. The centralized controller includes difficulty determination means configured to determine power supply difficulty as a degree of difficulty in supplying power to the plurality of electric devices. Meanwhile, the refrigerator includes: a control setting table in which a plurality of power reduction controls that reduce use of power are stored to be associated with the power supply difficulty; reduction control setting means configured to set the power reduction control to be executed, by using the control setting table and the power supply difficulty determined by the difficulty determination means; and a device controller configured to perform the power reduction control set by the reduction control setting means.

Power management system and refrigerator

This invention provides a copper compound represented by General Formula (I) below. In General Formula (I), Rto Rindependently represent a linear or branched alkyl group with a carbon number of 1 to 5; provided that Rand Rare a methyl group, Rrepresents a linear or branched alkyl group with a carbon number of 2 to 5; and provided that Ris a methyl group and Ris an ethyl group, Rrepresents a methyl group or a linear or branched alkyl group with a carbon number of 3 to 5. A starting material for forming a thin film of the present invention includes the copper compound represented by General Formula (I). The present invention can provide a copper compound which has a low melting point, can be conveyed in a liquid state, has a high vapor pressure, and is easily vaporizable, and also a starting material for forming a thin film which uses such a copper compound. 

Copper compound, starting material for forming thin film, and method for manufacturing thin film

A moving-image processing device () synthesizes a first moving image and a second moving image. In the first moving image, a first object is drawn, and accompanied by first-object depth information. In the second moving image, a second object is drawn, and accompanied by second-object depth information. A moving image generator () generates a third moving image in which the first moving image and the second moving image are synthesized. A clash determiner () serving as an interference determiner refers to the first-object depth information and the second-object depth information to determine whether the first object and the second object in the third moving image satisfy interference conditions. In cases when it is determined that the interference conditions are satisfied, a corrector () performs deforming transformation corresponding to correction of the shape of the trajectory of movement of the second object in three-dimensional space, thereby correcting the second moving image.

Moving-image processing device, moving-image processing method, and information recording for determing interference

A moving-image processing device () synthesizes a first moving image and a second moving image. In the first moving image, a first object is drawn, and accompanied by first-object depth information. In the second moving image, a second object is drawn, and accompanied by second-object depth information. A moving image generator () generates a third moving image in which the first moving image and the second moving image are synthesized. A clash determiner () serving as an interference determiner refers to the first-object depth information and the second-object depth information to determine whether the first object and the second object in the third moving image satisfy interference conditions. If it is determined that the interference conditions are satisfied, a corrector () corrects the second moving image by performing a non-deforming transformation in which the shape of the trajectory expressing movement in three-dimensional space over time is maintained.

Moving-image processing device, moving-image processing method, and information recording medium

A moving-image processing device () synthesizes a first moving image and a second moving image. In the first moving image, a first object is drawn, and accompanied by the anterior-surface depth of the first object. In the second moving image, a second object is drawn, and accompanied by the anterior-surface depth of the second object. A rear-surface-depth acquirer () acquires the rear-surface depth of the first object and the rear-surface depth of the second object. A clash determiner () functioning as an interference determiner refers to the anterior-surface depth and rear-surface depth of the first object to obtain an occupancy space which the first object can occupy, and refers to the anterior-surface depth and the rear-surface depth of the second object to determine whether the occupancy space and the second object drawn in certain frames of the second moving image satisfy interference conditions. A corrector () functioning as a range setter sets, on the basis of a determination result from the interference determiner, the possible range in which the second object can be positioned without interfering with the occupancy space.

An image generation device includes an acquisition unit that acquires an image to be processed, a region information acquisition unit that acquires a region to be processed in the image to be processed, an image-to-be-superimposed acquisition unit that acquires a parameter indicating a feature of the region to be processed and affecting a motion of a liquid and acquires an image to be superimposed based on image-to-be-superimposed information stored in association with the parameter indicating the feature of the region to be processed by referring to a storage means storing a feature parameter affecting a motion of a liquid and image-to-be-superimposed information for acquiring an image to be superimposed where a liquid in motion is shown in association with each other, and a superimposition unit that superimposes the image to be superimposed on the region to be processed.

Image creation device, image creation method, and image creation program

An image creation device includes an acquisition unit that acquires an image to be processed, a region information acquisition unit that acquires region information specifying an object region where an object to be processed is shown in the image to be processed, a setting unit that sets a fixed control point, a vibration control point and a vibration direction based on a shape of the object region by referring to a storage unit storing a shape of the object in association with a fixed control point, a vibration control point and a vibration direction when the object vibrates, a creation unit that creates a video to be displayed with the object vibrating in accordance with the fixed control point, the vibration control point and the vibration direction, and an output unit that outputs the image to be processed where the video is superimposed.

Apparatus and methods for generating video based on motion simulation of an object

A volume of an object is constructed from images obtained by imaging the object or the like and depicting the object. The calculatorof the image processing devicecalculates a statistic of each of first material images depicting an object. The initializerconstructs a volume of the object from multiple second material images depicting the object and multiple second imaging directions associated respectively with the multiple second material images. The estimatorestimates the statistic associated with an observation direction from the calculated statistics. The renderrenders an image by observing the constructed volume in the observation direction. The correctorcorrects the rendered image based on the statistic estimated in association with the observation direction. The constructorconstructs a volume of the object from at least the observation direction and corrected image.

Image processing device, image processing method, and non-transitory recording medium

Provided is an image processing device capable of specifying a character area included in an image even if a variable-density difference in an area included in the image other than the character area is large. A feature point specifying unit specifies corners of edges in a target image as feature points. An area obtaining unit obtains, based on a specified result of the feature point specifying unit, an area including a plurality of feature points aligned in a substantially straight line. A character area specifying unit specifies a character area in the target image based on the area obtained by the area obtaining unit.

Image processing device, image processing method, program, and information storage medium

Provided is a moving-image processing device for determining interference between objects. A moving-image processing device () determines whether a first object drawn in a first moving image clashes with a second object drawn in a second moving image. The first moving image is accompanied by a first anterior-surface depth for the first object. The second moving image is accompanied by a second anterior-surface depth for the second object. A rear-surface depth acquirer () acquires a first rear-surface depth for the first object, and a second rear-surface depth for the second object. A clash determiner () functioning as an interference determiner determines whether the first object interferes with the second object in certain frames, on the basis of the overlapping of a first occupancy zone spanning from the first anterior-surface depth to the first rear-surface depth and a second occupancy zone spanning from the second anterior-surface depth to the second rear-surface depth, the first and second occupancy zones being in an overlap area present in cases when a first drawing area where the first object is to be drawn overlaps a second drawing area where the second object is to be drawn.

A video search device for video searches in which a user specifies the position and orientation of an object that should appear in a video. A receiver receives input of a still image, two reference positions in the still image and two target positions in a video frame. An extractor extracts a reference image containing the two reference positions from the still image. A searcher searches for similar frame images in which local images similar to the reference image are depicted, from frame images in the video, traces movement tracks of two noteworthy pixels at start positions corresponding to the two reference positions in a local image when time advances or regresses from a similar frame image in the video, searches for a target frame image where the two movement tracks approach two target positions, and produces videos containing the similar frame image and the target frame image.

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Makoto Okabe