Hitachi, Ltd.

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Ntt Docomo, Inc.

Masaaki Maeda

Masayoshi Takahashi

Hideo Sakai

Yuichi Sakurai

Hiroyuki Yamamoto

Katsutoshi Murata

Daiki Kajita

Yoshikazu Fujita

Masahiro Kaiwa

Yoichi Tanibayashi

Kaoru Nakajima

Kazunori Kosuge

Koichi Takahara

Makoto Sudo

Zenkichi Sekine

Junko Matsuo

Kaoru Kitajima

Kazunori Corp-House Silvia 5-204 Kosuge

An adjustment support system comprises an arithmetic unit and a storage unit. The storage unit stores sensor information including features of a sensor that captures an image of a target, and imaging target information including dimensions, shape, and disposition of an imaging target of the sensor, and the arithmetic unit generates a plurality of candidates for an imaging position and posture of the imaging target by the sensor, and determines whether or not positional deviation of the imaging target in a plurality of directions is detectable from a captured image obtained by the sensor based on the sensor information and the imaging target information, with respect to each of the plurality of candidates for the imaging position and the imaging posture. The arithmetic unit then determines an imaging position and posture for the sensor to actually capture an image of the target from the plurality of candidates.

Adjustment support system and adjustment support method

A correction device includes: a measurement point generation unit configured to generate a plurality of candidate points corresponding to posture of a robot within a movable range of the robot based on robot mechanism model information representing a mechanism of the robot and end effector information concerning an end effector installed in the robot, and determine, among the generated plurality of candidate points, a candidate point at which joint torque τ of each joint of the robot in the posture corresponding to each candidate point is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold as a measurement point; and a parameter identification unit configured to calculate a position error between a calculated position and a measured position of the end effector in the posture corresponding to the measurement point and identify mechanism error parameters so that the calculated position error is minimized.

Correction device, correction method, and robot system

A device includes a catalog storage unit that stores a catalog having versatility; a catalog control unit that specifies the catalog corresponding to a target machine tool to be subjected to state determination based on machine tool information including an item of facility type and acquires the catalog from the catalog storage unit; a feature quantity extraction unit that extracts a feature quantity from sensor data detected from the target machine tool; a sensor data processing unit that performs state determination of the target machine tool based on the feature quantity distribution included in the acquired catalog and the feature quantity extracted from the sensor data; a feature quantity tuning unit that performs tuning of the feature quantity distribution by mapping the extracted feature quantity to the feature quantity distribution; and a catalog updating unit that updates the catalog based on the feature quantity distribution after tuning.

Facility state determination device, facility state determination method, and facility management system

A state identification device includes: a feature amount extraction unit that extracts a feature amount from physical data of a machine tool unit which shifts to a plurality of operation states; a feature amount storage unit in which a region is provided as a storage destination of the extracted feature amount for each of the plurality of operation states to which the machine tool unit shifts; a similarity calculation unit that calculates a similarity between the extracted feature amount and a feature amount stored in the feature amount storage unit; a state determination unit that determines an operation state of the machine tool unit based on the calculated similarity; and a storage destination determination unit that determines the region serving as the storage destination of the extracted feature amount based on a determination result of the state determination unit.

State identification device, state identification method and mechanical device

Menu data supplied from an IP serverto a mobile stationis embedded with a location information substitution data string 'NULLAREA' together with a URL of a particular IP serverThe mobile stationupon detection of the location information substitution data string from a menu data selected by the user, determines whether location information can be transmitted to the IP serverIn the case where the determination is that the transmission is permitted, the mobile stationdetects its location information and, after substituting the location information for the location information substitution data string, transmits the data to the IP server

Location reporting method and related mobile communication terminal

For enabling a stable clock signal to be extracted from even an input signal of which the duty factor is made worse, there is presented a clock extraction circuit applicable to an optical signal receiver equipped in an apparatus for use in the optical data communication. The clock extraction circuit includes a rising edge differential circuit ( ) for differentiating the input signal at the rising edge thereof, a first monostable multivibrator ( ) for processing the output from the differential circuit ( ), a second monostable multivibrator ( ) for processing the output from the first monostable multivibrator ( ), an OR gate ( ) for carrying out the logical OR between the output signals from the first and second monostable multivibrators ( ) and ( ) and circuitry for variably varying output pulse width, which processes the result of the logical OR. With this configuration, it is made possible to extract a stable clock signal from an input signal even when the duty factor of the input signal is made worse.

Non-linear extraction circuit and clock extraction circuit

Circuitry capable of controlling a bias voltage for an avalanche photodiode (APD) in accordance with the temperature slope of the breakdown voltage of the APD is disclosed. A reference voltage generating circuit sets a voltage implementing an optimal amplification ratio on an output terminal, and generates a reference voltage by taking account of the temperature slope of the breakdown voltage of the APD. The reference voltage is applied to one input of a voltage comparator. A setting circuit feeds to an adding circuit a preselected voltage for controlling the voltage on the output terminal to a value capable of implementing the optimal multiplication ratio. A temperature compensating circuit feeds to the adding circuit a voltage corresponding to the temperature slope of the above breakdown voltage. The temperature slope is representative of the variation of the breakdown voltage with respect to temperature. The adding circuit adds the two input voltages and delivers its output to the voltage comparator as the reference voltage. The voltage comparator produces a difference between the reference voltage and a voltage input from the output terminal and outputs a voltage control signal representative of the difference.

Bias voltage control circuitry for avalanche photodiode taking account

A receiver includes a first amplifying circuit for amplifying an input signal to thereby output an amplified input signal. A reference voltage generating circuit has the same configuration as the first amplifying circuit and generates a reference signal having a reference voltage for the amplified input signal. A variable-gain amplifying circuit variably adjusts the gain of the level of a signal derived from the amplified input signal and reference signal. The variable-gain amplifying circuit includes a second amplifying circuit for amplifying the amplified input signal and reference signal for maintaining linearity to thereby output a pair of first differential signals and a pair of second differential signals having shifted levels. A first differential amplifier performs differential amplification based on the first differential signals. A second differential amplifier performs differential amplification based on the first differential signals with a higher gain than the first differential amplifier. A gain controller controls, based on the second differential signals, the gains of the first and second differential amplifiers with a control signal capable of varying gain allocation to said the two differential amplifiers. When the amplified input signal has an amplitude far greater than the reference signal, the gain controller causes a current to flow through only one of the two differential amplifiers. When the amplified input signal has an amplitude far smaller than the reference signal, the gain controller causes the two differential amplifiers to operate at the same time.

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Tokyo, Japan

Masaaki Maeda