Panasonic Corporation

Jsr Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Japan Tobacco Inc.

Tsumura Co., Ltd.

Sony Corporation

Nec Corporation

Japan Synthetic Rubber Co., Ltd.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Dolby International Ab

Adeka Corporation

Kioritz Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Yakult Honsha

Masayuki Kimura

Kunio Hosaka

Yasuo Matsuki

Hiroshi Mitsuhashi

Shigehumi Takeda

Tetsuya Naruse

Yasumasa Takeuchi

Akio Saito

Tadashi Nakamura

Hiroshi Endo

Toshio Takahashi

Hitoshi Yamada

Masaki Yamauchi

Shoji Yamamoto

Kentaro Mori

Takashi Kawamura

Hidetoshi Takeda

Hiroshi Yokoyama

Tomoichi Watanabe

Yasushi Yagi

Satoshi Yoshikawa

Atsushi Hori

Younjoung Cho

Mitsuhiro Ishizuka

Junichi Tagawa

Gyu-Hee Park

Tadashi Shibata

Kuniaki Isogai

Jun Ohmiya

Takashi Kanazawa

Yoshiaki Sugitani

Shoichi Nakata

Mitsuru Okada

Yuya Serizawa

Nobuo Namekawa

Hajime Nagahara

Toshihiro Ogawa

Shin-ichi Kimura

Jaesoon Lim

Masayoshi Saito

Koji Miyazaki

Ryuji Saito

Takanori Koide

Shigefumi Takeda

Yuichi Okano

Shinji Hirakawa

Kageyasu Miyahara

Daisuke Kisara

Tsukasa Toyoshima

Hidenori Muramoto

Tsuyoshi Miyamoto

Kyouyu Yasuda

Yukinori Kashio

Yoshio Hiraki

Toshiki Kudo

Tetsuya Okuyama

Yoshiki Manabe

Kengo Wakabayashi

Kazuhiro Eguchi

Shigekatsu Magaki

Hiroyuki Hiraoka

Yutaka Makita

Hideo Hosoya

Hidetaka Omine

Shouichi Nishida

Keiichi Yamamoto

A leftover material is prevented from being generated from a part, of a cartridge that forms a vapor product, where positioning is performed. There is provided a cartridge that is assembled in a part of a vapor product that includes a heating element for heating an aerosol source. The cartridge includes a first component and a second component, at least one of which being formed of resin, a connection section that extends between the first component and the second component, with one end connected to the first component and another end connected to the second component, and a guide section that extends from the first component, and that is not joined or welded to the second component. The second component includes a receiving section where the guide section fits.

Cartridge and manufacturing method of cartridge

Exposure of a leftover material at a cartridge that forms a vapor product is prevented. There is provided a cartridge that is assembled in a part of a vapor product that includes a heating element for heating an aerosol source. The cartridge includes a first component and a second component, at least one of which being formed of resin, and a connection section whose one end is connected to the first component and whose another end is joined or welded to the second component. The first component includes a first facing surface that faces the second component, and a first outermost edge of the first facing surface. The second component includes a second facing surface that faces the first component, and a second outermost edge of the second facing surface. The first outermost edge and the second component are not joined or welded to each other, and the second outermost edge and the first component are not joined or welded to each other.

Exposure of a leftover material at a cartridge that forms a vapor product is prevented. There is provided a cartridge that is assembled in a part of a vapor product that includes a heating element for heating an aerosol source. The cartridge includes a first component and a second component, at least one of which being formed of resin, and a connection section whose one end is connected to the first component and whose another end is joined or welded to the second component. The second component includes a recessed section. The other end of the connection section is joined or welded to the recessed section.

Provided are an aluminum compound and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device using the same. The aluminum compound may be represented by Formula 1. 

Aluminum compound and method for manufacturing semiconductor device using the same

A method for producing a vapor generation unit, which is for generating a vapor by heating a liquid and is to be used in a non-combustible flavor inhaler, includes: a support feeding step of feeding a wick support to a production line for the vapor generation unit; a wick feeding step of, after the support feeding step, feeding a wick toward the wick support and disposing the same on the wick support; a holder feeding step of, after the wick feeding step, feeding a wick holder toward the wick support and assembling the same on the wick support; and a heater feeding step of, after the holder feeding step, feeding a heater toward the wick holder and assembling the same on the wick support.

Method for producing vapor generation unit for non-combustible flavor inhaler

Image processing device () includes range image obtaining unit (), reference surface detector (), object region detector (), depth calculator (), and grouping unit (). Range image obtaining unit () obtains a range image. Reference surface detector () detects a reference surface having a predetermined height in the range image. Object region detector () detects an object region existing on the reference surface. Depth calculator () decides a depth in each vertical line of the object region. Grouping unit () calculates a change amount of depth between adjacent vertical lines in the object region, groups a set of vertical lines in which the change amount of depth is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold, and describes each group in a predetermined data format.

Image processing device and image processing method

A vector data selection unit selects, from a vector file of a past line graph, each vector data of a time period where a new line graph overlaps. An attribute value setting unit sets, of the vector data selected, a high transparency degree value to oldest vector data, sets a low transparency degree value to newest vector data, and sets an intermediate transparency degree value to intermediate vector data. A graph display unit displays a portion of a time period of the past line graph where the new line graph overlaps, with a gradation.

Graph generation apparatus, graph display apparatus, graph generation program, and graph display program

A detector detects head postures and gaze directions from images of a person to be measured captured by an imaging unit; a generation unit generates a gaze direction distribution with respect to each of the head postures, from the head postures and the gaze directions detected by the detector; a calibration unit determines predetermined one of the head postures as a reference posture, and calculates calibration parameters to be used to calibrate the gaze direction distribution with respect to the reference posture; and a correction unit corrects the gaze direction distributions with respect to the head postures other than the reference posture by using the calibration parameters calculated by the calibration unit. This reduces the influence on the calibration which may vary due to change in the head posture.

Gaze detector

In a vehicle display device including a HUD that displays a virtual image on a front field of a view of a driver and a viewpoint detecting camera that captures an image of the driver, a measuring camera is capable of capturing the virtual image. A calibration pattern is at a predetermined position with respect to a viewing angle of the virtual image and angles of view of the viewpoint detecting and measuring cameras. The calibration pattern is captured by the viewpoint detecting and measuring cameras, and the virtual image is captured by the measuring camera. The relative position and orientation between the viewpoint detecting camera and HUD are calculated as orientation information using an image captured by the viewpoint detecting camera and an image captured by the measuring camera. In addition, the position of the virtual image displayed by the HUD is adjusted using the calculated orientation information.

Position adjustment method of vehicle display device

A gaze direction detection device according to the present technology includes a detector for detecting a gaze of a driver over a predetermined period of time, a determiner for outputting second gaze information indicating that the driver is gazing, from first gaze information detected by the detector, a generator for generating a gaze distribution from the second gaze information output by the determiner, and a corrector for correcting the first gaze information detected by the detector, where the corrector calculates a center of a reference distribution that is set in advance and a center of the gaze distribution generated by the generator, and causes the center of the reference distribution and the center of the gaze distribution to overlap each other, and then calculates a correction parameter based on a difference between the reference distribution and the gaze distribution, and corrects the first gaze information with the correction parameter.

Gaze direction detection device, and gaze direction detection method

An image processing apparatus () includes: an imaging device (); an optical system (); and a distance determining unit () determining an object distance between the optical system and the object based on a size of a blur developed on the image. The optical system () has a characteristic which simultaneously satisfies both of conditions that (i) variation in magnification is equal to or smaller than the predetermined number of pixels in the case where a focused point is set farthest from and closest to the optical system () in a range of the distance of the object determined by the distance determining unit () and (ii) variation in a PSF due to an image height of the optical system () is equal to or smaller than a predetermined degree so as not to affect the determination of the distance of the object by the distance determining unit ().

Image processing device, and image processing method

A distance measurement apparatus includes: an imaging device which captures an image; a diffractive optical device which diffracts a subject image; an optical system which forms, on the imaging device, the image from the subject image diffracted by the diffractive optical device; and a distance measurement unit which measures a distance to a subject using the image captured by the imaging device. The distance measurement unit measures the distance to the subject based on an interval between diffraction figures of the subject image which are created by the diffractive optical device. The interval is on the image captured by the imaging device.

Distance measurement apparatus and distance measurement method

An image processing apparatus includes a focus lens, an image sensor which captures an image and a controller which moves the image sensor or the focus lens. A distance measurer measures a distance to a subject based on a first image and a second image. A focal position moves for the first focal range by moving the image sensor or by moving the position of the focus lens during the first exposure time period, and the focal position moves for the second focal range by moving the image sensor or by moving the position of the focus lens during the second exposure time period.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

An image processing apparatus includes an imaging unit which captures an image, and a focal range control unit which changes a focal position and a depth of field of a captured image by controlling an imaging device or a focus lens in the imaging unit. Further, the image processing apparatus includes a distance measurement unit which measures a distance to a subject, from a degree of blur in each of n images (where n &#x2267;2) captured by the imaging unit controlled by the focal range control unit and having focal ranges different from each other.

An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging unit; a focal range control unit configured to cause the imaging unit to capture a first image and a second image which have mutually different focal ranges, changing a focal position of the imaging unit; a reference image generation unit configured to generate, using the first image and the second image, a reference image to be used as a blur standard; and a distance measurement unit configured to measure a distance to the subject based on a difference in blur degrees between the reference image and each of the first image and the second image. The focal ranges of the first image and the second image are independent of each other, and an out-of-focus space is provided between the focal ranges.

Imaging apparatus and distance measurement method

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