Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Sony Corporation

Hitachi Software Engineering Company, Ltd.

Chiyoda Chemical Engineering & Con. Co., Ltd.

Nobuaki Suzuki

Yuichi Kawata

Yoshifumi Bando

Hideki Yamasaki

Kensuke Okamoto

Tomitsugu Koseki

Makoto Kimura

Yasuhiro Kanaya

Kenichi Takahashi

Noriyuki Yamamoto

Hiroyuki Matsuda

Takuro Tamura

Masahiro Fujino

Seishiro Kato

Katsuya Mizuno

Shizuo Yamamoto

Masaru Yamazaki

Tetsuo Kanda

Midori Kuki

An image capturing apparatus includes an input unit, a detecting unit, and a controller. The input unit continuously inputs a signal sequence. The signal sequence includes values of multiple pixels and control information. The pixels constitute an image. The control information is embedded at multiple positions according to a rule. The detecting unit detects occurrence of an error on the basis of the inputted control information. The controller interrupts the input performed by the input unit when the detected error is based on the control information embedded in a first region of the image, and continues the input when the detected error is based on the control information embedded in a second region.

Image capturing apparatus and image capturing method

An authentication apparatus includes a feature acquiring unit that acquires a feature of an authentication target; an extracting unit that extracts one or more registered persons having features similar to the acquired feature; a determining unit that determines whether any registered person having a feature similar to the feature of at least one extracted registered person exits in the registered persons; a first identifying unit that, if the determination is negative, identifies the registered person having the feature having a highest degree of similarity with the acquired feature as the authentication target; a specific information accepting unit that accepts information specific to the authentication target; and a second identifying unit that, if the determination is affirmative and the accepted specific information coincides with the information specific to any extracted registered person, identifies the registered person having the coinciding specific information as the authentication target.

Authentication apparatus, authentication method, and non-transitory computer readable medium

A network control device that has a packet filtering unit for implementing packet filtering based on prescribed information in a header of a received packet, which includes: a position designating unit that designates a prescribed comparison position in a higher level protocol header to the header of the received packet; and an additional determination unit that implements pattern matching filtering by comparing data at the comparison position designated by the position designating unit with preset data.

Network control device and control method

In a method for verifying the accuracy of hybridization experiments in which a plurality of probe biopolymers are hybridized to sample biopolymers, information concerning the hybridization level for each of the probe biopolymers obtained from the hybridization experiment is displayed together with similarity scores representing the similarities between base sequences of the respective probe biopolymers.

Method for displaying results of hybridization experiment

Method of forming a uniform polycrystalline semiconductor thin film by laser annealing. The method is started with preparing a substrate having an insulating layer which has a relatively low thermal conductivity and a thickness of more than 20 nm. Then, an amorphous silicon thin film having a relatively high thermal conductivity is formed to a thickness of less than 35 nm on the insulating layer. Thereafter, the amorphous silicon thin film is irradiated with laser beam to impart thermal energy to the film. In this way, the amorphous film is converted into a polysilicon thin film. Since the thickness of the amorphous silicon film is less than 35 nm, polysilicons having uniform grain diameters can be grown.

Method of forming polycrystalline semiconductor thin film

A device for attenuating pulsation of a fluid in a piping system comprises fluid-branching pipes extending from the piping system in which there are pulsation waves, and a plurality of orifice elements and a plurality of discs disposed in a dispersed fashion and having a small reflection factor of the pulsation wave and having a total friction factor greater than that of the entire piping system, thereby providing the effect of attenuating the pulsation of the fluid within the system without increasing the resistance of the piping system without increasing power consumption.

Device for attenuating pulsation of fluids in piping systems

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Nobuaki Suzuki