Yokogawa Electric Corporation

Nippon Kogaku K.k.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Nobuo Okabe

Yukiyo Akisada

Kazunori Miyazawa

Yosuke Ishii

Tadao Takagi

Yoshiaki Tanaka

Koichi Daitoku

Yasuki Sakurai

Ken'ichi Kamada

Yosuke Kusaka

Hiroshi Wakabayashi

Atsushi Inoue

Tetsuya Ishikawa

Hiroaki Tanaka

Masahiro Ishiyama

Satoshi Kato

Kazuma Takenaka

Nobuhiko Terui

Satoshi Yoshitake

Hiroshi Meguro

Sho Fujita

Minako Terao

Yoshihisa Hidaka

Shumpei Ito

Naoki Yoshima

Shoichi Sakane

An absolute thickness distribution cannot be accurately calculated with a conventional technique. A sensor device is provided that includes a plurality of magnetic sensors arranged to face an outer circumference surface of a pipeline and ultrasonic sensors arranged to face the outer circumference surface and measure a thickness of the pipeline in a measurement region in which the plurality of magnetic sensors measure a magnetic field, the ultrasonic sensors being less than the plurality of magnetic sensors.

Pipeline thickness measurement sensor device

To estimate a state of a natural resource in pipeline equipment during extraction in an oil field, provided is an apparatus including a data acquiring section that acquires measurement data, measured by a measurement device, indicating a state of a natural resource that is a fluid flowing through an extraction network for extracting the natural resource; a state estimating section that estimates the state of the natural resource at least at one location differing from a location where the measurement device is provided in a flow path of the extraction network, using the measurement data and a model of the extraction network; and a margin calculating section that calculates a margin until flow path blocking matter is generated in the extraction network, based on the estimated state of the natural resource.

Apparatus, method, and program for estimating a state of a natural resource to be extracted

A communication device conforming with plural communication standards and having a storage storing a plurality of virtual stacks each having an application program and communication program that implements a protocol stack for communication by the application program. An executor executes the virtual stacks, and a switching controller switches the virtual stacks to be executed by performing a first processing in which at least one part of at least one of the virtual stacks is read from storage and stored into a memory of, and executed by, the executor. Then, in accordance with free capacity in the memory, at least one part of at least one of the virtual stacks executed in the first processing is deleted from memory. In a second processing at least one part of at least one of the virtual stacks is read from the storage and stored into the memory of, and executed by, the executor.

Communication device for switching stacks and method of controlling execution of stacks

A position information authoring system according to one aspect of the present invention includes a plurality of position information devices in a plant and a position information authoring apparatus. Each of the plurality of position information devices is configured to input a position information into the position information authoring apparatus, the position information represents a three-dimensional absolute position of each of the plurality of position information devices. The position information authoring apparatus is configured to manage a physical position of each physical equipment in the plant and physical positions of the plurality of position information devices, based on a three-dimensional plant model which includes virtual equipments and marks a virtual position of each of the plurality of position information devices.

Position information authoring system, position information authoring apparatus, and position information authoring method

A slow change detection system includes: an image acquisition unit adapted to acquire a photographed image including consecutive images of a monitored object; a reference image acquisition unit adapted to acquire a reference image corresponding to the photographed image of the monitored object; a reference image area extraction unit adapted to extract, from the reference image, a reference image area that is an area corresponding to a photographed area of the photographed image; a change detection unit adapted to acquire a change area that is an area of the photographed image which is different from the reference image area and acquire a slow change area by excluding, from the acquired change area, a sudden change area derived from a history of the change area; and a display control unit adapted to superimpose and display information indicating the slow change area on the photographed image.

Slow change detection system

A communication device communicating in conformance with a prescribed communication standard. The device includes a storage storing at least a first virtual program that includes a program implementing a first function of the communication device and a second virtual program that includes a program implementing a second function of the communication device. It also includes an executor configured to successively execute the first and second virtual programs, and a switching controller configured to read at least a part of either one of the first and second virtual programs from the storage, to store the part of either one of the first and second virtual programs into a memory of the executor, to execute the part of either one of the first and second virtual programs in the executor, thereby, to switch the first and second virtual programs to be executed in the executor.

Communication device

An ultrasonic pipe measurement apparatus includes: a plurality of ultrasonic transceivers discretely disposed on a pipe wall of a pipe; and a control unit configured to control the plurality of ultrasonic transceivers and detect a generation point of damage caused in the pipe based on an ultrasonic signal exchanged between the ultrasonic transceivers.

Ultrasonic pipe measurement apparatus

A control network system connected with a node having a unique identifier includes a KDCB for distributing a first key to the node for cryptographic communication, a PSB for supplying a function name and a second key corresponding to the unique identifier to the node by the cryptographic communication using the first key, and a PS for supplying the node with setting information used for the cryptographic communication using the second key in response to a request using the function name.

Network system and method for operating network system

A focusing device in a camera comprises a lens barrel having a lens system, the lens barrel together with the lens system being moved along the optical axis to focus the lens system on an object locted in the range of ordinary photographing distances and on an object located in the range of closest focusing distances shorter than the ordinary photographing distances, a detector for detecting a distance to an object, to provide an output signal according to the distance thus detected, a main drive system for moving the lens barrel in response to the output signal provided by the detector, to focus the lens system on the object located in the range of ordinary photographing distances, and an auxiliary drive system with a member operated by the operator. The auxiliary drive system moving the lens barrel independently of the main drive system, to focus the lens system on the object located in the range of closest focusing distances.

Photographing lens focusing device

A camera for exposing a film to the image of an object to be photographed includes housing means, flashlight emitting means having a light-emitting portion for applying light toward the object to be photographed, the light-emitting portion being movable between a first position in which it is projected from the housing means and a second position in which it is received in the housing means, and an optical member provided in the housing means so as to be positioned between the light-emitting portion and the object to be photographed when the light-emitting portion is in the second position, the member having an optical characteristic for an area in which light is applied to the object to be photographed from the light-emitting portion through the optical member to change relative to an area in which light is directly applied to the object to be photographed from the light-emitting portion.

Camera having a flash unit built therein

An automatic focusing device includes a detecting device for detecting a state of an object image formed by an objective lens, a driving device for driving the lens in response to the detecting device, and a setting device for setting a moving range in which the lens is movable by the driving device. The moving range may be selected from mutually different plural ranges including a first range and a second range which have a mutually overlapping portion, or including a range containing a part of a normal moving range and a part of a macro-photographing moving range. Further, the moving range may be selected by setting an end position thereof beyond which the lens is prevented from moving.

Automatic focusing device

A camera having alternately selectable shutter release priority and focus control priority modes of operation. In the shutter release priority mode, operation of an automatic focusing device is inhibited when the shutter is actuated, and the shutter may be released irrespective of whether the photographic image is in focus. In the focus control priority mode, the shutter cannot be released unless the image is in focus. When the camera is in the shutter release priority mode, photographs may be taken in rapid succession without regard for precise focusing.

Motor-driven camera capable of automatic focus control

A focus adjusting device of a camera has moving means for moving a phototaking lens in the direction of the optical axis thereof, a motor producing a revolution output, a manually operated ring provided on the outer periphery of a lens barrel and rotatable circumferentially of the lens barrel, mode selecting means for selecting one of a manual mode in which the phototaking lens is driven by the manually operated ring and an automatic mode in which the phototaking lens is driven by the motor, and clutch means for coupling the moving means and the manually operated ring together when the manual mode has been selected by the mode selecting means and for cutting off the coupling between the moving means and the manually operated ring when the automatic mode has been selected by the mode selecting means. The device further has limit means for blocking movement of the moving means when the phototaking lens has come to an infinity in-focus position and when the phototaking lens has come to a very short distance in-focus position. The clutch means produces slip between the manually operated ring and the moving means when the manually operated ring is rotated by a great torque, thereby permitting rotation of only the manually operated ring.

Focus adjusting device of a camera

A device for automatically focusing an objective lens includes detecting means capable of detecting the positional relation of the objective lens with respect to an in-focus position at which an image of an object is formed on a predetermined focal plane, means including an electric motor and moving the objective lens toward the in-focus position by the motor, and means for controlling the driving of the motor in response to the detecting means. The control means includes a power supply circuit means for connecting the motor to a power source, a braking circuit means for short-circuiting the two terminals of the motor, and means for alternately operating the power supply circuit means and the braking circuit means to thereby decelerate the revolution of the motor when the objective lens is within a predetermined range near the in-focus position.

Automatic focusing device and lens motor control

In a camera having a phototaking lens capable of manual focusing operation by an operating ring and automatic focusing operation by a drive control device responsive to the output of an in-focus detecting device and wherein the manual focusing operation and the automatic focusing operation can be selectively accomplished by means of a change-over operating device, there are provided display means capable of displaying information on the in-focus condition of the phototaking lens in response to the output of the in-focus detecting device, focus lock means operable to restrain the movement of the phototaking lens at any position related to the focusing operation of the phototaking lens and at the same time fix the display by the display means, and means for blocking the operation of the focus lock means in response to the selection of the manual focusing operation by the change-over operating device.

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Nobuo Okabe