Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Renault S.a.s.

Tokyo Kogaku Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha

Renesas Electronics Corporation

Ascii Corporation

Chiba Institute of Technology

Fukuyamaika Corporation

Shinya Tanaka

Keigo Nakamura

Hirokazu Ishii

Hiroshi Nakai

Kunio Hasegawa

Yasunobu Shimizu

Naomi Sugimoto

Masato Iio

Takehide Mizutani

Shinji Aoki

Hiromi Ogiyama

Haruo Iimura

Masahide Yamashita

Yuuji Wada

Kenji Sugiura

Hiroshi Itoh

Junpei Fujita

Naohiro Kumagai

Seiichi Kogure

Kazuki Yogosawa

Hiroyoshi Haga

Yasuhisa Hayakawa

Yuji Kato

Kenji Sengoku

Takahiro Suzuki

Osamu Fukata

Yasufumi Takahashi

Kazuchika Saeki

Hiroyuki Inoue

Tomohiro Suzuki

Satoshi Takano

Tadashi Okamoto

Tadashi Kasai

Yoshimi Kohayakawa

Nobuko Yamamoto

Satoshi Shimizu

Kazuhiro Matsumoto

Takeshi Kimura

Toshiyuki Kabata

Hiroyuki Yamashita

Yasuhiko Ogino

Tomoyuki Iwanaga

Naoto Kochi

Taichi Urayama

Atsushi Nagata

Shigeaki Ono

Tomokazu Takeuchi

Chikao Tsuchiya

Toshiaki Okumura

Naoyuki Ozaki

Osamu Ichihashi

Masahide Nakaya

Toshitaka Yamaguchi

Manabu Wada

Yasuyuki Numajiri

Motoya Takai

Tatsuya Ohsugi

Tsutomu Kato

Nobuyoshi Kishida

Masayoshi Nakayama

Hiroshi Aoki

Hiroyuki Nagano

Kohsuke Yamamoto

Hiroki Nakamatsu

Shuuichi Endoh

Ryuuichi Mimbu

Kazuhide Miyata

Katsuhiko Maeda

Kazuosa Kuma

Hiroyuki Fushimi

Takahiro Honda

Hirofumi Yoshida

Ryo Hasegawa

Ritsuya Tomita

Yasuhisa Inao

Jun Yura

Takashi Enami

Tsukasa Sako

Teppei Kikuchi

Takuya Nanri

Junichi Ichikawa

Masaru Sato

Kumiko Hatakeyama

Yoshiyuki Toge

Tomohide Takenaka

Akira Murakata

Yasunobu Takagi

Toshifumi Masaki

Kazunobu Kobayashi

Keita Sone

Yohei Saito

Takeshi Kitamura

Haruhisa Madate

Koji Uchida

Ryohta Morimoto

Yoshiaki Kawai

Miyo Taniguchi

An image forming apparatus includes an image former, a detector, and circuitry. The image former forms a toner pattern with a first line screen; and forms a toner image based on image data, with a second line screen. The detector detects density unevenness of the toner pattern, formed by the image former, in a main scanning direction. The circuitry is configured to calculate a first correction amount from the density unevenness detected by the detector; create a gradation correction table that reduces the density unevenness based on the first correction amount; and correct the first correction amount by a second correction amount corresponding to the second line screen, in a case where the first line screen is different from the second line screen.

Image forming apparatus

An ophthalmic apparatus includes an inspection unit configured to inspect an eye to be inspected, a driving unit configured to drive the inspection unit, and a control unit configured to start control of the inspection unit and the driving unit based on an inspection protocol in response to a predetermined condition, the inspection protocol defining a series of control procedures for performing a plurality of inspections including an alignment adjustment for aligning the inspection unit with the eye to be inspected, wherein the control unit is configured to display results of the plurality of inspections and display information for accepting an instruction to retry a part of the plurality of inspections on a display unit.

Ophthalmic apparatus, method for controlling ophthalmic apparatus, and storage medium

A liquid application unit includes a supply member, a liquid application device, and an application controller. The supply member includes a cylindrical or columnar winding core around which a linear medium is wound. The liquid application device applies liquid to the linear medium unwound and fed from the supply member. The application controller adjusts a liquid application length of the liquid applied by the liquid application unit to the linear medium in a feed direction of the linear medium. The application controller adjusts the liquid application length in the feed direction of the linear medium in accordance with a winding thickness of a remaining amount of the linear medium from an outer peripheral surface of the winding core.

Liquid application unit for linear medium, liquid application apparatus, dyeing embroidery system, control method, and storage medium

An embroidery system includes a data reading device to read three-dimensional data of a design of an embroidery. The embroidery system includes processing circuitry to process the three-dimensional data read by the data reading device, to create embroidery data using height information included in the three-dimensional data. The embroidery system includes an embroidery forming section to form the embroidery on a target object according to the embroidery data created by the processing circuitry. The embroidery system includes a recording head to discharge a liquid droplet from a nozzle. The embroidery system includes control circuitry to control an operation of the recording head. The embroidery data includes data relating to an embroidery density that is a density of a thread in the embroidery and data relating to an application amount of the liquid droplet to be applied to the thread in the embroidery.

Embroidery system

An other-vehicle behavior prediction method includes calculating a travel path of the host vehicle, detecting a position of an intersection present on the travel path of the host vehicle and within a predetermined distance from the host vehicle, and detecting a position of another vehicle around the host vehicle before the intersection. A host-vehicle passing area through which the host vehicle passes when proceeding through the intersection and an other-vehicle passing area through which the first oncoming vehicle is predicted to pass when proceeding through the intersection are calculated, a space between the host-vehicle passing area and the another-vehicle passing area is calculated, and a distance between the first oncoming vehicle and the intersection is calculated. Based on the space and the distance, a probability that the first oncoming vehicle will proceed through the intersection ahead of the host vehicle is predicted.

Method for predicting behavior of other vehicle, device for predicting behavior of other vehicle, and driving assistance method

An embroidery device includes a needle including a hole through which a thread has been passed, a dyeing unit configured to dye the thread in different colors, an embroidery unit configured to move the needle to perform a sewing process on a medium with the thread dyed in the different colors by the dyeing unit, and a remover configured to remove the linear member in a vicinity of the needle.

Embroidery device

A vehicle behavior estimation method includes: detecting a speed of a first preceding vehicle traveling in front of a host vehicle in a first lane where the host vehicle is traveling; detecting a speed of an adjacent vehicle traveling in a second lane adjacent to the first lane; calculating a relative speed between the first preceding vehicle and the adjacent vehicle; predicting whether or not an absolute value of the relative speed will be at or below a speed threshold value within a predetermined time from a point time when a decrease in the absolute value of the relative speed starts to be detected; and estimating that the adjacent vehicle is likely to change lanes into the first lane when the absolute value of the relative speed is predicted to be at or below the speed threshold value within the predetermined time.

Vehicle behavior estimation method, vehicle control method, and vehicle behavior estimation device

An embroidery apparatus is configured to perform an embroidery operation according to embroidery data. The embroidery apparatus includes a thread assumed consumption amount calculator configured to calculate an assumed consumption amount of a thread in the embroidery operation, based on initial embroidery data input in advance; a thread consumption amount detection mechanism configured to detect an actual consumption amount of the thread; and a thread consumption amount adjuster configured to adjust the actual consumption amount of the thread in the embroidery operation by adjusting output embroidery data to be output, based on a difference between the calculated assumed consumption amount of the thread and the detected actual consumption amount of the thread.

Embroidery apparatus, dyeing/embroidery system, and method for adjusting consumption amount of thread

The vehicle control device sets a region including a stationary object on a road, calculates a passing position at which a host vehicle and an oncoming vehicle pass each other in accordance with a velocity of the host vehicle and a position and a velocity of the oncoming vehicle, calculates a first score that is a larger value as the velocity of the oncoming vehicle is greater, calculates a second score that is a larger value as an acceleration rate of the oncoming vehicle is greater, integrates the first score with the second score so as to calculate an integration score, and causes the host vehicle to decelerate when the integration score is greater than or equal to a predetermined value or causing the host vehicle to keep the velocity or accelerate when the integration score is smaller than the predetermined value.

Vehicle control method and vehicle control device

A controller causes a host vehicle to decelerate when a velocity of an oncoming vehicle corresponding to a position of the oncoming vehicle distant from a stationary object by a predetermined distance is greater than or equal to a velocity threshold corresponding to the position of the oncoming vehicle distant from the stationary object by the predetermined distance in a case in which a passing position is present within a predetermined region, and causes the host vehicle to keep the velocity or accelerate when the velocity of the oncoming vehicle corresponding to the position of the oncoming vehicle distant from the stationary object by the predetermined distance is less than the velocity threshold corresponding to the position of the oncoming vehicle distant from the stationary object by the predetermined distance in the case in which the passing position is present within the region.

An other-vehicle action prediction method predicts that another vehicle traveling in an adjacent lane adjacent to an own lane in which a host vehicle is traveling makes a lane change from the adjacent lane to the own lane in front of the host vehicle in accordance with the behavior of the other vehicle. The other-vehicle action prediction method acquires traffic regulation information on a traffic regulation regarding the adjacent lane, predicts a predicted traveling state of the other vehicle when traveling according to the traffic regulation, calculates a recognition possibility that the other vehicle recognizes the traffic regulation, and predicts that the other vehicle makes a lane change in accordance with the recognition possibility, the predicted traveling state, and the actual traveling state.

Other-vehicle action prediction method and other-vehicle action prediction device

A travel assistance method selects a merging destination vehicle that will travel in front or behind a host vehicle when the host vehicle merges into an adjacent lane, based on a history of whether other vehicles traveling in the adjacent lane allowed merging of a first preceding vehicle traveling in front of the host vehicle on a host lane and locations of the other vehicles traveling in the adjacent lane in a lane direction within a section in which the merging into the adjacent lane from the host lane is possible.

Travel assistance method and travel assistance device

An adhesive for hard tissue bonding which has a sufficient pot life and excellent biocompatibility and is replaced with bone over time, and an adhesive kit for hard tissue bonding are provided. In addition, bone cement is provided which has excellent biocompatibility and is replaced with bone over time. An adhesive for hard tissue bonding includes: a cyanoacrylate monomer; and beta-tricalcium phosphate or hydroxyapatite. An adhesive kit for hard tissue bonding includes: a liquid agent containing a cyanoacrylate monomer; and a powdery agent containing beta-tricalcium phosphate or hydroxyapatite. Bone cement includes: a cyanoacrylate polymer; and beta-tricalcium phosphate or hydroxyapatite.

Adhesive for hard tissue bonding, adhesive kit for hard tissue bonding, and bone cement

A liquid discharge apparatus includes a head including a nozzle plate having a plurality of nozzles lined in a row and configured to discharge a liquid, a conveyor configured to convey the liquid application target, and a liquid receptacle configured to receive the liquid discharged from the head. The conveyor defines a conveyance passage of a liquid application target to which the head applies the liquid. The liquid receptacle has an opening through which the liquid discharged from the head passes. A longitudinal direction of the opening is along a movement direction of the liquid application target. A width of the opening is greater than a width of the liquid application target in a direction orthogonal to the movement direction.

Liquid discharge device, and liquid discharge apparatus and dyeing apparatus including same

A transfer device includes an intermediate transfer belt configured to bear a toner image and rotate, a transferor configured to contact the intermediate transfer belt via a recording medium and form a transfer nip, a guide configured to guide the recording medium conveyed to the transfer nip, and a pressure reducing device. The intermediate transfer belt is shaped as an endless belt. The pressure reducing device is configured to reduce pressure-contact force of the transferor against the intermediate transfer belt as the recording medium advances in the transfer nip. Therefore, a trailing end of the recording medium does not move toward the intermediate transfer belt when the trailing end of the recording medium has passed the guide.

Transfer device and image forming apparatus incorporating same

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