Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha

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Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation

Shiro Kobayashi

Masaya Yamashita

Yuko Akagi

Takeshi Ishii

Soichi Mejima

Masahiro Konda

Keisuke Shigeta

Gerhard P Fettweis

Osamu Koizumi

Jong Duk Lee

R Malcolm Brown, Jr

Toshisato Sadamatsu

Shinichi Hama

Tsuyoshi Masuda

Shigenori Kuga

Kazuo Okuda

Krystyna Kudlicka

Shin-Ichiro Shoda

Likun Li

To reduce false counts of a device that counts a user's step count. A pedometer device, a step counting method, and a recording medium are provided. The pedometer devices includes: an acquiring unit that acquires a sensor signal output by a sensor carried by a user; an extracting unit that extracts a feature quantity from the sensor signal; a storage unit that stores a walking model which represents walking motions, the walking model being formed based on a feature quantity extracted from a sensor signal corresponding to a predetermined number of steps of walking; a comparing unit that compares the feature quantity extracted at the extracting unit with the walking model; and a deciding unit that decides whether the user has walked a predetermined number of steps, based on a result of the comparison performed by the comparing unit.

Pedometer device, step counting method, and recording medium

An apparatus and a method for drawing attention to an object are provided. The apparatus includes an information acquisition unit configured to acquire personal information of a person, a processor that determines a target object based on the personal information and identifies positional information of the target object, and an emitter for emitting at least one of ultrasound waves and light to the target object based on the positional information. The method includes the steps of acquiring personal information of a person, determining the target object based on the personal information and identifying positional information of the target object, and emitting at least one of ultrasound waves and light from an emitter to the target object based on the positional information.

Apparatus for drawing attention to an object, method for drawing attention to an object, and computer readable non-transitory storage medium

A sound reproducing apparatus and a sound reproducing method are provided. The apparatus includes multiple directional speakers located at different places, an information acquisition unit configured to acquire sensing information of a person to be provided with a reproduced sound, and a processor that determines a position of the person from the acquired sensing information and controls output levels of the multiple directional speakers. The method includes the steps of acquiring sensing information of a person to be provided with a reproduced sound, determining a position of the person from the acquired sensing information, and controlling output levels of the directional speakers. The output levels of the speakers are determined based on the distance from the person.

Sound reproducing apparatus having multiple directional speakers and sound reproducing method

A sound reproducing apparatus capable of self-diagnostic. The apparatus includes a directional speaker emitting ultrasound waves to a target object, an information acquisition unit configured to acquire a sound from the target object and optionally an image of the target object, and a processor electrically connected with the directional speaker and the information acquisition unit. The processor drives the directional speaker to emit the ultrasound waves to the target object and diagnoses a failure of the directional speaker based on the sound acquired by the information acquisition unit. A self-diagnostic method for a sound reproducing apparatus having a directional speaker is also provided.

Sound reproducing apparatus capable of self diagnostic and self-diagnostic method for a sound reproducing apparatus

A sound reproducing apparatus and a sound reproducing method are provided. The apparatus includes a noise assessment unit configured to assess an intensity of ambient sound, a processor that determines an omnidirectional audio output level based on the intensity of ambient sound, an omnidirectional speaker configured to reproduce a desired sound at the omnidirectional audio output level, and a directional speaker configured to reproduce the desired sound simultaneously with the omnidirectional speaker. The method includes the steps of assessing an intensity of ambient sound, determining an omnidirectional audio output level based on the intensity of ambient sound, and reproducing a desired sound simultaneously from an omnidirectional speaker and a directional speaker. The omnidirectional speaker is controlled to reproduce the desired sound at the omnidirectional audio output level.

Sound reproducing apparatus, sound reproducing method, and computer readable storage medium

Provided is a position and azimuth detecting device including a photographing instructing unit that acquires an output signal of a sensor mounted on equipment and instructs a photographing apparatus mounted on the equipment to perform photographing based on the output signal, a mark reading unit that reads from a mark included in an image photographed based on the instruction from the photographing instructing unit position information and azimuth information included in the mark, a relative position and azimuth calculating unit that calculates a relative position and a relative azimuth of the equipment to the mark based on a geometric shape of the mark included in the image, and a position and azimuth calculating unit that calculates an absolute position and an absolute azimuth of the equipment based on the position information, the azimuth information, the relative position and the relative azimuth.

Position and azimuth detecting device

A travel direction determination apparatus is provided, including: a sensor signal acquisition unit that acquires sensor signals from sensors mounted in a mobile device; a first travel direction calculation unit that calculates a travel direction of the user without relying on a walking state of the user; a second travel direction calculation unit that calculates the travel direction of the user based on the sensor signals when the user who holds the mobile device is in a walking state; and a determination unit that determines the travel direction of the user first to the travel direction calculated by the first travel direction calculation unit, and then to the travel direction calculated by the second travel direction calculation unit, responding to changes in the state of the user from non-walking state to walking state.

Travel direction determination apparatus, map matching apparatus, travel direction determination method, and computer readable medium

To estimate an accurate travel direction of a user based on sensor signals from a mobile device being held by the user even if the user moves ahead while moving the mobile device right and left, a travel direction information output apparatus, a travel direction information output method, and a computer readable medium are provided, the travel direction information output apparatus including a travel direction estimation unit that calculates a travel direction of the user, a rotation amount calculation unit that calculates rotation amounts about a gravity axis of the mobile device being held by the user, and a selection unit that selects, based on an integrated value of the rotation amounts, from either to output travel direction information according to the travel direction calculated by the travel direction estimation unit or to output travel direction information that keeps previous travel direction information output.

Travel direction information output apparatus, map matching apparatus, travel direction information output method, and computer readable medium

In order to accurately identify a hold state of a mobile device held by a user while the user is moving, provided is a hold state change detection apparatus including an acquiring section that acquires an output signal of a sensor mounted in the mobile device held by the user; a change detecting section that detects a change in a hold state of the mobile device based on the output signal of the sensor; and a hold state judging section that judges the hold state based on the output signal of the sensor. During a prescribed time from the time when the change detecting section detects the change in the hold state, information indicating the hold state prior to the detection of the change in the hold state is output. Also provided is a hold state change detection method and program.

Mobile device hold state change detection apparatus

The sensor device includes a counter for counting the number of count commands used to perform measurements while maintaining among multiple sensor devices the ratio of measurement intervals; a ratio-holding-unit for setting the ratio to a desired ratio and holding respective values of the ratio for each of the multiple sensor devices; a sampling-timing-generating-unit for receiving a count value of the counter and the setting value of the ratio held by the ratio-holding-unit, and for generating a sampling timing signal based on the comparison result between the count value and the setting value; and a sampling-unit for sampling a detection signal detected by the detecting unit, by using the sampling timing signal generated by the sampling-timing-generating-unit.

Sensor device with sampling function, and sensor data processing system using same

In order to accurately determines the hold state of a mobile device possessed by a user while moving, provided is a hold state judging apparatus including an acquiring section that acquires output signals of sensors mounted in a mobile device held by a user; a pattern storage section that stores, in association with each other, information indicating a plurality of hold states of the mobile device and reference characteristic amounts of the output signals of the sensors obtained in advance respectively for the plurality of hold states; a hold state judging section that judges the hold state of the mobile device based on which of the reference characteristic amounts stored in the pattern storage section characteristic amounts of the output signals of the sensors acquired by the acquiring section correspond to. Also provided is a program.

Hold state judging apparatus and computer readable medium

A method used for supporting designing of a printed circuit board including a plurality of conductive layers having conductive areas to which a constant potential is applied, includes specifying conductive areas having a predetermined wiring from the conductive areas for each of the plurality of conductive layers, extracting areas that overlap each other in a planar view from the specified conductive areas, specifying an interlayer connection member that electrically connects at least two of the plurality of conductive layers in the extracted area, and clearly specifying an area within a predetermined distance from a center of the specified interlayer connection member and in the extracted area.

Printed circuit board design support method and apparatus

A compiler capable of facilitating calculation description in a source program and simplifying the source program description so as to reduce generation of bugs in calculation according to the block floating method by software. When a source program is given with description of calculation formula performing addition is extracted from the source program. A portion related to an addition in the extracted calculation formula is expanded as an instruction code constituting the processing performing addition using a data block corresponding to a plurality of block floating variables to be added. The expanded instruction code is embedded in an object program, thus creating and outputting an object program.

Method for translating a given source program into an object program containing computing expressions

Data calculating device and method for processing data in data block form

The present invention discloses a method of synthesizing a novel form of cellulose I as well as methods of synthesizing a novel form of cellulose I in vitro. One method comprises contacting an activated saccharide substrate with an endoglucanase in an appropriate organic solvent/buffer ratio. The invention also encompasses a partially purified endoglucanase and a method of synthesizing cellooligosaccharides. A second method comprises contacting a nucleotide sugar with a purified glycosyl transferase in an appropriate buffer medium to insure polymerization and crystallization of parallel glucan chains from the enzyme/micelle complex to form cellulose I.

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Tokyo, Japan

Shiro Kobayashi