Sony Corporation

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Jfe Steel Corporation

Shogo Sato

Takuo Ikeda

Hidenori Karasawa

Yoshiyasu Kubota

Takashi Kitao

Makoto Imamura

Osamu Maniwa

Hitoshi Watanabe

Hiroyuki Segawa

Takeshi Yokota

Kazuto Mugura

Shinji Kimura

Shinichi Matsumura

Yoko Fukata

Mayu Irimajiri

Yuka Miyamoto

Takashi Tsujimura

Akira Tokuse

Yoichiro Matsui

Kenichi Sanpei

Dan Li

Tadasuke Murakami

There are provided a negative example availability deciding apparatus, a negative example availability deciding method, and a program that enable reuse of training data. A positive example evaluation training section generates a positive example evaluation classifier trained with target data as a positive example. A negative example evaluation training section generates a negative example evaluation classifier trained with target data as a negative example. An availability deciding section determines the classification accuracy of the positive example evaluation classifier and the classification accuracy of the negative example evaluation classifier by using evaluation data. The availability deciding section decides, on the basis of the classification accuracy of the positive example evaluation classifier and the classification accuracy of the negative example evaluation classifier, whether or not to use target data as negative example training data for training another classifier.

Negative example availability deciding apparatus, negative example availability deciding method, and program

A sample image obtaining section repetitively obtains a sample image generated by photographing a given sample by a photographing unit. A feature quantity extracting section generates feature quantity data corresponding to the sample image, in reference to the sample image. The feature quantity extracting section classifies each of a plurality of pieces of feature quantity data into either training data or evaluation data. An evaluation learning section performs learning of an evaluation discriminator by using a plurality of pieces of the training data. A photographing necessity/unnecessity determining section determines necessity/unnecessity of additional photographing of the sample by using the evaluation discriminator in which the learning using the plurality of pieces of the training data has already been performed and a plurality of pieces of the evaluation data. A notifying section gives a notification regarding a result of the determination of the necessity/unnecessity of additional photographing of the sample.

Additional photographing necessity/unnecessity notifying apparatus, additional photographing necessity/unnecessity notifying method, and program

A high-carbon cold rolled steel sheet having a specified chemical composition, and a method for manufacturing the same. The method includes forming a hot rolled steel sheet, performing cooling at an average cooling rate of 30&#xb0; C./s or more and 70&#xb0; C./s or less through a temperature range of a finish rolling end temperature to 660&#xb0; C., coiling a hot rolled steel sheet at a temperature of 500&#xb0; C. or more and 660&#xb0; C. or less, and, optionally, pickling the coiled hot rolled steel sheet, and then performing a first box-annealing of holding at an annealing temperature in a temperature range of 650 to 720&#xb0; C., then performing cold rolling at a rolling reduction ratio of 20 to 50%, and then performing a second box-annealing of holding at an annealing temperature in a temperature range of 650 to 720&#xb0; C.

High-carbon cold rolled steel sheet and method for manufacturing same

Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: operation accepting means for accept an operation input; image storing means for storing a plurality of images; management information storing means for storing management information corresponding to the plurality of images stored in the image storing means; image drawing means for drawing, in a display area including at least an image display area, at least one of images stored in the image storing means onto the image display area in a predetermined sequence; and controlling means for, when an operation input commanding selection of an image included in the image display area has been accepted by the operation accepting means, controlling recording of the selection of the image to management information stored in the management information storing means in correspondence with the image.

Information processing apparatus, control method for use therein, and computer program

An image processing device including: a color space selection unit that selects a color space based on designated color information; and a region specifying unit that specifies a region that includes a color that matches the color that is shown by the color information designated in the color space from a color region specified image that is provided for color region specification.

Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing program

An optical film includes a base member having convex structures that are two-dimensionally and orderly arranged on a surface thereof and a hard-coating layer provided on the surface of the base member, the surface having the arranged structures thereon. A continuous wave surface is provided on a surface of the hard-coating layer so as to approximately conform to the shape of the structures of the surface of the base member, a maximum amplitude A and a minimum wavelength &#x3bb; of the continuous wave surface are each substantially uniform, and a ratio (A/&#x3bb;) of the maximum amplitude A to the minimum wavelength &#x3bb; is more than 0.002 and 0.011 or less.

Optical film and method for manufacturing the same, antiglare polarizer, and display apparatus

There is provided a graphical user interface that is displayed within one screen of a display device. The graphical user interface includes a matrix-shaped display area that is partitioned along a first axis by types of content and partitioned along a second axis by units of time. Items of information on the content that is processed within a specified unit of time are displayed within the matrix-shaped display area, closed together along the second axis.

Graphical user interface, display control device, display method, and program

Excellent coating device and method are disclosed which realize high-speed coating by improving the rigidity of a coating solution film and increasing the pressure of a coating solution film to a support so as not to be inferior to the wind pressure of an air film. In the coating method for extruding and applying an organic solvent contained in a paint used for a magnetic tape onto a continuously traveling support from a slit of an extrusion die, the slit spacing tl is set to not greater than 50 &mgr;m and the gap t2 between the support and the extrusion die is set to 0.5 to 2 mm, while the extrusion speed of the organic solvent from the slit is set to not lower than 2.5 m/sec. A uniform film may be formed over a coating width only by the kinetic energy of the extruded solvent so as to enable realization of high coating film rigidity and coating solution pressure. Thus, high-speed coating onto the continuously traveling support may be carried out in a non-contact manner.

Coating device and coating method for highspeed coating with an organic solvent

An applicator in which a coating can be applied to a base material at high speed, a coating film can be thinned and a desired coating film can be obtained when the coating films of two or more layers are simultaneously formed. A die 2 is provided with a slit 5 for a lower layer and a slit 15 for an upper layer which respectively serve to extrude a coating 6 for the lower layer and a coating 16 for the upper layer to the base material. The coatings 6 and 16 are respectively extruded from these slits 5 and 15 to the continuously running base material 1 so that the coating films of two layers are formed. Lower layer lips 4 forming the lower layer slit 5 are provided so as to be not in contact with the base material 1. Upper lips 14 forming the upper layer slit 15 are provided so as to abut on the base material 1. When a magnetic coating is used as the coating 6 for the lower layer, a magnet part may be opposed to the lips 4 for the lower layer by sandwiching the base material 1 therebetween.

Applicator

There is provided a coating apparatus capable of achieving high-speed coating and a decrease in thickness of a coating film and obtaining a preferable coating film. In an extrusion type coating apparatus including a die having a coating material reservoir to which a coating material is supplied, the coating material being coated on a continuously traveling support member while the coating material is extruded from a slit formed in a tip of the die, a magnet portion having adjacent tip portions to form a magnetic gap is arranged such that the magnetic portion and the tip portion of the die face each other to interpose the support member therebetween, and upper and lower lips defining the slit at the tip of the die are arranged out of contact with the support member.

Coating apparatus

An extrusion coating device has a die fitted with a paint sink fed with a paint, a slit extending from the paint sink to the distal end of the die, and a smoothing plate provided in the vicinity of the distal end of the die. The paint is extruded onto a continuously travelling support so as to be coated on the support. The smoothing plate is formed of a magnetic material and is magnetized to an opposite polarity to that of a magnet disposed via a gap of a pre-set length from the smoothing plate. The support is caused to travel along the end face of the smoothing plate so that the paint is coated on the support. The coating device enables a good coating film of a reduced film thickness to be produced while enabling high speed coating.

Coating device

A coating apparatus for applying a coating on a flexible support which is continuously moving across a die characterized by the die having at least one lip portion with an extrusion slit separating the lip portion into a front blade surface followed by a smoothing blade surface. The improvements are that the smoothing blade surface has a pocket adjacent the slit and an upstream side of the smoothing blade surface lies on a tangent taken at a downstream edge of the front blade surface. The pocket may be formed by a planar surface which separates the slit from a curved surface of the smoothing blade surface or can be formed by the shape of a curved surface of the smoothing blade surface which has the leading or upstream edge disposed inward of the downstream side or edge of the front blade surface. If more than one layer is to be provided, the die has two lip portions which are substantially identical, which portions are spaced apart by a gap so that the first coating can be spaced from the die for a short period of time.

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Tokyo, Japan

Shogo Sato