Nissan Motor Company Limited

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Sony Corporation

Kajima Corporation

Hitachi, Ltd.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation

Ando Electric Company

Other

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Takao Inoue

Naoya Tsutsumoto

Toshimasa Koga

Junichi Kawashima

Terunori Kondou

Makoto Otake

Shouichirou Ueno

Hiroyuki Sakuyama

Taku Kodama

Takanori Yano

Takashi Maki

Akira Takahashi

Ikuko Yamashiro

Keiichi Ikebe

Tetsujiro Kondo

Shin Aoki

Takeshi Tsuyuki

Yoshihiro Imaoka

Takeshi Koyama

Toshiyuki Furuta

Takashi Kitaguchi

Tetsuo Kani

Kimiyoshi Nishizawa

Yasuhiro Sato

Norihiko Murata

Shunichi Mitsuishi

Fumiaki Henmi

Mitsuru Shingyouchi

Sunki I

Etsuko Fujisawa

Yoshihiro Murakami

Katsuyuki Omura

Minoru Kawahara

Tadaaki Yoshinaka

Kouichi Mori

Terunori Kondo

Makoto Toyoshima

Makoto Ohtake

Makoto Saito

Masashi Uchida

Yasushi Tatehira

Akihiro Okumura

Tsutomu Ichikawa

Masaaki Ashida

Shoji Kosuge

Ryo Uchida

Yukihiro Omika

Jun-ichi Kawashima

Motoharu Akaba

Sungi I

Kiyomi Hara

Sunkee Yi

Takashi Aoki

Takashi Nakamura

Takashi Yano

Hideo Nakaya

Noriaki Takahashi

Takashi Sawao

Koji Yano

Shiro Mazawa

Tetsushi Kokubo

Hirofumi Hibi

Toshinobu Sugiyama

Makoto Tanaka

Hitoshi Mukai

Masayasu Suzuki

Kunikazu Tsuda

Arata Nakagoshi

Katsuhiko Nuno

Tomohiko Beppu

Takumi Yamaga

Atsushi Onodera

Katsuhisa Shinmei

Kenji Yamasaki

Seiji Kawa

Atsushi Okada

Kenji Uehara

Takehiro Yamamoto

Takayoshi Kodama

Makoto Honma

Takashi Ohkuma

Fumitoshi Ishida

Tomoya Urabe

Satoru Tsutsui

Naoki Tsubaki

Yukio Yamamoto

Munehiro Tabata

Kenjiro Mori

Suki I

Masamichi Takayama

Kazuo Tomita

Masayoshi Suzuki

An image forming apparatus according to an aspect of one or more embodiments may include: an image forming part that forms an image; a housing that houses the image forming part and includes an inner wall surface; and a cover attached to the housing so as to be movable between a position close to the housing and a position away from the housing. The cover includes a liquid receiver that receives a liquid getting into the housing, and the liquid receiver is adjacent to the inner wall surface in the state where the cover is close to the housing.

Image forming apparatus

A direct-injection internal combustion engine is controlled such that an injection count of multiple-stage injection is switched according to an operating region, and the multiple-stage injection is performed. The multiple-stage injection divides fuel into multiple times in one combustion cycle, and injects the fuel. Fuel vapor generated in a fuel tank as evaporated fuel is supplied to the internal combustion engine. An operating region in which the injection count of the multiple-stage injection is large is controlled to be narrower when an amount of the evaporated fuel supplied to the internal combustion engine is large, compared with a case of the amount of the evaporated fuel being not large.

Control method and control device of direct-injection internal combustion engine

An engine controller controls a direct fuel-injection, spark ignition engine including a fuel injection valve configured to directly inject a fuel into a cylinder, and an ignition plug that spark-ignites a mixture in the cylinder. The engine controller is provided with an acceleration request sensor configured to detect an acceleration request of a driver, and when the acceleration request occurs and a top surface temperature of a piston in the cylinder is lower than a predetermined temperature, the engine controller retards an ignition timing so that a period of time until a flame after the ignition reaches the piston top surface is extended.

Engine controller and engine control method

An engine control device controls a cylinder direct fuel injection type spark ignition engine provided with a fuel injection valve configured to directly inject fuel into a cylinder and an ignition plug configured to perform spark ignition for a gas mixture inside the cylinder. The engine control device executes a catalyst warm-up operation for retarding an ignition timing, during a compression stroke of the fuel injection timing, in a case where it is necessary to warm up an exhaust gas purifying catalyst inserted into an exhaust passage. In addition, the engine control device increases a valve overlap period as a piston crown surface temperature increases during execution of the catalyst warm-up operation.

Engine control device and engine control method

An object of a control method to control a direct injection internal combustion engine that directly injects fuel in a cylinder is to reduce an increase in PN caused by attachment of the fuel to a fuel injection valve distal end. The control method cools the fuel before a fuel temperature when the fuel passes through an injection hole on a fuel injection valve reaches a temperature at which an amount of attached fuel to the fuel injection valve distal end increases.

Control method and control device of direct injection internal combustion engine

An engine control device controls a cylinder direct fuel injection type spark ignition engine provided with a fuel injection valve configured to directly inject fuel to a cylinder and an ignition plug configured to perform spark ignition for a gas mixture inside the cylinder. In a case where it is necessary to warm up an exhaust gas purifying catalyst disposed in an exhaust passage, the engine control device executes a catalyst warm-up operation in which a fuel is injected at a timing during the compression stroke, and at a timing when the fuel spray colliding with the piston crown surface moves toward the ignition plug along the shape of the piston crown surface, and in which the ignition timing is after compression top dead center. The engine control device advances the fuel injection timing in accordance with an increase in an estimation amount of a liquid fuel remaining on the top surface of the piston during execution of the catalyst warm-up operation.

A fuel injection control device controls a spark-ignition engine of an intra-cylindrical direct fuel injection type. The engine includes a fuel injection valve configured to directly inject a fuel to an interior of a cylinder, and a spark plug configured to ignite, by a spark, an air-fuel mixture inside the cylinder. When the injected fuel collides with a portion in a predetermined low-temperature state, the fuel is injected while changing a fuel injection condition under predetermined operating conditions so as to restrain a fuel spray from keeping colliding with the same position continuously.

Fuel injection control device and fuel injection control method

A fuel injection control device controls fuel injection of a spark-ignition internal combustion engine for direct injection into a cylinder and independently controls circulation of a coolant in a head-side cooling channel and in a block-side cooling channel. The fuel injection control device is provided with a controller that sets a fuel injection timing for cooling the inside of the cylinder such that an intake valve closing timing occurs during a reduction in gas temperature inside the cylinder due to evaporative latent heat of the injected fuel, while the coolant circulates in the head-side cooling channel and the circulation of the coolant in the block-side cooling channel is stopped. The controller injects the fuel based on the fuel injection timing for cooling the inside of the cylinder.

Fuel injection control device and fuel injection control method for internal combustion engine

An engine controller controls a direct fuel-injection engine including a fuel injection valve for directly injecting a fuel into a cylinder and a valve overlap period adjusting mechanism for adjusting a valve overlap period between an open period of an intake valve and an open period of an exhaust valve. The engine controller is provided with an acceleration request sensor for detecting an acceleration request of a driver, and when the acceleration request occurs and a top surface temperature of a piston in the cylinder is lower than a predetermined temperature, the engine controller extends the valve overlap period between the open period of the intake valve and the open period of the exhaust valve, ranging before and after an exhaust top dead center.

A thin film transistor array is disclosed. The thin film transistor array includes plural gate electrodes formed on an insulation substrate, plural source electrodes formed above or under the gate electrodes via a gate insulation film so that the source electrodes cross the gate electrodes in a planar view, plural drain electrodes formed at corresponding positions surrounded by the gate electrodes and the source electrodes in a planar view in the same layer as that of the source electrodes, semiconductor layers formed via the gate insulation film to face the gate electrodes for forming corresponding channel regions between the source electrodes and the drain electrodes. The plural gate electrodes are linearly formed, and the channel regions are disposed to face the gate electrodes.

Thin film transistor array and displaying apparatus

An exhaust manifold connected to exhaust ports of at least three straightly-arranged cylinders of an internal combustion engine is constructed by a primary exhaust pipe which extends from the foremost cylinder of the cylinders in the rearward direction of the engine along the direction of the straight arrangement of the cylinders and a plurality of secondary exhaust pipes which extend from the other cylinders except for the foremost cylinder to the primary exhaust pipe. The secondary exhaust pipes are collected to the primary exhaust pipe so that downstream end portions of the secondary exhaust pipes are wound into the center axis of the primary exhaust pipe at a plurality of points on the center axis, respectively.

Exhaust manifold for internal combustion engine

An image processing device includes a detecting unit configured to detect an external light reflection region from an input image, and a determining unit configured to determine the glossiness of said external light reflection region, and determines whether or not the reflection of the external reflection region is specular reflection, and extracts a gloss region based on the determination result.

Image processing device and method for extracting a gloss region

A video-signal processing apparatus includes a video-signal input unit to which a video signal including multiple images arranged in a time sequential manner is input; a time-division output unit configured to output, in a time-division manner, the video signal constituting n images corresponding to the multiple images; signal processing units configured to individually perform image quality adjustments on the n images output from the time-division output unit; operation input units through which adjustment values of the image quality adjustments performed by the signal processing units are input; and image output units configured to output images that have been subjected to the image quality adjustments using the signal processing units.

Video-signal processing apparatus, video-signal processing method, and video-signal processing system

A display device includes: a reflection property control layer which is disposed in the front face of a display screen, whereby reflection properties are switched for each predetermined region; and a control unit configured to switch the reflection properties of the reflection property control layer depending on an input image, with the control means detecting a gloss region from the input image, and switching the reflection properties of a predetermined region according to the relevant detection result.

Reflection property control layer and display device

An ROI setting apparatus including an ROI recognition unit and an ROI control unit is provided. In one embodiment, the ROI recognition unit contains multiple ROI recognition modules for recognizing an ROI of image data according to various methods to obtain a recognition result. The ROI control unit selects one ROI recognition module out of the ROI recognition modules and sets ROI information based on the recognition result. The ROI recognition module may be selected according to an instruction from a user input via an operation unit, or a scene type selected by a scene selection switch of an image capture unit. The ROI control unit may perform operations such as selecting, enlarging, or reducing the ROI recognized by the ROI recognition module, or changing the ROI recognition conditions according to the respective instructions from the user input via the operation unit.

Method and apparatus for setting a region of interest in image data

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Yokohama, Japan

Takao Inoue