Clarion Co

Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Elpida Memory, Inc.

Sony Corporation

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Hitachi, Ltd.

Olympus Corporation

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Other

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Asahi Glass Company, Limited

Synaptics Corporation

Hitachi Ulsi Systems Co., Ltd.

Takeshi Hashimoto

Yutaka Ito

Tatsushi Nashida

Masaki Takahashi

Shinichi Mihara

Takashi Matsui

Tetsuo Watanabe

Motoki Kobayashi

Kenji Kono

Yoshitaka Uchida

Ikutoshi Fukushima

Yoshiaki Tsukada

Shinya Matsumoto

Petr Shepelev

Shinichi Hayashi

Hayato Ida

Hiroyuki Fujikawa

Nozomu Komatsu

Yutaka Takata

Takakuni Kobori

Yasuhiro Fujita

Mitsuru Namiki

Kiyoshi Nakai

Tatsuo Nakata

Kentaro Kamae

Makoto Furuhashi

Miki Ueda

Tetsuo Tanemura

Takayuki Noto

Ichiro Kanno

Shinichi Nakayama

Norihiko Aoki

Akiyoshi Hashimoto

Masayuki Hama

Nobuo Yamazaki

Shinichi Takimoto

Yosuke Iwasaki

Naoto Okino

Hideki Kaneko

Kazutomo Fukue

Takatomi Kumagai

Hideyuki Morita

Susumu Okubo

Satoru Yamanaka

Hideya Muraoka

Masayuki Kaneda

Tetsuya Murai

Tomio Makino

Andrew R Thaler

Toru Hikichi

Hideaki Kato

Fumiyuki Shiratani

Naoki Inoue

Yukihiro Abe

Shigeo Takeuchi

Hiroaki Uchitani

Hiroyuki Minakata

Naotaka Kobayashi

Hirokazu Kubo

Takahiro Yamamoto

Koji Kasai

Kazuhisa Shirayama

Shigeo Akazawa

Tsuyoshi Kuroiwa

Kimiaki Yamamoto

Kohei Matsuzawa

Takahide Konchi

Kazuki Murata

Kohji Takenaka

Takashi Kogawa

Kenta Kawanishi

Hiroshi Takeyama

Megumi Shino

Tomoya Takigawa

Mikihiko Terashima

Katsuo Onozaki

Junichi Kitagawa

Kazuyoshi Teramoto

Arnulf Graf

Eiji Yamasaki

Tsutomu Inanobe

Hiromitsu Kojima

Hiroyuki Ugajin

Masatsugu Yamanaka, Deceased

Tomoyuki Suzuka

HaThanh Nguyen

Toshihiro Fueki

Jun Song

Provided is a toner comprising: a toner particle containing a binder resin; and an organic silicon polymer particle on a surface of the toner particle, wherein the binder resin contains a crystalline resin, and when the toner particle is pelletized and a Young's modulus of the toner measured in a micro compression test at 25° C. is represented by TE (MPa) and when one organic silicon polymer particle is separated from the toner and a Young's modulus of the one organic silicon polymer particle measured in a micro compression test at 25° C. is represented by SiE (MPa), TE and SiE satisfies 800≤TE≤2500 and 1.5≤SiE/TE≤10.0.

Toner

A filter generation apparatus includes: a coefficient calculation unit that performs IFFT on a frequency characteristic of a frequency domain filter and calculates a filter coefficient of a linear phase FIR filter; a conversion unit that converts the filter coefficient to a filter coefficient of a minimum phase FIR filter; a coefficient generation unit that generates a filter coefficient of an approximation filter by executing cut-out processing to a filter length set by a filter length setting unit and rounding processing performed by a window function on the filter coefficient; an error calculation unit that calculates an error of a frequency characteristic corresponding to the approximation filter with respect to the frequency characteristic of the frequency domain filter; and a filter storage unit that stores the filter coefficient therein as a filter coefficient that specifies a new filter when the error is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold value.

Filter generation apparatus and recording medium

A vibration signal generation apparatus includes an absolute value signal generator configured to generate an absolute value signal by detecting an absolute value of amplitude of an acoustic signal, an envelope signal generator configured to generate an envelope signal by detecting an envelope of the absolute value signal, a differentiator configured to differentiate the envelope signal, an amplitude limiter configured to generate an amplitude-limited signal by limiting amplitude of the envelope signal so that an amplitude value of the differentiated envelope signal becomes zero or greater, and a vibration signal generator configured to generate a vibration signal by multiplying the amplitude-limited signal by a reference signal having a frequency that allows a human to perceive a vibration.

Vibration signal generation apparatus and computer-readable, non-transitory storage medium storing vibration signal generation program

A signal processing device according to aspects of the present disclosures comprises a measuring section configured to measure an impulse response between each of a plurality of speakers and a predetermined listening position, a Fourier transformer configured to obtain a frequency spectrum corresponding to each of the plurality of speakers by applying a Fourier transform, a phase adjustment amount calculator configured to calculate a phase adjustment amount for each frequency, a band detector configured to detect a leading phase band, a phase converter configured to convert a phase of the leading phase band to a lagging phase, and a filter coefficient generator configured to generate a filter coefficient based on the phase adjustment amount after conversion by the phase converter.

Signal processing device for filter coefficient generation, signal processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium therefor

A frequency compressor of a vibration output apparatus generates a compressed signal by converting frequency components of a mid-band signal into low-band frequency components of a low-band signal by increasing the total number of samples by a factor of n and thus compressing the frequency of amplitude information included in mid-band frequency components of the mid-band signal to 1/n. If the level of a low-band envelope signal is lower than a predetermined threshold level, a vibration signal generator generates a vibration signal by combining the compressed signal with the low-band signal consisting of the low-band frequency components of an acoustic signal. If the level of the low-band envelope signal is higher than the predetermined threshold level, the vibration signal generator generates a vibration signal by directly using the low-band signal. A vibration output unit outputs a vibration on the basis of the generated vibration signal.

Vibration output apparatus and computer-readable, non-transitory storage medium storing vibration output program

A utility vehicle equipped with a cover displaceably attached to a chassis through a suspension mechanism, each suspension mechanism includes a shaft installed between the chassis and cover, a guide member having a plate member provided on lower half of the shaft and multiple plates installed above and below the plate member to be contactable with the plate member and respectively formed at their centers with through holes for passage of the shaft, a compression spring of roughly frustoconical shape for biasing the cover toward the chassis whose upper seating edge is attached to upper half of the shaft and lower seating edge is attached to periphery of the through hole of the cover, and an elastic member of roughly frustoconical shape formed at its center with a through hole to pass the shaft therethrough, wherein the cover is formed in roughly frustoconical shape similar to the elastic member.

Utility vehicle with spring suspension between cover and chassis

A signal delay adjustment device for individually setting delay times of audio signals supplied to a plurality of speakers and individually delaying the audio signals supplied to the plurality of speakers with set delay times to adjust output timings of sounds among the plurality of speakers is configured to include a setting part to set a delay time applied to the audio signal for each speaker, and a delay part for individually delaying the audio signal to be supplied to the plurality of speakers based on the delay time set by the setting part. The delay part gradually changes the delay time to be applied to the audio signal over a predetermined time so that the delay time to be applied to the audio signal reaches the delay time set by the setting part over the predetermined time.

Signal delay adjustment device, signal delay adjustment method, and signal processing device

A sensing device comprises sensor electrodes arranged in an array of rows and columns, and vias. A first vias is arranged in a first direction, and corresponds to a first column of sensor electrodes adjacent to a first side edge of the sensing device. A second via is arranged in a second direction different than the first direction, and corresponds to a second column of the sensor electrodes adjacent to a second side edge of the sensing device. Each of the sensor electrodes is configured to be coupled to a routing trace through one of the vias. In a first row of the plurality of sensor electrodes, a two vias are different distances from the first side edge and in a second row of the plurality of sensor electrodes, two vias are different distances from the second side edge.

Sensor electrode patterns for input devices

A notification apparatus () includes a first signal converter () disposed in a cushion of a seat () and configured to convert a vibration transmitted to the seat () into a seat vibration signal, a second signal converter () disposed in a position other than the cushion and configured to detect a transmitted vibration and to convert into an input vibration signal, a level difference calculator () configured to calculate a signal level difference &#x394;G by subtracting a signal level of the seat vibration signal from a signal level of the input vibration signal, a notification aspect determination unit () configured to determine a notification aspect for making a notification to a user, on the basis of a value of the signal level difference &#x394;G, and a notification execution unit () configured to, when acquiring notification information, make the notification on the basis of the notification aspect.

Notification apparatus and notification method

To allow an alarm vibration generated by a vibration generator to be recognized by a user through a vibration transmission member. A vehicle alarm device () includes a vibration generator () configured to generate an alarm vibration having a frequency corresponding to a frequency of a received alarm signal, a vibration transmission member () configured to transmit the alarm vibration to a user, a travel situation information acquisition unit () configured to acquire travel situation information in accordance with a travel situation of the vehicle, and an alarm signal generator () configured to generate the alarm signal such that when the value of the acquired travel situation information is high, a signal to be inputted to the vibration generator () includes at least a high-band frequency and such that when the value of the travel situation information is low, the signal to be inputted to the vibration generator () includes at least a low-band frequency.

Vehicle alarm device and vehicle alarm method

A vibration generation device () includes a frequency information recorder () configured to record frequency values of inputted measurement signals such that the frequency values are associated with measurement positions of vibrations on the seat originally generated by the vibration generator () on the basis of the measurement signals and transmitted to the seat by the vibration transmission member and an output signal generator () configured to obtain a frequency value of a measurement position corresponding to a desired position from the frequency information recorder () and to generate an output signal having the frequency value.

Vibration generation device and vibration generation method

A media drive is loaded with a ROM medium on which a plurality of files constituting an application are recorded. A readout block reads out data from the media drive. A memory temporarily stores the read-out data. A providing block provides the data stored in the memory to game software. A recording processing block records the data stored in the memory in an auxiliary storage device.

Information processing device and method for managing file

Attenuation of output levels is suppressed while interference due to a plurality of vibrators is reduced. An acoustic control deviceperforms correction processing of correcting phase delay characteristics including transmission systems from excitersL andR which are first and second vibrators connected with a rigid body, on acoustic signals SR and SL. Thereafter, the acoustic control devicecontrols the excitersL andR on the basis of the corrected acoustic signals SLand SR

Acoustic device and acoustic control device

Provided is a notification device and notification method that reduce the output and power consumption of an amplifier or the like and allow a user to sufficiently feel the presence or absence of notification through vibration. A notification device () includes a sweep signal generator () configured to generate a detection sweep signal by continuously changing the frequency in a frequency band in which a speaker () can cause a user to feel a signal in the form of vibration, a vibration detector () configured to detect vibration outputted from the speaker (), and a sound measurement unit () configured to detect, as a sweep frequency band, a frequency band in which vibration indicates signal levels equal to or higher than a threshold. The sweep signal generator () generates a resonance sweep signal by changing the frequency in the sweep frequency band and causes the speaker () to generate vibration.

Notification device and notification method

A lawn mower includes a driving source mounting portion formed in a traveling frame, a driving source mounted in the driving source mounting portion, and a lawn mowing unit attached to the driving source. A bottom surface of the traveling frame includes a frame-side seal surface surrounding the lower end of the driving source mounting portion, and a lawn mowing unit peripheral surface surrounding the frame-side seal surface. A waterproof member is in tight contact with the frame-side seal surface. The lawn mowing unit peripheral surface is formed over a range from an outer circumferential edge of the frame-side seal surface to an outer circumferential edge of the lawn mowing unit. A boundary between the frame-side seal surface and lawn mowing unit peripheral surface is formed into the shape of a step.

Lawn mower with waterproofed driving source

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Motomiya, Japan

Takeshi Hashimoto