Fujitsu Corporation

Toshiba Storage Device Corporation

Takuya Kamimura

Koji Matsumoto

Hiroyasu Yoshikawa

Yukio Hirai

Takeshi Morikawa

Masayoshi Shimizu

Tsutomu Tanaka

Ken Tamanoi

Yuzuru Yamakage

Shingo Hamaguchi

Nobuyuki Kanto

Akira Nakagawa

Masakazu Taguchi

Takeshi Otani

Jun Takahashi

Shinji Kikuchi

Koichi Iida

Seiji Okura

Mineo Moribe

Keiji Shono

Akinori Taguchi

Kentaro Murase

Yuta Masuda

Toshiyuki Fukuoka

Junya Saito

An apparatus receives, via an input device, query input data including a word or a phrase, and acquires search result set data using the query input data. The apparatus acquires, for a value indicating a strength of a relationship between each impression word included in an impression word group and each word included in the query input data, and extracts the first feature word group according to the value indicating the strength of the relationship with each word, from the impression word group. The apparatus displays the search result set data using the first feature word group as an item.

Search method and search device

A line-of-sight analysis method, performed by a computer, includes: identifying, when a selection event with respect to a first object out of a plurality of objects is detected, a second object different from the first object, based on a detection status of line-of-sight relative to the objects in a most recent time period of the selection event; and outputting information indicating the identified second object.

Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for storing line-of-sight analysis program, line-of-sight analysis method, and line-of-sight analysis apparatus

A gaze detection apparatus includes a light source which illuminates a user's eye, an imaging unit which generates an image by capturing the image of a user's face, and a processor adapted to: estimate a distance between the imaging unit and the user's face; calculate the ratio of the distance between the imaging unit and the user's face to a separation distance between the imaging unit and the light source and determine, based on the ratio, whether a bright pupil phenomenon occurs; detect from the captured image a corneal reflection image of the light source and a center of the user's pupil when determining that the bright pupil phenomenon does not occur; and detect the user's gaze direction or gaze position based on a positional relationship between the center of the user's pupil and the corneal reflection image when determining that the bright pupil phenomenon does not occur.

Gaze detection apparatus, gaze detection computer program, and display apparatus

A determining unit determines which one of a plurality of divided areas in color distribution a value of an input image single falls within. The plurality of divided areas are defined for each of R, G, and B color components, and the determining unit determines, for each color component, which one of the plurality of divided areas the value of the input image signal falls within. An image correcting unit reads correction coefficients corresponding to the determined divided area for each color component from a correction coefficient storing unit in which correction coefficients are registered for each of the color components and each of the divided areas. The image correcting unit calculates each of R, G, and B output values of an output image signal using the correction coefficients of the individual color components read from the correction coefficient storing unit.

Image processing apparatus and image pickup apparatus

A memory unit stores as conversion information which is derived based on a correction coefficient which provides, in a predetermined allowable range from a minimum value, a sum of a norm of a difference between a color difference of a correction target color and a target color which is a target of correction of the correction target color and a correction color obtained by correcting the correction target color using the correction coefficient, and a norm of the correction coefficient to which a predetermined weight coefficient is applied. A color correcting unit converts a color of each pixel of an image captured by an image capturing unit based on the conversion information.

Device and computer-readable recording medium for imaging and image processing with color correction

A thermally assisted magnetic recording method includes the following steps. The recording layer of a magnetic recording medium is irradiated with a laser beam to produce a locally heated region. This heated region is moved by causing the recording layer and the laser beam to move relative to each other. To record desired information, a recording magnetic field is applied to the heated region of the recording layer. The laser beam has a cross section elongated in the direction in which the heated region is moved.

Thermally assisted magnetic recording method

A magnetic recording medium includes a substrate and a recording layer formed on the substrate. The recording layer is provided with a plurality of information tracks each having a track servo signal region and a user data region. Adjacent information tracks are separated by non-magnetic material. The track servo signal region includes a plurality of magnetic portions arranged in a track-extending direction and non-magnetic portions interposed between the magnetic portions. The user data region includes magnetic portions arranged in the track-extending direction. The coercive force of the magnetic portions in the track servo signal region is different from that of the magnetic portions in the user data region. For instance, the former coercive force is weaker than the latter coercive force.

Magnetic recording medium

A thermally assisted magnetic recording medium includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. A recording layer is formed on the first surface of the substrate. A plurality of thermally conductive regions are provided at the first surface of the substrate to extend in parallel to each other and about the center of rotation of the recording medium. The thermally conductive regions have a higher thermal conductivity than the substrate, and are at least partially embedded in the substrate.

Thermally assisted magnetic recording medium

A recording medium includes a substrate, a recording layer provided with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy for recording of information, a foundation layer disposed between the substrate and the recording layer, an initial layer which is greater in surface tension than the foundation layer and held in contact with a recoding-layer-side surface of the foundation layer, and a functional layer held in contact with a recoding-layer-side surface of the initial layer.

Recording medium and method of making the same

The invention is a magneto-optical recording medium characterized by containing at least a soft magnetic layer, a protective layer, a resin layer having a servo pattern formed thereon, a reflecting film, a lower dielectric material film, a recording film, an upper dielectric material film, and a cover layer, formed on a substrate in this order.

Magneto-optical recording medium including a soft magnetic layer, a protective layer and a silane coupling agent layer, in this order

A magneto-optical recording medium includes at least a reflective layer and a recording layer formed in this order on a substrate, in which record and reproduction of information are carried out by irradiating the medium with laser beam from a recording layer side. The reflective layer includes two or more thin film layers different in surface roughness, of which one near the substrate has a surface tension smaller than a surface tension of one near the recording layer. The medium exhibits a coercive force and CNR of a recording layer of a magneto-optical recording medium to realize high density recording by contriving the constitution of the recording layer.

Magneto-optical recording medium with reflective layer formed from two thin films possessing different surface tensions

An information recording method and an apparatus therefor, wherein a recording compensation controlling unit receives data to be recorded and determines whether a pulse timing adjustment is to be performed or not, and instructs an APC to adjust the timing thereby to advance the pulse start timing of laser light and/or to delay the pulse termination timing when the pulse timing adjustment is to be performed. The recording compensation controlling unit determines the pulse timing adjustment corresponding to the presence or absence of a predetermined &ldquo;space, record mark&rdquo;, whereby the positional shift quantity of leading and trailing edges is reduced even for the marks having a fine dimension, and the jitter is reduced.

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Takuya Kamimura