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Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.

Takuya Wada

Shoei Kobayashi

Hiroshi Ohki

Takeshi Funahashi

Yoshiyasu Kubota

Tadayori Nakayama

Yoshihiro Tsukamura

Yasushi Fujita

Hitoshi Ito

Keiichi Shinozaki

Yuji Himeno

Shinichi Yamamura

A synthetic resin bottle prevents a trunk from undergoing unsightly deformation in response to reduced pressure inside the bottle and also increases flexibility in terms of container design and secures a label attachment area sufficiently. A synthetic resin bottle includes a mouth, a trunk, and a bottom, with a reduced pressure absorbing region configured to be displaced toward the inside of the bottle in response to reduced pressure inside the bottle. The trunk includes a cylindrical-shaped straight region, which has a length of not less than 100 mm in an axis direction extending along a center axis of the trunk and in which no irregularities are provided. The straight region has a weight of not less than 11 times a weight of the reduced pressure absorbing region.

Synthetic resin bottle

By employing template matching using a collation image which is obtained by using a proper technique to binarize an input digital image for fingerprint identification, and a plurality of templates which are recorded beforehand, a fingerprint identification apparatus and method determine whether identity is established between the collation image and each of the recorded images from which recorded templates are extracted. Instead of checking positional relationships among all addresses having high degrees of matching detected for each template, positional relationship checking is performed between addresses detected about adjacent templates. This can greatly reduce the number of combinations for matching, and enables rapid processing. The fingerprint identification apparatus and method are resistant to a change in finger shape since they perform processing for physically close templates, compared with the case of performing processing for separate templates.

Fingerprint identification apparatus and fingerprint identification method

The random number generating apparatus includes as a random number generation block: an A/D converter for converting a pick-up signal output from a pick-up block, into a digital image; a memory where the digital image is stored as pixel values; and a random number generator for extracting a digital data from pixel values of a plurality of pixels within the digital image of the pick-up signal output when no subject is present from the pick-up block stored in the memory and generating a random number from the digital data correlated to the plurality of pixels. Thus, it is possible to generate a random number having a long periodicity.

Random number generation apparatus and random number generation method

Machine for identifying fingerprint

A fingerprint image processing device and fingerprint image processing method used for instance in fingerprint check devices which reliably processes the fingerprint image by detecting the ripple DM of the brightness level of the fingerprint image and starts the processing of a fingerprint image based on the ripple DM.

Fingerprint image processing device and fingerprint image processing method

An image collating apparatus, e.g. a fingerprint comparing apparatus, is enabled to obtain reliable collation results with a simple configuration. A plurality of areas cut out of 1 image to be processed is caused to scan another image to detect the distributions of the degrees of coincidence; these distributions of the degrees of coincidence are corrected with the positional relationship among the areas; the corrected distributions are summed up; and the coincidence or non-coincidence between the two images is judged on the basis of the resultant sum of the distributions of the degrees of coincidence

Fingerprint comparing apparatus

A reproducing apparatus reproduces an information signal from a card type optical recording medium from which an information signal can be optically read out and on which an information signal is discretely recorded as a plurality of blocks each consisting of a plurality of track trains. The apparatus comprises a detector formed with a plurality of detecting elements arranged two-dimensionally. A light beam from a reproducing light source irradiates the entire area of the block as a recording unit. The detector detects light reflected from the optical card, and a extractor extracts a detection output of one of the track trains in the block on the basis of a detection output from the detector.

Reproducing apparatus for an optical recording medium

Apparatus for reproducing optical card data without position indicators

An apparatus for recording optical cards wherein checking words or inspection words based upon an error correction code are added to information data signals to be recorded, and signals which have been scrambled are recorded in the form of a block that can be optically read onto a belt-like optical recording medium of a card at intervals of a predetermined number of words that are distributed for a data track, and/or an apparatus for reproducing optical cards wherein signals that are read from the thus recorded optical card by a card reader, are descrambled thereby to reproduce the original data signals. Scrambling consists, for example, of so arranging the words that each is delayed by two words in the data track direction and that they are delayed by k tracks, where k is an integer, in the direction perpendicular to the data track, and placing the word at the head of the block at a position of a word number of which the phase is shifted by one word from the word number at the head of the block when the word that has reached the end of the data track is to be wrapped around to the other end and delayed, and then delaying each word by two words in the data track direction.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Takuya Wada