Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Takara Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Tetsuya Ikeda

Minoru Danno

Hidenobu Kishi

Takuya Hiraoka

Takayuki Kunieda

Ryutaro Yamanaka

Yasushi Ogawa

Kensaku Yamamoto

Junko Nakano

Kazushige Asada

Hiroshi Takegawa

Hidetoshi Suzuki

Takashi Yano

Takuya Okamoto

Susumu Okino

Seiji Kagawa

Kaoru Maeda

Futoshi Oseto

Hideo Itoh

Atsushi Iizawa

Yukari Yoshiura

Shiro Horibe

An system comprises: a first storage that stores access destination information, characteristic information, and first identification information in a manner associated with one another; a transmitter that transmits a captured image of a medium; a first-acquiring-unit that extracts the characteristic information and acquires the access destination information and the first identification information associated with the characteristic information, access based on the access destination information being controlled by an authentication device comprising a second storage that stores second identification information allocated to each medium, third identification information corresponding to the first identification information, and collation information indicating an access source in a manner associated with one another; a second-acquiring-unit that acquires fourth identification information allocated to each medium from the captured image; and an access unit that transmits the first identification information, the fourth identification information, and the collation information when accessing an access destination indicated by the access destination information.

Information processing system, access method, and terminal device

An information processing system includes an information processing apparatus and one or more terminal devices. The information processing system includes: an image transmitting unit configured to transmit an image; an image acquiring unit configured to acquire the image transmitted by the image transmitting unit, and assign unique identification information to the acquired image; a feature information extracting unit configured to extract feature information from the image acquired by the image acquiring unit; a first image storage unit configured to store therein the feature information and the identification information in an associated manner; and a managing unit configured to, when an amount of the feature information stored in the first image storage unit exceeds a threshold, change the first image storage unit into a second image storage unit, generate a new first image storage unit, and prohibit the second image storage unit from storing therein new feature information.

Information processing system, information processing method, and information processing apparatus

A searching apparatus comprising: a storage unit that stores therein indexes for searching for an object included in an image and cooperative information indicating a function of cooperating with the object in association with each other; a receiving unit that receives a captured image; an extracting unit that extracts an object included in the captured image; a calculating unit that calculates a degree of similarity between the object searched for by an index stored in the storage unit and the object extracted from the captured image by the extracting unit; a searching unit that searches for one or more objects based on the degree of similarity from the storage unit; and a presenting unit that presents the cooperative information associated with the index corresponding to the object as a search result of the searching unit to a source of the captured image.

Searching apparatus, searching method, and searching system

A search apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store indexes for searching for an object included in an image, link information indicating a function of providing a link for the object, and first supplementary information in association with each other; a receiving unit configured to receive a captured image through a network; a searching unit configured to search for an index for searching for an object included in the received captured image from among the indexes stored in the storage unit based on the object included in the received captured image and second supplementary information for the received captured image, the index being identified based on the first supplementary information and the second supplementary information for the received captured image; and a presenting unit configured to present the link information associated with the index searched for by the searching unit to a source that has transmitted the captured image.

Search apparatus configured to utilize supplemental information to identify an index associated with a captured image, search method, and search system configured to perform the same

There is provided a device for monitoring a thickness reduction of an inner surface in a heat transfer tube or an inner surface in an evaporation tube, the device including: a movement unit which moves along a fin tube; a laser measurement unit which is provided in the movement unit and measures the thickness reduction of the inner surface by a laser; a cable which includes a light guiding path for introducing a laser into the laser measurement unit and a light deriving path for transmitting reflected light; and a thickness reduction determining unit which compares the laser measurement data with past data or standard data and determines the current thickness reduction.

Device for monitoring thickness reduction of inner surface in heat transfer tube or inner surface in evaporation tube

An information processing apparatus is disclosed which determines, based on fitness to a specified condition, an order of displaying multiple to-be-searched information items which are pre-stored. The apparatus includes a specifying-condition information obtaining unit, an index-information obtaining unit, a population-limiting information obtaining unit, an index-information modifying unit, and a fitness calculating unit.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program and recording medium for determining an order of displaying search items

An apparatus and method of searching an electronic document are disclosed. A document that is assumed to contain a search symbol set is searched. The search symbol set is a symbol set being extracted from a plurality of symbols representing a search request when the symbol set being extracted satisfies a predetermined condition.

Apparatus and method of searching document data

When a search request is input, an initial search result that matches the search request is displayed to a user. When a seed document set is selected by the user from the initial search result, an extension word set is extracted from the seed document set. Using the extension word set in addition to the search request, another search is performed.

Searching a document using relevance feedback

When a number of document data registered in one of full-text index-for-registration/deletion storage parts reaches a predetermined number, or when a capacity of the full-text index-for-registration/deletion storage part reaches a predetermined capacity, a merge processing is performed for merging data from the full-text index-for-registration/deletion storage part to a full-text index-for-search storage part. While this merge processing is performed, a registration/deletion processing is performed by using another full-text index-for-registration/deletion storage part.

Full-text search device performing merge processing by using full-text index-for-registration/ deletion storage part with performing registration/deletion processing by using other full-text index-for-registration/deletion storage part

Full-text search device performing merge processing by using full-text index-for-registration/deletion storage part with performing registration/deletion processing by using other full-text index-for-registration/deletion storage part

A compressed mode outbound propagation path quality information transmitting method and an outbound propagation path quality information transmitting apparatus are disclosed that enable a mobile station to maintain reception performance virtually equal to that of a conventional compressed mode outbound propagation path quality information transmitting method, and enable operation control relating to received signal measurement and so forth necessary for generating outbound propagation path quality information transmitted on an uplink to be performed easily. Provision is made so that, in compressed mode in which transmission gap intervals appear in both a downlink and uplink, a mobile station does not carry over outbound propagation path quality information generated based on a received signal preceding the beginning of that downlink transmission gap interval until that downlink transmission gap interval and uplink transmission gap interval both end.

Method and apparatus for transmitting downstream propagation path quality information in compressed mode

Counter control sectionincrements a row number and column number on a two-dimensional array for a block interleave expressed by a matrix two-dimensional array, outputs the incremented numbers as the read address values, bit inversion apparatusperforms bit inversion using the read address values as inputs, column conversion sectionoutputs the address values corresponding to the bit inversion output values and the column numbers from counter control sectionas the column conversion values, shift registerbit-shifts the output values of bit inversion apparatusand outputs as the address offset values, adderadds up the address offset values and column conversion values and size comparison sectioncompares the addition value with the interleave size and outputs data which is not greater than the interleave size as address values.

Interleave address generation device and interleave address generation method

A discharge tube ( ) made of a dielectric material extends through a hole ( ) of a rectangular waveguide ( ) and through a coaxial microwave cavity ( ) so as to be coaxial with the central axis of the cavity ( ). This discharge tube ( ) has a double-tube structure including an outer tube ( ) and an inner tube ( ). The sectional area of an annular gap formed between the outer tube ( ) and the inner tube ( ) is held constant over the entire length of the inner tube ( ). This allows the generation of a stable thermal plasma when a reaction gas containing an organic halide and water vapor is supplied into the outer tube through the annular gap with a microwave transmitted from the rectangular waveguide ( ) into the cavity ( ).

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Tokyo, Japan

Tetsuya Ikeda