Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Corporation

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Asahi Glass Company, Limited

Oiles Corporation

Futaba Corporation

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Disco Corporation

Elity Power Co., Ltd.

Tomohiro Yamada

Ryo Kuroda

Natsuhiko Mizutani

Wataru Kokubo

Kunihito Sawai

Nobuhiko Ooguchi

Yasuhisa Inao

Yoichiro Handa

Masaya Ogino

Ryosuke Aoki

Masahiro Kato

Atsushi Ishihara

Tomoki Watanabe

Hitoshi Toki

Takako Yamaguchi

Takuji Oyama

Takashi Isezaki

Yoshihiko Wakabayashi

Hidenori Shiotsuka

Kouichi Morishige

Satoshi Kubota

Junta Yamamichi

Eiji Shidoji

Satoru Nishiuma

Arinobu Niijima

Yoshihiro Chosokabe

Nobuhiko Ohguchi

Takuya Hamada

Ayumu Ono

Hiroyuki Takahashi

Koji Tanaka

Koji Matsuno

Kazuhiro Yoshida

Satoru Akiyama

Kazuhito Kurita

Takeshi Yoneda

Akihiro Kikuchi

Akira Mitsui

Masaru Kogure

Eiichi Ando

Yoshiteru Igarashi

Takashi Takamatsu

Koichi Inoue

Tadami Nakamura

Toshihiko Higuchi

Katsunori Saito

Tsuyoshi Harada

Makoto Oigawa

Hiroyuki Kuriyama

Kentaro Furusawa

Yoshiteru Nishida

Masato Igarashi

Hidekazu Iida

Kenta Chito

Kenichi Tamura

Takahiro Takahashi

Hisashi Ohsaki

Susumu Yokoo

Toshihiko Sekine

Shigenori Asakura

Kana Eguchi

Toshihisa Kamiyama

Kazunori Kitagawa

Yosuke Morokuma

Keisuke Hosokawa

Mana Sasagawa

Ryoko Fujiya

Takahiro Mashimo

Satoru Minowa

Masaharu Iwasa

Yoshiteru Iagarashi

Hirowatari Yosuke

Tadaomi Mori

A theme phrase feature value calculation unitcalculates a feature value Fof a given theme phrase Q based on the cosine similarity with a feature keyword of a feature keyword DB. A positive/negative example determination unitapplies the feature value Fto a positive/negative example determination model to determine whether a response phrase A is a positive example or a negative example. A response phrase score calculation unitcalculates the cosine similarity between the theme phrase Q and a plurality of theme phrases that form a pair with a response phrase A determined to be a positive example, and the highest value of the calculated cosine similarity is set as a score of the response phrase A. A response phrase selection unitselects the response phrase indicating the maximum score as the response phrase for the theme phrase Q.

Response phrase selection device and method

The number n of times of chewing is counted by chewing number of times calculation means () based on a change in the distance l from a photoreflector (), which is received together with time t by measurement value receiving means (). To vary hardness h of a bag () to a stage that can be sensed, according to the number n of times of chewing, a required air pressure is set according to the current number n of times, based on a hardness/air pressure correspondence recording unit () in which stages that have a significant difference therebetween and are stored in association with the number n of times of chewing are recorded. To realize the set air pressure inside the bag (), the amount of sucking performed using a vacuum pumpis controlled by air pressure control means ().

Pseudo food texture presentation device, pseudo food texture presentation method, and program

An embodiment of the present invention is provided with a projective transform model including a plurality of nodes and a projection table, the plurality of nodes each holding a reference vector having a dimension corresponding to the dimension of multi-dimensional data. The projection table indicates the correspondence relation between the number of each node and a coordinate in a two-dimensional space as a projection target of the reference vector held by the node. First in a learning phase, multi-dimensional input data of a positive example and a negative example is acquired, the amplitude characteristic amounts thereof are calculated, and this amplitude characteristic amount data is learned as the reference vectors of the nodes for each sample. Subsequently, the Euclidean distance between coordinates when the nodes learned based on the amplitude characteristic amount data of the positive example and the nodes learned based on the amplitude characteristic amount data of the negative example are projected into the two-dimensional space in accordance with the projection table is calculated, and coordinates in the projection table are updated so that the calculated Euclidean distance becomes equal to or larger than a threshold value.

Multidimensional data visualization apparatus, method, and program

A reliable technology for determining the masticatory side of the user is provided. First and second electromyographic waveforms respectively originating from left and right muscles related to masticatory actions of a user are acquired; a coefficient of correlation between pieces of information respectively extracted from the first and the second electromyographic waveforms is calculated as a first feature value; a second feature value is calculated from a power spectrum obtained by performing frequency analysis on the first electromyographic waveform; a third feature value is calculated from a power spectrum obtained by performing frequency analysis on the second electromyographic waveform; a learning model is generated by associating the first, second, and third feature values with a plurality of labels; and the masticatory side of the user is determined based on first, second, and third feature values calculated from a newly acquired electromyographic waveform and the learning model.

Learning model-generating apparatus, method, and program for assessing favored chewing side as well as determination device, method, and program for determining favored chewing side

An instantaneous heartbeat reliability evaluation apparatus includes: extraction means which extracts waveforms having a maximum value corresponding to depolarization of a heart in a biosignal of an examinee; first calculation means which calculates an interval between two waveforms neighboring in a time series; dividing means which divides a signal output from measurement means into signals of predetermined periods; second calculation means which calculates feature quantities of a potential of each divided signal; first evaluation means which evaluates whether a measurement state of each divided signal is normal or abnormal on the basis of feature quantities; and second evaluation means which evaluates measurement states of two neighboring extracted waveforms on the basis of an evaluation result obtained by the first evaluation means and evaluates reliability of a measurement state of the interval between the waveforms depending on a type of the evaluated measurement states of the waveforms.

Instantaneous heartbeat reliability evaluation device, method, and program

A thrust sliding bearing in which a dust cover that covers a piston rod of a strut type suspension can be securely and easily assembled to a lower case that is arranged under an upper case, and to provide the thrust sliding bearing whose mold structure for molding the lower case can be simple. In a thrust sliding bearing, a lower case, which rotatably slides around an axial center of an upper case, includes a plurality of upper tongues for engaging with at least a case-side protrusion of the upper case and a plurality of lower tongues for engaging with at least a cover-side protrusion of a dust cover, and the upper tongues and the lower tongues of the lower case protrude in the direction toward the axial center from an inner circumferential surface of a cylindrical portion provided in the lower case so as not to overlap each other in the direction of the axial center.

Thrust sliding bearing

A control device that controls a vehicle includes: an input unit to which an image including another vehicle or a driver of another vehicle is input; and a control unit that outputs a signal for controlling the vehicle generated based on danger in the another vehicle determined based on the image.

Control device, control method, and non-transitory storage medium

Provided is a slide bearing capable of retaining strength while achieving weight reduction and cost-cutting. The slide bearing has an upper case () to be attached to an upper support for attaching a suspension to a vehicle body, a lower case () rotatably combined with the upper case (), an annular center plate () located between the upper case () and the lower case (), and an annular sliding sheet () located between the upper case () and the center plate (). The lower case () has a lower case body () in a substantial cylindrical shape, a flange part () projecting radially outward from an outer peripheral surface of the lower case body (), and hollow sections () formed on an outer peripheral surface of the flange part (). A plurality of the hollow sections () are formed at equal intervals in a circumferential direction on the outer peripheral surface of the flange part ().

Slide bearing

An electrostatic chuck is provided and has a holding surface for holding a wafer with a tape attached to one side of the wafer where the tape is in contact with the holding surface. The electrostatic chuck includes a disk-shaped member having a plurality of fine holes communicating with a vacuum source, where the fine holes are exposed to the holding surface. The disk-shaped member also includes a plurality of asperities formed on the holding surface and connected to the fine holes, and an electrode embedded in the disk-shaped member. The vacuum source is operated to produce a vacuum on the holding surface through the fine holes and thereby hold the wafer through the tape on the holding surface under suction, where the asperities formed on the holding surface function as a suction passage communicating with the fine holes.

Electrostatic chuck

Provided is a slide bearing of lower cost that is capable of preventing the intrusion of dust, muddy water, etc. and has good sliding performance. In a ring-shaped space () formed by assembling an upper case () with a lower case, a ring-shaped outer dust seal part (), which bends with one end () contacting the upper case () and the other end () contacting the lower case, is disposed on the outside of a ring-shaped thrust bearing part (), and the outer dust seal part () is connected to the thrust bearing part () by connecting parts () that extend radially outward from the outside of the thrust bearing part (), integrating the two as a dust seal-integrated center plate (). Disposed between the thrust bearing part () and the upper case () is a ring-shaped lubrication sheet (), which has surfaces () that slide on the mating surfaces facing same.

Provided are: a slide bearing configured so that degradation in sliding performance caused by the entry of dust, muddy water, etc. can be prevented at low cost; and a strut-type suspension using the slide bearing. A slide bearing () is provided with: an upper case (); a lower case () joined to the upper case () in a pivotal manner and forming an annular space () between the upper case () and the lower case (); and an annular center plate () disposed in the annular space (). An annular lip () is formed integrally at the outer peripheral edge () of the flange () of the center plate (). The lip () is in contact, while deflecting, with an annular protrusion () formed in an annular groove () in the upper case () and covers a thrust bearing surface () and a thrust supporting surface ().

Slide bearing and strut-type suspension

An information obtaining apparatus capable of obtaining information about a blood vessel with high accuracy includes a first unit configured to obtain three or more image data pieces different in imaging conditions, a second unit configured to obtain a first index value of a first region and a second index value of a second region, a third unit configured to select a pair of the image data pieces from the three or more image data pieces using the first index value and the second index value of the image data, and a fourth unit configured to obtain information about a blood vessel using the selected pair of the image data pieces.

Information obtaining apparatus, image capturing apparatus, and method for obtaining information

An OCT apparatus includes a wavelength selector provided on an optical path between a light source unit and a pair of optical detection units, and having a wavelength selectivity with equal wavenumber intervals. A differential detection unit detects a differential between two interference lights detected by the two optical detection units, and an information acquisition unit obtains peak values in the temporal waveform of the intensity of the interference lights and acquires information about an object on the basis of the obtained peak values.

Optical coherence tomography apparatus and optical coherence tomography method

A vehicle-mounted electronic device according to the present invention is provided with a sensorthat detects illuminationfrom a following vehicle, in at least one of a display unitand a main body case, and is configured such that a control unitrotates the display unitby means of a drive unitwhen the sensordetects the illuminationfrom the following vehicle. Thereby, the illuminationfrom the following vehicledoes not reflect on the display unittoward a viewer, as a result of which, the influence by illumination from the following vehiclecan be reduced.

Vehicle-mounted electronic device

A transport device includes a transport unit that transports a paper sheet, a cutter unit that cuts the paper sheet, and a controller that, when transport of the paper sheet is to be halted, controls the transport unit so that the transport unit halts an ideal cut line of the paper sheet corresponding to a specified length of the paper sheet at a more upstream side in a direction of the transport of the paper sheet when a specified length of the paper sheet is shorter than a threshold length than when the specified length of the paper sheet is longer than the threshold length.

Transport device, transport method, image forming apparatus, and image forming method

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Tomohiro Yamada