Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Toshihiko Mimura

Masahiro Mori

Akiharu Takabayashi

Takeshi Takada

Kimitoshi Fukae

Ayako Komori

Satoru Shiomi

Hideaki Kawamura

Nobuaki Date

Hiroyuki Horii

Akihiko Tojo

Kan Takaiwa

Shigenori Itoyama

Hidehisa Makita

Yoshitaka Murata

Seiichi Ozaki

Takashi Suzuki

Yuji Inoue

Yoshitaka Nagao

Makoto Sasaoka

Takashi Ohtsuka

Hitoshi Toma

Takashi Sasaki

Atsushi Inoue

Kenichi Nagasawa

Tsuguhide Sakata

Masahiro Nakanishi

Eiji Ohara

Masaaki Matsushita

Tatsuo Fujisaki

Yoshihiko Hyosu

Morimi Hashimoto

Naoto Okada

Takaaki Mukai

Genki Cho

Ippei Sawayama

Junzo Taira

Nobuhiko Sato

Takashi Arai

Takashi Moriyama

Hideaki Suzuki

Nobuyoshi Takehara

Somei Kawasaki

Masami Iseki

Makoto Kondo

Ichiro Kataoka

Tadashi Eguchi

Kei Watanabe

Yasutomo Suzuki

Tomishige Taguchi

Kohei Nagayama

Ryo Fujimoto

Kazuhito Ohashi

Mikio Nakasugi

Tokihiko Ogura

Mahito Negishi

Koji Tsuzuki

Fumitaka Toyomura

Tomohiko Sasatani

Tomoyuki Takada

Yuji Matsuo

Nozomu Izumi

Keita Dan

Junya Tamaki

Masaichi Sato

Tetsuro Inoue

Ken Meisho

Saburou Nakazato

Kenji Takata

Yuichi Someya

Yasuaki Tokunaga

An external input device is employed, the external input device being configured to operate a robot system including an imaging apparatus capable of changing an imaging point of view and a robot apparatus, the external input device includes a display area, a robot apparatus operation unit configured to operate the robot apparatus, an imaging operation unit configured to operate the imaging apparatus, and an image display unit configured to display an image captured by the imaging apparatus, wherein the robot apparatus operation unit, the imaging operation unit, and the image display unit are displayed on the display area, and wherein the image display unit is disposed between the robot apparatus operation unit and the imaging operation unit.

External input device, robot system, control method of robot system, control program, and recording medium

An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing portion, a controller to perform image processing to obtain a feature value from image data, and a storage device to accumulate the image data. In an image capturing period of capturing an image of the target object by the image capturing portion, the controller transmits a result of the image processing to a data management server while accumulating the captured image data the storage device, while in an image capturing suspension period of not performing image capturing, the controller transmits the image data accumulated in the storage device to the data management server.

Image capturing apparatus, system, and method

An image processing apparatus performs an image recognition process, such as pattern matching or contour detection, on image data supplied from an image pickup device, and stores history data of the image recognition process in an external storage apparatus. In this case, an extraction image is extracted from an extraction region determined in accordance with the image recognition process performed on the input image data and is stored in the external storage device as history data. Furthermore, the history data logged in the external storage device may include a compressed image that is obtained by compressing, using lossy compression, the entire image data subjected to the image processing performed by the image processing apparatus.

Image processing method and image processing apparatus

Provided is a small-sized robot device having high versatility without decreasing the work efficiency. The robot device includes: an arm; a hand or a tweezer tool that includes a stereo camera for measuring a three-dimensional position of a workpiece, the hand or the tweezer tool performing a work with respect to the workpiece whose three-dimensional position has been measured by the stereo camera; and a connection portion or a hand provided at a distal end of the arm, the connection portion or the hand releasably connecting the hand or the tweezer tool to the arm.

Robot device

A production apparatus ensures wireless communication without interference. An antenna portionat a robotic arm includes a transmitting antenna portionhaving a plurality of transmitting antennastoand a receiving antenna portionhaving a plurality of receiving antennasto. A transmitting side switcher circuitchanges over a transmitting antenna to be connected to a transmitteramong the plurality of transmitting antennastoin conjunction with an attitude information of the robotic arm, and changes an effective direction of a directional characteristic of the transmitting antenna portion. A receiving side switcher circuitchanges over a receiving antenna to be connected to a receiveramong the plurality of receiving antennastoin conjunction with the attitude information of the robotic arm and changes the effective direction of the directional characteristic of the receiving antenna portion

Production apparatus

To enable positioning a robot arm and a workpiece with high accuracy while reducing vibrations of a camera. According to the claimed invention for this purpose, a robot stationincludes a pedestalto which robot armsandare fixed, a camerawhich images an area including a working areaof the pedestal, and a boothto which the camerais fixed. The pedestalis fixed to a floor surface, and the boothis fixed to the floor surface without contacting the pedestal. The boothis formed in the shape of a rectangular parallelepiped having a short side parallel to a workpiece conveying direction T and a long side perpendicular to the workpiece conveying direction T in a plan view. In the booth, the length of the long side y of the boothis set to not less than the sum of a maximum length by which the robot armsandprotrude from the pedestalin a direction perpendicular to the workpiece conveying direction T and the length in the direction perpendicular to the workpiece conveying direction T of the pedestalin a plan view.

Assembling apparatus and production system

Light is prevented from being emitted from a region that overlaps a contract hole in a structure in which light emitting devices are stacked. A stacked organic electro-luminescent display apparatus includes a contact hole that electrically connects a first electrode or a second electrode to a driving circuit. The first or second electrode and a second organic compound layer are provided in the contact hole, and the second organic compound layer existing in the contact hole does not emit light.

Organic electro-luminescent display apparatus and imaging apparatus including the same

There is provided a method of producing an organic EL light-emitting device which enables prevention of crosstalk between adjacent pixels of the same color. Provided is a method of producing an organic EL light-emitting device which has banks provided in a row direction and in a column direction, and a plurality of organic EL light-emitting portions isolated from each other by the banks. The method includes the steps of forming banks such that a height of a bank portion of a row direction and a height of a bank portion of a column direction are different from each other; and applying an organic EL material in a continuous manner along the bank portion which is higher of the bank portion of the row direction and the bank portion of the column direction, between the banks of the higher bank portion.

Organic EL light-emitting device and production method thereof

Provided is a display apparatus including: a substrate; plural thin film transistors formed on the substrate; a planarizing layer covering the plural thin film transistors; plural organic light emitting devices formed on the planarizing layer to form a display area; and plural nondisplay devices formed on the planarizing layer outside the display area. The organic light emitting devices each have a first electrode, an organic compound layer, and a second electrode on the substrate in the stated order. In the display apparatus, in each of the plural nondisplay devices, the discontinuous part of the planarizing layer is formed.

Organic display apparatus comprising moisture propagation preventing means

Method of producing an organic EL light-emitting device

A processed article is provided with a plurality of IDs having the same information for machine reading but difference to be confirmed visually. The information such as the production lot number which is read from the plurality of IDs by the reading device is the same, but these plurality of IDs are different in external appearance, for example in size or color. By corresponding such difference of the plurality of IDs in the external appearance to the positional information in the processing apparatus for the article, new information can be added to the ID without introducing a new ID printer or a reading device. A prompt measure to a trouble in production is made possible based on the information such as the position of the article. Also the defective processed article can be easily selected, thereby improving the production yield and achieving a cost reduction.

Article to be processed having ID, and production method thereof

Provided is a solar cell module having a reinforcing member integrally stacked by means of a covering material on a rear surface of a solar cell panel having a photovoltaic element that performs photoelectric conversion, wherein a bent portion is formed in each of opposing end portions of the reinforcing member, an output wire member having conductivity is extended from an output portion of the photovoltaic element disposed on a light-receiving surface side of the solar cell panel along a surface of the bent portion so as to get over the bent portion, and a tip end of the extended portion of the output wire member is exposed out of a surface opposite to the reinforcing member of the covering material to form an output terminal portion. Thereby, there is provided a solar cell module that is improved in the area efficiency and weather resistance as well as the workability of electrical wiring and electrical connection during manufacturing and is inexpensive.

Solar cell module

The present invention provides a photovoltaic module comprising a photovoltaics and a signal generation means for generating a signal by application of a voltage, wherein the photovoltaics and the signal generating means are connected in parallel and the voltage is a voltage output by the photovoltaics which is connected in parallel with at least the signal generating means, thereby enabling detection of a failed photovoltaic module, regardless of the structure of a photovoltaic module array or the failure mode of the photovoltaic module.

Photovoltaic module, photovoltaic module array, photovoltaic system, and method of detecting failure of photovoltaic module

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Nara, Japan

Toshihiko Mimura