Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Toshishige Shimamura

Katsuyuki Machida

Satoshi Shigematsu

Hiroki Morimura

Yuzo Ishii

Masami Urano

Yuichi Okabe

Norio Sato

Hakaru Kyuragi

Hiromu Ishii

Tsuyoshi Yamamoto

Yoshiyuki Doi

Yasuyuki Tanabe

Yukio Okazaki

Koji Fujii

Tomomi Sakata

Kenichi Saito

Hiroki Suto

Takakuni Douseki

Yuji Uenishi

Chikara Yamaguchi

Takanori Kiyokura

Rena Nakatsuji

Hitoshi Okikawa

Nobutomo Yoshihashi

Yukio 0Kazaki

An image capturing unit captures an image of a surface of a member treated by a surface treatment unit. A comparison unit obtains a correlation coefficient between a reference image stored in a storage unit and the image captured by the image capturing unit. A cross-correlation coefficient between power spectra of the reference image and the image captured by the image capturing unit is obtained. A control unit stops a surface treatment performed by the surface treatment unit when the correlation coefficient obtained by the comparison unit reaches a set value.

Surface processing system

A cable connection management system of the present disclosure includes: an network orchestrator configured to obtain port ID information from an network device, the network device including a port to which a connector-attached cable is connected, the port ID information being on a port of the port to which the connector-attached cable is connected; an apparatus configured to obtain connector ID information on the connector-attached cable connected to the network device to transmit the connector ID information to a cable connection management server when the connector-attached cable is connected to the network device; and the cable connection management server configured to associate and store the connector ID information on the connector-attached cable and the port ID information.

Cable connection management system and cable connection management method

A tactile sensation presentation device includes a light source that emits a laser beam toward a test site that is a region of a skin surface of a biological object and a control device that generates a control signal that controls the light source and causes the light source to emit the laser beam in a modulated manner. The laser beam emitted from the light source in a manner modulated in accordance with the control signal from the control device whereby the test site is irradiated is absorbed at the test site and generates a pressure wave that is a thermoelastic wave by the photoacoustic phenomenon.

Tactile presentation device, and tactile presentation method

A nametag transmitter is a nametag transmitter that is to be attached to smartwear including an electrode for detecting biological information, the nametag transmitter including: a reception unit for receiving the biological information from the electrode; a wireless communication unit for transmitting the biological information to a data collection apparatus; a display unit for displaying identification information for specifying a user of the smartwear; and a connection portion to be attached to the smartwear. The nametag transmitter is attached to the smartwear in a state in which pairing between the wireless communication unit and the data collection apparatus has been carried out.

Name tag transmitter, smartware management system, and smartware management method

A terminal mounted in advance on a battery of an instrument that is a management target wirelessly transmits a battery state obtained by detecting an electric property related to a remaining battery amount of the battery and a terminal ID for identifying the terminal, and a management device displays remaining amount information related to the battery remaining amount on a screen based on the terminal ID and the battery state received from the terminal. This allows a user to easily figure out the remaining amount of a battery being used in an existing instrument.

System and method for management of remaining battery capacity by wirelessly transmitting terminal id of terminal on battery

A locus detection unit detects a locus traced by an input unit that is attached to a body. A pattern determination unit determines an input pattern based on the locus detected by the locus detection unit. A transmission unit transmits the input pattern determined by the pattern determination unit as input information to an external device. A reception unit receives output information transmitted from the external device. A tactile output unit provides, to the body, the output information received by the reception unit as a simulated tactile sense of the skin being traced.

Input/output device

Each first terminal mounted in advance on an item transmits first vibration data and a first terminal ID by radio wave in response to vibration detection, each beacon terminal disposed in advance at a place in a room intermittently transmits a beacon signal and a beacon ID by radio wave, a management device sequentially records each first terminal ID received together with the first vibration data and the beacon ID received together with the beacon signal to a detection list in a storage unit, acquires, from the storage unit, terminal information related to the first terminal ID recorded in the detection list and position information related to the beacon ID received concurrently with the first terminal ID, and displays the terminal information and the position information on a screen.

Article management system and method

A response signal generating unit () applies a predetermined supply signal (S) to a detection element () and outputs, as a response signal (S), a signal which has changed in accordance with the impedance of an object () with which the unit is in contact through the detection element (). A waveform information detection unit () detects waveform information corresponding to the impedance of the object () on the basis of the response signal (S) from the response signal generating unit (), and outputs a detection signal (S) representing the waveform information. A biometric recognition unit () determines on the basis of the detection signal (S) from the waveform information detection unit () whether or not the object () is a living body.

Organism recognition system

A detection element (A) having a detection electrode (A) connected to a surface shape detection unit () and a detection electrode (A) connected to a common potential, and a detection element (B) having a detection electrode (B) connected to the surface shape detection unit () and a detection electrode (B) connected to a biometric recognition unit () are arranged. The surface shape detection unit () outputs a signal representing the three-dimensional pattern of the surface shape corresponding to the contact portion to each detection element on the basis of individual capacitances obtained from the detection elements (A,B). The biometric recognition unit () determines whether an object () is a living body, on the basis of a signal corresponding to the impedance of the object () connected between the detection electrode (B) of the detection element (B) and the detection electrode (A) of the detection element (A).

Surface shape recognition sensor device

In a semiconductor device having a MEMS according to this invention, a plurality of units having movable portions for constituting a MEMS are monolithically mounted on a semiconductor substrate on which an integrated circuit including a driving circuit, sensor circuit, memory, and processor is formed. Each unit has a processor, memory, driving circuit, and sensor circuit.

Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device having MEMS

A row decoding circuit () outputs a select signal to a row set in a row range setting unit () to select a select signal line (), processing results from processing circuits () on this row are output to a data output line (), and a row adder () adds processing results output to a data output line () of a column set in a column range selector ().

Parallel processing device and parallel processing method

Surface shape recognition sensor

A method of manufacturing a surface shape recognition sensor. A sacrificial film is formed on an interlevel dielectric to cover a lower electrode while keeping an upper portion of a support electrode exposed. An upper electrode is formed on the sacrificial film and support electrode. The sacrificial film is selectively removed and a protective film is formed on the upper electrode. A photosensitive resin film having photosensitivity is formed on the protective film. A plurality of projections are formed in a region of the protective film above a capacitive detection element. In this manner a plurality of capacitive detection elements each having the lower electrode and upper electrode are formed.

Method of manufacturing recognition sensor

Semiconductor device having MEMS

A surface shape recognition sensor includes capacitive detection elements, support electrode, protective film, and projections. The detection elements are formed from lower electrodes and a deformable plate-like upper electrode made of a metal. The lower electrodes are insulated and isolated from each other and stationarily laid out on a single plane of an interlevel dielectric formed on a semiconductor substrate. The upper electrode is laid out above the lower electrodes at a predetermined interval and has opening portions. The support electrode is laid out around the lower electrodes while being insulated and isolated from the lower electrodes, and formed to be higher than the lower electrodes to support the upper electrode. The protective film is formed on the upper electrode to close the opening portions. The projections per one pixel are laid out in a region of the protective film above the capacitive detection element.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Toshishige Shimamura