Minolta Company, Ltd.

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Yasuhisa Kinto

Yuichi Kawakami

Kyoko Nakamura

Nobukazu Kawagoe

Yuta Yamanoi

Tomoyuki Terada

Ken Yoshii

A colorimetry device includes an integrating sphere having a measurement opening part and a trap hole, a trap disposed to be able to open and close the trap hole, a lid that is non-reflective and disposed to be able to open and close the trap hole, an imaging means disposed at a position that allows taking, through the trap hole, an image of a specimen facing the measurement opening part, and a display means that displays an image taken by the imaging means. The trap is to move to a position at which the trap hole is closed by the trap at a time of measurement of light with an SCI method, the light being reflected from the specimen, and the lid is moved to a position at which the trap hole is closed by the lid at a time of measurement of the light with an SCE method.

Colorimetry device

Colorimeter includes an illumination light reception unit, an attached part, a detection unit, a recognition unit, a color measurement control unit, and an output unit. To the attached part, a mask member is attached to cover the illumination light reception unit. The detection unit detects parts disposed on the mask member. The recognition unit recognizes information on the kind of the mask member in accordance with a detection result by the detection unit. The color measurement control unit causes the recognition unit to recognize information on the kind of mask member in accordance with the detection result at a first timing, and on the kind of mask member in accordance with the detection result at a second timing. The output unit performs a predetermined output in response to a discordance between the information on the kind of mask member at the first timing and at the second timing.

Colorimeter

A monitoring apparatus according to the present invention has an image taking section which captures images of a plurality of image capturing areas, a detecting section which detects an object to be monitored based on an image obtained by the image taking section, a command receiving section which receives a command for remote control, and a command executing section which executes a process corresponding to the received command when the object is not detected by the detecting section.

Monitoring apparatus, monitoring method, monitoring program and monitoring program recorded recording medium readable by computer

A moving robot first moves straight in a first forward path. When encountering an obstacle such as shelf, the robot makes a U-turn to move straight in a backward path located with a prescribed distance away from the first forward path. When encountering another obstacle, the robot again makes a U-turn to move straight in a second forward path extending in the same direction as that of the first forward path but located with a distance away from the backward path. When the robot exceeding the point of the U-turn in the first forward path is detected during running in the second forward path, presence of a region where the robot has not run yet is recognized, and running in that region is carried out thereafter.

Moving apparatus for efficiently moving on floor with obstacle

When an autonomous vehicle detects an interruption in a wall, a plurality of optical distance measurement sensors provided in a driving unit measures the distance to a plurality of points of an object of interest located ahead. The configuration of the object of interest located ahead is recognized from the obtained distance information and from the attached angle of each optical distance measurement sensor to determine the subsequent operation of the autonomous vehicle.

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Neyagawa, Japan

Yasuhisa Kinto