The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.

Konica-minolta Holdings, Inc.

Yoshio Shimizu

Masayoshi Kamijo

Tsugutake Sadoyama

Akira Kuramori

Noritaka Koguchi

Satoshi Hosoya

Takeyoshi Iguchi

Toru Sugahara

An apparatus and method for evaluating the degree of work comfort of a user is disclosed. A pair of sensors detect myoelectric potentials of a pair of bilaterally symmetrical muscles. A waveform processing unit generates a synchronous contraction waveform by either using the smaller value between signals from the two muscles at a given time, or by determining the geometric mean between the signals at a given time. An evaluation unit uses the intensity or frequency information from the synchronous contraction waveform to evaluate the user's level of comfort performing a task such as driving.

Apparatus and method of evaluating degree of work comfort

An attractive facial image determining system, including a first detecting section for detecting lateral angle points of both eyes in a facial image; a second detecting section for detecting oral angle points; a constructing section for constructing a rectangle which is formed of a line segment made by a side that passes through the lateral angle points of both eyes detected by the first detecting section, and an opposed line segment that passes through both oral angle points detected by the second detecting section; and a determining section which obtains a ratio of a long side and a short side of the rectangle obtained via the constructing section, and determines whether the ratio is within a predetermined range.

Attractive facial image determining system

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Nagano, Japan

Yoshio Shimizu