baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent JP-2018180660-A (JP)
Title: Biometric authentication device and method
Inventor: NAKAZAKI Keiichiro
IPC: G06T1/00
Filed: 2017-04-05
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a biometric authentication device which can perform authentication with high accuracy in spite of difference between a lighting environment or an imaging apparatus at the time of registration and that at the time of authentication.SOLUTION: The biometric authentication device comprises: an image input unit which photographs a finger under environmental light to acquire at least one biological image; an authentication processing unit which processes the biological image; and a storage unit which stores registration information relating to at least one of a plurality of biological features obtained from the finger. The authentication processing unit uses the registration information stored in the storage unit to generate a color conversion matrix for minimizing a color difference between representative colors in a reference biological image and those of the biological image at the time of authentication, and uses the generated color conversion matrix to generate a color-converted biological image (S111), extracts a feature quantity (S112), and calculates a similarity to the registration information to perform matching (S113).SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2B
Patent JP-2018181214-A (JP)
Title: Driving support apparatus and driving support method
Inventor: YOKOI YASUNOBU
IPC: G08G1/16
Filed: 2017-04-20
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase an accuracy of discriminating a failed vehicle.SOLUTION: In a driving support apparatus that alerts a state of a peripheral vehicle on the basis of other vehicle information that is information on other vehicles, the driving support apparatus comprises: an inter-vehicle communication unit 12 that receives the other vehicle information; a failed vehicle identifying unit 13 for determining that one of the other vehicles is a failed vehicle when the failed vehicle identifying unit determines that a state in which a distance between the other vehicles is equal to or less than a predetermined distance continues for a predetermined time or more using respective pieces of vehicle information received from a plurality of other vehicles; and a driving support control unit 14 that changes at least one of a driving condition and an execution method based on the other vehicle information of the failed vehicle when the other vehicle is identified as the failed vehicle.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2017200573-A (JP)
Title: Built-up model toy and parts thereof
Inventor: KAMEI TAKAFUMI
IPC: A63H3/16
Filed: 2017-04-25
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a model kit having parts which have high extendability, which allows a user to assemble a model toy which matches a user's taste easily.SOLUTION: A built up model toy comprises: frame parts 1, 2 comprising a polygonal fitting hole 1a, 2a; and a joint part 10 comprising polygonal prism parts 11, 12 corresponding to the fitting holes, and is used by fitting the prism parts to the fitting holes. Since the fitting holes and the prism part are formed into suitable polygons, when the prism parts are fitted to the fitting holes, by an angle difference determined by the polygon, a fitting angle of the prism parts to the fitting holes can be adjusted, and after the prism parts are fitted to the fitting holes, mutual rotation of the fitting holes and prism parts is prevented. The joint part is assembled to the frame parts by fitting of the fitting holes and prism parts, and other parts can be assembled to the joint part assembled to the frame parts.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2018186389-A (JP)
Title: Video reproduction device, video reproduction system, and video reproduction method
Inventor: MATSUI MACHIKO
IPC: G07C5/00
Filed: 2017-04-26
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a video reproduction technology capable of easily selecting a virtual viewpoint picture as reproduction video from a viewpoint position desired by a user in relation to an imaging location.SOLUTION: A video reproduction device comprises: an acquisition unit for acquiring an imaged picture imaged by each of a plurality of cameras for imaging a periphery of a vehicle during the vehicle's travelling and information on an imaging location at which the imaged picture is imaged; a conversion unit for projecting the imaged picture on a virtual projection plane to perform conversion to a projection picture; a generation unit for generating a virtual viewpoint picture viewed from a virtual viewpoint, on the basis of a plurality of the projection pictures; and a display control unit for making a display device display a map picture including an own vehicle position mark showing the imaging location before making a plurality of indices for selecting a virtual viewpoint direction for the virtual viewpoint picture be displayed in the vicinity of the own vehicle position mark. The generation unit generates, as reproduction video, the virtual viewpoint picture in a virtual viewpoint direction corresponding to an index selected by a user's operation.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2018186666-A (JP)
Title: Operation support apparatus and operation support method
Inventor: SAITO NAO
IPC: H02J3/00
Filed: 2017-04-27
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To select and present an appropriate control candidate from multiple control candidates when an event occurs.SOLUTION: An operation support apparatus includes a similarity determination unit that determines similarity between measurement data measured in an operation target after execution of control on the operation target on the basis of a control candidate corresponding to an event that has occurred in the operation target from among a plurality of control candidates managed by a control candidate table and simulation data obtained by simulation assuming a system state of the operation target after execution of control on the operation target on the basis of system data indicating the state of the operation target before execution of control on the operation target and a control candidate table updating unit that updates the control candidate table according to the determination result of the similarity determination unit.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2017186343-A (JP)
Title: Marker of esophagus cancer, and utilization of the same
Inventor: NAKA TETSUJI
IPC: A61P35/00
Filed: 2017-04-27
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a marker of esophagus cancer, and an application technique thereof.SOLUTION: A preventive or therapeutic drug of esophagus cancer contains an effective dose of an inhibitor of Glypican-1, in which the inhibitor of the Glypican-1 is an antibody or a fragment or a functional equivalent thereof, or nucleic acid. The nucleic acid is siRNA, and the antibody is an antibody selected from a monoclonal antibody, a polyclonal antibody, a chimeric antibody, a humanized antibody, a human antibody, a multi-functional antibody, a bispecific or oligospecific antibody, a single chain antibody, scFV, a diabody, sc(Fv)2 (single chain(Fv)2), and scFv-Fc.SELECTED DRAWING: None
Patent JP-2018185126-A (JP)
Title: Heat pump water heater, hot water supply system, control method, and program
Inventor: SUYAMA AKIHIRO
IPC: F24H4/02
Filed: 2017-04-27
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a heat pump water heater capable of satisfying hot water supply demand and further suppressing an operation cost, and a hot water supply system, a control method and a program.SOLUTION: A heat pump water heater of one embodiment includes a heat pump unit, a boiling unit price calculation part, a scanning order determination part and an operation plan part. The heat pump unit generates hot water. The boiling unit price calculation part calculates a boiling unit price for each of a plurality of time zones being continuous in a predetermined period on the basis of HP output representing a power amount of the heat pump unit and an operation cost. The scanning order determination part allocates the priority order changing an operation plan representing a plan whether or not operation of the water heater is stopped to each time zone on the basis of the boiling unit price and a predetermined condition. The operation plan part determines whether or not storage hot water heat quantity representing heat quantity of the hot water stored by the water heater for each time zone satisfies the predetermined condition.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2017137056-A (JP)
Title: Vehicle drive mechanism
Inventor: MIZOI KENSUKE
IPC: B60R21/02
Filed: 2017-05-01
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle drive mechanism in which saving of a space for location of components can be achieved.SOLUTION: A vehicle drive mechanism, which drives a drive unit in such a manner that cables 81, 82 are pulled or are loosened from the pulled state by drive power from a drive power generating device, comprises: a first cable 81 and a second cable 82; a first drive unit with which one end of the first cable 81 is engaged and is driven in such a manner that the other end of the first cable 81 is pulled or is loosened from the pulled state; and a second drive unit with which one end of the second cable 82 is engaged and is driven in such a manner that the other end of the second cable 82 is pulled or is loosened from the pulled state. One end of the first cable 81 has an engaging part 83, the other end of the second cable 82 is connected to the engaging part 83, the first drive unit has a bearing member 50 for bearing a crewman and a pressing member 40 for pressing the bearing member 50, and the engaging part 83 is engaged with the pressing member 40.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6
Patent JP-2018188404-A (JP)
Title: Ampk activity-promoting composition
Inventor: YOSHINAGA KEIKO
IPC: A61K38/01
Filed: 2017-05-11
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a component derived from wakame seaweed which is novel as an active ingredient of AMPK activity-promoting composition.SOLUTION: (1) AMPK activity-promoting composition has an extract, which is obtained by hydrolyzing wakame seaweed to which alginic acid decomposition treatment is performed, separating and recovering an insoluble fraction of obtained hydrolysate, and extracting the recovered insoluble fraction by organic solvent, as an active ingredient. (2) AMPK activity-promoting composition described in the (1) in which the organic solvent is hydrocarbon-based solvent or lower alcohol. (3) AMPK activity-promoting composition has peptide derived from wakame seaweed as an active ingredient.SELECTED DRAWING: None
Patent JP-2018192481-A (JP)
Title: Method for producing tundish
Inventor: SAKAKIDANI KATSUTOSHI
IPC: B22D41/02
Filed: 2017-05-12
Abstract: To provide a method for producing a tundish capable of easily preventing the peeling of a coating layer.SOLUTION: There is provided a method for producing a tundish 100 comprising: a steel shell 1; a body part 3; and a magnesia coating layer 4, comprising: a string fixing step where a heating evanescent string-shaped member 11 is made to run from at least either long side profile of a middle frame 10 to the other long side profile via the lower face of the bottom part and is fixed; a flowing step where a flowing material is made to flow into a space between a middle frame 10 with the string-shaped member 11 and a permanent brick 2; a frame removal step where, after the curing of the flowing material made to flow, the fixing of the string-shaped member 11 to the middle frame 10 is released to remove the middle frame 10 ; a heat drying-disappearing step where the middle frame 10 is removed, the body part 3 in a state where the string-shaped member 11 is bitten is heated and dried, and further, the strip-shaped member 11 is disappeared; and a coating step where a coating material is applied to the surface of the dried body part 3 to form the coating layer 4.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4
Patent JP-2018194910-A (JP)
Title: Information processing device, driver installation method and program
Inventor: HORIKOSHI TAKASHI
IPC: G06F13/10
Filed: 2017-05-12
Abstract: To generate a print queue of a driver provided by a manufacturer of a device, while deleting the print queue of a general-purpose driver provided by an OS, generated associating with the device.SOLUTION: An information processing device comprises: registration means which registers a driver provided by a manufacturer of a device; acquisition means which acquires PnP-X ID by using UUID of the device and a print port name of the information processing device; deletion means which deletes a print queue, when the print queue of the driver installed in the information processing device is allocated to a print port in which the PnP-X ID was acquired, and the driver corresponding to the print queue does not correspond to the registered driver; and generation means which generates the print queue of the registered driver which is assigned to a WSD communication port.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6
Patent JP-2018195983-A (JP)
Title: Communication control apparatus, communication control system, communication control program and communication control method
Inventor: NISHIGUCHI YUKI
IPC: H04W4/38
Filed: 2017-05-17
Abstract: To efficiently collect data while maintaining reception quality of the data at predetermined quality.SOLUTION: A packet size adjustment system 1 comprises a sensor device 10, and a GW 20 that receives data from the sensor device 10. The GW 20 comprises a sampling set number determination unit 26 and a transmission unit 27. The sampling set number determination unit 26 determines a set number of data that is loaded on a packet by the sensor device 10 according to radio quality between itself and the sensor device 10. The transmission unit 27 notifies the sensor device 10 of the determined set number. The sensor device 10 comprises a communication status measurement unit 11 and a transmission unit 14. The communication status measurement unit 11 measures a communication status. The transmission unit 14 loads the above mentioned data, which has the largest sampling set number being loadable on the packet notified by the transmission unit 27, on a packet to transmit to the GW 20 when the data indicating an above mentioned measurement result is transmitted.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3
Patent JP-2018194467-A (JP)
Title: pH sensor
Inventor: SHINTANI YUKIHIRO
IPC: G01N27/30
Filed: 2017-05-18
Abstract: To provide a pH sensor that can avoid risks of breakage of glass of an action electrode without making the entire structure more complicated and can measure the pH of a solution electrically stably.SOLUTION: A pH sensor 100 includes: an action electrode 111 made of a conductive solid material; a reference electrode 120; and a voltage meter 130 for measuring the difference in the voltage between the action electrode 111 and the reference electrode 120, the action electrode 111 being electrically connected to the ground.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2018191599-A (JP)
Title: Method for breeding domestic fowl, and feed additive
Inventor: ASAI FUMITOSHI
IPC: A23K50/75
Filed: 2017-05-19
Abstract: To provide methods for breeding domestic fowl which comprise making them ingest silicon, particularly water-soluble silicon, and to provide feed additives or addition compositions, and feed for domestic fowl which comprise water-soluble silicon.SOLUTION: The present invention relates to a method for breeding domestic fowl comprising making domestic fowl ingest silicon, in order to improve the vascular strength of the domestic fowl and/or increase the amount of free amino acids in the yolk of the egg which the domestic fowl produce. The invention also relates to a domestic fowl feed additive and domestic fowl feed for improving the vascular strength of the domestic fowl and/or for increasing the amount of free amino acids in the yolk of the egg which the domestic fowl produce.SELECTED DRAWING: None
Patent JP-2018197440-A (JP)
Title: Door panel
Inventor: KURODA KAZUO
IPC: E06B7/28
Filed: 2017-05-23
Abstract: To provide a door panel in which convexo-concave decoration can be freely formed.SOLUTION: A door panel comprises a frame 2, a decoration plate 3 which includes a protruding strip 6 that is formed between a pair of grooves 5, 5 fitted to the frame 2, and a decoration member 10 which is installed so as to cover the protruding strip 6 of the decoration plate 3. The decoration member 10 comprises a cover plate 11 in which an inner surface is arranged so as to face the surface 6a of the protruding strip 6, and a pair of side wall plates 12, 12 the base end edge of each of which is connected to both side end edges of the cover plate 11. In the pair of side walls 12, 12, the height H1 from the tip end edge to the inner surface of the cover plate 11 is equal to or more than the height H6 of the protruding strip 6.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2018197373-A (JP)
Title: Silver nanoparticle, composition for forming conductive pattern, and method for producing silver nanoparticle
Inventor: SHIOIRI KAZUNORI
IPC: B82Y40/00
Filed: 2017-05-24
Abstract: To provide a silver nanoparticle excellent in dispersibility, and satisfactory in adhesive properties with a base material made of a resin though it can be subjected to low temperature firing, a composition for forming a conductive pattern, and a method for producing a silver nanoparticle.SOLUTION: Provided is a silver nanoparticle having a functional polymer at the surface, in which the functional polymer has a nitrogen-containing monomer unit, an alkoxypolyalkylene glycol(meth)acrylate monomer unit and a hydroxyalkyl(meth)acrylate monomer unit.SELECTED DRAWING: None
Patent JP-2017169231-A (JP)
Title: Encoding device, encoding method and program, decoding device and decoding method and program
Inventor: MAEDA MITSURU
IPC: H04N19/147
Filed: 2017-05-25
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To encode/decode a quantization parameter while suppressing a code amount and through highly efficient processing.SOLUTION: The present invention relates to an encoding device characterized in comprising: division means for dividing an input image into multiple blocks and dividing at least one of the divided blocks into four sub-blocks by using a division method of quadtree; acquisition means for acquiring a first differential value between a quantization parameter of a first sub-block of which the encoding turn in a block including at least two or more sub-blocks comes first in the block and a quantization parameter of a second sub-block in the multiple sub-blocks included in the block, and a second differential value between a quantization parameter of a third sub-block in the multiple sub-blocks included in the block and a parameter based on an average of quantization parameters of at least two or more sub-blocks among the multiple sub-blocks in the block; and encoding means for encoding the first differential value and the second differential value.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3
Patent JP-2017140518-A (JP)
Title: Game device
Inventor: OGURA TOSHIO
IPC: A63F7/02
Filed: 2017-05-29
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game device with a reduced leakage risk of a key to be used in cryptocommunication.SOLUTION: A game device at least includes a first control unit between the first control unit which performs predetermined processing and a second control unit which can perform cryptocommunication with the first control unit. The first control unit includes: first generation means for generating a key to be used in the cryptocommunication, on the basis of predetermined information; and transmission means for transmitting the predetermined information to the second control unit so as to cause a generation of the key to be used in the cryptocommunication in the second control unit. The predetermined information is supplied from outside the first control unit to the first control unit.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2018202941-A (JP)
Title: Drainage member and drainage structure for vehicle
Inventor: KATO TAKASHI
IPC: B60J5/04
Filed: 2017-05-31
Abstract: To provide a drainage member that prevents a flowing water from flowing down to a door hinge part, and to provide a drainage structure for a vehicle.SOLUTION: A drainage member 10 is provided with: a locking piece locking to a belt molding 4; and an inclined plane formed as a guide part that is attached to an A pillar garnish 3 and guides flowing water on a rear side from a side of a door hinge side of a window frame 2, thereby guiding the flowing water that flows down in an oblique direction along the A pillar garnish 3, to the rear side from the door hinge part side.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2018206568-A (JP)
Title: Fuel cell stack
Inventor: ONO TAKESHI
IPC: H01M8/02
Filed: 2017-06-02
Abstract: To improve utilization efficiency of gas in fuel cell stack.SOLUTION: A fuel cell stack includes: multiple fuel battery cells each including a support in which an individual gas flow path penetrating in a first direction is formed and which includes one electrode, an electrolyte layer, and the other electrode, and arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; and a gas supply body in which a shared gas flow path communicating with one opening end on one side of the individual gas flow path in the first direction is formed. In a specific cross section, gas flows through the shared gas flow path from one side to the other side in the second direction, and at least one support includes a first ramp inclining from the first opening end toward downstream side of the individual gas flow path to the other side in the second direction, and a second ramp located farther one side in the second direction than the first ramp, and inclining from the first opening end toward downstream side of the individual gas flow path to the other side in the second direction.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4
Patent JP-2017182087-A (JP)
Title: Advanced quantizer
Inventor: JANUSZ KLEJSA
IPC: G10L19/00
Filed: 2017-06-07
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a quantizer with improvement regarding operational complexity, perceptual performance, and complexity of a bit-rate allocation process, in a transform-based audio codec system which is particularly well suited for voice encoding/decoding.SOLUTION: A quantization unit is configured to quantize a first coefficient of a block of coefficients. The block of coefficients comprises a plurality of coefficients for a plurality of corresponding frequency bins. The quantization unit is configured to provide a set of quantizers 326. The set of quantizers comprises a plurality of different quantizers associated with a plurality of different signal-to-noise ratios (SNR), respectively. The plurality of different quantizers include a noise-filling quantizer 321, one or more dithered quantizers 322, and one or more un-dithered quantizers 323.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6a
Patent JP-2018206180-A (JP)
Title: Cycle value measuring program in multicore processor, cycle value measurement method, information processing device having multicore processor, and information processing system having multicore processor
Inventor: MATSUSUE NAOYA
IPC: G06F11/30
Filed: 2017-06-07
Abstract: To provide a program for measuring a difference in clock cycle value between the cores of a multicore processor.SOLUTION: CPU chips CPU#0, CPU#1 include a plurality of cores CORE#0, #1, CORE#2, #3 and a clock generator. Each core includes a clock counter for counting clocks and cycle value registers CYC_REG0-3 in which count values are stored. With times between the acquisitions of successive cycle values by the plurality of cores as first and second correction values CRR1, CRR2, the time needed for each core to acquire a cycle value is measured as a third correction value CRR3. The plurality of cores successively execute the process of acquiring a lock and storing the cycle value of the core's own in an internal register and thereafter unlocking. A difference between the collected cycle values of all cores and the cycle value of a reference core is corrected on the basis of the correction values CRR1, CRR2, CRR3, and a difference of cycle value between the reference core and the other is calculated.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1