baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent JP-2009527027-A (JP)
Title: 確認前の媒体アイテムの画像の処理
IPC: G06T7/00
Filed: 2006-12-14
Abstract: 自動媒体アイテム確認は、媒体アイテムが破損していたり、書き込みがあった場合には通常うまく機能しない。この問題を解決する自動確認の前に媒体アイテムの画像を処理するための方法について説明する。異常のある画像要素が、例えば、帯域フィルタにより識別される。異常のある画像要素は、中立判定用データにより置き換えられる。このデータは、指定の自動媒体アイテム確認プロセスである判定プロセスに対して中立である。例えば、異常のある各画像要素の場合には、推定分布が、媒体アイテムの画像のトレーニング・セット内のすべての画像を横切ってその画像位置にアクセスされる。自動媒体アイテム確認プロセスにより使用される有意水準に関連する有意水準に基づいて、推定分布からある値が選択される。このようにして、破れていたり、孔があいていたり、書き込みがあったり汚れていたりしている媒体アイテムは、自動媒体アイテム確認装置によりうまく処理される。
Patent JP-2009520464-A (JP)
Title: テロメラーゼ活性の検出のためのアッセイ
IPC: C12Q1/02
Filed: 2006-12-22
Abstract: 本発明は包括的に、テロメラーゼ活性と関連する状態に関する診断アッセイのような診断及び予後アッセイの分野に関する。さらに詳細には、本発明は、癌、炎症性障害及び／又は胚形成を包含し且つ／又は幹細胞増殖を要する状態の指標としてテロメラーゼ活性を測定するためのアッセイ、そのために有用な作用物質及びキットを提供する。ハイスループットスクリーニングを可能にする自動化されたアッセイ及び部分的に自動化されたアッセイも本発明の一部を構成する。本発明はさらに、本発明のアッセイにより同定される作用物質を用いる治療方法、あるいは治療プロトコールが当該アッセイによりモニタリングされる方法をさらに意図する。 【選択図】なし
Patent JP-2009521554-A (JP)
Title: ポリオキシエチレン含有化合物の存在下での塩基触媒によるアルコキシル化
IPC: C08G101/00
Filed: 2006-12-18
Abstract: 本発明は、約0.5重量%〜約20重量%(該重量%は、長鎖ポリエーテルポリオールの重量に基づく)のポリオキシエチレン含有化合物でキレート化された少なくとも1つのカチオンを有する塩基触媒の存在下、開始剤をアルキレンオキシドでアルコキシル化することにより製造される、約1,200 g/モルを超える数平均分子量を有する長鎖ポリエーテルポリオールを提供する。本発明の長鎖ポリエーテルポリオールは、軟質ポリウレタンフォームおよび非発泡ポリウレタンの提供において使用することができる。
Patent JP-2009522588-A (JP)
Title: 音声コーデック内の効率的なフレーム消去隠蔽の方法およびデバイス
IPC: G10L19/00
Filed: 2006-12-28
Abstract: エンコーダからデコーダへの伝送中に消去された符号化されたサウンド信号のフレームによって引き起こされるフレーム消去を隠蔽し、フレーム消去の後に前記デコーダを回復する方法および装置は、エンコーダ内で、符号化されたサウンド信号のフレームに関係する位相情報を少なくとも含む隠蔽/回復パラメータを判定するステップを含む。エンコーダ内で判定された隠蔽/回復パラメータは、デコーダに伝送され、デコーダ内で、フレーム消去隠蔽が、受信された隠蔽/回復パラメータに応答して行われる。フレーム消去隠蔽は、受信された位相情報に応答して、消去-隠蔽されるフレームをエンコーダで符号化されたサウンド信号の対応するフレームに再同期化するステップを含む。隠蔽/回復パラメータがデコーダに伝送されない時には、エンコーダからデコーダへの伝送中に消去された符号化されたサウンド信号の各フレームの位相情報は、デコーダで推定される。また、フレーム消去隠蔽は、推定された位相情報に応答してデコーダ内で行われ、ここで、フレーム消去隠蔽は、推定された位相情報に応答して、各消去-隠蔽されるフレームをエンコーダで符号化されたサウンド信号の対応するフレームに再同期化するステップを含む。
Patent JP-2009523400-A (JP)
Title: 同期電気機械の、少なくとも１つの励磁巻線を備えるロータの位置を決定する方法
IPC: H02P27/06
Filed: 2006-12-14
Abstract: 【課題】  電気機械の、少なくとも１つの励磁巻線を有するロータの、静止時または低速時の位置を、位置センサを用いることなく決定する方法を提供する。 【解決手段】  ロータの励磁巻線に印加される電圧が時間的に変化するときにステータ巻線の端子に誘起される電圧に含まれる情報から、静止時または低速時のロータの位置を検出する。したがって、この方法によれば、磁気センサ、光学センサ、レゾルバ、機械的センサ、容量性センサなどの通常の位置センサを用いることなく、巻線形電気機械のロータの静止時または低速時の位置を検出することが可能できる。 【選択図】図１
Patent JP-2009524957-A (JP)
Title: 音響コンプライアンス調整装置
IPC: H04R1/28
Filed: 2006-07-10
Abstract: 小型の第１のスピーカの音質を改善するのに適したスピーカ構造を記載する。この構造は空洞を有し、第１のスピーカが空洞に音響的に結合される。第２のスピーカも空洞に音響的に結合され、第１のスピーカ及び第２のスピーカは互いに同相で励振される。第１のスピーカはユーザの耳に保持されるように調整されたイヤホンスピーカであってもよく、第２のスピーカは第１のスピーカより低いコンプライアンスを有する第１のスピーカより大きなリングアラートスピーカであってもよい。双方のスピーカは同一の移動電話に組み込まれる。第２のスピーカを第１のスピーカと同相で励振することにより、第２のスピーカは特に低周波数範囲において、より小型の第１のスピーカの音声再生を補助する。
Patent JP-2009533651-A (JP)
Title: センサー障害モード検出を具備する静電容量デジタル変調器
IPC: G01L9/12
Filed: 2007-01-26
Abstract: 静電容量デジタル変調器を有する圧力トランスミッターはセンサー静電容量とリファレンス静電容量の比率に応じてアウトプットを生成する。トランスミッターはまた、センサー障害モード検出器を含む。センサー障害モード検出器は、アウトプット信号を生成し、センサー・キャパシタ及びリファレンス・キャパシタの障害モードを識別する。
Patent JP-2009525228-A (JP)
Title: 車線逸脱警告装置及び方法
IPC: B60W10/18
Filed: 2006-12-18
Abstract: 車両車線逸脱警告装置及び方法は、運転者に触覚のフィードバックを提供するために車両ブレーキ装置を使用する。１つの実施形態では、車両のかじ取り可能な路面車輪の１つにブレーキがかけられ、車両のかじ取りハンドルに力を伝達させ、運転者がかじ取りハンドルを介して触覚のフィードバックを受ける。 【選択図】図３
Patent JP-2009526207-A (JP)
Title: 自己給電式検出デバイス
IPC: G01N27/416
Filed: 2007-02-06
Abstract: 電導性ポリマーを含む第一の電極（１１０）と、第二の電極（１２０）と、電解質（１３０）とを含む、自己給電式検出デバイス（１００）であって、その自己給電式検出デバイスは、前記第一および第二の電極（１１０、１２０）および前記電解質（１３０）が、検知されるべき状況が出現すると電気化学的電池として作動し、少なくともその第一の電極が検出インジケータとして機能するように、構成されている。
Patent JP-2009526631-A (JP)
Title: 遠心分離機
IPC: B04B1/06
Filed: 2007-01-12
Abstract: 本発明は、液体不純物を含むガスを浄化する遠心分離機に関する。固定ケーシング（１）は、分離空間（２）を囲み、内壁面（３）を有する。分離機は、浄化すべきガスの入口（９）を有する。回転部材（４）は、回転軸（ｘ）の周りを回転し、ガスを回転方向（ｒ）に回転させて液体不純物の少なくとも主要な部分をガスから分離する。ガス出口（１０）は、回転部材（４）の下流側に設けられ、浄化されたガスを排出させる。第１の液体出口（１１）は、液体不純物を排出し、壁面を貫通して延びる少なくとも１つの出口穴（２１）を有する。環状面（２０）は、壁面から内側に延び、出口穴の下流側に配置される。第１の液体出口（１１）は、環状面の、出口穴からある距離離れた、出口穴の半径方向内側の位置から延びる環状のシールド部材（２２）を有する。シールド部材と環状面は、出口穴の半径方向内側に環状溝（２３）を形成している。
Patent JP-2009536795-A (JP)
IPC: H04B1/26
Filed: 2007-03-09
Abstract: The device has an oscillator stage with a reference oscillator (3) having a quartz crystal (2), and a frequency and phase detector (4) for comparing a frequency of reference signals of the oscillator (3) with that of signals coming from a voltage controlled oscillator (6) of a frequency synthesizer of the stage. The stage is configured to generate high frequency signals (S-VCO) whose frequency is greater than a carrier frequency of a radio frequency signal by a specific factor. The frequency of the high frequency signals is outside a frequency range of an input band-pass filter (9).
Patent JP-2010159015-A (JP)
Title: Steering wheel vibration reducing apparatus
Inventor: KOBAYASHI YASUMUNE
IPC: B62D1/16
Filed: 2009-01-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To effectively reduce the vibration of a steering wheel without affecting cost and fuel consumption.  <P>SOLUTION: A steering vibration reducing unit 40 comprises: a knee bolster 20 with one end supported by a steering hanger 22 and the other end forming a free end; an actuator 34 provided at the knee bolster 20 and actuated so as to suppress the vibration of a steering wheel 49; an engine control ECU 44 for outputting an engine speed signal correlated to the vibration of the steering 49 and a sensor 60 for outputting an error signal e correlated to the vibration; and a controller 46 for controlling the actuator 34 based on the engine speed signal and the error signal e.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2010159375-A (JP)
Title: Rubber composition and pneumatic tire using the same
Inventor: IMAOKA SHUJI
IPC: C08L57/02
Filed: 2009-01-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rubber composition giving a tire with sufficient reinforcing properties, low fuel consumption, rigidity and high severity abrasion resistance at low cost.  <P>SOLUTION: The rubber composition includes 5-75 pts.mass of pulverized bituminous coal and 2-8 pts.mass of petroleum-based resin, each based on 100 pts.mass of diene rubber.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2010159031-A (JP)
Title: Tire running state estimation method, regular running state estimation device, and tire wear estimation method and device
Inventor: MORINAGA HIROSHI
IPC: B60W40/12
Filed: 2009-01-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the accuracy of estimation in the level of wear of a tire by estimating whether a tire is in a regular running state.  <P>SOLUTION: The inner liner section of a tire includes an acceleration sensor 11, and the tire radial-direction acceleration of a tread is detected, and the time series waveform of tire radial-direction acceleration is extracted, and a front side swelling point level A<SB>f</SB>as the scale of acceleration at a front side swelling point p<SB>f</SB>and a rear side swelling point level A<SB>k</SB>as the scale of acceleration at a rear side swelling point p<SB>k</SB>are each detected from the radial-direction acceleration waveform, and a swelling point level rate P<SB>a</SB>=(A<SB>k</SB>/A<SB>f</SB>) as the rate of those swelling point levels is calculated, and whether the state of the tire is the regular running state wherein any longitudinal force or lateral force is not input to the tire is estimated using the swelling point level rate P<SB>a</SB>and a preobtained longitudinal force map 15F or slip angle map 15S, and only when the state of the tire is the regular running state, the level of wear of the tire is estimated.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2010166197-A (JP)
Title: Segment encoding method, segment encoding device, segment encoding program, recording medium of the same, and parallel encoding system, and partial re-encoding system
Inventor: TANIDA RYUICHI
IPC: H04N19/40
Filed: 2009-01-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily achieve segment encoding without causing buffer overflow when connecting a plurality of streams while suppressing variation in image quality.  <P>SOLUTION: A temporary target rate smaller than an actual target rate is set by a temporary rate calculation unit 12. A temporary buffer size smaller than an actual buffer size is set by a temporary buffer size calculation unit 13. An encoding volume control unit 15 controls the encoding volume in accordance with the temporary target rate and the temporary buffer size. A buffer transition calculation unit 14 determines time information for decoding from the generated bits, the actual target rate, and the buffer size.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2010167443-A (JP)
Title: Welding torch
Inventor: KISO HIROYUKI
IPC: B23K9/29
Filed: 2009-01-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a welding torch capable of being held by a worker grasping a handle without trouble even in a case of high welding current and high use rate by suppressing transmission of arc heat of arc generated between an electrode and a base material to the handle from the electrode through a torch body.  <P>SOLUTION: The welding torch includes: a collet for supporting the electrode; a collet body for supporting the collet by contacting with it; the torch body composed of a metal member that supports the collet body by contacting with it, a metal pipe for supplying shield gas to the metal member, and an insulating member surrounding the metal member and the metal pipe; and the handle connected with the torch body. The metal member and the collet body are made of metal, and the thermal conductivity of the metal member is lower than that of the collet body.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2010168467-A (JP)
Title: Ink for inkjet recording, inkjet image formation method and inkjet recording device
Inventor: NAKAZAWA IKUO
IPC: C09D11/00
Filed: 2009-01-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide ink for inkjet recording suitable for forming a recorded image on regular paper.  <P>SOLUTION: The ink for inkjet recording contains at least one self-dispersion pigment of (a) or (b) described below, an ammonium salt of an organic carboxylic acid, an acrylic resin, water, and a water-soluble compound having a coefficient of hydrophilicity-hydrophobicity, which is defined by formula described in the detailed description, of 0.26 or more, and has surface tension of 34 mN/m or less. (a) A self-dispersion pigment in which an anionic functional group represented by general formula (1):-P=O(-OM<SB>1</SB>)(-OM<SB>2</SB>) (wherein M<SB>1</SB>and M<SB>2</SB>are each independently a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal, ammonium or an organic ammonium) is bonded directly or through another atomic group to the surface. (b) A self-dispersion pigment having a lactone group and a carboxy group.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2010168306-A (JP)
Title: Method for producing particulate composition
Inventor: KANETANI TAKETO
IPC: A23L33/14
Filed: 2009-01-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing a particulate composition, by which the particulate composition containing live bacteria sealed in a high content in good storage stability, and applicable to wide uses including foods and medicines, can industrially be produced in high production efficiency without using the live bacterium bulk powder dried by lyophilization or the like.  <P>SOLUTION: This method for producing the live bacterium-containing particulate composition is characterized by suspending an aqueous phase containing a water-soluble vehicle, the live bacteria and water in an oily component and then removing water in the aqueous phase in the oily component to obtain solid particles.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2010171222-A (JP)
Title: Component mounting line and component mounting method
Inventor: ISHIMOTO KENICHIRO
IPC: H05K13/04
Filed: 2009-01-23
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a component mounting line and a component mounting method for eliminating the necessity of performing an input operation by an operator on an inspection device side when an alternative component is used in a component mounter.  <P>SOLUTION: When the alternative component of a component P of a certain type is mounted on a mounting position of a substrate PB instead of the component P, a component mounter 4 of the component mounting line creates alternative component-related data including information for identifying the substrate PB having the alternative component and the mounting position where the alternative component is mounted on the substrate PB and information indicating the type of the alternative component, and transmits the data to a post-mounting inspection machine 5. The inspection machine 5 specifies the substrate PB having the alternative component and the mounting position where the alternative component is mounted on the substrate PB, based on the received alternative component-related data, and changes image data 45 (inspection data) of the component P at the mounting position where the alternative component is mounted into data corresponding to the type of the alternative component.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2010170960-A (JP)
Title: Light emitting device and image display
Inventor: OKAWA SHINGO
IPC: G02F1/13357
Filed: 2009-01-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a novel and improved light emitting device, capable of restraining an uneven brightness from getting large even when an LED is shifted from a normal position, and an image display.  <P>SOLUTION: This light emitting device includes a plurality of light sources for emitting a light, and a light guide panel of substantially planar shape orthogonal to an optical axis direction of the light source, and constituted including a light incident face incident with the light emitted from the light source, and a light outgoing face outgoing with the light getting incident from the light incident face, the light incident face includes an irregular part formed continuously with the first sloped face forming an angle θa with respect to a plane of the light incident face, and the second sloped face forming an angle θb with respect to the plane of the light incident face, the angle θa is an angle of total-reflecting, on the light outgoing face, the light reflected on the first sloped face and getting incident into the light guide panel, out of the light emitted from the light source, even when a position of the light source is shifted along a direction separated from the light guide panel, and the angle θb is an angle of preventing the light emitted from the light source, from being reflected directly on the second sloped face to get incident into the light guide panel, even when the position of the light source is shifted along the direction separated from the light guide panel.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009101190-A (JP)
Title: Method and apparatus for creating intrauterine adhesions
Inventor: DUCHON DOUGLAS J
IPC: A61B6/12
Filed: 2009-01-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus and a method of use or treatment for creating intrauterine adhesions resulting in amenorrhea.  <P>SOLUTION: The apparatus relates to an easily arranged intrauterine transplant that readily and consistently reduces or eliminates abnormal intrauterine bleeding. In addition, the apparatus is also used as a uterine marker device for visualizing endometrial tissue thickness and potential changes. The method of the present invention serves as a supplement to or a replacement for conventional hysterectomy or ablation/resection procedures used to treat menorrhagia.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2010175636-A (JP)
Title: Wireless flash system and commander flash device
Inventor: OKUBO MITSUMASA
IPC: G03B7/16
Filed: 2009-01-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wireless flash system and a commander flash device capable of reducing consumption current when the commander flash device performing main light emission for illuminating an object and of quickening the shutter tuning speed as well.  <P>SOLUTION: When a built-in flash of a camera 100 is used not only for light emitting control of a slave flash device but also as a light source for illuminating an object, delay time before each external flash device emits light after main trigger light emission of the built-in flash is set to 0. In this case, the main trigger light emission from the camera 100 is performed when a shutter of the camera 100 is fully opened. On the other hand, when the built-in flash of the camera 100 is used only for the light emitting control of the slave flash device, the delay time is transmitted. In this case, the main trigger light emission from the camera 100 is performed before the shutter is opened.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2010176933-A (JP)
Title: Plasma display panel
Inventor: YONEDA NAOTSUGU
IPC: H01J11/36
Filed: 2009-01-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide at low cost a PDP with low sustained discharge voltage as well as with controlled luminance leaning and luminance deterioration.  <P>SOLUTION: The PDP is characterized by including; a first substrate 1 equipped with a display electrode pair 40; a second substrate 6 equipped with data electrodes 8, barrier ribs 9 provided on an insulation layer 7 which covers the data electrodes 8; discharge cells 12 formed by the display electrode pair 40 and the data electrodes 8 arranged to be located countering with each other on both sides of a discharge space 11 so that they cross each other; first discharge electrodes 13 are arranged, projecting from a scanning electrode 4 towards a sustaining electrode 5 along with the barrier ribs 9 running in parallel with the data electrodes 8; also along with the countering barrier ribs 9, second discharge electrodes 14 are arranged, projecting from the sustaining electrode 5 toward the scanning electrode 4; and also, the first discharge electrodes 13 and the data electrodes 8 are arranged so that a distance between the data electrode 8 and the discharge electrode 13 is different for each discharge cell 12.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2010178067-A (JP)
Title: Intercom system
Inventor: NAGAIYA AKIRA
IPC: G08B25/04
Filed: 2009-01-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance safety of resident and to reduce botheration of call sound.  <P>SOLUTION: An intercom system enhances safety of resident by causing a message to ask the affair of a visitor when the visitor performs a call operation in an entrance slave unit and recording the received affair, so as to allow the resident to attend to the visitor as necessity after obtaining the affair of the visitor by reproducing the recorded affair. The call sound is not issued before the affair recording is terminated, so that the resident is not bothered with mischievous sound.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2010178228-A (JP)
Title: Radio communication device
Inventor: MISUMI KAZUHITO
IPC: H04W16/14
Filed: 2009-01-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a radio communication device which can perform radio communication by a plurality of communication systems using the same frequency band, while suppressing radio interference.  <P>SOLUTION: The radio communication device is provided with a first radio communication means to perform radio communication between main and sub communication devices, and a second communication means to perform radio communication with external communication devices. The first communication means switches the first radio channel to be used out of the first radio channels included in the second radio channel band to be used for radio communication with the external communication devices in an NAV (Network Allocation Vector) period. The period is written in the frames of a RTS (Request To Send) signal and CTS (Clear To Send) signal which the second radio communication means transceives, and inhibits the transmission by the other communication devices.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2010179619-A (JP)
Title: Pipe lining device
Inventor: FUJII KINZO
IPC: F16L55/16
Filed: 2009-02-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pipe lining device contributing to enhancement of earthquake resistance of piping by reinforcing a liner layer, without impairing quick and efficient working properties for lining execution.  <P>SOLUTION: The liner layer 7 is reinforced since a reinforcing resin tube 13 integrally contacts closely with an inner circumferential face of a lining cross tube 10, to form an inner face layer of the liner layer 7, and contributes to the enhancement of the earthquake resistance of the piping 6. The quick and efficient working properties for the lining execution is not impaired because the reinforcing resin tube 13 is provided concurrently with the execution of the lining cross tube 10.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2010181834-A (JP)
Title: Micromirror device
Inventor: TANAKA YOSHINORI
IPC: B81B3/00
Filed: 2009-02-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a micromirror device in which the deterioration of the flatness of a micromirror chip caused by the thermal contraction of a connecting member is reduced.  <P>SOLUTION: The micromirror device 100 includes: a micromirror chip 110; an electrode substrate 130; and a substrate holding member 170 which holds the micromirror chip 110 and the electrode substrate 130. The micromirror chip 110 has a movable mirror 112. The electrode substrate 130 is disposed facing the micromirror chip 110 with a distance from the micromirror chip 110. The substrate holding member 170 is composed of two plate-shaped members 172 which are mechanically and electrically connected to the side face of the micromirror chip 110 and the side face of the electrode substrate 130.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2010186216-A (JP)
Title: Specifying position of characteristic portion of face image
Inventor: MATSUZAKA KENJI
IPC: G06T1/00
Filed: 2009-02-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the accuracy of the process for specifying the positions of characteristic portions of a face image.  <P>SOLUTION: An image processing device, that specifies a position of a characteristic portion of a target face image, includes: an initial disposition unit that determines an initial disposition of a characteristic point of the target face image based on a disposition of the characteristic point of a reference face image that is set based on a statistical analysis of a plurality of sample face images of which dispositions of the characteristic points representing the positions of the characteristic portions are known; an image transforming unit that performs a first transformation for at least one of the reference face image and the target face image, so that disposition patterns of the characteristic points of the reference face image and the target face image are identical to each other; a normalization unit that performs a first normalization process, in which first index values that represent distributions of pixel values approach, for at least one of the reference face image and the target face image after the first transformation; a determination unit that determines whether to update the disposition of the characteristic point of the target face image based on a result of comparison between the reference face image and the target face image after the first normalization process; and an update unit that updates the disposition of the characteristic point based on the result of the comparison between the reference face image and the target face image.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009189832-A (JP)
Title: Surgical stapling apparatus with retractable firing system
Inventor: HUEIL GEOFFREY C
IPC: A61B17/072
Filed: 2009-02-13
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a surgical stapling apparatus configured for use with disposable loading units.  <P>SOLUTION: In various embodiments, the surgical stapling apparatus includes a retraction system interfacing with an operation shaft movably supported within a handle housing. The operation shaft is configured to move axially within the handle housing from a fully retracted position to a fully fired position in response to operation of a movable handle operably mounted to the handle housing. The retraction system serves to automatically retract the operation shaft to the fully retracted position when the operation shaft has moved to the fully fired position.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT