baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent JP-2017026635-A (JP)
Title: Assay modules with assay reagents, and methods of producing and using same
Inventor: ELI N GLEZER
IPC: G01N27/416
Filed: 2016-10-12
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide assay modules with assay reagents, and methods of producing and using same.SOLUTION: Disclosed herein are assay modules (e.g., assay plates, cartridges, multi-well assay plates, reaction vessels, etc.), processes for preparing the same, and methods of using the same for conducting assays. Reagents may be present in free form or supported on solid phases including surfaces of compartments (e.g., chambers, channels, flow cells, wells, etc.) in the assay modules or of colloids, beads, or other particulate supports. In particular, dry reagents can be incorporated into the compartments of these assay modules and reconstituted prior to their use in accordance with assay methods. A desiccant material may be used to maintain and stabilize these reagents in a dry state.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2018067190-A (JP)
Title: Image processing device, control method thereof, program, and recording medium
Inventor: KIMURA NAOTO
IPC: H04N5/235
Filed: 2016-10-20
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image processing device capable of reducing an influence of gradation correction applying gradation characteristics different for each subject region even if there is an error in discrimination of the subject region.SOLUTION: The image processing device includes: image generation means for generating one or more reduced images that are reduced stepwise based on an input image, the input image and the reduced images constituting a layered image; gain map generation means for applying a first gradation characteristic to each of the layered images and therewith, applying a second gradation characteristic to at least one of the one or more reduced images to generate a gain map representing a gain at each pixel position of the image for each layer; and composition means for composing the gain map generated for each layer and generating a composed gain map representing a gain applied to each pixel position of the input image. The gain map generation means applies the first gradation characteristic and the second gradation characteristic to at least one of the one or more reduced images for each subject region. The first gradation characteristic and the second gradation characteristic are mutually different gradation characteristics associated with each subject region included in the input image.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2018066686-A (JP)
Title: Method of testing liquid pressure device
Inventor: NAGAMINE SUMIHIRO
IPC: G01M3/26
Filed: 2016-10-20
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem in which a leakage test need to be conducted on high-pressure system piping and low-pressure system piping individually in a conventional method of testing a liquid pressure test.SOLUTION: A method of testing a liquid pressure device comprises: applying measurement pressure for detecting a leak in high-pressure system piping to the high-pressure system piping in a state in which a pressure reduction valve connecting the high-pressure system piping and low-pressure system piping together is closed; calculating, as high-pressure system differential pressure, the total value of differences between the measurement pressure and in-system pressure obtained from a plurality of pressure sensors provided to the high-pressure system piping respectively; calculating, as drain system pressure, the value obtained by multiplying leak pressure, obtained from a pressure sensor provided to a drain system by a preset coefficient; and inspecting a leak in both the high-pressure system piping and low-pressure system piping based upon the difference between the high-pressure system differential pressure and the drain system pressure.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2018073021-A (JP)
Title: Display device with touch panel
Inventor: HACHIMAN AKIHIRO
IPC: B06B1/04
Filed: 2016-10-27
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a display device with a touch panel capable of properly transmitting vibration to an operator.SOLUTION: A display device 100 with a touch panel comprises: a display member 120; a light-transmissive touch panel 130 disposed to overlap the display member 120; a panel holder 140 for supporting the display member 120; and an actuator 1 configured to transmit vibration in in-plane directions of an input surface 115 to an input member 110 constituting the input surface 115 for the touch panel 130. The input member 110 is supported by the panel holder 140 via a first elastic member 180 having at least either of elasticity and viscoelasticity. The actuator 1 is not coupled to the panel holder 140, which allows for properly transmitting the vibration of the actuator 1 to a fingertip of an operator even when the operator strongly presses the input surface 115.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2
Patent JP-2017073789-A (JP)
Title: Privacy preserving knowledge/factor possession tests for persistent authentication
Inventor: OMER BERKMAN
IPC: H04L9/32
Filed: 2016-10-28
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus, computer-readable storage medium, server and method for authentication based on a user's private factors, while not revealing, at the server side, information allowing the server (or anyone with the server's information) to deduce private answers.SOLUTION: A user answers a questionnaire with authentication factors, where the answers are transformed in a one-way fashion and the transformed answers are provided to the server side. The invention facilitates authentication based on polynomial interpolation or other methods to permit a user to authenticate, even if the user does not answer all of the questions correctly.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1(a)
Patent JP-2018073983-A (JP)
Title: Dye-sensitized solar battery module
Inventor: TAKAYASU TERUKI
IPC: H01G9/20
Filed: 2016-10-28
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a dye-sensitized solar battery module capable of developing a high electric power.SOLUTION: A dye-sensitized solar battery module comprises photoelectrodes and counter electrodes which are opposed to each other through an electrolyte layer. The dye-sensitized solar battery module is characterized as follows. (1) The two or more photoelectrodes are disposed on a transparent conductive film glass or transparent conductive film; a titanium oxide layer including a dye sensitizer is formed on the photoelectrode. (2) In the transparent conductive film glass or transparent conductive film, the transparent conductive film is removed by etching and isolated on a face fronting the counter electrodes. (3) The counter electrodes are arranged by coating an electrochemical catalyst layer over a transparent conductive film glass or transparent conductive film. (4) In the transparent conductive film glass or transparent conductive film forming the counter electrodes, the transparent conductive film is removed by etching together with an electrochemical catalyst layer and isolated on a face fronting the photoelectrodes. (5) The photoelectrodes and the counter electrodes are electrically connected. (6) Connection parts for extracting electricity to outside are provided on the photoelectrodes and the counter electrode.SELECTED DRAWING: None
Patent JP-2017106901-A (JP)
Title: Contactless cylinder escapement
Inventor: MARC STRANCZL
IPC: G04B15/14
Filed: 2016-11-04
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a magnetic cylinder escapement that reduces sensitivity to external magnetic fields.SOLUTION: A magnetic cylinder escapement comprises a regulating wheel set 5 and an escape wheel 3 comprising actuators 6 at the periphery of a first disc. The actuators 6 each comprises a first impulse part 61 and a second stop part 62, generating or guiding magnetic fields parallel to the pivot axes, and arranged to work in attraction, via the first disc 30, with a second non-magnetically charged, soft ferromagnetic disc 7 integral with the regulating wheel set 5. The mechanism comprises a conductive ferromagnetic plate 8, underneath the first disc 30 but not in contact with the first disc 30, comprising a cutout 80 surrounding, in a contactless manner, the periphery 70 of the second disc 7, with a variable air-gap E; the plate 8 closing a magnetic circuit comprising an actuator 6, the first disc 30, the second disc 7, and a structure in which the escape wheel 3 pivots and which carries the plate 8.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6
Patent JP-2018068954-A (JP)
Title: Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and image processing method
Inventor: KAMATA YASUHIRO
IPC: A61B5/055
Filed: 2016-11-04
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus which, even when a metal piece is contained within a subject, can accurately image the vicinities of the boundaries with the metal piece, with the increased SNR.SOLUTION: The magnetic resonance imaging apparatus comprises: an image acquisition unit 31 which irradiates a subject with a plurality of high-frequency pulses according to a predetermined imaging sequence while changing the frequency band, and acquires a plurality of images based on a plurality of NMR signals obtained from the subject; a pixel determination unit 32 which, based on the pixel value of the corresponding pixel of a pixel of interest in the plurality of images, determines whether the pixel of interest is a pixel in the vicinity of a metal piece representing a tissue around the metal piece; and an image synthesis unit 33 which, when the pixel of interest is determined to be a pixel in the vicinity of the metal piece by the pixel determination unit, uses the pixel values of a predetermined number of pixels in the descending order of pixel values of the corresponding pixels in the plurality of images for performing synthesis with respect to the pixel of interest to generate a synthesized image.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2018075724-A (JP)
Title: Liquid jet device
Inventor: MATSUDA TAKAKI
IPC: B41J2/14
Filed: 2016-11-07
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid jet device which can reduce an influence of a reaction force associated with sealing.SOLUTION: A liquid jet device includes: a liquid storage body 21 capable of storing a liquid; a liquid jet part 30 having an introduction part 32 in which an introduction port 32a for introducing the liquid supplied from the liquid storage body 21 is opened, the liquid jet part 30 configured to jet the liquid introduced from the introduction part 32 to a medium S; a filter 33 attached to the introduction port 32a; and a seal member 60 which is disposed at a position away from the filter 33 and encloses the introduction part 32. The filter 33 is disposed at a position spaced away from the liquid storage body 21.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3
Patent JP-2018075987-A (JP)
Title: Vehicular automatic operation control apparatus
Inventor: IKEDA SATOSHI
IPC: B60W20/14
Filed: 2016-11-10
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simply change a setup value of a setup item related to a vehicular travel without causing discomfort to a driver in the case of switching from a manual operation to an automatic operation, thus improving safety and riding comfort.SOLUTION: A determination part 14E determines, based on a detection result of status information, a recommendation value preferable to select and a non-recommendation value un-preferable to select, as a setup value D in an automatic operation mode. The recommendation value is, for example, a setup value D advantageous in improving safety or a setup value D advantageous in improving ride comfort (comfort) of a driver. The recommendation value changes with the status information. In a case where a setup value D is a non-recommendation value when a manual operation mode is switched to an automatic operation mode, an operation guidance part 14F guides an operation for selecting the recommendation value.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2017211971-A (JP)
Title: Management system and game table
Inventor: OGUCHI HISAO
IPC: A63F1/06
Filed: 2016-11-11
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent an appropriate amount of chip for a user from being handed over.SOLUTION: A server stores user's credit for each user respectively by associating the credit with specific identification information. And when an amount which chip information of the chip indicates, and an amount to be added to or to be subtracted from the credit stored being associated with the identification information do not coincide, control for outputting an error is performed.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2018081358-A (JP)
Title: Merging support device, merging support system, on-vehicle unit, and merging support method
Inventor: TAKAHASHI TSUTOMU
IPC: G08G1/16
Filed: 2016-11-14
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a vehicle traveling on a merging lane to appropriately recognize a situation of vehicles traveling on a main lane.SOLUTION: A merging support device 10 includes: multiple vehicle detection sensors 12 arranged along a main lane L1 of a road so as to detect main lane vehicles A1 traveling on the main lane L1 in each detection range; a control device 11 for generating merging support information that indicates positions of the main lane vehicles A1 on the main lane L1 on the basis of vehicle detection information from the vehicle detection sensors 12; and road side wireless apparatuses 13 for transmitting merging support information to an on-vehicle unit 20 mounted on a merging vehicle A2 traveling on a merging lane L2.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2018079225-A (JP)
Title: Time domain-based oct catheter system and control method for time domain-based oct catheter system
Inventor: IMAI AKIRA
IPC: G02B23/26
Filed: 2016-11-18
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible by using less expensive time domain-based OCT to switch between lateral observation and front observation without exchanging a catheter.SOLUTION: There is provided a time domain-based OCT catheter system, comprising: a light source; an optical fiber 11 for guiding light emitted by the light source; an optical fiber coupler for branching the light from the light source into reference light to be guided through the reference light path and signal light to be guided to an observation object part; a reference mirror for changing the optical path length of the reference light and reflecting the reference light; a detector for detecting multiplexed light of the reference light reflected by the reference mirror and the signal light reflected from the observation object part; a drive device 13 for rotationally driving the optical fiber 11 through which the signal light is transmitted; and a reflection mirror 12 which is disposed near the light emitting end of the optical fiber 11, and which includes a central portion transmittable of light and has a reflection portion Rf around its outer periphery for reflecting in a lateral direction the light emitted from the light emitting end of the optical fiber 11.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2018087705-A (JP)
Title: Magnetic leakage flux flaw detection device of thin steel strip and flaw detection method
Inventor: MATSUFUJI YASUHIRO
IPC: G01N27/83
Filed: 2016-11-28
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a magnetic leakage flux flaw detection device of a thin steel strip and a flaw detection method capable of removing a disturbance noise due to vibrations even in a relatively large scale.SOLUTION: A magnetic leakage flux flaw detection device includes: a differential type magnetic sensor having a bar-shaped magnetic core in which a search coil with the same number of windings is wound around each of a part close to and a part far from a thin steel strip and an U-shaped magnetic core that nips and surrounds a gap on the front and rear surfaces and upside of the bar-shaped magnetic core; an amplifier for amplifying an output connected in series so that the search coil is differentially moved; a band pass filter set to a predetermined pass frequency band; and a signal processing part having an all-wave rectifier for all-wave rectifying a waveform after going through band pass filtering.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2018088578-A (JP)
Title: Terminal device, communication method, communication system, and program
Inventor: TAKEUCHI KOJI
IPC: H04W4/38
Filed: 2016-11-28
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a terminal device capable of simultaneous transmission even when carrier sense is executed.SOLUTION: A terminal device includes: a carrier sense unit for executing carrier sense for a frequency band used by the terminal device; a radio communication unit for starting radio communication if the carrier sense unit does not detect other communication competing against each other at the frequency band; a communication termination detection unit for detecting termination of radio communication at the frequency band by another terminal device; and a waiting time setting unit for setting, to a waiting time, a time from prescribed transmission timing to detection of the termination of the radio communication by the other terminal device. The carrier sense unit starts carrier sense at timing when the waiting time has passed from the prescribed transmission timing.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2018092219-A (JP)
Title: Information processing apparatus, control method, program, device and information processing system
Inventor: OISHI TSUTOMU
IPC: H04Q9/00
Filed: 2016-11-30
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information processing apparatus capable of defining an individual control flow for each device belonging to a group.SOLUTION: An information processing apparatus for controlling a device belonging to a group by an available control flow based on data sent from the device belonging to the group via a network includes means for storing policy data setting a user whose processing of the device is permitted or prohibited for each group, means for storing the control flow that associates a condition and an executed processing of the device when satisfying the condition for each group, and means for controlling the processing of the device for each group based on the enabled control flow by enabling the control flow if the processing of the device, which is executed when the user requesting implementation of the control flow satisfies the condition of the control flow that is requested to implement, is permitted or not prohibited in the policy data, to solve the problem.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2018092339-A (JP)
Title: Game program, method, and information processing apparatus
Inventor: KUREBAYASHI HAJIME
IPC: G06F3/0481
Filed: 2016-12-01
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To quickly show a situation of a game space to a user in a town development game.SOLUTION: A game program according to the present disclosure includes the steps of: configuring a game space in which a plurality of building objects can be arranged; displaying on a display unit a first range in which the building object included in the first range is arranged when the first range is designated in a display range; capturing the displayed first range as an image and associating the same with the first range; and displaying on the display unit the image first and then a second range, instead of the image, in which the building object included in the second range is arranged when the second range superimposed on at least a part of the first range is designated in the display range.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 13
Patent JP-2018097431-A (JP)
Title: Driving support apparatus, driving support system and driving support method
Inventor: YAMAZAKI HIROTARO
IPC: G06T1/00
Filed: 2016-12-08
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique for supplementing information to be provided to a driver according to the state on a road.SOLUTION: A driving support apparatus comprises: an on-road recognition part for detecting a lane line marking and lack of the lane line marking from an image on a road generated by an image pickup apparatus for picking up the image in a region in front of an own vehicle; an image generation part generating a complementary image that complements the lane line marking on the basis of the lane line marking and the lack of the lane line marking detected by the on-road recognition part; and a display control part that causes the image generated by the image generation part to be displayed on a display object.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2
Patent JP-2018095594-A (JP)
Title: Immune function improving composition
Inventor: MATSUMI SHIGERU
IPC: A61P25/18
Filed: 2016-12-14
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide immune function improving compositions based on the immune function improving action of Lauraceae, Lindera umbellata Thunb. extract by examining the pharmacological action of the extract.SOLUTION: Provided is an immune function improving composition characterized by containing as an active ingredient Lauraceae Lindera umbellata Thunb. extract extracted with a solvent, particularly water, lower alcohol, or a mixed solvent of a lower alcohol and water, the composition being useful for the preventive improvement and/or therapeutic improvement of immune function in a systemic immune system and/or gastrointestinal immune system caused by psychological stress.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2017185780-A (JP)
Title: Copper clad laminate sheet and manufacturing method therefor
Inventor: IWASAKO YASUSHI
IPC: H05K1/03
Filed: 2016-12-16
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a copper clad laminate having high reflection rate to visible light and ultraviolet light and excellent in ultraviolet resistance or heat resistance.SOLUTION: A copper clad laminate sheet has a structure having a copper layer, a white layer, an adhesive layer and a high thermal conducive substrate with thermal conductivity of 200 W/m K or more in this order, the white layer has a composition having a filler of one of BN, ZrO, SiO, CaFand diamond high in ultraviolet light reflection rate in a matrix of organopolysiloxane high in ultraviolet resistance and the white layer and an aluminum substrate are conjugated by a thermal conductive resin.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3
Patent JP-2017063223-A (JP)
Title: Semiconductor device and semiconductor device manufacturing method
Inventor: NAGAO KATSUHISA
IPC: H01L21/768
Filed: 2016-12-19
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method of the same which can increase a discharge starting voltage at the time of measuring electric characteristics and increase a pad area of a surface electrode or increase the number of semiconductor devices (chips) obtained from one wafer.SOLUTION: A semiconductor device 1 includes: an n-type SiC layer 2 having a surface 2A, a rear face 2B and end faces 2C; p-type voltage relaxation layers 7 formed in the SiC layer 2 so as to be exposed on an end of the surface 2A of the SiC layer 2; insulation layers 8 formed on the SiC layer 2 so as to cover the voltage relaxation layers 7, respectively; and anode electrodes 9 each of which is connected to the surface 2A of the SiC layer 2 through the insulation layer 8 and has a selectively-exposed pad area 95.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2