baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent JP-2003216936-A (JP)
Title: Image processing device, image processing method, computer program and image storage medium
Inventor: ISHIDA YOSHIHIRO
IPC: G06T7/60
Filed: 2002-01-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately and easily extract a boundary of a person area as a subject and other areas in an image.  <P>SOLUTION: A photographing part 101 obtains an image signal (a photograph image signal) including the subject 20. A frame memory 102 stores the image and outline information of the object 20 obtained by the photographing part 101. A face part detecting part 103 detects face parts of the person as the subject 20 and the arrangement thereof from the image obtained by the photographing part 101. An initial boundary information setting part 104 sets initial boundary information for obtaining the area boundary of the person area and the other areas in the photographed image from the arrangement of the face parts of the person from the face part detecting part 103. A boundary information extracting part 105 extracts area boundary information of the person area and the other areas from the initial boundary information set by the initial boundary information setting part 104 and the photographed image. An adaptive processing part 106 performs adaptive processing to the photographed image from the area boundary information extracted by the boundary information extracting part 105.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003222805-A (JP)
Title: Optical switch
Inventor: TAKEUCHI TERUAKI
IPC: G02B26/08
Filed: 2002-01-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical switch which is compact, has a simple structure and is easily manufactured.  <P>SOLUTION: An optical switch for switching over a transmission path of light is provided which includes a light incident part, a light emitting part, and a substrate on which a magnetostrictive material, a light reflection part, and a magnetic flux supplying part are each formed. Further, the optical switch is provided which is characterized in that the light from the light incident part is switched to the light emitting part by making use of the difference in the bending of the substrate due to the magnetic flux supply at the magnetic supply part.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003220296-A (JP)
Title: Washing equipment
Inventor: KUBOTA TORU
IPC: A47L15/42
Filed: 2002-01-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently and stably generate alkaline water and acidic water by electrolysis, to improve long-term reliability and to improve washing performance.  <P>SOLUTION: In the washing equipment provided with an electrolysis device 19, a plurality of first and second division chambers 26 and 27 are formed by partitioning an electrolysis tub 21 constituting the electrolysis device 19 by a partition wall 24 and at least a pair of first and second electrodes 28 and 29 are disposed at the division chambers 26 and 27. Also, the partition wall 24 is formed of a non-conductive and non-water-permeable material and a communicating path 25 connecting the respective division chambers 26 and 27, through which liquid can be moved, is provided on the upper part of the partition wall 24.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003220313-A (JP)
Title: Method and device for staggered backwashing bag filter
Inventor: KANAYAMA SHINSUKE
IPC: B01D46/04
Filed: 2002-01-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for staggered backwashing each filter cloth of bag filters having a plurality of filter clothes.  <P>SOLUTION: A method for backwashing is to grasp an adhesion condition of dust or the like to each filter cloth of bag filters and to individually set up time intervals for backwashing at each line of the filter clothes. Then, air is injected to each cloth filter in accordance with the set up time intervals.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003226340-A (JP)
Title: Bag body having deaeration structure
Inventor: YAMADA HIROYUKI
IPC: B65D33/01
Filed: 2002-01-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bag body having a deaeration structure of high commodity value.  <P>SOLUTION: In a bag for housing granules such as grain and fertilizer, the bag body 1 is formed in a shape having front and back short edge parts 2 and 3 facing each other and right and left long edge parts 4 and 5 facing each other which is substantially rectangular in front view, and deaeration holes 6 are formed at least in one long edge part of the right and left long edge parts 4 and 5 of the bag body 1.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003226651-A (JP)
Title: Percutaneous absorbefacient
Inventor: KUBO MICHITOKU
IPC: A61K31/405
Filed: 2002-01-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new percutaneous absorbefacient improving the absorption of a medicine through the skin when the medicine is applied as an external agent.  <P>SOLUTION: This percutaneous absorbefacient contains a fruit of Evodia rutaecarpa or an extract thereof. The percutaneous absorbefacient of a non- steroid antiinflammatory agent contains the fruit of the Evodia rutaecarpa or the extract thereof. The percutaneous absorbefacient of an acidic antiinflammatory agent contains the fruit of the Evodia rutaecarpa or the extract thereof. The percutaneous absorbefacient of an indole acetate-based antiinflammatory agent contains the fruit of the Evodia rutaecarpa or the extract thereof. The percutaneous absorbefacient of indomethacin, sulindac and acemetacin contains the fruit of the Evodia rutaecarpa or the extract thereof.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003220212-A (JP)
Title: Pachinko game machine
Inventor: MIZUNO MASAHIRO
IPC: A63F7/02
Filed: 2002-01-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pachinko game machine in which there is no upper limit of storing number and the performance effect of pattern variation, etc., is not reduced.  <P>SOLUTION: The pachinko game machine is provided with a judgment auxiliary area 14, extracts a winning special random number K whenever a game ball passes through this judgment auxiliary area 14 three times, and carries out a pattern generation process once on the basis of the winning special random number K.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003235274-A (JP)
Title: Vibrating motor integrated bearing unit
Inventor: TADA SEIJI
IPC: F16C19/18
Filed: 2002-02-01
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vibrating motor integrated bearing unit for enabling a vibrating motor (e.g an ultrasonic motor) to be mounted in a small space subjected to a repeated radial load such as a joint of a robot arm and a motor to be mounted even in a portion into which a bearing is originally incorporated.  <P>SOLUTION: The unit is provided with a plurality of rolling bearings 1 each having a pair of bearing rings 3, 4 and a plurality of rolling elements 5 arranged between them, a plurality of ultrasonic motor stators 7, 17 provided on one ring 3, and a plurality of rotors 8, 18 provided on the other ring 4 and pressed against the stators 7, 17.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003228047-A (JP)
Title: Liquid crystal display device and optical laminated body
Inventor: FUJII TAKAMITSU
IPC: G02F1/1335
Filed: 2002-02-01
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid crystal display device excellent in color display, light in weight, provided with flexibility and hardly being broken.  <P>SOLUTION: In the liquid crystal display device having a liquid crystal cell layer interposed between two substrates having electrodes, at least the substrate on the display surface side of the two substrates is constituted of a plastics substrate having 0 to 10 nm product (Δnd) of intrinsic double refraction (Δn) and thickness (d).  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003228666-A (JP)
Title: Parts ordering system
Inventor: ITO MASAHARU
IPC: G06Q50/00
Filed: 2002-02-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a parts ordering system for making the inventory of a parts maker or the like proper, and for simplifying forming of a manufacturing plan.  <P>SOLUTION: The parts ordering system is provided with a means for calculating the predicted ordered quantity of parts within a prescribed period from the predicted required quantity of parts received from a plurality of ordering origins, and for noticing it to the order-receiving destination and a means for calculating the determinate ordered quantity of parts by receiving the determinate required quantity of merchandise from the ordering origins. Furthermore, this system is provided with a means for noticing the order to which a first term of delivery is applied to the order-receiving destination when the determinate ordered quantity is within the predicted ordered quantity, and for noticing the order to which a second term of delivery longer than the first term of delivery is applied to the order- receiving destination when the determinate ordered quantity exceeds the predicted ordered quantity. Thus, the order-receiving destination is able to know the predicted ordered quantity prior to the determinate ordered quantity, and easily make the manufacturing plan of parts. When receiving an order which exceeds the predicted ordered quantity, the term of delivery which is longer than the normal term of delivery is applied, and it is not necessary for the order-receiving destination to keep any excess inventory.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003228790-A (JP)
Title: Method and system for operation control for vehicle
Inventor: KIMURA MASAHIRO
IPC: G06Q50/30
Filed: 2002-02-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce a transmission expense required for transmitting a positioning data from a traveling vehicle to an operation control center, and to enhance operation control for the vehicle in the operation control center by acquiring a dynamic operation data of the traveling vehicle in the operation control center.  <P>SOLUTION: This system is provided with a GPS positioning system G provided in the vehicle 13a to detect a position of the vehicle 13a, a packet transceiver 22 for transmitting collectively the plurality of positioning data stored in a positioning data memory 40 of the GPS positioning system G, and a data receiver 17 for receiving the positioning data transmitted from the packet communication transceiver 22 and a personal computer 18 for displaying the positioning data received by the data receiver 17 on a display screen, in the operation control center 14.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003229407-A (JP)
Title: Semiconductor substrate and etching method thereof
Inventor: YAMASHITA SHUICHI
IPC: H01L29/84
Filed: 2002-02-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the smoothness of an etching surface by employing the water solution of KOH as etching solution upon effecting etching treatment, by immersing a semiconductor substrate into the etching solution.  <P>SOLUTION: A silicon wafer 50 is employed as the semiconductor substrate and a silicon oxide film 70 is formed on the main surface 51 of the silicon wafer 50, then, the oxide film 70 is removed through etching employing the water solution of potassium hydroxide as the etching solution, and, subsequently, the silicon wafer 50 is processed through etching treatment from the side of the main surface 51 of the same.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003230050-A (JP)
Title: Imaging apparatus, data transfer method, recording medium and program
Inventor: WATANABE TAKESHI
IPC: H04N5/335
Filed: 2002-02-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a camera which does not have a communication interface exclusively for a strobe, in which communication interfaces are integrated to attain simplicity and a camera enclosure is downsized and the cost is reduced and by which a user can control an external strobe without feeling stress and a sense of incongruity.  <P>SOLUTION: A digital camera 100 transfers a control signal to control operations of at least one strobes (102, 103) and an image signal outputted from an imaging means through a single USB, in the case of imaging with strobe emission by using the strobes (102, 103), the transfer of the image signal is tentatively stopped and the control signal with respect to the strobes (102, 103) is transferred with precedence over other signals.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003232352-A (JP)
Title: Air pad, stage device using the same and exposure device having stage device
Inventor: TAKIZAWA HIDEKI
IPC: G03F7/20
Filed: 2002-02-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an air pad capable of preventing the inclination of an air slide or the generation of slight vibration, a stage using the air pad and an exposure device having the stage.  <P>SOLUTION: In the air pad 50 having an air pad main body 51 and an orifice 65 formed in the air pad main body 51 to discharge compressed fluid, the sectional area of the orifice 65 is gently restricted toward an outlet 66.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2002313340-A (JP)
Title: Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery
Inventor: MATSUNO HIROSHI
IPC: H01M10/0525
Filed: 2002-02-06
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve problems in a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery wherein rupture is caused by the rapid rise of a battery temperature caused by an abnormal reaction such as rapid decomposition of an electrolyte and a positive electrode active material when an overcharged condition lasts. SOLUTION: A material reversibly reacting to lithium is used for the positive electrode active material, and as for the product V (V=S×W) of the specific area S (m<2> /g) of the positive electrode and a quantity of lithium carbonate W (wt.%) contained in the positive electrode (the sum of a quantity of residual lithium carbonate at the time when synthesizing the positive electrode active material and a quantity of added lithium carbonate), the range of V is set as 0.03<V<0.3, and the range of S is set as 0.15<S<3.1.
Patent JP-2002308882-A (JP)
Title: Thienopyrimidine derivative
Inventor: ITAHANA HIROTSUNE
IPC: A61P25/08
Filed: 2002-02-07
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new thienopyrimidine derivative or its salt possessing a metabotropic glutamate receptor activity which is useful as a pharmaceutical. SOLUTION: The thienopyrimidine derivative or its salt is represented by formula (I) (wherein R<1> is H, a halogen, OH, SH, a lower alkyl, a halogeno lower alkyl, a cycloalkyl or an optionally substituted amino; R<2> is -N(R<2a> )R<2b> , -O-R<2a> , -S-R<2a> , -N(R<2c> )-C(O)-R<2a> or -C(O)-N(R<2a> )R<2b> ; R<3> is a lower alkyl optionally substituted with H or OH or a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring-lower alkyl-; and R<4> is H, acyl, a halogen, nitro, a lower alkyl, -(Alk1)p-X-(Alk2)q-Y-R<5> , -CH=R<5a> or -C(O)-O-R<5b> ). A pharmaceutical comprises this as an active component.
Patent JP-2003232455-A (JP)
Title: Valve drive
Inventor: HARA TETSUHIKO
IPC: F16K31/524
Filed: 2002-02-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a valve drive without applying an excessive load on a compressor.  <P>SOLUTION: In a ball valve type three-way valve 15, (a) is an origin, (b) is a valve port 35 (closed)-valve port 35b (closed) mode, (c) is a valve port 35a (open)-valve port 35b (closed) mode, (d) is a valve port 35a (open)-valve port 35b (open) mode, (e) is a valve port 35a (closed)-valve port 35b (open) mode, and (f) is a free stop limit. For shift from the open-closed mode of (c) to the closed-open mode of (e), the open-open mode of (d) is necessarily passed, and the closed-closed mode is never made during valve control operation. Therefore, rise of internal pressure of a valve chest over compressor output to stop the compressor will not occur.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003233086-A (JP)
Title: Liquid crystal display device
Inventor: OKADA TAKASHI
IPC: G09G3/36
Filed: 2002-02-13
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid crystal display device in which low cost is maintained and also display unevenness is reduced, that is, which has high picture performance in a large-sized and high definition liquid crystal display device.  <P>SOLUTION: A liquid crystal display device is arranged so that multiplexer constitution is adopted in a source signal driving circuit and the value of a capacitance between pixel electrodes of a front stage and a rear stage becomes a different value between pixels to be connected to a plurality of columns to which a signal is distributed by the multiplexer drive.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003243992-A (JP)
Title: Code generation circuit
Inventor: SEKIGUCHI HIROYUKI
IPC: G06F11/10
Filed: 2002-02-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce a time for division arithmetic for input data which has a characteristic that it includes many continuous 0.  <P>SOLUTION: This code generation circuit is provided with a dividing circuit constituted in the form of a shift register by connecting flip flops F1 to F8, selectors 130 to 137 and exclusive OR circuits 110 to 113 in serial, and a division remainder decision circuit 101 comprising a remainder shifting circuit which compares the number of digits of leading 0 of a value on the shift register with that of leading 0 of following input data and outputs a value obtained by shifting the value on the shift register by the skipping number of digits with the smaller number of digits as the skipping number of the digits. When the skip number of digits is 1, a selector circuit selects the output of the remainder shifting circuit. When the skip number of digits is 0, the selector circuit selects the output of a flip flop connected just before each.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003245834-A (JP)
Title: Clamp apparatus
Inventor: MATSUNAGA KAZUNARI
IPC: B23Q3/06
Filed: 2002-02-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a clamp apparatus, which provides superior workability for carrying in and out a work, has a compact structure, and makes it possible to easily carry out the manual clamp and unclamp of the work.  <P>SOLUTION: A clamper 1 moves between a clamp position and an unclamp position by the combination of swinging and sliding. The clamper 1 swings as a rotating cam 20 guides a cam follower 21, and slides as a locking projection 23 provided on the cam surface 25 is locked to a guide slot 24 provided on the clamper 1 in the rotating direction of the cam 20.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003241388-A (JP)
Title: Positive heat-sensitive planographic printing plate
Inventor: WATANABE NORIAKI
IPC: G03F7/11
Filed: 2002-02-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a positive heat-sensitive planographic printing plate for an infrared laser for direct plate making excellent in latitude in image formation by development and having high sensitivity.  <P>SOLUTION: An undercoat layer comprising a polymer which includes a component having an acid group and a component having an onium group is disposed on an anodically oxidized aluminum support and an intermediate layer comprising a water-insoluble and alkali-soluble resin and a heat-sensitive layer comprising a water-insoluble and alkali-soluble resin and an IR absorbing dye and having solubility in an alkaline aqueous solution increased by heating are stacked in order on the undercoat layer.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003238487-A (JP)
Title: Method for producing carbonic ester
Inventor: MIYAUCHI HIROO
IPC: C07C69/96
Filed: 2002-02-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for continuously producing a carbonic ester.  <P>SOLUTION: The method for producing the carbonic ester comprises carrying out a transesterification between a carbonic ester such as dimethyl carbonate or diethyl carbonate and a hydroxy compound such as 2-methoxyethanol or 2-methoxypropanol in the presence of, as a catalyst, a catalytic compound lower in boiling point than the raw material carbonic ester, the raw material hydroxy compound and the final carbonic ester, such as trimethylamine or dimethylethylamine.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003240333-A (JP)
Title: Hot water heating apparatus
Inventor: HOSODA YUKIHIRO
IPC: F24D3/16
Filed: 2002-02-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hot water heating apparatus capable of exhibiting a heating effect in a simple constitution in a short period of time without adding pipes and efficiently using a heat source of hot water in supplying the hot water.  <P>SOLUTION: This hot water heating apparatus is so formed that a pipe 3 on the way from a hot water supply device 1 to a hot water delivery port 2 is detoured to pass through a heating object 4, and a particular pipe 3A in a part positioned in the rear side of the heating object 4 is made to have superior heat conduction to those of the other pipes 3B. Among the heating objects 4 are, for example, a unit bathroom, a kitchen, a floor material and a mirror glass of a lavatory, etc., adjacent to the hot water supply device.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003241026-A (JP)
Title: Optical link device
Inventor: ICHIKAWA TAKASHI
IPC: G02B6/42
Filed: 2002-02-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To decrease the number of components and to improve the operability of assembling operation.  <P>SOLUTION: A device comprises a housing 2 with which a connector part 19 of an optical connector 18 is coupled, and a package 8 for optical communication having a sleeve 7 which is held on the housing and into which an optical fiber 20 supported by the connector part is inserted when the connector part is coupled with the housing, a united molding member 12 that is united with a stopper part 14 which positions the optical fiber by making a tip of the optical fiber inserted into the sleeve abut, an element arrangement part 15 where a photoelectric converting element 17 is arranged, and a converging lens part 13 which guides incident light to the photoelectric converting element or optical fiber and also arranged in the housing, fitting parts 10 and 10 where the element arrangement part of the united molding member is fitted, and leads 11 and 11 which connect a connection terminal of the photoelectric converting element to external equipment.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2002282575-A (JP)
Title: Washing machine
Inventor: YOSHIDA SHIGEKI
IPC: D06F33/02
Filed: 2002-02-21
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To smoothen a spinning for dehydration by suppressing a noise in spinning starting caused by the residual water in an outer tub and suppressing the bubbling. SOLUTION: In this washing machine, a washing operation consisting of washing, rinsing and spinning for dehydration is performed, and a water supply device and a draining device are then operated while rotating a washing and spinning tub at a low speed as rinsing to shower water to laundry and remove the detergent content in the laundry. A control part waits the washing and spinning tub for a prescribed time as the draining device is operated when the shower rinsing is ended, and then rotates the tub to perform the spinning. At the point of time when the residual water in the outer tub is drained, or the water in the laundry runs out by the dead weight and drains, the spinning tub is rotated to start the spinning.
Patent JP-2003248662-A (JP)
Title: Personal authentication method and system, and computer program
Inventor: MUTO IKUO
IPC: G06F21/32
Filed: 2002-02-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a personal authentication method that can improve safety in identifying a person by human biometric information such as fingerprint information and authenticating a user.  <P>SOLUTION: The personal authentication method, which identifies a person by fingerprint information and authenticates a user, includes a step of registering fingerprint information on a plurality of fingers about one user, a step of specifying an authentication finger, whose fingerprint is to be sampled for authentication, from among the registered fingers, and a step of, when receiving fingerprint information from a user terminal, collating it with the registered fingerprint information and determining whether the user is a valid user or not from the collation result, in an authentication server.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO