baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent JP-2018004539-A (JP)
Title: Distance measurement device and distance measurement method
Inventor: KAWADA YOSHIYUKI
IPC: G01B11/00
Filed: 2016-07-06
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a distance measurement device and distance measurement method that can make distance measurements even when a position of a measurement object displaces.SOLUTION: Firstly, a distance measurement device comprises: an amplitude determination unit that determines amplitude of an AC component of an optical frequency of an optical wave on the basis of an optical distance difference calculated by a distance difference calculation unit, and determines amplitude in which a modulation index determining an aspect ratio of a Lissajous waveform is kept constant; and an amplitude control unit that controls amplitude of an optical wave to be created by an optical wave creation unit on the basis of a determination result of the amplitude determination unit. Secondary, the distance measurement device comprises: a time lag detection unit that detects a time lag between measurement light and reference light on the basis of the optical distance difference calculated by the distance difference calculation unit; and a detection control unit that corrects phases of a first reference sinusoidal signal and a second reference sinusoidal signal on the basis of a detection result of the time lag detection unit, and causes a sinusoidal signal detection unit to execute detection of a dual-phase sinusoidal signal on the basis of phase-corrected first reference sinusoidal signal and second reference sinusoidal signal.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 12
Patent JP-2018008216-A (JP)
Title: Coating device
Inventor: ICHIKAWA TAKUMI
IPC: B05C5/02
Filed: 2016-07-13
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a coating device capable of uniformly coating a coating liquid on a base material.SOLUTION: A coating device 1 according to the present embodiment comprises a carrying part 11 for carrying a base material, a discharge part for discharging a coating liquid to one surface of the carried base material, a supply part 13 for supplying the coating liquid to the discharge part and a control part 31 for quickening or delaying the timing for starting or finishing an increase-decrease in a supply quantity by the supply part 13, for a predetermined time more than the timing for starting or finishing ascent-descent of a carrying speed by the carrying part 11, by executing control for ascending-descending the carrying speed by the carrying part 11 and control for increasing-decreasing the supply quantity per unit time by the supply part 13.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2
Patent JP-2017006132-A (JP)
Title: Chemical sensing device
Inventor: TOUMAZOU CHRISTOFER
IPC: C12Q1/68
Filed: 2016-07-20
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device for chemical sensing depending on the concentration of an ion in a fluid, the devices being applicable to nucleic acid identification and sequencing.SOLUTION: The device comprises: a transducer having a first output signal and arranged to receive an electrical input, the transducer switching the first output signal between an ON and OFF state; a chemical sensing surface coupled to the transducer arranged for receiving a chemical input; and a signal generator for oscillating one or more of the input signals to vary the switching point of the transducer, wherein an oscillating input may be a chemical input and/or an electrical input, an output signal may be a pulse, and the duration of the pulse on or off is determined by oscillating input modulated by the chemical input.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2017028701-A (JP)
Title: Signal for carrying washout request in haptic audiovisual content, and related method and device
Inventor: DIDIER DOYEN
IPC: H04N21/438
Filed: 2016-07-21
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To add washout related information to a signal representing HAV content so that a HAV rendering device adapts the washout to its physical limitations defined by device capabilities and user preferences.SOLUTION: The HAV content signal includes first information representative of a haptic washout effect and optional second information representative of parameters required for the haptic washout effect. A method comprises performing a first haptic effect, computing the haptic washout effect according to device capabilities, user preferences, a type of washout obtained from washout flags and optional washout parameters, and performing the haptic washout effect.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6
Patent JP-2018011559-A (JP)
Title: Scraping fork structure of feed roll of seeding machine for nursery box
Inventor: NAKATSUKA KAZUYUKI
IPC: A01C7/12
Filed: 2016-07-21
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a scraping fork structure of a feed roll of a seeding machine for a nursery box in which the disassembly of a whole scraping fork structure is not needed, and thereby the time required for disassembly/assembly of a scraping fork mechanism can be shortened.SOLUTION: A scraping fork structure G is provided for scraping out foreign matters fitted in a seed feeding recess 8 shaped in a row groove of a feed roll K, by fitting a scraping fork 2 in a scraping slit groove 9 of a feed roll of a seeding machine for a nursery box. The scraping fork structure G is configured to lock two or more scraping forks 2 by a spacing shaft 1 and a retaining locking shaft 6. Two or more locking grooves 1a for positioning the two or more scraping forks 2 are drilled in the spacing shaft 1. The retaining of scraping fork 2 being fit in the locking grooves 1a of the spacing shaft 1 is configured to be performed by engaging the retaining locking shaft 6.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 13
Patent JP-2018015196-A (JP)
Title: Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and control method thereof
Inventor: HANADA HIKARI
IPC: G01N24/08
Filed: 2016-07-27
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve a high quality diffusion weighted image in real time by restricting extension of TE in an MRI apparatus which performs imaging including MPG pulse application.SOLUTION: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus for applying an MPG pulse after applying an excitation RF pulse and collecting an echo signal after a prescribed time from the excitation RF pulse acquires a navigation echo at least in a slice direction during a period after the MPG pulse application to the echo signal collection, calculates a phase correction amount from the acquired navigation echo and applies a correction gradient magnetic field to correct a phase error included in the MPG pulse on the basis of the calculated phase correction amount. The magnetic resonance imaging apparatus measures an echo time after applying the correction gradient magnetic field. By making a correction in the slice direction which is influential to SNR, a target diffusion motion can be imaged at a high SNR.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3
Patent JP-2018018268-A (JP)
Title: Data transfer system and data transfer method
Inventor: TACHIBANA IKUKO
IPC: G06F21/10
Filed: 2016-07-27
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a data transfer system and a data transfer method that enable retail stores to sell digital content without requiring previous user registration.SOLUTION: A data transfer system 100 transfers data to a terminal device 30 including an imaging device 31 via the imaging device 31, and includes a transmission server 20 and a data transfer device 10. The transmission server 20 transmits data to the data transfer device 10 upon finding a user of the terminal device 30 has purchased the transfer object data. The data transfer device 10 includes: a light source 11 for emitting light to serve as an optical signal; a spreading member 12 for spreading the light emitted by the light source 11; and an optical communication control unit 13 for controlling emission of light by the light source 11 to have it emit the data transmitted by the transmission server 20 as an optical signal.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2016195853-A (JP)
Title: Apparatus for measuring oxygenation of blood in tissue
Inventor: PETER BERNREUTER
IPC: A61B5/1455
Filed: 2016-07-28
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To relate to a process and apparatus for increasing the precision of optical measurement of oxygenation of blood in tissue and to provide an apparatus for measuring arterial oxygenation of blood in tissue at a certain application site with improved precision.SOLUTION: The optical properties of tissue are measured by determination of differential and total attenuations of light at a set of wavelengths. By choosing distinct wavelengths and using the measured attenuations, the influence of variables such as light scattering, absorption and other optical tissue properties is canceled out or minimized.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3
Patent JP-2018019788-A (JP)
Title: Game machine
Inventor: WATANABE NAOYUKI
IPC: A63F7/02
Filed: 2016-08-01
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance the appealing of an operation performance of a game machine.SOLUTION: A game machine 1 has a main control board 110, a performance control board 120, an image control board 150, and an image display unit 31. In a case of carrying out a timing operation performance, the performance control board 120 of the game machine 1, when an operation timing of any of a plurality of operations coincides with a predetermined timing, permits carrying out a performance of notification of an operation result in an operation mode according to the coinciding of the operation timing and the predetermined timing, and, when an operation timing of any of a plurality of operations does not coincide with a predetermined timing, restricts carrying out the performance itself of notification of the operation result.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 20
Patent JP-2016197916-A (JP)
Title: Method for determining operation channel in communication network, energy limited device and its proxy device
Inventor: LUDOVICUS MARIUS GERARDUS MARIA TOLHUIZEN
IPC: H04W84/10
Filed: 2016-08-03
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a device for determining an operation wireless channel for an energy limited device.SOLUTION: A method for determining the operation channel of a communication network has at least two potential proxy and wireless channel sets, for an energy limited device that must participate a network, and the device participates the network. The method has a step of the energy limited device to transmit a first beacon message on the first channel by MAC broadcast and to switch to the reception mode, a step of a proxy to receive the beacon message, a step of a temporary master device to switch the own wireless receiver, a step of the energy limited device to transmit a second beacon by second channel and to switch to the reception mode, a step of the temporary master device to transmit a response upon receiving the second beacon, and a step of the energy limited device to receive the beacon response and to determine the operation channel.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1A
Patent JP-2016195464-A (JP)
Title: Method and apparatus for implementing space frequency block coding in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing wireless communication system
Inventor: KWAK JAEYOUNG
IPC: H04J99/00
Filed: 2016-08-09
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and apparatus for implementing space frequency block coding (SFBC) in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)wireless communication system.SOLUTION: The present invention is applicable to both a closed loop mode and an open loop mode. In the closed loop mode, power loading and eigen-beamforming are performed based on channel state information. A channel coded data stream is multiplexed into two or more data streams. Power loading is performed based on the CSI on each of the multiplexed data streams. SFBC encoding is performed on the data streams for each of the paired subcarriers. Then, eigen-beamforming is performed based on the CSI to distribute eigenbeams to multiple transmission antennas. The power loading is performed on two or more SFBC encoding blocks or on each eigenmodes. The power loading is performed across subcarriers or subcarrier groups for weak eigenmodes.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2018026068-A (JP)
Title: Foreground region extraction device, method, and program
Inventor: ARAI HIROYUKI
IPC: G06T7/20
Filed: 2016-08-12
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately extract a foreground region even when the darkest shading appears.SOLUTION: A background image preparation part 24 prepares a background image which is an image in a state that no animal body exists from a time sequence of the inputted current image. An each pixel foreground region detection part 26 detects a foreground for each pixel based on variation of a luminance value of each pixel and outputs each pixel foreground image. An each block foreground detection part 28 detects the foreground for each block by estimating similarity of the image patterns between the images for each block and outputs each block foreground image. A shade candidate block detection part 30 detects a shading candidate block which is a region high in possibility of the shading by comparing each pixel foreground image with each block foreground image. A shading region removal part 24 detects a shading region removal foreground that removes the region high in the possibility of the shading from each pixel foreground image, based on the detected shading candidate block, each pixel foreground image, the foreground image, and the current image.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2018027052-A (JP)
Title: Pest controlling device
Inventor: YATANI YOSHIAKI
IPC: A01M1/00
Filed: 2016-08-18
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pest controlling device which can perform local irradiation of ultraviolet light with respect to the plants, and which has an excellent controlling effect of pests.SOLUTION: A pest controlling device controls pests of plants and it includes: a portable housing 30; and a light source 20 held in the housing 30, and for emitting ultraviolet light in a predetermined direction. The housing 30 has an installation structure 31 so that it is installed at a culture medium for plants with a predetermined direction facing upward.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3
Patent JP-2018028507-A (JP)
Title: Underground survey device
Inventor: SHINOHARA JUN
IPC: G01V3/12
Filed: 2016-08-19
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible to acquire accurate and precise data as underground survey data while effectively protecting a sensor for underground survey, and create and display the underground survey data and information on the ground surface as single centralized information.SOLUTION: An underground survey device comprises: a survey vehicle 10 that includes a plurality of wheels including front wheels and rear wheels and can travel on a road surface; a three-dimensional underground radar 20 that is arranged in the survey vehicle 10 and creates underground three-dimensional information on the underground below the road surface on which the survey vehicle 10 travels; and an omnidirectional camera 30 that creates an overground three-dimensional video over the road surface on which the survey vehicle 10 travels. The three-dimensional underground radar 20 is arranged on a bottom face of the survey vehicle 10 between the front wheels and rear wheels or between axles of the plurality of wheels.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2017042616-A (JP)
Title: Automatic ent surgery preplanning using backtracking maze problem solution
Inventor: VADIM GLINER
IPC: A61B6/03
Filed: 2016-08-25
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide preplanning of invasive nasal sinus surgery.SOLUTION: A method comprises receiving a computerized tomography scan of at least a part of a body of a patient, and identifying voxels of the scan that correspond to regions in the body that are traversable by a probe inserted therein. The method also includes displaying the scan on a screen and marking selected start and termination points for the probe on the scan. A processor finds a path from the start point to the termination point consisting of a connected set of the identified voxels. The processor also uses the scan to generate a representation of an external surface of the body and displays the representation on the screen. The processor then renders an area of the external surface surrounding the path locally transparent in the displayed representation, so as to make visible on the screen an internal structure of the body in the vicinity of the path.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2018036348-A (JP)
Title: Display driver and semiconductor device
Inventor: NAKAYAMA AKIRA
IPC: H03K19/0175
Filed: 2016-08-30
Abstract: PURPOSE: To provide a display driver and a semiconductor device capable of supplying a display drive voltage with suppressed distortion to a display device.CONSTITUTION: The display driver comprises: a bias voltage generating part generating a bias voltage; and a plurality of amplifiers individually amplifying each gradation voltage corresponding to a brightness level of each pixel and generating a plurality of display drive voltages. Each amplifier includes: an operational current generating part generating an operational current with amplitude corresponding to the bias voltage; a differential pair dividing the operational current into first and second currents at a voltage value ratio of the gradation voltage to the display drive voltage and outputting them to first and second lines, respectively; and an output part generating a display drive voltage on the basis of the voltage of the first line. Here, the bias voltage generating part has a source follower circuit including a transistor that receives at a gate end a bias set voltage for setting a voltage value of the bias voltage, and supplies a voltage of a source end to each of the plurality of amplifiers as a bias voltage.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3
Patent JP-2018035534-A (JP)
Title: Method for cutting geometrical pattern on pavement surface
Inventor: MIYATA HIDEKI
IPC: E01C23/09
Filed: 2016-08-30
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for forming geometric patterns of diverse design on a pavement surface of a completed pavement body or of an existing pavement body already in service, by cutting with a cutter.SOLUTION: A pattern cutting method on a pavement surface 2 is for cutting geometrical patterns of diverse design on the pavement surface 2, and includes the steps of: marking on the pavement surface 2 a geometric pattern designed with a curved line or combining a curved line with a straight line; laying out on the pavement surface 2 a cutter 5 having a rotary blade 9 rotated and driven by a motor 7; and cutting a cut groove 12 of a prescribed width and a prescribed depth along the geometric pattern designed with a curved line or combining a curved line with a straight line that have been marked, using the cutter 5.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3
Patent JP-2018036385-A (JP)
Title: Zoom lens, projection type display device, and imaging device
Inventor: AMANO MASARU
IPC: G03B21/14
Filed: 2016-08-30
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a high-performance zoom lens that has a small F value despite its wide angle, suitably reduces fluctuations in aberration when the magnification is varied, a projection type display device including the zoom lens, and an imaging device including the zoom lens.SOLUTION: A zoom lens comprises, across an intermediate image forming position, a first optical system G1 on an enlargement side and a second optical system G2 on a reduction side. The second optical system G2 includes, in order from the enlargement side, a 2-1 lens group G21 having a positive refractive power, a 2-2 lens group G22 having a positive refractive power, and a 2-3 lens group G23 having a positive refractive power. The 1-2 lens group G21 and 2-2 lens group G22 move in opposite directions from each other while changing the interval in the optical axis direction with a group adjacent thereto when the magnification is varied, and the 2-3 lens group G23 is fixed to the reduction-side image forming surface when the magnification is varied and satisfies a predetermined conditional expression (1).SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2018035556-A (JP)
Title: Construction method roof structure
Inventor: ABE YOSHIHIRO
IPC: E04G5/16
Filed: 2016-08-31
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a construction method of a roof structure capable of improving the construction efficiency by reducing the number of stay wires which are provided around a temporary frame.SOLUTION: The construction method of a roof structure includes the steps of: assembling plural temporary frames 30A and 30B on the ground surface 2 (step S2); dividing a part of a roof 10 into plural truss beam units 16 and 17, assembling the plural truss beam units 16 and 17 on the ground, lifting the plural truss beam units 16 and 17 to the upper plane of the temporary frames 30A and 30B, and connecting the plural truss beam units 16 and 17 to each other in the air (steps S3, S4). The temporary frames 30A and 30B include: a support part 31 for supporting the load of the truss beam units 16, 17; and a support 32 which is disposed to the outer periphery beneath the support part 31, and connected to the support part 31.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2
Patent JP-2018036130-A (JP)
Title: Circularity measuring instrument
Inventor: NAKAYAMA SHIGE
IPC: G01B5/00
Filed: 2016-08-31
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a circularity measuring instrument capable of being easily operated, and simplifying adjustment operation for a rotational axis.SOLUTION: A circularity measuring instrument includes: an angular detection unit 56 configured to detect a current rotation angle θ to an X-axis direction of a table 20; a joystick 53, as an external operator, configured to designate an operation amount dX of a rotation axis on the table 20; an alignment control unit 58 configured to calculate a CX-axis movement amount dCX and a CY-axis movement amount dCY on the basis of the operation amount dX and the rotation angle θ, and move a CX-axis movement mechanism 26 and a CY-axis movement mechanism 27 on the basis of the calculated CX-axis movement amount dCX and CY-axis movement amount dCY; and an alignment control unit 58 configured to calculate an LX-axis inclination amount dLX and an LY-axis inclination amount dLY on the basis of the operation amount dX and the rotation angle θ, and move an LX-axis inclination mechanism 28 and an LY-axis inclination mechanism 29 on the basis of the calculated LX-axis inclination amount dLX and LY-axis inclination amount dLY.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3
Patent JP-2018034181-A (JP)
Title: Slab continuous casting device
Inventor: YAMAMOTO KENJI
IPC: B22D41/56
Filed: 2016-08-31
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To stabilize a jetting direction of slab from a submerged nozzle.SOLUTION: A base 11 is disposed between a stopper type flow rate adjustment mechanism 10 and a submerged nozzle 6. A nozzle replacement holding mechanism 20 moves the submerged nozzle 6 through a moving connection space D provided at the base 11 during nozzle replacement and moves up the submerged nozzle 6 disposed in a passage of a molten metal to retain connectivity of the submerged nozzle 6 during operation. A rotation mechanism rotates the base 11. A fixing mechanism 30 biases the submerged nozzle 6 disposed in the passage of the molten metal with the nozzle replacement holding mechanism 20 in a direction perpendicular to a submerged nozzle moving direction during the nozzle replacement in the moving connection space D and presses the submerged nozzle 6 to an inner wall in the moving connection space D to fix the submerged nozzle 6.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3