Abstract: A rod, a cutting tool and a method for manufacturing a cutting tool are disclosed. In an embodiment, the rod may include a cemented carbide member containing WC and Co. The cemented carbide member may be elongated and include a first end portion and a second end portion in a longitudinal direction. The first end portion may have a Co content CoAC smaller than a Co content CoBC of the second end portion. The cemented carbide member may include a first portion on a side of the first end portion and a second portion on a side of the second end portion. The first portion may have a gradient S1 representing a change in a Co content per milliliter. The second portion may have a gradient S2 representing a change in a Co content per milliliter. The gradient S1 may be greater than the gradient S2.

Abstract: An earphone includes an audio transmitter, a housing, a sound passage pipe, a radiator, and a light receiver. The audio transmitter transmits sound. The housing has an internal space for containing the audio transmitter. The sound passage pipe guides sound produced at the audio transmitter into an external auditory canal. The radiator radiates light into the external auditory canal. The light receiver is disposed in the internal space of the housing. The light receiver converts the light into a signal, the light having been reflected off the external auditory canal and passed through an internal space of the sound passage pipe. The housing, the sound passage pipe, and the radiator are disposed in this order.

Abstract: A sound and video processing system includes: a display that displays a video image captured by the camera; a sound collector that collects sound; an input device that receives designation of at least one designated location in the video image displayed on the display. A processor generates emphasized audio data, in which sound is emphasized in at least one direction from a position of the sound collector toward at least one position corresponding to the at least one designated location. The processor displays at least one identification shape at the at least one designated location. In response to receiving re-designation of one of the at least one designated location by the input device, the processor outputs audio data in which emphasis of sound stops in a direction from the position of the sound collector toward the position corresponding to the re-designated location.

Abstract: A sound and video processing system includes: a display, having a rectangular display region, that displays a video image in a circular video-image display region smaller than the rectangular display region; and a sound collector that collects sound. A processor generates emphasized audio data, in which sound is emphasized in at least one direction from a position of the sound collector toward at least one position corresponding to at least one designated location in the video image. In response to receiving designation outside the video-image display region, the processor displays a state display area or an adjustment operation area for the sound to be output from the speaker in a rectangular region which has a diagonal line extending from one of four corners of the rectangular display region to a center of the video-image display region and intersecting with a boundary line of the video-image display region.

Abstract: A recorder receives designation of a video which is desired to be reproduced from a user. If designation of one or more designated locations where sound is emphasized on a screen of a display which displays the video is received by the recorder from the user via an operation unit during reproduction or temporary stopping of the video, a signal processing unit performs an emphasis process on audio data, that is, the signal processing unit emphasizes audio data in directions directed toward positions corresponding to the designated locations from a microphone array by using audio data recorded in the recorder. A reproducing device reproduces the emphasis-processed audio data and video data in synchronization with each other.

Abstract: A robot is provided. A measurement unit measures an object in a space. An own-position estimation unit calculates an own position of a mobile unit moving through the space by matching measurement data acquired by the measurement unit with map data representing information about the object in the space. A classification unit acquires class-based measurement data obtained by classifying the measurement data into at least two predetermined classes. A class-based own-position estimation unit estimates an own position of the mobile unit for each of the at least two predetermined classes by matching a class-based map having a position of the objects recorded therein for each class with the class-based measurement data. An integration unit configured to integrate the own positions estimated for the respective at least two predetermined classes. A control unit controls the mobile unit based on information from the integration unit.

Abstract: A deflector structure for a sunroof device includes: a thinned-cloth member (6) having a lower side connectedly fixed to a front frame (11), the thinned-cloth member being configured to be stretchedly developed to regulate a traveling air while a roof is opened and to be foldedly stored while the roof is closed; and a storage guide member (14) configured to guide folding motion of the thinned-cloth member (6). The storage guide member (14) includes: a front-side first upright wall (15) and a rear-side second upright wall (16) provided upright on the front frame (11) at the rear of a fixation portion of the front frame (11) and the thinned-cloth member (6); and a guide wall (17) formed on an upper holder (7) along a rear surface of an upper portion of the thinned-cloth member stretchedly developed. Thereby, a folded shape of the thinned-cloth member (6) is stabilized.

Abstract: A deflector structure for a sunroof device includes: a thinned-cloth member (6) having a lower side connectedly fixed to a front frame (11), the thinned-cloth member being configured to be stretchedly developed to regulate a traveling air while a roof is opened and to be foldedly stored while the roof is closed; and a storage guide member (14) configured to guide folding motion of the thinned-cloth member (6). The storage guide member (14) includes: a front-side first upright wall (15) and a rear-side second upright wall (16) provided upright on the front frame (11) at the rear of a fixation portion of the front frame (11) and the thinned-cloth member (6); and a guide wall (17) formed on an upper holder (7) along a rear surface of an upper portion of the thinned-cloth member stretchedly developed. Thereby, a folded shape of the thinned-cloth member (6) is stabilized.

Abstract: A control device inputs reliability information on the same data block a plurality of times into a reliability storage memory. A reliability generating device generates a reliability information by performing computation processing based on a stochastic computation by using reliability information generated in the previous cycle that has been saved in the reliability storage memory and reliability information generated in the present cycle, and saves the reliability information generated in the reliability storage memory when the decoding is performed by using reliability information on the data block the same as that in the previous cycle. A column processing computation device computes a column processing output value by using the reliability information generated and saved in the reliability storage memory and a row processing output value.

Abstract: A recorder receives designation of a video which is desired to be reproduced from a user. If designation of one or more designated locations where sound is emphasized on a screen of a display which displays the video is received by the recorder from the user via an operation unit during reproduction or temporary stopping of the video, a signal processing unit performs an emphasis process on audio data, that is, the signal processing unit emphasizes audio data in directions directed toward positions corresponding to the designated locations from a microphone array by using audio data recorded in the recorder. A reproducing device reproduces the emphasis-processed audio data and video data in synchronization with each other.

Abstract: A robot is provided. A measurement unit measures an object in a space. An own-position estimation unit calculates an own position of a mobile unit moving through the space by matching measurement data acquired by the measurement unit with map data representing information about the object in the space. A classification unit acquires class-based measurement data obtained by classifying the measurement data into at least two predetermined classes. A class-based own-position estimation unit estimates an own position of the mobile unit for each of the at least two predetermined classes by matching a class-based map having a position of the objects recorded therein for each class with the class-based measurement data. An integration unit configured to integrate the own positions estimated for the respective at least two predetermined classes. A control unit controls the mobile unit based on information from the integration unit.

Abstract: A control device (211) inputs reliability information on the same data block a plurality of times into a reliability storage memory (202). A reliability generating device (201) generates anew reliability information by performing computation processing based on a stochastic computation by using reliability information generated in the previous cycle that has been saved in the reliability storage memory (202) and reliability information generated in the present cycle, and saves the reliability information generated anew in the reliability storage memory (202) when the decoding is performed by using reliability information on the data block same as that in the previous cycle. A column processing computation device (204) computes a column processing output value by using the reliability information generated anew and saved in the reliability storage memory (202) and a row processing output value.

Abstract: When information is recorded or reproduced on or from an optical information medium having three or more recording layers using blue light, interference by another layer light is reduced and, when information is reproduced from an optical information medium using red light, an S/N ratio is held excellently high.

Abstract: When information is recorded or reproduced on or from an optical information medium having three or more recording layers using blue light, interference by another layer light is reduced and, when information is reproduced from an optical information medium using red light, an S/N ratio is held excellently high.

Abstract: A server device without a means for accessing an IC memory included in a data storage medium can check whether or not a data storage medium includes an IC memory. A portable optical disc medium (100) includes an IC memory (106) accessible through proximity wireless communication and a computer-readable recording part (101). The recording part (101) includes a user-data area (104) in which content data is recorded and a disc management information area (103) in which information for management of recording and reproducing the content data. In the disc management information area (103), medium identification information identifying the optical disc medium (100) and presence indication information indicating that the optical disc medium (100) includes presence of the IC memory (106) in a manner such that the presence indication information does not allow changing.

Abstract: A fixing unit is provided with a fixing belt that heats recording paper that bears and moves a toner image, an exciting coil that generates magnetic flux in the fixing belt and causes the fixing belt to produce heat by electromagnetic induction, and a heat production adjustment section that adjusts the calorific value distribution of the fixing belt by adjusting the magnetic flux acting upon the fixing belt.

Abstract: A heating apparatus that enables an abnormally high temperature detection section that detects, when a heating element heated by means of electromagnetic induction reaches an abnormally high temperature, this abnormally high temperature, to operate speedily and reliably irrespective of the material and temperature characteristic of the heating element in a low-cost and compact configuration. In this apparatus, thermostat 301 is disposed on the same side as exciting coil 231 with respect to heat generating belt 210 and between winding bundles of a conductor wire of exciting coil 231. This allows coil guide 234 to hold both thermostat 301 and exciting coil 231 and allows these wires and terminals to be concentrated on one location, thus making it possible to reduce the number of parts and assembling man-hours and configure the body of the apparatus in a low-cost and compact configuration.

Abstract: In a fixing apparatus using an induction heating type of heating apparatus, there are provided an excitation apparatus that generates magnetic flux, an opposed core located opposite the excitation apparatus, a fixing belt that is induction-heated by the aforementioned magnetic flux, and magnetism masking elements that block magnetic paths corresponding to paper non-passage areas of fixing belt between the excitation apparatus and the opposed core. By blocking magnetic paths between the excitation apparatus and the opposed core by the magnetism masking elements, magnetic flux that induction-heats the fixing belt is effectively masked, and an excessive rise in temperature of paper non-passage areas of fixing belt is prevented.

Abstract: An image heating apparatus is provided that enables the entire width of a heat-producing medium to be heated uniformly and an excessive rise in temperature to be prevented, without making the configuration complex. In a fixing unit 19 in which this apparatus is applied, a fixing belt 112 is an annular member that has an inner peripheral surface and an outer peripheral surface, and produces heat through the action of magnetic flux. An exciting coil 120 is located in proximity to the outer peripheral surface of fixing belt 112, and generates magnetic flux that acts upon fixing belt 112. A suppression member 650 is located in proximity to inner peripheral surface of fixing belt 112, and reduces, of the magnetic flux generated by exciting coil 120, magnetic flux that acts upon a paper non-passage area of fixing belt 112.

Abstract: A canceling exciting coil is supported by a coil supporting member of electrically insulating material fitted to an arch core. A canceling current Ic of opposite phase to a main current I flowing in the magnetic field generation circuit of the exciting coil by means of an exciting circuit is made to flow in a canceling magnetic field generation circuit provided with a canceling exciting coil, and generates canceling flux Mc. The idle component of the AC voltage generated in the canceling exciting coil is minimized by changing the number of turns n, coil inner area, and winding distribution of the canceling exciting coil, and adjusting canceling current Ic.