Abstract: Provided are a method for manufacturing a structural body and a structural body, the structural body formed of FRP and having a high degree of freedom in cross-sectional shape even at a low cost.

Abstract: A structural body manufacturing method includes a first step of forming a cylindrical laminate body LM by winding a plurality of sheets including reinforcing fibers and an uncured thermosetting resin around a mandrel MD, a second step of compressing an entire circumference of the laminate body with a tape TP, a third step of heating the laminate body to a state prior to when the thermosetting resin is completely cured, a fourth step of extracting the mandrel from the laminate body, a fifth step of placing the laminate body around which the tape is wound in a molding die UD, LD, pressurizing the laminate body, and heating the laminate body until the thermosetting resin is completely cured, and a sixth step of removing the laminate body from the molding die and peeling off the tape.

Abstract: A sound separation device includes: a signal obtainment unit which obtains a plurality of acoustic signals including a first acoustic signal and a second acoustic signal; a differential signal generation unit which generates a differential signal that is a signal representing a difference in a time domain between the first acoustic signal and the second acoustic signal; an acoustic signal generation unit which generates, using at least one acoustic signal among the acoustic signals, a third acoustic signal; and an extraction unit which generates a frequency signal by subtracting, from a signal obtained by transforming the third acoustic signal into a frequency domain, a signal obtained by transforming the differential signal into a frequency domain, and generates a separated acoustic signal by transforming the generated frequency signal into a time domain.

Abstract: Provided is a video system equipped with a video display apparatus and video viewing glasses used for viewing a video displayed on the video display apparatus. The video display apparatus includes: a display section for displaying the video; a synchronizing signal generator for generating an external synchronizing signal in synchronism with the video to notify a display end of a frame constituting the video in synchronism with the video; and a synchronizing signal transmitter for transmitting the external synchronizing signal to the video viewing glasses. The video viewing glasses include: a synchronizing signal receiver for receiving the external synchronizing signal; an optical filter section having a pair of optical filters for adjusting light amounts to be transmitted to left and right eyes of a viewer, respectively; and an optical filter controller for controlling the optical filter section in response to the external synchronizing signal.

Abstract: A sound separation device includes: a signal obtainment unit which obtains a plurality of acoustic signals including a first acoustic signal and a second acoustic signal; a differential signal generation unit which generates a differential signal that is a signal representing a difference in a time domain between the first acoustic signal and the second acoustic signal; an acoustic signal generation unit which generates, using at least one acoustic signal among the acoustic signals, a third acoustic signal; and an extraction unit which generates a frequency signal by subtracting, from a signal obtained by transforming the third acoustic signal into a frequency domain, a signal obtained by transforming the differential signal into a frequency domain, and generates a separated acoustic signal by transforming the generated frequency signal into a time domain.

Abstract: A CT processing unit as an example of a video signal processing apparatus includes: a CT canceling unit which calculates, for each of a first color component and a second color component of each of pixels, a crosstalk component that is produced by a first image and subtracts the crosstalk component from the corresponding one of the signal levels of the pixels of a second image, to generate a modified second image represented as a combination of a signal level of a modified first color component and a signal level of a modified second color component; and a saturation modifying unit which updates the negative signal level of the modified first color component to a value of 0 or larger from among a modified first color component and a modified second color component, and modifies the signal level of the modified second color component according to this update.

Abstract: An image signal processing apparatus performs gradation control on respective pixels. Specifically, the image signal processing apparatus includes an image signal processing unit which controls light emission and non-light emission of respective subfields so as to provide a field having a level of brightness. Here, the field is a unit display period of the pixels and divided into the subfields which have different light emission periods and are arranged in a predetermined sequence. In the predetermined sequence, the subfields are arranged in a manner such that a subfield having the shortest light emission period among the subfields is in the first place, one of a subfield having the longest light emission period and a subfield having the second longest light emission period among the subfields is in the second place, and the other one is in the third place.

Abstract: When crosstalk is cancelled without considering the contents of an image signal, the effect of the crosstalk cancellation is sometimes obtained effectively, and sometimes not. In order to solve this problem, an image signal processing unit which cancels crosstalk in a three-dimensional image signal includes image adaptation control units (601, 705) which determine a first coefficient based on a first image signal which is one of a left-eye image signal and a right-eye image signal of the inputted three-dimensional image signal, and a second image signal which is the other of the left-eye image signal and the right-eye image signal of the inputted three-dimensional image signal corresponding to the first image signal, and a corrected signal generation unit (711) which corrects the first image signal based on the first coefficient and the second image signal, and generates the corrected first image signal.

Abstract: An image signal processing apparatus outputs, alternately on a-per frame basis, a first image to be displayed to one of left and right eyes of a viewer and a second image to be displayed to the other eye, and transmits, to a pair of image viewer glasses, a synchronizing signal for controlling timing of opening and closing of optical filters so as to allow the viewer to see the output frames through corresponding eyes. Specifically, the apparatus includes: a persistence amount detecting unit which detects a persistence amount indicating an effect of a first frame in the first image on a second frame in the second image and immediately following the first frame; and an optical-filter adaptive control unit which generates the synchronizing signal indicating timing of opening and closing of the optical filter corresponding to the second frame. The timing is changed based on the persistence amount detected.

Abstract: The color management module includes a first color converter color-converting color information contained in an image signal having been input according to a three-dimensional LUT; an interpolator generating a synthetic image signal by synthesizing an image signal converted by the first color converter and an image signal having been input in an arbitrary ratio; and a second color converter color-converting color information on the synthetic image signal in the HSV space and outputting the color information.

Abstract: When crosstalk is cancelled without considering the contents of an image signal, the effect of the crosstalk cancellation is sometimes obtained effectively, and sometimes not. In order to solve this problem, an image signal processing unit which cancels crosstalk in a three-dimensional image signal includes image adaptation control units (601, 705) which determine a first coefficient based on a first image signal which is one of a left-eye image signal and a right-eye image signal of the inputted three-dimensional image signal, and a second image signal which is the other of the left-eye image signal and the right-eye image signal of the inputted three-dimensional image signal corresponding to the first image signal, and a corrected signal generation unit (711) which corrects the first image signal based on the first coefficient and the second image signal, and generates the corrected first image signal.

Abstract: Provided is a video system equipped with a video display apparatus and video viewing glasses used for viewing a video displayed on the video display apparatus. The video display apparatus includes: a display section for displaying the video; a synchronizing signal generator for generating an external synchronizing signal in synchronism with the video to notify a display end of a frame constituting the video in synchronism with the video; and a synchronizing signal transmitter for transmitting the external synchronizing signal to the video viewing glasses. The video viewing glasses include: a synchronizing signal receiver for receiving the external synchronizing signal; an optical filter section having a pair of optical filters for adjusting light amounts to be transmitted to left and right eyes of a viewer, respectively; and an optical filter controller for controlling the optical filter section in response to the external synchronizing signal.

Abstract: An image signal processing apparatus outputs, alternately on a-per frame basis, a first image to be displayed to one of left and right eyes of a viewer and a second image to be displayed to the other eye, and transmits, to a pair of image viewer glasses, a synchronizing signal for controlling timing of opening and closing of optical filters so as to allow the viewer to see the output frames through corresponding eyes. Specifically, the apparatus includes: a persistence amount detecting unit which detects a persistence amount indicating an effect of a first frame in the first image on a second frame in the second image and immediately following the first frame; and an optical-filter adaptive control unit which generates the synchronizing signal indicating timing of opening and closing of the optical filter corresponding to the second frame. The timing is changed based on the persistence amount detected.

Abstract: An image signal processing apparatus performs gradation control on respective pixels. Specifically, the image signal processing apparatus includes an image signal processing unit which controls light emission and non-light emission of respective subfields so as to provide a field having a level of brightness. Here, the field is a unit display period of the pixels and divided into the subfields which have different light emission periods and are arranged in a predetermined sequence. In the predetermined sequence, the subfields are arranged in a manner such that a subfield having the shortest light emission period among the subfields is in the first place, one of a subfield having the longest light emission period and a subfield having the second longest light emission period among the subfields is in the second place, and the other one is in the third place.

Abstract: A CT processing unit as an example of a video signal processing apparatus includes: a CT canceling unit which calculates, for each of a first color component and a second color component of each of pixels, a crosstalk component that is produced by a first image and subtracts the crosstalk component from the corresponding one of the signal levels of the pixels of a second image, to generate a modified second image represented as a combination of a signal level of a modified first color component and a signal level of a modified second color component; and a saturation modifying unit which updates the negative signal level of the modified first color component to a value of 0 or larger from among a modified first color component and a modified second color component, and modifies the signal level of the modified second color component according to this update.

Abstract: A leg type mobile robot, in which a downsizing and wait-saving of floor reaction force detector to be installed on the foot is enabled. The center Pb of the force sensor is disposed on the position Pa where the distance to the remotest position of ground area provided on the bottom of each plate spring part S1 to S4 is minimum in the standing-still state of the robot R, and the distance L1, L2, L3, and L4 to the remotest point of the ground area of each plate spring part S1, S2, S3, and S4 is equal. The center Pc of the ankle joint is offset in a rearward direction with respect to the position Pa in a plane view.

Abstract: Gamma converter circuits use first to third types of first and second gamma-characteristics to gamma-convert an input video signal. Selectors select one pair among three pairs of gamma-characteristics in accordance with a transmittance to be used for display, and selects one of the six gamma corrected outputs such that both a distribution area ratio of pixels driven by the video signal as gamma corrected by use of the first gamma-characteristic of the selected pair of gamma characteristics and a distribution area ratio of pixels driven by the video signal as ? corrected by use of the second gamma-characteristic of the selected pair of gamma-characteristics are equal to a distribution area ratio specified in advance for the selected pair of gamma-characteristics.

Abstract: A flow-guiding member unit used for assembling a flow-guiding member comprising pluralities of vanes, an outer platform and an inner platform, the unit comprising an integral body member comprising one vane portion, an outer platform portion, and an inner platform portion, a first elastic member attached to a step of the outer platform portion, and a second elastic member attached to a step of the inner platform portion, the body member being formed by the thermal compression of sheet-molding compounds or fiber-reinforced resin pellets, and the first and second elastic members being made of a thermoplastic elastomer.

Abstract: The color management module includes a first color converter color-converting color information contained in an image signal having been input according to a three-dimensional LUT; an interpolator generating a synthetic image signal by synthesizing an image signal converted by the first color converter and an image signal having been input in an arbitrary ratio; and a second color converter color-converting color information on the synthetic image signal in the HSV space and outputting the color information.

Abstract: In primary press forming process, a piece of blank sheet metal is draw worked so as to form a preformed work piece (Wb) provided with a bent portion (a) substantially conforming to a three dimensional contour of a leading edge of a blade to be protected and extending along a longitudinal direction, and a pair of planar portions (b and c) extending from either side of the bent portion. In a secondary press forming process, the planar portions (b and c) of the preformed work piece are stretch formed into a final shape that conforms to the corresponding profile of the blade while the bent portion (a) of the preformed work piece is clamped and protected from deformation.