Abstract: An image processing apparatus that generates a virtual viewpoint image based on one or more captured images out of a plurality of captured images by a plurality of cameras, the apparatus comprising an acquisition unit configured to acquire virtual viewpoint information including information related to a position and a direction of a virtual viewpoint, a determination unit configured to determine whether occlusion is occurring in at least one image captured by at least one of the cameras, a decision unit configured to, based on a position and direction of the virtual viewpoint and on a result of the occlusion determination in relation to the at least one image, decide one or more captured images to be used for generation of a virtual viewpoint image, and a generation unit configured to generate a virtual viewpoint image using the decided one or more captured images.

Abstract: A circuit is formed by connecting an external power source to a charged electrical storage device so that a polarity of a voltage of the external power source is reverse to a polarity of a voltage of the charged electrical storage device, and the voltage of the external power source is adjusted so that a current does not flow right after the connection. Then, current measurement to acquire a current value after convergence of the current flowing through the circuit due to a voltage drop of the electrical storage device and quality determination based on the current value after convergence are performed. In the current measurement, resistance measurement to actually measure a circuit resistance and prediction to predict a convergence timing of the current based on the actually measured circuit resistance are performed. The current value is acquired when a predicted convergence timing comes.

Abstract: An external electric power supply is connected to a charged electric power storage device in a reverse voltage direction to form a circuit. A voltage of the external electric power supply is adjusted such that a current does not flow immediately after the connection. Then, current measuring of acquiring a converged current value of the current in the circuit due to a decrease in the voltage of the electric power storage device, and quality deciding based on the converged current value are performed. Before the quality deciding, the electric power storage device is grouped such that the converged current value of when the electric power storage device is a normal product is constant in a group. In the quality deciding, a degree of variation in the converged current value is calculated for each group, and the quality is determined by comparing the calculated degree of variation with its predetermined level.

Abstract: A method of inspecting an electric power storage device for a short circuit includes voltage measuring of measuring a pre-detection device voltage of the electric power storage device that is pre-charged, current detecting of detecting a temporal change in a current flowing to the electric power storage device from an external electric power supply or a stable current value of the current by continuously applying an output voltage equal to the pre-detection device voltage to the electric power storage device from the external electric power supply, and determining of determining an internal short circuit in the electric power storage device based on the detected temporal change in the current or the stable current value of the current.

Abstract: The image processing apparatus includes: a format conversion unit configured to convert an image in a first format into an image in a second format whose amount of information indicating image quality characteristics is reduced compared to that of the image in the first format; a detection unit configured to detect a partial region in the image in the second format; an inverse conversion unit configured to inversely convert region information representing the detected partial region into region information corresponding to the first format; and an extraction unit configured to extract a partial image in the first format by using the inversely converted region information.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus in an image processing system configured to generate a virtual point image using a plurality of images captured by a plurality of image capturing apparatus receives a first difference image being based on a difference between a third image based on image capturing performed by a third image capturing apparatus of the plurality of image capturing apparatuses and a second image based on image capturing performed by a second image capturing apparatus of the plurality of image capturing apparatuses and has a smaller data amount than that of the third image, and acquires a foreground image by extracting a predetermined object from the second image, using the received first difference image and a second difference image between a first image based on image capturing performed by a first image capturing apparatus of the plurality of image capturing apparatus and the second image.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus that generates a virtual viewpoint image based on one or more captured images out of a plurality of captured images by a plurality of cameras, the apparatus comprising an acquisition unit configured to acquire virtual viewpoint information including information related to a position and a direction of a virtual viewpoint, a determination unit configured to determine whether occlusion is occurring in at least one image captured by at least one of the cameras, a decision unit configured to, based on a position and direction of the virtual viewpoint and on a result of the occlusion determination in relation to the at least one image, decide one or more captured images to be used for generation of a virtual viewpoint image, and a generation unit configured to generate a virtual viewpoint image using the decided one or more captured images.

Abstract: A virtual viewpoint image generation system generates a virtual viewpoint image based on a plurality of captured images obtained by capturing an image capturing target region from a plurality of different directions, and position information relating to a virtual viewpoint position. The system comprises: a plurality of image capturing apparatuses; a daisy-chain-type topology network; an obtainment unit configured to obtain the position information relating to the virtual viewpoint position; and a generation unit configured to generate the virtual viewpoint image based on the position information and the data based on each captured image of the plurality of image capturing apparatuses obtained via the daisy-chain-type topology network.

Abstract: A touch detection method executed by a touch detection apparatus projects light that does not include a wavelength component of visible light onto a screen, has a sensitivity in a wavelength component of the light projected by the projecting, takes an image on the screen in a state where light is projected by the projecting, and performs detection pertaining to a touch, based on image data taken by the image-sensing.

Abstract: The present invention provides a battery manufacturing method including: a step of preparing a thickener aqueous solution by dissolving a thickener in an aqueous solvent (S10); a kneading step of introducing an active material into the prepared thickener aqueous solution and kneading a result (S20); a diluting step of adding an aqueous solvent to a kneaded material resulting from the kneading step such that the kneaded material is diluted, whereby an active material layer forming paste is obtained from the kneaded material (S30); and a step of obtaining an electrode in which an active material layer is formed on a current collector by coating the current collector with the active material layer forming paste and then drying the paste (S40).

Abstract: A display apparatus and a driving method thereof capable of assuring reliability in frame inversion driving and improving cinema video image quality are provided. To accomplish this, a display apparatus of the embodiment replaces at least one of a plurality of frame images obtained by doubling the frame rate, with a different image before display. Specifically, the display apparatus replaces at least one of the double-speed converted plural frame images with a high-frequency emphasized image and at least one with a low-frequency component image, and displays the frame images. Furthermore, the display apparatus replaces an image at the border between cinema images with a different image before displaying.

Abstract: The invention provides a method capable of more simply and easily mass-producing sealed lithium secondary batteries having a stable battery performance. This method of manufacturing a sealed lithium secondary battery having an electrode assembly, an electrolyte solution and a sealable metallic or nonmetallic hard case of a given shape includes the steps of housing the electrode assembly, which includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode, and the electrolyte solution within the hard case; negatively pressurizing the interior of the hard case and sealing the hard case in the negatively pressurized state; carrying out, after the sealing step, initial charging so as to adjust the battery to a voltage at which the electrode assembly generates gases; and carrying out, after the initial charging step, main charging so as to charge the battery to a predetermined voltage.

Abstract: This invention enables, for example, reduction of motion blur in a hold-type display device and reduce flicker in an impulse-type display device by a simple process. For this purpose, an LPF filters a frame of input image data (A[i]) to generate low-frequency image data (L). A subtractor and an adder generate high-frequency image data (SH). Another adder adds the low-frequency image data (L) from a delay circuit to subsequent low-frequency image data. A divider halves the sum to generate low-frequency averaged image data (SL). A switch alternately outputs the high-frequency image data (SH) and the low-frequency image data (SL) every time a frame of image data is input. As a result, the apparatus of this invention can generate output image data having a frame rate twice that of the input image data.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprising display unit configured to display a window, accepting unit configured to accept a resize instruction of the displayed window together with a scroll instruction indicating whether or not to scroll display contents within the window, and control unit configured to control a size of the window and a scrolling of the display contents within the window based on contents of the resize instruction and the scroll instruction, wherein when the scroll instruction indicates that the display contents are to be scrolled, the control unit changes the window to a size indicated by the resize instruction, and scrolls the display contents according to a change amount of the window, and when the scroll instruction indicates that the display contents are not to be scrolled, the control unit changes the window to a size indicated by the resize instruction, and suppresses a scrolling of the display contents.

Abstract: It is a task of the invention to provide a battery that allows a gas produced inside a flat wound electrode body to be easily discharged to the outside of the electrode body, and restrains an electrolytic solution (a retained electrolytic solution) extruded from the flat wound electrode body through charge/discharge from directly flowing out to the outside of the flat wound electrode body, and a method of manufacturing this battery. The battery is equipped with a flat wound electrode body, a collector member, and a retained electrolytic solution. The flat wound electrode body has an active material layer wound portion that is obtained by winding an electrode plate, has a flat oval cross-section, and has a wound active material layer forming portion, and an exposed wound portion that has a wound foil exposed portion.

Abstract: The disclosure provides at least one imaging apparatus, at least one lighting system, one or more methods of controlling same and one or more storage mediums. In one or more embodiments of the at least one imaging apparatus, the at least one lighting system, control methods therefor and storage mediums, an identification unit configured to identify a timing in an extinction period of a first illumination light at or during which an operator who performs a work on an object does not recognize an extinction of the first illumination light, and an image pickup unit configured to perform imaging of the object at the timing in the extinction period identified by the identification unit to pick up the object image, are provided.

Abstract: There is provided a manufacturing process of a battery equipped with a case and an electrode body having a positive electrode, a negative electrode and separators. The electrode body has an upper R portion and the respective separators have surplus portions. The case has an accommodation portion that has an opening in an upper face thereof and accommodates the electrode body, and a lid portion that closes up the opening in the upper face of the accommodation portion.

Abstract: An agitation apparatus (100) has a substantially cylindrically shaped agitation vessel (102); a rotation shaft (150) provided along the central axis of the agitation vessel (102); a substantially cylindrically shaped agitation member (104) having an outer diameter smaller than the inner diameter of the agitation vessel (102) and being fitted to the rotation shaft (150) so as to rotate concentrically with an inner circumferential surface of the agitation vessel (102); and a plurality of through holes (162, 164) formed through the agitation member (104) in radial directions of the agitation member. In the agitation apparatus (100), a gap between the inner circumferential surface of the agitation vessel (102) and the outer circumferential surface of the agitation member (104) is partially varied along a vertical direction of the agitation member (104).

Abstract: This invention enables, for example, reduction of motion blur in a hold-type display device and reduce flicker in an impulse-type display device by a simple process. For this purpose, an LPF filters a frame of input image data (A[i]) to generate low-frequency image data (L). A subtractor and an adder generate high-frequency image data (SH). Another adder adds the low-frequency image data (L) from a delay circuit to subsequent low-frequency image data. A divider halves the sum to generate low-frequency averaged image data (SL). A switch alternately outputs the high-frequency image data (SH) and the low-frequency image data (SL) every time a frame of image data is input. As a result, the apparatus of this invention can generate output image data having a frame rate twice that of the input image data.

Abstract: The invention provides a method capable of more simply and easily mass-producing sealed lithium secondary batteries having a stable battery performance. This method of manufacturing a sealed lithium secondary battery having an electrode assembly, an electrolyte solution and a sealable metallic or nonmetallic hard case of a given shape includes the steps of housing the electrode assembly, which includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode, and the electrolyte solution within the hard case; negatively pressurizing the interior of the hard case and sealing the hard case in the negatively pressurized state; carrying out, after the sealing step, initial charging so as to adjust the battery to a voltage at which the electrode assembly generates gases; and carrying out, after the initial charging step, main charging so as to charge the battery to a predetermined voltage.