Abstract: A radiographing apparatus includes a radiation detection panel including an effective image-acquisition area configured to detect radiation and a casing configured to house the radiation detection panel. The casing includes an incidence surface on which the radiation is incident, a back surface opposite the incidence surface, and a side surface between the incidence surface and the back surface. On the side surface of the casing, a level-difference portion indicating a position based on the effective image-acquisition area and a protrusion protruding more outward than the level-difference portion are provided.

Abstract: An image coding method for dividing an input image into a plurality of divisional blocks having different sizes, and coding the image for each of the divisional blocks includes acquiring attribute information of a target block, setting a control parameter for controlling an image quality of the target block, determining a prediction control parameter based on the attribute information, calculating a difference value between the control parameter and the prediction control parameter, and coding the calculated difference value.

Abstract: A friction material for a brake pad comprises a fibrous base material without a metal fiber, and comprises a binder and a friction modifier. The friction material comprises 0.3% to 2.0% by weight, relative to the entire friction material, of a non-crosslinkable polyolefin having a melting point higher than the melting temperature of the binder. The friction material can suppress increase in friction coefficient of a friction material during initial brake operation and reduce the occurrence of abnormal effects and squealing in low-temperature and high-humidity environments.

Abstract: An accommodation apparatus that accommodates a radiation imaging apparatus, the accommodation apparatus comprising: an accommodation unit including a bottom surface, a first wall surface adjacent to the bottom surface, and a second wall surface adjacent to the bottom surface and provided at a position facing the first wall surface, wherein the length in a horizontal direction of the first wall surface adjacent to the bottom surface and the length in the horizontal direction of the second wall surface adjacent to the bottom surface are different.

Abstract: A vehicle occupant protection device includes an airbag module, an actuator, and a controller. The airbag module includes an airbag and an inflator that allows the airbag to develop. The actuator attaches the airbag module to a vehicle, to cause a change in relative positional relation between the vehicle and the airbag module. The controller determines a collision mode of the vehicle, on a basis of one or more of input information used in prediction of the collision mode, input information upon a collision of the vehicle, and input information on an internal situation of the vehicle, and controls the relative positional relation between the vehicle and the airbag module. The airbag module allows the airbag to be developed in a state in which the change in the relative positional relation between the vehicle and the airbag module is caused by the actuator.

Abstract: There is provided with an image processing apparatus. A first image sensor outputs a first image. The first image sensor has a relatively small amount of image deterioration caused by a motion of an object. A second image sensor outputs a second image. The second image sensor has a relatively large amount of image deterioration caused by the motion of the object. An estimation unit analyzes the first image and generates position and orientation information of the image processing apparatus. A rendering unit renders a CG object on the second image such that the CG object is superimposed at a position determined based on the position and orientation information.

Abstract: A selection apparatus generates comparison information based on comparison between the pixel values of input pixels and a reference pixel value. The selection apparatus selects the output pixels from the input pixels based on the comparison information and feature amounts representing the features of the input pixels.

Abstract: A detection apparatus that detects a feature point of an image, comprising: a conversion unit configured to convert a first image into a second image; a setting unit configured to set a first target number indicating the number of feature points to be detected from the first image and to set a second target number indicating the number of feature points to be detected from the second image based on the first target number and the number of feature points that are detected from the first image; and a processing unit configured to perform processing for detecting a feature point from the first image based on the first target number and processing for detecting a feature point from the second image based on the second target number.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a stainless steel brake disc which is excellent in toughness, corrosion resistance, and wear resistance, and comprises, in % by mass, 0.030 to 0.080% of C, 0.05% to 1.0% of Si, 1.0 to 1.5% of Mn, 0.035% or less of P, 0.015% or less of S, 11.0 to 14.0% of Cr, 0.01 to 0.50% of Ni, 0.001 to 0.15% of V, less than 0.1% of Nb, 0.05% or less of Ti, 0.05% or less of Zr, 0.05% or less of Al, 0.015 to 0.060% of N, 0.0002% or more and 0.0050% or less of B, and 0.0080% or less of O, wherein an AT value of equation 1 is 0.055 to 0.090, equation 2 is satisfied, a ferrite phase fraction, in which an IQ value of an EBSD pattern is 4,000 or more, is 1% to 15%, a Charpy impact value is 50 J/cm2 or more, and hardness is 32 to 38 HRC. C+0.8(N?B)??(1) PV=1.2Ti+0.8Zr+Nb+1.1Al+O?0.

Abstract: An image coding method for an image coding apparatus configured to divide an image into divisional blocks of a plurality of sizes and to perform coding on the image while controlling image quality according to a parameter value in units of divisional blocks includes acquiring a block size of a target block to be coded, acquiring a minimum block size used to control the parameter value, acquiring a state of division of the target block, acquiring the parameter value, determining whether the target block is divided according to the state of division of the target block, determining whether the block size of the target block is greater than or equal to the minimum block size, determining whether the block size of the target block is equal to the minimum block size, and coding the acquired parameter value.

Abstract: An airbag device has an airbag housing that is provided in inward lateral faces of a driver's seat backrest and a passenger seat backrest in a vehicle width direction. An upper portion of the airbag housing is provided with a cover portion through which the airbag supplied with gas moves upward from the airbag housing.

Abstract: A radiation imaging apparatus includes a housing having a first plate portion and a second plate portion which oppose each other, a sensor panel arranged between the first plate portion and the second plate portion, and having a sensor array in which a plurality of sensors are arrayed, a scintillator arranged between the sensor panel and the second plate portion, a supporting portion arranged between the scintillator and the second plate portion, and configured to support the scintillator, and a buffer portion arranged between the sensor panel and the first plate portion. In orthographic projection to the first plate portion, an inner edge of the buffer portion is fitted between an outer edge of an imaging area of the sensor array and an outer edge of the scintillator.

Abstract: An image coding method for an image coding apparatus configured to divide an image into divisional blocks of a plurality of sizes and to perform coding on the image while controlling image quality according to a parameter value in units of divisional blocks includes acquiring a block size of a target block to be coded, acquiring a minimum block size used to control the parameter value, acquiring a state of division of the target block, acquiring the parameter value, determining whether the target block is divided according to the state of division of the target block, determining whether the block size of the target block is greater than or equal to the minimum block size; determining whether the block size of the target block is equal to the minimum block size, and coding the acquired parameter value.

Abstract: A feature point detection apparatus sets, in accordance with a shooting mode or a designation from a user, a detection parameter for each region of an image to detect a feature point, and detects the feature point based on the detection parameter.

Abstract: This hot-rolled ferritic stainless steel sheet has a steel composition containing, in terms of % by mass: 0.02% or less of C; 0.02% or less of N; 0.1% to 1.5% of Si; 1.5% or less of Mn; 0.035% or less of P; 0.010% or less of S; 1.5% or less of Ni; 10% to 20% of Cr; 1.0% to 3.0% of Cu; 0.08% to 0.30% of Ti; and 0.3% or less of Al, with the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, and the hot-rolled ferritic stainless steel sheet has a Vickers hardness of less than 235 Hv.

Abstract: When a kneaded mixture produced by adding a hinder-containing additive and water to carbon powder and kneading the mixture is formed into a rod-shaped carbon heat source (HS) and the carbon. heat source (HS) is subsequently dried to manufacture a finished product, a drying method according to the present invention includes generating a dry atmosphere in which an evaporation rate (Vo) at which the water evaporates through an outer surface of the carbon heat source (HS) is made approximately equal to a speed (Vs) at which the water in the carbon heat source (HS) moves toward the outer surface while a weight absolute humidity (AH) is lowered in a stepwise manner, and drying the carbon heat source (HS) in the dry atmosphere.

Abstract: A system for executing a rod member extrusion-molding method of the present invention has an extrusion-molding machine of a rod member, a transfer conveyor, a delivery line of the rod member between the extrusion-molding machine and the transfer conveyor, a measurement position defined on the delivery line and dividing the delivery line into an upstream section and a downstream section, a measurement device measuring an outer diameter of the rod member in the measurement position, a first roller conveyor forming a part of the section at least directly upstream of the measurement position, a second roller conveyor forming the downstream section, and a control device performing feedback control of a transfer speed of the transfer conveyor based on the outer diameter obtained in the measurement device.

Abstract: A sample introduction device (100) has a pre-evacuation chamber (2), a sample holder (10), a mechanical drive arrangement (30) for moving the sample holder (10), and a controller (90). The controller (90) performs a first operation for controlling the mechanical drive arrangement (30) to move a support member (20) such that this support member (20) supports the sample holder (10) when its sample holding portion (12) is in the pre-evacuation chamber (2) and to bring the support member (20) to a halt, a second operation for making a decision as to whether the sample holding portion (12) can be moved into the sample chamber (1), based on the position at which the support member (20) is halted, and a third operation for moving the support member (20) supporting the sample holder (10) such that the sample holding portion (12) moves from the pre-evacuation chamber (2) into the sample chamber (1) if the decision is affirmative to indicate that the sample holding portion (12) can be moved into the sample chamber (1).

Abstract: A paraffin-based latent heat storage material composition is provided which has a melting point close to the melting point of n-heptadecane and has a high latent heat of fusion. The paraffin-based latent heat storage material composition of the present invention substantially includes n-octadecane, and n-hexadecane and/or n-heptadecane. The paraffin-based latent heat storage material composition contains not less than 76% by mass of n-octadecane, not more than 23% by mass of n-hexadecane, and not more than 23% by mass of n-heptadecane (the total of the three is set to 100% by mass) and has a melting point lower than that of n-octadecane and latent heat of fusion of 210 J/g or more.

Abstract: A paraffin-based composition includes: n-eicosane, and at least one of n-octadecane and n-nonadecane. (1) the paraffin-based composition contains not less than 83% by mass of n-eicosane, not more than 13% by mass of n-octadecane, and not more than 17% by mass of n-nonadecane; (2) the paraffin-based composition has a melting point lower than a melting point of n-eicosane; and (3) the paraffin-based composition has latent heat of fusion of 230 J/g or more.