Abstract: An image capturing unit captures a periphery of a moving body through a transmitting portion. A heater is capable of heating the transmitting portion. An air-conditioning unit switches an air-conditioning state in the moving body between an inside air circulation state and an outside air introduction state. A control unit controls the heater. The control unit can make the heater operate intermittently, and perform control so that an OFF time of the heater during an intermittent operation will be shorter in the case in which the air-conditioning state is set to the inside air circulation state than the case in which the air-conditioning state is set to the outside air introduction state.

Abstract: A shading device including a first driving shaft that is rotatably supported within a headbox and may drive a first moving member and a second driving shaft that is rotatably supported within the headbox and may drive a second moving member, the shading device includes a first pulley that drives the first driving shaft, and a second pulley that is disposed at a position different from the first pulley in a longitudinal direction of the headbox and drives the second driving shaft.

Abstract: A transportation apparatus includes: a window member; a first heating unit arranged to heat a first region of the window member; a second heating unit arranged to heat a second region of the window member; and a control unit configured to control driving of the first heating unit and the second heating unit. The first region and the second region are adjacent regions. The control unit performs first heating control of making a heating output of the first heating unit larger than a heating output of the second heating unit.

Abstract: There is provided with a moving body control apparatus. An image capturing unit captures a periphery of a moving body through a transmitting portion. A heater is capable of heating the transmitting portion. An air-conditioning unit switches an air-conditioning state in the moving body between an inside air circulation state and an outside air introduction state. A control unit controls the heater. An ambient temperature detection unit detects an ambient temperature. The control unit starts the operation of the heater when the ambient temperature is not more than a predetermined temperature threshold. The predetermined temperature threshold of the case in which the air-conditioning state is set to the inside air circulation state is higher than the predetermined temperature threshold in the case in which the air-conditioning state is set to the outside air introduction state.

Abstract: There is provided with a moving body control apparatus. An image capturing unit captures a periphery of a moving body through a transmitting portion. A heater is capable of heating the transmitting portion. An air-conditioning unit switches an air-conditioning state in the moving body between an inside air circulation state and an outside air introduction state. A control unit controls the heater. The control unit increases an output of the heater during the operation in the case in which the air-conditioning state is set to the inside air circulation state so that the output of the heater will be larger than the output of the heater in the case in which the air-conditioning state is set to the outside air introduction state.

Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus for an optical fiber porous preform includes a reaction chamber configured to accommodate a starting material; at least one main burner provided in the reaction chamber, the at least one main burner being configured to be supplied with a gas containing at least a source gas and a flammable gas, such that particulates are to be generated from reaction of the source gas and the flammable gas and deposited on the starting material; at least one auxiliary burner configured to be directed toward an end portion of the starting material on which the particulates are to be deposited; and an airflow guide provided such that at least part of the airflow guide is located across the at least one auxiliary burner from the starting material.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus having a changed region detection unit performs a process that includes repeating a cycle. The cycle includes causing a projection unit to project a pattern, that includes light and dark portions, onto target objects, causing an image capturing unit to capture an image of the target objects while the pattern is being projected by the projection unit, and causing a holding unit to hold one of the target objects based on a captured image obtained by the image capturing processing. Based on a reference boundary position corresponding to a boundary between the light and dark portions in the pattern in the captured image obtained in a previous cycle and a target boundary position in the captured image obtained in a current cycle, the changed region detection unit detects a changed region with a change between the previous cycle and the current cycle.

Abstract: A three dimensional measurement apparatus that measures a three-dimensional shape of a measurement subject based on an image obtained by capturing, by an image capturing unit, the measurement subject onto which a pattern is projected, the apparatus comprising: a compositing unit configured to composite a first image and a second image of the measurement subject respectively obtained under first imaging conditions and second imaging conditions that are different from the first imaging conditions, so that a relationship of an exposure amount produced by light incident on an image sensor of the image capturing unit and the magnitude of a luminance value corresponding to the exposure amount is maintained between the first image and the second image; and a measuring unit configured to measure the three-dimensional shape of the measurement subject based on the image composited by the compositing unit.

Abstract: To perform high-accuracy shape measurement even when an appropriate exposure amount is not obtained by being set to an integral multiple of a flickering period of ambient light, an information processing apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine whether an exposure time of an image capturing apparatus in performing three-dimensional measurement of a target object is set to an integral multiple of a flickering period of the ambient light, a control unit configured to perform control to set, when the determination unit determines that the exposure time is set to the integral multiple of the flickering period of the ambient light, the exposure time to the integral multiple of the flickering period of the ambient light, and a measurement unit configured to control a projection apparatus and the image capturing apparatus based on a control result by the control unit to the perform three-dimensional measurement of the target object.

Abstract: A radio communication device includes a memory, and a control circuit coupled to the memory and configured to perform a communication with a first base station based on a first communication protocol for a call, when the call is disconnected, store, in the memory, state information indicating a state of the call before the disconnection, after the disconnection, perform a first search for a second base station which is configured to communicate based on the first communication protocol, when the first search failed, perform a second search for and identify a third base station which is configured to communicate based on a second communication protocol different from the first communication protocol, perform waiting at the third base station, and when the waiting is started, restore the state of the call before the disconnection based on the state information stored in the memory.

Abstract: A recognition apparatus that recognizes one of the position and the orientation of an object includes an acquisition unit that illuminates the object, images the illuminated object, and acquires image data of the object, and a processing unit that acquires one of the position and the orientation based on a first degree of correlation as a degree of correlation between the image data and reference data related to one of the position and the orientation. The processing unit determines a condition on one of the illumination and the imaging based on a second degree of correlation as a degree of correlation between the image data and the reference data.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a porous glass preform includes depositing glass particles on an outer periphery of a target rod while a burner for synthesizing glass particles and the target rod that is rotating are relatively reciprocated, wherein V and r are gradually reduced while a variation in sweeping pitch P [mm] expressed as V/r is caused to be within a range of a central value±10% when a glass particle deposition layer of a portion satisfying a relation 0.5L?R?0.8L is synthesized; where a final outer diameter of the manufactured porous glass preform for an optical fiber is L [mm], an outer diameter of a glass particle deposition body in the middle of the manufacture is R [mm], a rotating speed of the target rod is r [rpm], and a relative moving speed between the target rod and the burner is V [mm/min.].

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The memory is configured to store device connection information indicating a connection destination device coupled to a first device among a plurality of devices included in a communication network. The processor is configured to: search physical address learning information of the connection destination device in preference to physical address learning information of search target devices other than the connection destination device on basis of the device connection information. The physical address learning information of a specific device includes physical addresses learned for every port of the specific device. The search target devices are the plurality of devices other than the first device. The processor is configured to: obtain a connection destination port coupled to a first port of the first device on basis of a result of the search.

Abstract: The present invention provides a measuring apparatus for measuring a shape of an object to be measured, comprising an emitting unit configured to emit pattern light, an optical system configured to guide the pattern light emitted from the emitting unit to the object, a deflection unit arranged between the optical system and the object and configured to deflect the pattern light emitted from the optical system, an image sensing unit configured to capture the object via the optical system and the deflection unit, and a processing unit configured to determine the shape of the object based on an image of the object captured by the image sensing unit, wherein the deflection unit comprises a diffraction grating configured to diffract the pattern light emitted from the optical system.

Abstract: A monitoring system includes positional information for indicating positions to display failures which occur in the computers on a screen image, event information for indicating failures which occur in the computers, times at which the failures have occurred, and statuses of troubleshooting of the failures, an image creation part for creating a screen image indicating failures which occurred by the end time and have not been removed at a current time based on the positional information and the event information, and a display part for displaying the created screen image.

Abstract: A measuring method that measures a shape of an object comprises measuring to obtain image data obtained by imaging the object that is irradiated with light and measures an outline shape of the object; determining to determine whether or not the object is present in the outer peripheral portion of the image data (the outer portion) that has been obtained in the measuring; and compositing to change a measurement region, perform the measuring, and obtain composite image data by combining image data that was obtained before a change of the measurement region and image data that was obtained after the change of the measurement region together if, in the determining, the object is determined to be present in the outer portion. The determining is performed for a composite image data, the compositing and the determining are repeated until the object is determined not to be present in the outer portion.

Abstract: To perform high-accuracy shape measurement even when an appropriate exposure amount is not obtained by being set to an integral multiple of a flickering period of ambient light, an information processing apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine whether an exposure time of an image capturing apparatus in performing three-dimensional measurement of a target object is set to an integral multiple of a flickering period of the ambient light, a control unit configured to perform control to set, when the determination unit determines that the exposure time is set to the integral multiple of the flickering period of the ambient light, the exposure time to the integral multiple of the flickering period of the ambient light, and a measurement unit configured to control a projection apparatus and the image capturing apparatus based on a control result by the control unit to the perform three-dimensional measurement of the target object.

Abstract: A three dimensional measurement apparatus that measures a three-dimensional shape of a measurement subject based on an image obtained by capturing, by an image capturing unit, the measurement subject onto which a pattern is projected, the apparatus comprising: a compositing unit configured to composite a first image and a second image of the measurement subject respectively obtained under first imaging conditions and second imaging conditions that are different from the first imaging conditions, so that a relationship of an exposure amount produced by light incident on an image sensor of the image capturing unit and the magnitude of a luminance value corresponding to the exposure amount is maintained between the first image and the second image; and a measuring unit configured to measure the three-dimensional shape of the measurement subject based on the image composited by the compositing unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus having a changed region detection unit performs a process that includes repeating a cycle. The cycle includes causing a projection unit to project a pattern, that includes light and dark portions, onto target objects, causing an image capturing unit to capture an image of the target objects while the pattern is being projected by the projection unit, and causing a holding unit to hold one of the target objects based on a captured image obtained by the image capturing processing. Based on a reference boundary position corresponding to a boundary between the light and dark portions in the pattern in the captured image obtained in a previous cycle and a target boundary position in the captured image obtained in a current cycle, the changed region detection unit detects a changed region with a change between the previous cycle and the current cycle.

Abstract: A radio communication device includes a memory, and a control circuit coupled to the memory and configured to perform a communication with a first base station based on a first communication protocol for a call, when the call is disconnected, store, in the memory, state information indicating a state of the call before the disconnection, after the disconnection, perform a first search for a second base station which is configured to communicate based on the first communication protocol, when the first search failed, perform a second search for and identify a third base station which is configured to communicate based on a second communication protocol different from the first communication protocol, perform waiting at the third base station, and when the waiting is started, restore the state of the call before the disconnection based on the state information stored in the memory.