Abstract: A piston for internal combustion engine has both fatigue strength and wear resistance without increased production cost. At least one of a combustion chamber surface, a skirt rib, a pin boss rib which connects a pin boss and a crown, a lower portion of the pin boss casting surface, and a surface layer including the casting surface is a first eutectic structure in which primary crystal Si does not crystallize. A top ring groove and a pin holing of a piston pin are finished surfaces obtained by eliminating the surface layer by means of machining. The layer including the finished surface is a second eutectic structure in which the primary crystal Si crystallizes.

Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine, the piston having a skirt part, comprises: a resinous coating layer formed on a surface of the skirt part; and a plurality of concaves regularly arranged in the resinous coating layer. The concaves are non-coated regions in which said resinous coating layer is not formed.

Abstract: A piston for internal combustion engine has both fatigue strength and wear resistance without increased production cost. At least one of a combustion chamber surface, a skirt rib, a pin boss rib which connects a pin boss and a crown, a lower portion of the pin boss casting surface, and a surface layer including the casting surface is a first eutectic structure in which primary crystal Si does not crystallize. A top ring groove and a pin holing of a piston pin are finished surfaces obtained by eliminating the surface layer by means of machining. The layer including the finished surface is a second eutectic structure in which the primary crystal Si crystallizes.

Abstract: An expansion graphite sheet of high thermal resistance includes an expansion graphite as a main component, and inorganic thermal resistance particles made of at least one selected from the group consisting of aluminum boride (AlB2 and/or AlB12), silicon boride (SiB6), zinc boric acid (2ZnO.3B2O3.3.5H2O) and phosphorous boride (PB). An exhaust gasket made of the expansion graphite sheet, in addition to the expansion graphite sheet, can exhibit high thermal (oxidization) resistance under a high temperature of 600–700° C.

Abstract: The present invention provides a translation memory system including: a memory which stores plural pairs of a natural language sentence written in a first language and an interlingua representation of the natural language sentence; an analysis unit which performs a syntactic and semantic analysis on a natural language sentence written in a second language and translates the natural language sentence into an interlingua representation on the basis of the analysis result; a search unit which searches the memory to identify an interlingua representation which corresponds to or has a predetermined level of similarity to the interlingua representation obtained by the analysis unit, and which extracts a natural language sentence written in the first language paired with the identified interlingua representation; and an output unit which outputs the natural language sentence extracted by the search unit as a translation result.

Abstract: A translation device for translating a document has an image analysis unit and a translation unit. The image analysis unit determines a word and an abbreviation of the word. The translation unit translates the word and generates a new abbreviation based on the translated word.

Abstract: A translation device comprises a character recognition unit that recognizes text data in a text region of an input image; a translator that translates the text data in the text region; and a layout configuration processor that generates data containing the translated text data in the text region and graphics in the input image, wherein a layout of the input image is maintained in a layout of the image of the data generated by the layout configuration processor.

Abstract: A translation device has a dictionary that stores a set of words and their corresponding meanings in plural languages; an input unit that inputs a document; a recognizing unit that recognizes text in the inputted document; an analyzing unit that devides the text recognized by the recognizing unit into words; a translating unit that translates each of the words obtained by the analyzing unit into a translated term by using the dictionary; and an output unit that outputs an output image containing the translated term for a key word.

Abstract: The invention provides an electronic device that has an identification unit that performs character recognition processing on image data representing a text written in a first language and identifies candidate character strings representing results of the character recognition processing for each of structural units of the text, a decision unit that decides whether a second language selected by a user is different from the first language, a presentation unit that presents translations of the candidate character strings in the second language for each of structural units for which plural candidate character strings are identified when the first language and the second language are different, and a selection unit that allows the user to select a single translation from the translations presented by the presentation unit.

Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine, the piston having a skirt part, comprises: a resinous coating layer formed on a surface of the skirt part; and a plurality of concaves regularly arranged in the resinous coating layer. The concaves are non-coated regions in which said resinous coating layer is not formed.

Abstract: The invention provides a document processing device including: a memory that stores syntax data expressing syntax of character strings whose probability of being a title of a document is high or-character strings whose probability of being a title of a document is low; an input unit that inputs document data obtained by digitizing a document; an extraction unit that analyzes the input document data and extracts character string data expressing character strings; a syntax analyzing unit that analyzes the extracted character string data and specifies the syntax of each character string contained in the document corresponding to the document data; and a specifying unit that specifies, from among the extracted character string data, character string data expressing a title of the document corresponding to the document data, based on results of specification by the syntax analyzing unit and content stored in the memory.

Abstract: The present invention provides a document processing device including: an inputting unit that inputs page image data corresponding to images of pages of a document; an extracting unit that analyzes the page image data input by the inputting unit, specifies the content of each item contained in the document corresponding to that page image data, and extracts item data, the item data being character strings expressing that content; a generating unit that links the item data extracted by the extracting unit and generates name data, the name data being a character string expressing a name to be attached to the document; and a writing unit that associates the name data generated by the generating unit with the page image data input by the inputting unit and writes the name data and the page image data to a memory.

Abstract: The present invention provides a document processing device including: a specifying unit that specifies character strings which have a common property across documents, from among character strings included in plural documents which are represented by plural corresponding document data; and a rewriting unit that rewrites, among the character strings specified by the specifying unit, character strings expressed in formats different from a defined format to character strings expressed in the defined format.

Abstract: The present invention provides a document processing device including: a general feature vector memory that stores feature vectors of a shape for each of plural characters; an input unit that optically reads in a document; a extracting unit that extracts feature vectors from the shapes of characters in a document read in by the input unit; a general shape recognition unit that estimates a character for which the feature vectors of its shape extracted by the extracting unit, based on the feature vectors extracted by the extracting unit and the content stored in the general feature vector memory; and a specific feature vector memory that stores the feature vectors extracted by the extracting unit in association with an estimation result of the general shape recognition unit.

Abstract: In the learning apparatus, a memory stores a dictionary in an updatable manner, and an inputting means inputs data when an instruction is input by a user. An outputting part processes the data inputted through the inputting part by using the dictionary stored in the memory, and outputs the result of the processing. An identifier receiver obtains an identifier of the user or a group to which the user belongs. An updating means updates the dictionary only when the identifier obtained by the identifier receiver is pre-registered in the memory.

Abstract: A image processing device has a reading unit, a graphics area extraction unit, a writing area extraction unit, a character string extraction unit and an association unit. The reading unit reads a document. The graphics area extraction unit extracts a graphics area from the document read by the reading unit. The writing area extraction unit extracts a writing area from the document read by the reading unit. The character string extraction unit extracts a character string presented in the graphics area. The association unit associates information of the writing area with the graphics area based on the character string extracted by the character string extraction unit.

Abstract: An expansion graphite sheet of high thermal resistance includes an expansion graphite as a main component, and inorganic thermal resistance particles made of at least one selected from the group consisting of aluminum boride (AlB2 and/or AlB12), silicon boride (SiB6), zinc boric acid (2ZnO.3B2O3.3.5H2O) and phosphorous boride (PB). An exhaust gasket made of the expansion graphite sheet, in addition to the expansion graphite sheet, can exhibit high thermal (oxidization) resistance under a high temperature of 600-700° C.

Abstract: When an agreement such as a patent agreement, etc. is concluded between companies, contents of the agreement are registered to an agreement contents database. If a money balance occurs in accompaniment with the agreement, balance data is associated with data of the contents of the agreement, and registered to a balance database. A document relevant to the agreement, such as a memorandum of understanding, etc. is put into image data, and stored in an agreement relevant document database. A user can view the contents of the agreement contents database, the balance database, and the agreement relevant document database within the scope of an access right, if he or she is permitted to use the system. Additionally, since agreements are managed in a centralized manner, achievements such as a balance of an entire company, a balance of each division, etc., which accompany an agreement, can be easily calculated as statistical data.

Abstract: Transmission line interfaces 300 and 400, terminal interfaces 100 and 200 and a time switch (TSW) 500 are controlled by a controller 600'. The controller 600' includes a communication means circuit 70 for communication with the controllers of other stations, a TS allotment data memory 80 accommodating ID number data provided corresponding to each path in TS allotment data describing the allotment of specific time slots (TS) to transmission lines 30 and 40, a route data table 60 accommodating route data constituted by data sets of the station numbers and ID numbers of stations until reaching of an end station for each ID number path, and route data updating means (not shown) for updating route data. Working path data can be obtained with reference to the route data.

Abstract: A reactive power compensation apparatus includes a power system with a given voltage, a controller for controlling the voltage of the power system to a predetermined target voltage, using a predetermined transfer function, a reactive element, a switch for connecting the reactive element to the power system, a detector for detecting an impedance of the power system in accordance with a change in the voltage of the power system, the voltage change being defined by a difference between the voltage of the power system obtained when the reactive element is connected to the power system and the voltage of the power system obtained when the reactive element is disconnected from the power system, and a circuit for changing the transfer function of the controller in accordance with the impedance detected by the detector.