Abstract: A communication system including a parent station and a plurality of child stations, the parent station and the plurality of child stations being line-connected or loop-connected in a plurality of stages, and the parent station comprises a decision unit configured to decide, based on information representing states of the plurality of child stations, which one a first data relay method of transmitting data to a subsequent station in accordance with a clock reproduced from data received from a preceding station and a second data relay method of transmitting data to the subsequent station in accordance with a local clock generated in a local station should be employed by each of the plurality of child stations.

Abstract: An image analysis apparatus detects a periodic signal corresponding to an arrangement of a grid, which is required to reduce scattered radiation components from an object, from an image obtained by radiation imaging using the grid. The image analysis apparatus includes: a setting unit configured to set a plurality of regions on the image; an obtaining unit configured to obtain statistic information of pixel values corresponding to each of the plurality of regions of the image based on the image; a selection unit configured to select at least one measurement region from the plurality of regions based on the statistic information; and a detection unit configured to detect the periodic signal using image data of the selected measurement region.

Abstract: A computing system includes: a plurality of computing machines and a load balancer configured to allocate computing processing to the plurality of computing machines. In the computing system, the plurality of computing machines executes the computing processing, each of the plurality of computing machines includes an execution instruction unit that instructs to execute one of garbage collection (GC) and restart of the computing machine. The computing machine, in an active state in which the computing processing is allowed to be executed, switches a state of another standby computing machine to an active state when the active computing machine is instructed to execute one of the GC and the restart of the computing machine, and starts one of the GC and the restart of the computing machine after the switching is completed.

Abstract: [Technical Problem] This invention provides a surface-mount inductor that is capable of positioning a coil in a predetermined position in a mold, thereby to position the coil in a predetermined position of a core and to prevent led-out ends from being buried in the core. [Solution to the Problem] A surface-mount inductor of the present invention comprises: a coil formed by winding a winding wire; and a core containing a magnetic powder and including the coil therein. The coil has opposite led-out ends, each of which is exposed on respective ones of opposed side surfaces of the core. Each of the led-out ends of the coil is connected to an external electrode formed on the core.

Abstract: A device determines an additional component added to a second model, and a modification component modified in a third model, wherein a condition includes a wild card, and a first model are described in a module, the first model serving as a model when the module is applied to a model satisfying the condition and including a variable in which a string in a model satisfying the condition is stored, and the third model is a model when the module is applied to the second model satisfying the condition and where a string in the second model, which corresponds to the wild card, is stored in a variable, based on a word in a fourth model, and a word in the additional component and the modification component, calculates a degree regarding numbers of the word in the third model and the fourth, and creates a tag corresponding to the module.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of forming a fine pattern by the post-firing method. The production method of a metallized ceramic substrate comprises: a first step of forming an organic base layer on a ceramic substrate; a second step of forming a metal paste layer on the organic base layer to produce a metallized ceramic substrate precursor; and a third step of firing the metallized ceramic substrate precursor, wherein the organic base layer is a layer which absorbs a solvent in the metal paste layer and thermally decomposes at a temperature of firing the metal paste layer.

Abstract: A method of coating without permitting the coating solution to flow onto the side surfaces or the back surfaces of the lenses in the operation for applying the coating solution onto the lenses. A lens 15 is spin-coated with the coating solution having a particular viscosity. A side edge portion 121 of a spatula 119 is brought into contact with an upper edge portion of a side surface 15a of the lens 15 before the coating solution fed onto the surface of the lens arrives at the peripheral edge portion of the lens. The side edge portion 121 of the spatula 119 is so arranged that the upper end side of the spatula is tilted toward the center side of the lens 15 at an angle of 5 to 35 degrees with the vertical line as a reference. The coating solution applied onto the lens 15 that is rotating adheres onto the spatula 119 but does not adhere onto the side surface of the lens 15.

Abstract: A control apparatus for controlling an X-ray irradiation area, in which an acquisition circuit acquires information relating to an effective area of a sensor, and a control circuit controls the X-ray irradiation area based on the information relating to the effective area.

Abstract: The present invention provides: a method for manufacturing a metallized substrate by which a fine pattern can be formed more easily; a metallized substrate manufactured by the method; and a metal paste composition to be used in the method. The metallized substrate has: a sintered nitride ceramic substrate (10); a titanium nitride layer (20) on the sintered substrate (10); an adhesion layer (30) on the titanium nitride layer (20); and a copper plating layer (40) on or above the adhesion layer (30), wherein the adhesion layer (30) contains copper and titanium, and has a thickness of no less than 0.1 ?m and no more than 5 ?m.

Abstract: An irradiation field recognition apparatus that acquires information on a profile line of an irradiation field, onto which radiation is irradiated, from an image obtained by a radiation sensor includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire coordinates on the image input by an operator, and an irradiation field recognition unit configured to acquire information on the profile line from a range on the image which is limited based on the coordinates.

Abstract: The present invention provides a metallized via-holed ceramic substrate having (1) a sintered ceramic substrate, (2) an electroconductive via formed in the sintered ceramic substrate, having an electroconductive metal closely filled in a through-hole of the sintered ceramic substrate, wherein the electroconductive metal contains a metal (A) with melting point of 600° C. to 1100° C., a metal (B) with higher melting point than the metal (A), and an active metal, (3) a wiring pattern on at least one face of the sintered ceramics substrate, having an electroconductive surface layer and a plating layer thereon, wherein the electroconductive surface layer consists of an electroconductive metal containing the metal (A), the metal (B), and an active metal, (4) an active layer formed in the interface between the electroconductive via and the sintered ceramic substrate, and (5) an active layer formed in the interface between the electroconductive surface layer and the sintered ceramic substrate.

Abstract: A via-holed ceramic substrate can be manufactured in a simple method by providing a via-holed ceramic substrate comprising: a sintered ceramic substrate; an electroconductive via formed in the sintered ceramic substrate, the electroconductive via having an electroconductive metal closely filled in a through-hole, the electroconductive metal containing a metal (A) having a melting point of 600° C. to 1100° C., a metal (B) having a melting point higher than the melting point of the metal (A), and an active metal; and an active layer formed in the interface between the electroconductive via and the sintered ceramic substrate.

Abstract: An ejector system for a color sorter, eliminates particulate matter by air by detection of the particulate matter falling from an end of a transfer device at a predetermined position, and has a nozzle part in which a plurality of air flow paths that communicate with a plurality of nozzle holes are formed. A manifold part is provided with a plurality of electromagnetic valves that communicate with an air space communicating with a compressed air source and in which a plurality of air flow paths for supplying compressed air to the corresponding air flow paths in the nozzle part by the operation of the respective electromagnetic valves are formed. The nozzle part and the manifold part are separably integrated while open surfaces of the air flow paths in the nozzle part and open surfaces of the air flow paths in the manifold part are brought into contact with each other.

Abstract: A process for efficiently forming a thick coating layer having a uniform thickness on the surface of a base material having a curved surface. The process comprises the steps of forming a coating film having a predetermined thickness by applying a coating agent containing a polymerizable monomer on the curved surface of a base material, and then curing the coating film in an atmosphere of an oxygen concentration of not more than 500 ppm by photo-polymerization while substantially maintaining the uniformity of the thickness of the coating film. Preferably, the photo-polymerization of the coating film is carried out while rotating the base material at a rotational speed of from 20 to 1500 rpm.

Abstract: A projector device, a method of correcting trapezoidal distortion, and a distortion correction program stored in a recording medium are provided, each of which projects an image onto a projection surface, detects inclination of the projector device with respect to a horizontal surface to output an inclination angle value of the projector device, corrects trapezoidal distortion in an image to be projected based on the inclination angle value, determines whether an operation device of the projector device is being operated by a user to generate a determination result, and prohibits the projector device from performing trapezoidal distortion correction when the determination result indicates that the operation device is being operated by the user.

Abstract: A device, method, and program stored in a recording medium are provided. A sampling time period and, a value of limit angle are set. Inclination of the projector device is detected with respect to a horizontal surface to output a plurality of inclination angle values of the projector device. A representative angle value of a current sampling time period is calculated based on the plurality of inclination angle values and the difference between the representative angle value and a representative angle value from a previous sampling time period is calculated. It is determined whether the difference in representative angle value is equal to or greater than the limit angle value to generate a determination result. Finally, trapezoidal distortion in the image is corrected based on the inclination angle values detected when the determination result indicates that the difference is equal to or greater than the limit angle value.

Abstract: An input pixel value setting circuit sets at least two different input pixel values in a subject area of an input image. A dynamic range transforming circuit performs a process for transforming pixel values of the input image using a dynamic range transformation function in which output pixel values corresponding to the two different input pixel values become set output pixel values.

Abstract: The invention provides a structural member of different materials having no different-material-bonded part between aluminum alloy material and steel material to be assembled. The structural member of different materials comprised of steel and aluminum alloy includes a first structural member including steel, and a second structural member having a part including steel and a part including aluminum alloy, the part including steel and the part including aluminum alloy being bonded by different-material bonding. The first structural member and the second structural member are bonded together only by bonding of steels between the part including steel of the second structural member and the first structural member.

Abstract: An X-ray imaging apparatus includes an image capture unit including a plurality of pixels for imaging X-ray radiation, a first correction unit configured to correct an output value of an unsaturated pixel among the plurality of pixels, and a second correction unit configured to correct an output value of a saturated pixel among the plurality of pixels. The second correction unit corrects the saturated pixel based on an output value of the unsaturated pixel corrected by the first correction unit and located within a predetermined distance from the saturated pixel.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus can perform time-sequential weighting addition processing on a moving image constituted by a plurality of frames includes a filter unit configured to obtain an image by performing recursive filter processing on a frame image that precedes a present target frame, which is one of the plurality of frames constituting the moving image, a coefficient acquisition unit configured to acquire a weighting coefficient for the present target frame based on a noise statistic of a differential image between an image of the present target frame and the image obtained by the filter unit, and an addition unit configured to perform addition processing on the moving image constituted by the plurality of frames based on weighting coefficients acquired by the coefficient acquisition unit.