Abstract: Processing for judging whether a face is included in a frame is performed, in a predetermined interval, on each of frames included in a moving image of a subject, displayed on a monitor, until the judgment becomes positive. If it is judged that a face is included in a frame, the facial position is detected in the frame, and stored. Then, judgment is made as to whether a face is included in the next frame after predetermined time. If the judgment is positive, the facial position is detected. The previously stored facial position is replaced by the newly detected facial position, and the newly detected facial position is stored. These processes are repeated until photographing operation is performed by operating a release unit.

Abstract: Processing for judging whether a face is included in a frame is performed, in a predetermined interval, on each of frames included in a moving image of a subject, displayed on a monitor, until the judgment becomes positive. If it is judged that a face is included in a frame, the facial position is detected in the frame, and stored. Then, judgment is made as to whether a face is included in the next frame after predetermined time. If the judgment is positive, the facial position is detected. The previously stored facial position is replaced by the newly detected facial position, and the newly detected facial position is stored. These processes are repeated until photographing operation is performed by operating a release unit.

Abstract: A people counting device includes an edge extracting unit configured to extract an edge from a planar image of a target area, and a circle candidate detecting unit configured to detect a circle candidate included in the planar image based on the edge extracted by the edge extracting unit. The people counting device further includes a person determining unit configured to calculate a brightness gradient for each edge pixel constituting an edge of each circle candidate detected by the circle candidate detecting unit and determine that a circle candidate whose uniformity of brightness gradients for the edge pixels of the circle candidate is higher than a reference is a person's head portion, and a people counting unit configured to count the number of circle candidates determined to be a person's head portion by the person determining unit.

Abstract: The object is to produce with good reproducibility an epitaxial silicon carbide wafer having a high quality silicon carbide single crystal thin film with little step bunching. To achieve this object, for etching the silicon carbide single crystal substrate in the epitaxial growth furnace, hydrogen carrier gas and silicon-based material gas are used. After the etching treatment is finished as well, the epitaxial growth conditions are changed in the state in the state supplying these gases. When the conditions stabilize, a carbon-based material gas is introduced for epitaxial growth.

Abstract: An ink jet recording method for carrying out recording on a recording medium which is formed of a vinyl chloride-based resin by discharging a solvent-based ink from an ink jet head, in which the recording medium satisfies (1): an FT-IR peak wavenumber is less than 2924 cm?1 (2): a contraction rate before and after leaving at 60° C. for 3 hours is less than 1.8% (3): none of a phthalate ester-based plasticizer, a phosphate ester-based plasticizer, and a fatty acid ester-based plasticizer are included.

Abstract: Disclosed is a system whereby it is possible to verify the safety of a person even if the person is not aware that the person is being searched for as a missing person. In this system, each verification requesting person who is searching for another person registers, in a database of a portal server (4), a set comprising a feature value of the face of the searched-for person and personal information (e.g., telephone number) about the searched-for person or the verification requesting person. A field server (2) constantly compares feature values of captured face images with the database, and if a close match is found between the feature value of a captured face image and the stored feature value of the face of a person, the field server (2) presents the registered personal information associated with that person to the person from which the captured face image was derived and requests verification from the latter person.

Abstract: Provided is a suspicious person detection method. First, a normal similar facial image search is carried out. Next, facial images, which are detected automatically from the input images and specified manually, are specified to be determined. Next, similar faces are searched for limited time on a time axis on the database. Next, the number of search results that distance between the features is lower than predetermined value is calculated and it is determined that the number of appearances is large and a possibility of a prowling person is high if the number of cases is large, and otherwise a possibility of prowling person is low. Last, a similarity between a facial image of a pre-registered residents and a facial image of a person whose number is large is calculated, and it is re-determined that the person is residents if the similarity is high, regardless of the determination.

Abstract: A technique is proposed for enabling stable detection of an object even when the contrast of an image is lowered overall or partially. A preprocessing section 12 is added to the upstream stage of an object detecting processing section 13, and provides an obtained corrected image (image obtained by subjecting an input image to contrast enhancement) as an input image for the object detecting processing section 13. This facilitates the detection of the object even when the contrast of the entire screen is lowered due to fog or rain. Furthermore, the object detecting processing section 13 detects the object by using not only the corrected image from the preprocessing section 12 but also correction characteristic information 23 containing image characteristics regarding the correction (contrast enhancement). This attempts to reduce an influence of noises enhanced by the contrast enhancement.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing an epitaxial silicon carbide wafer comprising epitaxially growing SiC on an SiC substrate to produce an epitaxial SiC wafer during which further reducing stacking faults and comet defects than the conventional technologies to obtain an epitaxial SiC wafer having a high quality epitaxial film. The method for producing the epitaxial silicon carbide wafer is characterized in that a pre-growth atmosphere gas flowing into the growth furnace before the start of epitaxial growth contains hydrogen gas and has a balance of an inert gas and unavoidable impurities, and the hydrogen gas is contained in 0.1 to 10.0 vol % with respect to the inert gas.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a monitoring system that captures and inputs video images of a crowd with a surveillance camera for detecting normal and/or various abnormal states.

Abstract: A stator of a rotating electrical machine includes a stator core, plural stator coil groups constituting plural phases, plural pieces of interphase insulation paper for insulation of coils belonging to different phases, and plural connecting strips formed integrally with the interphase insulation paper pieces. Each interphase insulation paper piece has ends inserted between coil ends of unit coils belonging to an identical phase thereby to function as interphase insulation paper for insulation of coils belonging to the identical phase. Each interphase insulation paper piece for insulation of coils belonging to the different phases, functioning as the interphase insulation paper piece for insulation of coils of the identical phase, insulates between coil ends of the first unit coils of respective first and second series circuits constituting the inner circumference side phase and a coil end of the unit coil constituting the outer circumference side phase.

Abstract: An image display apparatus for converting an image into a virtual viewpoint image so that the image of an object is not distorted.

Abstract: A people counting device includes an edge extracting unit configured to extract an edge from a planar image of a target area, and a circle candidate detecting unit configured to detect a circle candidate included in the planar image based on the edge extracted by the edge extracting unit. The people counting device further includes a person determining unit configured to calculate a brightness gradient for each edge pixel constituting an edge of each circle candidate detected by the circle candidate detecting unit and determine that a circle candidate whose uniformity of brightness gradients for the edge pixels of the circle candidate is higher than a reference is a person's head portion, and a people counting unit configured to count the number of circle candidates determined to be a person's head portion by the person determining unit.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a silicon wafer provides a silicon wafer which can reduce the precipitation of oxygen to prevent a wafer deformation from being generated and can prevent a slip extension due to boat scratches and transfer scratches serving as a reason for a decrease in wafer strength, even when the wafer is provided to a rapid temperature-rising-and-falling thermal treatment process.

Abstract: Provided is a suspicious person detection method. First, a normal similar facial image search is carried out. Next, facial images, which are detected automatically from the input images and specified manually, are specified to be determined. Next, similar faces are searched for limited time on a time axis on the database. Next, the number of search results that distance between the features is lower than predetermined value is calculated and it is determined that the number of appearances is large and a possibility of a prowling person is high if the number of cases is large, and otherwise a possibility of prowling person is low. Last, a similarity between a facial image of a pre-registered residents and a facial image of a person whose number is large is calculated, and it is re-determined that the person is residents if the similarity is high, regardless of the determination.

Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing an SiC single-crystal substrate making it possible to obtain an epitaxial SiC wafer provided with a high-quality SiC single-crystal thin film devoid of surface defects, etc. Also provided is said SiC single-crystal substrate. A method for manufacturing an SiC single-crystal substrate for an epitaxial SiC wafer having a high-quality SiC single-crystal thin film devoid of surface defects, etc., wherein the surface of the SiC single-crystal substrate is polished using chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) at a speed of no more than 100 nm/h to remove the surface in a thickness of 100 nm or greater, and produce no more than 1 approximately circular pit per cm2, the pit having a diameter of 0.5-1.5 ?m and a depth of 50-500 nm.

Abstract: A stator of a rotating machine includes a stator core, a plurality of winding wires wound on the stator core, a first bus ring, a second bus ring, and a holder device. The first bus rings each has a first radial dimension and selectively connects electrically with each of the wires. The second bus ring has a second radial dimension different from the first radial dimension and selectively connects electrically with each of the wires. The holder device holds the first and the second bus rings. The holder device includes a first and a second support portion. The first support portion supports a plurality of the first bus rings aligned along an axial direction of the stator core. The second support portion supports the second bus ring on a radially outward or inward side of the first bus rings.

Abstract: An image processing device 102 includes a background-object reference image estimation unit 1, a background-object optical flow calculation unit 2, moving-object reference image estimation units 4 and 9, moving-object heat-haze fluctuation calculation units 5, 6, 7, 10 and 11, and a motion correction unit 3. The image processing device 102 is configured such that optical flow of a background object and heat-haze fluctuation of a moving-object are obtained from input images inputted in succession, partial images of the input images are moved so as to cancel the heat-haze fluctuation, and a corrected image, which has the heat-haze fluctuation upon the background object and the moving-object within the input images removed, is generated.

Abstract: A stator of rotating electrical machine includes a stator core and stator coils. The stator coils have n number (where n?6) unit coils, a first coil group and a second coil group. The unit coils of the first coil group include a first unit coil located nearest the first power supply terminal. The unit coils of the first coil group include a second unit coil. The unit coils of the first coil group include a third unit coil located third nearest the first power supply terminal and adjacent to the second unit coil of the second coil group. The unit coils of the second coil group include a third unit coil located third nearest the second power supply terminal and adjacent to the second unit coil of the first coil group.

Abstract: Processing for judging whether a face is included in a frame is performed, in a predetermined interval, on each of frames included in a moving image of a subject, displayed on a monitor, until the judgment becomes positive. If it is judged that a face is included in a frame, the facial position is detected in the frame, and stored. Then, judgment is made as to whether a face is included in the next frame after predetermined time. If the judgment is positive, the facial position Is detected. The previously stored facial position is replaced by the newly detected facial position, and the newly detected facial position is stored. These processes are repeated until photographing operation is performed by operating a release unit.