Abstract: A component for a rotary machine which is configured such that a hard film composed of ceramics and an anti-fouling film composed of a fluorine-containing diamond-like carbon film are laminated on the surface of a base material, and which has superior drain erosion resistance and fouling resistance in an environment where a gas comes in direct contact therewith.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a document accepting section that accepts a document having pieces of character information and character images in mixture; a character information extracting section that extracts the pieces of character information from the accepted document; a character image extracting section that extracts the character images from the accepted document; recognizing the character images; a character recognition control section that performs a control so as to cause the character recognition section to recognize an extracted character image by using pieces of character information that are located in the vicinity of said extracted character image; and a document shaping section that shapes the document on the basis of the extracted pieces of character information and character recognition results of the character recognition section.

Abstract: Disclosed is a bearing including: a base consisting of a Cu alloy; an uneven portion formed on the base; a plating layer consisting of a ferromagnetic metal or its alloy and formed on the base so as to cover the uneven portion; and a Sn alloy layer formed on the plating layer. The surface of the Sn alloy layer constitutes a sliding surface against an object that the bearing supports.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image receiving unit, a writing detection unit, a writing deletion unit, a character recognition unit, a character string generation unit, a translation unit and a translation image generation unit. The image receiving unit receives an image including a writing. The writing detection unit detects a position of the writing. The writing deletion unit deletes the writing from the received image based on the position of the writing. The character recognition unit recognizes characters in the image from which the writing has been deleted. The character string generation unit generates a character string by inserting a code representative of the writing into the recognition result based on the position of the writing. The translation unit translates the character string. The translation image generation unit generates, based on the translation result, an image of the translation result including an image corresponding to the writing.

Abstract: An image processing method includes receiving an image including a writing, detecting a position of the writing in the received image, detecting a position of a character image in the received image, performing character recognition on the detected character image, comparing the position of the detected writing with the position of the detected character image to associate the writing with a result of the character recognition, translating the result of the character recognition so as to be recognizable as a translation of the result of the character recognition associated with the writing, generating an image of the translation result associated with the writing, so as to be output in a format different from a format of an image of a translation result that is not associated with the writing, and outputting the image of the translation result associated with the writing.

Abstract: A processer randomly designates the predetermined number of special symbol display areas from among symbol display areas when a free game starts. Subsequently, reels stop rotating to position a symbol in each of the symbol display areas. In case wild symbol(s) is/are repositioned in the specific symbol display area(s), the wild symbol(s) repositioned in the specific display area(s) will be placed and maintained in a hold state in subsequent free game(s). In the subsequent free game(s), symbols will be repositioned in symbol display areas other than one(s) in which the wild symbol(s) has/have been placed in a hold state.

Abstract: In a part for a rotary machine, a ceramic hard film is formed on a surface of a base material, the density of droplets which exist in a surface of the ceramic hard film is set to be within 1000 pieces/mm2, and the density of droplets whose mean particle diameter is 1 ?m or less is set to be within 550 pieces/mm2. A method for manufacturing the part of a rotary machine is a method for forming the ceramic hard film by at least an ion plating method or a sputtering method.

Abstract: An object is to provide a method for forming a superior corrosion-resistant plating layer by sealing penetrating pinholes formed in an electroless plating layer. There are provided a first plating step of performing electroless Ni—P plating on a base material (1); an etching step of etching a surface of a first plating layer (3) formed by the first plating step; and a second plating step of performing electroless Ni—P plating to form a second plating layer (5) on the first plating layer (3) processed by the etching step.

Abstract: An object is to provide a gas-compressor impeller which has excellent durability even when gas containing solid particles is compressed and which does not increase the cost. A gas-compressor impeller installed in a gas compressor that compresses gas containing solid particles has a hub portion and a plurality of blades extending substantially radially from the outer circumferential surface of the hub portion. The hub portion and the blades are rotated about the central axial line to compress gas. The blades have abrasion-resistant films only at gas inlet portions.

Abstract: A document processing apparatus includes a region extracting unit that extracts a plurality of regions in a document image, a recognition unit that recognizes a character string, a conversion unit that converts the recognized character string, a setting unit that sets first boundary lines that surrounds the document image and at least one second boundary line in a space between adjacent regions of the plurality of regions, an enlargement/reduction unit that moves in parallel at least one line of the first and second boundary lines under a restraint condition that at least one line does not intersect any of the plurality of regions, and enlarges or reduces at least one of the regions in accordance with the parallel movement so long as each region does not get out of a cell; and an insertion unit that inserts the converted character string into each of the regions.

Abstract: A paper document processing apparatus includes: a document image acceptance unit that accepts an image acquired; a document image recording unit that records a document image in a storage; an attribute information acquisition unit that acquires attribute information based on the document image; an acquisition result evaluation unit that evaluates whether an acquisition result of the acquired attribute information is affirmative or negative; a medium output unit that outputs information indicating a scan status of the paper document that is formed on a medium while specifying the document image for which the acquisition result of attribute information is evaluated negative; a medium acceptance unit that accepts the information formed on the medium; and an attribute information reacquisition unit that reacquires the attribute information of the document image by specifying the document image in accordance with the accepted information.

Abstract: A document image processing device includes a region dividing unit that divides a document image into sentence regions, a character recognizing unit that recognizes characters in each sentence region obtained by the region dividing unit, a classifying unit that classifies the sentence regions into groups based on first character sizes and first line spacings, a translation unit that translates the characters constituting a character string in each sentence region, a calculating unit that calculates second character sizes and second line spacings, and a correcting unit that corrects the second character sizes and the second line spacings of the sentence regions classified into a same group by the classified unit so that differences in second character size and second line spacing between the sentence regions of the same group is substantially equal to or less than predetermined values.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a region extracting unit extracts a character region on an image; a character recognizing unit that recognizes characters in the character region extracted by the region extracting unit; a translating unit that translates a recognition result obtained by the character recognizing unit; and a changing unit that changes a constitution of the image with respect to the character region extracted by the region extracting unit according to a direction of the characters in the character region extracted by the region extracting unit, and according to a direction of the characters of the language translated by the translating unit.

Abstract: A document image processing apparatus includes an specifying section, an extracting section, a recognizing section, an interpreting section, an arranging section and a generating section. The specifying section specifies a sentence region including a character row from a document image. The extracting section extracts at least one of character row images included in the specified sentence region. The recognizing section recognizes respective characters included in the extracted character row image. The interpreting section interprets an original sentence character row comprising the recognized characters and generates an interpreted sentence character row. The arranging section arranges the respective character row images in the sentence region by contracting the respective character row images. The arranging section arranges the generated respective interpreted sentence character rows in a vacant region except a region arranging the respective character row images from the sentence region.

Abstract: A gaming machine includes a first box having inner walls, a second box, a front member, a communicating portion, and an exhausting portion. The front member has side walls, and covers components placed at a front portion of the second box. The front member defines a first space at the front portion. The communicating portion provided at the front portion allows a second space inside the second box to communicate with the first space. The exhausting portion provided in a side wall of the front member allows air sent from the second space to the first space to be discharged. The front member is arranged such that a first distance is smaller than a second distance, where the first distance starts at a first inner wall to finish at a first side wall, and the second distance starts at a second inner wall to finish at a second side wall.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a region dividing section, an character recognizing section, a classifying section, a translating section, a calculation section and a correcting section. The region dividing section divides a document image into sentence regions. The character recognizing section recognizes characters in the respective sentence regions. The classifying section classifies the sentence regions into groups in accordance with sizes of the characters. The translating section translates a sentence into a given language for each of the sentence regions. The calculation section calculates a character size of a sentence, which has been translated for each of the sentence regions by the translating section. And The correcting section corrects a size of a translated character of each character region for every sentence region classified into the same group such that the character sizes calculated by the calculating section become equal.