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A method and apparatus is disclosed for enabling a user to target and access information that is associated with physical locations that are spatially distant from said user. More specifically, a method and apparatus is disclosed herein for enabling enhanced accuracy of spatial targeting and information access through a multi-step triangulation process. The methods and apparatus disclosed herein relate to portable information-targeting and information-accessing systems, such as a portable computing device interfaced with a positioning system such as the civilian Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS) in combination with a distributed network.

Disclosed is an image displaying device including a first touch panel arranged on a display screen and generating first coordinate information representing a first coordinate pair denoting the location of a touch on the panel surface; a second touch panel arranged at the rear of the display screen and generating second coordinate information representing a second coordinate pair denoting the location of a touch on the panel surface; and a control unit detecting concurrent touches on the surfaces of the first and second touch panels and, if the concurrent touches are detected, detecting coordinate pairs overlapping between the first coordinate pairs and the second coordinate pairs to determine whether or not the overlapping coordinate pairs exist in a number not lower than specified. A method of and a program for displaying an image on such an image displaying device are also disclosed.

A user identification system is provided. In the user identification system, an in-vehicle apparatus specifies a position of a vehicular portable device with reference to a vehicle and determines whether the vehicular portable device exists in a predetermined identification area. Based on determining that the vehicular portable device exists in the identification area, the in-vehicle apparatus transmits an instruction signal instructing the vehicular portable device to specify a driver terminal. Based on reception signal strength detected during a time period determined by a time point of receipt of the instruction signal, the vehicular portable device determines the driver terminal.

Some embodiments provide different frameworks for seamlessly issuing and executing commands across servers of different federation participants. Each framework facilitates issuance and execution of a command that originates from a first federation participant and that is intended for execution at servers of a second federation participant. In some embodiments, a framework implements a method for enabling command interoperability between distributed platforms that each operate a set of servers on behalf of content providers. The method involves receiving a command targeting a particular configuration that a first distributed platform deploys to a server that is operated by a second distributed platform. The method identifies the server of the second distributed platform that is deployed with the particular configuration. The method communicably couples to a command invocation system of the second distributed platform and issues the command to the command invocation system for issuance of the command to the identified server.

Provided are an ink-jet image recorder for recording an image precisely and a method for correction of belt conveyance mechanisms by controlling the roller drive on the basis of fluctuation of the conveyance rate caused by a particular failure in the endless belt. In the belt conveyor mechanism of the ink-jet image recorder, the method for correction of the belt conveyance comprises a position detection step (Step S1) for detecting a specified position on the endless belt; a measurement step for measuring the rotation rate of the roller; a position calculation step (Step S4) for specifying a position on the endless belt; a calculation step (Step S5) for calculating the corrected conveyance rate; in the error-causing region where a conveyance error is caused by the endless belt during movement of the endless belt, by addition to the position of the endless belt, of the amount of correction of the conveyance rate of the endless belt calculated from the conveyance error corresponding to the error-causing region; and a driving rate calculation step (Step S6) for adjusting the motor driving rate in accordance with the corrected conveyance rate.

In a wheel position detecting device, a receiver acquires gear information indicating a tooth position of a gear rotating in association with a corresponding wheel at a predetermined interval. In a wheel position detection, the receiver sets a variation allowance range based on the tooth position at a reception timing of a frame transmitted from a transmitter integrated to each wheel. When the tooth position of the gear at a subsequent reception timing of the frame is not within the variation allowance range, the receiver excludes the wheel corresponding to the gear from a candidate wheel. The receiver registers the wheel remaining last as the wheel to which the transmitter is integrated. The receiver performs the wheel position detection only when a wheel speed is higher than a predetermined threshold, so that the wheel position detection is performed based on an accurate tooth position.

An apparatus being able to not only detect a manufacturing defect of an integrated circuit but also specify a position at which the defect occurs even when outputs from scan paths are compressed and stored, or when the number of the scan paths is large. The apparatus has a pattern generator built in an integrated circuit to generate test patterns, a plurality of shift registers formed in parallel, into which the test patterns are shifted, and an output compressor for compressing a plurality of outputs shifted out from the shift registers with check bits of a Hamming code, and outputting them to the outside of the integrated circuit.

The host-vehicle-travel-position specification apparatus specifies an estimation error range of map matching reference positions based on relation between a map-matching reference trajectory and an estimation error range of estimated absolute positions. The map-matching reference trajectory is corrected to accord with the estimation error range of map matching reference positions. A vehicle travel position is specified based on the corrected map-matching reference trajectory.

A laser ranging unit is rotatably attached to a camera body by a hinge unit. The camera body has a first imaging unit and a laser radiation position specification unit. The laser ranging unit has a laser radiation unit, a laser receiving unit, a second imaging unit, and a distance calculation unit. The first imaging unit images a first range to generate a first image. The laser radiation unit is able to radiate a laser beam in an arbitrary direction within the first range. The laser receiving unit receives a reflected beam of the laser beam. The second imaging unit images a second range including a radiation position of the laser beam within the first range to generate a second image. The laser radiation position specification unit searches for a portion matching the second image in the first image to specify the radiation position in the first image. The distance calculation unit calculates the distance to the radiation position based on the time of receiving the reflected beam.

A disclosed maintenance management system includes an upper-limit information storage unit configured to store an upper limit of usage for each component identifier of a component, which upper limit is expressed by using an accumulated number of revolutions of a photoconductive drum in an image forming apparatus; a revolution number information acquiring unit configured to acquire a number of revolutions of the photoconductive drum used in the image forming apparatus; and an alarm output unit configured to calculate the accumulated number of revolutions of the used photoconductive drum, calculate a component service life predictive value by using the upper limit stored in the upper-limit information storage unit for each component identifier, and output an alarm including component information pertaining to the corresponding component identifier in the event that the component service life predictive value is less than or equal to a remainder day reference value.

A method for ascertaining distortion properties of an optical system in a measurement system for microlithography is provided, wherein the optical system images at least one structure to be measured into a measurement image. In accordance with one aspect, a method according to the invention comprises the following steps: measuring the field-dependent image aberrations of the optical system; determining a first distortion pattern present in the first image field generated by the optical system during measurement of at least one predefined structure; carrying out an optical forward simulation for the predefined structure taking account of the field-dependent image aberrations measured previously, with a second image field being generated; determining a second distortion pattern for the second image field generated previously; and ascertaining the structure-independent distortion properties of the optical system by calculating a third distortion pattern as the difference between the first distortion pattern and the second distortion pattern.

The failure isolation method includes: a first step of performing a predetermined action for the monitoring target, collecting a failure event which is a result of the action, applying the failure event to a failure cause analysis rule, and narrowing down the root cause events together with certainty factors; a second step of determining whether the root cause event and the certainty factor narrowed down in the first step satisfy a predetermined requirement and whether the narrowing-down has been completed; and a third step of, when it is determined in the second step that the narrowing-down has not been completed, performing a predetermined additional action for the monitoring target, collecting an additional failure event which is a result of the additional action, applying the additional failure event to the failure cause analysis rule, and narrowing down the root cause events together with the certainty factors.

An image processing system includes a data acquisition unit and a position specifying unit. The data acquisition unit acquires a captured image showing a drop target of a work machine in which a transport object is dropped. The position specifying unit specifies a position of a predetermined part of the drop target shown in the captured image based on the captured image and a position specifying model. The position specifying model is a trained model, which outputs a position of a predetermined part of a drop target shown in an image when the image is input. A display device may display information regarding the position of the predetermined part of the drop target of the transport object specified by the image processing system.

A specific phase position detection circuit of the invention includes: a measurement unit that detects two time positions where a signal level of an analog signal is matched with a preset threshold value, as a first reference position and a second reference position in each cycle of the analog signal, and measures a time length between the first reference position and the second reference position, as a reference time period; a computation unit that computes a time period at a preset rate to the reference time period measured in each previous cycle, as an additional time period in each current cycle of the analog signal; and a detection unit that detects a time position shifted from the first reference position detected in a current cycle by the additional time period computed by the computation unit, as the specific phase position, and outputs a detection signal representing the detected specific phase position. The positions having the substantially fixed positional relations to the peak positions are detectable as the specific phase positions in the respective cycles of an analog signal. The technique of the invention thus enables accurate specification of the peak positions even in the analog signal with varying amplitude.

An image acquisition unit sequentially acquires an endoscope image of a tubular structure having a plurality of branch structures, and an image generation unit generates an image of the tubular structure. A first certainty factor calculation unit calculates a first certainty factor indicating a possibility of presence of the endoscope within the tubular structure. A second certainty factor calculation unit calculates a second certainty factor indicating a possibility of presence of the endoscope by performing matching between the image of the tubular structure and each of the endoscope images at each of a plurality of positions within the tubular structure. A current position specifying unit specifies the current position of the endoscope based on the first and second certainty factors.

An image forming apparatus is disclosed which reads a test pattern, including a reading unit, a relative movement unit, a second detected data obtaining unit which obtains one or more second detected data sets of a reflected light which is received from a scanning position of a light by a light receiving unit while the reading unit moves relatively with respect to the recording medium before the test pattern is formed, a first detected data obtaining unit which obtains one or more first detected data sets of the reflected light which is received by the light receiving unit when the light moves over the test pattern at generally the same scanning position as the scanning position while the reading unit moves relatively with respect to the recording medium after the test pattern is formed, and a signal correction unit.

A graph estimated to represent hepatic veins is extracted from image data. Shape models representing partial tree structures branched from a point of origin within a tree structure representing a common shape of hepatic veins are obtained. A cost function correlates the graph with the shape models. Whether parts extending from the peaks of correlated graph parts and not correlated with a shape model exist within the extracted graph is judged. Positional data of the peaks are obtained as data representing the position of the point of origin in the case that no such parts exist, or positional data of a node closest to an estimated position of the point of origin, specified by tracing along the nodes of such parts from the peaks to approach the estimated position, is obtained as data representing the position of the point of origin, in the case that such parts exist.

The failure isolation method includes: a first step of performing a predetermined action for the monitoring target, collecting a failure event which is a result of the action, applying the failure event to a failure cause analysis rule, and narrowing down the root cause events together with certainty factors; a second step of determining whether the root cause event and the certainty factor narrowed down in the first step satisfy a predetermined requirement and whether the narrowing-down has been completed; and a third step of, when it is determined in the second step that the narrowing-down has not been completed, performing a predetermined additional action for the monitoring target, collecting an additional failure event which is a result of the additional action, applying the additional failure event to the failure cause analysis rule, and narrowing down the root cause events together with the certainty factors.

Provided are an ink-jet image recorder for recording an image precisely and a method for correction of belt conveyance mechanisms by controlling the roller drive on the basis of fluctuation of the conveyance rate caused by a particular failure in the endless belt. In the belt conveyor mechanism of the ink-jet image recorder, the method for correction of the belt conveyance comprises a position detection step (Step S1) for detecting a specified position on the endless belt; a measurement step for measuring the rotation rate of the roller; a position calculation step (Step S4) for specifying a position on the endless belt; a calculation step (Step S5) for calculating the corrected conveyance rate; in the error-causing region where a conveyance error is caused by the endless belt during movement of the endless belt, by addition to the position of the endless belt, of the amount of correction of the conveyance rate of the endless belt calculated from the conveyance error corresponding to the error-causing region; and a driving rate calculation step (Step S6) for adjusting the motor driving rate in accordance with the corrected conveyance rate.

A wheel position detector for a vehicle includes: a transmitter at each wheel having a first control portion for generating and transmitting a frame with specific identification information; and a receiver at a vehicle body receiving the frame from one wheel and having a second control portion for performing wheel position detection; and a wheel speed sensor for detecting a tooth of a gear. The second control portion: acquires gear information indicating a tooth position; corrects the tooth position based on a time difference between acquiring of the gear information and receiving time of the frame; and specifies the one wheel based on the tooth position at reception time.

A user identification system is provided. In the user identification system, an in-vehicle apparatus specifies a position of a vehicular portable device with reference to a vehicle and determines whether the vehicular portable device exists in a predetermined identification area. Based on determining that the vehicular portable device exists in the identification area, the in-vehicle apparatus transmits an instruction signal instructing the vehicular portable device to specify a driver terminal. Based on reception signal strength detected during a time period determined by a time point of receipt of the instruction signal, the vehicular portable device determines the driver terminal.

A specific phase position detection circuit of the invention includes: a measurement unit that detects two time positions where a signal level of an analog signal is matched with a preset threshold value, as a first reference position and a second reference position in each cycle of the analog signal, and measures a time length between the first reference position and the second reference position, as a reference time period; a computation unit that computes a time period at a preset rate to the reference time period measured in each previous cycle, as an additional time period in each current cycle of the analog signal; and a detection unit that detects a time position shifted from the first reference position detected in a current cycle by the additional time period computed by the computation unit, as the specific phase position, and outputs a detection signal representing the detected specific phase position. The positions having the substantially fixed positional relations to the peak positions are detectable as the specific phase positions in the respective cycles of an analog signal. The technique of the invention thus enables accurate specification of the peak positions even in the analog signal with varying amplitude.

An object of the present invention is to provide a managing apparatus of a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus and a computer program capable of performing an accurate process monitoring based on the obtained pattern image and the like. To accomplish the above object, according to one aspect of the present invention, there are proposed a managing apparatus of a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus including a library which stores an association between shape information of a pattern of a plurality of positions and an exposure condition of an exposing device and a calculation device which compares the shape information of the plurality of positions extracted from image information with the shape information stored in the library, and extracts the exposure condition based on a logical product of a range of a plurality of exposure conditions corresponding to the shape information of the plurality of patterns extracted from the image information, and a computer program which executes the above processes.

A delay line architecture is presented. In one embodiment, the delay line is used to introduce delay compensation into a circuit design at the top level of the circuit design.

In a wheel position detecting device, a receiver acquires gear information indicating a tooth position of a gear rotating in association with a corresponding wheel at a predetermined interval. In a wheel position detection, the receiver sets a variation allowance range based on the tooth position at a reception timing of a frame transmitted from a transmitter integrated to each wheel. When the tooth position of the gear at a subsequent reception timing of the frame is not within the variation allowance range, the receiver excludes the wheel corresponding to the gear from a candidate wheel. The receiver registers the wheel remaining last as the wheel to which the transmitter is integrated. The receiver performs the wheel position detection only when a wheel speed is higher than a predetermined threshold, so that the wheel position detection is performed based on an accurate tooth position.

An information processing system of the present invention includes: a specifying unit configured to specify, based on a shot image, position information representing a position of a moving object present in the shot image and identification information for identifying a section of an area where the moving object is located; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the position information and the identification information to the outside in association with each other. The moving object includes an estimating unit 130 configured to estimate a position of the moving object based on the identification information and the position information that have been transmitted.