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A position detection apparatus of the electrostatic coupling type is provided, to detect not only a position of a pointer but also information other than the position information such as, for example, pointer pressure or side switch information. The pointer transmits two codes such that a pressure applied to a pen tip is associated with a time difference between the two codes. A position detector carries out a correlation matching operation between signals generated in reception conductors and correlation calculation codes corresponding to the two codes, to thereby detect a position on a sensor section pointed to by the pointer from a result of the correlation matching operation and based on at least one of the codes. The position detector further includes a pressure calculation circuit for detecting pressure applied to the pointer, which is associated with the time difference between the two codes, from the result of the correlation matching operation calculated by the correlation matching operation and based on the two codes.

A digital image signal is transformed in frequency, thereby providing partitioned frequency components. Characteristic information is calculated in accordance with a coefficient at a first frequency domain that is selected from among the partitioned frequency components. A coefficient at a second frequency domain is handled in accordance with predetermined rules, thereby embedding the characteristic information into the coefficient at the second frequency domain. The second frequency domain is selected from among areas that differ from the first frequency domain. The frequency coefficients that exhibit several frequency components are encoded in a predetermined manner, thereby producing compressed image data.

It is arranged so that ions can be analyzed accurately and with high sensitivity. A first electrode 11 is provided on the outer periphery of a dielectric cylindrical body 13 and a second electrode 12 is placed inside the cylindrical body 13 leaving a clearance between itself and the inner surface of the cylindrical body 13. When an AC high voltage is impressed across the first electrode 11 and second electrode 12, a barrier discharge occurs within the cylindrical body 13. When a distal end portion 12a of the second electrode 12 projects outwardly from the distal end of the cylindrical body 13, a thermal equilibrium plasma P having a low electron temperature is generated outwardly of the distal end of the cylindrical body 13 without a plasma jet ascribable to the barrier discharge emerging outwardly from the distal end of the cylindrical body 13. By exposing a sample S to the thermal equilibrium plasma P, particles (atoms, molecules) desorbed from the sample S undergo soft ionization without being decomposed or polymerized. The ions generated are introduced to a mass analyzer 50.

The ink cartridge has a first detection target portion for detecting ink level and a second detection target portion for identifying the type of an ink cartridge. The ink level detection device uses an optical sensor to scan the first and second detection target portions of the ink cartridge, and detects ink level and the type of the ink cartridge, that is, whether the ink cartridge is containing standard amount of ink or large amount of ink. Therefore, the number of image formation on recording media can be estimated, and failure in image formation due to a shortage of ink in the middle of image formation can be inhibited.

A method and apparatus is invented that provides unambiguously detection of the charge and proximity to an object. The method and apparatus are passive and function by using the background electric fields from electrical power wiring and equipment. The invention is useful for detecting plastic and other charged objects concealed by nonconductive covering materials. Applications of this lead to plastic detectors to scan people and cargo for dangerous dielectric items similar to metal detectors. It is also useful to warn of hazards due to static electricity buildup on objects or individuals. The technology also offers touchless control capability of computers, apparatus, and games, with plastic objects such as pointers, styluses, swords, sticks, and wands. The sensors are able to detect motion while discerning between proximity to bodies with dielectric or plastic objects. It is also useful for providing people, robots, and machines with obstacle avoidance, and vision capabilities. Medial imaging possibilities also exist with the technology of this invention.

A device to adjust an amount of an active substance inhaled by a user includes two tanks. A first tank includes a liquid having a lower density of active substance than a liquid in the second tank. Each liquid is configured to evaporate when the liquid is heated beyond a predefined temperature limit. An inhaler to inhale the liquid vapor evaporating from each tank by the user. One heating resistor is associated with each tank. A controller to control the heating of each resistor to actuate each resistor independently in accordance with the determined amount of active substance to be vaporized. The ratio of the heating of the resistor of the second tank to the heating of the resistor of the first tank is an increasing function of the determined amount of active substance to be vaporized.

A position indicator includes a tubular core member, a first coil, a second coil, a substantially bar-like rod, a pen-pressure detecting element, at least one capacitor, and a switch. The tubular core member is formed by a substantially bar-like first magnetic core and a substantially bar-like second magnetic core, which are combined in a transversal direction thereof to form a through-hole therebetween. At least one of the first and second magnetic cores may include a recessed portion formed therein extending in the axial direction thereof. The first coil is wound around the tubular core member, and the second coil is wound around the second magnetic core. The rod is inserted into the through-hole of the tubular core member. The pen-pressure detecting element detects a pressure applied to an end of the rod (i.e., the pen tip). The capacitor is connected to the first coil to form a resonant circuit. The switch controls “on” and “off” states of the second coil for the purpose of calculating a rotation angle of the position indicator about its axis.

A motor drive method which supplies a drive current in a pulse form to a multiphase motor, to drive the motor. The motor drive method includes the steps of: generating a pulse signal having a duty ratio in accordance with torque, alternately repeating an ON time-period and an OFF time-period in accordance with the pulse signal, to supply a drive current in a pulse form to a phase coil currently driving, interpolating back electromotive voltage of the OFF time-period (Toff), using a back electromotive voltage (Vu) of the ON time-period (Ton), with respect to the back electromotive voltage (Vu) occurring in at least one coil of the multiphase motor, to generate an interpolated virtual back electromotive voltage (Vu′), detecting a zero-cross point, by comparing the interpolated virtual back electromotive voltage (Vu′) with a midpoint voltage (Vcom) of the coil, to generate a BEMF detection signal (BEMF_EDGE), and switching a phase to be driven, based on the BEMF signal (BEMF_EDGE).

In a fraud-detection method for use in an in-vehicle network system including a plurality of electronic control units (ECUs) that exchange messages on a plurality of buses, a plurality of fraud-detection ECUs each connected to a different one of the buses, and a gateway device, a fraud-detection ECU determines whether a message transmitted on a bus connected to the fraud-detection ECU is malicious by using rule information stored in a memory. The fraud-detection ECU transmits an error message including a message identifier of a message determined to be malicious. The gateway device receives updated rule information transmitted to a first bus among the buses, selects a second bus different from the first bus, and transfers the updated rule information only to the second bus. A fraud-detection ECU connected to the second bus acquires the updated rule information and updates the rule information stored therein by using the updated rule information.

A logic verification device, a logic verification method and a logic verification computer program that can reduce the number of steps involved in designing a logic circuit particularly when the designed logic circuit is subjected to logic verification and modification at the spot where an error is detected. The logic verification device comprises a data converter section adapted to convert real circuit data to be processed for designing a logic circuit into data for verification to be processed for logic verification and vice versa, a verifier section adapted to operate for logic verification of said data for verification and a temporary modifier section adapted to acquire the result of verification of said verifier section and the modification candidate data corresponding to the result of verification of said verifier section and pre-selected as candidate data for modification of said data for verification and modify said data for verification on the basis of said acquired result of verification and said acquired modification candidate data.

A fault location device detects a communication device connected to a broken communication line from among communication devices that carry out communications between each other through a two-wire communication line. The communication device, when detecting a communication error, stores communication error time and a communication error counter accumulated value indicating accumulated counts of the communication error, changes into a bus off state on the basis of the communication error counter accumulated value, and, after a predetermined period of time, returns from the bus off state. The fault location device includes an acquisition unit that acquires the communication error time and communication error counter accumulated value, stored in each communication device; and a detection unit that detects a communication device connected to a broken communication line on the basis of variations in the communication error counter accumulated values while any one of the communication devices is in a bus off state.

A method for detecting and documenting red-light violations and / or speeding violations in which a radar beam is directed across all lanes of a roadway of interest and in which the speed and the position of a vehicle which passes through the radar beam are determined from the radar signals so as to be able to predict the probability of a red-light violation from the speed and the determined distance of the measured vehicle from a stop line and to trigger the recording of images of the violating vehicle at predetermined distances from the stop line.

A method for determining an ego-motion of a vehicle is described, which is carried out in driver assistance systems, particularly in parking assistance systems. The method involves: taking a sequence of images, successive in time of a vehicle surroundings by a vehicle camera; determining, based on the image sequence, at least one motion flow with regard to an object in the vehicle surroundings; and determining the ego-motion of the vehicle based on the at least one motion flow.

An objective of the present invention is to provide a polishing pad for a semiconductor wafer and a laminated body for polishing of a semiconductor wafer equipped with the same which can perform optical endpoint detection without lowering the polishing performance as well as methods for polishing of a semiconductor wafer using them. The polishing pad of the present invention comprises a substrate 11 for a polishing pad provided with a through hole penetrating from surface to back, a light transmitting part 12 fitted in the through hole, the light transmitting part comprises a water-insoluble matrix material (1,2-polybutadiene) and a water-soluble particle (β-cyclodextrin) dispersed in the water-insoluble matrix material, and the water-soluble particle is less than 5% by volume based on 100% by volume of the total amount of the water-insoluble matrix material and the water-soluble particle. In addition, the laminated body for polishing of the present invention comprises a supporting layer on a backside of the polishing pad. These polishing pad and laminated body for polishing can comprise a fixing layer 13 on a backside.

In a data communications system a remote data source outputs data as a series of application data units (ADUs). Each ADU is individually encrypted with a different key. The keys are transmitted (for example using Internet multicasting) via a communications network to one or more customer terminals. At the terminals a sequence of keys is generated for use in decrypting the ADUs. A record is kept of the keys generated, and this record may subsequently be used to generate a receipt for the data received by the customer. The keys may be generated, and the record stored within a secure module such as a smartcard.

An optical pickup including an optical member which inhibits interference light reflected from an adjacent layer from being received by a photodetector when an optical information storage medium includes a plurality of recording layers on at least one side thereof. The optical pickup suppresses a photodetector, especially first and second sub-photodetectors of the photodetector, from receiving the interference light reflected from the adjacent layer.

Disclosed is a system for detecting an attack, which includes a server and a plurality of vehicles capable of wirelessly communicating with each other. Each of the vehicles has a sensor, a sensor information acquisition unit, a traffic information reception unit, and a transmission unit that transmits the sensor information and the traffic information to the server. The server has a reception unit that receives the sensor information and the traffic information from the vehicles, a verification unit that verifies whether the sensor information and the traffic information are inconsistent with each other, and a notification unit that notifies, when the sensor information and the traffic information are inconsistent with each other, the vehicles of the inconsistency.

A method and apparatus for the detection and quantification of very low levels of a target analyte using an imaging system is provided. In the case of some analytes such as certain hormones, for example TSH, their levels may be as low as several tens of thousands of molecules per micro liter. These extremely low levels can be measured by using the present invention to count the individual molecules of analyte. The invention also has the advantage of being a primary quantitative method, which is one which needs no standardization.

In an anomaly monitoring device, in which an output signal from an encoder is input as an analog input signal via a wiring system, for detecting anomalies in the encoder or the wiring system, provided are a voltage level based device, a pulse number based device and a pulse width based device. The voltage level based device detects anomalies when the voltage level of the analog input signal exists within a prescribed range. The pulse number based device detects anomalies when the difference in the numbers of pulses of digital signals corresponding to the analog input signals is equal to or greater than a prescribed threshold value. The pulse width based device detects anomalies when the pulse width of the digital signals, measured from a combined signal of the digital signals or each of the digital signals, is different from the pulse width in a past control period.

A tactile sensor for detecting a variation in pressing real-time. The tactile sensor is simple in structure, detects a variation in pressing by using reduced wires, has increased reliability and reduced cost, and can obtain information accurately. A sheet has, along its surface, resistors arranged in an X direction and Y direction, has a resistor in Z direction corresponding to the thickness direction of the sheet, and has a pressure sensitive resistor sheet (4) whose resistance in the Z direction varies according to pressing in the thickness direction. At least a pair of electrodes (9, 10, 11, 12) is placed in the periphery of the pressure sensitive sheet (4), and the electrodes conduct a current to at least either of the resistor in the X direction or the resistor in the Y direction. Also, at least a pair of conductors (5, 6) for conducting a current to the resistor in the Z direction is provided on the surface of the pressure sensitive sheet (4).

A defect detecting apparatus for detecting defects on a substrate sample (wafer) having circuit patterns such as interconnections. The defect detecting apparatus is provided with stages that can be moved arbitrarily in each of the X, Y, Z, and θ directions in a state that the substrate sample is mounted thereon, an illumination optical system for illuminating the circuit patterns from one or plural directions, and a detection optical system for detecting reflection light, diffraction light, or scattered light coming from an inspection region being illuminated through almost the entire hemispherical surface having the substrate sample as the bottom surface. The NA (numerical aperture) thereby falls within a range of 0.7 to 1.0. Harmful defects or foreign substances can be detected so as to be separated from non-defects such as surface roughness of interconnections.

The objective of the present invention is to provide an information distribution server which can distribute individual information for distribution, according to the position of a person who is visiting. The present invention includes: a device for obtaining the ID of a person who is visiting, which is provided within a work area, and which obtains an ID of the person who is visiting, which is information for discriminating the person who is visiting, and appends a position ID which has been set to itself to the ID of the person who is visiting which has been obtained, and dispatches it; a signal destination information database which, in the information distribution system which includes the information distribution server which is connected to the device for obtaining the ID of a person who is visiting, establishes a correspondence between signal destination information which specifies a portable terminal which is to become the object of distribution of contents, and the ID of the person who is visiting, and stores it; a signal reception means which receives as position information the ID of the person who is visiting and the position ID which are dispatched from the device for obtaining the ID of a person who is visiting; and a means which reads out contents reads out contents [sic] from a contents database which correspond to the position ID which is included in the position information which the signal reception means receives, and dispatches the contents which have been read out to the signal destination information which corresponds to the ID of the person who is visiting which is included in the position information.

An abnormality detection method is provided. The abnormality detection method is for detecting an abnormality that may be transmitted to a bus in an on-board network system. The on-board network system includes a plurality of electronic controllers that transmit and receive messages via the bus in a vehicle according to a CAN protocol. In the abnormality detection method, for example, a gateway transmits vehicle identification information to a server and receives a response determining a unit time. An operation process is performed using feature information based on a number of messages received from the bus per the determined unit time and using a model indicating a criterion in terms of a message occurrence frequency. A judgment is made as to an abnormality according to a result of the operation process.

An optical information recording apparatus is suitable for detection of deviation between a strategy and a record pattern. Test record is performed on an optical recordable medium using a predetermined strategy. A binarization signal that is obtained by reproducing the test record result is counted. A pit length and a land length included in the binarization signal are specified using a histogram of the count result. A plurality of the reproduction patterns is searched and extracted from a record area based at least in part on the pit length and the land length. Deviation between a strategy and a record pattern formed by the test record is detected through comparison of the obtained reproduction patterns through the search.

An improved method allowing for rapid sensitive and standardized detection of a target nucleic acid from a pathogenic microorganism or virus or normal or abnormal gene in a sample is provided. The method involves hybridizing a target nucleic acid to several non-overlapping oligonucleotide probes that hybridize to adjacent regions in the target nucleic acid, the probes being referred to capture / amplification probes and amplification probes, respectively, in the presence of paramagnetic beads coated with a ligand binding moiety. Through the binding of a ligand attached to one end of the capture / amplification probe and the specific hybridization of portions of the probes to adjacent sequences in the target nucleic acid, a complex comprising the target nucleic acid, the probes and the paramagnetic beads is formed. The probes may then ligated together to form a contiguous ligated amplification sequence bound to the beads, which complex may be denatured to remove the target nucleic acid and unligated probes. Alternatively, separate capture and amplification probes may be used which form continuous full-length or circular probes, and may be directly detected or amplified using a suitable amplification technique, e.g., PCR, RAM or HSAM for detection. The detection of the ligated amplification sequence, either directly or following amplification of the ligated amplification sequence, indicates the presence of the target nucleic acid in a sample. Methods for the detection of the ligated amplification sequence, including hybridization signal amplification method and ramification-extension amplification method, are also provided.

In view of the above-mentioned problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a processing method that is not dependent on the material or the ion beam irradiation angle. In order to achieve the object above, the present invention provides a processing device that processes a sample by irradiating the sample with an ion beam, the processing device comprising a sample tilting / rotating mechanism that rotates / tilts the sample relative to the ion beam, wherein the sample rotating mechanism comprises a rotating shaft that rotates the sample relative to the ion beam, and a tilting shaft that is orthogonal to the rotating shaft and that tilts the sample relative to the ion beam, the sample rotating mechanism being adapted to simultaneously perform the rotating and tilting of the sample.

Medical examination or treatment device, in particular x-ray or CT device, comprising a control device controlling the operation of one or a number of device elements, as well as at least one mobile control element assigned to the control device, said control element communicating wirelessly with the control device for operating the examination or treatment device to issue control signals, with a detection means for detecting an item of information which can be read out or sent by a control element assigned to the control device during a movement of the control element from the room containing the medical examination or treatment device, said room communicating with the control device which disables the control operation as a function of the detection result.

A method for detecting an optical structure from image sequences of an image recording system. An optical flow field is derived from the image sequences of the image recording system. The vectors of the optical flow field are broken down into components by projection onto a coordinate system of the image recorded by the image recording system. At least one component of the flow vectors is analyzed for a change of direction. The image elements containing a change of direction of a vector component are connected to form a curve.