Canon Patente

An information processing apparatus is connected over a communication network to a printer and a cloud printing service holding a print job received. The information processing apparatus obtains, from the cloud printing service, first device identification information for linking with the cloud printing service; and installs a program that transmits, to the cloud printing service, a print job output by a printer driver corresponding to the printer, based on the first device identification information.

An image capture apparatus (1) comprises an image sensor (2) and a display device (6). The apparatus (1) generates, from an image captured by the image sensor (2), an image for display and generates, using a machine learning model, a predicted image predicting an image that would be captured later than the images of the plurality of frames. The apparatus (1) causes the display device (6) to display the image for display or the predicted image so as the display unit to function as an electronic viewfinder. The apparatus (1) determines that the predicted image is to be generated if it is determined that an exposure time for still image capturing is longer than a predetermined time, and otherwise determines that the predicted image is not to be generated.

An electrophotographic member composing a base layer and a surface layer on the base layer. The surface layer comprises a binder resin and electronically conductive particles. The binder resin comprises a polymer having an organosiloxane polymer moiety. The organosiloxane polymer moiety has a silsesquioxane structure. An infrared absorption spectrum obtained by measuring the surface of the surface layer using infrared spectroscopy satisfies specific formulas.

An imaging apparatus (100, 200) includes: a light emitting unit (201) configured to emit pulsed light; an imaging unit (102) configured to generate an image signal by exposure with reflected light acquired by causing the pulsed light to strike a subject and be reflected; and a control unit (105) configured to control a light emission timing of the light emitting unit (201) and an exposure timing of the imaging unit (102) such that the reflected light from the subject within a predetermined distance range from the imaging unit (102) is exposed by the imaging unit (102). The control unit (105) changes an operating area for performing a predetermined operation in the imaging unit (102) on the basis of the predetermined distance range.

An information processing apparatus includes a connection unit configured to establish communicable connection with an external apparatus through a wired connection, a disconnection processing unit configured to, in response to a moving image size changing instruction, perform processing for disconnecting communication with the external apparatus in a state where the connection unit and the external apparatus are wired-connected, a changing unit configured to change a moving image size based on the moving image size changing instruction; and a connection processing unit configured to perform connection processing to communicate with the external apparatus in the state where the connection unit and the external apparatus are wired-connected.

An image capturing apparatus that has a light emitting unit configured to emit pulsed light; and an image capturing unit configured to expose reflected light in which the pulsed light has been reflected from around a subject, and generate an image signal, performs control of a light emission timing for the light emitting unit and an exposure timing for the image capturing unit such that the image capturing unit exposes light that has been reflected from a subject in a predetermined distance range from the image capturing unit; performs predetermined calculation processing on images obtained from the image signal; and determines a calculation processing range in which the calculation processing will be performed based on the predetermined distance range.

A communication apparatus (100) includes: receiving means that receives, while the communication apparatus is connected to a first access point, a user operation designating a second access point different from the first access point as a target for connection with the communication apparatus; connection control means that performs control to maintain a connection between the communication apparatus and the first access point and connect the communication apparatus to the second access point designated by the user operation designating the second access point received by the receiving means; and communication control means that performs control to perform data communication via both the first access point and the second access point in a state in which both the first access point and the second access point are connected to.

A method of obtaining a prediction model for predicting fluctuation of imaging characteristics of a projection optical system which is used in an exposure apparatus that exposes a substrate via an original, the method including setting a first value, which is a value of a first coefficient in a first prediction model that is set based on a result of measuring fluctuation of imaging characteristics of a first projection optical system in a first exposure apparatus including the first projection optical system, as a value of the first coefficient in a second prediction model for predicting fluctuation of imaging characteristics of a second projection optical system in a second exposure apparatus including the second projection optical system, while temporarily setting a value of a second coefficient in the second prediction model to a default value.

An image forming apparatus (1) includes a main assembly (1A); a door (25), a moving portion (24), a damper (41) and first and second transmitting portions (42, 245a). The door shifts from one state of an open state to the main assembly and a closed state to the other state by rotating to the main assembly due to its own weight. The moving portion moves relative to both the main assembly and the door with rotation of the door. The damper generates a braking force for braking the door by moving with movement of the moving portion. Each of the moving portion and the door is provided with one of the first and second transmitting portions. When the door is shifted from the one state to the other state, the braking force is changed by changing a positional relationship between the first and second transmitting portions with the movement of the moving portion.

An information processing apparatus (100, Figure 2) includes an image acquisition unit (140, Figure 3) configured to acquire an image (510, 520, 530) acquired by imaging a subject, a detection unit (150, Figure 3) configured to detect a subject region (501) from the image, the subject region being a region of the subject being a tracking target, and a setting unit (170, Figure 3) configured to set the subject region of the subject being the tracking target based on a likelihood of the subject in a case where at least a portion of the subject is occluded by an obstruction (540) in the image and the plurality of subject regions (501, 502) of the subject is detected by the detection unit.

An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a moving image obtained using a radiation detector, a first image processing unit configured to perform first image processing on the acquired moving image, the first image processing including noise reduction processing using a first machine learning model and processing for outputting the acquired moving image to a display system, and a second image processing unit configured to perform second image processing on the acquired moving image, the second image processing including noise reduction processing using a second machine learning model and processing for outputting the acquired moving image to a system different from the display system.

Providing a liquid ejection head (100) ejecting a liquid from an ejection port (210) by applying energy to the liquid, in which the ejection port includes an opening portion (504, 504', 506) having a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction, the opening portion includes a protrusion (502, 502'), first regions (504, 504'), and a second region (506), the protrusion is arranged in each of facing positions of the ejection port in the longitudinal direction, the first regions are regions excluding the protrusions of the ejection port that are along the longitudinal direction and partitioned by the protrusions, the second region is a region excluding the protrusions of the ejection port that bridges the first regions between the facing protrusions, and M/L > 1.0 and (L - a)/2L < 0.4 are satisfied where the maximum length in the longitudinal direction is M, the maximum length in the transverse direction is L, and a half width of the protrusion is a.

A height measurement device includes an optical measurement device configured to measure a height of a substrate, an air sensor configured to measure a height of the substrate while discharging air through a pipeline based on a pressure in the pipeline, a member having a reference surface, and a controller configured to correct a result obtained by measuring a height at a second measurement location on the substrate using the optical measurement device based on a first result obtained by measuring a height at a first measurement location on the substrate and a height of the reference surface using the optical measurement device and a second result obtained by measuring a height at the first measurement location on the substrate and a height of the reference surface using the air sensor.

Provided is a method of manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object, the method including: a layering-and-shaping step of forming a layered-and-shaped object by layering-and-shaping using a ceramic powder, the layered-and-shaped object including a first part (1) and a second part (2) positioned in the vicinity of the first part (1); and a removal step of removing the second part (2) of the layered-and-shaped object while leaving the first part (1) thereof by blasting for causing media to collide against the layered-and-shaped object. The media have a Young's modulus lower than a Young's modulus of the first part (1).

A photoelectric conversion element (22), provided in a semiconductor layer (120) having a first face (122) and a second face (124), includes a first semiconductor region (126) of a first conductivity type arranged over a first depth (D3) from the first face, a second semiconductor region (136) of a second conductivity type arranged to surround the first semiconductor region in a plan view and having a peak of an impurity concentration at a second depth between the first face and the first depth, and a third semiconductor region (128) of the second conductivity type arranged closer to the second face than the first semiconductor region to the second face and configuring an avalanche photodiode with the first semiconductor region. A boundary face of the second semiconductor region on a side of the second face is located closer to the first face than the first depth to the first face.

A liquid ejection chip (210) includes a first substrate (220) and a second substrate (230). A first adhesive agent layer (701a) including a first adhesive agent (701) and second adhesive agent layers (702a) including a second adhesive agent (702) are provided on a bonding surface (204a) of the second substrate (230) bonded to a liquid supply member (240). The second substrate (230) includes projecting portions (800) projecting in a first direction more than the first substrate (220) in a state where the liquid ejection chip (210) is seen from a direction perpendicular to the bonding surface (204a). The second adhesive agent layers (702a) are provided at the projecting portions (800).

Methods for use in a process for migrating traffic from a first Integrated Access and Backhaul, IAB, topology (6001) to a second IAB topology (6002) of a communication system (600) are disclosed. Each of the first IAB topology and the second IAB topology comprises a set of IAB nodes and a donor Central Unit, CU. A method at a first donor CU (601) of the first IAB topology comprises: after making a decision associated with traffic to be offloaded from the first IAB topology (6001) to the second IAB topology (6002), sending, to a second donor CU (602) of the second IAB topology, a request related to migration of traffic including at least one set of Information Elements, IEs, each of the at least one set of IEs including an identifier related to the traffic and information related to Quality of Service, QoS, associated with the traffic; and receiving, from the second donor CU (602), a first message, wherein in a case where at least one of the set of IEs in the request is accepted by the second donor CU (602), the first message includes information indicating the at least one of the set of IEs has been accepted and the at least one identifier included in the respective accepted set of IEs.

An information processing device executes acquisition processing to acquire a position and a feature amount of each of a plurality of subjects detected from a captured image, and tracking processing to track one of the plurality of subjects in association with a tracked subject that is to be tracked, based on the position and the feature amount of each of the plurality of subjects acquired in the acquisition processing. The tracking processing includes performing a first association to associate any one of the plurality of subjects with the tracked subject using a similarity of the feature amount, and performing a second association to associate any one of the plurality of subjects with the tracked subject using a similarity of the position.

A motor control apparatus detects currents flowing through coils of respective phases in a motor, estimates a rotational position of a rotor of the motor based on current values of the detected currents, and determines, in motor control that switches an excitation phase of the motor in accordance with a target rotational speed of the rotor, a current command value for a current component that generates torque in the rotor, based on a phase difference between a command value and an estimated value for the rotational position. The motor control apparatus controls currents supplied to the coils of the respective phases in the motor in accordance with the determined current command value determined by the determining unit.

An information processing apparatus (100) includes a generation unit (101), a display control unit (101), a first acquisition unit (104), a second acquisition unit (105), and a processing unit (101). The generation unit (101) generates a virtual image including a movable virtual object. The display control unit (101) controls display of the virtual image. The first acquisition unit (104) acquires first information regarding a first part of a user. The second acquisition unit (105) acquires second information regarding a second part of the user. The processing unit (101) performs a first movement process to move the virtual object based on the first information and a second movement process to move the virtual object based on the second information. The processing unit (101) switches between the first movement process and the second movement process based on the acquisition status of the first information or the acquisition status of the second information.

An information processing device includes selection means configured to select at least two VR contents from a plurality of VR contents in response to an operation from a user, and display control means configured to control display means so as to display an image of a VR space in which the at least two VR contents selected by the selection means are arranged side by side, wherein in a first case where a first VR content and a second VR content are selected by the selection means, the display control means controls the display means so as to display an image of the VR space in which a first region for displaying the first VR content and a second region for displaying the second VR content are arranged side by side.

An imaging apparatus includes an image pickup element including a light receiving unit configured to output a pulse signal in response to incidence of a photon, and a counting unit configured to count the pulse signal, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a blinking frequency of a light source and a light emission time period of the light source, and a control unit configured to control an exposure time period for an image in the image pickup element and a counting frequency at which the counting unit performs counting based on the acquired blinking frequency of the light source and the acquired light emission time period of the light source.

A conversion device includes conversion elements respectively having avalanche photodiodes that receive light corresponding to respective colors of a plurality of color filters, and counters that count and output the number of output signals from the avalanche photodiodes. Recharge cycles of the avalanche photodiodes corresponding to the respective colors are made different for each color.

A photoelectric conversion device includes a photoelectric conversion element including an avalanche photodiode that outputs signals in accordance with incident photons and a counter that counts the number of output signals from the avalanche photodiode and outputs the number of output signals. It is determined whether the number of output signals is equal to or greater than a threshold. An exposure time of the avalanche photodiode and a recharge cycle of the avalanche photodiode during the exposure time are controlled. At least one of the threshold, the exposure time, and the recharge cycle is controlled so that a maximum number of recharges determined in accordance with the exposure time and the recharge cycle is greater than the threshold.

An imaging apparatus includes an imaging element including a light receiving unit configured to output a pulse signal in response to incidence of a photon, a counting unit configured to count pulse signals, a control unit configured to control an imaging frame rate and an accumulation time of an image in the imaging element, and a detection unit configured to detect a lighting period of a flashing light source based on a change in brightness of an image captured while changing the accumulation time by the control unit.

A photoelectric conversion element includes: an avalanche photodiode; a first counter configured to count each of an output signal of the avalanche photodiode of a first pixel and an output signal of the avalanche photodiode of a second pixel; a calculation unit configured to generate third output signals from the output signal of the avalanche photodiode of the first pixel and the output signal of the avalanche photodiode of the second pixel; and a second counter circuit configured to count the number of third output signals.

To prevent unintended imaging in the case of automatically capturing an image of a subject, a control apparatus obtains an image captured by image capturing means, counts the number of subjects included in the image, and controls the image capturing means to switch, based on the number of subjects, between a first state of tracking a subject and a second state of stopping tracking of the subject.

A conversion device includes a photodiode and a counter configured to count and output the number of output signals from the photodiodes until the number of output signals reaches a count number. By controlling an exposure time of the photodiode and a recharge period of the photodiode, a first pixel in which a ratio of the count number to a maximum recharge number determined as a quotient obtained by dividing the exposure time by the recharge period is a first ratio and a second pixel in which the ratio of the count number to the maximum recharge number is a second ratio smaller than the first ratio are set.

A photoelectric conversion device has an avalanche photodiode, and a counter counting and outputting the number of output signals from the avalanche photodiode until the number reaches the count number. An exposure time of the avalanche photodiode is controlled and a recharge cycle of the avalanche photodiode is controlled. Control is performed such that a ratio of the count number to the maximum number of times of recharging determined by a quotient obtained by dividing the exposure time by the recharge cycle is set to a first ratio in a first frame, and the ratio of the count number to the maximum number of times of recharging is set to a second ratio smaller than the first ratio in a second frame different from the first frame.

There is described a method of decoding video data from a bitstream. The bitstream comprising video data corresponding to one or more slices. The decoding comprises parsing the syntax elements, and not permitting use of a subpicture and/or parsing of subpicture information in combination with at least one syntax element that indicates that a picture to be decoded contains only one slice. The bitstream is decoded using said syntax elements.

A video processing apparatus (10), communicatively connected to an information processing apparatus (12), includes an acquisition unit (102) and a control unit (101). The acquisition unit (102) acquires video designation information when a video to be played back is designated. The control unit (101) controls distribution of the video as a distribution video based on the video designation information and distribution of a map image associated with the distribution video. The map image includes a plurality of regions, each of which is associated with two or more video frames of the distribution video. When a predetermined region is designated from among the regions in the map image, the acquisition unit (102) acquires region designation information regarding the designation of the predetermined region. The control unit (101) distributes, as an associated video, video frames associated with the predetermined region to the information processing apparatus based on the region designation information.

A width (Dc) of an intermediate portion (33), which is defined by a first semiconductor element (10) and a second semiconductor element (20), is smaller than a sum of a thickness (Ta) of a lower portion (31) and a thickness (Tb) of a lower portion (32), and a distance (Da) from at least part of a contour (10) of a projection of the first semiconductor element (10) onto the mounting surface (2) to at least part of an outer edge (311) of a board bonding surface, which is a bonding surface (300) of the adhesive (30) bonded to the wiring board (1), is smaller than the width (Dc).

A printing system comprising a print engine for printing on print media by means of printing elements, a print controller to control the printing on print media by a print engine and a cleaning system for cleaning an environment of the printing elements by means of at least one cleaning material, wherein the cleaning system is provided with at least one safety switch and at least one mechanical lock to respectively electrically shut down and physically isolate at least a part of the cleaning system in order to enable safe access for the operator for replacement of the at least one cleaning material during printing.

A bonding apparatus that bonds a first object and a second object, including a stage including a relay unit configured to hold the first object, and a holding unit configured to hold the second object, a head configured to hold the first object, a driving unit configured to drive at least one of the stage and the head to bond the first object and the second object, a first camera configured to capture an object on the stage, and a control unit configured to align the first object held by the head and the second object held by the holding unit based on results of capturing, by the first camera, the first object held by the relay unit and the second object held by the holding unit.

A control apparatus sets a manual operation state for controlling at least one of pan, tilt, and zoom of an image capturing apparatus based on a manual operation by a user, sets an automatic tracking state for controlling at least one of pan, tilt, and zoom of the image capturing apparatus to track a subject identified from a video image obtained by the image capturing apparatus, and, in a case where the image capturing apparatus is selected as a predetermined image capturing apparatus to perform at least one of delivery and recording of the video image and the manual operation by the user is not detected for a predetermined period of time in a period in which the manual operation state is set, performs control to switch a state of the image capturing apparatus from the manual operation state to the automatic tracking state.

An information processing apparatus (200) includes a display control unit (227) which performs control to simultaneously display first information indicating transition information of pan and tilt angles of an image capturing apparatus capable of pan and tilt drive and second information indicating information of a temporal transition of the pan angle and information of a temporal transition of the tilt angle, an acquisition unit which acquires correction information on any of the first information or the second information, and an update unit (224) which updates the first information or the second information based on the correction information, in which when the correction information indicates a correction on the first information, the display control unit causes the second information, after being updated, to be displayed, and when the correction information indicates a correction on the second information, the display control unit causes the first information, after being updated, to be displayed.

Provided is an information processing apparatus (200) including an acquisition unit configured to acquire a pan angle or a tilt angle from an image capturing apparatus (100) capable of performing pan and tilt drive, and a display control unit (227) configured to perform control to display a first information display area in which a temporal transition of the pan angle or the tilt angle of the image capturing apparatus (100) is displayed and a second information display area in which at least one of information of a temporal transition of the pan angle and information of a temporal transition of the tilt angle is displayed, in which the display control unit (227) is configured to display the pan angle or the tilt angle acquired by the acquisition unit in the first information display area and the second information display area.

A control apparatus (200) for controlling a plurality of image capturing apparatus (100) includes captured image acquisition means (201) for acquiring captured images from the plurality of image capturing apparatuses; subject position acquisition means (201) for acquiring positional relationships for a plurality of subjects from the captured images acquired by the captured image acquisition means; allocation means (201) for allocating identification codes that are conferred in order to select the plurality of image capturing apparatuses such that an order of the image capturing apparatuses becomes the same order as the order in which the plurality of subjects are lined up based on the positional relationships acquired by the subject position acquisition means and the captured images; and selection means (201) for selecting one of the plurality of image capturing apparatuses based on the identification codes allocated by the allocation means.

Provided are a reagent and a measurement method each excellent in measurement reproducibility. The reagent is for measuring a target substance in a specimen, wherein the target substance is ferritin, and wherein the reagent includes a first reagent and a second reagent including a particle on which a ligand that specifically binds to the target substance is immobilized, and wherein, when a first mixing step of obtaining a first mixed solution, in which the specimen containing the target substance and the first reagent are mixed, and a second mixing step of obtaining a second mixed solution, in which the first mixed solution and the second reagent are mixed, after 280 seconds or more have elapsed from the first mixing step, are performed, an amount of change in absorbance of the second mixed solution within 50 seconds from the mixing in the second mixing step is 0.15 or more.

Provided are a measurement method for a target substance using immunoturbidimetry and a reagent therefor. The method is for measuring a target substance in a specimen, the target substance being a protein having a molecular weight of 150 to 500 kDa, incorporated into the specimen at a concentration of 0.8 to 2.0 ng/mL. The method includes: mixing the specimen and a first reagent to provide a first solution; mixing the first solution and a second reagent, including a particle immobilized a ligand that binds to the target substance, to provide a second solution; and measuring the absorbance of the second solution. The concentration of the specimen in the second solution is 4.0 to 30.0 vol%, the mass ratio of the particle to the specimen in the second solution is 1:500 to 1:50, and an amount of change in absorbance per 1.0 ng/mL of the target substance is 0.0012 to 0.0100.