Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry calculates a limit imaging condition based on one or more imaging parameters for determining an imaging condition, the limit imaging condition being an allowable limit relating to heat input to a superconducting magnet. The processing circuitry limits an input range of an imaging parameter input by an operator based on the limit imaging condition.

Abstract: A medical information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a memory configured to store therein a plurality of settings about at least one of a calculation condition, a shape, a characteristic, and a fluid; and a processing circuitry configured to select at least one of the plurality of settings, to determine the selected setting as an analysis condition, and to calculate a reliability with respect to an index value that is related to a blood flow and is calculated under the analysis condition.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to calculate an allowable amount of heat input to a superconducting magnet, the allowable amount being allocated to each of a plurality of imagings scheduled during a target period. The processing circuitry is configured to determine an imaging condition based on the allowable amount in the each of the plurality of imagings.

Abstract: An operation device comprises a detector configured to detect an operation on a virtual switch by an operator to operate an X-ray irradiation in an X-ray diagnosis apparatus, wherein the virtual switch is virtually set at a position settled relatively with respect to the operator and output circuitry configured to output a detection result of the operation detected by the detector to the X-ray diagnosis apparatus to be operated. This device eliminates the need for looking away from a display monitor every time the operator operates the X-ray diagnosis apparatus.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic resonance imaging system includes a first power supply, one or more second power supplies and control circuitry. The first power supply supplies power to a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus at a time of power outage of a commercial power supply electrically connected to the magnetic resonance imaging apparatus. The second power supplies supply the power to the magnetic resonance imaging apparatus. The control circuitry determines a state of feeding from the first power supply and the second power supplies to the magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, and performs control of power consumption in the magnetic resonance imaging apparatus based on a determination result of the state of feeding.

Abstract: A positron emission tomography (PET) apparatus according to an embodiment includes a PET detector and processing circuitry. The PET detector includes a detector ring configured with a plurality of detector modules arranged in an annular shape. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire information regarding a scan mode of a PET scan for a subject. The processing circuitry is configured to control a relative position of the detector modules in an axial direction of the detector ring based on the information.

Abstract: A radiation detector according to an embodiment includes a scintillator array, a sensor array, electronic circuitry, a switch, and control circuitry. The scintillator array includes a plurality of scintillator pixels each configured to convert radiation into light. The sensor array includes a plurality of detection elements each configured to detect the light. The electronic circuitry is configured to output digital data on the basis of signals output from the detection elements. The switch is provided between the sensor array and the electronic circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to control the switch on the basis of a positional relation between the sensor array and the scintillator array.

Abstract: An image data processing apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to: receive first medical image data; obtain a first image feature data set from the first medical image data; obtain a second image feature data set from second medical image data and/or from stored image feature data; obtain style data; and generate synthesized image data based on the first image feature data set, the second image feature data set, and the style data.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a MRI apparatus determines a first time during which a subsidiary power supply is capable of supplying power to a cooling device based on a capacity of the subsidiary power supply when power outage of a main power supply occurs, and determines a second time needed to demagnetize a superconducting magnet based on an excitation current of the superconducting magnet and a temperature of the superconducting magnet. The MRI apparatus determines starts ramp-down of the superconducting magnet after a third time based on the first time and the second time has elapsed from initiation of power outage of the main power supply.

Abstract: A controller for a print head of an inkjet printing device is described that is configured to generate a virtual timing signal during a printing pause of the printing device, and to use the virtual timing signal for the generation of pre-ejection pulses in order to produce a reliable regeneration of the nozzles of the print head during the printing pause.

Abstract: An injection molding system includes an injection molding apparatus that performs injection molding, a first conveyor apparatus on one side of the injection molding apparatus to eject and insert a first mold through a first opening of the injection molding apparatus, and a second conveyor apparatus located on a second side of the injection molding apparatus to eject and insert a second mold through a second opening of the injection molding apparatus, where the improvement of the injection molding apparatus includes a first door to cover the first opening, a second door to cover the second opening, and a controller that prohibits injection molding with the first mold in a case where the second door is opened.

Abstract: An arrangement for supplying ink to a print bar with small pressure fluctuations may include an ink reservoir and a damping vessel. The print bar may include at least two print heads and is connected with the ink reservoir via a supply line. Each of the print heads is connected with the damping vessel via at least one damping line. The damping vessel is connected with a discharge line. The end of the damping line ends at a first height in the damping vessel. The end of the discharge line ends at a second height above the first height in the damping vessel. The arrangement may supply ink to the print bar with small gas fraction in the ink.

Abstract: A medical treatment support apparatus according to one embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry sets at least one reference object to be compared with a patient. The processing circuitry acquires a first index corresponding to an index expressing an influence of each of a plurality of candidate treatments for a disease on the patient, and a second index corresponding to an index expressing an influence of each of the candidate treatments on the reference object. The processing circuitry derives a relative index of the first index of each of the candidate treatments with respect to the second index. The processing circuitry presents the relative index of each of the candidate treatments.

Abstract: A medical treatment support apparatus according to one embodiment includes processing circuitry. About a treatment plan for a disease of a patient, the processing circuitry predicts a decision of subjects who are the patient or people who are involved with the patient and a decision of a doctor who determines the treatment plan for the subject. The processing circuitry presents information based on a result of the prediction to the doctor and at least one of the subjects.

Abstract: An apparatus that displays a display image based on data about an input image comprises a liquid crystal panel, a backlight including a plurality of light source units corresponding to a plurality of divided regions of the liquid crystal panel; and a controller configured to control each of the plurality of light source units, wherein the controller changes, based on a feature amount related to a luminance in a first region of the input image, a light emission luminance of a light source unit, among the plurality of light source units, corresponding to a second region different from the first region of the input image.

Abstract: An accessory mountable on and demountable from a camera body includes a first mount unit including a plurality of first bayonet claw portions, a second mount unit including a plurality of second bayonet claw portions configured to be engaged with the plurality of first bayonet claw portions, an elastic member configured to contact the camera body when the accessory is mounted on the camera body, and a holding member configured to hold the elastic member. The holding member is provided with a recessed portion which a part of the elastic member can enter when the accessory is mounted on the camera body.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus in an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: an obtaining unit configured to obtain viewpoint information indicating a change over time in a viewpoint corresponding to a virtual image; and a generation unit configured to generate the virtual image from the viewpoint according to the viewpoint information obtained by the obtaining unit such that among a plurality of objects included in the generated virtual image, an object whose position in the virtual image changes by a first amount according to the change of the viewpoint indicated by the viewpoint information is lower in clearness than an object whose position in the virtual image changes by a second amount smaller than the first amount according to the change of the viewpoint.

Abstract: Provided are an output unit configured to output an image or distribution information of evaluation values corresponding to a plurality of regions of the image, an operation unit configured to accept a first action and a second action different from the first action; and a control unit configured to execute, when the output unit outputs a first image, output control such that the output unit outputs a second image if the operation unit accepts the first action, and that the output unit outputs distribution information of the evaluation values corresponding to the first image if the operation unit accepts the second action.

Abstract: Methods and systems that include the generation of a map of modulation values for a spatial light modulator. In which a map representative of a desired curing region is received. Receiving, for each pixel of a spatial light modulator, spatial information representative of an intensity distribution of actinic radiation at a plane of formable material under a template that is guided from the spatial light modulator to the plane of the formable material for curing the formable material under the template. Receiving a dose threshold for the formable material. Generating a map of modulation values for each pixel in the spatial light modulator based on: the dose threshold; the spatial information for all of the pixels; and the map representative of the desired curing region.

Abstract: An imaging device includes: an imaging element configured to capture an image using a luminous flux passing through an imaging optical system; a blur corrector configured to move a part of the imaging optical system or the imaging element; a movement detection unit configured to detect the motion of a main subject; and an imaging control unit configured to perform control so that multiple imaging is performed on the main subject under different imaging conditions to obtain a plurality of images to be combined. The imaging control unit causes the blur corrector to be driven so that the motion of the main subject detected by the movement detection unit is reduced in the multiple imaging.

Abstract: To make it possible for a user to easily modify the recognition state of a document by document recognition processing at the time of multi-cropping processing. A preview screen is displayed on a user interface, which displays the results of the document recognition processing for a scanned image obtained by scanning a plurality of documents en bloc on the scanned image in an overlapping manner. Then, a button for dividing the detected document area is displayed on the preview screen so that it is made possible for a user to easily perform division.

Abstract: A motor control apparatus includes: an excitation unit configured to excite a plurality of excitation phases of a motor; a measurement unit configured to measure a physical amount that changes according to an inductance of a plurality of coils that make up the plurality of excitation phases when the plurality of excitation phases are excited; and a control unit configured to control the excitation unit to excite the plurality of excitation phases sequentially, determine a first excitation phase by comparing a measurement value measured by the measurement unit in excitation of each of the plurality of excitation phases with a first threshold, and determine that a rotational position of a rotor of the motor is a rotational position at which the rotor stops when the first excitation phase is excited. The first excitation phase is determined, the control unit stops excitation.

Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus includes a semiconductor layer having first and second faces, a semiconductor element portion in which semiconductor elements are provided, and openings each penetrating the semiconductor layer from the second face side, an interconnection structure provided on the first face side, and an insulator portion provided to surround at least one of the openings within a virtual plane along the second face and extend to a depth between T/2 and T from the first face, where T is the thickness of the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer includes a semiconductor region of one conductivity type provided on the opposite side to the one opening to the insulator portion within the virtual plane, and a semiconductor region of another conductivity type provided in the semiconductor layer from the insulator portion face on the second face side to the second face in a direction perpendicular to the second face.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an image capture device comprising, an image capture unit, an image-capture control unit for controlling pan, tilt, and zoom (PTZ) when an image is captured, a storage unit for storing a set value of the PTZ for capturing an image of a predetermined region in an image-capture area of the image capture unit, and region information that specifies a detection region for detecting an object in a captured image, an reception unit for receiving a deletion instruction to delete the set value from an information processing device, and a processing unit for deleting the set value from the storage unit if the set value for which the deletion instruction has been received is not associated with the region information.

Abstract: The present invention provides a substrate processing apparatus that processes a substrate, the apparatus including a stage configured to hold and move the substrate, a conveying unit configured to hold and convey the substrate between conveying unit and the stage, an accumulation unit configured to accumulate control information concerning the stage and the conveying unit which is generated by processing the substrate, and a determination unit configured to determine a conveying procedure when conveying the substrate between the stage and the conveying unit by selecting one of a plurality of conveying procedures which can be set for the stage and the conveying unit based on control information accumulated in the accumulation unit.

Abstract: A sheet cooling device includes a main assembly, a cooling unit, drawable out of the main assembly with respect to a drawing direction and a restricting member. The restricting member is positionable in a first position where the cooling unit is restricted from drawing out of the main assembly and in a second position lower than the first position where said restricting member opposes to an installation surface on which the sheet cooling device is installed.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a communication unit, an operation unit, and an imaging unit to capture an image as imaging data, and a recording unit. Where connection is established with an external apparatus, identification information about the external apparatus is recorded. Where the image is captured in a state where the identification information about the external apparatus is recorded, the recording unit records, as a transmission target, the imaging data captured by the imaging unit. Where an operation to transition from a first state to a second state having power consumption lower than that of the first state is accepted, the imaging data transmission target is transmitted to a first external apparatus connected most recent by the communication unit. Where connection is established with a second external apparatus based on an accepted user operation, the imaging data recorded as the transmission target is managed as a non-transmission target.

Abstract: When a communication unit receives an end power transfer (EPT) packet including information about a power transmission stop period from a power reception apparatus, a power transmission apparatus controls a power transmission coil to transmit a checking signal for checking existence of the power reception apparatus during the power transmission stop period, detects at least one of a voltage or a current applied to the power transmission coil when the checking signal is transmitted, and determines whether the power reception apparatus that has transmitted the EPT packet exists, based on the detection result.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus obtains constraint information representing constraints in placing a plurality of image capturing apparatuses that capture images for generating a virtual viewpoint image, obtains placement information based on the obtained constraint information and relating to placement of the plurality of image capturing apparatuses, and outputs the obtained placement information of the plurality of image capturing apparatuses.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a setting unit configured to set a movement parameter indicating a relationship between a movement amount in a real space of an input apparatus used for moving a virtual viewpoint corresponding to a virtual viewpoint image, and a movement amount of a virtual viewpoint in a virtual space, based on a user operation, and a movement control unit configured to move, in accordance with a movement of the input apparatus, the virtual viewpoint by a movement amount in the virtual space that is determined based on the movement parameter set by the setting unit and a movement amount in the real space of the input apparatus.

Abstract: A photon counting X-ray CT apparatus according to an embodiment includes: data acquiring circuitry, and processing circuitry. The data acquiring circuitry is configured to allocate energy measured by signals output from a photon counting detector in response to incidence of X-ray photons to any of a plurality of first energy bins so as to acquire a first data group as count data of each of the first energy bins. The processing circuitry is configured to determine a plurality of second energy bins obtained by grouping the first energy bins in accordance with a decomposition target material that is a material to be decomposed in a imaging region, allocate the first data group to any of the second energy bins so as to generate a second data group, and use the second data group to generate an image representing a distribution of the decomposition target material.

Abstract: A power supply apparatus includes a power supply unit configured to wirelessly supply power to an electronic apparatus, a communication unit configured to communicate with the electronic apparatus, and a control unit configured to perform control whether to supply power to the electronic apparatus according to whether the electronic apparatus is capable of updating information about the electronic apparatus.

Abstract: An X-ray CT system includes an X-ray tube, an X-ray detector and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to cyclically change energy of the X-rays during one rotation of the X-ray tube around a subject. The processing circuitry is configured to perform a process including a correcting process addressing a difference in a transmission amount between X-rays having first energy and X-rays having second energy, on at least one selected from between: a plurality of first projection data sets acquired when the X-rays having the first energy were radiated; and a plurality of second projection data sets acquired when the X-rays having the second energy were radiated. The processing circuitry is configured to reconstruct an image on the basis of a combined data set generated on the basis of a plurality of projection data sets including the projection data sets resulting from the process.

Abstract: In Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) over Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPAN), a distribution criterion for a prefix using a 6LoWPAN Context Option (6CO) can be set. The distribution criterion for the prefix using 6CO is set, and one of the prefix using the 6CO and a prefix using a Prefix Information Option (PIO) is distributed to another communication device based on the set distribution criterion.

Abstract: The image processing apparatus includes: a shape generation unit configured to generate data indicating a schematic shape of an object; a shape decomposition unit configured to decompose the data indicating the schematic shape of the object into a plurality of pieces of partial data in accordance with a shape of a cross section of the schematic shape of the object; and a shape fitting unit configured to fit a corresponding basic shape for each piece of the partial data, and generates three-dimensional shape data on the object based on the fitted basic shape.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes an attachment portion not having a storage unit for storing a recording material used for print processing performed by the recording apparatus, and a second control unit configured to operate the recording apparatus in a second print mode in a case where the attachment portion is in a second attachment state in which a second attachment member for protecting a connection terminal is attached to the attachment portion.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a first roller pair forming a first nip portion, a second roller pair forming second nip portions, an image information reading unit, and a sheet detecting unit. The second roller pair includes a recessed portion formed between the second nip portions of the second roller pair with respect to a rotational axis direction. The sheet detecting unit is provided so that at least a part thereof enters the recessed portion. The first roller pair forms the first nip portion so as to nip a sheet in a region overlapping with the recessed portion with respect to the rotational axis direction and to deliver the sheet, nipped in the first nip portion, to the second nip portions.

Abstract: An X-ray diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes an X-ray tube, an X-ray detector, and processing circuitry. The X-ray tube exposes X-rays. The X-ray detector detects the X-rays exposed from the X-ray tube. The processing circuitry generates an X-ray image on the basis of a first detection result that is a detection result of the X-rays exposed for an irradiation period. The processing circuitry corrects the X-ray image on the basis of a second detection result that is a detection result of the X-rays until a point before the end of the irradiation period.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a thermal head, a paper feed unit, a paper detection unit, an ink ribbon take-up unit, an detection unit, and a control unit. The thermal head transfers ink applied to an ink ribbon onto paper. The paper feed unit feeds paper stacked on a paper stacking unit and conveys the paper. The paper detection unit detects the fed paper. The ink ribbon takes-up unit take up the ink ribbon. The detection unit detects a printing start position of the ink ribbon. The control unit controls feeding of the stacked paper from the paper stacking unit, suspend the conveyance of the paper upon detection of the fed paper, take up the ink ribbon with the ink ribbon take-up unit, stop the ink ribbon take-up upon detection of the printing start position of the ink ribbon, and restart the conveyance of the paper with the paper feed unit.

Abstract: An observation optical system for use in observing an image displayed on an image displaying surface, includes, in order from an observation surface side to the image displaying surface side: a first lens having a first transmission reflective surface and a first transmissive surface; and a second lens having a second transmission reflective surface and a second transmissive surface, in which the first lens and the second lens are arranged via an interval interposed therebetween; light from the image displaying surface transmits through the second lens, is reflected by the first transmission reflective surface, is reflected by the second transmission reflective surface, is transmitted through the first lens, and then travels toward the observation surface side; and a focal length of the first lens and a focal length of the observation optical system are appropriately set.

Abstract: Show-through is suitably removed while an image, such as a tag or highlighter, on a first surface is prevented from being removed. A luminance value of a pixel of a target region is increased based on a first correction amount in a case where the pixel is not a pixel of a halftone dot region and a value specified based on a saturation of the pixel of the target region is less than a predetermined value, or a luminance value of the pixel is increased based on a second correction amount less than the first correction amount in a case where the pixel is not a pixel of the halftone dot region and the value specified based on the saturation of the pixel of the target region is greater than or equal to the predetermined value.

Abstract: Provided is a light source device including a plurality of light emitting points arranged in matrix within a first cross section parallel to a first direction and a second direction. When light emitting points are projected within a second cross section parallel to first direction and a third direction perpendicular to first cross section, light emitting points have equal intervals between projections adjacent to each other. When light emitting points are projected within a third cross section parallel to second and third directions, light emitting points have equal intervals between projections adjacent to each other. An interval between light emitting points adjacent to each other in a row of matrix, an interval between light emitting points adjacent to each other in a column of matrix, an angle between row and column, an angle between column and first direction, and an angle between row and second direction are appropriately set.

Abstract: A pattern forming method using a photo-nanoimprint process on each of a plurality of shot areas: a step (1) of laying a layer of a curable composition (A1); a step (2) of dispensing liquid droplets of a curable composition (A2) dropwise discretely onto the layer of (A1); a step (3) of sandwiching a layer obtained by partially mixing (A1) and (A2), between a mold and the substrate; a step (4) of irradiating the layer with light to cure the layer; and a step (5) of releasing the mold from the layer of (A1) and (A2), in which when steps from the step (3) to the step (5) are collectively called an imprinting step [Im], in a time period from an end of the step (2) to a beginning of the step [Im] in one shot, the step (2) or the step [Im] is performed on another shot area.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a first output unit configured to detect a light beam deflected by a rotary polygon mirror rotated by a drive unit to output a first signal, a second output unit configured to output a second signal to be used as a reference, and a first controller configured to perform the phase control based on the first signal and the second signal. The phase control is performed in accordance with a condition set based on a rotation speed of the drive unit corresponding to an image forming speed by outputting a drive signal having a predetermined pulse width to the drive unit to accelerate or decelerate the drive unit so that the first signal and a position signal, based on the second signal, substantially match. The condition being a pulse width of the drive signal and/or a frequency of performing the phase control.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical image processing apparatus of an embodiment includes an acquirer, a reliability setter and a learner. The acquirer acquires training data created by a creator on the basis of a medical image. The reliability setter sets, to the training data acquired by the acquirer, reliability information based on a creation situation of the training data or information about the creator who created the training data. The learner generates a learned model using the training data according to weighting based on the reliability information set by the reliability setter.

Abstract: To provide a process cartridge, a drum unit capable of receiving a driving force from the main assembly, and an image forming apparatus including the process cartridge. A cartridge is provided with a movable member having a driving force receiving portion. The movable member moves between an advanced position and a retracted position.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an electric board extending to a first direction and a second direction, a board accommodating portion cover the electric board, a recording medium accommodating portion to cover a recording medium and a connecting portion. The recording medium accommodating portion is arranged side by side with the board accommodating portion in the first direction. The connecting portion is arranged to overlap with the board accommodating portion and the recording medium accommodating portion as seen in a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions, and connects the board accommodating portion and the recording medium accommodating portion. The board accommodating portion and the recording medium accommodating portion are directly fixed to the connecting portion, respectively.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus, includes: an image forming portion configured to form a toner image on a recording material according to image information on a predetermined image; a fixing portion configured to fix the toner image on the recording material by heating the recording material having thereon the toner image while conveying the recording material by a nip portion; an acquisition portion configured to acquire an image end position that is a position of one end of the toner image in a main scanning direction perpendicular to a conveying direction of the recording material; a determination portion configured to determine a target temperature based on the image end position; and a control portion configured to control the fixing portion based on the target temperature.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes an operation member configured to receive user operation to specify at least a part of a brightness range of a first image using a percentage; a combining unit configured to generate a second image by combining a pattern image with a region of the first image, the region corresponding to the part of the brightness range specified by the user operation; and an output unit configured to output the second image to a display unit.

Abstract: A medical image diagnostic system according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry configured to acquire first information related to an exposure dose of a subject by a radioactive agent administered to the subject, and display reference information for determining imaging conditions of X-ray CT imaging to be performed with respect to the subject on a display, based on the first information and second information related to a reference dose.