369 results about "Design support" patented technology

A solid-state image sensing element has a photoelectric conversion element which converts incoming light into an electrical signal in accordance with an amount of the light, a microlens which is arranged on an incident surface, a light guide which is arranged between the photoelectric conversion element and the microlens, and an insulating interlayer which is arranged around the light guide. The solid-state image sensing element located at a distance (H) satisfies: $\frac{H·D}{L·P}<a·\frac{N_H}{N_L}\mathrm{for}0<a<1$

where L is the distance from an exit pupil of an image sensing optical system of an image sensing device, which mounts an image sensor formed by two-dimensionally arranging a plurality of the solid-state image sensing elements, H is the distance from a center of the image sensor to a position of the solid-state image sensing element on the image sensor, D is the height from the photoelectric conversion element to an apex of the microlens, P is the spacing between the plurality of solid-state image sensing elements, N_H is the refractive index of the light guide, and N_L is the refractive index of the insulating interlayer.

The present invention relates to a three-dimensional (3D) model display device and a 3D model display system in which even a beginner can easily edit a 3D model, and edit and watch a moving image using a 3D model while maintaining harmony of a model, a texture, and a motion. When a user clicks a selection button 508b of “trying-on”, performed is a preview display about how an avatar possessed by the user is displayed when the avatar wears a cloth, a hairstyle, an item, and an accessory desired to be tried on. A head size, a body portion size, and a bust portion size of the avatar possessed by the user are managed in a user management table. Display data related to the preview display displayed on the display screen 114 of the 3D model display device is dynamically generated by a 3D model display server based on the head size, the body portion size, and the bust portion size.

A security system design supporting tool and method are disclosed, in which security requirements (PP) and security specifications (ST) used for designing a product or a system (TOE) based on CC requirements can be prepared efficiently and uniformly even by ordinary designers other than specialists. In a security system design supporting method, registered PPs and past PP/ST generation cases are so structured as to reuse and/or reference as templates, a draft is automatically generated, and the draft thus generated is additionally modified or corrected by partial automatic generation utilizing a database of past generation cases and partial case accumulated in the generation process thereof.

Various endeffector designs are disclosed for handling semiconductor wafers. For instance, an endeffector for handling wafers at a relatively low temperature is disclosed along with an endeffector for handling wafers at a relatively high temperature. Both endeffectors include uniquely designed support members that are configured to only contact a wafer at the wafer's edge. The endeffectors may also include a wafer detection system. The endeffector for handling wafers at relatively low temperatures may also include a pushing device that is used not only to position a wafer but to hold a wafer on the endeffector during acceleration or deceleration of the endeffector caused by a robot arm attached to the endeffector. As designed, the endeffectors may have a very slim profile making the endeffectors easily maneuverable.

A composite micro-lens for use in an optical or magneto-optical information storage system, made up of one or more lens elements which, when coupled in assembly, provide a desired numerical aperture. The design may provide, if necessary, a photo resist lens, a shaped ball lens, or one or more contoured surfaces within the composite construction to correct for aberrations. The composite lens designed in this manner allowing for the use of wafer-level assembly processes to provide high volume production capabilities. It is further intended that this micro-lens design support integration in an optical or magneto-optical head design.

Systems and methods for automated systolic array design from a high-level program are disclosed. One implementation of a systolic array design supporting a convolutional neural network includes a two-dimensional array of reconfigurable processing elements arranged in rows and columns. Each processing element has an associated SIMD vector and is connected through a local connection to at least one other processing element. An input feature map buffer having a double buffer is configured to store input feature maps, and an interconnect system is configured to pass data to neighboring processing elements in accordance with a processing element scheduler. A CNN computation is mapped onto the two-dimensional array of reconfigurable processing elements using an automated system configured to determine suitable reconfigurable processing element parameters.

There is disclosed a semiconductor integrated circuit comprising a logic BIST circuit which includes a test pattern generator and test result compressor and which performs a built-in self test (logic BIST) of a logic circuit, a pattern counter which counts test patterns during the logic BIST, an expected value comparison circuit which compares a compressed value output of the test result compressor with an expected value input from an external tester for each test pattern and which outputs a failure flag at a mismatch detection time, an external terminal which outputs the failure flag from the LSI, and an external terminal which outputs from the LSI a pattern count signal at a time when the pattern counter receives the failure flag.

A furniture design support system comprises a computer system. The computer system comprises an HD unit, which stores a furniture design support program and data representing the basic forms of units and parts. An operator defines a size, a finishing color, a material (the kind of wood), etc. with respect to the unit to be used for furniture to be designed on the basis of the desires of a customer, and also defines a finishing color, a material, etc. with respect to the part (a drawer, a door leaf, etc.) (step 33). Completed furniture is displayed on a display screen by assembling the unit and the part on the display screen. An HD stores design data related to the completed furniture (step 34). The appearance of the completed furniture is displayed on the display screen on the basis of the design data, and a design drawing is outputted from a printer (step 35).

A nonvolatile memory element which can be initialized at low voltage includes a variable resistance layer (116) located between a lower electrode (105) and an upper electrode (107) and having a resistance value that reversibly changes based on electrical signals applied between these electrodes. The variable resistance layer (116) includes at least two layers: a first variable resistance layer (1161) including a first transition metal oxide (116b); and a second variable resistance layer (1162) including a second transition metal oxide (116a) and a third transition metal oxide (116c). The second transition metal oxide (116a) has an oxygen deficiency higher than either oxygen deficiency of the first transition metal oxide (116b) or the third transition metal oxide (116c), and the second transition metal oxide (116a) and the third transition metal oxide (116c) are in contact with the first variable resistance layer (1161).

In designing integrated circuits such as FPGAs, a design support environment including the quality of design data is improved and the design efficiency is improved. An integrated-circuit design support apparatus that supports designing of an integrated circuit having a plurality of pins is provided. The apparatus includes a processor (a central processing unit) that forms a pin layout matrix (a matrix sheet) by unifying pin layout information of the integrated circuit using a common format and arranging the pin layout information in coordinates. The processor creates an integrated-circuit design library from the pin layout matri

A design support device supports a design project achieved by executing a plurality of tasks including subtasks. The design history data of the design performed by a designer is sequentially stored and associated with a task to sequentially generate task-design history relevant data. A subtask is defined with respect to the task-design history relevant data to sequentially generate design process data. Subtask relevant data indicating a relevance between subtasks with respect to the plurality of pieces of design process data is generated, and a subtask to be performed in a later design work is estimated with respect to an in-process design work from a difference between past design process data of a project performed in the past and in-process data in a project performed currently to obtain an estimate subtask. An optimal execution order is calculated to obtain estimate design process data and the estimate design process data is output.

A design support apparatus of the present invention includes the following: an antenna electromagnetic field distribution input portion that inputs data indicating an antenna electromagnetic field distribution in the vicinity of electronic equipment; a board near electromagnetic field distribution input portion that inputs data indicating a board near electromagnetic field distribution as unwanted radiation noise radiated from a board of the electronic equipment; and a correlation value generator that generates a distribution of correlation values showing a correlation between the antenna electromagnetic field and the board near electromagnetic field based on the antenna electromagnetic field distribution data and the board near electromagnetic field distribution data.

A circuit board device suppress with a small number of terminal elements unwanted irradiation originating between a power supply layer and a ground layer, even when a configuration of the power supply layer and the ground layer on the circuit board is complex, and a design support device thereof. The circuit board device has a power supply layer and a ground layer disposed in opposition to one another. A dielectric is disposed between the power supply layer and the ground layer. A power supply surface is divided into two power supply surfaces and by a slit having a generally T-shaped configuration to form power supply surface edges. The power supply surface edges retain across a predetermined length L a characteristic impedance present between the power supply layer and the ground layer. A terminal load is connected to a terminal portion of the power supply surface edges.

To easily transform three-dimensional data of a wire harness into a two-dimensional drawing. Wire harness data of a wire harness to be routed in a desired object is inputted to a computer. The wire harness data includes coordinate information which is three-dimensionally designed in a state adapted to the object of routing. A development plane for two-dimensionally developing the wire harness data is set. The wire harness data is divided into a plurality of segments S1 to S5 at predetermined division points, and is sequentially developed to the development plane on the segment unit basis from a start point P1 of a reference trunk line 17 via a branch line 18 to a termination point, thereby two-dimensionally developing the wire harness data on the segment unit basis so that all of the segments S1 to S5 are included in the development plane.

A hands-free breast pump system is disclosed. A breast shield having an adhesive inner surface for adhering to a woman's breast is disclosed. An adapter is connected to the breast shield for transferring a vacuum generated by a pump to the breast. The adapter also allows milk expressed from the breast to drain from the adapter to a container. The breast shield adheres to the breast and supports the weight of the adapter and collector bottle without separate adhesives, gels, straps, or specially designed support bras. The adhesive breast shield allows for hand-free expression of milk.

The invention discloses a portable mobile 3D printer. The portable mobile 3D printer comprises a material storage device, a shell, a transmission device, a discharging device, a printing bench, a control box, a control device and a power supply, and the transmission device has a three-axis coordinated transmission structure, and comprises an X-axis transmission mechanism, a Y-axis transmission mechanism and a Z-axis transmission mechanism, wherein the X-axis transmission mechanism and the Y-axis transmission mechanism adopt synchronous belt transmission, and the Z-axis transmission mechanism adopts ball screw transmission. The assemblies of the portable mobile small 3D printer have ingeniously designed support structures, so the printer has an extreme compact structure, and the portable mobile design is realized when applicable to ensure the printing dimension; and the portable mobile 3D printer also has the greatly effective door lock mechanism with a simple structure, and has a humanized electricity quantity display design, so the user experience satisfaction is greatly improved, and the printer has very strong market promotion.

A nonvolatile memory element includes a variable resistance layer located between a lower electrode and an upper electrode and having a resistance value that reversibly changes based on electrical signals applied between these electrodes. The variable resistance layer includes at least two layers: a first variable resistance layer including a first transition metal oxide; and a second variable resistance layer including a second transition metal oxide and a transition metal compound. The second transition metal oxide has an oxygen content atomic percentage lower than an oxygen content atomic percentage of the first transition metal oxide, the transition metal compound contains either oxygen and nitrogen or oxygen and fluorine, and the second transition metal oxide and the transition metal compound are in contact with the first variable resistance layer.

An asynchronous, peer-to-peer design is provided for synchronizing data on machines within a cluster using messaging. The data may be represented in memory as a document object model in secondary storage. Messaging may be handled by a messaging system with topic destinations. The design supports persistence management, locking, and transactions with rollback, and maintains a uniform state for the data across all nodes and secondary storage at all times. Furthermore, barring catastrophic failure of all machines in the cluster and secondary storage, there is no possibility of losing committed data.

The invention relates to a turbine blade disc structure service life reliability design method. An initial scheme for a turbine blade disc structure is determined according to a traditional strength and service life analysis method, a geometrical shape of the structure is determined and weight of the structure is calculated; determinacy load of the structure is acquired and detailed 3D stress/strain analysis is conducted; a determinacy design criteria is designated to be an optimized constraint condition, and the design is returned to design support when the result does not meet the criteria demand; influence of the turbine blade disc structure is analyzed and the turbine blade disc is partitioned; structure reliability under each failure mode is calculated and a service life reliability analysis result is evaluated with the combination of the service life probability criteria; the design support is required when the structure reliability result does not meet the criteria demand; combined risk evaluation is conducted to a risk level of each failure mode and overall failure probability of the turbine blade disc structure is calculated; each technical index is determined whether to meet demands; and design support is required when the demands are not met or modifications are conducted to the size or the material.

The present invention relates to a technique suitable for the enhancement of efficiency of wavelength allocation in an optical network. A transmission capability for each of a plurality of wavelengths available in the optical network is calculated to allocate, to a recommendation optical transmission path in the optical network for a traffic demand from the external, a wavelength having a transmission capability corresponding to a total optics transmission distance of the recommendation optical transmission path on the basis of a result of the calculation. This enables considerably reducing the number of optical repeaters to be disposed, each of which has an electrical signal regeneration function in the optical network, thereby reducing the number of devices, dissipation power, installation area and others in the optical network.