Summary Liquid crystalline side-chain polysiloxanes were prepared without metal complex catalyst. Mesogenic groups such as cholesteryl, 4-cyano-4-biphenyl and 4-methoxy-4-biphenyl group were introduced into polysiloxane by esterification and from DSC measurements they were compatible with other liquid crystalline polysiloxanes reported previously. 相似文献
In this paper, we propose a new video conferencing system that presents correct gaze directions of a remote user by switching among images obtained from multiple cameras embedded in a screen according to a local user’s position. Our proposed method reproduces a situation like that in which the remote user is in the same space as the local user. The position of the remote user to be displayed on the screen is determined so that the positional relationship between the users is reproduced. The system selects one of the embedded cameras whose viewing direction towards the remote user is the closest to the local user’s viewing direction to the remote user’s image on the screen. As a result of quantitative evaluation, we confirmed that, in comparison with the case using a single camera, the accuracy of gaze estimation was improved by switching among the cameras according to the position of the local user.
Nitrides of transition metals have good wear- and corrosion-resistant properties because of their high hardness and chemical
stability. Chromium-nitride coatings can be deposited by ion plating; however, the thin thickness due to the slow deposition
rate must be improved for severe wear-resistant applications. The main objective in this paper is to realize good structural
control in the processing of chromiumnitride in situ composite coatings formed at a high deposition rate. They were synthesized
by reactive low-pressure plasma spraying using elemental chromium powder as a spray material. The transferred arc between
the gun electrode and the substrate was used to accelerate the nitriding reaction. The sprayed coatings consist of chromium,
Cr2N, and CrN, which have a composition gradient from the substrate interface to the surface. The volume fraction of Cr2N increases with transferred arc current, and nonreacted chromium concurrently decreases, except close to the substrate. The
CrN phase, however, only exists as a surface layer of 20 to 30 μm because it is decomposed to Cr2N above 1420 K. The hardness of the composite coatings depends on the volume fraction of Cr2N, and it increases to 1300 HV at a Cr2N volume fraction of 0.98. The seizure stress with lubricant depends on the coating hardness. The maximum seizure stress of
24.9 MPa is obtained at a hardness of 1300 HV. The composite coatings also show a superior wear resistance. Hence, the Cr2N in situ composite coatings synthesized by reactive plasma spraying with transferred arc are expected to be good candidates
for wear-resistant applications. 相似文献
The surface nitridation of titanium was carried out at a low pressure in nitrogen atmosphere using a gas tunnel type plasma
jet. The titanium nitride (TiN) film, 10 μm thick and 2000 HV, could be formed in 10 s. The structure of the TiN film was
investigated by XRD. The Vickers hardness on the surface of the film was measured. The effects of deposition conditions on
the properties of TiN films (TiN thickness,Vickers hardness, etc.) were investigated, and the advantage of this deposition
method was identified from those results. 相似文献
This article shows the quantitative evaluation of the residual grit on a blasted substrate, and the removability of the residual
grit is examined. Carbon steel plates were blasted by white alumina grit with mean diameters of 338 to 1106 μm. The velocity
and the number of grit particles were measured during blasting. The residual grit was removed from a substrate surface by
the dissolution of the blasted substrate surface. A mixed acid solution was used as the dissolution solution. The residual
grit weight was 7 to 17 g/m2. The amount of the residual grit and the penetration depth of the embedded grit increased with increasing grit size. The
penetration depth was 5 to 9% of the mean diameter of the grit. The residual grit weight and the penetration depth increased
with the increase of the momentum of the grit particle.
This article was originally published inBuilding on 100 Years of Success, Proceedings of the 2006 International Thermal Spray Conference (Seattle, WA), May 15–18, 2006, B.R. Marple, M.M. Hyland, Y.-Ch. Lau, R.S. Lima, and J. Voyer, Ed., ASM International, Materials
Park, OH, 2006. 相似文献
We attempted to predict activity/dominance for soccer games, where activity is defined as the degree of activity of the game as perceived by the viewer, whereas dominance is the degree at which the viewer perceives a particular team to dominate over the other team. Such activity/dominance information would help a layman viewer understand the game. It would also enable construction of an automatic digest creation system that extracts scenes having high activity/dominance. There are two facets of this study: 1. The main part of the underlying prediction model consists of a Stick-Breaking Hidden Markov Model, where the data automatically estimates the number of states of the Markov process behind the data. 2. The data used in this paper is vector time-series data consisting of player, referee, and ball positions, together with team information, acquired by a set of fixed cameras. The problem was approached with a Bayesian framework where learning and prediction were implemented by three different methods: Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Expectation Maximization, and Variational Bayes. The proposed method was tested using a dataset consisting of 10 professional soccer games and was compared against standard regression methods. 相似文献
This paper describes a method of finding the proper points for dividing a corpus with time series information to extract local and frequent keywords. Previous works have proposed the corpus separating method for extracting keywords from a corpus. However, this method divides a corpus at equal intervals so that it cannot consider the topic changes. The present paper utilizes the idea of the topic model and the topic extracted through latent Dirichlet allocation to consider the topic change. This paper identifies the points at which large topic changes occur to divide the corpus using structural change detection method. An experiment involving newspaper articles with 5-year topics confirm that the points at which the topics of each document change are detected to find the division points based on the idea of structural change point detection and our method is better than previous methods based on recall measure. 相似文献