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20110143950 | Diagnosis/Treatment Option for Head-and-Neck Tumor Using Micro-RNA as Biomarker - Disclosed are: a method for using a particular microRNA as a biomarker for head-and-neck tumor; a method for the determination of head-and-neck tumor; a kit for the determination of head-and-neck tumor, and the like. The present invention is characterized in that at least one microRNA selected from the group of microRNAs consisting of miR-455-3p, miR-455-5p, miR-130b, miR-130b*, miR-801, miR-196a, miR-21, miR-31, miR-133b, miR-145 and miR-375 is used as a biomarker for head-and-neck tumor. | 06-16-2011 |
20110166041 | Diagnosis/Therapeutic Strategy For Gynecological Cancer by Utilizing Micro-RNA as Biomarker - Disclosed are: a method for using a particular microRNA as a biomarker for gynecological cancer; a method for the determination of gynecological cancer; a kit for the determination of gynecological cancer, and the like. The present invention is characterized in that at least one microRNA selected from the group of microRNAs consisting of miR-592, miR-629*, miR-517a, miR-205, miR-184, miR-509-5p, miR-135a*, miR-137, miR-602, miR-186*, miR-181a-2*, miR-193b*, miR-377*, miR-449b, miR-449a, miR-369-3p, miR-323-3p, miR-329, miR-299-5p, miR-34b, miR-411, miR-34c-5p, miR-376b, miR-885-5p, miR-337-3p, miR-337-5p, miR-127-3p, miR-138, miR-203, miR-488, miR-489, miR-643, miR-888, miR-424, miR-432, miR-433, miR-450a, miR-503, miR-542-3p, miR-542-5p and miR-584 is used as a biomarker for gynecological cancer. | 07-07-2011 |
20120088816 | Head-And-Neck Tumor Proliferation Inhibitor - It is to provide a novel head-and-neck tumor proliferation inhibitor, head-and-neck tumor metastasis inhibitor and pharmaceutical composition for treating a head-and-neck tumor. The present invention is characterized by using an inhibitory substance of a microRNA whose expression increases in a head-and-neck tumor and/or a promoting substance of a microRNA whose expression decreases in a head-and-neck tumor. Preferred examples of the microRNA whose expression increases in a head-and-neck tumor include miR-455-3p, miR-455-5p, miR-130b, miR-130b*, miR-801, miR-196a, miR-21 and miR-31. Preferred examples of the microRNA whose expression decreases in a head-and-neck tumor include miR-133b, miR-145 and miR-375. | 04-12-2012 |
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20100246915 | PATIENT REGISTRATION SYSTEM - There is provided a patient registration system according to the present invention, including: a CT data capturing device; an X-ray television imaging device; and an image processing device for generating a two-dimensional DRR image based on the captured CT data, and then calculating an amount of displacement between a first diseased site position when the CT data is captured and a second diseased site position when the X-ray television image is captured. The image processing device carries out processes of: three-dimensional analysis for extracting an amount of three-dimensional characteristic from the three-dimensional CT data; two-dimensional analysis for extracting an amount of two-dimensional characteristic from both of the DRR image and the X-ray television image; characteristic evaluation for evaluating the extracted characteristic amounts; area limitation for selecting an area where the evaluated characteristic amounts are present; and displacement estimation for estimating an amount of displacement between the first diseased site position and the second diseased site position within the selected area, whereby achieving quick and accurate registration of patient. | 09-30-2010 |
20120114208 | IMAGE MATCHING DEVICE AND PATIENT POSITIONING DEVICE USING THE SAME - An image matching device in which, in automatic positioning calculation using an ICP method, a solution is converged to an optimal solution while avoiding reaching a local solution, and a patient positioning device using this matching device. The device includes a CT image data reading unit reading first and second CT image data, a point group data generation unit generating first and second point group data in a three-dimensional space by binarization processing and edge-extraction processing on sliced images of the first and second CT image data, respectively, a point group data resolution conversion unit thinning-out point group data so as to extend a point-group-data array pitch, and an ICP calculation unit obtaining, using an ICP method, a conversion amount for the second point group data so that an error function of the first point group data and the second point group data outputted from the point group data resolution conversion unit is minimized. | 05-10-2012 |
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20100078690 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE - As a method for constituting a pre-metal interlayer insulating film, such method is considered as forming a CVD silicon oxide-based insulating film having good filling properties of a silicon oxide film by ozone TEOS, reflowing the film at high temperatures to planarize it, then stacking a silicon oxide film having good CMP scratch resistance by plasma TEOS, and, further, planarizing it by CMP. However, it was made clear that, in a process for forming a contact hole, crack in the pre-metal interlayer insulating film is exposed in the contact hole, into which barrier metal intrudes to cause short-circuit defects. | 04-01-2010 |
20120061769 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE - For constituting a pre-metal interlayer insulating film, such a method is considered as forming a CVD silicon oxide-based insulating film having good filling properties by ozone TEOS, reflowing the film to planarize it, stacking a silicon oxide film having good CMP scratch resistance by plasma TEOS, and further planarizing by CMP. However, in forming a contact hole, crack in the pre-metal interlayer insulating film is exposed in the contact hole, into which barrier metal intrudes to cause short-circuit defects. In the present invention, in the pre-metal process, after forming the ozone TEOS film over an etch stop film, the ozone TEOS film is once etched back so as to expose the etch stop film over a gate structure, a plasma TEOS film is formed over the remaining ozone TEOS film, and the plasma TEOS film is planarized by CMP. | 03-15-2012 |
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20130338358 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING DI(ARYLAMINO)ARYL COMPOUND AND SYNTHETIC INTERMEDIATE THEREFOR - Provided is a method for producing a di(arylamino)aryl compound that has superior inhibitory activity against the kinase activities of EML4-ALK fusion protein and mutant EGFR protein and is useful as an active ingredient in pharmaceutical compositions for cancer treatment. The production method includes no purification step using silica gel column chromatography or no step possibly producing a mutagenic mesylate ester as a by-product, greatly improves overall yield, and is high yield and low cost and suitable for the industrial production of pharmaceutical products. Also provided is a synthetic intermediate that is useful in the production method. | 12-19-2013 |
20150141641 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING 4,4,7-TRIFLUORO-1,2,3,4-TETRAHYDRO-5H-1-BENZAZEPINE COMPOUND AND INTERMEDIATE USED IN THE METHOD - The present invention provides a method for producing a 4,4,7-trifluoro-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-5H-1-benzazepine compound which has an superior agonistic activity to an arginine vasopressin V2 receptor and is useful as an active ingredient for a pharmaceutical composition for preventing and/or treating urinary frequency, urinary incontinence, enuresis, central diabetes insipidus, nocturia, nocturnal enuresis, or the like; and useful intermediates for use in the methods. The production method of the present invention is suitable for the industrial production of a medicament, because of a smaller number of steps, a higher yield, and a lower cost, as compared with the methods in the related art. | 05-21-2015 |
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20120250352 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: a casing configured by at least one chassis; a display arranged inside the casing; a light guiding plate arranged on a rear face side of the display and has an outer peripheral face at least a part of which is formed as an incident face on which light is incident; a light source unit including a light source arranged to face the incident face of the light guiding plate on a lateral side of the light guiding plate; and a heat dissipating member, to which the light source unit is attached, that dissipates heat generated when the light source is driven. The heat dissipating member or the light source unit is attached to the light guiding plate, and the heat dissipating member and the light source unit can be moved with respect to the chassis in accordance with expansion or shrinkage of the light guiding plate. | 10-04-2012 |
20120250355 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a housing constituted by at least one chassis, a display disposed inside the housing, a light guide plate disposed in the back side face of the display and of which at least one portion of the outer circumference face is formed as an incident face to which light is incident, a light source unit having light sources that are disposed in the sides of the light guide plate so as to face the incident face of the light guide plate and is movable with respect to the chassis in the direction orthogonal to the thickness direction of the light guide plate, a heat dissipating member to which the light source unit is attached dissipating heat generated during driving of the light sources, and a bias unit biasing the light source unit to a direction approaching the incident face of the light guide plate. | 10-04-2012 |
20120318484 | HEAT-DISSIPATION STRUCTURE AND DISPLAY UNIT - A heat-dissipation structure includes: a heat-dissipation member between a high-temperature section and a low-temperature section, wherein the heat-dissipation member includes a cushion section being made of a flexible material, and a heat-transfer section being provided in part or an entire surface of the cushion section, and being in contact with both the high-temperature section and the low-temperature section. | 12-20-2012 |
20130242483 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - There is provided a display apparatus including a display that has a display face on which an image is displayed, a back chassis that is disposed on a side opposite to the display face of the display, and a cover film that is positioned in a state in which the cover film reaches the back chassis from the display face, one end of the cover film being attached to at least a portion of an outer circumferential portion of the display. The display is held by the cover film. | 09-19-2013 |
20130250550 | DISPLAY DEVICE - There is provided a display device including a display in which an image is displayed on a display surface, and a back chassis that is disposed on a surface opposite to the display surface of the display. A display holding portion that holds the display is provided in the back chassis. | 09-26-2013 |
20140043738 | DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a display device, including: a device main body including a display, the display including a display surface, the display surface being configured to display an image; and a stand configured to support the device main body. The stand includes a supported portion, the supported portion being slidably supported on a surface opposite to the display surface of the device main body, and a connection portion, the connection portion being rotatable with respect to the supported portion around a hinge shaft. | 02-13-2014 |
20140062274 | FIXING MEMBER AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A fixing member includes a base part that is attached to a first member by an attachment member, and a deformed part, which is elastically deformable with respect to the base part and has an engagement part that is capable of engaging a second member and a pressable part to which a pressing force is applied by the attachment member. The deformed part is elastically deformed, the engagement part engages the second member and the first member is fixed to the second member due to a pressing force being applied to the pressable part by the attachment member when the base part is attached to the first member by the attachment member. | 03-06-2014 |
20140093330 | ATTACHMENT STRUCTURE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided is an attachment structure including an attachment portion formed by cutting and erecting a processing portion provided as an inner portion of a notch formed on a plate-like base surface portion and bending the processing portion in a predetermined shape. One of an inner portion of the attachment portion on the base surface portion and the attachment portion has a screw groove to which an attachment screw is to be screwed formed therein. | 04-03-2014 |
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20080279282 | Moving Image Converting Apparatus, Moving Image Converting Method, and Computer Program - A moving image converting apparatus includes: a block dividing unit executing block division processing for each of frames that form the moving image data; a motion amount detecting unit detecting a block motion amount corresponding to a motion amount of an object contained in each of blocks obtained; a line-of-sight motion amount detecting unit calculating a line-of-sight motion amount of a viewer who views the moving image data; a sampling point phase change amount determining unit receiving the block motion amount and the line-of-sight motion amount as input, and determining a block-corresponding sampling point phase change amount to be applied to spatial decimation processing on each of the blocks; and a decimation executing unit receiving the blocks obtained as input, executing the spatial decimation processing on the inputted blocks, the spatial decimation processing being executed by applying the block-corresponding sampling point phase change amount determined. | 11-13-2008 |
20090015710 | Method and Apparatus Converting moving Image, Method and Apparatus for Reproducing Moving Image, and Computer Program - A down-sampling operation is performed on moving image data to reduce a sample count of the data to 1/M times the original sample count. In the down-sampling operation, a band-limitation operation is performed on the moving image data using a low-pass filter. The low-pass filter has a stop band frequency that prevents a harmonic component having a K-th order or higher, of harmonic components generated in the down-sampling operation, from overlapping an original signal component. The down-sampling operation is then performed on the band-limited moving image data, thereby compressing the moving image data. Aliasing distortion caused by a harmonic component of a high order is controlled. The resulting compressed image is free from a substantial loss of a high-frequency component of the original signal. | 01-15-2009 |
20100053306 | Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing Method, and Program - An image processing apparatus includes a determining unit, a converter, and a display unit. The determining unit receives image data for three-dimensional display as input, and determines the three-dimensional display format corresponding to the input data. The converter converts the input data in accordance with the determination results from the determining unit. The display unit displays the converted results from the converter. | 03-04-2010 |
20100060720 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR ANALYZING IMAGE DATA - An image data analyzing apparatus includes a monocular visual depth information determiner for determining the anteroposterior relationship of regions contained in an image frame of one of a left image and a right image forming stereoscopic image data of time-division display type, a binocular visual depth information determiner for determining the anteroposterior relationship of regions contained in a plurality of images assumed to be the left image and right image, and a left-right image discriminator for outputting left-right image identification information in agreement with an assumption of the binocular visual depth information determiner if a pair of determination results show a high rate of agreement, and outputting left-right image identification information in agreement with a reverse setting of the assumption if the pair of determination results show a low rate of agreement. | 03-11-2010 |
20100290762 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECIMATION MODE DETERMINATION UTILIZING BLOCK MOTION - A motion image reproduction apparatus that reproduces motion image data from converted motion image data. The motion image reproduction apparatus includes a block expander that receives converted block data included in the converted motion image data and data indicating a conversion mode in which the converted block data was converted and that expands the converted block data based on the data indicating the conversion mode abd a combiner that produces frame data by combining blocks reproduced via the block expansion performed by the block expander. The block expander reproduces the block by performing the block expansion process in a mode corresponding to at least one of a spatial decimation process in a fixed sampling point position mode, a spatial decimation process in a sampling point position shifting mode, and a temporal decimation process, performed in the production of the converted motion image data. The combiner produces the frame data by combining blocks reproduced via the block expansion process. | 11-18-2010 |
20110026834 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes the following elements. First and second images are photographed from different points of view. A block division unit divides the first image into blocks. A similarity calculation unit calculates similarities between blocks in the first image and image regions in the second image. A likelihood calculation unit calculates likelihoods of each candidate corresponding image region in the second image with respect to individual sets of adjacent blocks in the first image on the basis of a positional relationship of the candidate corresponding image region. A corresponding position determination unit determines evaluation values of each candidate corresponding image region in the second image with respect to the blocks in the first image using the calculated similarities and likelihoods, and determines an image region in the second image corresponding to each of the blocks in the first image by comparing the determined evaluation values. | 02-03-2011 |
20120098939 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed is an image processing apparatus including: an imaging section which images a first image and a second image; a one-dimensional arrangement value calculating section which adds up pixel values of horizontal pixels in respective lines in the first image and the second image to calculate a first one-dimensional arrangement value and a second one-dimensional arrangement value; an adjustment parameter calculating section which calculates an adjustment parameter based on a difference between the first one-dimensional arrangement value and the second one-dimensional arrangement value; and a correction control section which controls correction of a magnification of the first image or the second image on the basis of the adjustment parameter. | 04-26-2012 |
20120314908 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND PROGRAM FOR CAUSING COMPUTER TO EXECUTE THE SAME METHOD - There is provided an image processing device including a depth acquisition unit and a smoothing processing unit. The depth acquisition unit acquires a depth to a subject in correlation with a pixel in a captured image of the subject, and the smoothing processing unit designates a pixel in a region excluding a predetermined region in the image as a target pixel, and performs a smoothing process of the degree according to the depth corresponding to the target pixel for a pixel value of the target pixel in a predetermined direction. This causes a pixel in a region excluding the predetermined region in the image to be blurred, thereby generating a panning image. | 12-13-2012 |
20130004082 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND PROGRAM FOR ENABLING COMPUTER TO EXECUTE SAME METHOD - There is provided an image processing device including a focus area setting section, a depth acquisition section, and a blur processing section. The focus area setting section sets each of a plurality of areas as a focus area, and the each of the plurality of areas is intended to be kept in focus in a captured image of a subject. The depth acquisition section acquires a depth of the subject in relation to each pixel in the image. The blur processing section sets each of the pixels in the image as a target pixel and performs a blur process on the target pixel in accordance with a minimum value of absolute value of each depth difference between depth corresponding to the target pixel and depth corresponding to each of the focus area. | 01-03-2013 |
20140376781 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND PROGRAM FOR CAUSING COMPUTER TO EXECUTE THE SAME METHOD - There is provided an image processing device including a depth acquisition unit and a smoothing processing unit. The depth acquisition unit acquires a depth to a subject in correlation with a pixel in a captured image of the subject, and the smoothing processing unit designates a pixel in a region excluding a predetermined region in the image as a target pixel, and performs a smoothing process of the degree according to the depth corresponding to the target pixel for a pixel value of the target pixel in a predetermined direction. This causes a pixel in a region excluding the predetermined region in the image to be blurred, thereby generating a panning image. | 12-25-2014 |