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20110151446 | CELL TREATMENT SOLUTION AND METHOD OF PREPARING STAINED CELL SUSPENSION FOR A MEASUREMENT OF NUCLEAR DNA BY FLOW CYTOMETRY - A cell treatment solution and a method that is used for preparing a stained cell suspension that is provided to a measurement of nuclear DNA by flow cytometry. The cell treatment solution may include a surfactant, RNase, and a fluorescent dye. The surfactant may include, for example, a non-ionic surfactant, a zwitterionic surfactant, an anionic surfactant, and/or a cationic surfactant. In one method of the invention, stained cell suspension that is provided to a measurement of nuclear DNA by flow cytometry is prepared. The method may include adding a tissue sample to a cell treatment solution including a surfactant, RNase, and fluorescent dye, disaggregating the tissue sample, and filtering the disaggregated tissue sample. Another method of the invention includes disaggregating a tissue sample, preparing cell suspension by filtering the disaggregated tissue sample, and adding a cell treatment solution including a surfactant, RNase, and fluorescent dye. | 06-23-2011 |
20130017129 | PIPETTE MEMBER AND CELL ISOLATION INSTRUMENTAANM Shioyama; TakahiroAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Shioyama; Takahiro Tokyo JPAANM Suzuki; AkaneAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Suzuki; Akane Tokyo JP - A pipette member to be attachable to a container capable of accommodating a tissue and a liquid, is used for isolating cells from the tissue by stirring, and includes: a cylinder member which includes a first opening that is to be accommodated in the container, and a second opening that is to be connected to a cell isolation apparatus, and in which a passage for communicating the first opening with the second opening is defined; and a filter member which is disposed inside the cylinder member, and which separates the passage into a first part that includes the first opening, and a second part that includes the second opening. | 01-17-2013 |
20130028813 | Cell Isolation Instrument - A cell isolation instrument includes: a first container which has an opening in an upper portion; a filtration member which defines at least a part of a lower portion of the first container; an isolation member which is movably housed in the first container to collide with a tissue, thereby isolating cells; and a second container which houses the first container in a manner that the first container can be taken out. | 01-31-2013 |
20130330248 | CELL ISOLATION APPARATUS - A cell isolation apparatus in which tissue and fluid that are accommodated in a container are pipetted by a pipette, and cells are isolated from the tissue, the cell isolation apparatus includes: a nozzle to which the pipette is attached; a pump which is connected to the nozzle; a controller which is configured to control an operation of the pump to cause air to be ejected from the nozzle or to be sucked into the nozzle, thereby causing the pipette to perform pipetting; and a condition inputting unit in which a user inputs a condition of control of the controller. | 12-12-2013 |
20130337501 | CELL ANALYZING APPARATUS AND CELL ANALYZING METHOD - A cell analyzing apparatus includes: a histogram acquirer which is configured to perform measurement of a number of nuclear stained cells, and which, by using a result of the measurement, is configured to acquire a histogram indicating a fluorescence intensity; and an analysis controller which is configured to apply frequency analysis on data of the histogram acquired by the histogram acquirer, and which is configured to determine existence/nonexistence of cancer cells based on a result of the frequency analysis. | 12-19-2013 |
20140024022 | CELL TREATMENT SOLUTION AND METHOD OF PREPARING STAINED CELL SUSPENSION FOR A MEASUREMENT OF NUCLEAR DNA BY FLOW CYTOMETRY - A cell treatment solution and a method that is used for preparing a stained cell suspension that is provided to a measurement of nuclear DNA by flow cytometry. The cell treatment solution may include a surfactant, RNase, and a fluorescent dye. The surfactant may include, for example, a non-ionic surfactant, a zwitterionic surfactant, an anionic surfactant, and/or a cationic surfactant. In one method of the presently disclosed subject matter, stained cell suspension that is provided to a measurement of nuclear DNA by flow cytometry is prepared. The method may include adding a tissue sample to a cell treatment solution including a surfactant, RNase, and fluorescent dye, disaggregating the tissue sample, and filtering the disaggregated tissue sample. Another method of the presently disclosed subject matter includes disaggregating a tissue sample, preparing cell suspension by filtering the disaggregated tissue sample, and adding a cell treatment solution including a surfactant, RNase, and fluorescent dye. | 01-23-2014 |
20140030728 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING CELLS - A method of analyzing cells, the method comprising: measuring a number of cells which are nuclear stained, in a to-be-determined tissue, and acquiring a histogram showing a fluorescence intensity based on a result of the measurement; analyzing the histogram, and acquiring data of predetermined parameters; comparing the data of the parameters with first thresholds predetermined for the parameters, to perform a first cancer determination for each of the parameters on the to-be-determined tissue; performing a scoring process for each of the parameters, on a result of the first cancer determination for each of the parameters, to calculate scores of the parameters; and combining the scores of the parameters with one another, thereby performing a second cancer determination on the to-be-determined tissue. | 01-30-2014 |
20140149740 | DETERMINATION METHOD FOR CRYPTOGRAPHIC ALGORITHM USED FOR SIGNATURE, VERIFICATION SERVER AND PROGRAM - On the basis of revocation information of a certificate, information of a certification authority and of the certificate issued by the certification authority from a terminal device, and information of a cryptographic algorithm, validity of the certificate from the terminal device is determined. If the certificate is valid, a validation result treating the certificate as valid is created, and using information of the cryptographic algorithm from the terminal device and information of the cryptographic algorithm used for the signature of the certification authority which has been imparted to the revocation information of the certificate, a selection list of cryptographic algorithms used for the response signature to impart to the verification result of the certificate is created to determine the cryptographic algorithm used for the response signature to impart the verification result of the certificate on the basis of the created list and the cryptographic algorithms capable of being accommodated by the verification server. | 05-29-2014 |
20150078649 | CELL ANALYZING APPARATUS AND CELL ANALYZING METHOD - A cell analyzing apparatus includes: a first histogram acquiring section which is configured to acquire a first histogram of fluorescence intensities by using a result of a measurement of a number of nuclear stained cells; a second histogram acquiring section which is configured to acquire a second histogram that is normalized based on a fluorescence intensity value indicating a maximum value of the first histogram; a determining section which is configured to determine whether cancer cells exist or not, based on one of the first histogram and the second histogram; and an outputting section which is configured to output a result of the determination performed by the determining section. | 03-19-2015 |
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20090013057 | Data file transmission method and wireless communication device - A storage in a wireless communication terminal stores at least one data file. A data file selector selects a data file from among the data files stored in the storage, in accordance with an instruction from a user acknowledged in an acknowledging unit. A search unit searches for a wireless communication terminal originating a download request signal requesting a download of a data file. A transmission destination selector selects a transmission destination wireless communication terminal from among the wireless communication terminals identified through the search, in accordance with an instruction from a user acknowledged in the acknowledging unit. A transmitter transmits the selected data file to the transmission destination wireless communication terminal. | 01-08-2009 |
20090167961 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - In an information terminal | 07-02-2009 |
20120244911 | MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE - A mobile terminal device including a communication processor that conducts wireless communication processing, an operation unit that receives an instruction input from a user for selecting a communication contact, a displacement detector that detects a magnitude of displacement in orientation of the mobile terminal device, and a controller that causes the communication processor to conduct the wireless communication with the selected communication contact according to the detected magnitude of displacement. | 09-27-2012 |
20130002575 | CHARACTER INPUT DEVICE - An information processing apparatus that determines a position of a touch input received at a display of the information processing apparatus, controls the display to display a string of candidate characters for input at a position on the display corresponding to the position of the touch input, detects selection of a desired character from the string of candidate characters, and controls the display to display the desired character in a character input field on the display. | 01-03-2013 |
20130141361 | TERMINAL DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus including a display; a touch panel stacked on or integrally formed with the display; and a controller that receives an output from the touch panel indicating that first gesture input is detected that substantially encloses a region of the display, and controls the display to expand an image displayed by the display based on a size of the region. | 06-06-2013 |
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20080288175 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus is disclosed which processes information about a network including a plurality of nodes representative of cellular molecules, the information processing apparatus including a detection section configured to detect from the network a node group corresponding to a switch pattern including at least two nodes potentially constituting a candidate of a molecular switch. | 11-20-2008 |
20090122380 | MICROACTUATOR, OPTICAL APPARATUS, AND OPTICAL SWITCH - A microactuator has a fixed portion and a movable portion that is provided in such a way as to be movable relative to the fixed portion between a first position at which it is in contact with a predetermined portion of the fixed portion and a second position away from the first position. The fixed portion has a first electrode portion, the movable portion has a second electrode portion that can produce an electrostatic force between it and the first electrode portion by a voltage between it and the first electrode portion, and the first and second electrode portions are arranged in such a way that a first force that biases the movable portion in a direction toward the first position according to the electrostatic force created when the voltage is constant reaches a peak when the movable portion is at a third position between the first position and the second position. | 05-14-2009 |
20090122381 | MICROACTUATOR, OPTICAL DEVICE AND EXPOSURE APPARATUS, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A pair of support members each having a spring section in a part thereof support a mirror element, and a pair of drive mechanisms arranged respectively corresponding to a pair of the support members transform the spring sections of the corresponding support members, thereby changing a distance between each of support points at which the support members support the mirror element and a base. Accordingly, the mirror element can be translated by driving all of the drive mechanisms, or the mirror element can be inclined with respect to the base by driving some of the drive mechanisms. | 05-14-2009 |
20090190284 | ELECTRONIC ELEMENT, VARIABLE CAPACITOR, MICRO SWITCH, METHOD FOR DRIVING MICRO SWITCH, AND MEMS TYPE ELECTRONIC ELEMENT - Driving is made possible in a moving range equivalent to or wider than the conventional range, with a driving voltage having a range smaller than a pull-in voltage. An electronic element includes a fixed portion, and a movable portion which is movable with respect to the fixed portion and which is provided to generate a spring force to make restoration to a predetermined position. The fixed portion is provided with a first driving electrode and a first signal electrode. The movable portion is provided with a second driving electrode and a second signal electrode. An electrostatic force is generated between the first driving electrode and the second driving electrode by a voltage applied therebetween so that the electrostatic force resists against the spring force; and the first and second driving electrodes and the first and second signal electrodes are arranged so that the electrostatic force is generated in a direction in which a spacing distance between the first and second signal electrodes is widened. | 07-30-2009 |
20110187810 | MICROACTUATOR, OPTICAL DEVICE AND EXPOSURE APPARATUS, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A pair of support members each having a spring section in a part thereof support a mirror element, and a pair of drive mechanisms arranged respectively corresponding to a pair of the support members transform the spring sections of the corresponding support members, thereby changing a distance between each of support points at which the support members support the mirror element and a base. Accordingly, the mirror element can be translated by driving all of the drive mechanisms, or the mirror element can be inclined with respect to the base by driving some of the drive mechanisms. | 08-04-2011 |
20110217061 | Image forming apparatus, image forming system, fixing control method, and computer program product - An image forming apparatus includes: a PDL analyzing unit that analyzes print data and obtains a drawing condition; a drawing unit that uses a type of dither selected from types of dither, prepared and associated with drawing conditions, according to the drawing condition analyzed, and generates output image data; an image forming unit; a fixing unit that fixes an image formed on a recording sheet by heating the image to a fixing temperature; a fixing control unit that controls the fixing temperature to a target value; and a database in which each of the types of dither is associated with the target value of fixing temperature for power saving. The fixing control unit obtains from the database the target value of fixing temperature corresponding to the type of dither used in the drawing unit and carries out control to conduct fixing at the target value thus obtained. | 09-08-2011 |
20130271805 | ELECTRONIC ELEMENT, VARIABLE CAPACITOR, MICRO SWITCH, METHOD FOR DRIVING MICRO SWITCH, AND MEMS TYPE ELECTRONIC ELEMENT - An electronic element includes a fixed portion, and a movable portion which is movable with respect to the fixed portion and which is provided to generate a spring force to make restoration to a predetermined position. The fixed portion is provided with a first driving electrode and a first signal electrode. The movable portion is provided with a second driving electrode and a second signal electrode. An electrostatic force is generated between the first driving electrode and the second driving electrode by a voltage applied therebetween so that the electrostatic force resists against the spring force; and the first and second driving electrodes and the first and second signal electrodes are arranged so that the electrostatic force is generated in a direction in which a spacing distance between the first and second signal electrodes is widened. | 10-17-2013 |
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20110208913 | STORAGE DEVICE AND STORAGE SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a storage device including: a communication execution unit configured to be capable of controlling an operation state between a communication-enabled state in which data communication is possible and a pause state in which data communication is impossible; a buffer configured to store data transmitted and received by the communication execution unit; a memory configured to be capable of storing data; a memory controller configured to carry out data input and output between the memory and the buffer; and a communication controller configured to make the communication execution unit operate if data communication is carried out, and make the communication execution unit take a pause if data communication is not carried out. The communication controller switches the operation state of the communication execution unit between the communication-enabled state and the pause state in data communication depending on a data processing state of the buffer. | 08-25-2011 |
20120166681 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes a serial transfer interface which performs serial transfer for data in a unit of packets between counterparty devices, a transfer control unit which performs control of data transfer of the serial transfer interface, and a transfer state monitoring unit which monitors a data transfer state including a data size being subjected to data transfer of the serial transfer interface, determines and can change the maximum data size of a transmission packet to be transmitted next according to the monitored state, and supplies the determined maximum data size to the transfer control unit, and the transfer control unit performs control of data transfer of the serial transfer interface according to the maximum data size of the transmission packet supplied from the transfer state monitoring unit. | 06-28-2012 |
20150050432 | POLYMERIZABLE COMPOSITION, POLYMERIZATION PRODUCT, ADHESIVE SHEET, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A polymerizable composition is disclosed wherein the polymerizable composition includes a first component selected from the group composed of compounds produced by an ester exchange reaction between a hydrogenated polyolefin polyol and an acrylic acid ester, compounds produced by an ester exchange reaction between a hydrogenated polyolefin polyol and a methacrylic acid ester, compounds produced by a dehydration condensation reaction between a hydrogenated polyolefin polyol and an acrylic acid, and compounds produced by a dehydration condensation reaction between a hydrogenated polyolefin polyol and a methacrylic acid, a second component selected from the group composed of compounds containing a hydrocarbon group with a carbon number more than or equal to 6 and an acryloyl group and compounds containing a hydrocarbon group with a carbon number more than or equal to 6 and a methacryloyl group, and a third component selected from the group composed of photopolymerization initiators. | 02-19-2015 |
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20110056833 | PRECAST GEL FOR ELECTROPHORESIS, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND USE OF THE SAME - This invention relates to a precast gel for electrophoresis comprising a support filled with an aqueous gel prepared by polymerizing an aqueous solution comprising a radically polymerizable monomer, a crosslinkable monomer, a buffer, a redox initiator comprising an oxidizer/reducer, and a photo sensitizer and having a pH level of 6.0 to 7.5 via light application. The slab gel for electrophoresis of the present invention can produce a precast gel for electrophoresis within a shorter period of time and in an easier manner than is possible with conventional techniques. Accordingly, the present invention enables production of a high-quality precast gel for electrophoresis in terms of productivity, cost, and quality, and the industrial applicability thereof is remarkable. | 03-10-2011 |
20120234669 | PRECAST GEL FOR ELECTROPHORESIS, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND USE OF THE SAME - This invention relates to a precast gel for electrophoresis comprising a support filled with an aqueous gel prepared by polymerizing an aqueous solution comprising a radically polymerizable monomer, a crosslinkable monomer, a buffer, a redox initiator comprising an oxidizer/reducer, and a photo sensitizer and having a pH level of 6.0 to 7.5 via light application. The slab gel for electrophoresis of the present invention can produce a precast gel for electrophoresis within a shorter period of time and in an easier manner than is possible with conventional techniques. Accordingly, the present invention enables production of a high-quality precast gel for electrophoresis in terms of productivity, cost, and quality, and the industrial applicability thereof is remarkable. | 09-20-2012 |
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20090022964 | Molded Resin Product and Process for Surface Treatment Thereof - An object of this invention is to provide a molded resin product having atmosphere of a quality product as a result of a stereoscopic pattern that is formed on the container surfaces by a simple method such as coating or vapor deposition. Another object of this invention is to provide a surface treatment process for laying a stereoscopic pattern of high quality on the resin surfaces. The molded resin product of this invention comprises a substrate made of a transparent resin, opaque coating film disposed on rear surface of the substrate except for an area set aside for a patterned portion, a transparent resin material disposed in the area set aside for the patterned portion on the rear surface of the substrate, and an opaque reflection coating or a half-reflective coating laminated to the transparent resin material. Under this configuration of the molded resin product of this invention, the patterned portion looks as if it pops up from the rear surface of the substrate. If a half-reflective coating is used, the pattern is visible through the half-reflective coating when the pattern is viewed from the rear surface of the lid of a molded resin product, thus giving atmosphere of high quality to the container. | 01-22-2009 |
20100320208 | PORTION CONTAINER - A portion container which can be unsealed easily by an extremely simple operation, and the lid of which can be opened easily with no possibility of scattering of the contents. The container body is constituted of a nonflexible tubular upper structure which is resistant to press deformation, and a flexible bottomed tubular lower structure extending downward from the lower edge of the upper structure and being susceptible to press deformation, wherein a press board connected rotatably with the upper structure and equipped with a cutter is provided vertically in the container. A lid plate is cut by pressing the press board from the outside to rotate the cutter. | 12-23-2010 |
20110284557 | SYNTHETIC RESIN CONTAINER HAVING INVERTED, FOLDED BACK BOTTOM WALL - Disclosed is a synthetic resin container provided with an inverting, foldback bottom wall that can maintain a stable, self-supporting position while being able to minimize the amount of residual contents, and that can be formed by blow-molding, etc., and maintain the favorable producibility or low cost of the past. The synthetic resin container is provided with a bottom wall that forms the bottom of the container, and a drum section that is united to the perimeter of the bottom wall and forms a filling space M for contents on the inside, and is a synthetic resin container wherein a raised bottom is formed by inverting and folding back said bottom wall toward said drum section. Said drum section has a lower peripheral wall that touches or approaches the outer wall part of said bottom wall and forms a self-supporting base by the inversion and folding back of said bottom wall. | 11-24-2011 |
20120039660 | APPLICATOR-EQUIPPED CONTAINER - An applicator-equipped container capable of rubbing off extra contents when extracting the applicator from a container body and of preventing pressure of the inner portion of the container body from excessively increasing when inserting the applicator is provided. The applicator-equipped container includes: a container body that contains contents; an applicator that is inserted in the container body from an inlet of the container body; and an annular wiping piece that is disposed in the container body, and is elastically deformable so that the rod of the applicator is inserted into an inner periphery of the wiping piece is rubbed to and comes into contact with the outer periphery of a rod, wherein a protrusion protruding to the inside of an inner edge of the wiping piece is provided in the inner periphery of the wiping piece. | 02-16-2012 |
20120135162 | MOLDED RESIN PRODUCT AND PROCESS FOR SURFACE TREATMENT THEREOF - A molded resin product includes a substrate made of a transparent resin, opaque coating film disposed on rear surface of the substrate except for an area set aside for a patterned portion, a transparent resin material disposed in the area set aside for the patterned portion on the rear surface of the substrate, and an opaque reflection coating or a half-reflective coating laminated to the transparent resin material. Under this configuration, the patterned portion looks as if it pops up from the rear surface of the substrate. If a half-reflective coating is used, the pattern is visible through the half-reflective coating when the pattern is viewed from the rear surface of the lid of a molded resin product. | 05-31-2012 |
20130206796 | SYNTHETIC RESIN CONTAINER HAVING INVERTED, FOLDED BACK BOTTOM WALL - Disclosed is a synthetic resin container provided with an inverting, foldback bottom wall that can maintain a stable, self-supporting position while being able to minimize the amount of residual contents, and that can be formed by blow-molding, etc., and maintain the favorable producibility or low cost of the past. The synthetic resin container is provided with a bottom wall that forms the bottom of the container, and a drum section that is united to the perimeter of the bottom wall and forms a filling space M for contents on the inside, and is a synthetic resin container wherein a raised bottom is formed by inverting and folding back said bottom wall toward said drum section. Said drum section has a lower peripheral wall that touches or approaches the outer wall part of said bottom wall and forms a self-supporting base by the inversion and folding back of said bottom wall. | 08-15-2013 |
20130344260 | MOLDED RESIN PRODUCT AND PROCESS FOR SURFACE TREATMENT THEREOF - A molded resin product includes a substrate made of a transparent resin, opaque coating film disposed on rear surface of the substrate except for an area set aside for a patterned portion, a transparent resin material disposed in the area set aside for the patterned portion on the rear surface of the substrate, and an opaque reflection coating or a half-reflective coating laminated to the transparent resin material. Under this configuration, the patterned portion looks as if it pops up from the rear surface of the substrate. If a half-reflective coating is used, the pattern is visible through the half-reflective coating when the pattern is viewed from the rear surface of the lid of a molded resin product. | 12-26-2013 |
20140084013 | SYNTHETIC RESIN CONTAINER HAVING INVERTED, FOLDED BACK BOTTOM WALL - Disclosed is a synthetic resin container provided with an inverting, foldback bottom wall that can maintain a stable, self-supporting position while being able to minimize the amount of residual contents, and that can be formed by blow-molding, etc., and maintain the favorable producibility or low cost of the past. The synthetic resin container is provided with a bottom wall that forms the bottom of the container, and a drum section that is united to the perimeter of the bottom wall and forms a filling space M for contents on the inside, and is a synthetic resin container wherein a raised bottom is formed by inverting and folding back said bottom wall toward said drum section. Said drum section has a lower peripheral wall that touches or approaches the outer wall part of said bottom wall and forms a self-supporting base by the inversion and folding back of said bottom wall. | 03-27-2014 |
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20100220030 | ANTENNA DEVICE - An antenna device is provided with an antenna element including a base, an inductance adjustment pattern that is formed on the upper surface and a side surface of the base and has a substantially U-shape, a capacitance adjustment pattern that is formed on the upper surface of the base and is placed to face the inductance adjustment pattern, and first to third terminal electrodes provided on the bottom surface of the base. The antenna element is installed between the first side and the second side of the ground pattern that form the two facing sides of the antenna mounting region. One end of the inductance adjustment pattern is connected to the feed line, the other end of the inductance adjustment pattern is connected to the first side of the ground pattern, and the third terminal electrode is connected to the second side of the ground pattern. | 09-02-2010 |
20100225542 | ANTENNA DEVICE AND ANTENNA ELEMENT USED THEREFOR - An antenna device includes an antenna element and a printed circuit board on which the antenna element is mounted. The antenna element includes a base, a radiation conductor formed on an upper surface of the substrate and one end of the radiation conductor being an open end, a plurality of terminal electrodes formed on a bottom surface of the substrate, and a loop conductor of a substantially U-shape. The loop conductor is arranged to face one of the terminal electrodes via a gap having a predetermined width. An antenna mounting region is provided on a upper surface of the printed circuit board to be adjacent to an edge of a long side of the printed circuit board. A feed line is led in the antenna mounting region along the edge. One and the other end of the loop conductor are connected to the feed line and a ground pattern, respectively. | 09-09-2010 |
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20140146286 | ADAPTIVE OPTICAL APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM - An adaptive optical apparatus includes: a correction unit configured to correct a wavefront aberration of an eye to be examined; a detection unit configured to detect that an eyelid of the eye to be examined is closed or the eyelid of the eye to be examined is open, by using return light from the eye to be examined irradiated by measurement light; and a control unit configured to control the correction unit according to a detection result from the detection unit. | 05-29-2014 |
20140168604 | OPHTHALMOLOGY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPHTHALMOLOGY APPARATUS - An ophthalmology apparatus includes: an aberration measuring unit configured to measure an aberration of an eye to be examined on the basis of returned light from the eye to be examined irradiated with measurement light, and a change unit configured to change a size of an irradiating area in the aberration measurement unit to be irradiated with the returned light. | 06-19-2014 |
20150051948 | BEHAVIORAL ATTRIBUTE ANALYSIS METHOD AND DEVICE - Provided is a technology for extracting a user behavior pattern from history data accumulating personal behaviors, and enabling exhaustive and efficient analysis of a user behavior tendency or features from various aspects, such as location and time, using the pattern. A behavioral characteristics analysis device according to the present invention expresses a behavior pattern by scene vectors describing behaviors of a set of persons as scene values in each time band, extracts a life pattern included in all of the set of persons by clustering the scene vectors, and performs classification based on to which life pattern each person belongs (see FIG. | 02-19-2015 |
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20080255095 | Benzylamine analogues - A compound of the formula (I): | 10-16-2008 |
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20110230447 | OSTEOGENESIS PROMOTER COMPRISING [4-(METHYLTHIO)PHENYLTHIO]METHANEBISPHOSPHONIC ACID OR PHARMACEUTICALLY ACCEPTABLE SALT THEREOF AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT - Disclosed are: a compound which can be produced through a chemical synthesis at low cost, has an excellent osteogenesis-promoting activity, has high affinity for a bone, and can be applied without the need of any special DDS; and a method for promoting osteogenesis by administering the compound and applying the promotion of osteogenesis to the formation or regeneration of a bone. Specifically disclosed are: an osteogenesis promoter or a pharmaceutical composition comprising [4-(methylthio)phenylthio]methanebisphosphonic acid, which is one of bisphosphonic acids, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as an active ingredient; and a method for promoting osteogenesis, which comprises administering the osteogenesis promoter or the pharmaceutical composition to a subject to be treated. | 09-22-2011 |
20120003678 | NOVEL FRUCTOSYL PEPTIDE OXIDASE - A protein described in any one of [1] to [4] below is provided according to the present invention:
| 01-05-2012 |
20120108639 | NITROGEN-CONTAINING AROMATIC HETEROCYCLYL COMPOUND - The present invention provides a compound having excellent regulating action on blood lipid level that is represented by the following general formula (I) or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof, wherein, in one embodiment, A represents a 5-membered nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocyclyl group; R | 05-03-2012 |
20140057333 | NOVEL FRUCTOSYL PEPTIDE OXIDASE - The present invention encompasses:
| 02-27-2014 |
20140187592 | NITROGEN-CONTAINING AROMATIC HETEROCYCLYL COMPOUND - The present invention provides a compound having excellent regulating action on blood lipid level. | 07-03-2014 |
20140234886 | NOVEL FRUCTOSYL PEPTIDE OXIDASE - A reagent measuring a glycated protein, comprising a protease and a protein of any one of [1] to [4] below:
| 08-21-2014 |
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20080259437 | TUNABLE LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS, AND ADJUSTMENT METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM OF THE SAME - The present invention aims to provide a tuning light source apparatus including a multiple-optical resonator, where the resonance frequencies of the respective optical resonators in a multiple-optical resonator are exactly coincided with the set frequency, and the frequency of the output laser beam is locked within a range of about 1 GHz from the set frequency. Current is flowed to TO phase shifters based on lights detected by light receiving elements, and the resonance wavelengths of resonators are adjusted in an aim of obtaining a state in which an intensity of an oscillation light becomes a maximum and at the same time an intensity of a light from a through port becomes a minimum. | 10-23-2008 |
20090059973 | WAVELENGTH TUNABLE LIGHT SOURCE, CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM THEREOF, AND OPTICAL MODULE - To improve optical power detection accuracy without increasing size, etc. of a device, when controlling a plurality of light variable parts such that the sum of a plurality of optical powers becomes the minimum. Provided is a wavelength tunable light source for changing the wavelength of light by using a multiple resonator including two or more coupled resonators with different optical path lengths from each other. The light source includes: a single or more light variable part for changing transmittance of the resonators; photosensor parts which detect each light outputted from the two or more resonators by each of the resonators as optical powers being converted into electric power values; and a control unit which adds the optical powers detected by the photosensor parts by each resonator, and controls changes in the transmittance by the light variable parts such that the sum of the added optical powers becomes the minimum. | 03-05-2009 |
20090086774 | CONTROL DEVICE, LASER DEVICE, WAVELENGTH CONVERTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A wavelength converting method of a wavelength tunable light source that is performing a phase modulation for a light output is disclosed. The wavelength converting method has an amplitude of a phase modulation have an amplitude value that is temporarily greater during a wavelength conversion than a phase modulation amount during non conversion. Therefore, an erroneous lock resulting from an abnormal oscillation wavelength can be prevented without spending the cost or time. | 04-02-2009 |
20100254416 | TUNABLE LASER SOURCE AND LINEWIDTH NARROWING METHOD - A tunable laser source includes a resonator filter which includes a multiple optical resonator having a plurality of optical resonators different in optical path length, an optical amplifier which amplifies output light from the resonator filter, a temperature control element provided for the resonator filter, an optical output level detection unit which detects an output level of light output from the optical amplifier, and a temperature control unit which controls the state of the temperature control element so as to maximize the output level detected by the optical output level detection unit. | 10-07-2010 |
20120069854 | COHERENT OPTICAL RECEIVER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - In a coherent optical receiver according to the invention, a polarization beam splitter inputs a polarization multiplexed optical signal obtained by multiplexing two polarization lights orthogonal to each other modulated by different information signal and separately outputs a first and a second received polarization optical signals, a 90 degree hybrid circuit makes the first and the second received polarization optical signal interfere with local light and outputs a plurality of optical signals, a photoelectric converter detects the optical signal and outputs a detected electric signal, an analog-to-digital converter digitizes the detected electric signal and outputs a digital received signal, a polarization de-multiplexing unit inputs the digital received signal and then outputs results of polarization de-multiplexing process to a phase compensation unit, and the phase compensation unit performs a phase compensation processing using, as an initial value, a phase deviation value obtained by using same initial signal as the information signal. | 03-22-2012 |
20120076506 | COHERENT OPTICAL RECEIVING APPARATUS AND COHERENT OPTICAL RECEIVING METHOD - A coherent optical receiving apparatus according to the present invention includes a coherent optical receiving unit to receive a whole of an optical multiplexed signal into which an optical signal is multiplexed, a tunable filter, a local oscillation unit, and a control unit. The coherent optical receiving unit, which includes a 90-degree hybrid circuit and an optoelectric conversion device, selectively detects an optical signal, which interferes with a local oscillation light outputted by the local oscillation unit, out of the optical multiplexed signal. The tunable filter, which is arranged in front of the optoelectric conversion device on an optical path on which the optical multiplexed signal flows, has a bandwidth within which a plurality of optical signals are included. The control unit makes a central wavelength of the tunable filter and a wavelength of the local oscillation light be changed together. | 03-29-2012 |
20130236172 | COHERENT OPTICAL RECEIVER DEVICE AND COHERENT OPTICAL RECEIVING METHOD - In a coherent optical receiver device, the dynamic range considerably decreases in the case of selectively receiving the optical multiplexed signals by means of the wavelength of the local oscillator light, therefore, a coherent optical receiver device according to an exemplary aspect of the invention includes a coherent optical receiver receiving optical multiplexed signals in a lump in which signal light is multiplexed; a variable optical attenuator; a local oscillator connected to the coherent optical receiver; and a first controller controlling the variable optical attenuator by means of a first control signal based on an output signal of the coherent optical receiver; wherein the coherent optical receiver includes a 90-degree hybrid circuit, a photoelectric converter, and an impedance conversion amplifier, and selectively detects the signal light interfering with local oscillation light output by the local oscillator out of the optical multiplexed signals; and the variable optical attenuator is disposed in the optical path of the optical multiplexed signals in a stage preceding the photoelectric converter, inputs the optical multiplexed signals, and outputs them to the coherent optical receiver controlling the intensity of the optical multiplexed signals based on the first control signal. | 09-12-2013 |
20130287393 | COHERENT OPTICAL RECEIVER DEVICE AND COHERENT OPTICAL RECEIVING METHOD - In a coherent optical receiver device, the control process for keeping received signals in high quality is complicated, therefore, a coherent optical receiver device according to an exemplary aspect of the invention includes a coherent optical receiver receiving input signal light; an input power monitor obtaining input power information determined on the basis of the power of the input signal light; a local oscillator connected to the coherent optical receiver; and a controller connected to the coherent optical receiver, the input power monitor, and the local oscillator; wherein the coherent optical receiver comprises a 90-degree hybrid circuit, a photoelectric converter, and an amplifier; the input power monitor is disposed in the optical path of the input signal light in a stage preceding the amplifier; and the controller obtains the input power information from the input power monitor and controls the power of local oscillation light output from the local oscillator on the basis of the input power information. | 10-31-2013 |
20140133869 | RZ OPTICAL MODULATOR AND RZ OPTICAL MODULATION METHOD - In an optical transmission system using an RZ code, in order to improve the quality of the modulated transmission signal, an RZ optical modulator includes an RZ carver that outputs a optical pulse train of the RZ code, a polarization adjustment device which improves and outputs a polarization extinction ratio of optical pulse train outputted from the RZ carver and an optical modulator which modulates and outputs the optical pulse train outputted from a polarization adjustment device. | 05-15-2014 |
20140294402 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, OPTICAL TRANSMISSION METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR OPTICAL TRANSMISSION - An object of the invention is to provide an optical transmission apparatus capable of reducing the influence of nonlinear effect of an optical fiber, suppressing a band requested to a device from being widened, easily bias controlling a modulator, and flexibly switching plural modulation methods. | 10-02-2014 |
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20100328782 | VARIABLE FOCAL LENGTH LENS, CAMERA MODULE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A variable focal length lens includes: a lens portion including a pair of light transmissive members, at least one of which is deformable, and a light transmissive liquid medium sealed between the pair of light transmissive members; and a liquid medium container including a chamber that communicates with the lens portion and is filled with the liquid medium, the liquid medium container causing the shape of the surface of the deformable light transmissive member or members to be changed by changing the volume of the chamber to adjust the amount of liquid medium with which the lens portion is filled. | 12-30-2010 |
20110002043 | ZOOM LENS, CAMERA MODULE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a zoom lens, including: an object side lens group disposed on the object side and including a first variable lens having a deformation surface, the object side lens group having a focal length varied by deformation of the first variable lens; an image side lens group disposed on the image side with respect to the object side lens group with an aperture stop sandwiched therebetween and including a second variable lens having a deformation surface, the image side lens group having a focal length varied by deformation of the second variable lens; and a lens group disposed between the object side lens group and the image side lens group and including the aperture stop. The deformation of the first and second variable lenses is controlled to carry out power variation and carry out image surface movement compensation and focusing by the power variation. | 01-06-2011 |
20120201655 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, RECEIVING APPARATUS, RECEIVING METHOD AND TRANSMITTING METHOD - The invention relates to a turbine casing ( | 08-09-2012 |
20120214407 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, RECEIVING APPARATUS, RECEIVING METHOD AND TRANSMITTING METHOD - A radio communication system whereby a range is enabled and communication control and quality can be ideally maintained even if the communication distance changes. The transmitting apparatus has a transmitting unit that repeatedly transmits one data packet; a receiving unit that repeatedly receives a response packet; an integrating unit that integrates a repeatedly received response packet; and a determining unit that determines, by use of a result of the integration, whether the received response packet is correct. The receiving apparatus has a receiving unit that repeatedly receives a data packet; an integrating unit that integrates a repeatedly received data packet; a determining unit that determines, by use of a result of the integration, whether the received data packet is correct; and a transmitting unit that repeatedly transmits the response packet when determination is made that the received data packet is correct. | 08-23-2012 |
20130076999 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Provided is a light source device including a light guide panel which has a first inner reflecting surface and a second inner reflecting surface opposing each other, a first light source which irradiates first illuminating light from a lateral direction to the light guide panel, a second light source which is arranged opposite a side on which the second inner reflecting surface is formed on the light guiding panel, and which irradiates second illuminating light to the second inner reflecting surface, and an optical member which is arranged between the light guide panel and the second light source, and which reduces intensity of incident light, wherein a plurality of scattering areas are provided on the second inner reflecting surface which scatter and emit the first illuminating light from the first inner reflecting surface to outside of the light guide panel. | 03-28-2013 |
20130120474 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Disclosed is a display device including a display section configured to display an image and a light source device for emitting light for displaying the image to the display section. The light source device includes a first light source for applying first illumination light, and a light guide plate having a plurality of scattering areas, the light guide plate emitting the first illumination light applied from a direction of a side of the light guide plate to an outside by scattering the first illumination light in the plurality of scattering areas, and a light scattering characteristic is added to the scattering areas by forming a plurality of depression and projection shapes in surfaces of the scattering areas or dispersing a light scattering material in the scattering areas, and density of the depression and projection shapes or concentration of the light scattering material in the scattering areas changes according to position. | 05-16-2013 |
20130162694 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, DISPLAY UNIT, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display unit includes: a display section displaying an image; and a light source device emitting light for image display toward the display section, the light source device including a first light source emitting first illumination light and a light guide plate, the light guide plate including a plurality of scattering regions that allow the first illumination light entering through a side surface of the light guide plate to be scattered and then to exit from the light guide plate, in which the scattering regions each are configured of a plurality of scattering patterns including a first scattering pattern with a width varying according to a distance from the first light source. | 06-27-2013 |
20140036529 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, DISPLAY UNIT, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display unit includes: a display section displaying an image; and a light source device emitting light for image display toward the display section, the light source device including one or more first light sources, a light guide plate, and an optical member, the first light sources emitting first illumination light, the light guide plate including a plurality of scattering regions that allow the first illumination light to be scattered and then to exit from the light guide plate, the optical member being disposed on a light-emission side of the light guide plate to face the light guide plate and allowing an angular distribution of luminance of the first illumination light emitted from the light guide plate to be varied. | 02-06-2014 |
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20090268024 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire restriction information about imaging functions from an imaging device connected to a network, a setting control unit configured to display a setting window in which after a parameter for one imaging function is selected, selectable parameters for other imaging functions are restricted in accordance with the selected parameter on the basis of the restriction information so that the imaging functions to be used are selected, and an information processing unit configured to acquire image information about an image captured using the selected imaging functions via the network. | 10-29-2009 |
20130242094 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire restriction information about imaging functions from an imaging device connected to a network, a setting control unit configured to display a setting window in which after a parameter for one imaging function is selected, selectable parameters for other imaging functions are restricted in accordance with the selected parameter on the basis of the restriction information so that the imaging functions to be used are selected, and an information processing unit configured to acquire image information about an image captured using the selected imaging functions via the network. | 09-19-2013 |
20140185877 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND FILTER SETTING METHOD - Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including an image data acquisition section, a metadata acquisition section, a display section, a filter setting section, and a combination setting section. The image data acquisition section is configured to acquire image data from a camera. The metadata acquisition section is configured to acquire, from the camera, metadata representing information concerning an object of surveillance. The display section is configured to display a setting screen usable for setting a plurality of filters. The filter setting section is configured to perform filter setting using the information of the metadata. The combination setting section is configured to set a combination of the plurality of filters. The filter setting section and the combination setting section are provided on the same setting screen. | 07-03-2014 |
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20110175187 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - Certain embodiments provide a solid-state imaging device including: a photoelectric converting unit that includes a semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type provided on a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, converts incident light entering a first surface of the semiconductor substrate into signal charges, and stores the signal charges; a readout circuit that reads the signal charges stored by the photoelectric converting unit; an antireflection structure that is provided on the first surface of the semiconductor substrate to cover the semiconductor layer of the photoelectric converting unit, includes a fixed charge film that retains fixed charges being non-signal charges, and prevents reflection of the incident light; and a hole storage region that is provided between the photoelectric converting unit and the antireflection structure, and stores holes being non-signal charges. | 07-21-2011 |
20120077341 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - In a semiconductor device manufacturing method according to an exemplary embodiment, a sulfur-containing film containing sulfur is deposited on an n-type semiconductor, a first metal film containing a first metal is deposited on the sulfur-containing film, a heat treatment is performed to form a metal semiconductor compound film by reacting the n-type semiconductor and the sulfur-containing film, and to introduce sulfur to an interface between the n-type semiconductor and the metal semiconductor compound film being formed. | 03-29-2012 |
20120117354 | STORAGE DEVICE IN WHICH FORWARDING-FUNCTION-EQUIPPED MEMORY NODES ARE MUTUALLY CONNECTED AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a storage device includes a plurality of memory nodes. Each of memory nodes includes a plurality of input ports, a plurality of output ports, a selector, a packet controller and a memory. The selector outputs a packet input to the input port to one of the output ports. The packet controller controls the selector. The memory stores data. The memory nodes are mutually connected at the input ports and the output ports. The memory node has an address that is determined by its physical position. The packet controller switches the output port that outputs the packet based on information including at least a destination address of the packet and an address of the memory node having the packet controller when receiving a packet that is not addressed to the memory node having the packet controller. | 05-10-2012 |
20120326244 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a source region, a drain region, an insulating film and a gate electrode. The source region is formed in the semiconductor substrate. The drain region is formed in the semiconductor substrate with being separate from the source region. The insulating film is formed between the source region and the drain region and on or above the semiconductor substrate. The insulating film includes lanthanum aluminate containing at least one element selected from Si, Ge, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba and N. The lanthanum aluminate contains at least one element selected from Ti, Hf and Zr. The gate electrode is formed on the insulating film. | 12-27-2012 |
20130069440 | INCOMING CIRCUIT USING MAGNETIC RESONANT COUPLING - According to one embodiment, an incoming circuit using a magnetic resonant coupling includes an incoming coil which receives magnetic field energy transmitted from an outgoing coil under conditions of energy power transmission by the magnetic resonant coupling, and an incoming circuit which comprises a variable capacitor and a rectifier circuit and which outputs, as a direct-current voltage, the magnetic field energy received by the incoming coil. A capacitance of the variable capacitor is automatically controlled to change in an analog form along with the change of the direct-current voltage and to keep the transmission efficiency of the magnetic field energy at a fixed value by directly feeding back the direct-current voltage to the variable capacitor. | 03-21-2013 |
20130076550 | ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER - According to an embodiment, an analog-to-digital converter includes a voltage generating unit, and a plurality of comparators. The voltage generating unit is configured to divide a reference voltage by a plurality of variable resistors to generate a plurality of comparative voltages. Each of the plurality of comparator is configured to compare any one of the plurality of comparative voltages with an analog input voltage and output a digital signal based on a result of a comparison between the comparative voltage and the analog input voltage. Each of the plurality of variable resistors includes a plurality of variable resistive elements that are connected in series, and each of the plurality of variable resistive elements has a resistance value that is variably set according to an external signal. | 03-28-2013 |
20130076551 | ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER - According to an embodiment, an analog-to-digital converter includes a voltage generating unit to generate comparative voltages; and comparators. Each comparator compares any one of the comparative voltages with an analog input voltage and output a digital signal. Each comparator includes a differential pair circuit to detect a potential difference between two inputs. The differential pair circuit includes first and second circuit portions. The first circuit portion includes a first transistor having a gate to which one input is supplied; and a resistor connected in series with the first transistor. The second circuit portion includes a second transistor having a gate to which the other input is supplied and forms a differential pair with the first transistor; and a variable resistor connected in series with the second transistor. The variable resistor includes variable resistive elements each having a resistance value variably set according to a control signal. | 03-28-2013 |
20130252559 | DA CONVERTER AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - In general, according to one embodiment, a DA converter configured to convert a digital signal comprising n (n>1) bits to an analog current to output the analog current from an output terminal, includes n voltage-current converters. Each of them corresponds to each bit of the digital signal and is configured to generate a current depending on the corresponding bit. A k-th (k is an integer of 0 to n−1) voltage-current converter includes a first transistor whose threshold voltage is adjustable. The first transistor includes a semiconductor substrate, a first diffusion region, a second diffusion region, an insulating film, a charge accumulating film, and a gate. | 09-26-2013 |
20140055189 | MIXER CIRCUIT, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, RECEIVING CIRCUIT, RECEIVING DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - According to an embodiment, a mixer circuit includes first transistors each having a charge storage layer, a second transistor, a group of first nodes, and an output node. The first transistors as a pair receive a differential signal having a first frequency. The second transistor receives a signal having a second frequency. The group of first nodes makes the charge storage layer of at least any one of the first transistors store charge during non-operation period during which the differential signal having the first frequency and the signal having the second frequency are not mixed and reduces loss of the charge during operation period during which those signals are mixed, to adjust a threshold voltage of at least any one of the first transistors from outside. The output node outputs a signal resulting from mixing the differential signal having the first frequency and the signal having the second frequency. | 02-27-2014 |
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20090323071 | OPTICAL MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND OPTICAL MEASUREMENT METHOD FOR A LIQUID OR MOLTEN MATERIAL - An apparatus for optical measurement of a liquid or molten material, which has: a transparent container which has a bottom face and is capable of containing a to-be-measured material therein, with the bottom face at least having a flat face and being transparent; and an optical device that irradiates a light to the bottom face of the container and that detects and measures a reflected light from the bottom face; and a method for optically measuring a liquid or molten material using the apparatus. | 12-31-2009 |
20130153349 | DRUM BRAKE TYPE ELECTRIC PARKING BRAKE APPARATUS - There is provided a drum brake type electric parking brake apparatus includes an electric actuator unit, a backing plate and a knuckle. The electric actuator unit includes an electric motor and a decelerator, and expands a gap between one end portions of the brake shoes based on activation of the electric motor. The electric actuator unit is separately provided from the backing plate. The electric actuator unit is arranged at an inner-side surface of the knuckle, and the backing plate is arranged at an outer-side surface of the knuckle. The backing plate and the electric actuator unit are supported and fixed to the knuckle. | 06-20-2013 |
20140027221 | DRUM BRAKE TYPE ELECTRIC PARKING BRAKE APPARATUS - A drum brake type electric parking brake apparatus includes an electric actuator unit configured to pull a cable so as to expand an expanding mechanism, a pulling pipe into which the cable is loosely inserted and supported so as to move in an axial direction, a feeding nut supported so as to move in only a rotation direction and provided with a female screw which is engaged with a male screw on the pulling pipe, and a connecting unit connecting a base end of the pulling pipe and a base end of the cable so as to pull the cable in a direction away from the expanding mechanism with the pulling pipe. The base end of the cable is projected from the base end of the pulling pipe which is an end opposite to the expanding mechanism. | 01-30-2014 |
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20110056833 | PRECAST GEL FOR ELECTROPHORESIS, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND USE OF THE SAME - This invention relates to a precast gel for electrophoresis comprising a support filled with an aqueous gel prepared by polymerizing an aqueous solution comprising a radically polymerizable monomer, a crosslinkable monomer, a buffer, a redox initiator comprising an oxidizer/reducer, and a photo sensitizer and having a pH level of 6.0 to 7.5 via light application. The slab gel for electrophoresis of the present invention can produce a precast gel for electrophoresis within a shorter period of time and in an easier manner than is possible with conventional techniques. Accordingly, the present invention enables production of a high-quality precast gel for electrophoresis in terms of productivity, cost, and quality, and the industrial applicability thereof is remarkable. | 03-10-2011 |
20120234669 | PRECAST GEL FOR ELECTROPHORESIS, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND USE OF THE SAME - This invention relates to a precast gel for electrophoresis comprising a support filled with an aqueous gel prepared by polymerizing an aqueous solution comprising a radically polymerizable monomer, a crosslinkable monomer, a buffer, a redox initiator comprising an oxidizer/reducer, and a photo sensitizer and having a pH level of 6.0 to 7.5 via light application. The slab gel for electrophoresis of the present invention can produce a precast gel for electrophoresis within a shorter period of time and in an easier manner than is possible with conventional techniques. Accordingly, the present invention enables production of a high-quality precast gel for electrophoresis in terms of productivity, cost, and quality, and the industrial applicability thereof is remarkable. | 09-20-2012 |
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20100001809 | ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION MEDIUM - Provided is an electromagnetic wave transmission medium which is suited for mass production and does not affect a transmission mode. The electromagnetic wave transmission medium includes, as a main element, a flexible cylindrical tube ( | 01-07-2010 |
20120155671 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus includes a reproduction control unit controlling reproduction of a content item; a reception unit receiving reaction sound data stored in UDP packets and transmitted from a server via a communication network when reproducing the content item, the server generating the reaction sound data of reaction sounds by receiving sound data obtained by receiving sounds produced as reactions to the content item from users from a plurality of apparatuses via the communication network, performing sound processing on the plurality of sound data received from the apparatuses based on positions of the users at a single virtual site and acoustic characteristics of the site, and adding the plurality of sound data subjected to the sound processing; and a sound output unit outputting the reaction sounds based on the received reaction sound data when the content item is reproduced. | 06-21-2012 |
20120275614 | NOISE CANCELLATION UNIT - A noise cancellation unit includes: a duct connected to an outlet of an electronic apparatus and configured to pass an exhaust flow discharged from the outlet therethrough; a first microphone provided to the duct; a speaker provided to the duct downstream of the first microphone; a second microphone provided to the duct downstream of the speaker; a first windscreen wall configured to prevent the exhaust flow from colliding with the first microphone; a second windscreen wall configured to prevent the exhaust flow from colliding with the second microphone; and a signal processing circuit configured to generate, based on outputs of the first microphone and the second microphone, a sound signal for removing a noise included in the exhaust flow and supply the sound signal to the speaker. | 11-01-2012 |
20130185064 | ECHO REMOVING APPARATUS, ECHO REMOVING METHOD, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - To be provided is an echo removing apparatus including a transmission path estimate update processing unit, and an output selection unit. A fixed section of the transmission path estimate is updated based on an error from an echo estimate determined using all of the fixed section, the holding section, and the update section. These sections are updated depending on whether an estimate obtained by adding the fixed section and the holding section is better than an estimate of the fixed section alone in every fixed period. Only when the estimate is better, the holding section is added to the fixed section cumulatively, and the update section is substituted into the holding section. Depending on whether an estimate is better, an error from the eco estimate determined using all these sections or the fixed section alone is selected as an output. | 07-18-2013 |
20140071962 | TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR FORMATTING DATA - A transmitting apparatus, a receiving apparatus, and a communication system are provided that allow a reduction in a frame loss due to interference caused by use of the same channel. A transmitting apparatus disposed in a base station includes a GPS receiver for receiving a GPS signal, a timing generator for controlling respective function blocks in accordance with the GPS signal and an inter-base-station control signal so as to precisely synchronize the timing of frame transmission among base stations, the front-end transmission processing unit including for converting transmission information into transmission time slots, a frame generator for generating a frame including a plurality of time slots and one frame guard, and a back-end transmission processing unit for transmitting the generated frame as a radio signal. | 03-13-2014 |
20140086357 | TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR FORMATTING DATA - A transmitting apparatus, a receiving apparatus, and a communication system are provided that allow a reduction in a frame loss due to interference caused by use of the same channel. A transmitting apparatus disposed in a base station includes a GPS receiver for receiving a GPS signal, a timing generator for controlling respective function blocks in accordance with the GPS signal and an inter-base-station control signal so as to precisely synchronize the timing of frame transmission among base stations, the front-end transmission processing unit including for converting transmission information into transmission time slots, a frame generator for generating a frame including a plurality of time slots and one frame guard, and a back-end transmission processing unit for transmitting the generated frame as a radio signal. | 03-27-2014 |
20140119475 | TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR FORMATTING DATA - A transmitting apparatus, a receiving apparatus, and a communication system are provided that allow a reduction in a frame loss due to interference caused by use of the same channel. A transmitting apparatus disposed in a base station includes a GPS receiver for receiving a GPS signal, a timing generator for controlling respective function blocks in accordance with the GPS signal and an inter-base-station control signal so as to precisely synchronize the timing of frame transmission among base stations, the front-end transmission processing unit including for converting transmission information into transmission time slots, a frame generator for generating a frame including a plurality of time slots and one frame guard, and a back-end transmission processing unit for transmitting the generated frame as a radio signal. | 05-01-2014 |
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20110188556 | RECEIVING DEVICE AND RADIO QUALITY CALCULATION METHOD - A reception device calculates a radio quality in a downlink by using a plurality of pilot symbols transmitted from a base station. The reception device includes a correlation calculation unit and a radio quality calculation unit. The correlation calculation unit calculates a correlation value between a first pilot symbol and a second pilot symbol on a time axis or a correlation value there between on a frequency axis. If the correlation value obtained by the correlation calculation unit exceeds a predetermined threshold value, the radio quality calculation unit calculates a radio quality in the downlink by using a reception quality of the first pilot symbol and a reception quality of the second pilot symbol. | 08-04-2011 |
20120178393 | RECEIVING APPARATUS AND INTERFERENCE POWER ESTIMATION METHOD - Provided are a receiving apparatus and an interference power estimation method that can perform interference power estimation with high accuracy even when correlation in a fading variation between reference signals is low and obtain accurate receiving quality. The interference power estimation method according to the present invention receives a plurality of discontinuous reference signals on the time/frequency plane, extracts the reference signals from the received signal, linear-combines channel variation values obtained from reference signals surrounding a reference signal of a specific time/frequency on the time/frequency plane with predetermined weighting and estimates interference power using the linear-combined value resulting from the linear combining. | 07-12-2012 |
20120235388 | SIDE AIR BAG DEVICE, OCCUPANT PROTECTION DEVICE AND OCCUPANT PROTECTION METHOD - There are provided a side air bag device, an occupant protection device and an occupant protection method. The side air bag device that expands a side air bag member and a curtain air bag member between a side door and a passenger in a widthwise direction of a vehicle so as to protect the passenger from a shock caused by a side impact on the side door. The side air bag member is expanded such that a first chamber of the side air bag member directs toward a compartment in the widthwise direction of the vehicle. | 09-20-2012 |
20120235389 | SIDE AIR BAG DEVICE, OCCUPANT PROTECTION DEVICE AND OCCUPANT PROTECTION METHOD - There are provided a side air bag device, an occupant protection device and an occupant protection method. The side air bag member is expanded between a side door and a passenger M in a widthwise direction of a vehicle so as to protect the passenger from a shock caused by an impact on the side door. The side air bag member includes a communication chamber and a non-expanded portion that are contracted when the side air bag member is pressed by a curtain air bag member that is expanded above the side air bag member in the vertical direction of the vehicle. | 09-20-2012 |
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20110187929 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A communication apparatus includes: first and second input terminals configured to receive a video signal and transmit and receive a control signal; a first controller configured to output a first control command for setting a first video stream path through which a video signal that is output from a first source apparatus is to flow; a second controller configured to output a second control command for setting a second video stream path through which a video signal that is output from a second source apparatus is to flow; and a display module configured to display a display screen that is generated from first video and second video that are generated from video signals that are transmitted through the first and second video stream paths, respectively, and received by the first input terminal and the second input terminal. | 08-04-2011 |
20110242432 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD - In one embodiment, there is provided an electronic device. The electronic device includes: a first communication module configured to: transmit a confirmation request to an external device to confirm whether the external device supports an operation command or not; and receive, from the external device, a response including information as to whether the external device supports the operation command or not; a receiver configured to receive a remote controller signal from a remote controller; a second communication module configured to transmit the operation command corresponding to the remote controller signal, to the external device; and a reporting module configured to report that the operation command is not supported by the external device, when the response includes the information that the operation command is not supported by the external device. | 10-06-2011 |
20120204640 | ELECTRONIC WATCH - Provided is an electronic watch capable of, even if an indicating hand having a large moment of inertia is used, accurately determining success and failure of rotation. The electronic watch detects rotation by using a first detection mode determination circuit ( | 08-16-2012 |
20130329138 | VIDEO SENDER AND VIDEO RECEIVER - According to one embodiment, a video sender comprises: a video processor and a communication module. The video processor creates video. The communication module is configured to communicate with a video receiver. The communication module comprises: a receiver and a transmitter. The receiver receives, from the video receiver, specific information specifying which one of a color signal and a frame rate takes precedence over the other one in transmission. The transmitter converts the video created by the video processor into video in which one of the color signal and the frame rate takes precedence over the other one in accordance with the specific information, and transmit the video thus converted to the video receiver. | 12-12-2013 |
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20090234552 | Driving Action Estimating Device, Driving Support Device, Vehicle Evaluating System, Driver Model Creating Device, and Driving Action Determining Device - A driver model with higher precision is created as an evaluation standard for a driving condition in a normal condition. Further, a driving action is estimated using a driver model which can be created easily and can represent driving characteristics of a driver more precisely. | 09-17-2009 |
20100004034 | Hands-free phone-call device and tone quality control device - Constant phone-call quality is kept irrespective of setting of a tone adjusting function of a cellular phone under connection. There is provided a sound collector for collecting voices and converting the voices to a voice signal, a communication unit for communicating with a cellular phone terminal according to a predetermined communication protocol, and a reproducing unit for reproducing the voice signal received in the communication unit. A hands-free phone-call device for enabling the cellular phone terminal to execute hands-free phone call is provided with a signal processor for subjecting a voice signal to signal processing of adjusting tone quality to a predetermined state, and a controller for obtaining information on a tone adjusting function from the cellular phone terminal when the cellular phone terminal having the tone adjusting function for adjusting the tone quality during phone call is connected to communicate, and transmitting a predetermined command when it is determined that the tone adjusting function of the cellular phone terminal can be stopped or not, whereby the tone adjusting function of the cellular phone terminal is stopped and then the signal processor is made to execute the signal processing. | 01-07-2010 |
20130265042 | Optical Pumping Magnetometer - Stable magnetic field measurement is enabled without collapse of polarization or fluctuation of intensity of a laser beam incident on a glass cell of an optical pumping magnetic sensor. Excitation light generated with a light source, having optimized light intensity and polarized wave, through frequency stabilization, intensity control and polarized-wave control, is introduced via a polarized wave holding optical fiber to a magnetic sensor provided in a magnetic shield, and magnetic field measurement is performed by optical pumping using magneto-optical properties of spin-polarized alkali metal. The magnetic sensor has a structure where a lens, a polarization optical device, the glass cell and a photodetector, are integrally accommodated in a non-magnetic case. | 10-10-2013 |
20130341745 | Magnetic Field Measurement Apparatus - A light pumping magnetic measurement apparatus configured to suppress an influence on a magnetic field from a heater and facilitate reduction in size and integration of a gas cell when heating the gas cell in order to improve a sensitivity of detection of the magnetic field is provided. This measurement apparatus includes a first glass substrate, a substrate | 12-26-2013 |
20140306700 | MAGNETIC FIELD MEASURING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - In order to provide a magnetic field measuring apparatus facilitating the pressure control in a gas cell, or capable of inspecting the internal pressure of the gas cell without using any special process, the magnetic field measuring apparatus is configured such that a process layer of the magnetic field measuring apparatus has such a structure that includes a first hollow portion and a second hollow portion provided opposed to first hollow portion with a first isolation wall interposed therebetween. Alternatively, a method for manufacturing the magnetic field measuring apparatus includes breaking the first isolation wall after generating alkali metal (FIG. | 10-16-2014 |
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20100082168 | FLOW RATE MEASURING SYSTEM - In a slave electromagnetic flow meter, the synchronization signal from a master electromagnetic flow meter (that is, a master electromagnetic signal) MPs is monitored, and if the master synchronization signal MPs ceases to be received, then the synchronization signal used for the flow rate measurement is switched to a synchronization signal Ps that is generated by the synchronization signal generating unit of the slave electromagnetic flow meter, and the switched synchronization signal Ps is defined as the master synchronization signal MPs′ for the slave electromagnetic flow meter in the next stage. | 04-01-2010 |
20120004741 | PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEM HAVING EQUIPMENT MONITORING FUNCTION - HART-I/O units for sending and receiving input/output signals of HART communications-compatible devices that have HART communications functions, and for sending and receiving, on mutually differing lines, 4-20 mA DC signals, which include the input/output signals, and digital signals that are superimposed on the DC signals. A controller for receiving a DC current that is outputted from the HART-I/O units and for controlling processes based on the DC signals; and a device monitoring portion for receiving digital signals sent and received by the HART-I/O units, and for monitoring the status of the HART communications-compatible devices based on the digital signals. | 01-05-2012 |
20130243047 | HART Communication-Compatible Instrument - A HART communication-compatible device having a HART communication function for transmitting and receiving HART communication signals generated through superimposing an AC signal that is a combination of 1200 Hz and 2200 Hz frequency signals onto a DC signal of between 4 and 20 mA, including a receiving portion for receiving a HART communication signal, a signal detecting portion for detecting an AC signal of the HART communication signal using the HART communication signal received by the receiving portion; and an indicator portion for indicating, during the interval over which the AC signal is detected by the signal detecting portion, that an AC signal is detected. | 09-19-2013 |
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20100233389 | Cellulose Ester Film, Light Diffusing Film, Polarizing Plate, and Liquid Crystal Display - Disclosed is a cellulose ester film which, when used in a polarizing plate, can impart excellent dimensional stability, curling properties and surface properties to the polarizing plate. Also disclosed is a light-scattering-film, a polarizing plate or a liquid crystal display element which is produced by using the cellulose ester film, and therefore has more excellent optical anisotropy, higher surface properties and a smoother surface, causes less curling, and has good surface quality. The cellulose ester film comprises 1 to 50% by mass (inclusive) of microparticles having an average particle diameter of 1 to 400 nm (inclusive) and a compound showing negative birefringence in the direction of drawing, and has a retardation value (R | 09-16-2010 |
20120086452 | RF COIL AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS - It is an object of the present invention to provide an RF coil and an MRI apparatus capable of ensuring a wide imaging space and excellent in terms of allowing maintenance at the time of installation or failure. In order to do so, an RF coil of the present invention includes a cylindrical outer conductor and a plurality of rung conductors disposed inside the outer conductor along a circumferential direction of the outer conductor. In addition, each of the plurality of rung conductors is electrically connected to the outer conductor through a capacitor so as to form an electrical loop. The outer conductor is divided into a plurality of portions in the circumferential direction and is characterized in that the numbers of rung conductors disposed in at least two divided portions are different. In addition, an MRI apparatus of the present invention includes such an RF coil. | 04-12-2012 |
20140145722 | BIRDCAGE-TYPE HIGH-FREQUENCY COIL AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS - In order to allow the capacitances of a plurality of resonance capacitor elements inserted in a ring-shaped conductor element of a birdcage-type high-frequency coil to be collectively adjusted in a balanced manner without the need to perform adjustment separately, there is provided a birdcage-type high-frequency coil including two ring-shaped conductor elements in which a plurality of resonance capacitor elements are inserted in series and a plurality of linear conductor elements electrically connected to the two ring-shaped conductor elements. An adjustment belt to change the apparent capacitances of the plurality of resonance capacitor elements collectively is slidably disposed on the outer periphery of at least one of the two ring-shaped conductor elements with a dielectric member interposed therebetween. | 05-29-2014 |
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20080285979 | HIGH-SPEED OPTICAL COMMUNICATION - A high-speed optical communication system for transmitting and receiving an optical signal is disclosed. A contents receiver transmits previously given unique identification information by using a light less intensive than the intensity level of a pre-given threshold. When a contents transmitter receives the identification information transmitted from the contents receiver, it transmits contents data to the receiver by using a laser. | 11-20-2008 |
20090060424 | Optoelectronic combination connector - An optoelectronic combination connector includes a plug unit having an optoelectronic converter and a receptacle unit detachably attached to the plug unit. The plug unit has a fiber securing member with a groove, so that an optical fiber cable connected to the optoelectronic converter is secured to the groove with an adhesive. In the optoelectronic combination connector, the optical fiber cable preferably has an outer cover formed of polyvinylidene fluoride or a fluoro-resin. | 03-05-2009 |
20110001844 | BLINK SIGNAL DETECTION CIRCUIT, BLINK SIGNAL DETECTION METHOD, OBJECT SENSING APPARATUS, OBJECT SENSING METHOD, AND IMAGING SYSTEM - There is provided a blink signal detection circuit which can clearly detect a blink signal of a blinking measurement target even if the measurement target moves. The blink signal detection circuit includes: a plurality of storage media that record image information shot by an imaging device at respective times, the image information showing a light-dark change in brightness of the measurement target which is blinking; an image information enlargement unit (pixel information enlargement circuit) that enlarges a plurality of pieces of image information at the respective different times with reference to a spatial axis, thereby generating a plurality of pieces of enlarged image information at the respective different times; and a correlation detection unit (correlation integration circuit) that performs correlation detection between the plurality of pieces of enlarged image information at the respective different times. The blink signal detection circuit detects the blink signal of the measurement target from a result of correlation detection obtained by the correlation detection unit. | 01-06-2011 |
20130343711 | OPTICAL-ELECTRIC CONVERSION CONNECTOR - An optical-electric conversion connector configured to be connected to a mating connector. The optical-electric conversion connector includes an optical semiconductor element for converting between an optical signal and an electrical signal; a supporting member for supporting the optical semiconductor element; a contact member connected to the optical semiconductor element for contacting with a mating contact member of the mating connector; a first resin member formed of a transparent resin for integrally holding the optical semiconductor element, the supporting member, and the contact member, and a second resin member mounted on an outer surface of the first resin member. The first resin member is arranged to seal at least the optical semiconductor element. A method of producing the optical-electric conversion connector includes an element arrangement step, a conductive member connecting step, a first resin molding step, and a second resin molding step. | 12-26-2013 |
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20110033720 | TRANSPARENT ADHESIVE SHEET AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - An object of the present disclosure is to provide a transparent adhesive sheet in which the occurrence of display unevenness, bubbles and peeling is prevented. The transparent adhesive sheet contains a copolymer of a monomer comprising (A) an alkyl (meth)acrylate having an alkyl group of 4 to 18 carbon atoms, a polar monomer whose homopolymer has a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 50 C or higher (B), and (C) a (meth)acrylate ester, wherein the copolymer exhibits tan of 0.13 or more at 140 C and 1.0 Hz, and also exhibits a storage elastic modulus of 8.9 104 Pa or less at 25 C and 1.0 Hz. | 02-10-2011 |
20120057038 | IMAGING APPARATUS, READOUT CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM PRODUCT, READOUT CONTROL APPARATUS, AND SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging apparatus includes a readout unit that reads still picture signals from first pixels among a plurality of pixels disposed on an imaging device and reads motion picture signals from second pixels among the plurality of pixels at predetermined frame cycles, and a readout control unit that controls the readout timings of the still picture signals based on the length of a still picture exposure period for accumulating the still picture signals and the length of a motion picture frame cycle period which is the period of the frame cycles. | 03-08-2012 |
20120088939 | HYALURONIC ACID PRODUCTION PROMOTER AND MELANIN PRODUCTION INHIBITOR - Provided is a hyaluronic acid production promoter and a melanin synthesis inhibitor. The hyaluronic acid production promoter and the melanin synthesis inhibitor of the present invention each contain soybean saponin as an active ingredient. The soybean saponin is preferably soybean saponin aglycone. The soybean saponin aglycone preferably includes soyasapogenol A and/or soyasapogenol B. The hyaluronic acid production promoter and the melanin synthesis inhibitor of the present invention are each administered transdermally or orally. | 04-12-2012 |
20120285632 | SOLAR RADIATION SHIELDING APPARATUS - First and second lifting and lowering units are connected to first and second shielding members hung from a head rail, and an operating cord drives the units to lift and lower the shielding members independently. An operating cord is wound around a rotating member. Between a first input shaft to which the turning force of the rotating member is transferred and a first output shaft that can lift and lower the first shielding member, a first clutch of the first lifting and lowering unit is provided, and a first stopper is provided in the first output shaft. Between a second input shaft to which the turning force of the rotating member is transferred and a second output shaft that can lift and lower the second shielding member, a second clutch of the second lifting and lowering unit is provided, and a second stopper is provided in the second output shaft. | 11-15-2012 |
20130011413 | Method and Pharmaceutical Composition for Treatment of Intestinal Disease - Provided is a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of intestinal disease which contains an inhibitor of inflammatory cytokine IL-1 family molecules and IL-17 family molecules, and in particular contains an IL-17F inhibitor. Also provided is a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of intestinal disease which contains an IL-17F inhibitor and an IL-17A (IL-17) inhibitor. Inflammatory cytokine IL-1 family molecules and IL-17 family molecules promote tumorigenesis during onset of colorectal cancer, and it has been found that tumorigenesis can be suppressed by suppressing these cytokines. | 01-10-2013 |
20130080974 | REGION RECOMMENDATION DEVICE, REGION RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A region recommendation device | 03-28-2013 |
20130305176 | UI CREATION SUPPORT SYSTEM, UI CREATION SUPPORT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM - In order to adjust an amount of information to be simultaneously displayed on a display with identity of information to be displayed on a user interface (UI) screen guaranteed and to design a UI screen suitable for an assumed user, a UI creation support system ( | 11-14-2013 |
20130311915 | UI CREATION SUPPORT SYSTEM, UI CREATION SUPPORT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM - A UI creation support system is provided which supports creation of a user interface (UI) screen and which includes an organization-effect correlation rule storage unit ( | 11-21-2013 |
20130326378 | UI CREATION SUPPORT SYSTEM, UI CREATION SUPPORT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM - A UI creation support system is provided which supports creating a user interface (UI) screen for receiving an input of each of a plurality of items, the UI creation support system ( | 12-05-2013 |
20140040759 | USER INTERFACE (UI) CREATION SUPPORT SYSTEM, UI CREATION SUPPORT METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a UI creation support system ( | 02-06-2014 |
20140121177 | SOYASAPOGENOL COMPOSITION - A soy saponin composition is provided high bodily absorption characteristics. In an embodiment, a soyasapogenol composition comprises soyasapogenol B and 3-O-D-glucuronopyranosyl soyasapogenol B. The weight ratio (B/A) of the 3-O-D-glucuronopyranosyl soyasapogenol B to the soyasapogenol B is in the range of 0.001-10. The composition can be produced by partial decomposition of a sugar chain residue of a soy saponin B group glycoside utilizing an acid. | 05-01-2014 |
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20110028173 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, SERVICE PROVIDING APPARATUS, RESOURCE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND PROGRAM - When a service providing device which provides a service to a mobile communication terminal enters a service stop mode, a signal indicating that the service stop mode is set in is transmitted to service providing devices other than that service providing device. Upon reception of the signal, the service providing device which has transmitted the signal releases the resource of the mobile communication terminal to which a service has been provided. | 02-03-2011 |
20110028174 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT METHOD AND PROGRAM - When a service providing device which provides a service to a mobile communication terminal has entered a service stop state, a managing device connected to the service providing device instructs service providing devices other than the service providing device which has entered the service stop state, to release a resource of a mobile communication terminal to which a service has been provided by the service providing device which has entered the service stop state. | 02-03-2011 |
20110200012 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, GATEWAY APPARATUS, TERMINAL ALLOCATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A wireless communication system of the present invention includes: terminals; a base station that performs wireless communication with the terminals; a gateway apparatus that manages the terminals and the base station; and a server apparatus that authenticates the terminals. The gateway apparatus includes: at least one C-plane processor that processes C-plane; and N U-plane processors that process U plane. Each of the N U-plane processors notifies the C-plane processor of its own load status. The server apparatus notifies the C-plane processor of service levels of target terminals that try to perform entry to a network in which the base station and the gateway apparatus are located. The C-plane processor allocates, based on the load status of each of the N U-plane processors and the service levels of the target terminals, one of the N U-plane processors as an entry destination to the target terminals. | 08-18-2011 |
20140029574 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, GATEWAY APPARATUS, TERMINAL ALLOCATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A wireless communication system of the present invention includes: terminals; a base station that performs wireless communication with the terminals; a gateway apparatus that manages the terminals and the base station; and a server apparatus that authenticates the terminals. The gateway apparatus includes: at least one C-plane processor that processes C-plane; and N U-plane processors that process U plane. Each of the N U-plane processors notifies the C-plane processor of its own load status. The server apparatus notifies the C-plane processor of service levels of target terminals that try to perform entry to a network in which the base station and the gateway apparatus are located. The C-plane processor allocates, based on the load status of each of the N U-plane processors and the service levels of the target terminals, one of the N U-plane processors as an entry destination to the target terminals. | 01-30-2014 |
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20080202246 | VIBRATION DETECTING DEVICE - A vibration detecting device comprises an electric field changing unit that changes an electric field using the vibration of an object to be measured, an electric field detecting unit that detects the electric field changed by the electric field changing unit, and a converting unit that converts the variation in the electric field into waveform data. | 08-28-2008 |
20120214831 | METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF SENSITIVITY TO ANTI-CANCER AGENT - To provide a marker for determining sensitivity of a patient to an anti-cancer agent, and novel cancer therapeutic means employing the marker. | 08-23-2012 |
20120220613 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING SENSITIVITY TO AN ANTICANCER AGENT - To provide a marker for determining sensitivity of a patient to an anti-cancer agent, and novel cancer therapeutic means employing the marker. | 08-30-2012 |
20120220618 | ANTICANCER AGENT SENSITIVITY-DETERMINING MARKER - To provide a marker for determining sensitivity of a patient to an anti-cancer agent, and novel cancer therapeutic means employing the marker. | 08-30-2012 |
20130035356 | CRYSTAL OF DIAMINE DERIVATIVE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME - An object of the present invention is to provide a novel crystal form of a compound that has an inhibitory effect on activated blood coagulation factor X and is useful as a pharmaceutical compound for prevention and/or treatment of thrombotic and/or embolic diseases. The present invention provides a novel crystal form of N | 02-07-2013 |
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20110151583 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIC STATE USING BLOOD SAMPLE - The present invention provides a method and an index capable of less-invasively determining myocardial ischemia such as ischemic heart disease or restenosis after percutaneous coronary intervention. The present invention also provides an index that allows the cardiovascular disease other than heart failure to be determined even from a blood sample showing a BNP value from which the cardiovascular disease other than heart failure cannot be determined by a conventional method. A method for determining myocardial ischemia comprising subjecting a blood sample which is derived from a test subject and which contains a BNP molecular group containing at least two selected from the group consisting of BNP 1-32 molecule, BNP 3-32 molecule, BNP 4-32 molecule, BNP 5-32 molecule, and a molecule having a mass number larger than that of BNP 5-32 molecule by 16 Da to a detection process capable of distinguishing and quantifying the individual BNP molecules different in mass number to detect the BNP molecular group, wherein myocardial ischemia in the test subject is determined using, as an index, a ratio between a detected intensity of at least one molecule selected from the BNP molecular group and a detected intensity of at least one other molecule selected from the BNP molecular group. | 06-23-2011 |
20110262943 | REAGENT KIT FOR MEASURING FRESHNESS - A reagent kit for measuring freshness, which can be stored at a relatively high temperature with high storage stability, is obtained by lyophilizing reagent solutions each containing a plurality of enzymes and an enzyme protecting agent. The reagent kit includes a first reagent and a second reagent. The first reagent is obtained by drying a frozen product of a first reagent solution containing XOD, NP, an enzyme protecting agent, and a color former under reduced pressure at a temperature not higher than the glass transition temperature (Tg). The second reagent is obtained by drying a frozen product of a second reagent solution containing XOD, NP, AP, an enzyme protecting agent, and a color former under reduced pressure at a temperature not higher than the glass transition temperature (Tg). The enzyme protecting agent is sucrose and/or gelatin, and the color former develops a color by conjugation with a reaction of decomposing Hx into xanthine and uric acid by XOD. | 10-27-2011 |
20140351538 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND STORAGE APPARATUS MIGRATION METHOD - A source remote copy configuration in a source storage system is migrated to a destination storage system as a destination remote copy configuration. The destination primary storage apparatus of the destination storage system defines a virtual volume mapped to the primary volume provided by the source primary storage apparatus which is a storage area of the virtual volume; takes over a first identifier of the primary volume to the virtual volume; transfers, when the virtual volume receives an access request, the access request to the source primary storage apparatus to write data in the primary volume; and takes over the first identifier from the virtual volume to another primary volume provided by the destination primary storage apparatus, after completion of copy of data from primary volume of the source primary storage apparatus into primary volume of the destination primary storage apparatus and secondary volume of the destination secondary storage apparatus. | 11-27-2014 |
20150074364 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND STORAGE APPARATUS MIGRATION METHOD - A source remote copy configuration in a source storage system is migrated to a destination storage system as a destination remote copy configuration. The destination primary storage apparatus of the destination storage system defines a virtual volume mapped to the primary volume provided by the source primary storage apparatus which is a storage area of the virtual volume; takes over a first identifier of the primary volume to the virtual volume; transfers, when the virtual volume receives an access request, the access request to the source primary storage apparatus to write data in the primary volume; and takes over the first identifier from the virtual volume to another primary volume provided by the destination primary storage apparatus, after completion of copy of data from primary volume of the source primary storage apparatus into primary volume of the destination primary storage apparatus and secondary volume of the destination secondary storage apparatus. | 03-12-2015 |
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20090055094 | NAVIGATION DEVICE AND NEAREST POINT SEARCH METHOD - The present invention makes the user easily search the nearest point which is useful for the user without making the user perform a complicated operation. The present invention provides a navigation device that obtains a current position based on information from GPS satellites, and guides a travel path from the current position to the destination on a map image which includes a display unit that displays the map image, a search unit that searches a nearest point existing around a vehicle position on the map image, a search subject range determination unit that, when a search subject area setting frame in searching the nearest point is specified by a user, determines the search subject area setting frame as a search subject range in searching by the search unit. | 02-26-2009 |
20140239946 | CURRENT SENSOR - A current sensor includes: two cores that configure closed magnetic circuits surrounding a conductor where a current to be measured flows and are arranged adjacent to each other; two coils that are wound respectively around the two cores and are connected in series to generate a magnetic flux in surrounding directions opposite to each other in the two cores; an excitation power supply that applies an alternating current with a superimposed direct current to the two coils; and a detection circuit that is connected to a connection point of the two coils. It is possible to obtain the current sensor being capable of high precision measurement up to high frequencies and also capable of reducing power consumption. | 08-28-2014 |
20140253113 | GEOMAGNETIC SENSOR - A geomagnetic sensor includes: a core that constitutes a closed magnetic circuit; a pair of coils that are wound around the core in positions facing each other and are connected in series to generate magnetic flux in the same circumferential direction in the core; an excitation power supply that applies an alternating current with a superimposed direct current to the pair of coils; and a detection circuit that is connected to a connection point of the pair of coils. Unlike a conventional flux gate type geomagnetic sensor, it is not required to excite the core until the core is magnetically saturated, and it is therefore possible to reduce power consumption. | 09-11-2014 |
20140357126 | CONNECTOR AND CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY - This connector can be connected to a counterpart connector having a counterpart contact, and is provided with an electric current sensor function. Specifically, the connector is provided with a contact, a protective member composed of an insulating material, a core, and an electric current detection member. The contact extends along the longitudinal direction so as to have a longitudinal part that can be connected to the counterpart contact. The protective member surrounds the contact in the plane orthogonal to the longitudinal direction. The core surrounds the protective member in the plane orthogonal to the longitudinal direction. The core has a gap. The electric current detection member is at least partially disposed within the gap. | 12-04-2014 |
20150084621 | CURRENT SENSOR - A current sensor includes a magnetic core with a gap in part of a circumference and formed in an annular shape, and a magneto-electric conversion element arranged in the gap, the magneto-electric conversion element detecting magnetic fluxes changing with a measurement target current passing through a hollow part of the magnetic core. The magnetic core is formed by laminating a plurality of materials in a direction except a circumferential direction, and is formed so that magnetic flux densities of two points in an area defined in advance as an area where a sensing part of the magneto-electric conversion element can exist (hereinafter referred to as a sensing part existence area) approximate to each other, the two points being away from each other with a distance in a laminating direction being a length of the sensing part in the laminating direction. | 03-26-2015 |
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20100267322 | ELEVATOR AIR PRESSURE CONTROL DEVICE - It is an object to ease discomfort feeling caused by ear fullness for passengers of an elevator. An air pressure control device | 10-21-2010 |
20140356643 | PRESS-FORMED PRODUCT - A press-formed product includes a body having a transverse cross section including a bottom portion and a shoulder portion contiguous to the bottom portion through an R end. In the transverse cross section, a first region from the R end to a position a distance away in a bottom portion extending direction, and a second region which is part of the bottom portion and is contiguous to the first region have a work-hardening distribution introduced by press-forming. The work-hardening distribution has an average hardness Hv1 of an area of the first region from a steel sheet surface to a depth obtained by multiplying a steel sheet thickness by 0.2 and an average hardness Hv2 of an area of the second region from the steel sheet surface to a position obtained by multiplying the steel sheet thickness by 0.2 to satisfy a relationship of Hv1>1.05×Hv2. | 12-04-2014 |
20140367999 | FRONT FLOOR PANEL - A front floor panel for an automotive body as a lightweight sheet can be reliably press-formed without a press forming loads becoming excessively large, can have desired stiffness, and noise and vibration characteristics for all directions since there is little stiffness anisotropy. The front floor panel includes a floor tunnel formed in a center in an automotive width direction to be oriented to a longitudinal direction, upright flanges disposed left and right formed at a left and right end portions in the automotive width direction to be joined to side sills, and a left and right plane portions formed between the upright flanges disposed left and right and a left and right longitudinal wall portions of the floor tunnel. In loop-shaped areas including outer edge portions of the plane portions, convex-concave parts in specific shapes are formed, and remaining areas excluding the loop-shaped areas are formed into flat sheet shapes. | 12-18-2014 |
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20080200433 | Molecular Chaperone Function Regulator - According to the present invention, a molecular chaperone function regulator containing a quinazoline derivative represented by the following formula (I) | 08-21-2008 |
20130185881 | TOOTHBRUSH - To provide a toothbrush that can easily and surely brush, particularly, lateral sides of molars and premolars and rear surfaces of incisors. A toothbrush comprising a rod-like block handle and a bristle section having a bristle tuft unit composed with a plurality of bristle tufts and extended to the end part of the block handle, wherein the bristle tuft unit is equipped with a head-end bristle tuft unit disposed in the head end section and a level difference unit provided on the block handle side rather than on the head-end bristle tuft unit, having still shorter bristle tufts and at the same time, formed throughout a plane range larger than the head-end bristle tuft unit. | 07-25-2013 |
20140315498 | OSCILLATOR, RECTIFIER, AND TRANSCEIVER DEVICE - An oscillator has an oscillation portion that generates oscillatory electric signals due to a magnetization motion; and a first electric circuit that is connected in parallel to the oscillation portion. A current whose magnitude oscillates flows to the first electric circuit, and the first electric circuit is arranged such that a magnetic field generated by the current is applied to the oscillation portion. | 10-23-2014 |
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20100086459 | Impurity removing apparatus and method of operating the same - An impurity removing apparatus is simple in structure for removing impurities from a rare gas and enable to make the rare gas reusable. The impurity removing apparatus includes a first treatment device | 04-08-2010 |
20140290919 | VACUUM PUMP WITH ABATEMENT FUNCTION - A vacuum pump has an abatement part for treating an exhaust gas discharged from a chamber of a manufacturing apparatus to make the exhaust gas harmless. The vacuum pump includes a heat exchanger configured to heat an inert gas by using heat generated when the exhaust gas is treated to be made harmless in the abatement part. The inert gas heated by the heat exchanger is introduced into the vacuum pump. | 10-02-2014 |
20140295362 | VACUUM PUMP WITH ABATEMENT FUNCTION - A vacuum pump includes a vacuum pump having a discharge port to which an abatement part for treating an exhaust gas discharged from the vacuum pump to make the exhaust gas harmless is attached. The vacuum pump includes a cylindrical member having an exhaust gas introduction port for introducing the exhaust gas to be treated and a gas outlet port for discharging gases which have been treated, a plurality of fuel nozzles provided at a circumferential wall of the cylindrical member for ejecting a fuel, and a plurality of air nozzles provided at the circumferential wall of the cylindrical member for ejecting air so as to form a swirling flow of air along an inner circumferential surface of the circumferential wall. The air nozzles are disposed at a plurality of stages spaced in an axial direction of the cylindrical member. | 10-02-2014 |
20140348717 | VACUUM PUMP WITH ABATEMENT FUNCTION - A vacuum pump with abatement function is used for evacuating a chamber of a manufacturing apparatus. The vacuum pump with abatement function includes a vacuum pump having a discharge port to which at least one abatement part for treating an exhaust gas discharged from the vacuum pump to make the exhaust gas harmless is attached. The abatement part is selected from a plurality of abatement parts having different treatment types of exhaust gas and/or different treatment amounts of exhaust gas and/or different treatment performances of exhaust gas. | 11-27-2014 |
20140352820 | VACUUM PUMP WITH ABATEMENT FUNCTION - A vacuum pump with abatement function is used for evacuating a chamber of a manufacturing apparatus. The vacuum pump with abatement function includes a vacuum pump having a discharge port to which one or more abatement parts for treating an exhaust gas discharged from the vacuum pump to make the exhaust gas harmless are attached. The one or more abatement parts are selected, depending on the amount and kind of the exhaust gas discharged from the vacuum pump, from plural kinds of abatement parts which have different treatment types of exhaust gas and/or different treatment amounts of exhaust gas. | 12-04-2014 |
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20090085404 | Co-generated power supply system - In a co-generated power supply system for performing dispersed power supply to a load, a wind turbine generator, a solar cell and a fuel cell whose rated voltages are made equal to a rated voltage of a storage battery are used as DC power sources. These DC power sources, a commercial AC power source and the load are connected to each other via a bi-directional electronic transformer. Thus, the co-generated power supply system, in which the electric power of a natural energy system having many fluctuation factors is combined with stable electric power such as a load leveling battery or a fuel cell, allows the stable electric power to be supplied to the load via the electronic transformer commonly, thereby reducing the cost and enhancing the performance of the entire system. | 04-02-2009 |
20130266202 | RADIATION THERAPY DEVICE CONTROLLER, PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR SAME - A radiation therapy device controller identifies a pixel on a straight line connecting a ray source and a sensor array, and calculates a luminance update amount candidate value for each identified pixel based on a ratio of a change amount for the pixel on the straight line indicating the living body to a sum of change amounts from a luminance value of a pixel corresponding to a correlated computed tomography image correlated with a computed tomography image of an update target of a luminance value of the identified pixel. Also, the control device calculates a luminance update amount of each identified pixel using the luminance update amount candidate value of each identified pixel calculated for a plurality of rotation angles, and updates the luminance value of each corresponding pixel of the computed tomography image of the update target using the luminance update amount of each identified pixel. | 10-10-2013 |
20130274539 | RADIATION THERAPY DEVICE CONTROLLER, PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR SAME - This radiation therapy device controller selects, for a plurality of body motion phases, computed tomography image data obtained which shows a diseased portion, and generates, for each rotation angles of a ray source and a sensor array, a reconstructed image. The control device generates a radiation projection image which shows the diseased portion when the radiation is radiated if the rotation angle is a predetermined rotation angle, compares the reconstructed image of each of the plurality of body motion phases with the radiation projection image, and determines a body motion phase indicated by a reconstructed image in which a difference is small, to be a current respiratory phase. As a result, a position of the diseased portion calculated for the computed tomography image data in the computed tomography image data group of the respiratory phase in advance is identified to be a current position of the diseased portion. | 10-17-2013 |
20150038763 | RADIOTHERAPY EQUIPMENT CONTROL DEVICE, RADIOTHERAPY EQUIPMENT CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM EXECUTED BY COMPUTER FOR RADIOTHERAPY EQUIPMENT - A radiotherapy equipment control device acquires reference position information for a specific location at a reference time. Furthermore, representative point reference position information is generated from reference position information for a plurality of markers at the reference time, and relative position information up to the reference position information for the specific location is generated. Moreover, representative point position information at another time is generated from the position information for a plurality of markers in a subject at the other time, which differs from the reference time. In addition, position information for the specific location at the other time is generated from the representative point position information and the relative position information. In this case, representative point reference position information and representative position information are generated on the basis of the position information and reference position information for the plurality of markers, said information having been weighted by weighting factors. | 02-05-2015 |
20150065779 | TREATMENT PLANNING DEVICE, TREATMENT PLANNING METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - This treatment planning device calculates position information for specific locations for a plurality of times corresponding to a time course on the basis of the positions of markers positioned in the vicinity of the specific locations, and generates a three-dimensional range for the specific locations for each of the plurality of times. In addition, the treatment planning device generates representative range information, which represents a range that includes the entire three-dimensional ranges for the specific locations for each of the plurality of times, tracks the position information for the specific locations for each of the plurality of times, and calculates the amount of radiation to be emitted in the range for the specific locations represented by representative range information when radiation is emitted for a prescribed time period in the range for the specific locations represented by the representative range information. | 03-05-2015 |
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20090131836 | SUSPICIOUS BEHAVIOR DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - There is provided a suspicious behavior detection system capable of specifying and identifying a suspicious person exhibiting abnormal behavior. A suspicious behavior detection system is a system to detect suspicious behavior of a monitored subject, by using images captured by a stereo camera. The suspicious behavior detection system has an ambulatory path acquisition unit which acquires ambulatory path information of the monitored subject, and a behavioral identification unit which identifies behavior of the monitored subject based on the ambulatory path information, and automatically determines suspicious behavior of the monitored subject. | 05-21-2009 |
20090213222 | SYSTEM FOR TRACKING A MOVING OBJECT, BY USING PARTICLE FILTERING - In a tracking system for tracking a moving object by using a particle filter, the particle filter is configured to arrange particles initially, in a standby state, in a given background region provided in the screen of a camera and to rearrange the particles with respect to the moving object in accordance with a change in likelihood that the object has with respect to the particles. | 08-27-2009 |
20100157062 | SYSTEM FOR MONITORING PERSONS BY USING CAMERAS - According to one embodiment, a monitoring system is provided, which has a personal authentication unit and a camera. The personal authentication unit is provided near a security gate and authenticates a person allowed to pass through the security gate. The camera photographs an area near the security gate, in which the personal authentication unit is provided. The monitoring system further has a data generation unit configured to generate personal attribute data about the person authenticated by the personal authentication unit, a person identification unit configured to identify the person authenticated, on the basis of video data generated by the camera, and a monitoring data generation unit configured to generate monitoring data composed of video data and metadata. The video data represents an image including the person identified by the person identification unit. The metadata is associated with the video data and containing the personal attribute data. | 06-24-2010 |
20120321138 | SUSPICIOUS BEHAVIOR DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - There is provided a suspicious behavior detection system capable of specifying and identifying a suspicious person exhibiting abnormal behavior. A suspicious behavior detection system is a system to detect suspicious behavior of a monitored subject, by using images captured by a stereo camera. The suspicious behavior detection system has an ambulatory path acquisition unit which acquires ambulatory path information of the monitored subject, and a behavioral identification unit which identifies behavior of the monitored subject based on the ambulatory path information, and automatically determines suspicious behavior of the monitored subject. | 12-20-2012 |
20130235272 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus of one embodiment executes a super-resolution processing which generate a high resolution image of a frame from low resolution images of a plurality of frames by performing alignment of pixels on a reference frame on a standard frame which is made to have high resolution and executing reconfiguration of an image based on a result of the aligning. The image processing apparatus includes a plurality of arithmetic processing units which can operate in parallel. When executing alignment between the standard frame and the reference frame, the plurality of arithmetic processing units operate in parallel a first alignment processing and a second alignment processing which are in the reverse relation to each other in terms of the relation of the standard and the reference, and the first alignment processing and the second alignment processing share their processing results mutually. | 09-12-2013 |
20140254952 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, CLOUD PLATFORM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT THEREOF - According to one embodiment, an information processor divides input image data for a plurality of information processors so as to perform a super resolution process as a distributed processing. The super resolution process generates a high resolution image based on a plurality of low resolution input images. The information processor includes a division point determining unit, a division processor, and a combination processor. The division point determining unit determines a division point for an input image of a sequence of image frames. The division processor divides, for each of the information processors, the input image at the division point, and allocates each divided input image to each corresponding one of the information processors. | 09-11-2014 |
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20090142871 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device provides a semiconductor device with a gallium-nitride-based semiconductor structure that allows long-term stable operation without degradation in device performance. After formation of an insulation film on a surface other than on a ridge surface, an oxygen-containing gas such as O | 06-04-2009 |
20090162962 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR LASER - The invention provides a high-reliability nitride semiconductor laser that reduces the stress of a nitride dielectric film formed on a resonator's end face, thus reducing possible damage to the resonator's end face, which may occur during the formation of the nitride dielectric film. A method of manufacturing a nitride semiconductor laser according to the invention uses a nitride-based III-V compound semiconductor and includes the steps of (a) forming an adherence layer of a nitride dielectric on both a light-emitting and a light-reflecting end face of a resonator in plasma containing a nitrogen gas; and (b) forming a low-reflective and a high-reflective face-coating film of a dielectric on the adherence layers. | 06-25-2009 |
20090170304 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided, which can reduce the contact resistance of an ohmic electrode to a p-type nitride semiconductor layer and can achieve long-term stable operation. In forming, in an electrode forming step, a p-type ohmic electrode of a metal film by successive lamination of a Pd film which is a first p-type ohmic electrode and a Ta film which is a second p-type ohmic electrode on a p-type GaN contact layer, the metal film is formed to include an oxygen atom. In the presence of an oxygen atom in the metal film, then in a heat-treatment step, the p-type ohmic electrode of the metal film is heat-treated in an atmosphere that contains no oxygen atom-containing gas. | 07-02-2009 |
20090185595 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER - A GaN laser, includes a coating film on a front end surface through which laser light is emitted. The coating film includes a first insulating film in contact with the front end surface and a second insulating film on the first insulating film. The optical film thickness of the second insulating film is an odd multiple of λ/4 with respect to the wavelength λ of laser light produced by the semiconductor laser. The adhesion of the first insulating film to GaN is stronger than the adhesion of the second insulating film; to GaN. The refractive index of the second insulating film is 2 to 2.3 thick. The first insulating film is 10 nm or less. The first insulating film is an oxide film having a stoichiometric composition. | 07-23-2009 |
20110204028 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR A MAGNETIC DISK - A method for manufacturing a glass substrate for a magnetic disk comprises a surface grinding step of processing a mirror-surface plate glass, having a main surface in the form of a mirror surface, to a required flatness and surface roughness using fixed abrasive particles. The method comprises, before the surface grinding step using the fixed abrasive particles, a surface roughening step of roughening the surface of the mirror-surface plate glass by frosting. | 08-25-2011 |
20110249694 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor device includes a submount; a semiconductor laser mounted on the submount via solder in a junction-down manner. The semiconductor laser includes a semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor laminated structure containing a p-n junction, on the semiconductor substrate, and an electrode on the semiconductor laminated structure and joined to the submount via the solder. A high-melting-point metal or dielectric film is located between the submount and the semiconductor laminated structure and surrounds the electrode. | 10-13-2011 |
20120251711 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR A MAGNETIC DISK AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A MAGNETIC DISK - In a magnetic disk glass substrate manufacturing method, a main surface of a glass substrate is polished using a polishing liquid containing colloidal silica abrasive particles as polishing abrasive particles and a surface plate with a polishing pad, then the glass substrate is brought into contact with a liquid containing a coagulant so that the colloidal silica abrasive particles are coagulated, and then the colloidal silica abrasive particles coagulated are removed. | 10-04-2012 |
20130119015 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF A GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR A MAGNETIC DISK - An object of the invention is to effectively remove particles on the glass substrate surfaces, even in the case wherein abrasive particles having a small particle size is used in the polishing step of the glass substrate and a supersonic treatment is performed at a high frequency at the supersonic cleaning step after the polishing step. In a manufacturing method of a glass substrate for a magnetic disk comprising a polishing step for performing polishing of the glass substrate and a supersonic cleaning step for performing supersonic cleaning of the glass substrate after the polishing step, the polishing step uses abrasive particles having a particle size of 10 nm to 30 nm and a first supersonic cleaning is performed at a frequency of 300 kHz to 1,000 kHz to form secondary particles and then a second supersonic cleaning is performed at a frequency of 30 kHz to 100 kHz in the supersonic cleaning step. | 05-16-2013 |
20140011349 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a heterojunction semiconductor device including an AlGaN layer, the method including the steps of (a) forming a dummy electrode in a region where a gate electrode is arranged on the AlGaN layer, (b) depositing a dielectric film on the AlGaN layer by exposing side surfaces of the dummy electrode, using a device having anisotropy, (c) forming an opening in the dielectric film by removing the dummy electrode, and (d) forming the gate electrode that extends from inside the opening onto the dielectric film in a vicinity of the opening. | 01-09-2014 |
20150069408 | HETEROJUNCTION FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A laminate includes a surface on which a gate electrode is provided, and is made of a nitride semiconductor. The laminate includes a first layer having a first band gap, and a second layer provided between the first layer and the surface and having a second band gap which is larger than the first band gap. The first and second layers and form a joint surface by a hetero junction. The surface includes a surface defect density equal to or smaller than 1.7×10 | 03-12-2015 |
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20110189450 | FORMED ARTICLE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, ELECTRONIC DEVICE MEMBER, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A formed article includes a gas barrier layer that is formed of a material that includes at least an oxygen atom, a carbon atom, and a silicon atom, the gas barrier layer having an oxygen atom content that gradually decreases from the surface of the gas barrier layer in the depth direction, and having a carbon atom content that gradually increases from the surface of the gas barrier layer in the depth direction. An electronic device member includes the formed article, and an electronic device includes the electronic device member. The formed article exhibits an excellent gas barrier capability and excellent transparency. | 08-04-2011 |
20150049440 | TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE LAMINATE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE OR MODULE - The present invention is a transparent conductive laminate comprising a base, a low-refractive-index layer, an intermediate-refractive-index layer, and a transparent conductive layer, the low-refractive-index layer, the intermediate-refractive-index layer, and the transparent conductive layer being sequentially stacked on at least one side of the base either directly or through one or more layers, the low-refractive-index layer having a refractive index of 1.40 to 1.50, and the intermediate-refractive-index layer having a refractive index of 1.50 to 1.80 and a film density of 2.5 to 4.5 g/cm | 02-19-2015 |