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20100035099 | SOLID OXIDE CELL - A solid oxide cell is provided which, after short-time activation, can generate electricity at a high power density over a prolonged period. This cell can be constituted so as to eliminate the necessity of carrier gas introduction during power generation and, hence, can more easily realize a size reduction in power generation systems. The solid oxide cell at least has an anode having an anode material, a cathode having a cathode material, and an electrolyte disposed between the anode and the cathode and including an ionically conductive solid oxide, wherein the anode material includes a composite metal oxide or a cermet, solid carbon is deposited on the anode material during activation and at least the following reaction schemes (1) and (2) are utilized at the anode during power generation to generate electricity. | 02-11-2010 |
20130081692 | SOLAR CELL HAVING POROUS STRUCTURE IN WHICH METAL NANOPARTICLES ARE CARRIED IN PORES - The present invention intends to provide a solar cell that has, by an increase in the absorbance of light of a surface of a solar cell, a reduction in the reflectance, and so on, a high energy conversion efficiency. The problem was solved by a pn junction type semiconductor solar cell that has a porous structure on a surface thereof, characterized in that metal nanoparticles having a surface plasmon absorption are supported in pores present in the porous structure, further, by a pn junction type semiconductor solar cell in which the porous structure is formed in a photoelectric material itself in a pn junction type semiconductor solar cell, or, the porous structure is formed in a light transmission layer disposed on a surface of a pn junction type semiconductor solar cell. | 04-04-2013 |
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20090311690 | VECTOR FOR SCREENING ANTIBODY - It is an object of the present invention to provide a simple and efficient means capable of evaluating the VH/VL interaction without expressing/purifying VH and VL. The present invention provides a recombinant vector comprising: (i) a nucleotide sequence which can express a hetero-assembly composed of two types of fusion proteins wherein heavy chain variable region (VH) and light chain variable region (VL) of antibody are respectively fused with mutually associable first polypeptide and second polypeptide, by means of secretion, or in a form of a fusion protein tethered to a phage coat protein; and (ii) a restriction enzyme recognition sequence at two sites within, or in a vicinity of, a nucleotide sequence encoding said first polypeptide or second polypeptide. | 12-17-2009 |
20100317032 | METHOD FOR DETECTING ANTIGEN AND ANTIGEN DETECTION DEVICE - Provided is a method for detecting an antigen in a sample, the method including: bringing an unlabeled polypeptide and a labeled polypeptide into contact with an antigen in a sample, the unlabeled polypeptide being one of a pair including a VH-region polypeptide and a VL-region polypeptide which are separate and capable of cooperatively recognizing the antigen, and the labeled polypeptide being the other of the pair including the separate VH-region polypeptide and the VL-region polypeptide and being labeled with an environmentally-responsive substance at a site where the environmentally-responsive substance does not inhibit binding of the antigen, and detecting a change in the environmentally-responsive substance caused by a change in the environment around the labeled polypeptide after the contact. Also provided is an antibody fragment polypeptide set including the unlabeled polypeptide and the labeled polypeptide. | 12-16-2010 |
20110237462 | IMMOBILIZATION SUBSTRATE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - An antibody-fragment-immobilizing substrate includes a substrate and at least one set of antibody fragments, wherein antibody fragments of each set include at least two types of separate antibody fragments, the at least two types of separate antibody fragments include at least one type of labeled antibody fragment having a labeled site labeled with a luminescent substance and at least one type of acceptor antibody fragment having an acceptor site for accepting emission from the labeled antibody fragment, and the at least one type of labeled antibody fragment and the at least one type of acceptor antibody fragment are capable of cooperatively recognizing one type of antigen in combination and are independently immobilized on the substrate in a positional relationship that allows each of the antibody fragments in one set to bind to the same antigen. | 09-29-2011 |
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20100113789 | MEDICINAL COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTION OR TREATMENT OF PARASITIC PROTOZOAN INFECTION - The present invention is to provide a medicinal composition for preventing or treating parasitic protozoan infections, having a high selective toxicity against parasitic protozoan infection, and a superior preventive or treating effect. A medicinal composition for preventing or treating parasitic protozoan infections comprises a compound shown by the following general formula (1) as an active ingredient | 05-06-2010 |
20110021450 | MEDICINAL COMPOSITION CONTAINING BENZO[A]PHENOXAZINE COMPOUND AS THE ACTIVE INGREDIENT FOR PREVENTION OR TREATMENT OF PROTOZOAL DISEASE - Provided is a medicinal composition, in particular, a medicinal composition for treatment and/or prevention which has a high therapeutic effect on infection with a parasitic protozoa and a selective toxicity thereto and exhibits a life-prolonging effect and so on. A medicinal composition which contains as the active ingredient a benzo[a]phenoxazine compound represented by General formula (1) or a salt compound of the same, in particular, an agent for treating and/or preventing infection with a protozoa such as malaria, leishmaniasis, African trypanosomiasis, Chagas disease, toxoplasmosis, lymphatic filariasis, babesiosis or coccidium disease; and a novel compound which is contained therein as the active ingredient. | 01-27-2011 |
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20120320046 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus including an imaged image input unit inputting an imaged image of a facility imaged in an imaging device to a display control unit, a measurement information input, unit inputting measurement information measured by a sensor provided in the facility from the sensor to a creation unit, a creation unit creating a virtual image representing a status of an outside or inside of the facility based on the measurement information input by the measurement information input unit, and a display control unit overlaying and displaying the virtual image created in the creation unit and the imaged image input by the imaged image input unit on a display device. | 12-20-2012 |
20120320088 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus including an imaged image input unit inputting an imaged image of a facility imaged in an imaging device to a display control unit, a measurement information input unit inputting measurement information measured by a sensor provided in the facility from the sensor to a creation unit, a creation unit creating a virtual image representing a status of an outside or inside of the facility based on the measurement information input by the measurement information input unit, and a display control unit overlaying and displaying the virtual image created in the creation unit and the imaged image input by the imaged image input unit on a display device. | 12-20-2012 |
20130010052 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - HMDs and compact cameras generate image data of display media of users, and transmit the data to a conference management server. HMDs and compact cameras further generate presentation information of the users for a conference, and transmit the information to the conference management server. The conference management server verifies the display medium by comparing an association between, each user and the image data of the display medium used by the user with an association between the received image data of the display medium for the user and the user. If the verification is successful, the server transmits presentation information of the users for the conference received from the HMDs and the compact cameras to the HMDs. | 01-10-2013 |
20130010103 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, VACANT SPACE GUIDANCE SYSTEM, VACANT SPACE GUIDANCE METHOD AND PROGRAM, IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND PROGRAM - A mobile terminal ( | 01-10-2013 |
20130120449 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A failure analysis apparatus obtains information associated with an operational status of a data center, determines information regarding fault repair work for the data center, based on the information associated with the operational status, and transmits the information regarding the fault repair work to an HMD. The HMD synthesizes and presents computer graphics image data for providing guidance for a method of the fault repair work, with an image of real space, based on the information regarding the fault repair work. | 05-16-2013 |
20130147839 | AUGMENTED REALITY PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AUGMENTED REALITY PROVIDING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An Augmented Reality (AR) providing apparatus sends to a server apparatus a request, including image information from an imaging device, for obtaining product information indicating a product that can be displayed on a shelf. and the AR apparatus displays product information included in a reply from the server apparatus in response to the request in an overlaying image manner. The server apparatus determines a shelf from the image information included in the request, determines a size of an empty shelf space, and selects product information of products smaller than the determined size of the empty shelf space. The product information is selected from a storage device storing multiple sets of product information indicating a product and its associated size information. The server apparatus sends a reply including the selected product information to the AR providing apparatus. | 06-13-2013 |
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20140214606 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, VACANT SPACE GUIDANCE SYSTEM, VACANT SPACE GUIDANCE METHOD AND PROGRAM, IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND PROGRAM - A mobile terminal ( | 07-31-2014 |
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20090087058 | IMAGE ANALYSIS APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE ANALYSIS PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM, IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM, IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Plural sectional images are acquired at a plurality of slice positions arranged in a predetermined direction in a subject. Each of the plural sectional images acquired by the image acquisition section is binarized based on a predetermined reference image density. Each image included in the sectional images binarized by the binarizing section is classified into a first image group having the images inside the subject and a second image group having the images outside the subject, based on the relative position of the each image from the other images in the same sectional image and also the relative position of the each image from other images contained in another sectional images. | 04-02-2009 |
20090180677 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR MEASURING SIZES OF TUMOR REGIONS - A tumor region is determined within a three dimensional medical image. A long axis and a short axis of the determined tumor region are designated. The lengths of the designated long axis and the designated short axis are measured. The measured lengths of the long axis and the short axis are displayed. | 07-16-2009 |
20110170758 | TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE GENERATING APPARATUS, TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR GENERATING TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES - A tomographic image generating apparatus includes a tomographic image acquirer for acquiring a plurality of first tomographic images perpendicular to a predetermined direction from a three-dimensional medical image including an organ having a predetermined linear structure, a first detector for detecting sectional shapes of the organ which are included respectively in the first tomographic images, a curve generator for generating a first curve as an approximate curve by interpolating respective positions of the detected sectional shapes of the organ, and a tomographic image generator for generating a plurality of second tomographic images perpendicular to the first curve from the three-dimensional medical image. | 07-14-2011 |
20120269410 | TREE STRUCTURE CREATION APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - A predetermined structure repeatedly branching from an origin and extending in directions away from the origin in such a manner to become wider is extracted, as a candidate of a tree structure defined by a plurality of nodes including a root node corresponding to the origin and a plurality of edges, from medical image data. A tree structure is created by reevaluating the definition of the tree structure, with respect to each of the plurality of nodes defining the candidate of the tree structure, by using a cost function that weights a probability that the plurality of nodes are connected to each other by evaluating a relationship between each of the plurality of nodes and the root node based on a geometric characteristic that the predetermined structure repeatedly branches from the origin and extends in directions away from the origin in such a manner to become wider. | 10-25-2012 |
20120275682 | TREE STRUCTURE EXTRACTION APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - Tree structures corresponding to a first linear structure and a second linear structure are constructed from medical image data including the first linear structure and the second linear structure, each repeatedly branching from an origin and extending in directions away from the origin in such a manner to become wider. Each of a first root node corresponding to a root node in the first tree structure and a second root node corresponding to a root node in the second tree structure is connected to each node, based on the characteristic that each of the first and second linear structures repeatedly branches from the origin and extends in directions away from the origin in such a manner to become wider, by using, with respect to each node, a cost function that weights a cost representing a probability of connection of each of a plurality of edges connectable to each node. | 11-01-2012 |
20120321155 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR MEASURING SIZES OF TUMOR REGIONS - A tumor region is determined within a three dimensional medical image. A long axis and a short axis of the determined tumor region are designated. The lengths of the designated long axis and the designated short axis are measured. The measured lengths of the long axis and the short axis are displayed. | 12-20-2012 |
20130243285 | MEDICAL IMAGE ALIGNMENT APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Generating, with respect to each of the three-dimensional image and the three-dimensional comparison image, a plurality of tomographic images orthogonal to a central axis of each vertebra of the subject along the central axis, calculating a first characteristic amount representing a profile in a direction orthogonal to the central axis at each point on the central axis based on the tomographic images, calculating a second characteristic amount representing a profile in a direction of the central axis at each point on the central axis based on the tomographic images, calculating a third characteristic amount representing regularity of disposition of each vertebra at each point on the central axis based on the calculated first and second characteristic amounts, and aligning positions of the third characteristic amount calculated from the three-dimensional image and the third characteristic amount calculated from the three-dimensional comparison image along the central axis. | 09-19-2013 |
20140232725 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - A graph estimated to represent hepatic veins is extracted from image data. Shape models representing partial tree structures branched from a point of origin within a tree structure representing a common shape of hepatic veins are obtained. A cost function correlates the graph with the shape models. Whether parts extending from the peaks of correlated graph parts and not correlated with a shape model exist within the extracted graph is judged. Positional data of the peaks are obtained as data representing the position of the point of origin in the case that no such parts exist, or positional data of a node closest to an estimated position of the point of origin, specified by tracing along the nodes of such parts from the peaks to approach the estimated position, is obtained as data representing the position of the point of origin, in the case that such parts exist. | 08-21-2014 |
20150030226 | DIAGNOSIS ASSISTANCE APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - A first-image and a second-image representing the same organ of the same subject imaged at the same time are obtained, and an organ-region is extracted from the first-image. The extracted organ-region is displayed on a display screen. An input of an air-region included in the first-image and an input of exceeding or lacking portion information representing that the air-region is a lacking portion or an exceeding portion of the organ are received, and the received air-region and the received exceeding or lacking portion information corresponding to the air-region are obtained, as correction information. Corresponding positions are matched with other between the first-image and the second-image. The organ-region extracted from the first-image is corrected based on the correction information. At least an air-region in the second-image located at a position corresponding to the air-region corresponding to the correction information is extracted, as a part of the organ-region in the second-image. | 01-29-2015 |
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20090059084 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a unit configured to calculate a sum of absolute differences between pixel values of pixels in a block of interest and pixel values of pixels in a reference block, a unit configured to compare sums of absolute differences calculated and to determine a minimum sum of absolute differences thereamong, a unit configured to estimate a motion vector for the pixel of interest using the reference pixel having the minimum sum of absolute differences and the pixel of interest, a unit configured to generate a motion-compensated image by using pixel values of the pixels as pixel values of corresponding pixels in the motion-compensated image, a unit configured to cumulatively add sums of absolute differences, and a unit configured to generate an interpolation image by mixing the pixels and corresponding pixels in the motion-compensated image according to an obtained cumulative-sum result. | 03-05-2009 |
20090310876 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a motion vector detection unit configured to detect a motion vector at a predetermined space position of a frame at a predetermined time from an input image of a plurality of temporally different frames and obtain a reliability of the motion vector; a motion vector evaluation unit configured to obtain, at each space position, an evaluation value of the motion vector at the space position that is within a predetermined range including a subject space position that is a space position of interest, on the basis of the reliability at the space position and a distance from the subject space position; and a motion vector correction unit configured to correct the motion vector at the subject space position on the basis of the evaluation value and the motion vector at the space position of the predetermined range. | 12-17-2009 |
20090324102 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a difference calculation unit that obtains a luminance difference between images of two successive frames; an average calculation unit that calculates the average of luminance differences obtained for a predetermined number of successive frames; a change determination unit that determines, for each frame of the predetermined number of the successive frames, whether images of two successive frames including the frame are the same by comparing the luminance difference obtained for the frame with the average; and a display pattern determination unit that determines a temporal display pattern of images of the predetermined number of the successive frames from among a plurality of display patterns including a display pattern in which groups each having a certain number of successive frames in which the same image is displayed are regularly repeated, using a determination result obtained by the change determination unit. | 12-31-2009 |
20090324125 | Image Processing Apparatus and Method, and Program - An image processing apparatus includes: a difference-value calculation mechanism calculating a difference value between the first accumulated value produced by accumulating luminance values of a plurality of pixels in a first image and the second accumulated value produced by accumulating luminance values of a plurality of pixels in a second image having a difference in time with the first image; a threshold-value creation mechanism for creating a plurality of threshold values on the difference value in accordance with the first accumulated value, corresponding to the luminance change levels in order to grade a luminance change between the first image and the second image by a luminance change level indicating a degree of the luminance change; and a luminance-change-level determination mechanism for determining the luminance change level corresponding to the difference value on the basis of the plurality of threshold values. | 12-31-2009 |
20100309294 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image display apparatus - Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including, a motion-vector detection section configured to find a motion vector corresponding to an image disparity existing between left and right eyes to appear as a disparity in images, and a format determination section configured to determine whether the input image signal is a signal of the 3-dimensional image format or a signal of the 2-dimensional image format. | 12-09-2010 |
20110279684 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided a signal processing device including a measured value acquisition unit configured to acquire a measured value for a feature quantity, the feature quantity having an influence on an estimation of a motion that appears in each frame of an input video signal, a determination unit configured to, on the basis of the measured value acquired by the measured value acquisition unit, determine a characteristic of a filter to be applied to the input video signal, and a filtering unit configured to generate a video signal for use in the estimation of a motion by applying to the input video signal a filter with the characteristic determined by the determination unit. | 11-17-2011 |
20110285611 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display includes: a light source section including emission subsections; a liquid crystal display panel performing image display through modulating light coming from each of the emission subsections; and a display control section having a partitioning-drive processing section which generates an emission-pattern signal and a partitioning-drive image signal and performs light-emission drive on each of the emission subsections, and performing display-drive on the liquid crystal display panel. The partitioning-drive processing section calculates a first maximum pixel value and a first average pixel value the first maximum pixel value representing a maximum pixel value in each of pixel regions which correspond to the respective emission subsections, and the first average pixel value representing an average pixel value in each of the pixel regions, and generates the emission-pattern signal and the partitioning-drive image signal based on both the first maximum pixel value and the first average pixel value. | 11-24-2011 |
20120256909 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A generating unit allocates an image of a predetermined viewpoint to two or more viewpoints in a 3D image display unit that displays images of the two or more viewpoints in a direction differing according to a viewpoint based on an input from a user. A driving processing unit causes the image of the predetermined viewpoint to be displayed on the 3D image display unit based on the allocation. For example, the present technology can be applied to an image processing apparatus for a 3D image. | 10-11-2012 |
20140043335 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - This technology relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, and a program capable of realizing motion parallax closely related to that of the real world. | 02-13-2014 |
20140198988 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device includes a control unit which controls a read out of a reference image which is referred to when performing motion compensation on an image, with a range based on a maximum value of a motion amount in a vertical direction of a motion vector of the image as a target; and a motion compensation processing unit which performs motion compensation on the image using the motion vector and the reference image which is read out according to the control by the control unit. | 07-17-2014 |
20150035827 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry (similarity calculation section) configured to calculate a similarity between a posture model and posture data, wherein the posture model being indicative of a posture in a time series gesture, and the posture data being indicative of a posture in a time series of a subject in moving image data. | 02-05-2015 |