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20080211628 | Biometric authentic device - A biometrics authentication system capable of achieving high precision and high safety is provided. A biometrics authentication system includes: a light source applying light to a living organism; a microlens array section condensing light from the living organism, and including a plurality of microlenses each having a different refractive power; an image pickup device obtaining image pickup data on a plurality of layers of the living organism on the basis of light condensed by the microlens array section; and an authentication section performing authentication of the living organism on the basis of image pickup data on the plurality of layers of the living organism. | 09-04-2008 |
20090185722 | Biometrics authentication system - A biometrics authentication system includes: a light source applying light to a living body; a detection section on which the living body is to be placed; a microlens array section configured so that a plurality of microlenses each condensing light from the living body are arranged at intervals; a light shielding section arranged on at least one of a light incidence side and a light exiting side of the microlens array section and having apertures each facing a region where each of the microlenses is arranged; an image pickup device obtaining image pickup data of the living body on the basis of the light condensed by the microlens array section; and an authentication section performing authentication of the living body on the basis of the image pickup data obtained in the image pickup device. | 07-23-2009 |
20100026453 | Biometrics authentication system - A biometrics authentication system having a small and simple configuration and being capable of implementing both of biometrics authentication and position detection is provided. A biometrics authentication system includes: a light source emitting light to an object; a microlens array section condensing light from the object; a light-sensing device obtaining light detection data of the object on the basis of the light condensed by the microlens array section; a position detection section detecting the position of the object on the basis of the light detection data obtained in the light-sensing device; and an authentication section, in the case where the object is a living body, performing authentication of the living body on the basis of the light detection data obtained in the light-sensing device. | 02-04-2010 |
20100066812 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP METHOD - An image pickup apparatus having a simple configuration and being capable of performing switching between an image pickup mode based on a light field photography technique and a normal high-resolution image pickup mode is provided. The image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup lens | 03-18-2010 |
20120064516 | NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICTION REACTION APPARATUS, SUBSTRATE FOR NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION REACTION APPARATUS, AND NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION REACTION METHOD - A nucleic acid amplification reaction apparatus includes: a reaction region formed as a nucleic acid amplification reaction site in the shape of a tapered well of a decreasing horizontal cross sectional area along a light axis direction in which a substance that precipitates in the course of a nucleic acid amplification reaction settles; temperature controller that heats the reaction region; irradiator that shines light on the reaction region; and detector that detects the quantity of the light scattered out of the reaction region by the precipitated substance. | 03-15-2012 |
20120070841 | NUCLEIC ACID QUANTIFICATION METHOD AND MICROCHIP FOR NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION REACTION - A nucleic acid quantification method that uses a microchip for nucleic acid amplification reaction, the microchip including an inlet through which a liquid is introduced from outside, a plurality of reaction regions provided as reaction sites of a nucleic acid amplification reaction, and a channel through which the liquid introduced through the inlet is supplied into each of the reaction regions, wherein the likelihood of the nucleic acid amplification reaction varies between the reaction regions, includes: flowing a detection target nucleic acid chain-containing solution through the channel and introducing the solution into each of the reaction regions to perform a nucleic acid amplification reaction; and detecting an amplification product in each of the reaction regions to specify the reaction regions in which the nucleic acid amplification reaction occurred. | 03-22-2012 |
20120100551 | NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION REACTION DEVICE, SUBSTRATE USED FOR NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION REACTION DEVICE, AND NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION REACTION METHOD - Disclosed herein is a nucleic acid amplification reaction device including: a reaction area configured to serve as a reaction field of a nucleic acid amplification reaction; an irradiating unit configured to irradiate light to the reaction area; and a light detecting unit configured to detect the amount of reflected light, wherein a reflective component that reflects side light generated in the reaction area due to light irradiation from the irradiating unit and guides the light to the light detecting unit is disposed. | 04-26-2012 |
20120149005 | REACTION TREATMENT DEVICE AND REACTION TREATMENT METHOD - Disclosed herein is a reaction treatment device including a temperature control section which includes a first temperature control section disposed at an outer peripheral edge part of a group of reaction regions and a planar second temperature control section, wherein the first temperature control section and the second temperature control section are disposed opposite to each other, with the reaction region group therebetween. | 06-14-2012 |
20130034857 | OPTICAL ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND OPTICAL ANALYSIS METHOD - Disclosed herein is an optical analysis apparatus including: a light source; a light guiding plate configured to guide incident light from the light source to each of reaction areas; a light shielding structure configured to restrict emission directions of light beams emitted from the inside of the reaction areas; and a detection system configured to detect the light beams emitted from the inside of the reaction areas by radiation of the light. | 02-07-2013 |
20140113287 | BASE SEQUENCE ANALYSIS METHOD, BASE SEQUENCE ANALYSIS APPARATUS, AND BASE SEQUENCE ANALYSIS PROGRAM - There is provided a base sequence analysis method including a nucleic acid amplification procedure of obtaining an amplification product by a nucleic acid amplification reaction, a turbidity measurement procedure of measuring turbidity of a reaction solution of the nucleic acid amplification reaction, and a melting curve analysis procedure of performing melting curve analysis of a probe nucleic acid chain and the amplification product at a reaction site of the nucleic acid amplification reaction. | 04-24-2014 |
20150139866 | MICROCHIP - Provided is a microchip which enables to easily confirm, from the outside of the microchip, filling of a solution into an analysis region. | 05-21-2015 |
20150308959 | BASE SEQUENCE ANALYSIS APPARATUS - There is provided a base sequence analysis method including a nucleic acid amplification procedure of obtaining an amplification product by a nucleic acid amplification reaction, a turbidity measurement procedure of measuring turbidity of a reaction solution of the nucleic acid amplification reaction, and a melting curve analysis procedure of performing melting curve analysis of a probe nucleic acid chain and the amplification product at a reaction site of the nucleic acid amplification reaction. | 10-29-2015 |
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20090119491 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE - A data processing device comprises a state manager for determining a logic number of configurational information to be used in a next state, the logic number representing information on a mutual relationship between items of configurational information included in an object code, based on a present operational state, a group of candidates for a state to transit to next, and an event signal issued from arithmetic units, a configuration number converter for outputting a real number corresponding to the logic number determined by the state manager, the configuration number converter having conversion information for converting the logic number into a real number representing a location where the corresponding configurational information is actually stored, and a configurational information storage for storing the configurational information and indicating configurational information corresponding to the real number output from the configuration number converter, to the arithmetic units and an interconnector. | 05-07-2009 |
20090158293 | Information processing apparatus - A program rewriting time is reduced when a large scale process is executed while a program having reconfigurable hardware is being rewritten. When the large scale process is processed by being divided into a smaller process unit, even if the process content is dynamically changed, the program will be flexibly rewritten, and the schedule of execution will be managed, thereby ensuring that an efficient process can be executed. Scheduler | 06-18-2009 |
20100223596 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - Based on a constriction condition of a parallel operation device which has been previously registered with data, a data processing device extracts a loop structure from a single-layer state transition graph structure of an object code input thereto, and converts the state transition graph containing a loop structure into a state transition on another layer, which is then output as a new object code. | 09-02-2010 |
20110261830 | PARALLEL COMPUTATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - A parallel calculation system includes a plurality of functional nodes and a plurality of network switches, which serve as part of a communication path for communication between the functional nodes and function as communication channels. As for the functional nodes, a functional node group made up of part or all of a plurality of the functional nodes that the parallel calculation system includes is managed as one group. The network switches include a plurality of input/output ports, which are ports for inputting and outputting the communication request, and a switch, which outputs the communication request that the input/output port inputs to the input/output port. The network switches manage a communication bandwidth for each of the communication channels between the functional nodes and control the switch. | 10-27-2011 |
20110317691 | INTERPROCESSOR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD, NETWORK SWITCH, AND PARALLEL CALCULATION SYSTEM - A network switch transfers data, which are to be transferred between nodes, in a time-division multiplex manner after allocating the data to slots, which are created by dividing a unit of time into a plurality of sections. An input unit includes a selection unit that selects a buffer unit according to an input slot in order to transfer the data input from the input port to the buffer unit, an input slot correspondence management table that stores a correspondence relationship between the input slots and the buffer units, and input port management information used to control a communication bandwidth of the input port. An output unit includes a multiplexing unit that selects the buffer unit according to an output slot in order for data, which is to be output to the output port, to be transferred from the selected buffer unit to the output port, an output slot correspondence management table that stores a correspondence relationship between the output slots and the buffer units, and output port manage information used to control a communication bandwidth of the output port. | 12-29-2011 |
20110320769 | PARALLEL COMPUTING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, PARALLEL COMPUTING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A computing section is provided with a plurality of computing units and correlatively stores entries of configuration information that describes configurations of the plurality of computing units with physical configuration numbers that represent the entries of configuration information and executes a computation in a configuration corresponding to a designated physical configuration number. A status management section designates a physical configuration number corresponding to a status to which the computing section needs to advance the next time for the computing section and outputs the status to which the computing section needs to advance the next time as a logical status number that uniquely identifies the status to which the computing section needs to advance the next time in an object code. A determination section determines whether or not the computing section has stored an entry of configuration information corresponding to the status to which the computing section needs to advance the next time based on the logical status number that is output from the status management section. A rewriting section correlatively stores the entry of the configuration information and a physical configuration number corresponding to the entry of the configuration information in the computing section when the determination section determines that the computing section has not stored the entry of configuration information corresponding to the status to which the computing section needs to advance the next time. | 12-29-2011 |
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20090290267 | Magnetic Recording and Reproducing Apparatus with Thin-Film Magnetic Head Having Microwave Magnetic Exciting Function - A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus with a thin-film magnetic head having microwave magnetic exciting function, includes a metal housing, a magnetic recording medium, arranged in the metal housing, having a magnetic recording layer, and a thin-film magnetic head, arranged in the metal housing, having a write magnetic field production unit and a resonance magnetic field production unit. The write magnetic field production unit produces, in response to a write signal, a write magnetic field to be applied into the magnetic recording layer, and the resonance magnetic field production unit produces, in response to a microwave excitation signal, a resonance magnetic field with a frequency equal to or in a range near a ferromagnetic resonance frequency F | 11-26-2009 |
20100073804 | Thin-Film Magnetic Head Having Microwave Magnetic Exciting Function And Magnetic Recording And Reproducing Apparatus - A thin-film magnetic head having microwave magnetic exciting function includes a write magnetic field production means for producing, in response to a write signal, a write magnetic field to be applied into a magnetic recording medium, and at least line conductor of a microwave radiator of a plane-structure type, formed independent from the write magnetic field production means, for radiating, by feeding there through a microwave excitation current, a microwave band resonance magnetic field with a frequency equal to or in a range near a ferromagnetic resonance frequency F | 03-25-2010 |