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| 20080312485 | Method of Producing Propylene Containing Biomass-Origin Carbon - Ethanol obtained from ordinary biomass resources contains many impurities other than water and these impurities themselves or their decomposition products contaminate ethylene when the ethylene is produced by a dehydration reaction, whereby the activity of metathesis catalyst is adversely affected. A method for producing propylene of the present invention is characterized in that the ethanol obtained from biomass is converted to ethylene by a dehydration reaction, the ethylene is separated from the generated water, the separated ethylene is purified by adsorption in an adsorption tower filled with an adsorbent, and then a metathesis reaction is carried out along with a raw material containing n-butene. With the present invention, propylene having biomass-derived carbon and reduced-environmental burden can be efficiently produced without lowering the catalysis activity. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090115855 | PHOTOGRAPHY APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A photography apparatus includes: an imaging unit configured to image a subject and acquire photographed image data; a display unit configured to perform an image display; and a control unit; wherein the control unit executes reading processing for reading out, from a storage medium which stores template information arranged to fit and display photographed image data imaged by the imaging unit into a target region within display screen data according to a predetermined display format, the template information, wherein instruction information for instructing what sort of image should be photographed as the photographed image data to be fit and displayed in the target region is correlated therewith, and instruction information display control processing for controlling the display unit so as to display the instruction information in a correlated manner with the target region, in accordance with the template information. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090221045 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING HYDROXYCARBOXYLIC ACID BY ENHANCING SYNTHESIS OF COENZYME - Hydroxycarboxylic acids are produced by using a microorganism that is improved in ability to produce nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide by deleting, mutating or substituting nadR gene in the microorganism or introducing a gene encoding nicotinic acid phosphoribosyltransferase. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090305368 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING HYDROXYCARBOXYLIC ACID BY REGENERATING COENZYME - Hydroxycarboxylic acids are produced by using a microorganism that is improved in ability to regenerate oxidized-type nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide by being provided with an enhanced NADH dehydrogenase function by introducing a gene encoding NADH dehydrogenase into a microorganism. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20100061637 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - An image processing apparatus includes a binarization unit that binarizes a selected image region based on prescribed criteria into an image trimming target white pixel region and a background black pixel region, a hole filling unit that fills a hole of the white pixel region by converting a black pixel surrounded by the white pixel region into the white pixel, a distance conversion unit that calculates a distance value from each white pixel to the black pixel region, a skeleton extraction unit that extracts points indicating a skeleton of the white pixel region according to each distance value, and a trimming outline determination unit that excludes a less significant point based on prescribed conditions, draws an oval or perfect circle according to each distance value, centered at a non-excluded point, and determines an outer edge of ovals or perfect circles as an outline for trimming a trimming target image. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100092107 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus is provided that includes a playback unit to play back music data, an analysis unit to analyze a feature of a relevant image of the music data, an image correction unit to perform image correction with use of any of a plurality of correction types, a storage unit to store one or more than one image, a selection unit to select a correction type corresponding to the feature of the relevant image analyzed by the analysis unit from the plurality of correction types, a correction control unit to cause the image correction unit to perform image correction of an image stored in the storage unit with use of the correction type selected by the selection unit, and an output unit to output the image corrected by the image correction unit. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20110052081 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR PROCESSING IMAGE - An image processing apparatus includes a face detector for detecting a face region from an image including a face of a user, a part detector for detecting a positional layout of a part of the face included in the face region detected by the face detector, a determiner for determining an attribute of the face on the basis of the positional layout of the part detected by the part detector and calculating a score indicating attribute determination results, a model selector for selecting, on the basis of the score calculated by the determiner, a model that is to be displayed in place of the face of the user in the image, and an image generator for generating an image of a face of the model selected by the model selector and synthesizing the image of the face of the model with the face of the user within the face region. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110115786 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - In an image processing apparatus, a feature point acquirer acquires feature points, which are characteristic points on a face in an image presenting a face. A supplementary feature point calculator calculates supplementary feature points on the basis of the feature points acquired by the feature point acquirer. An image transform unit utilizes the feature points and the supplementary feature points to transform the image so as to match the structure of a face in a projected image that depicts the surface of a given three-dimensional face shape projected onto a flat plane. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110122153 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a transformed-coordinate calculating section that calculates transformed coordinates for each of a plurality of superimposed images associated with coordinates in a background image, by transforming coordinates of other superimposed images with respect to one superimposed image as a reference image in such a way that coordinate intervals within a predetermined area with respect to the reference image become denser with increasing distance from the reference image toward the boundary, a coordinate setting section that sets coordinates of the reference image on the basis of a mean value obtained by calculating a mean of the calculated coordinates of the other superimposed images with respect to the reference image, and a display control section that displays the background image and the plurality of superimposed images on a display section in such a way that the reference image is placed at the set coordinates in the background image. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110171703 | BACTERIUM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LACTIC ACID, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING LACTIC ACID - The present invention provides: a lactic acid-producing | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110171704 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING LACTIC ACID FROM PLANT-DERIVED RAW MATERIAL, AND LACTIC-ACID-PRODUCING BACTERIUM - The present invention provides: a lactic acid-producing | 07-14-2011 |
