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| 20110212522 | MICRO-CHAMBER PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR CELL CULTURE AND METHOD - This invention relates to a method and apparatus for process cell cultures. The apparatus comprises a micro-chamber comprising no more than one absorption layer and at least one gel layer, in this order, laminated on a transparent base plate having no conspicuous absorbency in visible and infrared regions, and at least one light source, said absorption layer having absorbency in visible and infrared regions, and said gel-like material being a substance which has a gel dissolution temperature of 100 degree C. or less, solates when heated and is in a gel state at room temperature and has absorbency for a specific wave length of visible and infrared regions, and said light source having a monochromatic light in said specific wave length, wherein said light source is disposed such that it irradiates on said absorption layer and/or said gel layer, with the exception that when no absorption layer is provided, at least two layers each composed of a gel-like material are laminated on said transparent base plate. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20120088295 | DEVICE FOR CONCENTRATING AND SEPARATING CELLS - Provided is a device for concentrating and separating cells, which has a function for continuously concentrating cells; a function for then continuously arranging the concentrated cells in predetermined regions of a flow path; a function for simultaneously identifying shape and fluorescent emission in one-cell units on the basis of cell concentration and purification images, which serve to continuously separate and purify cells that have different properties in that they are either attracted to or repelled by an induction electrophoresis force of a predetermined frequency; and a function for identifying cells on the basis of this shape and fluorescent emission information and thereby separating and purifying the cells. | 04-12-2012 |
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| 20080303410 | Light Emitting Device, Lighting System, Backlight Unit for Display Device, and Display Device - To enhance emission efficiency and color rendering, a light emitting device includes: at least one light source; at least one first emitting section having at least one sort of luminescent material that can emit light including a wavelength component that is longer than the light emitted from light source when excited by the light emitted from light source; at least one second emitting section having at least one sort of luminescent material that can emit light including a wavelength component that is longer than the light emitted from first emitting section when excited by the light emitted from light source and first emitting section; wherein light emitting device includes at least one light shielding unit that protects at least a part of the light emitted from first emitting section from entering second emitting section. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20090072255 | PHOSPHOR AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE USING SAME - The present invention relates to a phosphor that satisfies requirements (1) to (3):
| 03-19-2009 |
| 20100213861 | Light Emitting Device, Lighting System, Backlight Unit for Display Device and Display Device - To enhance emission efficiency and color rendering, a light emitting device | 08-26-2010 |
| 20110298387 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, LIGHTING SYSTEM, BACKLIGHT UNIT FOR DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - To enhance emission efficiency and color rendering, a light emitting device | 12-08-2011 |
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| 20090018104 | Triarylcarboxylic Acid Derivative - Provided is a triarylcarboxylic acid derivative, or an isomer, a prodrug, a hydrate, a solvate, a polymorph, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, represented by the following general formula (I): | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090076070 | HETERO COMPOUND - [Problems] To provide a useful compound as an active ingredient for a preventing and/or treating agent for rejection in the transplantation of an organ, bone marrow, or a tissue, an autoimmune disease, or the like, which has an excellent S1P | 03-19-2009 |
| 20100168159 | HETERO COMPOUND | 07-01-2010 |
| 20110230463 | 2H-CHROMENE COMPOUND AND DERIVATIVE THEREOF - [Object] Provided is a compound which has an excellent S1P | 09-22-2011 |
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| 20090079123 | BOOKBINDING APPARATUS AND BOOKBINDING SYSTEM - The problem of unevenness that an outer shape is different for each booklet is solved by correcting coating thickness control depending on a thickness of a sheet bundle, based on booklet information which includes information on at least the number of sheets constituting the sheet bundle, keeping adjustment of a coating thickness for adhesive depending on a thickness of a sheet bundle as a basic method. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090129841 | BOOKBINDING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A bookbinding apparatus comprising: an adhesive container to store melted adhesive; a heater which heats the adhesive to melt; a stirring member to stir the adhesive in the adhesive container; and a control section which controls the operation of the heater and the stirring member so that after the heater has been turned off with the termination of a coating process, the stirring member continues stirring operation and stops thereafter. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090245975 | BOOKBINDING APPARATUS AND BOOKBINDING SYSTEM - A bookbinding apparatus comprises
| 10-01-2009 |
| 20100260581 | Sheet finisher and image forming system provided therewith - In a sheet finisher including an adhesive coating section, a movement mechanism, a control section that controls actions of the adhesive coating section and of the movement mechanism, is capable of multiple coating on a spine of a sheet bundle by causing the movement mechanism to move the adhesive coating section reciprocally and relatively with respect to the spine, and is capable of conducting a preparation process to cause the rotary adhesive supplying section to rotate for a prescribed period of time in a rotation direction corresponding to a movement direction of the adhesive coating section under a condition of no coating of the adhesive on the spine of the sheet bundle, after the movement direction of the adhesive coating section and the rotation direction of the rotary adhesive supplying section are switched, following the reciprocating movement in the case of the multiple coating. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20120093613 | BOOKBINDING APPARATUS AND BOOKBINDING SYSTEM - A bookbinding apparatus including: a stacking section for stacking sheets to form a bundle of sheets; a sheet-conveyance shifting section for conveying a sheet, or a cover sheet to become a cover of a booklet to a predetermined position; a melt tank for storing a hot-melt adhesive, and a bookbinding control section configured to execute a bookbinding mode in which a booklet is formed by coating adhesive inside the melt tank onto an edge surface of a bundle of sheets and adhering the cover sheet to the edge surface, onto which the adhesive has been coated, of the bundle of sheets, and an adhesive discharging mode in which the adhesive inside the melt tank is discharged outside the melt tank. | 04-19-2012 |
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| 20100333064 | APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The development of an application that includes a user interface (UI), which has a specific UI screen that is directly called through an external link and displays an execution result of a specific service, is realized without coding operations. Before constructing a UI using a first tool, condition starting buttons, which respectively correspond to a plurality of services that can be provided by programs generated using a second tool and which are respectively added call programs for calling corresponding service, are generated. When a specific condition starting button is placed in a UI screen under construction and the conversion for a unconditional starting is instructed, an attribution is changed so that the button becomes invisible and the specific condition starting button is changed to a unconditional starting button by changing a call program so that the call program is unconditionally executed when the UI screen is called through a link. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110010692 | APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT DEVICE, PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The development of an application program that includes a user interface (UI), which can provide a processing parameter to be handed to a web service when a UI screen is called via a link, is realized without coding operations. When the UI screen is called via the link, in which link information is embedded with the processing parameter, a platform program obtains the processing parameter and stores the processing parameter in a corresponding storage region. A call program that has been attached to an unconditional starting button, which is located in the UI screen by a developer, in advance activates the web service by using the processing parameter in the storage region as an argument. After the processing for storing the output variables of the web service in the corresponding storage region is carried out, the processing, in which the called UI screen is generated and distributed, is carried out. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110214117 | APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A development of an application program which has a user interface capable of instructing to upload and download a file and executes a previously designated service from plural types of service is realized. A program, which transmits also a web service call address and a service name, is added to an upload component disposed in a file upload screen. A file which is instructed to be uploaded via the component is added with the call address and the service name and registered in a DB and when a downloading is instructed from a client terminal, a corresponding web service is executed based on the call address and the service name, and the instructed file is transferred to the terminal only if a result is OK. | 09-01-2011 |
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| 20080258864 | Communication Apparatus and Communication Method - A communication apparatus for mutual communication, when acting as an authenticator communication apparatus performing authentication, includes a transmitting section that transmits to an authenticatee communication apparatus subject to authentication challenge data to authenticate the authenticatee communication apparatus in a time slot, which is a segmented period of time in which the communication apparatus to communicate with a specific communication apparatus; and a receiving section that receives from the authenticatee communication apparatus first response data for responding to the challenge data in the same time slot as the one in which the transmitting section transmits the challenge data. An objective is to carry out authentication of a tag by a Reader/Writer (R/W) and authentication of the R/W by the tag at the same time as an anti-collision process, and to further achieve confidentiality of unique ID information that is transmitted. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080309505 | Current-differential relay device - A relay device, installed at one end of a power line within a protected zone, includes a processor performing a transmitting process that transmits first sampling current data of the power line at the one end to another relay device installed at the other end, through a 2048-kbps transmission line, and a receiving process that receives second sampling current data of the power line at the other end from the another relay device through the transmission line; a calculator calculating a difference, used for detection of an occurrence of fault, between the first and the second sampling current data; and a human-machine interface capable of receiving and presenting information through a display unit. The processor transmits the first sampling current data in a transmission frame, and transmits, using an unused field not for the sampling current data in the transmission frame, display-related data output from the human-machine interface. | 12-18-2008 |
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| 20080198449 | Laser microscope - It is possible to change a focal position or spot diameter of an optical stimulation laser beam without causing any misalignment of the optical axis, thus precisely applying optical stimulation to a desired position or region on a specimen. The invention provides a laser microscope comprising an observation light path for guiding an observation laser beam; an optical stimulation light path for guiding an optical stimulation laser beam; and a light-path combining unit for combining these light paths; and the laser microscope also comprises, in at least the optical stimulation light path, a focal-position adjusting unit for adjusting a focal position of the laser beam; an optical-axis misalignment detector for detecting an amount of misalignment of an optical axis between the focal-position adjusting unit and the light-path combining unit; and an alignment unit for adjusting an optical axis position on the basis of the amount of misalignment of the optical axis detected by the optical-axis misalignment detector. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080246839 | MICROSCOPE APPARATUS AND MICROSCOPE SYSTEM - It is possible to check for observation success or failure and the observation history without waiting for observation to be completely finished, thus saving time and energy required for observation, and avoiding lost opportunities for observation of precious samples etc. Provided is a microscope apparatus including an image acquisition unit for acquiring a plurality of frame images while varying a plurality of parameters; an image saving unit for successively saving the frame images acquired by the image acquisition unit; a property-information saving unit for saving property information in which identifying information of the saved frame images is associated with the parameters; and a control unit for controlling these units, wherein the control unit saves updated property information in the property-information saving unit each time the frame image is saved in the image saving unit. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080252967 | MICROSCOPE APPARATUS - An image can be prevented from becoming unclear over time during long-term observation. The invention provides a microscope apparatus including a specimen container for containing a specimen; an objective lens disposed opposite the specimen container for collecting light from the specimen in the specimen container; an immersion-liquid supplying unit for supplying immersion liquid to a space between the objective lens and the specimen container; and an immersion-liquid removing unit for removing the immersion liquid from the space between the objective lens and the specimen container. The immersion-liquid removing unit includes a nozzle for ejecting compressed air to the space between the objective lens and the specimen container. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080259442 | Scanning microscope and adjusting method for the same - A scanning microscope includes an objective lens for focusing illumination light onto a specimen; a scanning device for deflecting and scanning the illumination light; a pupil-projection optical system for illuminating a pupil of the objective lens with the scanned illumination light; and a total-magnification specifying unit for specifying a total magnification. An optical-system selecting unit changes at least one of the objective lens and the pupil-projection optical system such that a magnification of an optical system including the objective lens and the pupil-projection optical system is equal to or less than the total magnification specified by the total-magnification specifying unit and that the numerical aperture of the optical system is maximized. A deflection-angle determination unit determines a deflection angle of the illumination light deflected by the scanning device based on the ratio of the magnification of the optical system to the total magnification to achieve the total magnification. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080278801 | Laser scanning microscope - A laser scanning microscope is capable of separating the fluorescence signals of different fluorophores in accurate unmixing realized by eliminating positional pixels shifts between different fluorescence images obtained through irradiation of different-wavelength laser lights. The microscope includes a laser light source capable of emitting a wavelength-changeable laser light, a correction amount determination unit that determines a correction amount for correcting an optical axis shift of the laser light, an optical axis adjusting unit that adjusts an optical axis, a scanning unit that performs two-dimensional scanning, an objective lens that focuses the laser scanning light to a specimen and fluorescence emitted from the specimen, a light detector that detects the fluorescence, and a control unit that changes the wavelength of the laser light synchronously with the scanning by the scanning unit while controlling the optical axis adjusting unit on the basis of the correction amount determined by correction amount determination unit. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20100083410 | MICROSCOPE SYSTEM - A microscope system comprises a microscope including a motorized stage on which is mounted a container containing a specimen and which can adjust the position of the container, a scanner scanning laser light radiated onto the specimen, an objective lens focusing the scanned laser light, an image-acquisition unit acquiring a specimen image by detecting fluorescence produced in the specimen, and a dark box containing these components; a storage unit storing the mounting position of the container on the motorized stage; an image-acquisition-position setting unit setting acquisition positions of partial images of the inside of the container, on the basis of the stored mounting position of the container; a control section controlling the microscope so as to acquire the partial images for each container on the basis of the set acquisition positions; and a map-image generating section arranging the partial images to generate a map image. | 04-01-2010 |
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| 20090060762 | HIGH-VOLTAGE DRIVER AND PIEZOELECTRIC PUMP WITH BUILT-IN DRIVER - A digital waveform generating circuit having a DC voltage as an input and generating a sinusoidal digital signal, an active filter extracting low-frequency components from the sinusoidal digital signal generated in the digital waveform generating circuit, and a high-voltage control circuit generating a high-voltage drive signal using the sinusoidal digital signal after passing through the active filter are provided. A smooth waveform without steep voltage changes is generated. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090083149 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A data processing system includes a distributing device that distributes edited advertisement data, formed by an editing device, and display terminal devices that display the edited advertisement data distributed to a first place in a predetermined territory. The display terminal devices each include a first reader/writer configured to read out from and/or write in an IC card having stored memory identification data. A second reader/writer is installed in a second place of the predetermined territory and configured to read out from and/or write in the IC card. A hysteresis management device manages hysteresis data from the first reader/writer, correlated with the memory identification data, and hysteresis data from the second reader/writer, correlated with the memory identification data. A hysteresis analysis device correlates the hysteresis data for each of the memory identification data to generate analysis data. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20100149196 | DISPLAY TERMINAL DEVICE - Disclosed is a display terminal device including a display operating unit ( | 06-17-2010 |
| 20110282720 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A method for distributing advertisement data to display terminal devices from a distribution server via a relay server. The relay server receives status notifications of the display terminal devices and transmits a tenor of receipt of the status notifications to the display terminal devices. The distribution server receiving status notifications and transmits the tenor of receipt of the status notifications to the relay server. The distribution server determines whether the reproduction schedule of the advertisement data has been changed and transmits a notification on a change. If the distribution server receives a request for acquisition of the as-changed reproduction schedule, the distribution server sends the as-changed reproduction schedule to the relay server. If the relay server determines that the reproduction schedule acquired from the distribution server has been changed, the relay server transmits the notification on the change of the reproduction schedule. | 11-17-2011 |
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| 20100002084 | Video sharing system, Photography support system, And camera - A video sharing system, accumulating various videos and enabling a plurality of users to utilize these accumulated videos, includes a plurality of cameras that photograph any one of a plurality of photographic subjects present within a facility, a video collection unit that collects photographed videos photographed by the plurality of cameras, a photographic subject identification unit that identifies the photographic subjects in the photographed videos, for each photographed video; and an accumulation unit that accumulates the photographed videos collected by the video collection unit, and photographic subject information specifying the photographic subjects identified by the photographic subject identification unit. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100128138 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - An imaging device includes a main photography means for photographing a photographic subject and acquires a photographic image, a preparatory image acquisition means for performing preparatory photography before or after the main photography means acquires the photographic image and acquiring preparatory images, a photographic information acquisition means for acquiring photographic information related to a circumstance of photography when the preparatory images are acquired by the preparatory image acquisition means, and a recording means for recording the photographic information and the photographic image upon a recording medium in mutual correlation. | 05-27-2010 |
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| 20090150571 | METHOD OF USING PERIPHERAL DEVICE CONNECTED TO COMPUTER VIA NETWORK, AND PROGRAM - This invention provides a method of connecting a network-connected image input device, to which a plug-and-play function cannot be applied to a computer installed with an OS (operating system) and using the image input device. To this end, when a control program of the image input device is activated, the program notifies the OS of information indicating that the peripheral device is connected, irrespective of connection/non-connection between the peripheral device and the computer. Upon reception of a command for activating the peripheral device, the control program confirms the connection/non-connection between the peripheral device and the computer. When the connection is confirmed, the control program controls the peripheral device to activate. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090273815 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - In a control method for a processing apparatus connected to an image reading apparatus, in a case where the processing apparatus receives a cancellation instruction while the image reading apparatus performs a reading step, the processing apparatus causes the image reading apparatus to terminate the reading step and deletes image data of a page being read, and in a case where the processing apparatus receives a cancellation instruction after the image reading apparatus has performed the reading step, the processing apparatus performs controlling processing for deleting image data that has been acquired in the last reading step and has yet to be stored. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20100284043 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus which detects a plurality of image areas included in an original plate image to extract a minimum rectangular area including the plurality of image areas, specifies maximum eight line segments acquired by extending four sides of the rectangular area toward corresponding four sides of the original plate image, respectively, extracts pixels existing in a neighborhood area including each of the specified line segments, and determines that the rectangular area and the minimum rectangular area including the extracted pixels are the areas of the original image. With the configuration, the image processing apparatus can accurately decide only an original area even if edge information of an original extracted from a read image is unclear. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20110002015 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an image processing method which determines the area of a document from an image read on a transparent platen, the image processing method also determines a single object area or a plurality of object areas from the image on the transparent platen, and when the luminance of the area in which the object area is removed from the image on the transparent platen is detected to determine the document area, the image processing method detects whether or not an image of a shadow exists around the periphery of the object area on the image of the transparent platen, and the threshold value used for determining the document area is different depending on whether a shadow is detected. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20120086990 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - In a method for reading a document set on a document positioning plate to output image data, an edge area of an image of an entire reading area is extracted to form a first rectangle area including the extracted edge area. If a position of an apex of the first rectangle area farthest from a reading reference position and a size of the first rectangle area satisfy predetermined conditions, image data corresponding to a second rectangle area including the first rectangle area and the reading reference position are output. | 04-12-2012 |