| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090246212 | DEVELOPMENT OF METHOD FOR SCREENING FOR DRUG CAPABLE OF IMPROVING PRODUCTION OF REGULATORY T CELLS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING REGULATORY T CELLS USING IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE MACROLIDE ANTIBIOTIC - The present invention provides a screening method for a compound capable of inducing regulatory T cells, comprising the following steps: | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090297539 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF REGULATORY T CELL - The present invention provides a method of producing a regulatory T cell, which includes culturing a peripheral CD25 | 12-03-2009 |
| 20110106553 | HEALTH MANAGEMENT GUIDELINE ADVISING DEVICE - A health management guideline advising device includes input means for inputting personal information of a measuring subject; measurement means for measuring weight and body impedance of the measuring subject; estimation means for estimating a body composition distribution of the measuring subject from the inputted personal information and the measurement result by the measurement means; storage means for storing the measurement result by the measurement means and an estimation result by the estimation means with a measurement date and time, prediction means for predicting future weight fluctuation from the stored weight and the body composition distribution; and display means for displaying the predicted future weight fluctuation. Furthermore, target setting means for setting a weight reduction target and determination means for determining whether or not the weight reduction target can be achieved based on the prediction result by the prediction means are preferably arranged. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110168883 | MASS SPECTROMETER - A mass spectrometer is provided that restrains the signal intensity of an MS/MS spectrum from decreasing according to the secondary dissociation of a primary fragment ion generated by a photodissociation. An excitation laser light for causing a photodissociation is irradiated to the trapping space A in the ion trap | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110311959 | SOLUTION FOR PRESERVING LIVER - The present invention provides a liver preservation solution containing trehalose and dibutyryl-cAMP. The content of nitroglycerin in the preservation solution is preferably lower than 0.44 mM. In the liver preservation solution of the present invention, since the toxicity due to nitroglycerin, which is observed during liver preservation, has been improved, liver transplantation can be performed with a high engrafted rate. | 12-22-2011 |
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| 20090129637 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING METHOD - Pseudo three dimensional image data sets are generated by an imaging apparatus, such as a digital camera having face detecting functions, by a simple operation. Reference image data sets, which are employed to generate pseudo three dimensional images, are generated from first image data sets, which are recorded. When new faces are detected by a face detecting section, correlative values between through the lens image data sets that include the new faces and the reference image data sets are calculated. When the calculated correlative values are greater that a predetermined value, pseudo three dimensional images are generated from the recorded first image data sets and newly obtained second image data sets that include the new faces. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090324013 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method - An image processing apparatus, a feature point tracking method and a feature point tracking program, which enable efficient feature point tracking by taking the easiness of convergence of a displacement amount according to the image pattern into account in a hierarchical gradient method, are provided. A displacement calculating unit reads a hierarchical tier image with the smallest image size from each of a reference pyramid py | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100074531 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An image processing apparatus includes: an image transformation parameter calculation device which calculates an image transformation parameter for matching an acquired first image and a second image with each other among detected plurality of corresponding points; an image transformation device which transforms the second image using the calculated image transformation parameter and acquires the transformed image as a third image; and a feature point existing region determination device which determines whether or not the feature point extracted from the first image is positioned in an invalid image region at an edge of the image, the invalid image region being generated by execution of a predetermined filtering process on the first image, wherein the corresponding point detection device tracks the feature point determined that the feature point extracted from the first image is positioned in the invalid image region, using the first image and the third image. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100177208 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An imaging apparatus is equipped with: imaging means, for obtaining images of a subject; imaging control means, for controlling the imaging means to sequentially obtain a plurality of images; reference image selecting means, for selecting a single reference image from among the plurality of images; moving object region specifying means, for specifying moving object regions within corresponding images, which are the plurality of images other than the selected reference image; positioning means, for positioning the plurality of corresponding images with respect to the reference image in the case that the plurality of images have been imaged by flow shooting, the positioning being performed such that the amount of positioning is greater at the specified moving object regions than at non moving object regions; and combining means, for combining the plurality of corresponding images, which have been positioned by the positioning means, with the reference image. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20110018969 | IMAGE REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND IMAGE REPRODUCING METHOD - In the image reproducing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention, the parallax adjustment amount is modified on the basis of the digital zoom information, the shift amount and the display range of each of the right and left images in the horizontal direction are computed on the basis of the modified parallax adjustment amount, and the right and left images are trimmed in the horizontal direction to be displayed. Accordingly, irrespective of a digital zoom magnification, it is possible to stereoscopically display an image while always maintaining an appropriate parallax. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110019989 | IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING METHOD - When the total number of pairs of a feature point and a corresponding point, which are detected from a first image data and a second image data that are in focus, respectively, exceeds a predetermined threshold th | 01-27-2011 |
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| 20090008765 | CHIP EMBEDDED SUBSTRATE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - A method of producing a chip embedded substrate is disclosed. This method comprises a first step of mounting a semiconductor chip on a first substrate on which a first wiring is formed; and a second step of joining the first substrate with a second substrate on which a second wiring is formed. In the second step, the semiconductor chip is encapsulated between the first substrate and the second substrate and electrical connection is made between the first wiring and the second wiring so as to form multilayered wirings connected to the semiconductor chip. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20100134952 | Capacitor device and method of manufacturing the same - A method of manufacturing a capacitor device of the present invention, includes the steps of, forming an insulating layer on a substrate, forming a recess portion in the insulating layer by an imprinting process, forming a lower electrode by filling a metal layer in the recess portion in the insulating layer, forming a photosensitive dielectric layer on the lower electrode, forming an upper electrode on the dielectric layer, and forming a dielectric layer pattern under the upper electrode by exposing/developing the dielectric layer while using the upper electrode as a mask. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20110318878 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGES - Conductive core balls are joined to joint pads formed on an upper substrate. Core balls are joined to joint pads formed on an extending part of an upper-substrate substrate material. The joint pads formed on the extending part of the upper-substrate substrate material are joined to the joint pads formed on an extending part of a lower-substrate substrate material via the core balls. The joint pads formed in an area corresponding to the upper substrate of the upper-substrate substrate material are connected to the joint pads formed in an area corresponding to a lower substrate of the lower-substrate substrate material via the core balls and the conductive core balls. The upper-substrate substrate material is fixed to the lower-substrate substrate material by a mold resin supplied therebetween. The extending parts of the upper-substrate substrate material and the lower-substrate substrate material are removed, and the semiconductor packages are individualized. | 12-29-2011 |
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| 20090239206 | SOLUTION FOR PRESERVING LIVER - The present invention provides a liver preservation solution containing trehalose and dibutyryl-cAMP. The content of nitroglycerin in the preservation solution is preferably lower than 0.44 mM. In the liver preservation solution of the present invention, since the toxicity due to nitroglycerin, which is observed during liver preservation, has been improved, liver transplantation can be performed with a high engrafted rate. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090250604 | Analysis Method for Biological Sample and Screening Method for Disease Marker - The present invention provides a method for obtaining structural information conveniently and rapidly by generating a negative ion without adding an acidic substance to matrix, thereby improving sensitivity of measurement by a mass spectrometer, and by generating structural specific ions with high reproducibility, and a method for screening disease marker and a method for analyzing a sample containing a biomolecule. A method for mass spectrometry of a sugar chain comprising the steps of: preparing a sample containing a sugar chain; labeling the sugar chain with a labeling compound, to obtain a labeled sugar chain; and subjecting the labeled sugar chain to measurement of negative ions by using a MALDI mass spectrometer, thereby conducting analysis of the sugar chain. A method for screening disease marker comprising the steps of: (1) labeling the biomolecule X derived from a subject affected by a particular disease; subjecting the labeled biomolecule X′ to measurement of negative ions by a MALDI mass spectrometer, (2) separately, labeling the biomolecule Y derived from a subject unaffected by the particular disease; subjecting the labeled biomolecule Y′ to measurement of negative ions by a MALDI mass spectrometer; and (3) comparing mass spectrum of the labeled biomolecule X′ obtained in (1) with mass spectrum of the labeled biomolecule Y′ obtained in (2) to find mass spectrum peaks which are mutually different, thereby ascertaining presence of structure involved in expression of the particular disease. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20100106045 | BODY COMPOSITION MONITOR CAPABLE OF ACCURATELY MEASURING WHOLE-BODY COMPOSITION AND ACHIEVING FACILITATED MANIPULATION - A detection portion for detecting a first potential difference between hand and foot by applying a current across the hand and the foot of a subject through both of a hand electrode and a foot electrode and detecting a second potential difference between both hands or between both feet by applying a current across both hands or across both feet of the subject through any one of the hand electrodes and the foot electrodes, a first body composition calculation portion for calculating a first whole-body composition by using whole-body impedance based on a result of detection of the first potential difference, a correction portion for correcting two-limb impedance based on a result of detection of the second potential difference, and a second body composition calculation portion for calculating a second whole-body composition by using the corrected two-limb impedance are included. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100137106 | PHYSICAL EXERCISE ASSISTING DEVICE - A physical exercise assisting device includes a physical activity amount recorder recording a performed physical activity amount such that a physical exercise amount and a lifestyle activity amount can be recognized for a physical activity that has an intensity greater than or equal to a reference intensity; goal storage unit storing goals for the physical activity amount and the physical exercise amount to be performed in a predetermined unit period; and a display displaying goal achievement of the physical activity amount and the physical exercise amount based on the physical activity amount and the physical exercise amount recorded by the physical activity amount recorder and the goals stored in the goal storage unit. | 06-03-2010 |
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| 20080260441 | TONER CARTRIDGE - The toner cartridge is provided with: a toner storing container of a rectangular shape having a toner feeding opening in an angular portion of the toner storing container; a stirring conveying member that is disposed so as to rotate in a predetermined rotation direction in the toner storing container and stirs and conveys toner in the toner storing container toward the toner feeding opening; a waste toner storing container that stores reclaimed toner; and a partition member that is held by the toner storing container, partitions between the toner storing container and the waste toner storing containers and has a bearing portion axially supporting a rotating shaft of the stirring conveying member and extending into inside of the waste toner storing container. The toner stored in the toner storing container has an average value of a shape factor (SF1) of about 130 or less. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080286012 | DEVELOPER STORAGE CASE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developer storage case includes: a storage case that includes: a developer storage space that stores a developer therein; and a discharge opening that discharges the developer stored in the developer storage space, the storage case defining an opening through which a developer passes into the developer storage space; a delivery member including: a rotation shaft that has one end supported on the storage case; and a main body that is supported on the rotation shaft, and that is disposed in contact with the wall surface of the developer storage space while being flexed, the delivery member delivering the developer stored in the developer storage space to the discharge opening; and an opening closing member that is removably supported on the storage case, and that closes the opening and supporting the other end of the rotation shaft. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20090129828 | DEVELOPER CONTAINING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUCH DEVICE - A developer containing device includes: a developer container having an opening through which developer can be filled in; a closing member that is removably installed to the developer container to close the opening; a stirring and feeding member that is rotatably supported in the closing member and stirs and feeds the developer contained in the developer container by rotating in one direction; and a fitting part that fixes the closing member to the developer container by rotating the closing member in the same direction as the rotational direction of the stirring and feeding member. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090238618 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming apparatus main body; a cover provided openably/closably with respect to the image forming apparatus main body; a conveyance passage, formed in the image forming apparatus main body, on which a recording medium is conveyed; a detection device that detects movement of the recording medium conveyed on the conveyance passage; a first recording medium guide member provided oppositely to the moving member and fixed when the cover is closed; and a second recording medium guide member, provided on a downstream side of and following the first recording medium guide member in a recording medium conveyance direction, that movably guides the conveyed recording medium. | 09-24-2009 |
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| 20080292337 | Image forming apparatus and printing control method therefor - The present invention is an image forming apparatus having no two-sided printing mechanism in which, by setting a front side printed paper sheet in a manual paper feed section, the paper sheet is taken from the manual paper feed section and a back side printing is executed. At this moment, when a paper detecting switch | 11-27-2008 |
| 20090048118 | Oligonucleotides, Arrays Thereof for Detecting Microorganisms, and an Apparatus, a Method and a Kit for Detecting Microorganisms - The present invention relates to an instrument, a method and a kit for detecting a microorganism contaminating a subject test sample, which enables one to quickly and accurately identify the microorganism with an easy operation. The instrument for detecting a microorganism according to the present invention relates to a microarray type instrument in which oligonucleotides prepared based on nucleotide sequences specific to the species and genus to which the subject microorganism belongs have been immobilized onto a surface of a substrate. Based on the presence or absence of hybridization of the probes prepared from the test sample with the oligonucleotides immobilized onto the surface of the substrate, the present invention makes it possible to detect and/or identify the microorganism in the test sample easily, quickly and accurately. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090185237 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image reading apparatus including: an image sensor unit having a light source that irradiates light onto an original document transferred to a predetermined image reading position, and a light receiving element that receives reflected light of the light; a white reference member for shading correction, provided so as to oppose the image sensor unit across a transferring path for the original document; an actuator that adjusts a position or an angle of the white reference member; and a control device that sets a position or angle of the white reference member and controls the actuator so as to adjust the white reference member to the set position or to the set angle, so that light reflected from the white reference member is received on the light receiving element when correcting shading, and so that the reflected light is not received on the light receiving element when reading an image. | 07-23-2009 |
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| 20110132141 | OIL PASSAGE STRUCTURE OF CHAIN-DRIVE OIL PUMP - An oil passage structure of a chain-driven oil pump includes three lines of oil passages for supplying oil from the center support to the torque converter, a first oil passage for supplying oil to the torque converter through the inside of an input shaft of the torque converter, a second oil passage for supplying oil to the torque converter through a space defined by the outer periphery surface of the input shaft and the inner periphery surface of a stator shaft, and a third oil passage for supplying oil to the torque converter by bypassing the drive sprocket. The third oil passage is provided on the outer periphery side of the drive sprocket and in a position where it does not interfere with the operation of a chain. Accordingly, it is possible to utilize the flex lock-up to a maximum extent, and to reduce the diameter of the sprocket. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110203898 | VEHICLE POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE - A vehicle power transmission device includes: a first power transmission member including a cylindrical shaft end portion rotatably supported via a first bearing on an inner circumferential side of a non-rotating support wall; and a second power transmission member supported on the inside of the cylindrical shaft end portion via a second bearing radially overlapping with the first bearing by the cylindrical shaft end portion to be rotatable concentrically and relatively to the first power transmission member, the second power transmission member including a circular disc gear portion protruded to an outer circumferential side at a predetermined distance from the second bearing in a shaft center direction of the second power transmission member, at a portion facing the first bearing, the gear portion having an annular inner circumferential guide protruding portion for guiding to the first bearing a lubricant oil that passes through the second bearing for lubrication, that enters into a gap between the second bearing and the gear portion, and that travels to the outer circumferential side due to the centrifugal force. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110207570 | VEHICLE POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE - A vehicle power transmission device includes: an input shaft; a planetary gear type speed reducer disposed concentrically to the input shaft to reduce and output rotation input to the input shaft; and a differential gear device disposed adjacently to the input shaft in a shaft center direction, the differential gear device being rotationally driven by the speed reducer to transmit a drive force to a pair of axles disposed on the shaft center while allowing a rotational difference between the axles, the speed reducer including a sun gear that is fit with a shaft end portion of the input shaft in a relatively non-rotatable manner, the sun gear being prevented from relatively moving toward the differential gear device by an annular snap ring fit and attached to an annular snap ring groove formed on an outer circumferential surface of the shaft end portion of the input shaft on the differential gear device side of the sun gear, the differential gear device including a differential case having a cylindrical end portion formed on the sun gear side or a member fixed thereto that is extended to the outer circumferential side of the snap ring, the differential case having a radial distance of an annular gap formed between the cylindrical end portion or the member fixed thereto and the snap ring set smaller than a groove depth of the snap ring groove. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110297258 | HYDRAULIC CONTROL CIRCUIT OF VEHICULAR POWER TRANSMISSION APPARATUS - A hydraulic control circuit of a vehicular power transmission apparatus includes: a first passageway providing communication between a pump and a strainer; a second passageway providing communication between the pump and a feeding passageway; a third passageway interconnecting the first passageway and the second passageway; a first check valve being disposed between the strainer and a connecting point between the first passageway and the third passageway, and allowing the oil to flow from a strainer side to a pump side; a second check valve being disposed between the feeding passageway and a connecting point between the second passageway and the third passageway, and allowing the oil to flow from the second passageway to a feeding passageway side; and a third check valve being disposed in the third passageway, and allowing the oil to flow from the first passageway to a second passageway side. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110315506 | OIL PUMP MOUNTING STRUCTURE - A mounting structure for mounting a separate shaft type oil pump in a case of a transmission. The separate shaft type oil pump is driven by a shaft that is separate from and rotated in cooperation with a shaft arranged in a torque input route extending from an engine to the transmission to supply hydraulic oil to a transmission oil pressure control mechanism. The mounting structure includes a spacer coupler that fastens the oil pump to the transmission case. The spacer coupler includes a plurality of spacers that couple the oil pump and the transmission case. An oil passage is formed in the spacers of the spacer coupler to connect an oil pressure system, which includes the oil pressure control mechanism, and the oil pump. A manual shaft for operating the transmission is arranged in a clearance between the spacers of the spacer coupler. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120011841 | HYDRAULIC DEVICE FOR STEPLESS TRANSMISSION - A hydraulic device includes a switch-over valve | 01-19-2012 |
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| 20110228100 | OBJECT TRACKING DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPERATION OF THE SAME - Disclosed is a technique for accurately tracking a tracking target object. A disparity map image in which the disparity of each pixel of an object is shown is generated from a three-dimensional object image. A detection range is determined such that an object disposed on the front side of a pedestrian, which is a tracking target object, in the depth direction is excluded from the generated disparity map image. The pedestrian, which is a tracking target object, is detected in the determined detection range. In this way, it is possible to prevent a bike driver disposed on the front side of the pedestrian in the depth direction from being tracked. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110234765 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND COMPOUND EYE DIGITAL CAMERA - A parallax map is generated by corresponding left and right images with each other through stereo matching based on the left image. An attention pixel is set on the parallax map, and a window of a predetermined size centering on a pixel (left image attention pixel) on the left image corresponding to the attention pixel is set in the left image. Pixels having an RGB value similar to the RGB value of the left image attention pixel from among the pixels in the window are extracted, and the parallax of a pixel on the parallax map corresponding to each extracted pixel is entered into a parallax histogram to generate a parallax histogram. When the frequency of the attention pixel is smaller than a predetermined value, the parallax of the attention pixel is corrected with a parallax having the maximum frequency value of the parallax histogram. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235899 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING APPARATUS - An apparatus ( | 09-29-2011 |
| 20120219208 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus that an image input unit; a parallax acquisition unit configured to acquire a per-pixel or per-region parallax between two-viewpoint images; a main subject detection unit configured to detect a main subject on the two-viewpoint images; a parallax acquisition unit configured to acquire a parallax of the main subject; a setting unit configured to set a conversion factor of the parallax; a correction unit configured to correct the conversion factor of the parallax per pixel, per region, or per image; a multi-viewpoint image generation unit configured to convert at least one image of the two-viewpoint images in accordance with the corrected conversion factor of the parallax; an image adjustment unit configured to shift the two-viewpoint images or multi-viewpoint images to obtain a parallax appropriate for stereoscopic view; and a stereoscopically-displayed image generation unit configured to generate a stereoscopically-displayed image. | 08-30-2012 |