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| 20100295239 | PAPER SHEET MULTI-FEED PREVENTING MEMBER - A paper sheet multi-feed preventing member | 11-25-2010 |
| 20110034308 | PAPER FEED ROLLER - The paper feed roller according to the present invention is made of a thermoplastic elastomer composition containing an ester thermoplastic elastomer urethane or an ether thermoplastic elastomer urethane (E) having microrubber hardness (type A) of not less than 60 and not more than 80 and a plasticizer (P) in a mass ratio E/P of 70/30 to 50/50. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110034598 | PAPER FEED ROLLER - The paper feed roller according to the present invention is made of (1) a thermoplastic elastomer composition containing an ester thermoplastic elastomer urethane (E) having microrubber hardness (type A) of not less than 80 and not more than 95 and at least one plasticizer (P) selected from a group consisting of an ether ester plasticizer and a phthalic ester plasticizer in a mass ratio E/P of 95/5 to 70/30, or (2) a thermoplastic elastomer composition containing an ether thermoplastic elastomer urethane (E) having microrubber hardness (type A) of not less than 80 and not more than 95 and at least one plasticizer (P) selected from a group consisting of an ether ester plasticizer, a phthalic ester plasticizer and a phosphoric acid plasticizer in a mass ratio E/P of 95/5 to 70/30. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110306481 | RUBBER COMPOSITION AND PAPER FEED ROLLER - The rubber composition according to the present invention is a rubber composition for forming the body of a paper feed roller, containing a rubber component, a crosslinking agent and a filler, wherein the rubber component is at least a single type selected from a group consisting of: (1) non-oil-extended ethylene propylene diene rubber having Mooney viscosity (at 100° C.) of 15 to 50; (2) a mixture of non-oil-extended ethylene propylene diene rubber having Mooney viscosity (at 100° C.) of 15 to 50 and oil of not more than 10 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the non-oil-extended ethylene propylene diene rubber; (3) a mixture of non-oil-extended ethylene propylene diene rubber having Mooney viscosity (at 100° C.) of 15 to 50 and liquid ethylene propylene diene rubber; and (4) a mixture of non-oil-extended ethylene propylene diene rubber having Mooney viscosity (at 100° C.) of 15 to 50 and polybutene, and the content of the filler is less than | 12-15-2011 |
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| 20110294417 | ELECTRONIC PEN, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an electronic pen including a wireless communication section which performs short-range one-to-one communication with a communication partner device having a display section, a pen tip which is for specifying information displayed on the display section, a reception processing section which configures the wireless communication section, and acquires information specified by the pen tip by communication with the communication partner device, a recording section which records the acquired information, and a transmission processing section which configures the wireless communication section, and transmits the information recorded in the recording section. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110294426 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a transmission processing section which performs short-range one-to-one communication with a communication partner device, a reception processing section, a received data processing section which acquires information displayed by the communication partner device by communication with the communication partner device, a display processing section which performs processing for displaying information acquired by the information acquisition section, and a display section which displays the information. According to such a configuration, it becomes possible to easily and visually recognize the information displayed on the communication partner device of a connection destination. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110294433 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a transmission processing section which performs short-range one-to-one communication with a communication partner device, a reception processing section, a received data processing section which acquires information obtained by communication with the communication partner device, a display section which displays the information, and a display processing section which executes processing of displaying the information based on a content of the information. | 12-01-2011 |
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| 20110203470 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PROCESSING APPARATUS - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus to form an image on a paper, comprising: a main body section including a housing to house an apparatus to perform processing for the paper, and a control circuit to control the apparatus housed in the housing; and a peripheral apparatus provided separately from the main body section, which includes a hardware module having an electric component, and is connected to the control circuit so that communication therebetween is performed, and which is detachably provided to the housing, wherein a position at which the peripheral apparatus is provided to the housing can be changed, wherein the housing and the peripheral apparatus respectively include a conductive material, and the conductive material of the housing is grounded, and wherein when the peripheral apparatus is provided to the housing, the conductive material of the housing is conductive with the conductive material of the peripheral apparatus. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20120241442 | INDUCTION HEATING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - An induction heating device comprises: a resonant circuit provided with a coil heating a workpiece inductively and a capacitor, the coil and the capacitor being coupled in parallel with each other; a switching element coupled in series with the resonant circuit; a power supply which applies to the resonant circuit, a direct-current input voltage whose instantaneous value can be changed with the lapse of time; and a power controller which controls power to the workpiece by turning the switching element ON at a certain time and changing an ON period of the switching element, and the power controller is characterized by turning the switching element ON with a delay of an integral multiple of a resonant period of the resonant circuit if a value of power to the workpiece is equal to or lower than a first threshold which is predetermined. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120275810 | INDUCTION HEATING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An induction heating device including a coil which inductively heats a workpiece of a fuser with an input voltage obtained from an alternating current voltage by rectification; a switching element coupled in series with the coil; a peak voltage detector which detects a peak value of the input voltage; an effective voltage detector which detects an effective value of the input voltage; a crest factor calculator which calculates an actual crest factor of the input voltage based on the peak value of the input voltage and the effective value of the input voltage; and a power controller which achieves control of power to the fuser by controlling the duty ratio of ON and OFF periods of the switching element. | 11-01-2012 |
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| 20080235390 | Moving Image Displaying Method and System - In order to overcome a difficulty in which, when a moving image played back by an operated-side computer is displayed on an operating-side computer through a network, a smooth moving image cannot be displayed because of being adversely influenced by the variation of a transfer data amount or a network bandwidth, a moving image displaying method and system are arranged to capture moving image playback event information being remotely operated and convey the information about the playback of the moving image on the operated-side computer to the operating-side computer. The operating-side computer provides a function of obtaining and receiving the moving image data played back on the event information, playing back the display image from the obtained moving image data, and overlapping the display image with the remote operation view. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080263605 | VIDEO DELIVERY DEVICE, VIDEO RECEIVER AND KEY FRAME DELIVERY METHOD - In this video delivery device including: a storage device storing key frame information including a key frame number included in a contents file and offset from the beginning of a file; and a delivery control unit, which executes delivery in a predetermined cycle, the delivery control unit refers to the key frame information cycle by cycle in executing the trick play, and transmits the key frame having the offset closest to the delivery time among the key frames included in the contents file. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20090063778 | Storage System and Storage System Control Method - A storage system of the present invention improves the response performance of sequential access to data, the data arrangement of which is expected to be sequential. Data to be transmitted via streaming delivery is stored in a storage section. A host sends data read out from the storage section to respective user machines. A prefetch section reads out from the storage section ahead of time the data to be read out by the host, and stores it in a cache memory. A fragmentation detector detects the extent of fragmentation of the data arrangement in accordance with the cache hit rate. The greater the extent of the fragmentation, the smaller the prefetch quantity calculated by a prefetch quantity calculator. A prefetch operation controller halts a prefetch operation when the extent of data arrangement fragmentation is great, and restarts a prefetch operation when the extent of fragmentation decreases. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090119697 | DISTRIBUTION DEVICE, DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, AND DISTRIBUTION METHOD - A video distribution device that has a distribution judgment reference input function and a distribution judgment function, and can set different viewing limitations for different motion picture titles. Viewing limitations set viewable scenes and unviewable scenes in one motion picture title. Since the range of viewing limitations can be dynamically generated from access history, the motion pictures can be used for promotion, such as automatically extracting popular scenes for limited release. A viewing limitation range is reasonably decided based on more information by an interface for acquiring information such as access history from the outside. Furthermore, by embedding information of a link to another site in motion picture fragments limitedly released, viewers of the motion picture fragments can be guided to another site in which the whole motion picture can be viewed. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090210700 | COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR JUDGING WHETHER TO PERMIT USE OF DATA BASED ON LOCATION OF TERMINAL - There is provided a computer system comprising a storage system, a terminal, a management server and the terminal, and a positioning module for identifying a location of the terminal. The terminal identifies the location of the terminal by the positioning module in a case of using the data, transmits terminal information including the identified location of the terminal to the management server; and transmits a usage request for the data to the management server. The management server judges whether or not use of the data is to be permitted based on the terminal information, and transmits permit information including usage conditions for the data to the terminal in a case where the use of the data is to be permitted. The terminal selects at least one of the volatile storage area and the nonvolatile storage area based on the usage conditions, and stores the copy of the data therein. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20110082950 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND COMPUTER SYSTEM INPUT/OUTPUT METHOD - Under the environment where a storage system is virtualized by Thin Provisioning technology or the like, it is difficult to statically estimate the I/O characteristics of the entire virtual volume, causing a problem that the effect of input/output control by a computer cannot be fully achieved by I/O scheduling that is based on the characteristics of a virtual volume unit. To solve the above problem, the computer system of the present invention acquires characteristics information of a storage apparatus in which there exists an actual storage area corresponding to a virtual volume storage area that is the access target when accessing the virtual volume, divides an I/O request with respect to the virtual volume by storage apparatus in a case where the I/O request spans multiple storage apparatuses, carries out I/O scheduling based on the acquired actual area characteristics information, and issues the I/O request directly to the storage apparatus in accordance with the I/O scheduling result. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110179247 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND UTILIZATION MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR STORAGE SYSTEM - A storage system | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110208910 | Storage Control Device for Storage System Provided with Storage Device Coupled to Switch Network - A plurality of storage devices are coupled with at least two switch of a switch network that is configured by a plurality of switches that transfer a packet that complies with an IP (Internet Protocol). Moreover, a storage control device is coupled with the switch network. The storage control device builds an LU (Logical Unit) that is utilized by a host device based on at least two storage devices that are coupled with different switches. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20120260017 | COMPUTER, COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND DATA COMMUNICATION METHOD - A computer includes first and second processors, first and second I/O devices, a shared memory, and an interrupt controller. The first processor issues a control command for causing the first I/O device to read target data from the first apparatus and store the target data in the shared memory. The first I/O device reads the target data from the first apparatus and, transfers the target data to the shared memory, and generates an I/O complete interrupt. The interrupt controller delivers the generated I/O complete interrupt to the second processor. When the second processor receives the I/O complete interrupt, the second processor issues a control command for causing the second I/O device to read the target data from the shared memory and send the target data to the second apparatus. The second I/O device reads the target data from the shared memory and sends the target data to the second apparatus. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120265961 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND UTILIZATION MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR STORAGE SYSTEM - A storage system | 10-18-2012 |
| 20130046911 | STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS - An aspect of the invention is a storage control apparatus, comprising a plurality of processors, a memory, an I/O device coupled to a storage device, a virtualization module that allocates a first processor to a first guest and a second processor to a second guest from among the plurality of processors, and an interrupt control module that receives an interrupt from the I/O device and transmits the interrupt to any one of the plurality of processors, wherein the virtualization module comprises, a state detection module that detects at least one of a state of the first guest and a state of the first processor, and an interrupt delivery destination control module that switches the interrupt with respect to the first processor to the second processor when at least one of the state of the first guest and the state of the first processor becomes a predetermined state. | 02-21-2013 |
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| 20100077794 | Evaporator - An evaporator includes a refrigerant inlet header section, a refrigerant outlet header section, and a refrigerant circulation path connecting the two header sections. A refrigerant inlet-outlet member composed of a first plate, a second plate, and an intermediate plate is joined to the two header sections. The refrigerant inlet-outlet member has an inflow channel whose one end communicates with the refrigerant inlet of the refrigerant inlet header section and whose other end is opened to a rear edge of the refrigerant inlet-outlet member, and an outflow channel whose one end communicates with the refrigerant outlet of the refrigerant outlet header section and whose other end is opened to the rear edge. The first and second plates each have inflow-channel-forming and outflow-channel-forming outward swelled portions. Cutouts and a through hole are formed in the intermediate plate such that the inflow channel and the outflow channel cross each other. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100083694 | Evaporator - Each heat exchange tube of an evaporator is composed of two press-worked rectangular metal plates joined together in a stacked condition. The metal plates of the heat exchange tube are swelled outward whereby at least one refrigerant flow space extending in the vertical direction and having opened upper and lower ends is provided in the heat exchange tube. Insertion portions to be inserted into header sections of header tanks of the evaporator via tube insertion holes are provided on upper and lower end portions of each heat exchange tube at positions corresponding to the refrigerant flow space. A concave portion is formed in each of the insertion portions, excluding opposite ends thereof with respect to the front-rear direction, of the upper and lower end portions of each heat exchange tube, the concave portion being concaved inward with respect to a longitudinal direction of the heat exchange tube. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100326640 | Double-wall-tube heat exchanger - A double-wall-tube heat exchanger has outer and inner tubes. A clearance between the outer and inner tubes and the interior of the inner tube serve as refrigerant flow paths. Opposite end portions of the inner tube project from opposite ends of the outer tube. The outer tube includes expanded portions formed near the opposite ends. Contracted portions are formed on the outer tube to be located on the outer sides of the expanded portions, and are brazed to the inner tube. Longitudinally extending ridges project radially inward from the inner circumferential surface of the outer tube at predetermined circumferential intervals. The ridges on the inner circumferential surfaces of the expanded portions and the contracted portions are crushed. The clearances between the inner tube and portions of the contracted portions of the outer tube where the ridges are not formed are filled with a brazing filler metal. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20120198882 | EVAPORATOR - An evaporator includes a pair of header tanks spaced from each other in a vertical direction; a plurality of flat heat exchange tubes | 08-09-2012 |
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| 20090163607 | HYDROGEL PARTICLES AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - A hydrogel particle producing method includes spraying into an atmosphere a dispersion containing an oil component dispersed in an aqueous component solution which contains a gel source of non-crosslinked hydrogel dissolved therein such that formed droplets are cooled to solidify, a gelation temperature of the gel source of non-crosslinked hydrogel being equal to or higher than 30° deg. C. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090312213 | HYDROGEL PARTICLE - The present invention relates to hydrogel particles containing bubbles and having a specific gravity of 0.7 to 1.00 and an average particle diameter of 50 to 500 μm, as well as a process for producing the same. The hydrogel particles may also contain hollow inorganic particles. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20100008869 | METHOD FOR PREVENTING COLORATION OF CATECHINS AND DENTIFRICE COMPOSITION - The present invention relates to a method of suppressing coloration of catechins, which contains adding, to catechins, a water-soluble polymer forming a water-insoluble complex with catechins, as well as hydrogel particles containing a water-insoluble complex between catechins and a polymer forming a water-insoluble complex with catechins. Further, the present invention relates to a dentifrice composition containing hydrogel particles containing catechins and a polymer forming a water-insoluble complex with catechins, a binder and water. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100015186 | HYDROGEL PARTICLE - A hydrogel particle contains a continuous phase portion of non-crosslinked hydrogel and a large number of disperse phase portions dispersed in the continuous phase portion. Each of the large number of disperse phase portions is a solid phase containing an oil component and particles of zinc oxide dispersed therein. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100038585 | PEARLESCENT COMPOSITION - A pearly luster composition containing a fatty acid glycol ester and water, and further containing any one selected from the group consisting of (1) a polyoxyalkylene nonionic surfactant and a fatty acid contained in an amount of from 0.3 to 3% by weight of the pearly luster composition, (2) a polyoxyalkylene nonionic surfactant and an aliphatic alcohol contained in an amount of from 0.3 to 3% by weight of the pearly luster composition, (3) a fatty acid monoglyceride contained in an amount of from 0.3 to 3% by weight of the pearly luster composition, and (4) an aliphatic ether contained in an amount of from 0.3 to 3% by weight of the pearly luster composition, as a crystallization additive. The pearly luster composition of the present invention is suitably used for shampoos, conditioners, body shampoos, liquid detergents, and the like. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100105861 | METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF PEARLESCENT COMPOSITION - A method for producing a pearly luster composition containing pearly luster particles (A) containing a fatty acid glycol ester (a1) and a fatty acid glycol ester (a2) having a melting point higher than the melting point of the fatty acid glycol ester (a1), and a surfactant (B), wherein the method includes the steps of (i) solubilizing the fatty acid glycol ester (a2) in the presence of the surfactant (B); (ii) mixing the solubilized solution obtained in the step (i) with a molten fatty acid glycol ester (a1), to emulsify the mixture; and (iii) cooling the emulsified mixture obtained in the step (ii), to precipitate the pearly luster particles (A); a pearly luster composition obtained by the method; and a shampoo containing the pearly luster composition. The pearly luster composition obtained by the present invention is suitably used for shampoos, conditioners, body shampoos, liquid detergents, and the like. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20110130467 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING ANTIMICROBIAL-CONTAINING SOLUTION - A method for producing an antimicrobial-containing solution includes mixing an alkaline aqueous solution which dissolves a phenol-based antimicrobial, and has a pH of 9 or higher and acid which has a pH 6 or lower. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110163263 | PEARLESCENT COMPOSITION MANUFACTURING METHOD - A method for producing a pearly luster composition containing a fatty acid glycol ester, a surfactant, and water, and further containing as a crystallization additive any one selected from the group consisting of (1) a fatty acid, (2) an aliphatic alcohol, (3) a fatty acid monoglyceride, and (4) an aliphatic ether, the method including the step of cooling a molten mixture solution containing the fatty acid glycol ester, the surfactant, water, and the crystallization additive, wherein a representative heat-removal rate per unit mass during crystallization in the cooling step is from 9 to 36 [W/kg]. The pearly luster composition obtained by the method of the present invention can be suitably used for shampoos, conditioners, body shampoos, liquid detergents, and the like. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110236446 | HYDROGEL PARTICLES - Hydrogel particles include a continuous phase portion of non-crosslinked hydrogel and disperse phase portions dispersed in the continuous phase portion. Each of the disperse phase portions contains a solid oil and a liquid oil as an oil component, and titanium oxide particles dispersed therein. The solid oil of the oil component contains a higher alcohol and a solid paraffin, and the content of the solid oil in the disperse phase portion is 1 to 12 mass %. The hydrogel particles have a volume-average particle diameter of 10 to 300 μm. | 09-29-2011 |
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| 20080198158 | 3D map display system, 3D map display method and display program - A three-dimensional (3D) map display system for outputting display information on a 3D map includes: a processor for performing arithmetic processing; and a memory connected to the processor. The memory stores 3D map vector data for each of partitioned areas determined in advance according to coordinates and a real landscape photograph texture image to be attached to the 3D map vector data. The processor determines whether to display each surface constituting a 3D figure included in the 3D map vector data; stores display object management data which includes a result of the determination as to whether to display the surface, in the memory; and refers to the display object management data stored in the memory to determine that only a surface that faces a view line direction is to be displayed, and that a surface that does not face the view line direction is not to be displayed. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20090063424 | GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM - Provided is a geographic information system using map data including configuration data provided with time information and attribute data corresponding to an attribute of an object contained in the map data, including an information import module for receiving an input of a geographic area of an object to be retrieved and a search key; a map retrieval module for extracting configuration data, for which the input geographic area of the object to be retrieved and an area represented by the configuration data at least partially overlap each other, from the map data; a correlation module for correlating the configuration data with the attribute data identical with the input search key, for which the area represented by the extracted configuration data overlaps the positional information, according to each of the time information provided to the configuration data and to the attribute data; and an output module for outputting the correlated data. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090252424 | COMPUTER-AIDED IMAGE INTERPRETATION METHOD AND DEVICE - A computer-aided image interpretation method and a device thereof to easily obtain an accurate image interpretation result are provided. An automatic classification means of the image interpretation device performs automatic classification by one of spectral characteristics, radiometric characteristics, diffuse characteristics, textures and shapes, or combinations thereof and accumulates data to an interpretation result database, for plural features of the same kind obtained by interpreting a remote sensing image obtained with an observation sensor. A means for extracting candidate of modification of interpretation result extracts the candidate of modification of interpretation result by comparing likelihoods that are the automatic classification results. A reinterpretation is performed for the candidate of modification of interpretation, and an interpretation result database is updated by an interpretation result update means. As a result, modification of the interpretation work can be efficiently performed. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20130052630 | LEARNING SUPPORT SYSTEM AND LEARNING SUPPORT METHOD - In order to provide questions suited to skill levels of a learner, it is provided a learning support system which consists of a computer including a processor and a memory, comprising: a question database; a question generator; an answer acquisition module; a scoring module and an achievement degree estimator. The achievement degree estimator compares a number of types of perturbation within the questions to which a correct answer has been given with a predetermined second threshold value. The question generator generates a word changed in accordance with the perturbation of a different type in a case where the number of types of perturbation within the questions to which the correct answer has been given is smaller than the predetermined second threshold value, and sets a question relating to the generated word as a candidate for the question. | 02-28-2013 |
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| 20080316333 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An imaging apparatus enables flicker correction with small errors even when illumination changes in the image capturing environment or when the imaging apparatus is moved. In an imaging apparatus | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090002513 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An imaging apparatus requiring a large dynamic range captures an image including a moving image with an increased dynamic range without degrading resolution. In an imaging apparatus | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090002520 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An imaging apparatus reduces flicker occurring under fluorescent lamp illumination in real time and also effectively reduces noise of a captured image generated by low-sensitive pixel areas fixed on an imaging surface. The imaging apparatus obtains a first image signal including no flicker element and a second image signal including a flicker element for each frame, and calculates a gain correction coefficient for eliminating the flicker element in the second image signal based on the first and second image signals, eliminates the flicker element from the second image signal based on the gain correction coefficient, and combines the first and second image signals to generate an image signal from which the flicker element has been eliminated. The imaging apparatus also effectively reduces noise of a captured image generated by low-sensitive pixel areas fixed on an imaging surface by changing the charge accumulation time of pixels depending on each frame. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20100110225 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An imaging apparatus that removes horizontal bands of high-luminance noise caused by incoming flash light and outputs an image whose continuity as a moving picture is maintained. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100220214 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus according to the present invention includes an imaging unit having a discrete pixel structure and being adapted to output directly signals of respective M sample points corresponding to M pixels per single frame in normal imaging for imaging at a first frame rate and to add signals of respective N pixels out of M pixels per single frame and output signals of M/N sample points (M and N are integers equal to or greater than 2) at each frame in high-speed imaging for imaging at a second frame rate greater than the first frame rate; and an operation unit being adapted to output directly output signals from the imaging unit in the normal imaging and to perform interpolation operations on the output signals from the imaging unit for interpolating signals of the (N−1) sample points between respective sample points to output interpolated signals of the M sample points in the high-speed imaging. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20110081097 | IMAGE PRODUCTION DEVICE, REPRODUCTION DEVICE, REPRODUCTION SYSTEM, IMAGE PRODUCTION METHOD, AND REPRODUCTION METHOD - An image production device includes a flash determination section, a frame information adder and an addition controller. The flash determination section is configured to determine whether or not image data included in an image data group are affected by flash. The frame information adder is configured to add frame information used for identifying the image data affected by flash to the image data. The addition controller is configured to control the frame information adder to add the frame information to the image data affected by flash, on the basis of the determination result of the flash determination section. | 04-07-2011 |
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| 20120213691 | GRAPHITE NANO-CARBON FIBER AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, there is provided a graphite nano-carbon fiber provided by using an apparatus having a reactor capable of keeping a reducing atmosphere inside thereof, a metal substrate arranged as a catalyst in the reactor, a heater heating the metal substrate, a pyrolysis gas source supplying pyrolysis gas obtained by thermally decomposing a wood material in a reducing atmosphere to the reactor, a scraper scraping carbon fibers produced on the metal substrate, a recovery container recovering the scraped carbon fibers, and an exhaust pump discharging exhaust gas from the reactor. The carbon fibers are linear carbon fibers with a diameter of 25 to 250 nm formed with layers of graphenes stacked in a longitudinal direction. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120213999 | GRAPHITE NANO-CARBON FIBER AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, there is provided a graphite nano-carbon fiber provided by using an apparatus having a reactor capable of keeping a reducing atmosphere inside thereof, a metal substrate arranged as a catalyst in the reactor, a heater heating the metal substrate, a hydrocarbon source supplying hydrocarbon to the reactor, a scraper scraping carbon fibers produced on the metal substrate, a recovery container recovering the scraped carbon fibers, and an exhaust pump discharging exhaust gas from the reactor. The carbon fibers are linear carbon fibers with a diameter of 80 to 470 nm formed with layers of graphenes stacked in a longitudinal direction. | 08-23-2012 |
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| 20090291471 | Novel Beta-Galactoside Alpha 2,6-Sialyltransferase, Gene Coding For The Transferase And Process For Producing The Same - The present invention provides a novel β-galactoside-α2,6-sialyltransferase having high productivity and/or high activity, and a nucleic acid encoding the sialyltransferase. The present invention also provides a microorganism producing the sialyltransferase. The present invention further provides a vector carrying a nucleic acid encoding the sialyltransferase, and a host cell transformed with the vector, as well as a method for producing a recombinant β-galactoside-α2,6-sialyltransferase. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20100132068 | Cosmid Vector For Plant Transformation And Use Thereof - The present invention aims to provide novel vectors for plant transformation. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100304460 | NOVEL BETA-GALACTOSIDE-ALPHA2, 6-SIALYLTRANSFERASE, A GENE ENCODING THEREOF, AND A METHOD FOR PRODUCING THEREOF - The present invention provides a novel β-galactoside-α2,6-sialyltransferase having high productivity and/or high activity, and a nucleic acid encoding the sialyltransferase. The present invention also provides a microorganism producing the sialyltransferase. The present invention further provides a vector carrying a nucleic acid encoding the sialyltransferase, and a host cell transformed with the vector, as well as a method for producing a recombinant β-galactoside-α2,6-sialyltransferase. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20120184016 | NOVEL PROTEIN AND GENE THAT CODES THEREFOR - The present invention provides a novel protein having neuraminidase activity and/or β-galactoside-α2,6-sialyltransferase activity and a nucleic acid encoding the protein. The present invention further provides a vector containing a nucleic acid encoding the protein, a host cell transformed with the vector, together with a method for producing a recombinant β-galactoside-α2,6-sialyltransferase. The present invention also provides an antibody specifically recognizing the protein. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120282659 | NOVEL BETA-GALACTOSIDE-ALPHA2,6-SIALYLTRANSFERASE, A GENE ENCODING THEREOF, AND A METHOD FOR ENHANCING ENZYME ACTIVITY - The present invention provides an extremely useful and novel β-galactoside-α2,6-sialyltransferase having an optimum reaction pH in a neutral to alkaline range, and a nucleic acid encoding the sialyltransferase. The present invention further provides a vector carrying a nucleic acid encoding the sialyltransferase, and a host cell transformed with the vector, as well as a method for producing a recombinant β-galactoside-α2,6-sialyltransferase. | 11-08-2012 |
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| 20090263269 | AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL AND PROCESS FOR REMOVING HYDROGEN THEREFROM - By focusing on the non-diffusible hydrogen that causes hydrogen embrittlement of austenitic stainless steel, the present invention provides an austenitic stainless steel in which the non-diffusible hydrogen is removed by maintaining the austenitic stainless steel in a vacuum of 0.2 Pa or less and heating at a heating temperature of 200° C. to 500° C. for 460 hours or less to remove the hydrogen (H) contained therein to a level of 0.00007 mass % (0.7 mass ppm) or less. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20100154939 | AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL AND PROCESS FOR REMOVING HYDROGEN THEREFROM - By focusing on the non-diffusible hydrogen that causes hydrogen embrittlement of austenitic stainless steel, the present invention provides an austenitic stainless steel in which the non-diffusible hydrogen is removed by maintaining the austenitic stainless steel in a vacuum of 0.2 Pa or less and heating at a heating temperature of 200° C. to 500° C. for 460 hours or less to remove the hydrogen (H) contained therein to a level of 0.00007 mass % (0.7 mass ppm) or less. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20110005645 | AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL, AND METHOD FOR REMOVING HYDROGEN THEREFROM - The present invention focuses on diffusible hydrogen and non-diffusible hydrogen that cause hydrogen embrittlement in an austenitic stainless steel, and provides the austenitic stainless steel having diffusible hydrogen and non-diffusible hydrogen removed therefrom, and a method for removing hydrogen therefrom. In order to remove diffusible hydrogen and non-diffusible hydrogen, which cause hydrogen embrittlement in the austenitic stainless steel, an aging treatment is performed to the austenitic stainless steel at a temperature ranging from 200 to 1100° C. while being kept in an air atmosphere. As a result, the hydrogen (H) content in the austenitic steel is removed to 0.001 wt % (1 wt ppm) or less. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110139321 | AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL, AND HYDROGENATION METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are an austenitic stainless steel, and a hydrogenation method thereof, in which occurrence of fatigue cracks and growth of fatigue cracks are suppressed by charging the austenitic stainless steel with hydrogen. | 06-16-2011 |
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| 20110034397 | INTESTINAL IMMUNE SYSTEM STIMULATOR - Disclosed is an agent, γ-glutamylcysteine, which can effectively and safely stimulate the intestinal immune system. γ-Glutamylcysteine can be formulated in a pharmaceutical composition, a food, and/or a beverage, and used for the treatment or prevention of infectious diseases, diarrhea, polyps, tumors, enteritis or allergy. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110070270 | IMMUNOSTIMULATING AGENT - An immunostimulating agent, which can stimulate immunity effectively, is described. The immunostimulating agent contains an active ingredient including a calcium receptor activator such as γ-Glu-X-Gly [wherein X represents an amino acid or a derivative thereof other than Cys], γ-Glu-Val-Y [wherein Y represents an amino acid or a derivative thereof], γ-Glu-Ala, γ-Glu-Gly, γ-Glu-Met, γ-Glu-Thr, γ-Glu-Val, γ-Glu-Orn, Asp-Gly, Cys-Gly, Cys-Met, Glu-Cys, Gly-Cys, Leu-Asp, γ-Glu-Met(O), γ-Glu-γ-Glu-Val, γ-Glu-Val-NH2, γ-Glu-Val-ol, γ-Glu-Ser, γ-Glu-Tau, γ-Glu-Cys(S-Me)(O), γ-Glu-Leu, γ-Glu-Ile, γ-Glu-t-Leu, γ-Glu-Cys(S-Me), a cation having a valency of 2 or more, protamine, polylysine, spermine, spermidine, putrescine, cinacalcet, a cinacalcet analogue compound, and a salt of any one of the aforementioned components. | 03-24-2011 |
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| 20090082668 | ULTRASONIC IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING ULTRASONIC IMAGE - An imaging part transmits ultrasonic waves to a specific tissue having a tubular morphology in a three-dimensional region and acquires volume data showing the specific tissue. A tomographic image generator generates tomographic image data in a specified cross-section of the specific tissue based on the volume data. A boundary setting part sets a boundary of the specific tissue shown in the tomographic image data. A developed image generator sets a viewpoint at a specified position with respect to the boundary and executes a rendering process on the volume data along a view direction from the viewpoint toward the boundary, thereby generating developed image data in which the specific tissue is developed along the boundary. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090198134 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus is configured as follows. Namely, an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus is provided with a control unit which collets a heart synchronized signal, etc. synchronizing with workings of a heart of a patient, etc., and an image processing unit which detects an overlapped area of the three-dimensional data acquired by ultrasonic scanning from different echo windows, for the three dimensional image data group acquired in the same time phase in synchronization with the heart synchronized signal or aspiration synchronized signal, combines the three-dimensional image data, and generates a panorama three-dimensional image data group consisting of panorama three-dimensional image data which are continued in time and have a display area larger than each of the three-dimensional image data. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20100056918 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, ULTRASONIC IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND ULTRASONIC IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - When scanning a three-dimensional region while rotating a scanning plane about a predetermined axis (rotation axis), an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus calculates a motion vector of a motion scanning plane (ultrasonic sectional layer) using ultrasonic image data in the rotation axis and corrects a positional mismatch between the scanning planes using the calculated motion vector. The motion vector is calculated and the positional mismatch between the sectional layers, using at least one frame having a cardiac time phase close to the frame of which the motion should be corrected and being spatially close to the frame, in addition to the frames at the same cardiac time phase as the frame of which the motion should be corrected. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20110087102 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS, ULTRASONIC IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, ULTRASONIC IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND ULTRASONIC IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, an ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus executes B-mode scanning and color Doppler mode scanning on a scanning region associated with an interior of the womb of a pregnant woman via an ultrasonic probe. A first generating unit generates first color Doppler mode data and generates first B-mode data. A specifying unit specifies a specific region including at least one of an amniotic fluid region and a fetus region based on one of a signal intensity distribution and a luminance distribution of the first B-mode data. A second generating unit generates second color Doppler mode data by deleting a specific data from the first color Doppler mode data. The specific color Doppler mode data corresponds to the specific region. A display unit displays a color Doppler mode image and a first B-mode image while superimposing the color Doppler mode image and the first B-mode image. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20120113111 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM AND IMAGE DATA DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM - An ultrasonic diagnosis system that generates virtual endoscopic image data on a lumen of an organ of an object based on volume data acquired by three-dimensional scanning of the object, includes: a unit that sets a three-dimensional region of interest for the volume data; a unit that sets a center line of the lumen of the organ in the volume data based on the acquired volume data; a unit that detects a reference point at which a reference plane of the three-dimensional region of interest and the center line intersect with each other; a unit that sets a viewpoint and a view direction based on the reference point; a virtual endoscopic image data generating unit that processes the volume data based on the viewpoint and the view direction to generate the virtual endoscopic image data; and a display unit that displays the generated virtual endoscopic image data. | 05-10-2012 |
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| 20120257081 | IMAGE-CAPTURING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An exposure control value is calculated based on a first photometric value calculated based on first image data read out from an image sensor and a second photometric value calculated based on second image data read out from the image sensor, and wherein the first image data is obtained without or with adding pixel signals and the second image data is obtained by adding a number of pixel signals larger than pixel the number of signals added to obtain the first image data. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120312960 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND EXPOSURE CONTROL METHOD - A control unit sets a first control value for causing a charge accumulation unit to execute a first accumulation and obtaining first image data and a second control value for causing the charge accumulation unit to execute a second accumulation and obtaining second image data, depending on whether an operation mode set by a setting unit executes image recognition processing based on image data obtained through accumulation by the charge accumulation unit. If the operation mode set by the setting unit does not execute the image recognition processing, the control unit sets the first and second control values to be different from each other, even if an object field has a constant luminance. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20130016249 | IMAGING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF CONTROLLING EXPOSURE INCLUDING FLASH AMOUNT CONTROL OF FLASH APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOFAANM Mine; YosukeAACI Yokohama-shiAACO JPAAGP Mine; Yosuke Yokohama-shi JP - There is provided an imaging apparatus capable of reducing effects given by an object outside a dynamic range of the camera, and capturing an object image with appropriate exposure, when a camera performs imaging. The imaging apparatus is configured to separate image data into a plurality of blocks, extract a specific-color block using an average value of each color component acquired using only a pixel group whose pixel output is included within a predetermined range and the number of the groups, set a weighting coefficient of an exposure-amount calculation for the block to be determined as the specific color, and set the exposure based on the weighting coefficient and an average value of brightness acquired using only the pixel groups whose pixel output and the average value of the brightness of the block are included within the predetermined range. | 01-17-2013 |
