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| 20100289252 | Airbag and Airbag Device - Provided are an airbag and an airbag device whose size of a package when the airbag is folded can be reduced while demonstrating effects of an inner chamber. An airbag device in the present invention includes a gas generator configured to generate gas under predetermined conditions, an airbag connected to the gas generator to be inflated and deployed, and a retainer configured to accommodate the airbag. The airbag includes an inner panel arranged in the interior thereof and a connection panel having a surface area smaller than the inner panel, and the inner panel includes a center seamed portion connected to an inner surface of the airbag with respect to the direction of thickness and a plurality of outer peripheral seamed portions connected to the connection panel which is arranged on the inner surface of the airbag apart from the portion where the center seamed portion is connected. The outline of the inner panel | 11-18-2010 |
| 20110104009 | CLINICAL EXAMINATION DISK, DISK PACK, AND CLINICAL EXAMINATION DEVICE - A clinical examination disk according to the invention includes a disk body in a disk form, and at least one cell formed in the disk body, wherein the cell comprises a specimen reservoir formed in the disk body and having a specimen injecting port, a reaction tank formed in the disk body so as to position nearer to the outer circumference of the body than a position of the specimen reservoir, and holding a reagent which is reactive with the specimen and is beforehand gelatinized, a first narrow tube formed in the disk body, and communicating to the specimen reservoir and the reaction tank, and a second narrow tube formed in the disk body, and having one end connected to the reaction tank and the other end made open. | 05-05-2011 |
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| 20100235723 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS HAVING ELECTRONIC DICTIONARY FUNCTION - An electronic apparatus includes: a display device; an input unit; a dictionary storage; and a link destination display section configured to control the display device to display explanatory information being correlated with a passage being displayed on the display device based on link information that correlates the explanatory information as a link destination and the passage as a link source when the passage is selected in accordance with the user operation. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20120198186 | MEMORY DEVICE AND MEMORY SYSTEM - A memory device includes a plurality of nonvolatile memories configured to be erased at updating of data, and a memory controller configured to control the nonvolatile memory. The memory controller includes an address conversion table configured to convert a logical address specified by at data writing into a physical address of the nonvolatile memory, an erased physical block managing unit configured to manage an erased physical block address, the nonvolatile memory of the erased physical block address, and an erased physical block count on each nonvolatile memory, an erasable physical block managing unit configured to manage an erasable physical block address, the nonvolatile memory of the erasable physical block address, and an erasable physical block count on each nonvolatile memory, and a memory control unit configured to control writing and erasing on the plurality of nonvolatile memories. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20130041668 | VOICE LEARNING APPARATUS, VOICE LEARNING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING VOICE LEARNING PROGRAM - A voice learning apparatus includes a learning-material voice storage unit that stores learning material voice data including example sentence voice data; a learning text storage unit that stores a learning material text including an example sentence text; a learning-material text display controller that displays the learning material text; a learning-material voice output controller that performs voice output based on the learning material voice data; an example sentence specifying unit that specifies the example sentence text during the voice output; an example-sentence voice output controller that performs voice output based on the example sentence voice data associated with the specified example sentence text; and a learning-material voice output restart unit that restarts the voice output from a position where the voice output is stopped last time, after the voice output is performed based on the example sentence voice data. | 02-14-2013 |
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| 20090217087 | COMPUTER DEVICE, CONTINUING OPERATION METHOD FOR COMPUTER DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - A computer device that includes a plurality of processor boards each provided with a processor, a memory, and a chipset, includes a first processor board that makes data in a cache, which have become unfixed as a result of an uncorrectable failure, invalid when the uncorrectable failure occurs on the first processor board in operation, and switches from the first processor board to a second processor board for replacement, and the second processor board that re-executes an instruction that was being executed in the first processor board when the failure occurred. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20100037327 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGING HARDWARE RESOURCES, COMPUTER SYSTEM, METHOD FOR MANAGING HARDWARE RESOURCES, AND PROGRAM - A system for managing hardware resources includes a computer system and a management server, wherein the computer system includes a static authentication key generation unit that generates authentication keys for the detected hardware resources, a dynamic authentication key generation unit that requests arrangements of a hardware resource and an activation key to the management server by transmitting a dynamic installation authentication key generated from a system authentication key, a first additional hardware resource authentication unit that judges whether or not a new hardware resource is unauthorized by comparing the authentication key with the activation key, and a second additional hardware resource authentication unit that judges whether or not the new hardware resource fit the computer system by comparing the dynamic installation authentication key with the activation key, and wherein the management server includes an activation key generation unit that transmits the activation key to the computer system. | 02-11-2010 |
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| 20100180279 | FIELD CONTROL DEVICE AND FIELD CONTROL METHOD - A field control device is provided. The field control device includes: a task executing unit configured to selectively and sequentially execute a control task relating to a field control and other tasks in a same control period; and a priority switching unit configured to switch a relative priority of the control task relative to the other tasks in the control period, wherein the priority is a priority of an execution sequence of tasks in the task executing unit. The priority switching unit is configured to: i) set the priority higher than a certain priority, before the control task is started; and ii) set the priority lower than the certain priority, after the control task is ended. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100198363 | DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SYSTEM - There is provided a distributed control system including a plurality of field controllers which are connected through a control network. Each of the field controllers includes: a control clock that defines a control timing of the field controller; and an adjustment unit that adjusts a control time of the control clock depending on a network time obtained through the control network. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100198991 | DUPLEXED FIELD CONTROLLER - There is provided a duplexed field controller. The duplexed field controller includes: first and second control units between which a control authority is switchable; a first application clock that is updated based on a reference clock so as to define a timing of an application operation of the first control unit; a second application clock that is updated based on the reference clock so as to define a timing of an application operation of the second control unit; and an update control unit that bypasses the first update of the second application clock after switching of the control authority, if the first application clock is ahead of the second application clock when the control authority is switched from the first control unit to the second control unit. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100199003 | FIELD CONTROL SYSTEM - The field control system includes: a field device; a field controller which is connected to a control network and which executes a computation processing for controlling the field device according to a given control cycle while executing a data communication between the field controller and the field device, the field controller including a communication unit configured to execute the data communication with the field device, and a control computation unit configured to execute the computation processing independently from the communication unit; and an operation monitor which is connected to the control network and which operates and monitors the field device, the operation monitor including a network clock which provides a common network time to the control network. The control computation unit and the communication unit execute the computation processing and the data communication in synchronism with each other in accordance with a timer clock based on the network time. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100297949 | RADIO TRANSMISSION DEVICE, METHOD FOR DETERMINING MODULATION SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREFOR - A problem that a loss of signal occurs due to switching of a modulation scheme using an adaptive modulation scheme is solved. A radio transmission device ( | 11-25-2010 |
| 20110022027 | DRUG-ELUTING CATHETER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Biocompatible nanoparticles | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110244813 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - This communication system is equipped with a plurality of transceiver devices each composed of a transmission device that transmits unit data and a reception device that receives unit data from the transmission device. The transmission devices are connected in series. Each of the transmission devices stores identification information for identifying the device itself. The transmission device accepts unit data from a front stage side. The transmission device generates identification information for identifying one of the transmission devices from information included in the accepted unit data, in accordance with a predetermined generation process. In a case that the generated identification information corresponds to the stored identification information, the transmission device transmits the accepted unit data to the reception device. In a case that the generated identification information does not correspond to the stored identification information, the transmission device sends the accepted unit data to a back stage side. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20120020289 | WIRELESS TRANSMISSION METHOD AND WIRELESS TRANSMISSION DEVICE - An external signal is received by the first wireless transmission device of one wireless transmission device group, and then is divided. One divided signal is transmitted to the first wireless transmission device of the other wireless transmission device group opposite to the one wireless transmission device group, and the other divided signal is transmitted to the second wireless transmission device of the one wireless transmission device group. In the same manner, in the second, third, . . . , wireless transmission devices of the one wireless transmission device group, an input signal is divided into two signals, and the divided signals are each transmitted to the opposing wireless transmission device of the other wireless transmission device group and to the adjacent wireless transmission device of the one wireless transmission device group. The wireless transmission devices of the other wireless transmission device group each extracts a signal from the wireless signal transmitted from the opposing wireless transmission device of the one wireless transmission device group, and transmits the signal to the preceding adjacent wireless transmission device of the other wireless transmission device group. The first wireless transmission devices of the other wireless transmission device group combines a signal extracted from the wireless signal transmitted from the first wireless transmission device of the one wireless transmission device group and a signal transmitted from the second wireless transmission device of the other wireless transmission device group together, and outputs the combined signal to the outside. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120093171 | DATA TRANSFER DEVICE - A data transfer device | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120106323 | NETWORK SYSTEM - A link control function unit | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120314670 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION METHOD AND TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - Disclosed is a transmission device that addresses the issue of alleviating the occurrence of delays in delivery, or the abandonment, of transmitted data in the transmission device when transmission capacity of the transmission device declines, as well as being easy to set up and maintain. The transmission device comprises a sorting means for assigning a first signal to either a first path or a second path on the basis of assignment information for assigning the first signal; a first transmitting means for transmitting the signal from among the first signal that is allocated to the first path upon the first path; and a second transmitting means for transmitting the signal from among the first signal that is allocated to the second path upon the second path. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120327983 | TRANSMITTER APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION METHOD AND TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - There is a problem that if a transmitter apparatus having an adaptive modulation function is to be configured to divide data for transmission, the structure of the transmitter apparatus will be complicated and the cost thereof will be raised. In order to solve this problem, a transmitter apparatus comprises: a dividing means for dividing input data into a plurality of pieces of data; a plurality of transmitting means for transmitting the pieces of data as divided to respective transmission paths; and a modulation scheme deciding means for deciding, from among modulation schemes associated with the conditions of the transmission paths, a modulation scheme, which is to be used by the transmission means, such that the difference in transmission speed between the pieces of data transmitted by the plurality of transmitting means is within a predetermined range. | 12-27-2012 |
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| 20080246859 | Imaging apparatus - An imaging apparatus for performing efficient signal processing depending on the operational mode. In the finder mode, a CCD interface | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080291295 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING CIRCUIT AND IMAGING METHOD - An image by using a solid-state imaging sensor, the imaging apparatus including: a compression section configured to compress image data by dividing the image data into blocks each composed of same color component pixels adjacent to each other as a unit of compression; a memory used for temporarily storing compressed image data; a decompression section configured to decompress the compressed image data read out from the memory; and a signal processing section configured to carry out an image-quality correction process on decompressed image data, wherein each of the blocks is split in advance into two quantization-subject areas, block types are distinguished from each other by the position of the inter-area boundary between the two quantization-subject areas, and the compression section has a dynamic-range computation sub-section, a block-type select sub-section, and a quantization processing sub-section are provided. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20090009659 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND METHOD - The present invention relates to an image capturing apparatus and method in which the image recording time is reduced and the memory capacity required for compression is also reduced. A number-of-bytes calculation unit | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090052797 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM FOR IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING PROGRAM FOR IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD RECORDED THEREON - A method and apparatus to remove color noise included in raw data while effectively preventing image quality degradation. For Interest pixels serially set onto a mosaic image formed of raw data, conversion is executed into a pixel value for noise removal based on a processing reference pixel value having a unified color signal component in each interest pixel, noise is removed from the pixel value for noise removal, and the pixel value for noise removal with noise removed is converted into the source pixel value, whereby only color noise can be removed without affecting a luminance signal. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090067744 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - For each pixel read from an imaging device, a horizontal counter value and a vertical counter value corresponding to the pixel are supplied from a signal generator to a distance computation section via an optical-axis-center coordinate setting section and an up-and-down and right-and-left weighting section. In the distance computation section, the distance to the optical-axis center is computed, and correction coefficients for the zoom wide end and for the zoom tele end, which correspond to the distance, are obtained by look-up tables. The two obtained correction coefficients are blended at a mixture ratio determined by a blend ratio setting section. The blended shading correction coefficients are gain adjusted by a gain adjustment section, after which they are supplied to a correction section. As a result, a correction corresponding to the distance to the optical-axis-center position is performed on the signal of each pixel supplied from an imaging section. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090237528 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING SIGNAL - An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup unit configured to photoelectrically convert light into an electrical signal serving as an imaging signal and output the imaging signal at predetermined frame intervals, a memory configured to store the imaging signal output from the image pickup unit, a first signal processing unit configured to generate a Y/C signal from the imaging signal output from the image pickup unit, a second signal processing unit configured to generate a Y/C signal from the imaging signal stored in the memory, and a control unit configured to control power supplied to each of the first and second signal processing units. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20110019059 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus for performing efficient signal processing depending on the operational mode. In the finder mode, a CCD interface | 01-27-2011 |
| 20120114179 | FACE DETECTION DEVICE, IMAGING APPARATUS AND FACE DETECTION METHOD - A face detection device for detecting the face of a person in an input image may include the following elements: a face detection circuit including a hardware circuit configured to detect a face in an input image; a signal processing circuit configured to perform signal processing based on an input image signal in accordance with a rewritable program including a face detection program for detecting a face in an input image; and a controller configured to allow the face detection circuit and the signal processing circuit to perform face detection on an image of a frame or on respective images of adjacent frames among consecutive frames, and to control face detection by the signal processing circuit on the basis of a face detection result obtained by the face detection circuit. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120274821 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus for performing efficient signal processing depending on the operational mode. In the finder mode, a CCD interface | 11-01-2012 |
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| 20100210228 | BROADCAST RECEIVER AND BROADCAST CHANNEL SEEK METHOD - A broadcasting receiver suitable for receiving broadcasting signal transmitted with signal format is provided in which carrier wave is allocated in a frequency channel with certain frequency offset and signal intensity, which comprises: an information acquiring means for acquiring information related to the frequency channel in seek; and a station existence determining means for determining whether the frequency channel is station-existent or not based on information acquired by the information acquiring means; and wherein, the information acquiring means acquires information for receiving intensity of carrier wave and information for frequency offset. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100210229 | IBOC broadcasting receiver - An broadcasting receiver suitable for receiving a broadcasting signal transmitted in an IBOC signal format, includes: a narrowband filtering means suitable for processing an analog broadcasting signal included in the broadcasting signal; a wideband filtering means suitable for processing a digital broadcasting signal included in the broadcasting signal; a demodulating means for demodulating the broadcasting signal; a signal level detecting means for detecting a level of the broadcasting signal; a digital determining means for determining whether the broadcasting signal includes digital broadcasting signal or not; and a filter switching means for switching filtering means for use in processing the broadcasting signal to be input to the demodulating means between the narrowband filtering means and the wideband filtering means, according to the level of the detected broadcasting signal, when the digital determining means determines that the broadcasting signal does not include the digital broadcasting signal. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100227579 | RADIO BROADCASTING RECEIVER AND METHOD FOR SEEKING RADIO BROADCASTING - A broadcasting receiver suitable for receiving a broadcasting signal transmitted in an IBOC signal format, comprises: a channel seek directing means for directing to start a channel seeking operation that selects selectable channel in an order of frequency; a channel seek controlling means for starting and controlling the channel seeking operation in accordance with the direction of the channel seek directing means; and a multichannel determining means for determining whether a selected frequency channel is providing multichannel digital broadcasting or not; and wherein the channel seek controlling means selects a next subchannel in an order of identification code before searching for the next frequency channel, if it is determined by the multichannel determining means that the selected frequency channel is providing the multichannel digital broadcasting. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20110128996 | IBOC BROADCAST RECEIVER - A broadcast receiver suitable for receiving broadcast signals transferred by use of signal format of IBOC system. The broadcast receiver comprises a receiving means that holds information related to channels that can be acquired by a digital signal decoding process. If information related to a channel is to be used and is held by the information holding means, then it is used. | 06-02-2011 |
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| 20090148047 | VIDEO DATA INDEXING SYSTEM, VIDEO DATA INDEXING METHOD AND PROGRAM - [Problem] To reduce omission of searched results and improve search efficiency in indexing by means of telop and another text information attached to a video. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20100104135 | MARKER GENERATING AND MARKER DETECTING SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM - A marker generating system is characterized in having a special feature extracting element that extracts a portion, as a special feature, including a distinctive pattern in a video image not including a marker; a unique special feature selecting element that, based on the extracted special feature, selects a special feature of an image, as a unique special feature, that does not appear on the video image; and a marker generating element that generates a marker based on the unique special feature. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20110217026 | VIDEO STRUCTURING DEVICE - A video structuring device includes: character string extraction means for determining whether or not a character string is present in a frame image, and if it determines that a character string is present, generating character string position information for the character string present in a character string present frame image in which the character string is present, and outputting the character string position information, frame identifying information for identifying the character string present frame image, and the character string present frame image; video information storage means for storing frame identifying information, character string present frame image and character string position information in an index file all associated with one another; and structure information presentation means for associating character string display in the form of an image which is produced by cutting an area where the character string is present based on the character string present frame image and character string position information stored in the index file and displaying them on display means. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20120114253 | MARKER GENERATION DEVICE, MARKER GENERATION DETECTION SYSTEM, MARKER GENERATION DETECTION DEVICE, MARKER, MARKER GENERATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - Provided is a marker generation device which has a measurement means, an invariant feature conversion means, a singular feature selection means, and a marker generation means. The measurement means measures a change in posture of an object in a background image on the basis of the image. The invariant feature conversion means indicates feature points extracted from the background image in an invariant feature space by means of a predetermined conversion process in accordance with the change in posture. The singular feature selection means selects, as a singular feature, a part in which the feature points are not indicated in the invariant feature space. The marker generation means generates a marker with the use of the singular feature. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120128254 | MARKER GENERATION DEVICE, MARKER GENERATION DETECTION SYSTEM, MARKER GENERATION DETECTION DEVICE, MARKER, MARKER GENERATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - Provided is a marker generation device which has a feature comparison means and a marker pattern generation means. The feature comparison means disposes feature points extracted from an image in a predetermined space, sets parts in which the number of feature points in the predetermined space is equal to or less than a predetermined number as singular features, disposes feature points extracted from an identifier in the predetermined space, and counts the number of feature points that coincide with the singular features. The marker pattern generation means converts the structure of the identifier and extracts the feature points from the converted identifier. The feature comparison means disposes the feature points extracted from the converted identifier in the predetermined space, counts the number of feature points that coincide with the singular features, and selects, as a marker for detection, an identifier having the most counts from among identifiers before conversion and one or two or more identifiers that have been converted. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120269446 | MARKER GENERATION DEVICE, MARKER GENERATION DETECTION SYSTEM, MARKER GENERATION DETECTION DEVICE, MARKER, MARKER GENERATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a marker generation device which has a singular feature selection means and a marker pattern generation means. The singular feature selection means extracts feature points from an image, indicates the feature points in a predetermined space, and selects, as singular features, a plurality of parts where the number of feature points is equal to or less than a predetermined number in the space. The marker pattern generation means generates a plurality of kinds of marker patterns with the use of the whole or a part of the plurality of singular features. | 10-25-2012 |
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| 20090067782 | SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL SWITCH - A semiconductor optical switch may include an optical waveguide, a first electrode, and a first reflector. The optical waveguide may include a branching point, a first incoming path and first and second outgoing paths. The first electrode is provided at the branching point to give carrier injection into the branching point to allow that the branching point reflects an optical signal that is propagating through the first incoming path so that the reflected optical signal propagates through the second outgoing path. The first electrode may give no carrier injection into the branching point to allow that the branching point allows the optical signal to transmit through the branching point and propagate through the first outgoing path. The first reflector is provided on the first outgoing path. The first reflector reflects a leakage of light that has propagated from the branching point. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090086070 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging apparatus including: a pixel section having a plurality of pixels arranged into a two-dimensional array, each pixel having a photoelectric conversion means, a memory means for storing a photoelectric conversion signal of the photoelectric conversion means, a transfer means for transferring the photoelectric conversion signal to the memory means, a reset means for resetting the memory means, a discharge means for discharging the photoelectric conversion signal accumulated at the photoelectric conversion means, and a read means for reading the photoelectric conversion signal of the memory means; a vertical circuit for controlling an operation of the pixels in the pixel section, the vertical circuit having an alternate disposition in the vertical direction of a discharge control signal line connected to the discharge means of vertically adjacent ones of the pixels for controlling the discharge means and a transfer control signal line connected to the transfer means of vertically adjacent ones of the pixels for controlling the transfer means; and a concurrent control means for controlling the vertical circuit so as to cause a concurrent operation respectively of the discharge means and the transfer means. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20100141808 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE - A solid-state image pickup device includes a pixel array, a gain adjusting unit that adjusts a gain of a pixel signal, an A/D conversion unit that performs A/D conversion on an image pickup signal, a plurality of fixed pattern noise detection units that detect a fixed pattern noise from a digital image pickup signal, a selecting unit that selects one output from outputs of the plurality of fixed pattern noise detection units, a fixed pattern noise correction unit that corrects the fixed pattern noise included in the digital image pickup signal, and a control unit that controls the gain adjusting unit setting a plurality of gain values, the control unit controlling the plurality of fixed pattern noise detection units detecting the plurality of fixed pattern noise based on the plurality of gain values and storing a plurality of correction values. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20120087578 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus of the present invention includes a detecting unit detecting, among plural fundamental regions set to an image, a fundamental region satisfying a predetermined condition as an appropriate region, a specifying unit specifying adjacent states of fundamental regions excluding the appropriate region among the plural fundamental regions, and a region segmentation unit performing region segmentation on each component included in the image based on the adjacent states of the fundamental regions excluding the appropriate region specified by the specifying unit. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120262561 | MICROSCOPE SYSTEM, SERVER, AND PROGRAM - A microscope includes an illuminating optical system that illuminates the test object under predetermined illumination conditions, an imaging optical system that forms an image of the test object, and an image sensor that outputs an image signal. The computer includes an image analyzing unit that acquires an image feature amount of the test object on the basis of the image signal detected by the image sensor, a comparison unit that compares the image feature amount of the test object with image feature amounts of a plurality of sample test objects and specifies an image feature amount of a sample test object closest to the image feature amount of the test object, and a setting unit that sets illumination conditions of the illuminating optical system on the basis of an illumination state suitable for observation of a sample test object having the image feature amount specified by the comparison unit. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120262562 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit that images a test object, an analysis unit that outputs a feature amount of an image which is captured by the imaging unit, a storage unit that stores an evaluation function which has the image feature amount as a variable, for evaluation of the image, a selection unit that selects one image from two or more images including an image specified based on a value of the evaluation function, and a changing unit that changes the evaluation function based on the one image in a case where the one image selected by the selection unit is different from the specified image. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120293644 | MICROSCOPE SYSTEM - A phase-contrast microscope system includes: an illumination optical system that illuminates a specimen with an illumination light from a light source; an imaging optical system that forms an image of the specimen from a light from the specimen; a first spatial modulation element that is disposed in a position of a pupil of the imaging optical system and changes an amplitude transmittance distribution of the light from the specimen; an image sensor that detects the image of the specimen by the imaging optical system and outputs a picture signal; a calculation section that calculates the amplitude transmittance distribution of the light from the specimen appropriate for observing the specimen on the basis of the output data detected by the image sensor and the amplitude transmittance distribution of the light from the specimen formed by the first spatial modulation element. | 11-22-2012 |
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| 20090185205 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product - An image processing apparatus that prints a first color in an image in a second color in a printout includes a first-color setting unit that specifies the first color in an RGB colorimetric system; a second-color setting unit that sets the second color; a color determining unit that determines whether the first color is a chromatic color or an achromatic color; and a color converting unit that, when the color determining unit determines that the first color is a chromatic color, performs color conversion processing of converting the first color into a color that is reproduced with a gradation level having a hue same as the second color and a color saturation lower than the second color. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20100310160 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING COLOR CONVERSION TABLE - An input color signal is converted into an output color signal fitting into an output device with a combined color conversion table that a to-be-combined (black adjustment) color conversion table and a normal-use color conversion table depending on the output device are combined. As a unit for generating the to-be-combined color conversion table, there is provided a unit for changing an output RGB value corresponding to an input RGB value (a value close to black) determined to be in a predetermined target range of black adjustment, out of output RGB values in a dummy color conversion table in which no color conversion is made, to a value making it more blackish. The generated color conversion table is combined with the normal-use color conversion table. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20120069358 | Image forming apparatus, imgae forming method, and program - An image forming apparatus including an attribute-value-information holding unit that holds an attribute-value table showing correspondence between a type of gradation processing and a fixing-temperature control attribute value; an image-formation-attribute processing unit that determines a type of gradation processing and a corresponding fixing-temperature control attribute value on the basis of contents of a print instruction and the attribute-value table; a gradation processing unit that performs gradation processing in accordance with the type of gradation processing determined by the image-formation-attribute processing unit; and a fixing-temperature control unit that controls fixing temperature in formation of a print image according to the fixing-temperature control attribute value determined by the image-formation-attribute processing unit. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120307270 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COLOR CONVERSION TABLE GENERATING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a plurality of color conversion tables for color-separation-limited printing. Using a color conversion table for color-separation-limited printing, a piece of input color information corresponding to chromatic color within a specified applying hue range for a specified specific color is converted into a piece of output color information corresponding to color having hue of the specific color, and a piece of the input color information corresponding to color outside of the applying hue range is converted into a piece of the output color information corresponding to gray color. Each of the color conversion tables for color-separation-limited printing is configured such that color values corresponding to saturation and lightness of the output color information are reduced at least in gradation from a maximum saturation part to a low-lightness part. | 12-06-2012 |
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| 20080246963 | PARTICLE COUNTING METHOD - A particle counting method is provided whereby a liquid sample is radiated by a laser light, scattered light produced by causing the laser light to hit a particle in the liquid sample is detected by a photoelectric conversion element, and a sample value which is the output of the photoelectric conversion element is sequentially compared to a threshold preset for each particle size range, thereby counting the number of particles for each particle size range, the method comprising: a timer start-up step for starting a timer of a predetermined time when the sample value becomes smaller than a threshold of a minimum particle size for the first time and for sequentially holding the maximum value of the sample value; and a timer extension step for restarting the timer to sequentially hold the maximum value of the sample value when the sample value at the time-out of the timer start-up step is larger than the threshold of the minimum particle size. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20110141325 | Image pickup device and defect detecting method - An image pickup device without a light shielding device for blocking light received by a solid-state image pickup element, the image pickup device including: a supplying section configured to supply a signal for resetting a charge of a floating diffusion disposed so as to correspond to one or a plurality of pixels in the solid-state image pickup element; and a detecting section configured to detect a pixel in which change in output of the pixel after passage of a certain time from the resetting of the charge of the floating diffusion is larger than a predetermined threshold value. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20120133936 | PARTICLE COUNTING METHOD - A particle counting method that can count the number of the particles precisely. The method discriminates a wave pattern of the scattered light from a normal particle (subject of the counting) and a wave pattern of the light scattered by the agitation such as a floating particle, a radiation or changes in the intensity of the light. In one embodiment, a method for counting particles is disclosed which irradiates a light to a sample gas, detects a scattered light from a particle included in the sample gas by a photoelectric conversion device, counts the number of the particles of every particle size division by the output voltage wave pattern of the photoelectric conversion device, calculate a time difference (Ta−T | 05-31-2012 |
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| 20090022461 | OPTICAL FIBER - An optical fiber which reduces transmission loss increase even in a high humidity environment or under water is provided. To solve the above issue, an optical fiber according to the present invention comprises a glass optical fiber coated with at least two coating layers, soft and hard layers. The optical fiber is further coated by a colored resin to make a colored optical fiber. The hard layer and the color layer of the colored optical fiber have a free volume radius of at least 0.290 nm according to positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090072338 | SEMICONDUCTOR PHOTODETECTOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - A method for manufacturing a semiconductor photodetector includes: forming an insulating film on a semiconductor substrate; forming an electrode on and in contact with a predetermined area of a surface of the semiconductor substrate; forming a resist on the insulating film after forming the electrode; forming a power supply layer of a metal on the resist and the electrode; plating a surface of a portion of the power supply layer with a metal coating, after forming the power supply layer, the portion overlying and being in contact with the electrode; after the plating, etching and removing a part of the power supply layer leaving a portion that is covered with the metal coating and is an extension of the electrode; and removing the resist after etching the power supply layer. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090232461 | Optical fiber and optical fiber ribbon - The present invention relates to an optical fiber accommodated in an optical fiber cable, and more particularly, to an optical fiber which optimizes optical fiber coating resin and color resin and restrains an increase in transmission loss of the optical fiber due to an operating environment and aged deterioration and provides an optical fiber and optical fiber ribbon without any increase of transmission loss irrespective of the operating environment and aged deterioration, and especially when exposed to water or high humidity. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20090269015 | Optical fiber provided with reliable coating layers - An optical fiber is provided, which is unlikely to cause interlayer delamination between a glass optical fiber and a primary coating layer even when it is immersed in water. The optical fiber of the present invention includes a glass optical fiber | 10-29-2009 |
| 20100046900 | Optical Fiber - The present invention provides an optical fiber in which composites constructing its coating are not complicated, so, there is also little constraint in view of production, and, moreover, delamination between a glass optical fiber and a primary layer, and a bubble in the primary layer hardly arise. The optical fiber of the present invention is an optical fiber which has a glass optical fiber which has a core | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100119198 | COATED OPTICAL FIBERS - A coated optical fiber of the present invention comprises a glass fiber coated by at least two coating layers (a soft layer and a hard layer), wherein the glass surface of the glass fiber, where the at least two coating layers of the optical fiber are removed, has a peak intensity ratio of 0.6 or more in C | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100266257 | OPTICAL FIBERS - An optical fiber, which is less likely to increase its transmission loss even when it is exposed to a high-humidity environment or immersed in water, is provided. The optical fiber comprises a glass fiber and at least two coating layers (a soft layer and a hard layer) coated at the circumference of the glass fiber, wherein the limit-adhesion strength between the glass fiber and the coating layer under a hot and humid environment is 0.50N/10 mm or more. Preferably, the glass-transition temperature of the hard layer is less than 90° C. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20110177257 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL FIBER - A method of manufacturing an optical fiber, comprises applying a UV cured resin to an outer circumference of a running glass optical fiber, forming an accompanying flow composed of an inert gas near a surface of the resin by passing the glass optical fiber immediately after having the resin being applied through an atmosphere of the inert gas, and forming a coating by irradiating the resin coated with the accompanying flow with ultraviolet ray to cure the resin while the glass optical fiber accompanied by the accompanying flow is passed through a UV transmission tube to which a gas containing oxygen is supplied. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110274396 | OPTICAL FIBER - The present invention provides an optical fiber in which the transmission loss increase is suppressed even under a high-humidity condition or under a water-immersed condition. A colored optical fiber ( | 11-10-2011 |
| 20120189257 | OPTICAL FIBER, OPTICAL FIBER RIBBON AND OPTICAL FIBER CABLE - According to the present invention, there is provided an optical fiber, an optical fiber ribbon and an optical fiber cable that reduce both the increase in transmission loss and the decrease in strength. According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an optical fiber in which an outer circumferential surface of an optical fiber is coated with a primary coating layer. In the optical fiber, the primary coating layer includes a ultraviolet curable resin, and the ultraviolet curable resin contains 0.05 or more and 0.75 or less parts by weight of a reactive silane coupling agent and 0.05 or more and 0.75 or less parts by weight of an unreactive silane coupling agent. | 07-26-2012 |
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| 20080303173 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND A TESTING METHOD OF THE SAME - A semiconductor device for SiP or PoP for downsizing, a method of manufacturing it, and a testing method suitable for SiP and PoP in which the simplification of a system and the enhancement of its efficiency are achieved are provided. A first semiconductor device including a first memory circuit determined as non-defective and a second semiconductor device including a second memory circuit and a signal processing circuit carrying out signal processing according to a program, determined as non-defective are sorted. The sorted devices are assembled as an integral semiconductor device. On a board for testing, a clock signal equivalent to the actual operation of the semiconductor device is supplied. A test program for conducting a performance test on the first memory circuit is written from a tester to the second memory circuit of the second semiconductor device. In the signal processing circuit, a performance test is conducted on the first memory circuit according to the written test program in correspondence with the clock signal. The result of failure/no-failure determination in this performance test is outputted to the tester. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20110018573 | Semiconductor Device, A Method of Manufacturing A Semiconductor Device and A Testing Method of the Same - A semiconductor device for SiP or PoP for downsizing, a method of manufacturing it, and a testing method suitable for SIP and PoP in which the simplification of a system and the enhancement of its efficiency are achieved are provided. A first semiconductor device including a first memory circuit determined as non-defective and a second semiconductor device including a second memory circuit and a signal processing circuit carrying out signal processing according to a program, determined as non-defective are sorted. The sorted devices are assembled as an integral semiconductor device. On a board for testing, a clock signal equivalent to the actual operation of the semiconductor device is supplied. A test program for conducting a performance test on the first memory circuit is written from a tester to the second memory circuit of the second semiconductor device. In the signal processing circuit, a performance test is conducted on the first memory circuit according to the written test program in correspondence with the clock signal. The result of failure/no-failure determination in this performance test is outputted to the tester. | 01-27-2011 |
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| 20110028232 | GOLF CLUB - A golf club includes a shaft in which a brightness of a color of the shaft from a grip side toward a head side is changed from darkness to brightness in a plurality of stages. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110065526 | GOLF CLUB SHAFT AND GOLF CLUB - A golf club shaft has a function of attenuating the vibration of the shaft at the time of impact and also having a function of stabilizing the struck ball. A shaft has an inner bias layer having a fiber direction that was inclined with respect the shaft axial direction and an outer bias layer having a fiber direction that is inclined with respect to the shaft axial direction in a direction opposite from that of the inner bias layer laminated as a fiber-reinforced resin layer, and a vibration-damping material sheet layer having a vertical-direction length of about 110 mm to about 150 mm disposed between the inner bias layer and the outer bias layer, with region of the position of the end of the grip attachment location as the rear end in the vertical direction. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20120129624 | GOLF CLUB GRIP - A golf club grip having a double construction includes a cylindrical inside layer part made of a first rubber having a first hardness, and a cylindrical outside layer part made of a second rubber having a second hardness lower than the first hardness, which part covers the cylindrical inside layer part. The cylindrical inside layer part has a length 1 to 4 cm longer than the length of a half of the entire length of the grip. The cylindrical inside layer part is provided with a plurality of longitudinal projecting strips formed on the outer peripheral surface thereof, and the plurality of longitudinal projecting strips extend from the proximal end side of the cylindrical inside layer part to a portion of 70 to 80% of the entire length of the cylindrical inside layer part along the axis line direction of the cylindrical inside layer part, and are formed at fixed intervals in the circumferential direction. The cylindrical outside layer part is provided with a plurality of circumferential grooves, which are formed at fixed intervals in the axis line direction, on the outer peripheral surface of a portion covering a portion of the cylindrical inside layer part in which the longitudinal projecting strips are formed. The cylindrical outside layer part is provided with a plurality of longitudinal grooves formed on the outer peripheral surface on the distal end side of the circumferential grooves. | 05-24-2012 |
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| 20090315456 | Flexible organic EL display and method of manufacturing the same - A flexible organic EL display of the present invention includes a plastic film, an adhesive layer and a lower insulating layer formed thereon, an organic EL element embedded in the lower insulating layer and constructed by forming a cathode, an organic EL layer, and an anode sequentially from a bottom, an upper insulating layer formed on the organic EL element, a TFT embedded in the upper insulating layer and constructed by forming an organic active layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode, a gate insulating layer, and a gate electrode sequentially from a bottom, and a via hole provided in the upper insulating layer and reaching the drain electrode of the TFT, wherein the anode is connected electrically to the drain electrode of the TFT via the via hole. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090315457 | Flexible organic EL display and method of manufacturing the same - A flexible organic EL display of the present invention includes a plastic film, an adhesive layer and a lower insulating layer formed thereon, an organic EL element embedded in the lower insulating layer and constructed by forming an anode, an organic EL layer, and a cathode sequentially from a bottom, an upper insulating layer formed on the organic EL element, a TFT embedded in the upper insulating layer and constructed by forming an oxide semiconductor layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode, a gate insulating layer, and a gate electrode sequentially from a bottom, and a via hole provided in the upper insulating layer and reaching the drain electrode of the TFT, wherein the cathode is connected electrically to the drain electrode of the TFT via the via hole. | 12-24-2009 |
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| 20090264399 | HETEROCYCLIC JANUS KINASE 3 INHIBITORS - The invention relates to compound of the formula (I) or its salt, wherein —R | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090270376 | HETEROCYCLIC JANUS KINASE 3 INHIBITORS - The present invention provides a compound of formula (I) having an excellent JAK3 inhibition activity and being useful as an active ingredient of an agent for treating and/or preventing various immune diseases including autoimmune diseases inflammatory diseases, and allergic diseases. The compound according to the present invention has an inhibition activity against JAK3 and is thus useful as an active ingredient of an agent for treating or preventing diseases caused by undesirable cytokine signal transmission (e.g., rejection during organ/tissue transplantation, autoimmune diseases, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, asthma, atopic dermatitis, Alzheimer's disease, and atherosclerotic disease), or diseases caused by abnormal cytokine signal transmission (e.g., cancer and leukemia). | 10-29-2009 |
| 20100105661 | CONDENSED PYRIDINE COMPOUND - The present invention provides a compound having excellent JAK3 inhibitory activity and being useful as an active ingredient of an agent for treating and/or preventing various immune diseases including autoimmune diseases, inflammatory diseases, and allergic diseases. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20110039822 | HETEROCYCLIC JANUS KINASE 3 INHIBITORS - The present invention provides a compound having an excellent JAK3 inhibition activity and being useful as an active ingredient of an agent for treating and/or preventing various immune diseases including autoimmune diseases, inflammatory diseases, and allergic diseases. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110230467 | 4,6-DIAMINONICOTINAMIDE COMPOUND - [Problem] The present invention provides a 4,6-diaminonicotinamide compound which is useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition, in particular, a pharmaceutical composition for treating diseases caused by undesirable and/or abnormal cytokine signal transduction. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20120034250 | CONDENSED PYRROLOPYRIDINE DERIVATIVE | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120086111 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - The present invention reduces the occurrence of fracture in external terminal connecting sections and improves the reliability of secondary packaging of a semiconductor device. Specifically, the present invention provides a semiconductor device including a wiring board, a semiconductor chip mounted on one surface of the wiring board via a bonding member, and external electrodes formed on the other surface of the wiring board and electrically connected to the semiconductor chip. In the semiconductor device, a peripheral end of the bonding member is arranged in a position where the peripheral end does not overlap the external electrodes. | 04-12-2012 |