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20100085864 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING READ-ONLY OPTICAL DISC MEDIUM AND READ-ONLY OPTICAL DISC MEDIUM - An information signal area on an information signal recording surface is provided as pits on a mirror in accordance with modulated information data, and is covered with a metal alloy reflective film. Sections that do not include pits corresponding to the information data are provided in the information signal area, and portions of the metal alloy reflective film on the sections are formed as perforated marks corresponding to the information data. In this case, the reproduction signal amplification level of a prepit signal and the reproduction signal amplitude level of a perforated mark signal can be obtained as substantially equal values by adjusting the depth and width of pits and/or adjusting the width and length of perforated marks. Hence, waveform distortion due to a waveform equalization circuit and variations in binary signals due to displacement of the slice level are reduced so that signals can be stably and reliably detected with the same reading apparatus. | 04-08-2010 |
20100180125 | INFORMATION SERVICE METHOD, INFORMATION SERVICE UNIT, RECORDING OR REPRODUCING CONTROLLING METHOD, AND RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING UNIT - Unique identification information is prerecorded on a disc. The identification information is registered to a server along with user's license when he or she buys the disc. When an terminal unit reproduces data from the disc, identification information is read and transmitted to the server through the Internet. The server creates a key that controls to reproduce data from the disc in accordance with the license identified by the identification information and transmits the key to the terminal unit along with the user's license information for the disc. The terminal unit controls to reproduce contents of the disc in accordance with key and license information transmitted from the server. The license for each disc is managed in accordance with the identification information. Thus, different services can be provided for individual discs. | 07-15-2010 |
20150220708 | INFORMATION SERVICE METHOD, INFORMATION SERVICE UNIT, RECORDING OR REPRODUCING CONTROLLING METHOD, AND RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING UNIT - Unique identification information is prerecorded on a disc. The identification information is registered to a server along with user's license when he or she buys the disc. When an terminal unit reproduces data from the disc, identification information is read and transmitted to the server through the Internet. The server creates a key that controls to reproduce data from the disc in accordance with the license identified by the identification information and transmits the key to the terminal unit along with the user's license information for the disc. The terminal unit controls to reproduce contents of the disc in accordance with key and license information transmitted from the server. The license for each disc is managed in accordance with the identification information. Thus, different services can be provided for individual discs. | 08-06-2015 |
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20080318340 | Method of Detecting Target Substances - The present invention provides a method for identifying and detecting multiple types of target substances contained in a specimen, comprising the steps of: contacting the target substances immobilized and/or nonimmobilized on a support with labeled binders capable of identifying corresponding types of target substances so as to form complexes between the target substances and the binders; and detecting the labels in the binders forming the complexes. | 12-25-2008 |
20110189690 | ANTIBODY COMPLEX, METHOD FOR DETECTING ANTIGEN, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING ANITBODY COMPLEX - In order to improve the detection sensitivity of MUSTag, the present invention provides an antibody complex including a nucleic acid chain as a label, an antibody to specifically recognize the antigen and an adaptor moiety linking the nucleic acid chain and the antibody, wherein the adaptor moiety includes an immunoglobulin binding domain of Protein G, Protein A or Protein L for binding with the antibody, and the adaptor moiety and the antibody are chemically cross-linked to form a cross-linked antibody complex. | 08-04-2011 |
20120115927 | PHARMACEUTICAL AGENT FOR PREVENTING CELL DEATH - Disclosed is a pharmaceutical agent for preventing cell death. The occurrence of cell death can be prevented by inhibiting the function of Int6 protein in an affected area. Then, a pharmaceutical agent comprising a substance capable of inhibiting the function of Int6 protein is prepared. The pharmaceutical agent can be used for preventing cell death. | 05-10-2012 |
20130129738 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION - Disclosed is an influenza virus infection inhibitor. Specifically disclosed is a pharmaceutical composition that is composed of an inhibitor such as an antibody which recognizes a peptide comprising the amino acid sequence of RERRRKKR (SEQ ID NO: 1) and inhibits the action of introducing an RR sequence into a cell. The influenza virus infection inhibitor is produced so as to contain the pharmaceutical composition. | 05-23-2013 |
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20090063205 | THEME PARK MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, THEME PARK MANAGEMENT METHOD, THEME PARK MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A theme park management apparatus includes a receiving unit, a detecting unit, a generating unit, a determining unit, and a transmitting unit. The receiving unit receives information concerning a user specified attraction that is among plural attractions provided in a theme park. The detecting unit detects a congestion level for each of the attractions and the generating unit generates reservation information including a reservation time for the specified attraction. Based on the congestion level of each of the attractions, excluding the specified attraction, the determining unit determines a guidance point to which the user is guided and a privilege that becomes effective when the user follows guidance to the guidance point. The transmitting unit that transmits, to a communication terminal of the user, transmission information including the reservation information, the guidance point, and the privilege. | 03-05-2009 |
20090105936 | ROUTE GUIDANCE APPARATUS, ROUTE GUIDANCE METHOD, ROUTE GUIDANCE PROGRAM AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A route guidance apparatus includes a detecting unit that detects from an set route a left/right-turn point that a vehicle has not passed; a searching unit that searches for an alternative route before the vehicle passes the left/right-turn point in case the vehicle misses the turn at the left/right-turn point; a computing unit that computes cost information concerning the alternative route and cost information concerning a direct route on the set route from the left/right-turn point to a merging point where the set route meets the alternative route; a determining unit that determines a degree of importance of the left/right-turn point based on the cost information; and an output unit that outputs, before the mobile object passes the left/right-turn point, alarm information that concerns the left/right-turn point and is based on the degree of importance determined. | 04-23-2009 |
20090125233 | INFORMATION PRESENTATION APPARATUS, INFORMATION PRESENTATION METHOD, INFORMATION PRESENTATION PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A detecting unit of an information presentation apparatus detects information concerning driver gaze directed toward a screen displaying map information indicating a current position of a mobile object. A determining unit determines information concerning specific items to be given to a driver from among predetermined information items. An obtaining unit obtains the information determined by the determining unit based on the map information. A generating unit generates guidance information that provides, by sound, the information obtained at the obtaining unit. An output unit outputs the guidance information generated by the generating unit. | 05-14-2009 |
20090265060 | INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS, INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, INFORMATION RECORDING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information recording apparatus executes recording processing for information concerning a traveling state of a mobile object and includes a receiving unit that receives an execution instruction for other processing, a calculating unit, a setting unit, and a control unit. When the receiving unit receives the execution instruction while the recording processing is in progress, the calculating unit calculates a total resource amount required for the recording processing and the other processing, and the setting unit sets a compressibility of the information to be lower than that before receipt of the execution instruction. The control unit controls the recording processing to be executed at the compressibility set by the setting unit. | 10-22-2009 |
20090317066 | CONTENT PURCHASING AND DISTRIBUTING METHOD - The content reproducing apparatus ( | 12-24-2009 |
20100049540 | CONTENT DELIVERY APPARATUS, CONTENT REPRODUCING APPARATUS, CONTENT DELIVERY METHOD, CONTENT REPRODUCING METHOD, CONTENT DELIVERY PROGRAM, CONTENT REPRODUCING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A content delivery apparatus delivers, to an information processing device, content data reproducible within an effective period. The content delivery apparatus includes a payment information acquiring unit that acquires information concerning a state of payment that is from a user of the information processing device and for a fee for delivery of the content data; a temporary authentication information sending unit that sends, to the user without using a communication line, temporary authentication information to temporarily extend the effective period, when the information acquired by the payment information acquiring unit indicates that the payment of the fee has been made; and a formal authentication information sending unit that sends, to the information processing device by using the communication line, formal authentication information to formally extend the effective period, when the information acquired by the payment information acquiring unit indicates that the payment of the fee has been made. | 02-25-2010 |
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20110237590 | PYRIDINE-3-CARBOXYAMIDE DERIVATIVE - To provide a novel JAK3 inhibitor that is useful as a preventive and/or therapeutic agent for rejection and graft versus host disease (GvHD) in organ transplantation, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosus, Sjögren syndrome, Behcet's disease, type I diabetes mellitus, autoimmune thyroiditis, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, asthma, allergic rhinitis, atopic dermatitis, contact dermatitis, urticaria, eczema, psoriasis, allergic conjunctivitis, uveitis, cancer, leukemia and the like. The pyridine-3-carboxyamide derivative represented by the general formula (1): | 09-29-2011 |
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20090023579 | Ligand, Method for Producing the Same, and Catalyst Using the Ligand - Disclosed is a novel asymmetric ligand which can be synthesized by a short process at low cost and is capable of exhibiting higher catalytic activity and enantioselectivity than the conventional ligands derived from sugars. Also disclosed are a method for producing such an asymmetric ligand, and a catalyst using such an asymmetric ligand. Specifically disclosed is a ligand represented by the general formula I below or the like. (In the formula, R | 01-22-2009 |
20130338375 | Thioamide Compound, Method for Producing Thioamide Compound, Method for Producing [(4R,6R)-6-Aminoethyl-1,3-Dioxan-4-YL]Acetate Derivative, and Method for Producing Atorvastatin - A thioamide compound represented by the following general formula (1); | 12-19-2013 |
20140046087 | Compound, Method for Producing the Same, and Method for Producing Oseltamivir Phosphate - A compound represented by the following general formula (1), and a method for producing the compound represented by the general formula (1), the method comprising: reacting together a compound represented by the following general formula (2), a compound represented by the following general formula (3), and a compound represented by the following general formula (4): | 02-13-2014 |
20140296539 | Compound and Asymmetric Synthesis Reaction - A compound represented by the following General Formula (1): | 10-02-2014 |
20150183807 | Compound and Asymmetric Synthesis Reaction - A compound represented by the following General Formula (1): | 07-02-2015 |
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20130146142 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT AND SOLAR CELL - An aspect of one embodiment, there is provided a photoelectric conversion element, including a first electrode having optical transparency, the first electrode including a first compound comprising at least one selected from (Zn | 06-13-2013 |
20140053902 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT AND SOLAR CELL - A photoelectric conversion element of an embodiment includes a p-type light absorbing layer containing Cu, at least one or more Group IIIb elements selected from the group including Al, In and Ga, and at least one or more elements selected from the group including O, S, Se and Te; and an n-type semiconductor layer formed on the p-type light absorbing layer and represented by any one of Zn | 02-27-2014 |
20140053903 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT AND SOLAR CELL - A photoelectric conversion element of an embodiment includes: a light absorbing layer containing copper (Cu), at least one Group IIIb element selected from the group including aluminum (Al), indium (In) and gallium (Ga), and sulfur (S) or selenium (Se), and having a chalcopyrite structure; and a buffer layer formed from zinc (Zn) and oxygen (O) or sulfur (S), wherein the molar ratio represented by S/(S+O) of the buffer layer is equal to or greater than 0.7 and equal to or less than 1.0, and the crystal grain size is equal to or greater than 10 nm and equal to or less than 100 nm. | 02-27-2014 |
20140053904 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT AND SOLAR CELL - A photoelectric conversion element of an embodiment includes: a light absorbing layer containing Cu, at least one Group IIIb element selected from the group including Al, In and Ga, and S or Se, and having a chalcopyrite structure; and a buffer layer formed from Zn and O or S, in which the ratio S/(S+O) in the area extending in the buffer layer up to 10 nm from the interface between the light absorbing layer and the buffer layer, is equal to or greater than 0.7 and equal to or less than 1.0. | 02-27-2014 |
20140083496 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT AND SOLAR CELL - A photoelectric conversion element includes a photoelectric conversion layer, a transparent electrode, an intermediate layer, and a window layer. The photoelectric conversion layer includes a homojunction of a p-type compound semiconductor layer and an n-type compound semiconductor layer. The p-type and n-type compound semiconductors include group I-III-VI | 03-27-2014 |
20140144502 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT, AND SOLAR CELL - A photoelectric conversion element of an embodiment includes: a back electrode; a heterojunction-type light absorbing layer on the back electrode, containing Cu, selected from Al, In and Ga, and selected from Se and S, and having a chalcopyrite structure; a transparent electrode on the light absorbing layer, wherein aback electrode side-part of the light absorbing layer is of p-type, and a transparent electrode-side part of the light absorbing layer is of n-type, the light absorbing layer has a part with an average crystal grain size of 1,000 nm to 3,000 nm in the vicinity of the back electrode, and the light absorbing layer has apart with an average crystal grain size of at most 500 nm in the vicinity of the transparent electrode or the light absorbing layer has an amorphous part in the vicinity of the transparent electrode. | 05-29-2014 |
20140144510 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT AND SOLAR CELL - A photoelectric conversion element of an embodiment includes: a p-type light absorbing layer having a chalcopyrite structure; an n-type semiconductor layer on the p-type light absorbing layer; an oxide layer on the n-type semiconductor layer; and a transparent electrode on the oxide layer. | 05-29-2014 |
20140166078 | LIGHT CONCENTRATOR AND A SOLAR CELL - A light concentrator of an embodiment includes: a first high refractive index layer, a first low refractive index layer, and a second high refractive index layer stacked in sequence, wherein a surface on the first low refractive index layer side of the first high refractive index layer has a periodic concavoconvex region. | 06-19-2014 |
20140246087 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT AND SOLAR CELL - An aspect of one embodiment, there is provided a photoelectric conversion element, including a first electrode having optical transparency, a second electrode, and an optical absorption layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, the optical absorption layer having a compound semiconductor constituted with a chalcopyrite structure or a stannite structure, the compound semiconductor having a first element of a Group 11 element and a second element of a Group 16 element and comprising a p-type portion and an n-type portion provided between the p-type portion and the first electrode, the n-type portion and the p-type portion jointly having a homo junction, wherein the n-type portion comprises a dopant which has a formal charge V | 09-04-2014 |
20140290727 | SOLAR CELL - A solar cell of an embodiment has a first solar cell, a second solar cell, and an intermediate layer between the first and second solar cells. The first solar cell has a Si layer as a light absorbing layer. The second solar cell has as a light absorbing layer one of a group I-III-VI | 10-02-2014 |
20150140263 | OPTICAL ELEMENT AND OPTICAL DEVICE - An optical element of an embodiment includes an optical element made of a material transparent to light, the optical element including: a back surface facing the front surface; and a connection surface. The front surface includes a recessed surface in a region facing the connection surface. The recessed surface has a point closest to the connection surface as a closest point, and has a first singular point other than the closest point. | 05-21-2015 |
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20080199106 | INFORMATION TERMINAL - An information terminal includes an image input unit inputting images, a reference pattern detection unit detecting a reference pattern in the images input from the input unit, an image identification unit identifying an image within an area in a prescribed positional relationship to the reference pattern detected by the detection unit out of images input by the input unit. And the information terminal further includes a processing unit performing processing associated with the image identified by the identification unit. | 08-21-2008 |
20090010496 | IMAGE INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, JUDGING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Image information is input by an image input unit, a marker is extracted from an image of the input image information by a marker detector, a position of the extracted marker in the image is detected by a position/posture detector, and the difference between indicators extracted from images is judged. At this time, the position/posture detector is provided with a judgment condition based on the position of each marker, as a judgment condition that is at least selectively applied. | 01-08-2009 |
20090106126 | INFORMATION PRESENTATION SYSTEM OF VISUAL FIELD AGREEMENT TYPE, AND PORTABLE INFORMATION TERMINAL AND SERVER FOR USE IN THE SYSTEM - A plurality of known markers is disposed in a specific district. A marker detection section detects the known markers existing in the image photographed by an image pickup device. A position/orientation relation calculation section identifies the detected known marker to calculate position and orientation relations between the identified known marker and the image pickup device. An associated information obtaining section obtains predetermined information associated with the identified known marker. An information processing section processes the obtained predetermined information based on the calculated position and orientation relations. A display device superimposes and displays the processed information on the photographed image. At least the image pickup device and display device are disposed in a portable information terminal, and the other sections are disposed in a server which can perform radio communication with the portable information terminal. | 04-23-2009 |
20100092093 | FEATURE MATCHING METHOD - In a feature matching method for recognizing an object in two-dimensional or three-dimensional image data, features in each of which a predetermined attribute in the two-dimensional or three-dimensional image data takes a local maximum and/or minimum are detected, and features existing along edges and line contours from the detected features are excluded. Thereafter, the remaining features are allocated to a plane, some features are selected from the allocated features by using local information, and feature matching for the selected features being set as objects is performed. | 04-15-2010 |