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20090054744 | SKIN STATE ANALYZING METHOD, SKIN STATE ANALYZING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING SKIN STATE ANALYZING PROGRAM - A skin state analyzing method for analyzing the skin state of an examinee using an image of the skin of the examinee includes an analyzing step of analyzing at least one of texture/pores, spots, skin tone, and sebum of the skin from the image, a storing step of storing the image and an analysis result obtained from the analyzing step in association with skin examination date/time information and examinee information, a display screen generating step of generating a screen displaying the image and the analysis result of the examinee stored in the storing step, and an output step of outputting the information generated in the display screen generating step. | 02-26-2009 |
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20120157821 | SKIN STATE ANALYZING METHOD, SKIN STATE ANALYZING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING SKIN STATE ANALYZING PROGRAM - A skin state analyzing method for analyzing the skin state of an examinee using an image of the skin of the examinee includes an analyzing step of analyzing at least one of texture/pores, spots, skin tone, and sebum of the skin from the image, a storing step of storing the image and an analysis result obtained from the analyzing step in association with skin examination date/time information and examinee information, a display screen generating step of generating a screen displaying the image and the analysis result of the examinee stored in the storing step, and an output step of outputting the information generated in the display screen generating step. | 06-21-2012 |
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20110105944 | BIOPSY TISSUE SAMPLING TREATMENT INSTRUMENT - A biopsy tissue sampling treatment instrument includes a stem portion having a predetermined length sufficient to puncture living tissue; a puncturing portion formed at a distal end of the stem portion and having a protruding surface portion expanding rearward along a puncture direction of the stem portion; a tissue holding surface provided on a rear side of the protruding surface portion in the puncturing portion and having an area large enough to hold the living tissue; a stopper member provided at a rear end of the stem portion and having an abutting portion capable of abutting against the living tissue punctured by the stem portion; and an operating member provided on the stopper member and configured to hold the stem portion to the living tissue, allowing the stem portion to puncture the living tissue. Consequently, the biopsy tissue sampling treatment instrument increases holding capacity for the living tissue to be extracted, allows living tissue to be extracted in sufficient sampling quantities, and makes it easy to take samples of living tissue at an intended depth in tissue. | 05-05-2011 |
20110311124 | MEDICAL INSTRUMENT AND MEDICAL INSTRUMENT CONTROL METHOD - A navigation apparatus includes: a storage portion that stores three-dimensional image data of an examinee that is previously acquired; an organ extracting portion that extracts a predetermined organ from the three-dimensional image data; a first region designating portion that designates a tumor in the three-dimensional image data; a blood vessel extracting portion that extracts a plurality of blood vessels that are inside the organ from the three-dimensional image data; a blood vessel classifying portion that classifies the blood vessels into either arteries or veins; and a second region extracting portion that, based on three-dimensional image information of the blood vessels, extracts a tumor resection region that is a region that is classified based on anatomical features of the organ and that includes a tumor. | 12-22-2011 |
20120062717 | Medical apparatus - A medical apparatus includes: a first image pickup section that is fixed to a body wall and picks up an image of an inside of a body cavity; a recording section that records in advance, in preparation for a case in which a predetermined image change occurs in a first image picked up by the first image pickup section, a predetermined image area in the first image or a coordinate for specifying the predetermined image area; and a display section that displays, when the predetermined image change occurs in the first image, the image area or the coordinate recorded in the recording section to be superimposed on the first image picked up by the first image pickup section. | 03-15-2012 |
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20090124248 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CORE NETWORK, RADIO NETWORK SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR SELECTING NETWORK FOR CONTAINING THE SYSTEM - Upon receipt of a location registration request from a mobile terminal, a core network registers the mobile terminal in a node decided according to a subscriber contract of the mobile terminal. Moreover, the core network transmits a temporary subscriber identifier for identification of containing in the node to the mobile terminal. A radio network relays a message signal between a mobile terminal and a core network. When a controller receives a message signal containing the temporary subscriber identifier from the mobile terminal, the controller identifies the node containing the mobile terminal according to the temporary subscriber identifier and transmits the message signal to the node. | 05-14-2009 |
20090168761 | SIGNALING GATEWAY, NETWORK SYSTEM AND DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD - A signaling gateway can handle the signaling communication of SS7 among the STP in PSTN and a plurality of nodes using different types of SIGTRAN protocols in the IP network. The signaling gateway includes a routing function unit which discriminates SIGTRAN protocol for each of the nodes using routing information contained in a received SS7 message from the STP, and a plurality of protocol units, each being provided for corresponding type of SIGTRAN protocol to be used for each of the nodes. The routing function unit outputs a data transfer request to the protocol unit which corresponds to the discriminated SIGTRAN protocol. The protocol unit constructs a corresponding protocol format of SIGTRAN protocol using data contained in the data transfer request and sets an originating IP address to the same value regardless the SIGTRAN protocol and a port number corresponding to the type of SIGTRAN protocol, and requests signal transmission. | 07-02-2009 |
20120252458 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CONSTITUENT APPARATUSES THEREOF, TRAFFIC LEVELING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A mobile communication system includes a traffic monitoring apparatus arranged between predetermined nodes in a mobile network for monitoring a traffic amount between the nodes; and a traffic control apparatus that outputs control information to the predetermined nodes based on a report from the traffic monitoring apparatus wherein the control information instructs the predetermined nodes to level the traffic amount. | 10-04-2012 |
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20120009310 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING DESALTED MILK, AND DESALTED MILK - The present invention relates to a process for producing a demineralized milk that enables excellent reduction in the amount of monovalent minerals while suppressing any reduction in the amount of divalent minerals, as well as a demineralized milk produced using the above process, a process for producing a cheese and whey from the demineralized milk, and a cheese and whey produced using the above process. In the present invention, a demineralized milk having a significantly reduced amount of monovalent minerals is obtained by passing a raw milk solution through an anion exchange resin in chloride form, and then removing the monovalent minerals contained within the raw milk solution using a membrane separation process. Further, a cheese and whey can be produced by heating the obtained demineralized milk to produce a curd, and then separating the curd from the liquid other than the curd by solid-liquid separation. | 01-12-2012 |
20120263839 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LOW-PHOSPHORUS WHEY - A method of manufacturing a low-phosphorus whey, the method including subjecting a raw whey liquid to a demineralization treatment using a nanofiltration method to obtain a low-chloride whey liquid in which the chloride content has been reduced to not more than 30 mmol per 100 g of solids, and passing the low-chloride whey liquid through an ion exchange resin to obtain an ion-exchanged whey liquid having a reduced phosphorus content, wherein the ion exchange resin is composed of an anion exchange resin, and at least an anion exchange resin in chloride form is used as the anion exchange resin. The method of manufacturing a low-phosphorus whey can reduce the phosphorus content within the whey while suppressing reduction in the calcium and magnesium content. | 10-18-2012 |
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20110262037 | IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR THE SAME AND IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR THE SAME - In one embodiment, an image encoding apparatus converts bit depth of an input image formed of a plurality of pixels each having an N bit depth into an (N+M) bit depth larger than N bit depth by M bits. An adaptive bit depth converter converts the bit depth of each pixel of the decoded image of the (N+M) bits into the N bits selectively using one of a plurality of conversion systems. The converted image of the N bit depth is stored in a frame memory as a reference image. The bit depth of each pixel of the reference image of the N bit depth read out from the frame memory is converted into the (N+M) bit depth larger than the N bit depth by M bits in accordance with the conversion system by a pixel bit depth inverse converter. | 10-27-2011 |
20120023374 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH WRITE-BACK CACHE AND DIAGNOSIS METHOD FOR MAIN MEMORY OF THE SAME - The embodiments provide a failure diagnosis method for a main memory in an information processing device equipped with a write-back cache. According to the method, an application program stored in the main memory is divided by the storage size of write-back cache, and the regions are stored in advance. Then, a read signal from the main memory to the write-back cache is detected. It is determined whether the region corresponding to the read signal has yet to be diagnosed. If the region has yet to be diagnosed, a command to diagnose failure of the region is issued. If a write signal (write back) to a particular region is detected during the diagnosis of the particular region, the diagnosis of the particular region is stopped. Thus, the failure diagnosis of the main memory is executed in parallel with the execution of the application program. | 01-26-2012 |
20120047406 | REDUNDANCY CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING COMPUTATIONAL DATA THEREOF - A method of transmitting computational data comprising: a step of generating first computational data and generating first generated data using a first generation algorithm for error detection on return; a step of generating second computational data and generating second generated data using a second generation algorithm for error detection; a step of mutually comparing the first/second computational data; a step of transmitting transmission data including coincident computational data and first/second generated data; in the receiving device, a step of generating computational data and third/fourth generated data from preset first/second generation algorithms; and a step of comparing the first/third generated data and the first/third generated data, and detecting error in the received computational data. | 02-23-2012 |
20120185858 | PROCESSOR OPERATION MONITORING SYSTEM AND MONITORING METHOD THEREOF - A processor includes a computation unit; a storage unit storing a program; and a data transmission circuit that transmits to an operation monitoring unit a signal corresponding to an instruction for reporting the execution stage of the program. The operation monitoring unit: includes a transition operation identification. circuit and a loop processing identification circuit. The transition operation identification circuit receives a start ID instruction with an attached ID that identifies a task; a termination ID instruction that identifies termination of task operation; and if the task is execution of loop processing, a loop instruction that reports the maximum value of the number of times of this loop processing. The transition operation identification circuit identifies success of the transition operations of the tasks of the program, based on the ID instructions. The loop processing identification circuit identifies abnormality of the number of times of loop processing. | 07-19-2012 |
20120303324 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING DIAGNOSTIC PULSE SIGNAL, AND CONTROL DEVICE THEREFOR - A control device includes a diagnostic pulse signal generating section having an internal circuit that generates control data and generates diagnostic pulse data for diagnosing the operating terminal and diagnoses the function of the signal line and the operating terminal from the waveform of a feedback signal of the diagnostic pulse signal; a variable amplification circuit that multiplexes the diagnostic pulse signal on the control signal and sends the result to the operating terminal with a preset signal level; and a receiving circuit that receives the feedback signal and sends it to the internal circuit. The internal circuit comprises a correction pulse data generating section that corrects the diagnostic pulse data by correcting the rise time of the diagnostic pulse signal. Even if the length of the signal line is long, the diagnostic pulse signal reception can be achieved without expanding the pulse width of the diagnostic pulse signal. | 11-29-2012 |
20130082739 | CLOCK DIAGNOSIS CIRCUIT - A clock diagnosis circuit includes: a delay circuit to delay the clock by a prescribed time which is not more than the clock pulse width; an integral multiplication delay circuit to delay a delayed clock outputted from the delay circuit by a prescribed number of cycles; a first exclusive OR circuit to encode the clock using the delayed clock; a second exclusive OR circuit to decode an output of the first exclusive OR circuit using an output of the integral multiplication delay circuit; and a comparison circuit to compare the clock with an output of the second exclusive OR circuit to thereby detect a malfunction of the clock. | 04-04-2013 |
20140095949 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DIAGNOSING A FAULT OF AMEMORY USING INTERIM TIME AFTER EXECUTION OF AN APPLICATION - An area of a memory has a diagnosis area and a non diagnosis area, with the diagnosis area divided into a plurality of Row areas which do not overlap each other, and each of the Row areas is divided into a plurality of Cell areas which do not overlap each other. A memory fault diagnostic method has a diagnostic step in a Row area to diagnose between Cell areas with respect to all the combinations of a set of Cell areas in the Row area, and a diagnostic step between Row areas to diagnose between Row areas with respect to all the combinations of a set of Row areas in the diagnosis area. A Row area size is determined to be a size in which a time of the diagnosis in a Row area becomes equal to a time of the diagnosis between Row areas. | 04-03-2014 |
20150081041 | OUTPUT APPARATUS AND DIAGNOSIS METHOD THEREFOR - According to one embodiment, there is provided an output apparatus including a signal control unit configured to set a signal from a second output element in an OFF state at a timing earlier than a predetermined timing by the response time of a second load, and set signals from a first output element and the second output element in an ON state, and signals from a first interruption element and a second interruption element in an OFF state at a timing earlier than the predetermined timing by the response time of a first load. The output apparatus includes a diagnosis unit configured to diagnose, at the predetermined timing, whether the first and second interruption elements are in a normal state or a failure state, based on a signal from the first and second digital output circuits. | 03-19-2015 |
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20100188522 | IMAGE-CAPTURING DEVICE, IMAGE CREATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT - An image-capturing device includes: a micro-lens array in which a plurality of micro lenses are arrayed; a light reception element array having a plurality of groups of light reception elements respectively corresponding to the plurality of micro lenses, and that receives a ray bundle from an optical system via the micro lenses and outputs a plurality of received light signals; a detection unit that detects a deviation amount of an image surface by the optical system when the received light signals were obtained; and an image creation unit that selects a portion of the plurality of received light signals on the basis of the deviation amount detected by the detection unit, and creates an image on the basis of that selected portion of the received light signals. | 07-29-2010 |
20100215354 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGE SYNTHESIS METHOD - An imaging apparatus comprising: a light receiving element having a micro lens array provided with a plurality of micro lenses | 08-26-2010 |
20100232776 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus comprising: a light receiving element having a micro lens array provided with a plurality of micro lenses arranged two-dimensionally, and a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements provided for the plurality of micro lenses, and outputting a light receiving signal obtained by receiving a light beam from an optical system via the micro lens array; a detector that detects shift amounts of image plane by the optical system respectively for a plurality of focus detecting positions set at a plurality of positions in the image plane by the optical system; and a controller that determines a focus adjusting position for the optical system based on a plurality of the shift amounts detected respectively for the plurality of focus detecting positions and a range of the image plane where an image based on the light receiving signal is enabled to be produced, and obtains the light receiving signal at the focus adjusting position with the light receiving element. | 09-16-2010 |
20110181748 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PLAYING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes: a light receiving device having a micro lens array in which a plurality of micro lenses are arrayed two-dimensionally, and a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements that are provided for the plurality of micro lenses, and that outputs a plurality of photoreception signals that are obtained by receiving optical flux from an optical system via the micro lenses; a detection device that, based on the photoreception signals, detects an amount of displacement between an image plane obtained from the optical system and an image plane obtained from the light receiving device; a focal point adjustment device that performs focal point adjustment on the optical system based on the displacement amount; and a control device that, when an image plane that corresponds to the displacement amount is contained within an image plane range within which it is possible to create an image that is based on the photoreception signal, creates an image of the image plane that corresponds to the displacement amount based on a photoreception signal which is selected in accordance with the displacement amount from among the plurality of photoreception signals, and then displays this image. | 07-28-2011 |
20150130986 | FOCUS DETECTION DEVICE, FOCUS ADJUSTMENT DEVICE AND CAMERA - A focus detection device includes: a plurality of micro-lenses at which light fluxes through an image forming optical system enter, disposed in a two-dimensional array pattern; a plurality of light receiving elements disposed in correspondence to each of the plurality of micro-lenses; a focus detection unit that executes a detection of a defocus quantity of the image forming optical system by detecting, based upon outputs from the plurality of light receiving elements, a phase difference of a plurality of light fluxes through different areas of the image forming optical system; and a recognition unit that recognizes, based upon the outputs from the plurality of light receiving elements, characteristics of a subject image formed onto the plurality of light receiving elements via the plurality of micro-lenses, wherein: the focus detection unit detects the defocus quantity through a method optimal for the characteristics of the subject image recognized by the recognition unit. | 05-14-2015 |
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20100297470 | Lead-free solder alloy - A lead-free solder alloy suitable for use in flow soldering of electronic components to printed wiring boards comprises 0.1-3 wt % of Cu, 0.001-0.1 wt % of P, optionally 0.001-0.1 wt % of Ge, and a balance of Sn. The solder alloy may further contain at least one of Ag and Sb in a total amount of at most 4 wt %, and/or at least one of Ni, Co, Fe, Mn, Cr, and Mo in a total amount of at most 0.5 wt % in order to strengthen the alloy, and/or at least one of Bi, In, and Zn in a total amount of at most 5 wt % in order to lower the melting point of the alloy. | 11-25-2010 |
20110089224 | LEAD-FREE SOLDER - An inexpensive lead-free solder which prevents the occurrence of tin pest at extremely low temperatures and which has good wettability and impact resistance has a composition consisting essentially of, in mass %, Cu: 0.5-0.8%, Bi: at least 0.1% and less than 1%, Ni: 0.02-0.04%, and a remainder of Sn. | 04-21-2011 |
20140061287 | Lead-Free Solder Ball - A lead-free solder ball for electrodes of a BGA or CSP comprising 0.5-1.1 mass % of Ag, 0.7-0.8 mass % of Cu, 0.05-0.08 mass % of Ni, and a remainder of Sn. Even when a printed circuit board to which the solder ball is bonded has Cu electrodes or Au-plated or Au/Pd-plated Ni electrodes, the solder ball has good resistance to drop impacts. The composition may further contain at least one element selected from Fe, Co, and Pt in a total amount of 0.003-0.1 mass % or at least one element selected from Bi, In, Sb, P, and Ge in a total amount of 0.003-0.1 mass %. | 03-06-2014 |
20140141273 | Lead-Free Solder Alloy - By using a solder alloy consisting essentially of 0.2-1.2 mass % of Ag, 0.6-0.9 mass % of Cu, 1.2-3.0 mass % of Bi, 0.02-1.0 mass % of Sb, 0.01-2.0 mass % of In, and a remainder of Sn, it is possible to obtain portable devices having excellent resistance to drop impact and excellent heat cycle properties without developing thermal fatigue even when used in a high-temperature environment such as inside a vehicle heated by the sun or in a low-temperature environment such as outdoors in snowy weather. | 05-22-2014 |
20140326490 | LEAD-FREE SOLDER ALLOY, CONNECTING MEMBER AND A METHOD FOR ITS MANUFACTURE, AND ELECTRONIC PART - A lead-free solder which can reduce the occurrence of voids and a connecting member which uses the solder and has excellent adhesion, bonding strength, and workability are provided. The lead-free solder alloy has a composition consisting essentially of Sn: 0.1-3% and/or Bi: 0.1-2%, and a remainder of In and unavoidable impurities and has the effect of suppressing the occurrence of voids at the time of soldering. The connecting member is prepared by melting the lead-free solder alloy, immersing a metal substrate in the melt, and applying ultrasonic vibrations to the molten lead-free solder alloy and the metal substrate to form a lead-free solder alloy layer on the surface of the metal substrate. A heat sink and a package are soldered to each other through this connecting member by reflow heating in the presence of flux. | 11-06-2014 |
20150029670 | SN-CU-BASED LEAD-FREE SOLDER ALLOY - Provided is a solder alloy having excellent wettability on both of a Cu surface and an Ni surface. The solder alloy has such an alloy composition that 0.6 to 0.9 mass % of Cu and 0.01 to 0.1 mass % of Al are contained, 0.02 to 0.1 mass % of Ti and/or 0.01 to 0.05 mass % of Co may be contained as required and the remainder is made up by Sn. | 01-29-2015 |
20150037088 | Lead-Free Solder Alloy - A lead-free solder alloy capable of forming solder joints in which electromigration and an increase in resistance during electric conduction at a high current density are suppressed has an alloy composition consisting essentially of 1.0-13.0 mass % of In, 0.1-4.0 mass % of Ag, 0.3-1.0 mass % of Cu, a remainder of Sn. The solder alloy has excellent tensile properties even at a high temperature exceeding 100° C. and can be used not only for CPUs but also for power semiconductors. | 02-05-2015 |
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20110097711 | METHOD OF JUDGING INFLAMMATORY DISEASE BY USING SINGLE NUCLEOTDIE POLYMORPHISM - An object of the present invention is to identify a novel single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) associated with the onset and the advancement of inflammatory diseases such as myocardial infarction. The present invention provides a method for judging an inflammatory disease which comprises detecting at least 1 type of genetic polymorphism existing in at least one gene selected from the group consisting of the LBP-32 gene, the TSBP gene, and the WAP gene. | 04-28-2011 |
20140051074 | METHOD OF JUDGING INFLAMMATORY DISEASE BY USING SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM - An object of the present invention is to identify a novel single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) associated with the onset and the advancement of inflammatory diseases such as myocardial infarction. The present invention provides a method for judging an inflammatory disease which comprises detecting at least 1 type of genetic polymorphism existing in at least one gene selected from the group consisting of the LBP-32 gene, the TSBP gene, and the WAP gene. | 02-20-2014 |