Sony Corporation

Celgene Corporation

Panasonic Corporation

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Sony United Kingdom Limited

Sony Cinema Products Corporation

Fujimoto Pharmaceutical Corporation

Hideki Ando

Hisao Tanaka

Takashi Furukawa

Motohiro Terao

Masaki Hirose

Satoshi Katsuo

Takayoshi Kawamura

Seiichi Sakai

Norihiko Noguchi

Mitsutoshi Shinkai

Junichi Horigome

Hiroshi Handa

Takaya Ono

Katsuhisa Ono

Noboru Oya

Takumi Itoh

Kazuo Ido

Takahiro Araki

Kentaro Hotta

Yoshiho Gotoh

Yoshiyuki Suzuki

Takao Suzuki

Etsuro Saito

Tatsushi Bannai

Katsuichi Tachi

Jonathan Richard Thorpe

Tetsuro Kato

Tsutomu Shimosato

Toshihiro Horigome

Jun Sawai

Hideaki Mita

Fumiaki Henmi

Hirofumi Murakami

Kiyoshi Inatome

Tetsuro Makise

Naoki Takizawa

Takashi Nagatomo

Kenji Hyodo

Kazuyuki Sugizaki

Shiro Hagihara

Kevin Mark Whiting

Takumi Ito

A configuration for reducing a possibility of data recording or reproduction being unperformable due to a reading error of disc management information is realized. A data processing unit records management information corresponding to a first surface as main management information on the first surface which is a data recording surface on which data recording is performed and further records mirror management information having the same content as the main management information on a second surface different from the first surface. The management information is, for example, a temporary disc management structure (TDMS) including defect region information of one surface of a disc. When one piece of management information between the main management information and the mirror management information is successfully read, data recording or reproduction can be correctly performed.

Information processing device, information recording medium, information processing method, and program

Provided herein, for example, are methods generally relating to the expansion and/or regeneration of central nervous system (CNS) cells, such as nerve cells, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes, using an activator of cereblon (CRBN), such as an inhibitor of a CRBN substrate or downstream protein. Also provided herein, for example, are methods related to the expansion of neural stem cells, neural progenitor cells, or neural precursor cells and/or differentiation of these cells into CNS cells using a BRD7 antagonist, Ikaros antagonist, or CRBN activator. In certain embodiments, the methods further comprise differentiation of certain stem cells into the neural stem cells, neural progenitor cells, or neural precursor cells using a BRD7 antagonist, Ikaros antagonist, or CRBN activator. Also provided herein, for example, are methods of preventing or treating a CNS cell defective disease, disorder or condition, or a symptom thereof, using a BRD7 antagonist, Ikaros antagonist, or CRBN activator.

Methods of using an activator of cereblon for neural cell expansion and the treatment of central nervous system disorders

The present technology relates to an information processing device and method, a recording medium, and a program, which can improve a data transfer speed. In the recording medium, a recording area is divided into a plurality of simulated zones and a set of the plurality of simulated zones composes a simulated zone group. Then, an address is set to each area in the simulated zones so that the addresses are interleaved between the simulated zones composing the simulated zone group. By interleaving the addresses between the simulated zones in this manner, a local seek operation or a rotational delay can be reduced and the data transfer speed can be improved when recording or reproducing data to the recording medium in more than one channel at the same time. The present technology can be applied to an optical disk.

Information processing device and method, recording medium, and program

The present technology relates to a recording control apparatus, a recording control method, a drive controlling controller, a drive controlling method, a recording medium, and a program capable of reading information more reliably. A manager generates DMSs as management information for managing user data areas and spare areas of an optical disc. Further, the manager records the generated DMS in a DMA area of DSof the optical disc, and, in addition, records the generated DMS in a DMA mirror area of the DSsurface of the optical disc. As described above, since DMSs as management information are recorded in the different areas of the optical disc, even if DMS cannot be read from one area, DMS can be read from the other area. The present technology is applicable to a recording and reproducing apparatus.

Recording control apparatus and method, drive controlling controller and method, recording medium, and program

With an aim to provide a novel factor inducing proliferation of neural stem cells and differentiation of these cells into nerve cells, a pharmaceutical composition comprising 1) CRBN, 2) a nucleic acid encoding CRBN, or 3) a stem cell or a neural progenitor cell in which CRBN is expressed, a method including administering the pharmaceutical composition to a non-human animal and inducing proliferation of neural stem cells or neural progenitor cells of the non-human animal and differentiation of these cells into nerve cells, and a method for screening for a therapeutic drug for a disease of cerebral cortex or a surgical injury of cerebral cortex, using CRBN, are provided.

Pharmaceutical composition containing core factor involved in proliferation and differentiation of central nervous cell

With an aim to provide means for developing a compound devoid of teratogenicity but retaining beneficial actions, a screening method for a non-teratogenic substance comprising bringing a test substance into contact with cereblon or a fragment of cereblon, evaluating the bindability of the test substance with cereblon or the fragment of cereblon, and selecting a test substance that does not bind to cereblon or the fragment of cereblon or a test substance exhibiting lower bindability with cereblon or the fragment of cereblon than does thalidomide is provided.

Screening method utilizing thalidomide-targeting factor

An optical-information recording medium includes a groove and a land that are alternately provided. Address information in the groove is recorded by wobbles in the groove, and address information on the land is recorded by a combination of the wobbles in the grooves provided at two opposite sides of the land.

Optical-information recording medium and playback apparatus

There is provided an recording apparatus including a light irradiation unit, a reference-plane tracking control unit, a recording unit that executes recording on the recording medium by independently modulating first and second recording beams when the recording beams radiated by the first and second objective lenses are designated as the first and second recording beams, respectively, a recording-layer tracking control unit that performs tracking control of the first objective lens based on reflected light of a first servo beam and tracking control of the second objective lens based on reflected light of a second servo beam when the servo beam radiated by the first objective lens is designated as the first servo beam and the servo beam radiated by the second objective lens is designated as the second servo beam, and a control unit that controls the reference-plane tracking control unit, the recording-layer tracking control unit, and the recording unit.

Recording apparatus, recording method, reproducing apparatus, and reproducing method

A method of cutting between a first image sequence and a second image sequence displayable on a screen which defines a screen plane, wherein the first image sequence includes a stereoscopically viewable object perceivable by a viewer on a first image plane different to the screen plane and the second image sequence including a second object perceivable on a second image plane different to the first image plane, the stereoscopically viewable object comprising a first image at a first screen plane position and a second image at a second screen plane position, the method comprising: identifying the first screen plane position of the first image and the second screen plane position of the second image; inserting into a first post-cut frame of the second image sequence a first copy of the second object substantially at the first screen plane position and inserting a second copy of the second object substantially at the second screen plane position, and inserting the first copy of the second object and the second copy of the second object into a predetermined number of subsequent frames at positions on the screen which are closer to the screen position required to view the second object at the second image plane, than the first and second screen plane position.

Method and apparatus for processing video images

There is provided an image forming apparatus including a print head adapted to form an image on a recording medium, a transport path for the recording medium, the transport path being provided on at least one of a feed side and a discharge side of the recording medium with respect to the print head, an image reading device provided on the transport path, the image reading device being adapted to read an image formed by the print head, a correction chart provided opposite the image reading device with the transport path interposed in between, the correction chart being read by the image reading device in order to correct a reading result of the image reading device, based on information obtained from reading the correction chart, and a distance adjustment device adapted to increase or decrease the distance between the correction chart and the image reading device.

Image forming apparatus including an image calibration system

A conversion apparatus and method is disclosed by which a file including data multiplexed therein can be edited or handled readily while maintaining the compatibility. A standard/independent conversion section converts a file of a standard AV multiplex format wherein video data and audio data are placed in a multiplexed state in a body into a file of an AV independent format wherein video data or audio data are placed collectively in a body. Meanwhile, an independent/standard conversion section converts a file of the AV independent formation into a file of the standard AV multiplex format.

Convertion apparatus and convertion method

An apparatus for detecting disparity is described. This apparatus detects the disparity between corresponding pixel positions in a first and second image capturing the same scene, the first and second image being viewable as a stereoscopic image captured using a parallel lens arrangement, the apparatus comprising: a determiner operable to determine the pixel positions of a plurality of points of change of an image property across a section of the first image and to determine the pixel positions of a plurality of points of change of said image property across a corresponding section of the second image; a comparator operable to compare the position of one of the points of change in the first image with a subset of the positions of the plurality of points of change of second image, whereby the subset is determined in accordance with the pixel positions of the points of change in the second image relative to the pixel position of the one of the points of change in the first image; wherein the determiner is operable to determine the similarity between pixels which have a pixel position adjacent the point of change in the first image, and the corresponding pixels adjacent each of the points of change in the subset; and an obtainer operable to obtain the disparity in accordance with the determined similarity of the pixels.

Method and apparatus for detecting disparity

Disclosed herein is a recording apparatus for recording a file stream which may be composed of a header, a body, and a footer onto a storage medium. The apparatus may includes header area securing means for, before recording of the body, securing in a recording area of the storage medium a header area in which the header is to be recorded; recording means for recording the body and the footer in the recording area of the storage medium, re-securing the header area secured by the header area securing means based on areas in which the body and the footer have been recorded, and recording the header in the re-secured header area; and reflecting means for allowing information concerning the header area secured when a recording process performed by the recording means is terminated normally or abnormally to be reflected in a file system of the storage medium.

Recording apparatus and method, program, and storage medium

Conversion apparatus and conversion method

In an information processing apparatus that stores data on a plurality of storage media, a management information generator generates management information based on which to manage an order in which data is stored on the storage media, using storage medium identification information identifying each storage medium, and a multiplexer multiplexes the management information generated by the management information generator on the data. A storage unit stores the data, including the management information multiplexed by the multiplexer, on the storage media such that the data can be easily managed and the storage media can be used in a very convenient manner.

Method, apparatus and program for processing information

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Kanagawa, Japan

Hideki Ando