Nec Corporation

The University of Tokyo

Mitsubishi Chemical Medience Corporation

Lsi Medience Corporation

Hitoshi Matsui

Shoji Takeuchi

Teruo Fujii

Yasuyuki Sakai

Yukiko Tsuda

A method for culturing hepatocytes, wherein hepatocytes embedded in an extracellular matrix is placed on a gas-permeable membrane and the hepatocytes are cultured while being supplied with oxygen from the gas-permeable membrane side. By this, the polarity in the hepatocytes can be induced and a bile canaliculus can be formed in a short period of time. Further, the formed polarity can be maintained for a longer period.

Method for culture of hepatocytes

A delayed decision feedback sequence estimation diversity receiver includes a section for extracting a plurality of reception signals by using a plurality of antennas when estimating a transmission signal from reception signals having undergone transmission path distortion, a section for combining impulse response sequences in transmission paths while canceling delayed wave components having the largest amplitudes in delayed wave component sequences in impulse response sequences in the respective transmission paths, and a section for performing signal estimation on the basis of a new impulse response sequence generated by combining the impulse response sequences. A delayed decision feedback sequence estimation method is also disclosed.

Delayed decision feedback sequence estimation diversity receiver

In an adaptive type signal estimator, an estimation signal storage unit outputs the first sample signal to which nonlinear distortion is added. A convolution arithmetic unit adds linear distortion to the first sample signal and outputs the second sample signal. A coefficient corrector receives the first sample signal, reception signal, and the determination signal, and corrects the second sample signal. The coefficient corrector obtains a difference signal based on a replica generated from the reception signal and first sample signal and a delayed reception signal obtained by delaying the reception signal by a predetermined period of time, obtains a product signal by multiplying the difference signal by a convergence factor, updates an impulse response value by using the product signal, and outputs the updated impulse response value to the convolution arithmetic unit.

Adaptive type signal estimator

Multiplexing of signals with an application of a spread spectrum signal multiplexing system employing chirp signals is disclosed. A plurality of transmission signals are respectively time-shifted and synthesized. Then the synthesized signal is convoluted by a chirp signal from a chirp filter so as to generate a transmission signal. At a demodulation section, the multiplexed signal is time-divided due to being passed through an inverse-chirp filter. Then multipath distortion at a transmission channel is eliminated by a decision feed-back equalizer. From multiplexed signal from which the distortion is to be removed each of the signals is extracted respectively different timing data for each signal so as to output the signals as received data.

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Tokyo, Japan

Hitoshi Matsui