Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha

Minolta Company, Ltd.

Takeda Chemical Industries, Inc.

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited

Minolta Camera Co., Ltd.

Keiji Kusumoto

Shoji Imaizumi

Kenichi Muroki

Kenzo Nagata

Naoyoshi Kinoshita

Yoshiaki Takano

Masazumi Ito

Hiroyuki Ideyama

Takashi Noda

Katsuaki Tajima

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Yoshikazu Ikenoue

Hiroyuki Suzuki

Akio Nakajima

Mitsuru Shiraishi

Takayuki Nabeshima

Hirokazu Yamada

Mitsuhiro Wakimasu

Katsuhiko Takeda

Shizuo Yuge

Shoji Fukumoto

Kaoru Hashimoto

Zen-ichi Terashita

Syuji Maruta

Takashi Onishi

Hirohisa Miyamoto

Masaaki Oyabu

Makoto Kumagai

Toshifumi Watanabe

Takahisa Nakanishi

Shuji Fujiwara

Kenich Muroki

Shota Ikeda

Fuminari Yamaguchi

Yoshimi Imura

The invention provides a pharmaceutical agent containing a compound having an angiotensin II antagonistic activity, a prodrug thereof or a salt thereof, which shows superior effect for the suppression of body weight gain. In addition, the present invention provides such a pharmaceutical agent as does not increase body weights of patients even if a therapeutically effective PPAR&#x3b3; agonistic substance is administered in the treatment of diabetes and other diseases.

Body weight gain inhibitor

In an image processing apparatus, a compression processor compresses a color image data, a storage device stores the compressed data, and an expansion processor expands the data read from the storage device. A first background controller controls background of the color image data not yet compressed by the compression processor, while a second background controller controls background of the image data expanded by the expansion processor. A controller activates either the first background controller or the second background controller.

Color image processing apparatus with background control

A non-human mammal which is usefully and effectively applicable to the screening of a substance to be employed for preventing and treating heart failure. This animal is an animal model of heart failure prepared by starting both coronary stenosis and the stenosis of arteries other than the coronary artery and the abdominal artery of a non-human mammal within the same period of time.

Method of constructing heart failure model animal

Aminoguanidine hydrazone derivatives, process for producing the same and drugs thereof

The image data are transmitted to an external device connected to the network in conjunction with a paper jam, predetermined paper supply condition such as a paper empty condition, or other abnormal condition. In this way jobs are not erased unbeknownst to an operator when power is automatically shut OFF due to lack of operation for a predetermined time following a print operation stoppage, or when power is shut OFF in conjunction with the correction of a paper jam or other abnormal condition. When the cause of the image data transmission has been corrected or when power is restored to the digital copier, the image data previously transmitted to an external device on the network are returned to the digital copier. In this way printing can be easily restarted by executing a restart continuous operation process without requiring an operator to again input image data in order to restart printing.

Image forming apparatus capable of continuous operation after malfunction correction

An image editing apparatus includes an image display apparatus for displaying a read image. An area of an image region displayed in the image display apparatus is determined by the size of the read image. For an image editing process, a frame which indicates an image editing region is displayed within the image region. A cursor is used to move the frame, where the cursor has a display shape which changes in accordance with a position of the frame.

Image editing apparatus capable of setting image processing region on display screen

Film carrier detecting mechanism is provided to detect a film carrier positioned at an image reading position to find to what size of film the film carrier is applied. Optical system driving mechanism is controlled according to the size of a film detected by the film carrier detecting mechanism, and varies magnification of image forming optical system so that the width of a film image formed on the surface of photoelectric conversion element is kept constant irrespective of the difference in size of film. Image processing circuit processes and regularize an image reading data corresponding to the size of a film detected by the film carrier detecting mechanism based on a corresponding reading condition.

Image reading apparatus for reading images from different kinds of film in accordance with the size and characteristics of the film

During the time period since a document placed at a multi-document tray is transported by a roller pair and has its images on the front surface read until the roller pair is reversed to start reading the back surface of the document, a document placed at a single feed tray is transported by another roller pair for interrupt reading of the document. The interrupt reading can be achieved without interrupting the transportation of the current document and replacing the document.

Image reading apparatus

A film scanner for generating output image data by applying a correction process referring to a predetermined parameter to the read out image data generated by scanning an original is connected to a digital color printer. When an adjustment mode is specified in the film scanner, the reference output image data generated based on scanning a reference original by a printer is fed to the film scanner to be set as the target data. Based on read out image data generated by scanning a reference original having characteristics identical to those of a reference original, a parameter is calculated to be set for a correction process so that output image data matching the reference data is generated.

Image system in which a parameter for correcting image data read out by

A digital copying machine as an example of an image forming apparatus sets a copying operation time period per sheet based on the size of a copying sheet. If the remaining number of sheets corresponding to an expendable in the digital copying machine decreases, time at which this expandable runs out is displayed, and time at which a discharge tray is filled is displayed if the number of sheets to be discharged onto the discharge tray is expected to exceed a fixed value. As a result, an image forming apparatus permitting an operator to smoothly perform processings with the apparatus if a copying operation to a set of documents formed of a plurality of sheets cannot be completed.

Image forming apparatus permitting whether or not input image can be

The present invention has the objective of providing an image reading device capable of normally excellent reading of document images without influence from a soiled or damaged glass document platen, and eliminates the influence of a soiled or damaged glass surface of a document platen by normally reading document images using a new glass surface which is neither soiled not damaged by moving the document platen via a platen moving lever.

Image reading device and method

An image forming apparatus of exposing method has two exposure control modes, automatic and manual, and a controlling section to switch the mode from one to another. When the exposure control mode is switched from automatic to manual, the apparatus of this invention controls the median value of the exposing degree range, from which the users may choose, to be equal to the exposing degree determined in automatic mode. However, in case the exposing degree was not determined when in automatic mode or in case there is a signal that tells an exchange of the original, e.g. job interruption, a predetermined value is fixed to be the median of the exposing degree range.

Image forming apparatus with manual mode exposure range shifting control

An image editing apparatus includes an image display apparatus for displaying a read image. An area of an image region displayed in the image display apparatus is determined by the size of the read image. At the time of image editing processing, a frame for indicating the image editing region is displayed on a screen of the display apparatus. A desired region is designated by shifting the frame. The frame is allowed to shift only in a region wherein the image is displayed on the screen.

Image editing apparatus capable of setting image processing region on

Cyclic hexapeptides having antagonistic activity on endothelin receptors of the formula �I!: ##STR1## wherein X and Y each is an .alpha.-amino acid residue having D-, L-form or DL-form, A is a D-acidic-.alpha.-amino acid residue, B is a neutral-.alpha.-amino acid residue having D- or L-form, C is an L-.alpha.-amino acid residue and E is a D-.alpha.-amino acid residue having an aromatic ring group can be effectively used for prophylaxis and/or treatment of pulmonary circulatory diseases.

Composition for prophylaxis or treatment of pulmonary circulatory

The present invention relates to image forming apparatuses such as copying machines, facsimile devices, and complexes thereof. When the image is produced as rotated by 90 degrees or 270 degrees by the rotary processing part 307 while the scanning speed of the original document is finely adjusted so as to be lowered, the control of the magnification is carried out so that the produced image will be contracted in the main direction and enlarged in the sub direction by an mount corresponding to the amount of adjustment made on the operating panel. On the other hand, when the scanning speed of the original document is adjusted to a higher level, the control of the magnification is carried out so that the output image may be enlarged in the main direction and contracted in the sub direction by an amount corresponding to the amount of adjustment to be made on the operating panel.

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Toyokawa, Japan

Keiji Kusumoto