Panasonic Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Kenji Iwano

Yoshinori Shiomi

Jinsei Miyazaki

Atsunobu Murase

Kunio Nobori

Hiroshi Kondo

Kazuhiro Kayashima

Makoto Fujimoto

Hiroshi Akahori

Takeo Azuma

Toshiyuki Tanaka

Atsushi Morimura

Koji Ikeda

Yasuo Fukui

Katsuyuki Kaneko

Hiroyoshi Nomura

Shunichi Nagamoto

Akihiro Nishimura

Kazutoshi Nagai

Shirou Honma

Yasuhito Kawamata

Shiro Honma

Shuji Uematsu

Toru Ichimura

Koji Kusumoto

Murase Atsunobu

A medical question contents automatic selection system for automatically selecting medical questions allocated to a patient from the medical questionnaire made by a medical professional. The medical question contents automatic selection system compares the correct answer rate threshold of the medical questions preset by the medical professional with the correct answer rate of the questions to the patient so as to estimate the educational level of the patient about health, compares the vital sign measurement value threshold preset by the medical professional with the vital sign measurement value of the patient so as to estimate the condition level of the patient, and automatically selects medical questions allocated to the patient depending on the educational level and the condition level of the patient. The medical question contents automatic selection system can allocate medical questions to the patient depending on the educational level of the patient about health and disorder condition level of the patient without troubling the medical professional.

Medical question contents automatic selection system

There is provided a behind-the-ear hearing aid that makes it easy for a hearing aid wearer to estimate a position of a sound source with respect to a front-back direction and that enables an increase in aesthetic property when the hearing aid is worn. A behind-the-ear hearing aid of the present invention is used while fitted to an ear of a human body, and includes at least a microphonewhich collects ambient sound, thereby generating an input signal and signal processing unitthat generates an output signal from the input signal. The hearing aid also has a behind-the-ear portionthat can be fitted to the ear and a receiverthat reproduces output sound from the output signal. When the behind-the-ear portionis fitted to the ear, the microphoneis arranged in an entrance of an ear canal that lies in the extension of an ear canaland that is disposed closer to an eardrum than to a plane that is defined by a helix, a tragus, and an earlobe

Behind-the-ear hearing aid whose microphone is set in an entrance of ear canal

A hearing aid includes: a first microphone configured to generate a first input signal from an input sound; a second microphone configured to generate a second input signal from the input sound; a signal processing unit configured to generate an output signal from the first input signal and the second input signal; and a receiver configured to play an output sound from the output signal. The signal processing unit determines time responses of the first input signal and the second input signal based on a contact sound generated when the hearing aid is contacted in a predetermined time period, and distinguishes a plurality of settings of the hearing aid and changes the setting based on the time responses.

Hearing aid and hearing aid system

A medical information system includes a patient server that retains vital information received from a patient terminal. The patient server transmits the vital information to a medical care provider server through a network. The vital information retained in the medical care provider server can then be browsed from a doctor terminal.

Medical information system

A hearing aid comprises a noise suppressor that calculates noise suppression gain, an adjustment amount calculator that calculates an adjustment amount on the basis of a signal strength and a noise component strength, and a nonlinear compressor that calculates a reference gain on the basis of a signal strength and specific reference gain information and adjusts the reference gain on the basis of an adjustment amount, thereby calculating a nonlinear compression gain.

Hearing aid

The hearing aids comprise a microphone, a signal processor, and a receiver, and have a constitution in which the microphone generates an input signal from an input sound and generate an output signal and send it to the ear on the opposite side only when a specific condition is satisfied with respect to the input signal at the signal processor, and the receiver reproduces an output sound from the output signal.

Hearing aids

A hearing aid that can reflect setting change of the hearing aid responsive to a sound environment by the user as intended, prevent the user from feeling inconvenience or displeasure caused by changing setting of the hearing aid, and enable the user to easily change the setting is provided. A hearing aid of the invention includes a microphoneconfigured to generate an input signal from an input sound, a signal processing unitconfigured to process the input signal and generating an output signal, and a receiverconfigured to play an output sound from the output signal. The signal processing unitdetermines a time response of the input signal based on a contact sound generated when the hearing aid is contacted in a predetermined time period, and changes setting of the hearing aid based on the time response.

Electronic equipment according to the present invention comprises a case having an overall length substantially twice as long as a predetermined standard length in a predetermined direction shown by an arrow. The case includes a bottom cover case shorter in overall length in the predetermined direction than the standard length and available for a part of a standard length case having in the predetermined direction an overall length identical to the standard length, and an intermediate cover case longer in overall length in the predetermined direction than the standard length case and disposed on a predetermined side of the bottom cover case. The bottom cover case has an engaging portion held in engagement with the intermediate cover case, and the intermediate cover case has an engaging portion held in engagement with the engaging portion of the bottom cover case.

Electronic equipment

A scalable tele-care monitoring device has a plurality of physiological sensors adapted to collect patient physiological data. The device also has an interface adapted to connect with a personal computer, and an expansion module adapted to communicate patient physiological data to the personal computer via the interface. In further aspects, the device has an output adapted to communicate the patient physiological data over a communications network when the device is not interfaced with the personal computer.

Tele-care monitoring device

A medical information system has a patient terminal device, a server, and an administrator terminal device. The patient terminal device, the server, and the administrator terminal device are connected together on a network. The patient terminal device includes sensors for measuring information used as indices of the condition of a patient's health; a part for transferring measured data obtained by the sensors to the patient terminal device; a part for transferring the measured data from the sensors to the server via the network; a part for accepting control information from the server, and a part for taking action based on the control information. The server includes a part for transmitting the control information to the patient terminal device; and a part for storing and sorting out the measured data transferred from the patient terminal device. The administrator terminal includes a part for reviewing the measured data stored and sorted out in the server.

An image printer for printing images with less cross-talk between images and less image flickering is provided. A plurality of images are interleft in one or a plurality of line units and a lenticular lens is used to make it possible for each individual pixel to be distinguished. The difference in brightness between an attentional pixel and the surrounding pixels that surround this attentional pixel is taken, and a correlation value is produced, the correlation value being reduced if the difference is large and increased if the difference is small. The image printer is equipped with a pixel shape controller that makes the printed pixels smaller in a region where the correlation value is low, and makes the printed pixels larger in a region where the correlation value is high.

Image printer for controlling the shape of pixels based upon correlation values

Image recording apparatus, image data generating apparatus, and

A tape cassette for a recording/reproducing apparatus comprises a cassette casing comprising an upper half and a lower half, a front cover provided to cover a front opening portion of the cassette casing for protecting a magnetic tape and for opening and closing the front opening portion and a locking member provided on at least one of right and left side surfaces of the cassette casing to lock the front cover when it is closed. A gap is formed between an outer side surface of the cassette casing and an inner side surface of the front cover so as to permit insertion of a member which serves to release the locking member from being locked. A projection is formed on an inner surface of the front cover covering the gap.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Kenji Iwano