Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Medical Corporation

3m Innovative Properties Company

Imation Corporation

Other

Koichi Sano

Tetsuo Yokoyama

Hideaki Koizumi

Akira Maeda

Ryuzaburo Takeda

Shimbu Yamagata

Shinichi Sato

Jun'ichi Taguchi

Michio Oikawa

Koichi Haruna

Kunihiko Kido

Hiroyuki Sekiguchi

Makoto Shioya

Raymond Patrick Johnston

Patrick R Fleming

Etsuji Yamamoto

Hideki Kohno

Atsushi Takane

Hiroshi Takeuchi

Yoshiyuki Miyamoto

Takeiki Aizono

Masakatsu Fujie

Kazutoshi Kan

Yoshiaki Isobe

David P Smith

Koichi Morishita

Akira Ogushi

Masanori Kataoka

Noboru Higashi

Shigeyuki Nishitani

Kurt J Halverson

Toshio Tanaka

Hiroyuki Mano

Yuichi Yagawa

Motohisa Funabashi

Katsumi Kawano

Kazuo Suzuki

James Gregory Bentsen

Teruji Sekozawa

Ryuichi Shinomura

Yasuhiko Ozawa

Paul Edward Humpal

Katsuhiko Nishimura

Shigeru Watanabe

Gary E Gaides

Hidemi Shiono

Yasuhiro Hashimoto

Fujio Tajima

Raymond C Chiu

David D Madsen

Shigetoshi Sameshima

Hirotaka Mizuno

Masaaki Hiroya

Gary E Krejcarek

Junichi Taguchi

Shigenobu Yanaka

Hiromitsu Kurisu

Kenichiro Morishita

Kazuya Sukegawa

Shinji Omori

Kenichi Kobayashi

Akira Yuza

Yoshito Ohkawa

Hideki Koizumi

Masako Egashira

Tetsuo Yokohama

Toshiharu Kato

Masahiro Hanada

The present invention provides a detection article including at least one fluid control film layer having at least one microstructured major surface with a plurality of microchannels therein. The microchannels are configured for uninterrupted fluid flow of a fluid sample throughout the article. The film layer includes an acquisition zone for drawing the fluid sample into the plurality of microchannels at least by spontaneous fluid transport. The film layer also includes a detection zone having at least one detection element that facilitates detection of a characteristic of the fluid sample within at least one microchannel of the detection zone. The detection article may be formed from a plurality of film layers that are stacked to form a three-dimensional article.

Detection article having fluid control film

Introduction service is supported, in order to activate and facilitate community activities. A community management centersearches for offered-service information that matches at least partly with an application designated by a coordinator terminal, and selects participants specified by detected offered-service information, as introduction candidates. Then, an introduction candidate list that describes private information, desired terms, and possessed value of ticket for each of the selected introduction candidates is displayed on a coordinator terminal. When the coordinator terminalselects a participant to be introduced to the applicant, out of the introduction candidates described in the introduction candidate list, then, the private information and the desired terms of selected participant is displayed on a participant terminalof the applicant.

Introduction support method and system, and introduction method and system

To provide a lens array sheet capable of efficiently condensing diffuse light such as the light from a LED light source or EL light source. The lens array sheet comprises a transparent base material, a plurality of light-receiving sections each consisting of a transparent right frustum which is provided on the surface of the base material and is tapered outwardly from the base material, and a plurality of condensing lenses disposed on the back of the base material so as to face the respective light-receiving sections. The side face of the right frustum forms a taper angle larger than 0&#xb0; and less than 15&#xb0; with the central axial line of the right frustum, and an aspect ratio (H/D) which is a proportion of the height (H) of the right frustum to the minimum length (D) of the cut surface of the right frustum is larger than 0, and no more than 10.

Lens array sheet and molding method

The present invention provides a detection article including at least one fluid control film layer having at least one microstructured major surface with a plurality of microchannels therein. The microchannels are configured for uninterrupted fluid flow of a fluid sample throughout the article. The film layer includes an acquisition zone for drawing the fluid sample into the plurality of microchannels at least by spontaneous fluid transport. The film layer also includes a detection zone having at least one detection element that facilitates detection of a characteristic of the fluid sample within at least one microchannel of the detection zone.

A transport system composed of road side stations installed along roads and vehicles running on roads, wherein emergency processing at the time of an accident, a local information providing service, and so on are realized by the road side stations in cooperation of the road side stations and the respective vehicles. In the transport system, a plurality of road side stations are interconnected through a road side communication network, and a plurality of vehicles communicate with the road side stations. A vehicle transmits a request message containing a service code and location information. A road side station receiving the request message broadcasts the request message to the network. The road side stations receive the message, and determine whether or not requested processing should be executed based on the service code and the location information. When determining that the processing should be executed, the road side station executes processing indicated by the service code.

Transport system

The present invention relates to a distributed system in which processors incorporated in machines and objects are mutually linked in operation, and an object of the present invention is to provide a distributed system in which each device can establish a link with a suitable device according to changes in the environment and conditions, independently from the system configuration controlled by a server. In order to achieve the above object, each device provided by the present invention obtains information on surrounding devices through a sensoror communication processing, recognizes the environment around it through environment recognition processing, and stores the environmental information in an environment management table. By employing link control processing, each device shares conditional information stored in a profileand a policyof each device through the communication processing. Each device locally and continuously determines a device to be linked with it or whether to perform a link operation requested by another device, using the shared conditional information, information on the surrounding environment, and the policy. The results of a link operation are made public and shared by each device through the link control processing, and used for narrowing the range of link target devices.

Inter-device cooperative control method

A sheet feed rollerincludes a shaft memberand an elastomeric layerprovided on the outer circumference of the shaft member. The shaft memberincludes a tubular supportand a pair of shaft sectionsextending in the axial direction to define a rotary axis of the shaft member. The elastomeric layeris formed of an elastic member separate from the shaft member, and attached to the outer circumferenceto be conformed with the profile of the supportof the shaft member. The elastomeric layerincludes a baseand a plurality of micro-structured elements, each having a three-dimensionally projected shape, formed on the surfaceof the base. Each of the plurality of micro-structured elementson the elastomeric layeris brought into frictional contact at a distal end thereof with the sheet medium and feed the same as the shaft member rotates.

Sheet feed apparatus, sheet separating member, sheet feed assembly and sheet separating assembly

In a digital content distribution method and system, a storage medium is composed of a ROM area in which a key is stored and a RAM area in which a digital content is stored. A storage medium certification unit of a terminal equipment judges whether or not the key of the storage medium exists in the ROM area. Thereby, the use of an illegal copy of the digital content is prevented. If the key is valid, a digital content execution unit of the terminal equipment reads the digital content and executes it. A digital content updating unit of the terminal system transmits to a distributor a request for transmission of the digital content together with a user profile code. The distributor refers to a user management file to check the validity of the user profile code and the number of times of distribution. If they are valid, the latest edition of the digital content is transmitted to the terminal system so that the digital content is updated by the digital content updating unit. Thereby, the distribution and version-up of a digital content are facilitated.

Digital content distribution system and protection method

According to the present invention, techniques for sharing and providing navigation information. Embodiments according to the invention can exchange geographic location information between two or more devices using a wireless communications connection. Navigation information, including geographic locations, as well as information related to sites at the geographic locations can be stored by the various devices and exchanged in response to a specific request made by a user or a general upload/download process. Specific embodiments include systems, methods and apparatuses.

Wireless method and system for providing navigation information

A medical treatment apparatus capable of performing exact medical treatment is provided. The medical treatment apparatus includes detection means for detecting the condition of a human body to be treated, medical treatment means for treating said human body, and display means for displaying results of computing by computing means for computing a plan for said medical treatment on the basis of detection results from said detection means.

Medical treatment apparatus

A light control device is disclosed that includes a two film construction, each film having a plurality of light absorbing regions. For example, the light absorbing elements can be a series of grooves or column-like indentations in the films that are filled or coated with a light absorbing material. The two films can be adjacently disposed so that their respective light absorbing regions form a plurality of light absorbing elements that extend along the thickness direction of the device. The light absorbing elements allow a viewer to view an image through the light control device within a range of viewing angles while blocking a view of the image outside that range of viewing angles. The two film construction allows for relative ease of manufacture as well as the ability to form light absorbing elements that can provide better viewing uniformity throughout a typical viewing range, a sharp privacy viewing cut off, and reduced ghost image formation.

Light control device

A surgical operating apparatus capable of a high-precision surgical operation while observing a detailed image of an affected part to be subjected to surgical operation and capable of observing a related location of the affected part under surgical operation by means of an image obtained the imaging of a wider range is provided with an operating table provided in an area made an object of measurement by an MRI apparatus so that a surgical operation can be performed by operating an operating manipulator by an operation input device while monitoring a local image from an endoscope and/or a ultrasonic scanner and the observation of a range in the neighborhood of the affected part and wider than an observing area of the endoscope is enabled by the MRI apparatus under surgical operation, thereby providing a high-security surgical operating apparatus.

Surgical operating apparatus

To efficiently, 3-dimensionally, perspectively project and display the extracting processing procedure of a predetermined region on a 3-dimensional image, the extracting process is executed while observing the displayed image. Further, the process is interrupted as necessary so that the process can progress or be returned. The result of the extraction at the interruption time point is edited on a 2-dimensional image and the result of the edition is immediately reflected onto the 3-dimensional image, so that whether the edition is proper or improper can be decided.

Method for displaying region extracting processing in an image

An apparatus for composing and displaying a three-dimensional image comprises a device for computing a plurality of two-dimensional projected images from the same direction of a viewing line by a volume rendering scheme for each of a plurality of regions of interest set on three-dimensional data, a device for determining degrees to which each pixel of a plurality of two-dimensional projected images is involved in the display using the computed two-dimensional projected images and representative display surface depth values, each obtained for each pixel of the two-dimensional projected images, and a device for determining the total sum of the degrees of display involvement for each projection point and determining the pixel value of the projection plane.

3D image composition/display apparatus and composition method based on

A high-speed 3D image generating apparatus includes a 3D data measuring device, a voxel data converter to convert the measured 3D data into volume data, a volume data storage to store therein the volume data, and a plurality of processors. The apparatus further includes a 3D image generation process unit to generate a 3D image from the volume data, a 3D image generating device which estimates the quantity of calculations necessary to create the 3D image to be projected and which subdivides the 3D image creation process to allocate resultant sub-processes to the respective processors so as to possibly equalize each other the loads imposed on the respective processors, an input device to supply therefrom parameters related to an image display operation, and a 3D image output device to visualize the produced 3D image, whereby calculation load is equally allocated to each of the processors and the processing time is minimized.

Method and apparatus for directly generating three-dimensional images

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Sagamihara, Japan

Koichi Sano