Nec Corporation

Kaken Pharmaceutical Company, Ltd.

Masahide Nomura

Hitoshi Igarashi

Katsuhiro Nakamura

Yukio Miyazaki

Hideo Sugawara

Ryusuke Taguchi

Machiko Sugiyama

Goro Yabuta

Hideo Saito

Taku Mizuno

Yasuhiko Hamazaki

Akiya Furuichi

In a video display terminal (VDT) adapter connected to a moving picture output device, inputting means inputs, from the moving picture output device, an input moving picture signal indicative of input moving pictures having brightness which changes drastically. Connected to the inputting means, picture temporal frequency attenuator means selectively attenuates a particular frequency band of the input moving picture signal to produce a smoothly-changing moving picture signal indicative of smoothly-changing moving pictures. The particular frequency band includes human sensitive frequency components. Connected to the picture temporal frequency attenuator means, outputting means outputs the smoothly-changing moving picture signal as an output moving picture signal. The particular frequency band may lie on a range not less than 7 Hz.

Stress mitigating method for video display terminal

A motion picture signal, as it is obtained from a camera, is processed by a spatiotemporal filter so that an optical flow of a concerned object is measured, and a velocity of the object is measured from the optical flow, identifying the object.

Velocity measurement method and velocity measurement system using

An image processing method for processing a sequence of motion images in the form of brightness patterns and picked up by a camera. The brightness patterns are applied to a spatiotemporal filtering differentiator having a plurality of initial phases thereof different from each other to obtain a set of local differential values grouped by the initial phases. The differential values are calculated to obtain a set of local brightness gradients.

Method for processing motion image to determine optical flow and system

Substance F-0368 of the formula: ##STR1## or salts thereof is prepared by culturing Kitasatosporia sp. F-0368 in a culture medium thereby producing substance F-0368, and then isolating and collecting substance F-0368 from the culture medium.

Novel substance for agricultural use

Disclosed in the present invention are: a substance F-0368 or salts thereof having the following structural formula ##STR1## a method for production of the substance F-0368 or salts thereof, wherein an F-0368-substance-producing-microorganism belonging to a genus Kitasatosporia is cultured, and the substance F-0368 is isolated and collected from the cultured substance; a method for production of the substance F-0368 or salts thereof, wherein 3-methyl-4-lower alkoxy carbonyl-2(5H)-furanone represented by the following general formula is subjected to hydrolytic reaction ##STR2## (where: R represents a straight or branched lower alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms); a composition which consists essentially of the substance F-0368 or salt thereof, a diluent permissible in the agricultural chemicals, and a carrier or an excipient; a preventive agent for plant diseases such as rice blast disease and bacterial leaf blight disease, which consists essentially of an effective amount of the substance F-0368 or salts thereof as the active component, a diluent permissible in the agricultural chemicals, and a carrier or an excipient; a method for preventing plant diseases, wherein plants are treated with the preventive agent; a disinfectant for agricultural use to prevent plant disease such as rice blast disease and bacterial leaf blight disease, which consists essentially of an effective amount of the substance F-0368 or salts thereof, as the active component, a diluent permissible in the agricultural chemicals, and a carrier or an excipient; materials for agricultural use containing therein the substance F-0368 or salts thereof; a method for growing plants, wherein the plants are cultivated by use of the agricultural materials; and an F-0368-substance-producing microorganism (Kitasatosporia sp. F-0368; FERM BP-2259).

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Tokyo, Japan

Masahide Nomura