Kao Corporation

Lsi Logic Corporation

Fujifilm Corporation

Hitachi Medical Corporation

Osamu Takiguchi

Takashi Oda

Koji Yui

Masaaki Tsukase

Kazuhiro Sato

Yoshihiro Goto

Yasuhiro Ishiwata

Akira Ishikawa

Seiichi Miyanaga

Yuji Hirano

Hiroshi Takagi

Masakazu Yamaguchi

Arvind Bhaskar Patwardhan

Christine Cajan

Toshio Miyake

Takashi Kodate

Katsuhiko Rindo

Scarlett Z Wu

Takumi Nagasako

Yoshimasa Tate

Naomi Hori

Miyuki Hayama

Atsuhiko Ii

Yoshikazu Okudo

Dirk Weichaus

Katsuhiko Rinto

Ferdinand Pesch

Katsuhiko Muromachi

Tomoe Takano

Masakazu Sase

Mikako Ezure

A hair treatment composition comprising components (A) to (D), wherein the mass ratio (A)/(B) between the content of the component (A) and the content of the component (B) is from 0.05 to 2.0, and the pH value of the hair treatment composition is from 2.5 to 5.0;

Hair treatment composition

A method of producing an organopolysiloxane compound in which a poly(N-acylalkyleneimine) segment comprising repeating units represented by formula (1): wherein Ris a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 22 carbon atoms, an aralkyl group, or an aryl group, and n is 2 or 3,is bonded to a terminal end and/or a side chain of an organopolysiloxane segment, wherein Ris a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 22 carbon atoms, an aralkyl group, or an aryl group, and n is 2 or 3,to ring opening polymerization in a solvent, thereby preparing a terminal reactive poly(N-acylalkyleneimine) solution;

Process for production of organopolysiloxane compound

The present invention relates to a hair dye composition containing a dissociative azo dye which has high dyeing power, is capable of imparting a vivid color to the hair firmly, has excellent fastness to light, shampooing, sweat, friction, and heat, and fades less with the passage of time because the dye is stable against an alkali agent or an oxidizing agent and does not decompose during hair dyeing; and a hair dyeing method using the hair dye composition.

Hair dye composition

A hair dye composition containing the following components (a) and (b) and having a pH from 2 to 12 at the time of use: (a) 0.1 to 20% by mass of an aromatic sulfone compound represented by the formula (1) shown below: Wherein R's, Y, Xand Zare defined in the claims and in the disclosure. (b) 0.01 to 5% by mass of at least one component selected from glycylglycine, glycylglycylglycine and salts thereof.

A hair dye composition containing a triazene dissociative direct dye represented by general formula (1): A-N&#x2550;N&#x2014;NH-B (1) wherein A and B are each a monocyclic or a bicyclic aromatic heterocyclic group that may have a substituent or a monocyclic or a bicyclic aryl group that may have a substituent and contain none of a carboxy group, a sulfo group and a quaternary ammonium group; and A and B each bind to a triazene-1,3-diyl group represented by &#x2014;N&#x2550;N&#x2014;NH&#x2014; via a carbon atom within A and B each. A and B may be the same or different.

The invention relates to an emulsion composition, wherein an optically isotropic surfactant phase containing a nonionic surfactant (hereinafter the phase being referred to as the surfactant phase) is present as stable droplets in an aqueous solution phase containing an electrolytic salt (hereinafter the phase being referred to as the aqueous solution phase), the amount of the salt being such an amount that the aqueous solution phase is incompatible with the surfactant phase, with a polymer including a segment (a) having affinity with the aqueous solution phase and a segment (b) having affinity with the surfactant phase; and a liquid detergent composition containing the emulsion composition and inorganic builder particles dispersed in the emulsion composition.

Emulsion composition

The liquid detergent composition is provided with a high detergency and ensuring a good dispersion stability of builder particles and comprises a liquid dispersion containing (a) 30 mass % or more of a specific inorganic builder particle and (b) a block or graft polymer having a carboxyl group (i) and a polymer chain (ii), having, as its structural unit, an alkyleneoxy group, the composition having a viscosity (25&#xb0; C.) of 3000 mPa&#xb7;s or less and a volumetric separation rate (25&#xb0; C., allowed to stand for 30 days) of 5% or less.

Liquid detergent composition comprising a polymer having a carboxyl group and an alkyleneoxy group

The present invention provides a method of improving the elastic modulus of oil while maintaining oil flowability. The elastic modulus of oil is significantly increased by the addition of polymers containing polyether groups. The treated oils are useful in products that require oils with both high elastic modulus and fluidity.

Rheology control agent

The present invention provides a liquid detergent composition being excellent in detergency and dispersion stability and a process for producing the same. The invention provides a liquid detergent composition having a degree of separation by volume of 5% or less after storage for 1 month at 25&deg; C., comprising a liquid phase as the phase (a), a polymeric dispersant as the component (b)&rsqb; and at least one selected from the group consisting of a crystalline silicate compound and an aluminosilicate compound as the component (c), wherein the component (b) has a cation exchange capacity of not less than 120 CaCO mg/g when the water content of the composition is 5% by weight or less and then the aluminosilicate compound only is used as the component (c) or when the water content of the composition is larger than 5% by weight.

Liquid detergent composition comprising aluminosilicate or crystalline silicate

A method and system for displaying a series of video frames in reverse order. The video frames are received in groups of pictures (GOPs) from a storage medium. The method comprises steps of (a) decoding and storing a number of frames from an initial GOP into frame buffers according to an ordering of the frame buffers, (b) displaying the stored frames according to the reverse ordering of the frame buffers, (c) decoding and storing a number of frames from a first preceding GOP according to the reverse ordering of the frame buffers, (d) displaying the stored frames according to the ordering of the frame buffers, (e) decoding and storing a number of frames from a second preceding GOP according to the ordering of the frame buffers, and (f) repeating steps (b)-(e),for prior first and second preceding GOPs.

System and method for MPEG reverse play through dynamic assignment of anchor frames

System and method for reproducing information represented by data (e.g., dynamic image compressed data), stored on a storage medium, in reverse order. Group of pictures (GOP) data sets read from a storage medium are stored in a memory (e.g., a stream buffer). Each GOP data set includes a plurality of pictures sequentially ordered from a first picture to a last picture, and each picture includes corresponding picture data. A given GOP data set is read from the memory multiple times in order to reproduce the pictures of the GOP data set in reverse order. In addition to the memory, one embodiment of the system includes a decoder for decoding picture data, and a memory controller coupled to the memory and the decoder. The memory controller receives a GOP data set read from the storage medium, and stores the GOP data set in the memory. The memory controller initializes a counter by storing a value equal to a total number of the pictures in the GOP data set within the counter. The memory controller repeatedly: (i) reads a number of the pictures equal to the counter value from the stream buffer in order beginning with the first picture, (ii) provides the picture data of a last predetermined number of the pictures read from the stream buffer to the decoder; and (iii) updates the value stored in the counter by subtracting the predetermined number from the value stored in the counter, until the counter value is equal to zero.

Method of controlling repetitive reading of group of pictures (GOP) data from a storage medium, and an apparatus therefor

The purpose of the present invention is to improve the rapid SPU playback scheme in a DVD player. In order to achieve this end, the method in accordance with the invention comprises the steps of: comparing the system time clock (STC) with the execution time of an instruction set that provides display control in the sub-picture units (SP_DCSQ_STM_N), forcing the display of pixel data (PXD) contained in a sub-picture unit to suspend operation and to proceed to instruction interpretation of the instruction set in a next sub-picture unit if said comparison means determines, when the sub-picture units are being rapidly played back, that the system time clock performing a rapid increment operation has a greater value than the execution time of the instruction set at least one ahead (SP_DCSQ_STM_N&plus;1) and continuously repeating the instruction interpretation until the execution time of the instruction set coincides with the system time clock.

System and method for rapidly decoding sub-pictures in a DVD player

Organopolysiloxanes composed of an organopolysiloxane segment and a poly(N-acylalkyleneimine) segment which is bonded to at least one silicone atom of said organopolysiloxane segment via an alkylene group containing heteroatom(s) and which consists of repeating units represented by formula (1): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms; and n is a number of 2 or 3; wherein the weight ratio of the organopolysiloxane segment (a) to the poly(N-acylalkyleneimine) segment (b) [(a)/(b)] is at least 5/95 and less than 40/60, and the weight-average molecular weight is from 10,000 to 500,000. These organopolysiloxanes are soluble or dispersible in water and can form a film with an excellent texture. Thus, they can be appropriately employed as additives for cosmetic products.

Organopolysiloxanes

A film-forming resin which is a copolymer comprising (a) 30-80 mol % of a (meth)acrylamide monomer represented by the formula (1) wherein R.sup.1 represents CH.sub.3 or the like, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 each represents H or a C.sub.4 -C.sub.12 alkyl group; (b) 2-50 mol % of a (meth)acrylamide monomer represented by the formula (2) wherein R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 each represents H or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkyl group; (c) 0.0001-50 mol % of a (meth)acrylate monomer or (meth)acrylamide monomer represented by the formula (3) wherein R.sup.6 represents C.sub.2 -C.sub.3 alkylene group, R.sup.7,R.sup.8 and R.sup.10 each represents CH.sub.3 or C.sub.2 H.sub.5, R.sup.9 represents an alkyl or phenyl group, a stands for 0 or 1 and b stands for 0 or 1, (d) 0-40 mol % of a (meth) acrylate monomer represented by the formula (4) wherein R.sup.11 and R.sup.12 each represents a C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 alkylene group, R.sup.13 represents H, CH.sub.2 or C.sub.6 H.sub.5 and d and e stands for an integer of 0-50; and (e) 0-20.0 mol % of a cross-linkable vinyl monomer; and a hair cosmetic composition containing the resin. ##STR1## The film-forming resin according to the present invention permits the retention of hair style for long hours even under high humidity conditions and in addition, has excellent removability upon hair washing. It permits the retention of beautiful finish when used as a hair-styling resin.

Film-forming resin and hair cosmetic composition containing the same

A three-dimensional image display method for displaying a three-dimensional image including depth and distance information which consists of the steps of obtaining a densified three-dimensional image according to the distance information of an original three-dimensional image using a voxel method and modifying the densified three-dimensional image using a surface method. The surface method consists of the steps of determining each minute image element group including plural image elements proximate to each other over all image elements forming the densified three-dimensional image obtained under the voxel method, computing a density gradient defined by the each minute image element group based on density data of the plural image elements, substituting each modified density data modified according to the density gradient for the density data of the plural image elements obtained under voxel method, and displaying the modified density data on a display. A system for accomplishing this method is also provided.

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Wakayama, Japan

Osamu Takiguchi