Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Company, Ltd.

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Satoshi Okada

Hirokazu Tanaka

Masashi Hashimoto

Osamu Nakaguchi

Keiji Hemmi

Yoshihiko Kitaura

Hidekazu Takeno

Matsuhiko Aratani

Hiroshi Imanaka

Masanobu Kohsaka

Hatsuo Aoki

Eiko Iguchi

Yoshio Kuroda

Noriyuki Koyama

Yoshimi Asai

Kozo Sawada

Masakuni Okuhara

Shigehiro Takase

Natsuko Kayakiri

Nobuharu Shigematsu

Akio Kuroda

Shinya Watanabe

Yuki Saitoh

Akihiro Sakai

Masami Ezaki

Tohru Kino

Satoshi Yonishi

Sumio Kiyoto

Motoaki Nishikawa

Hideaki Adachi

Akihiro Odagawa

Tsutomu Kanno

Masanori Okamoto

Yasuhisa Tsurumi

Susumu Hasegawa

Naoki Fukami

Yuka Yabuuchi

Keiji Hemmi, Deceased

Takanao Otsuka

Seiji Yoshimura

Takeno Hidekazu

A thermoelectric conversion material is provided that has not only a higher thermoelectric performance as compared to conventional ones but also semiconducting temperature dependence, i.e. properties that the electrical resistivity decreases with an increase in temperature. The thermoelectric conversion material contains a substance having a layered bronze structure represented by a formula (BiAO)(CoRh)O, where A is an alkaline-earth metal element and x is a numerical value of 0.4 to 0.8. The thermoelectric conversion material of the present invention exhibits good thermoelectric properties over a wide temperature range.

Thermoelectric conversion material, thermoelectric conversion element using the same, and electronic device and cooling device including the thermoelectric conversion element

A character display apparatus is provided, which comprises a display device comprising a plurality of pixels, and a control section for controlling the display device. Each of the plurality of pixels comprises a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a predetermined direction. A first pixel of the plurality of pixels comprises a plurality of first sub-pixels. At least one pixel neighboring the first pixel comprises a plurality of second sub-pixels. The control section determines an arrangement pattern containing a plurality of elements, in which a value of each of the plurality of elements is determined depending on whether or not a basic portion indicating a skeleton of a character is assigned to a corresponding sub-pixel of the plurality of the first and second sub-pixels. The control section determines a luminance level of the first pixel based on the arrangement pattern.

Character display apparatus and character display method, control program for controlling the character display method and recording medium recording the control program

A thermoelectric conversion device of the present invention includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a layered oxide arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode. The first electrode, the layered oxide, and the second electrode are arranged in this order so that a multilayer is formed. The layered oxide is formed of electric conductive layers and electric insulating layers being alternately arranged. The C axis of the layered oxide is perpendicular to the interface between the first electrode and the layered oxide. The area of the second electrode is smaller than that of the first electrode.

Thermoelectric conversion device, and cooling method and power generation method using the same

A display apparatus () comprises a display device () and a control section () for displaying characters by using sub-pixel rendering. Each character is displayed in a frame having a predetermined size. The control section () has a skeleton portion shifting section () which shifts a center of a skeleton portion of a character toward a center of the frame using sub-pixel precision.

Display apparatus, information display method, information display program, readable recording medium, and information apparatus

A graphic display apparatus for displaying a graphic which is represented by binary bit map data includes: a display device including a plurality of sub-pixels; and a control section for controlling the display device, wherein the plurality of sub-pixels form a plurality of groups, each of the plurality of groups includes a predetermined plural number of sub-pixels, and the control section assigns each of bits included in the bit map data to one of the plurality of groups and displays the graphic by controlling sub-pixels included in the one of the plurality of groups based on information about bits located in the vicinity of the bit assigned to the one of the plurality of groups.

Graphic display apparatus, character display apparatus, display method, recording medium, and program

Character display apparatus includes a display device and a control section. The control section controls the display device such that: a color element level of at least one first sub-pixel, which corresponds to a basic portion of a first character, is set to a predetermined color element level; and a color element level of a first vicinal sub-pixel located in the vicinity of the at least one first sub-pixel is set to a color element level different from the predetermined color element level, whereby the first character is displayed on a display plane, the basic portion of the first character is included in a first frame having a predetermined size, the at least one first sub-pixel is included in a first region on the display plane which corresponds to the first frame, and at least one of the at least one first vicinal sub-pixel is out of the first region.

Character display apparatus, character display method, character display program, and recording medium therefor

A character display apparatus includes: a display device having a plurality of pixels; and a control section for controlling the display device, wherein: each of the pixels includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged along a predetermined direction; a corresponding one of a plurality of color elements is pre-assigned to each of the sub-pixels; an intensity of each of the color elements is represented stepwise through a plurality of color element levels; the control section executes tasks of: setting each of the sub-pixels to one of the color element levels; according to a relationship between the plurality of color element levels and a plurality of brightness levels, converting the color element level for each of the sub-pixels to a corresponding brightness level among the plurality of brightness levels; and changing the relationship according to at least one of character color information which defines a color of a character to be displayed on the display device and background color information which defines a background color of the character.

Character display device, character display method, and recording medium therefor

An image display apparatus including: a 3D display device and a control section for controlling the 3D display device, wherein the control section obtains a drawing pattern corresponding to 2D image data, and displays the drawing pattern on the 3D display device. The drawing pattern is constructed in such a manner that when the drawing pattern is displayed on the 3D display device, the drawing pattern exhibits a pseudo color which is identical to a color which would be exhibited when the 2D image data is displayed by a 2D display device.

Image display apparatus, image displaying method and recording medium

A character display apparatus of the present invention includes: a display device having a plurality of pixels; and a control section for controlling the display device. Each of the pixels includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged along a predetermined direction. A corresponding one of a plurality of color elements is pre-assigned to each of the sub-pixels. The control section displays a character on the display device by independently controlling the color elements respectively corresponding to the sub-pixels.

Character display apparatus, character display method, and recording medium

Amino acid derivatives and their use as phospholipase A.sub.2 inhibitor

Process for the preparation of indolizine derivatives

Indole derivatives useful as testosterone 5.alpha.-reductase inhibitors

The novel peptides WS-9326A, WS-9326B, their derivatives and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof have useful pharmacological activities, particularly in the treatment and/or prevention of asthma and/or pain. A method for the production of the peptides WS-9326A and WS-9326B and derivatives thereof using Streptomyces violaceoniger No. 9326 in a biologically pure form is described herein.

Process for producing WS-9326A and WS-9326B

This invention relates to heterocyclic derivatives useful for treating or preventing testosteron 5.alpha.-reductase mediated diseases such as alopecia, ache, prostatism and the like, which can be represented by the following formula: ##STR1## to a process for their production, to a pharmaceutical composition containing the same and to uses thereof.

Heterocyclic derivatives

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Kyoto, Japan

Satoshi Okada