Try and E Co., Ltd.

Other

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Minolta Company, Ltd.

Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Takahiro Fujii

Kimihiko Higashio

Akira Murakawa

Shuhei Taguchi

Takao Shudo

Shinichi Ban

Tetsuji Abe

Kagumi Moriwaki

Kinya Hasegawa

Shuji Nakao

Masayuki Mukai

Takuma Masuda

Miyuki Ono

Masako Inoue

Temperature-sensor calibrating method enables a wireless-data-communicating wearable clinical thermometer to be reused. The thermometer's temperature sensor, for sensing and measuring a target subject's body temperature, is detachable from/reattachable into a main unit of the thermometer. The temperature sensor is calibrated whenever it is to be swapped out, making thermometer main unit post-multicycle-use disposable. The calibration is accomplished by sampling and acquiring a base resistance value per the temperature sensor, computing, based on the difference between the acquired base resistance value and a resistance value gauged with a standard temperature gauge, a calibration coefficient, storing the calibration coefficient in a measuring-device storage medium, and transmitting the calibration coefficient to the thermometer main unit.

Method of calibrating temperature sensor

External-injury waterproof protector, of long service life as a product. The structure of the limb-insertion opening enables completely shielding out water to protect an injured area. The protector has a flexible pouch body composed of a waterproofing material, with a mouth at either one or both ends, and an extensible/contractible annular constriction component hermetically and adhesively attached to the one or both pouch-body end(s). The annular constriction component is furnished with a tube portion formed to enable covering a portion of the four human limbs in a watertight state, and a brim portion formed projecting radially outward from a mouth edge of the tube portion. The tube portion favorably is formed at a narrower diameter than that of the other end of the pouch body. The brim portion arcuately slopes gently in a flaring form, lending the mouth of the annular constriction component an arcuate sloping surface.

Waterproof external injury protector

The present invention provides a pulse oximeter of the portable type, which is possible to carry around and to use widely regardless of the adult, the infant, the newborn baby, and which can keep the finger still for performing the precise measurement. The pulse oximetercomprises a measurement cavityfor accepting the examined portion (for example finger) of the subject, a measurement deviceincluding a light emitting partand a photo detecting partfacing between the measurement cavity, a filling elementformed from a material that the light used for the measurement can penetrate. The height and the curvature of the inner surface of the filling elementis larger than that of the outer surface of the filling element. The filling elementconverts the height and the curvature of the inner space. The filling elementfills the gap space between the examined portion of the subject and the inner space of the measurement cavity, wherein the examined portion of the subject is pressed by the filling elementso as not to move freely in the measurement cavity.

Pulse oximeter

For image processing for printing an original, first and second ground patterns are generated. The first ground pattern can be recognized with naked eyes in the original but cannot be recognized with naked eyes in a reproduction of the original obtained by an image forming apparatus, while the second ground pattern has a latent image which cannot be recognized in the original but can be recognized in the reproduction of the original. The first ground pattern and the second ground pattern are synthesized, and print data to be printed by the image forming apparatus is created. The print data has an image of the original, and the synthesized first and second ground patterns.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing program

In image data retrieval, image data that becomes the base of search is specified. When the search is to be carried out according to the distance from the image data on an image map, an automatic setting process of retrieval information is carried out. Here, a keyword, icon, chromaticity and the like of that image data are automatically set as retrieval information. The position of that image data on the image map becomes the center of a range when the ambiguity is set. By setting the ambiguity of the image map, keyword, icon, chromaticity, and the like in this state, the range of ambiguity is displayed, and image data within that range is automatically retrieved. As a result, analogous image data can be searched for according to subtle and ambiguous information or information that cannot be quantified.

Data administration apparatus that can search for desired image data

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Kobe, Japan

Takahiro Fujii