Ajinomoto Co., Ltd.

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Olympus Corporation

Ebara Corporation

Isuzu Ceramics Research Institute Co. Ltd.

Other

Nissan Motor Company Limited

The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.

Nippon Kogaku K.k.

Dendritik Design, Inc.

Takayuki Suzuki

Kunisuke Izawa

Yutaka Honda

Masakazu Nakazawa

Takayuki Hamada

Takashi Nakano

Tomoyuki Onishi

Satoshi Katayama

Naoko Hirose

Naoko Kanno

Hiroyuki Nohira

Eiji Nakanishi

Hideki Kita

Hiroyuki Fujimura

Norio Yamada

Yoshiyuki Ichiki

Kazuhiro Watanabe

Manabu Yamazoe

Kunihide Kaji

Yoshihisa Takizawa

Yasutomo Suzuki

Tetsuo Hasegawa

Takahiro Kogasaka

Takayasu Mikkaichi

Kiyotaka Matsuno

Naoki Kushida

Yoichi Takahashi

Fumitake Mizoguchi

Norimasa Onishi

Tetsuya Ohtani

Masaaki Kojima

Katsuhiko Anzai

Ikuo Kira

Akihiko Maezawa

Hideo Hayashi

Kazutami Arimoto

Koji Nagata

Hiroshi Ban

Hiromichi Abe

Tadashi Takamura

Kunisuki Izawa

A database management system includes: a hierarchical database including one primary database, an intermediate database, and end databases; and a searching unit which searches, from registered data in the hierarchical database, for matching data which matches a search criterion. At least the end databases store plural pieces of the registered data. The primary database or the intermediate database includes a virtual data table in which search paths are grouped by common information relating to the plural pieces of the registered data. The search paths lead to the registered data stored in: a next-lower database; or the intermediate database or the end database, each being indirectly connected to the primary database or the intermediate database through the next-lower database. The searching unit adopts, as a starting point of a search, the intermediate database or the end database which involves the common information contained in the search criterion.

Database management system

Provided is an image pickup apparatus capable of selection of a first shot image taken in focus bracketing as a shot image at a user's desired focus position. A focus step is an amount of change in focus position between adjacent shot images. A focus lens is driven so as to achieve a focus change speed such that the amount of change in focus per unit time is constant. A vertical synchronization signal is issued to an image pickup device on the basis of a start focus position. A reference position at which a focus position comes to the start focus position in a first shot image generated in the focus bracketing is set. A focus position at the start of exposure is determined based on a time period required for one readout by the image pickup device, an exposure time period, the focus change speed, and the reference position.

Image pickup apparatus that performs focus bracketing, control method therefor, and storage medium

An image pickup apparatus includes: an image sensor; a first detection unit configured to detect movement of the image sensor; a second detection unit configured to compare images to detect a positional deviation thereof; a combining unit configured to combine the images on a basis of the detected positional deviation and to generate a panoramic image; and a display control unit, in which in a case where combining of images up to an Nth frame is completed by the combining unit, on a basis of information about a size of the panoramic image generated by combining the images up to the Nth frame and the movement of the image sensor, which is detected by the first detection unit and corresponds to frames from an (N+1)th frame to an (N+M)th frame, the display control unit generates information indicating progress of combining of the panoramic image.

Image pickup apparatus, image pickup method, and storage medium

An image capture apparatus sets a plurality of target focus positions, causes an image sensor to capture a plurality of images based on the target focus positions, and calculates focus positions with respect to an object of a plurality of captured images. In a case where the image capture apparatus captures a first image and a second image sequentially and where a difference between a focus position calculated for capturing the first image and a focus position calculated for capturing the second image is higher than a predetermined threshold value, the image capture apparatus resets a part of the target focus positions for images to be captured subsequently.

Image capture apparatus, control method for image capture apparatus and non-transitory recording medium for combining image

A method for suturing a gastric wall including: inserting a flexible elongated loop-forming member perorally into a stomach; advancing the loop-forming member along a lesser curvature line of the stomach to contact with the gastric wall in vicinity of the pyloric antrum, such that the loop-forming member returns along a greater curvature line of the stomach to a predetermined position and connects to a distal end portion of an overtube to form a closed loop in the stomach; suctioning air from the stomach after forming the closed loop such that an anterior gastric wall is in proximity with a posterior gastric wall within a region encircled by the closed loop; and suturing at least a portion of the anterior gastric wall to the posterior gastric wall that are in proximity in the region encircled by the closed loop.

Method for suturing a gastric wall

In an image providing apparatus capable of performing close-proximity wireless communication, it is determined whether or not the image providing apparatus come to an active state by moving close to the image output apparatus (whether or not the apparatus has been remotely woken up) if a connection through close-proximity wireless communication is established. It is decided that the image output apparatus is the primary controller after the connection if the image providing apparatus has been remotely woken up, and the use of an appropriate protocol for the primary controller is decided on. On the other hand, if the image providing apparatus has not been remotely woken up, it is decided that the image providing apparatus is the primary controller after connection, and the use of a corresponding protocol is decided on.

Image providing apparatus, image output apparatus, and image output system

A method for ligating an internal body tissue using an outer cylinder member and an inner cylinder member including the processes of projecting the inner cylinder from a front end of the outer cylinder member; attaching a ligation band member to an outer peripheral surface of the inner cylinder member; contacting a front end of the inner cylinder member with an internal body tissue; suctioning an inside of the inner cylinder member via a channel communicated with the inside of the inner cylinder member such that the internal body tissue is drawn into the inner cylinder member; and ligating the internal body tissue with the ligation band member by disconnecting the ligation band member from the front end of the inner cylinder member when the inner cylinder member is drawn into the inside the outer cylinder member at a position where the ligation band member is disconnected.

Method for ligating an internal body tissue

A keyboard unit may comprise a keyboard body having a top face and a planar bottom face. The keyboard body may be adapted for installation in a laptop computer. The planar bottom face of the keyboard body may be disposed toward a bottom case of the laptop when installed therein. A plurality of key tops may be disposed on the top face of the keyboard body. A plurality of bosses may have end openings aligned at same plane as the planar bottom face.

Flat bottom keyboard

In a conventional image processing apparatus configured to display a preview image of a representative page of an image file including a plurality of pages and including a plurality of pieces of image data, it is difficult for a user to easily recognize, from the preview image, the content of the image file stored in a storage medium. In a technique according to the present invention, a page having a high evaluation value is detected, and a reduced image of the detected page is produced. The resultant reduced image is displayed as the preview image thereby allowing a user to easily recognize the content of the file.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

A pneumatic tire wherein a distance t from an equatorial plane of a tire to outer circumferential main grooves and a distance b from the equatorial plane of the tire to an edge of a belt edge cushion in the width direction of the tire satisfy 0.85&#x2266;t/b&#x2266;0.90, in a cross-section in a meridian direction of the tire. Moreover, a distance d, which is half the width of a belt ply having the largest width, and a distance u from the equatorial plane of the tire to narrow grooves, satisfy 0.97&#x2266;d/u&#x2266;1.03. Furthermore, a distance a, which is half the width of a belt ply in the outermost layer, and a distance t, of outer circumferential main grooves, satisfy 1.15&#x2266;a/t&#x2266;1.25.

Pneumatic tire

This invention determines a compression method of printing data in consideration of a printing operation halt time when a low-speed interface is used. An image processing apparatus of this invention, which is connected to a printing apparatus, compresses printing data, and outputs the compressed printing data, determines the interface type, acquires a print waiting time, and determines the compression method of printing data based on the determined interface type and the acquired print waiting time. The image processing apparatus compresses printing data using the determined compression method, and outputs the compressed printing data to the printing apparatus.

Image processing apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium, in which data is compressed according to a lossless or lossy compression method

A print apparatus which prints image data on a recording sheet, comprises a first calculation unit adapted to calculate the number of printable sheets from a battery remaining amount of the print apparatus, a second calculation unit adapted to calculate the number of printable sheets from a recording sheet remaining amount or ink remaining amount, a determination unit adapted to determine the number of sheets printable by the print apparatus based on the number of printable sheets calculated by the first calculation unit and the number of printable sheets calculated by the second calculation unit, and a display unit adapted to display the number of printable sheets determined by the determination unit.

Print system, image sensing apparatus, print apparatus, and control methods thereof

A mounting status of an ink-jet cartridge mounted on a printer is obtained and test data according to the mounting status of the ink-jet cartridge is generated. The test data is used to execute at least either confirmation of printing status using the ink of the ink-jet cartridge or an adjusting operation of printing position. The test data is transmitted to the printer to be printed out.

Printer and print control apparatus and method thereof, and printer driver

In general, it is difficult for the end user to implement a simulate illustration process for an image, since manual setups of the process are complicated and require skills. Also, there is room for improvement in terms of image quality. In this invention, the luminance histogram of an original image is generated, the brightness of that image is detected based on the histogram, and the image undergoes a filter process corresponding to the detected brightness, thus easily performing the simulate illustration process using bright tone for the image. Especially, since a filter is set for rasterized image data in correspondence with the number of lines of the data to be processed, an effective simulate illustration process can be implemented.

Image processing method and apparatus, image processing system, and storage medium

Compounds formed by reacting a protected amino acid with an alkali metal enolate of an alkyl acetate are reacted with a halogenating agent for halogenation of the 2-position, or a protected amino acid is reacted with an alkali metal enolate of an alkyl halogenoacetate, to form a 4-amino-3-oxo-2-halogenobutanoic acid ester derivative, and hydrolysis and decarboxylation are conducted to produce a 3-amino-2-oxo-1-halogenopropane derivative or its salt. The present method is a useful process for producing a 3-amino-2-oxo-1-halogenopropane derivatives which can easily be converted to a 3-amino-1,2-epoxypropane.

Process for producing 3-amino-2-oxo-1-halogenopropane derivatives

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Kawasaki, Japan

Takayuki Suzuki