Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Sony Corporation

Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Toyo Engineering Corporation

Kobe University

Asahi Kasei Fibers Corporation

Toru Morita

Shigeru Enomoto

Jinichiro Kato

Keiichi Enoki

Toshinori Matsui

Masaru Fuku

Hisashi Ishikura

Fumitaka Satou

Koji Nagao

Hirofumi Tatsukawa

Munetaka Tsuda

Shuji Hiramatsu

Madoka Baba

Kiyohiro Morita

Motoki Kobayashi

Shunsuke Kunieda

Takashi Hatakeda

You Asakura

Ryu Taniguchi

Kiyoshi Fujieda

Hiromu Tanaka

Yuta Saito

Yasuhiro Yamanaka

Edgar Allan Tu

Kinji Asaka

Hideto Matsuyama

Takeshi Nakagawa

Teruhiko Matsuo

Hiroshi Okuyama

Yumi Kataoka

Koji Shimamura

Ken Mukai

Masayuki Kaneda

Akihito Nagata

Koichi Aoki

Takuya Kawasaki

Hiroaki Ikebe

Tomonori Shimomura

Wataru Kaneko

Hiroaki Aonuma

Hiroshi Yokohata

Masaaki Sakurai

Hitoshi Yamazaki

Masahiro Yasukawa

Yujin Motoyama

Shuhei Ikenaga

Hiroko Miki

Tomoyuki Yoneda

Kousuke Yamaguchi

The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a CNT fiber that is constituted of aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs), is thin, has little irregularity in thickness, has excellent winding properties when undergoing coiling processing, and has superior conductivity. Provided is a CNT fiber constituted of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) having a thickness of 0.01 &#x3bc;m-3 mm, having a coefficient of variation for irregularity in thickness of 0.2 or less, having a distribution rate a for deviation from roundness of 40% or greater, and a distribution rate b of 70% or greater. Also provided is a method for manufacturing the CNT fiber.

Fiber constituted from carbon nanotube and method for manufacturing same

A forward osmosis membrane characterized in that a thin membrane layer having the performance of a semi-permeable membrane is laminated on a polyketone support layer.

Forward osmosis membrane and forward osmosis treatment system

A home screen display unit displays a home screen indicating a plurality of menus. If an execution menu of a game application is selected in the home screen, a game screen display unit displays in full screen a game screen indicating an execution result of the game application. If an execution menu of an application other than a game is selected in the home screen, a browser screen display unit displays in full screen a browser screen indicating an execution result of the application other than a game. A screen transition control unit allows a direct transition from the game screen to the browser screen if a predetermined operation is performed while the game screen is displayed, and allows a direct transition from the browser screen to the game screen if the predetermined operation is performed while the browser screen is displayed.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

A membrane separation type activated sludge treatment method according to an aspect of the present invention includes a step of performing biological treatment on waste water and a step of performing membrane separation on water having been treated in the biological treatment step. The membrane separation step employs a plurality of filtration modules including a plurality of hollow fiber membranes arranged adjacent to one another and oriented in one direction and a pair of holding members fixing both ends of the plurality of hollow fiber membranes, and a plurality of cleaning modules supplying air bubbles from beneath the filtration modules. An amount of treated water sucked by the filtration modules and an amount of air bubbles supplied by the cleaning modules are varied in response to variations in an inflow rate of the waste water in the biological treatment step.

Membrane separation type activated sludge treatment method and system

Provided is an information processing apparatus including a novel user interface capable of switching a number of images for display on a screen. The information processing apparatus displays a menu image representing one or more menu item images on a screen, displays, when any one of the one or more menu item images is selected, a selection target image associated with the selected menu item image on the screen, stores a selected order of already-selected ones of the one or more menu item images, displays, when one direction along one side of the screen is specified, another selection target image, which is selected in accordance with the stored selected order and the one direction, and redisplays the menu image when an opposite direction to the one direction is specified in a state in which the selection target image associated with the menu image selected most recently is displayed.

Information processing apparatus for navigating and selecting programs

The present invention provides intermittent-bubbling equipment used while being immersed in a liquid. The intermittent-bubbling equipment includes a tubular casing vertically disposed; and a plurality of partition walls disposed substantially parallel to an axial direction in the casing, and configured to define a gas introducing chamber, a gas inducing chamber, and a gas discharging chamber. The gas introducing chamber and the gas inducing chamber communicate with each other at a top of the casing, and the gas inducing chamber and the gas discharging chamber communicate with each other at a bottom of the casing. An upper side of the gas introducing chamber and an upper side of the gas inducing chamber are closed by a lid plate, and a lower side of the gas inducing chamber and a lower side of the gas discharging chamber are closed by a bottom plate. A cross-sectional area of the gag introducing chamber may be greater than a cross-sectional area of the gas discharging chamber. An upper edge of a connecting hole between the gas inducing chamber and the gas discharging chamber may be substantially horizontal. A bottom plate that closes the gas inducing chamber and a bottom plate that closes the gas discharging chamber may be formed by a single flat member.

Intermittent-bubbling equipment

In response to a selection of a program, a board image display control section sets program related information associated with the selected program in a displayable state. An execution start managing section starts the program in response to reception of a request to start the program, the program related information associated with the program being set in the displayable state. A stop and end managing section ends an already started program when a given condition is satisfied at a time of starting the program by the execution start managing section. A setting of program related information associated with the ended program is maintained in a displayable state even after the program is ended by the stop and end managing section.

Information processing device, information processing method, program, and information storage medium

Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: a native processing section adapted to perform processing based on a program stored therein so as to generate a native image as a processing result; a web processing section adapted to generate a web image based on data requested to a server; and a display image generation section adapted to generate a display image and output the display image to a display device, the display image including an element image making up at least part of the native image and an element image making up at least part of the web image, in which the native processing section and the web processing section move the element images in the same direction when the target to be operated by a user is switched between the native image and the web image to change the configuration of the display image.

Generating a moving display image having a native image plane and a web image plane appearing continuously on a same plane

Provided is an information processing apparatus capable of, even during a period in which an application program is not executed, presenting, to a user, information on an execution content of the application program. The information processing apparatus acquires display element information output by the application program during an execution of the application program, stores the display element information in a storage unit, generates an image including a display element represented by the display element information stored in the storage unit as a program-related image presenting information relating to the application program, and controls a display unit to display the generated image during the period in which the application program is not executed.

Information processing apparatus

Before a communication control device ECU falls into a sleep state or a power-off state, a substitution request is transmitted to an ECU, among substitute candidate devices ECU to ECU, that is determined by a substitute transmission acceptability determining unit as being capable of taking over the communication control device. A substitution-capable processing load quantity, a substitution-capable process importance level, or a failure determination result of each of the ECUs is used as determination criteria when the substitute transmission acceptability determining unit of the ECU determines a substitute device, and the determination is carried out in an order that takes into consideration the process importance level of each of the ECUs during travelling or at a standstill, to prevent failures in a network or abnormal behaviors of a vehicle.

Control device switching system

Provided is a cell capacity adjusting device for reducing fluctuations in state of charge (SOC) among cells of a battery pack, which is formed by connecting a plurality of cells-in series, during suspension of operation of electrically-powered equipment whose main power source is the battery pack. From among the plurality of cells-, one or a plurality of cells having a voltage value equal to or higher than a cell capacity adjustment target voltage are selected. By the selected cells, an intermittent operation unit, which operates even during the suspension of operation of the electrically-powered equipment, is caused to perform an intermittent operation. Through repetition of the intermittent operation, voltage values of the selected cells are decreased. Thus, fluctuations in state of charge (SOC) among cells are reduced without unnecessarily discharging battery stored energy of the battery pack

Cell capacity adjusting device

To prevent a user from sensing change in feeling of operation of a pointing device. There is provided a computer system control method for controlling a computer system having a coordinate designation system for producing base data for calculating position coordinates, the method comprising the steps of obtaining the position coordinates calculated based on the base data; when a predetermined application program is activated from another application program, obtaining position coordinates notified by the other application program, and showing a designated position image on a display screen based on the position coordinates obtained; and when the predetermined application program is activated from an operating system, showing the designated position image on the display screen based on the position coordinates obtained at the step of obtaining the position coordinates.

Computer system, computer system control method, program, and information storage medium

A method of produced water treatment in an in-situ recovery method of producing bitumen from oil sand, the method has the steps of: separating bitumen from bitumen-mixed fluid so as to leave produced water, the bitumen-mixed fluid having been recovered from the oil sand wells; and filtering the produced water via a microfiltration membrane made of polytetrafluoroethylene.

Method of produced water treatment, method of water reuse, and systems for these methods

Provided is a control system capable of reducing cost while securing reliability of original processing of a microcomputer. An engine control device and a meter control device each store a control amount calculating procedure for calculating a control amount regarding a significant control to be performed on the control target of the engine control device. The engine control device compares a control amount regarding the significant control calculated by the engine control device, and a control amount regarding the significant control calculated by the meter control device, to thereby control the control target of the engine control device based on a result of the comparison.

Distributed control system for monitoring a significant control

A functional icon arraymade up of multiple functional icons indicating types of reproduction functions, and a content icon arraymade up of multiple content icons indicating items for reproducible contents are displayed on a menu screen. In the case where a functional icon to be displayed in an intersection regionin which the functional icon arrayand the content icon arrayintersect is a network icon, the content icons are hierarchically displayed according to an XML file acquired via the Internet. A content iconA, which indicates a content classification, and content iconsA,B,C, andD, which indicate more classifications belonging to the classification indicated by the content iconA, are hierarchically displayed.

Multimedia reproduction apparatus, menu screen display method, menu screen display program, and computer readable recording medium recorded with menu screen display program

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Toru Morita