Hitachi, Ltd.

Maxell, Ltd.

Nissan Chemical Industries Limited

Kowa Company Limited

Renesas Electronics Corporation

Hitachi-high-technologies Corporation

Hitachi High-tech Corporation

Hitachi Maxell, Limited

Toru Yokoyama

Tomokazu Murakami

Katsuyuki Nakamura

Taro Aoki

Junichi Kimura

Motohiro Yamazaki

Yasuhiro Akiyama

Michiru Fujioka

Shohei Saito

Yoshinori Suzuki

Takashi Matsubara

Koichi Hamada

Masahiro Kageyama

Tomohiro Shoji

Muneaki Yamaguchi

Masatoshi Narahara

Hidetaka Nambu

Ayaka Okuno

Yuichiro Ota

Yuto Komatsu

Nobuo Hironaga

Futoshi Ota

Osamu Sugawara

Ryo Satou

Masato Tamura

The present invention aims to provide a biological sample analysis device which achieves an improvement in accuracy of an analysis result, a reduction in reagent cost, and shortening of a required time. The biological sample analysis device according to the present invention compares first measurement data acquired by measuring a biological sample and second measurement data acquired by measuring a reference sample and determines that when the difference between the two exceeds a threshold value, it is necessary to remeasure the reference sample before remeasuring the biological sample and reacquire a reference value (refer to FIG.A).

Biological sample analysis device and biological sample analysis method

For the purpose of providing an image encoding technique for reducing the amount of codes, in inter prediction in which motion search is performed by using a block obtained by dividing an input image and a reference image, the motion vector of the block is predicted by selecting from the motion vectors of the surrounding blocks. Further, in the method of calculating a differential vector and then performing encoding, the number or positions of candidate blocks from which a prediction vector is selected are changed block by block or frame by frame and thereby adaptive and efficient video image compression is performed.

Image encoding method, image encoding device, image decoding method, and image decoding device

A mobile device link system in which, to a mobile device detected by position information measurement to have entered a distribution area, recommendation information corresponding to the distribution area which the mobile device has entered is distributed; to a mobile device detected by local communication to have entered a local communication area, right information indicating that the mobile device has the right to receive service information is transmitted; and using the right information, service information is requested and service information is received.

Mobile device link system and service information distribution method

The substratefor use in the analysis of a nucleic acid according to the present invention has multiple analysis areaswhich are partitioned on a substrate, and enables the measurement of the analysis areaswhile interchanging the analysis areasin turn, said substratebeing characterized in that each of the analysis areasconsists of an adsorption partonto which a DNA fragment or a carrier having the DNA fragment carried thereon can be adsorbed and a non-adsorption partwhich is a part outside of the adsorption part, and the non-adsorption parthas, formed on at least a part thereof, a marker partthat has a specified shape and helps to identify the positions of the analysis areas

Nucleic acid analysis device

Provided is a nucleic acid analyzer, which does not require manual processes by a highly trained operator such as a researcher and is easy to use, small-sized, capable of accepting multiple samples, and performs speedy analysis, and a nucleic acid analysis method using the analyzer. The analyzer and method perform detection in a plurality of exposure times, provide a program for determining a threshold for signal detection, and determine whether a faint signal peak is a false signal peak.

Nucleic acid analyzer and nucleic acid analysis method using same

A technique for performing spectral calibration simultaneously with electrophoresis of an actual sample to be analyzed, without performing electrophoresis using a special matrix standard which is time-consuming and costly, is provided. The device for genotypic analysis is characterized by obtaining reference fluorescence spectra using a size standard and an allelic ladder, which provide information concerning known DNA fragments used for electrophoresis of an actual sample, and is characterized by performing spectral calibration for a capillary in which the allelic ladder is not used by detecting a shift amount of the fluorescence spectra of the size standard and shifting the reference fluorescence spectra using the shift amount to determine fluorescence spectra.

Device for genotypic analysis and method for genotypic analysis

To provide a video coding technique to reduce the amount of code, a coding apparatus configured to code layers at a plurality of resolutions as a stream determines the coding unit, prediction unit, and frequency transform unit for each layer in compliance with given rules with reference to the coding unit, prediction unit, and frequency transform unit of the lower layer, respectively, and switches the given rules with a flag. This adaptively and efficiently compresses a video.

Image decoding method and image decoding apparatus

In expansion and reduction of the size of a macroblock in a moving image encoding, a compression ratio falls because an information amount for describing size information of the macroblock increases. An image decoding device includes a CU dividing unit and a CU-size storing unit. The CU-size storing unit has stored therein size information of an encoded CU in an encoding target picture to be stored and size information of all CUs in preceding and following pictures used for prediction. The CU dividing unit predicts a CU size in an encoding target position using the CU size information stored in the CU-size storing unit and determines a CU size of a final encoding target CU.

Image decoding device

A technique for improving a compression rate without needing new determination information (encoding flag information) is provided. For compression of each area to be encoded, based on a skip mode (a process which does not compress information of the area to be encoded, but copies previous information of the area to be encoded), it is determined whether an existing predicted image generated by an existing encoding standard is used, or an interpolation predicted image newly generated by executing move searching between decoded images is used.

Image encoding method, image decoding method, image encoding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, and program

The present invention is directed to a triglyceride-lowering agent, exhibiting excellent triglyceride-lowering effect and a hyperinsulinemia-ameliorating agent. The triglyceride-lowering agent and hyperinsulinemia-ameliorating agent are characterized by containing a pitavastatin compound, and amlodipine or a salt thereof.

Triglyceride-lowering agent and hyperinsulinism-ameliorating agent

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