Sony Corporation

Astellas Pharma Gmbh

International Business Machines Corporation

Kotobuki Pharmaceutical Co Ltd

Sankyo Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Global Media Online, Inc.

Toshihiro Watanabe

Norio Asai

Hiroshi Goto

Keigo Ihara

Makoto Murata

Hiroshi Meguro

Satoshi Miyamoto

Kazuhiro Ikegai

Hironori Harada

Jiro Fujiyasu

Noriko Ishikawa

Shohei Shirakami

Seijiro Akamatsu

Machiko Segawa

Takahiro Kuramochi

Tetsuo Kiso

Zhao Wenwu

Shinya Sato

Shin Saito

Masatoshi Kumagai

Masanori Tanaka

Hiroshi Tomiyama

Yuji Iwahashi

Kiyoshi Urayama

Toshinari Itoko

Masamichi Okada

Satoshi Hayashibe

Yoshinori Iwai

Motoharu Sonegawa

Makoto Oku

Hirotsune Itahana

Masatomo Kobayashi

Kazuo Tokuzaki

Takashi Toya

Kazumi Kikuchi

Yukinori Nagakura

Kenichiro Osada

Nobuhiro Miyatake

Shiro Fujiwara

In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for estimating an ability of a worker in a process for integrating work results of multiple workers for the same task includes acquiring, for each of one or more tasks, a work result of a preceding-stage worker and a work result of a succeeding-stage worker that works based on the work result of the preceding-stage worker. The method also includes estimating multiple parameters of a probability model in which an ability of the succeeding-stage worker conditioned by a quality of the work result of the preceding-stage worker is introduced as a conditioned ability parameter, based on the multiple work results obtained for each of the one or more tasks.

Skill estimation method in machine-human hybrid crowdsourcing

The invention provides a novel nitrogen-containing heterocyclic derivative having 2,6-disubstituted styryl and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the nitrogen-containing heterocyclic derivative and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, in particular, a pharmaceutical composition effective as a sodium channel inhibitor, having an excellent analgesic action especially on neuropathic pain with minimized side effects.

Nitrogen&#x2014;containing heterocyclic derivatives having 2,6-disubstituted styryl

There is provided a compound having a capsaicin receptor VR1 inhibitory activity and useful as a therapeutic agent for various pains including inflammatory pain and neurogenic pain, migraine, cluster headache, bladder diseases including overactive bladder, and the like. A benzamide derivative or a salt thereof wherein a benzene ring is attached to a D ring (a monocyclic or bicyclic hydrocarbon ring or a monocyclic or bicyclic heteroaromatic ring) through an amide bond, the benzene ring is directly bonded to an E ring (a monocyclic or bicyclic hydrocarbon ring or a monocyclic or bicyclic heteroaromatic ring), and the benzene ring is further bonded to A (an amino moiety, a monocyclic or bicyclic heterocycle) through L (a lower alkylene).

Benzamide derivative or salt thereof

An image recognition apparatus, method and program capable of discriminatively recognizing an object at an enhanced recognition rate despite an increase in the total number of reference images registered in image databases. When any individual person or public corporation for example is to be specified from the object image obtained by shooting the person or the like, one image database of the attribute corresponding to various situations, or familiarity to the object image is selected automatically, and then the person or corporation is specified from the shot image while referring to the reference images stored in the image database of the selected attribute. Therefore, even if the sum of the reference images is increased, since they are subdivided and classified corresponding to the attributes, the number of the reference images for each attribute can be reduced, and further the image database of the optimal attribute can be selected automatically in conformity to the situation of recognition such as date, time and so on. Thus, the number of the reference images can be minimized without the user's intentional manipulation, and the reference images are narrowed down due to the additional information of the situation.

Image recognition apparatus, image recognition processing method, and image recognition program

This invention relates to the provision of novel aminomethyl-substituted thiazolobenzimidazole derivatives represented by the following general formula (I) or a salt thereof. The aforementioned derivative or a salt thereof has a metabotropic glutamate receptor action and excellent oral activity and is therefore useful as a medicament. (In the formula, R: an oxygen-containing saturated hetero ring or the like, Alk: a lower alkylene, m: 0 or 1, Alk: a lower alkylene which may be substituted with oxo group, n: 0 or 1, X: a bond, O, S or NR, R: H or the like, and R, R, R, Rand R: the same or different from one another and each represents H or the like. Provided that Rdoes not represent a lower alkyl or a halogeno-lower alkyl when X is a bond and n is 1. Also, Rrepresents a group other than Me when m is 1, Ris OH or OMe and Alkis a Calkylene, and further 1) when X is a bond, n is 1 and Ris H, or 2) when X is a bond, n is 0 and Ris cyclohexane.)

Aminomethyl-substituted thiazolobenzimidazole compounds

According to the present invention, an SMTP server sending a mail having a predetermined mail address as a recipient to a server that receives and manages the mail having the predetermined mail address, includes: an advertisement information memory operable to store advertisement information to be added to the mail; an advertisement information detector operable to detect the advertisement information to be added to the mail from the advertisement information memory based on at least one of user information about a user having the mail address of the recipient of the mail, user information about a user having a mail address of a sender of the mail and a sentence included in the mail; an advertisement information adding portion operable to add the advertisement information to the mail; and a sending portion operable to send the mail to the server.

SMTP server, POP server, mail server, mail processing system and web server

A reel brake device for a tape reel of a magnetic tape cassette has a pair of braking strips for a supply reel and a take-up reel. The braking strips are formed with at least one hinged section to allow resilient deformation in order to absorb kinematic energy exerted on the braking strips from the tape reel as the reel is subjected to rotational torque or lateral force. By providing the capability of resilient deformation for the braking strips, braking engagement can be maintained even when vibration exerting rotational force is applied to the tape reels.

Brake device for tape reel in magnetic tape cassette

The present invention relates to for deodorizing and cleaning offensive gas which comprises treatment with a lignin solution after washing the gas to remove basic offensive ingredients. The method is excellent in efficiency of deodorization and maintenance cost especially for offensive odor ingredients that are hard to decompose.

Method for deodorizing and cleaning offensive odor gas

In an apparatus for smoothly winding a magnetic tape on reels of a tape cassette; the cassette is positioned in a holder and has a leader tape wound, at its ends, on the cassette reels, and being withdrawn from the cassette housing by a pair of guide rollers movable away from the cassette in the holder, a splicing device severs the withdrawn leader tape and connects one end of the severed leader tape to an end of a magnetic tape from an external source, and a winding smoothing element, for example, in the form of a roller, is moved into contact with a tape winding face of one of the reels and with successive turns of the magnetic tape wound on such face as that one reel is driven so that the magnetic tape is regularly and smoothly wound on the reel and looseness of the wound tape is avoided.

Apparatus having means for unloosenly winding a tape to reels of a tape

A housing for a magnetic tape cassette has a front opening at which a magnetic tape is exposed and a front lid pivoting on a shaft to close the front opening. The spring which biases the front lid so as to close the front opening has a substantially U-shaped engagement end portion which engages a spring engagement projection extending in a direction substantially parallel to the shaft mounting the front lid so that the spring can be easily and positively attached to the front lid.

Magnetic tape cassette with easily assembled lid spring

A magnetic tape cassette has a front end opening adjoining an underside cutout formed in the bottom of a cassette casing. The underside cut-out is openably covered by a sliding shutter member. A torsion spring is employed for biasing the sliding shutter member toward its closed position. The torsion spring is secured to the sliding shutter member and has an extension abutting around the lateral center portion of the inner surface of the cassette casing so as to bias the sliding shutter member frontwardly toward the closed position. The torsion spring thus provides an improved appearance and better productability with simplified mounting structure therefor.

Magnetic tape cassette with magnetic tape protective closure and bias

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Tokyo, Japan

Toshihiro Watanabe