Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Kyocera Corporation

Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

National Institutes of Health, a Component of the US Dept. of Health & Human Services

Sanford Research

Yasuhiro Abe

Hiroaki Nishina

Masahiko Oikawa

Tatsuya Miyadera

Tadashi Shinohara

Yuichiro Shukuya

Yutaka Ohmiya

Makoto Higashiyama

Satoshi Ohmiya

Kenji Waku

Tatsuo Ohyama

Yoshio Kanzaki

Satoshi Nagata

Ira H Pastan

Katsumi Ryoke

Kunihiko Watanabe

Eiichi Tadokoro

Katsuhiko Maeda

Masashi Suzuki

Shinobu Iida

Hiroshi Sakai

Tapan K Bera

Tomoko Ise

Tei Riku

Yuuki Honda

Polypeptides and proteins that specifically bind to and immunologically recognize B-Cell Maturation Antigen (BCMA) are disclosed. Chimeric antigen receptors (CARs), anti-BCMA binding moieties, nucleic acids, recombinant expression vectors, host cells, populations of cells, pharmaceutical compositions, and conjugates relating to the polypeptides and proteins are also disclosed. Methods of detecting the presence of cancer and methods of treating or preventing cancer are also disclosed.

Anti-BCMA polypeptides and proteins

A communication apparatus includes a serializer configured to convert parallel data into serial data and output the serial data; and a deserializer configured to convert the serial data output from the serializer into parallel data and output the parallel data. The serializer is configured to add first data used for detecting unique data in the parallel data before the unique data, add second data used for detecting the unique data after the unique data, and add third data whose length is variable to each of the first data and the second data.

Communication apparatus, image forming apparatus, communication method, and computer-readable storage medium

An image formation apparatus for forming an image and test patterns. The image formation apparatus includes a storage unit that stores dither matrix data used to form the image and the test patterns; and an image formation unit that forms the test patterns based on the dither matrix data. A number of tones of the test patterns to be formed by the image formation unit is changed and the number of tones is determined based on a size of the dither matrix data and a number of bits per pixel within the dither matrix data.

Image formation apparatus and image formation method

An image forming apparatus includes image carriers; an exposing unit that forms latent images on the image carriers; a developing unit that develops the latent images with toners of different colors from each other; a first transfer unit that forms a color image by superimposing and transferring the developed images onto a second image carrier; a test pattern forming unit that forms, on the image carriers, test patterns to be transferred onto the second image carrier; and test pattern detection units capable of detecting the test patterns transferred onto the second image carrier in different positions from each other in a main-scanning direction. The test pattern forming unit selectively switches, depending on a width of the test patterns in the main-scanning direction, whether to form each of the test patterns in a position detectable by the corresponding one of the test pattern detection units.

Image forming apparatus, method thereof, and computer program product

The invention is concerning the writing controlling apparatus that includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire a plurality of light amounts of a light source driven while changing an input current in non-effective scanning periods during which an image carrier is not irradiated with light from the light source, as a plurality of output results; a detecting unit configured to detect characteristics of the light source using the output results thus acquired; and a correcting unit configured to correct a current to be applied to the light source based on the characteristics thus detected.

Writing controlling apparatus, image forming apparatus, and computer program product

An image forming apparatus includes: at least one first image carrier configured to carry an electrostatic latent image thereon; an image writing unit; a second image carrier configured to move along a transfer position facing to the at least one first image carrier; a first transfer unit provided opposite to the at least one first image carrier; a second transfer unit configured to transfer the subject image to a transfer material; a test pattern detection unit configured to detect the test pattern image; a control unit configured to correct an image forming condition of the subject image based on a result from the detection of the test pattern image, wherein the test pattern image is provided on the second image carrier at an area being out of the image forming area and being at the same range as the subject image in a scanning direction.

Image forming apparatus, image correcting method, computer readable storage medium, image correction unit and image forming system

An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming unit that forms toner images based on image data on first image carriers; a second image carrier, on which the toner images formed on the first image carriers are transferred; a second image forming unit that transfers the toner images transferred on the second image carrier onto a transfer medium; a test pattern generating unit that generates a test pattern group with a predetermine length in a moving direction of the second image carrier; and an adjusting unit that determines a method to adjust an image formation condition for the first image forming unit using the test pattern group, based on a relationship between the predetermined length and a length of an image area, in which a print image based on the image data is formed, in a sub-scanning direction corresponding to the moving direction of the second image carrier.

Image forming apparatus and image forming apparatus control method

An image forming apparatus comprising: at least one first image carrier; an image writing unit configured to write the electrostatic latent image including a test pattern; a second image carrier configured to move along a transfer position facing to the at least one first image carrier; an image forming unit configured to transfer the subject image transferred on the second image carrier to a transfer material; a detector configured to detect the test pattern image; and a controller configured to correct an image forming condition of the subject image, wherein during a period from the detection of the test pattern to the writing a subsequent subject image, the controller calculates a correction amount of a correction matter, and reflects the calculated amount in the image forming condition of the subject image.

Image forming apparatus, method for performing image correction using the same and computer readable storage medium

A mobile electronic device comprises an RFID antenna section that sends and receives signals on a first useful frequency band, a main antenna section that sends and receives signals on a second useful frequency band, which is a higher frequency band than the first useful frequency band, an adjustment section that adjusts a resonance frequency of the RFID antenna section, and a control section that identifies a reactance value of the RFID antenna section based on the receiving sensitivity with respect to signals on the first useful frequency band and adjusts the resonance frequency of the RFID antenna section based on the identified reactance value by an adjustment section such that a high-order resonance frequency of the RFID antenna section is spaced apart from the second useful frequency band.

Mobile electronic device

There are provided a first circuit substrateon which an antennaand electronic components are arranged, a case bodythat is molded of a non-conductive material and that is attached to the first circuit substrateso that the case bodyoverlaps the first circuit substratein the thickness direction of the first circuit substrate, and a housingincluding the first circuit substrateand the case bodyin the housing. The case bodycomprises a conductive layer formed on the surface of the case body, except for an antenna opposing area S where the case bodyoverlaps the antennain the thickness direction of the first circuit substrate

Wireless communication terminal, shield case, and method of manufacturing case body

A wireless communication terminal comprises: a first circuit boardto which a reference potential patternis provided and an electric component is arranged; a case bodyattached to the first circuit boardand including a conducting portionwhich is electrically conducted to the reference potential pattern and covers the electronic component in a state where the case body is attached and a non-conducting portionincluding no electric conductivity; and a housingwhich houses therein the first circuit boardand the case body. An antennais formed on the non-conducting portionand the antennais insulated from the conducting portionand electric power is supplied to the antennafrom the first circuit board

Wireless communication terminal

A length L of the test pattern string is determined so as to satisfy a condition L&#x2266;{P&#x2212;(Q+Q)}&#xd7;V, where a time Q is a total time of a time Qfor which the test pattern string is transferred from an exposure position of the test pattern string to a sensor and a time Qfrom when the test pattern is detected by the sensor until a color misregistration correction value calculated on the basis of a result of detecting is reflected in image formation; a time P is a time from a timing of starting to write the test pattern string to a timing of starting to write an image in which the correction value should be reflected; and a driving speed of a second image carrier is V.

Image forming apparatus and method of color misregistration correction

The present invention has an object of attaining further miniaturization and reducing the thickness of a portable wireless device with a built-in antenna. The cellular telephone deviceaccording to the one embodiment of the present invention includes a case bodyhaving a first case portionwhich is arranged so as to cover the electronic components, along with being electrically conductive to the reference potential pattern, and a nonconductive second case portionarranged to be continuous to the first case portionalong with being arranged in the outer periphery of the circuit substrate. In the portion that is arranged to be layered in the second case portionin a flexible wiring substrate, an antenna elementis arranged.

Portable wireless device

A wireless communication device having a configurable antenna, includes: a first antenna having a first resonant frequency; a first frequency modification unit for modifying the first resonant frequency of the antenna; a function operation unit activating a plurality of functions; and a control unit controlling the first frequency modification unit to modify the first resonant frequency in accordance with a function activated by the function operation unit.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yasuhiro Abe