Abstract: An image coding technique capable of realizing a high speed coding processing for a mixed image with less a visual distortion.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for recovering target speech based on shapes of amplitude distributions of split spectra obtained by use of blind signal separation.

Abstract: To provide an efficient method for recovering and producing lactide having high optical purity by depolymerizing a polylactic acid or derivative thereof in order to carry out chemical recycling of the polylactic acid or derivative thereof or of a resin composition comprising same, wherein a mixture of a polylactic acid or derivative thereof and aluminum hydroxide is thermally decomposed at a temperature in a range from at least the melting temperature of the polylactic acid or derivative thereof to no greater than 320° C., thus recovering lactide.

Abstract: Method for recovering target speech by extracting signal components falling in a speech segment, which is determined based on separated signals obtained through the Independent Component Analysis, thereby minimizing the residual noise in the recovered target speech.

Abstract: The PLD that can change the number of input lines and the number of rail between the memories for logic according to the objective logic function, and to which the optimum design can be done to make the size of memory minimum. The memories for logic (4) are arranged in series, and LUT is memorized in them. The input variables are input from the external input lines to each memories for logic (4). The interconnection circuit (5) connects the output lines or the external input lines of memory for logic (4) in the preceding stage and the input lines of memory for logic (4) of the succeeding stage between two memories for logic (4), according to the information for connection memorized in memory for interconnections (6). By rewriting the information for connection according to the objective logic function, the interconnection circuit can be reconfigured, and the number of input lines and the number of rail can be changed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a mold which is processed by ion beam irradiation or electron beam irradiation and in which a throughput of the mold is high and a decrease in the throughput or electrostatic discharge due to charging does not occur, a method of producing the mold, and a method of producing a molded article produced using the mold. In a mold for molding a plastic resin or the like, at least one of a cavity and a core on the micrometer order to the nanometer order is provided on the surface of a conductive glass substrate. A method of producing a mold for molding a plastic resin or the like includes forming at least one of a cavity and a core on the micrometer order to the nanometer order by irradiating an ion beam on the surface of a conductive vanadate glass substrate that contains vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) as a main component and that has an electric conductivity in the range of 1.0×10?1 to 1.0×10?8 S/cm.

Abstract: To provide a matching technology for determining the similarity between two objects at high velocity with high precision. A matching method for comparing a set of feature points of two objects projected to an N-dimensional space and determining the similarity between the two objects, includes a mapping step (S3) of mapping the set to a one-dimensional space, a pairing step (S6) of creating a set of pairs of a feature point of first object that is the most approximate to a feature point of second object, a partial-set creating step (S7) of partly extracting the pairs in small order of the pair distance from the set of the pairs of the feature points and creating a partial set of the pairs of the feature points, an average-value calculating step (S8) of calculating a rating-scale of the pair belonging to the partial set of the pair of the feature points, and a determining step (S10) of determining the similarity between the first object and the second object on the basis of an average value of the distance.

Abstract: To provide a matching technology for determining the similarity between two objects at high velocity with high precision. A matching method for comparing a set of feature points of two objects projected to an N-dimensional space and determining the similarity between the two objects, includes a mapping step (S3) of mapping the set to a one-dimensional space, a pairing step (S6) of creating a set of pairs of a feature point of first object that is the most approximate to a feature point of second object, a partial-set creating step (S7) of partly extracting the pairs in small order of the pair distance from the set of the pairs of the feature points and creating a partial set of the pairs of the feature points, an average-value calculating step (S8) of calculating a rating-scale of the pair belonging to the partial set of the pair of the feature points, and a determining step (S10) of determining the similarity between the first object and the second object on the basis of an average value of the distance.

Abstract: A microchip is provided that forms cellular tissues having uniform shapes and sizes and that can culture the formed cellular tissues for long periods of time. The cellular tissue microchip comprises a plurality of cell-retaining cavities (12) for retaining cells, wherein a bottom surface (20) of the cell-retaining cavities has one adhesive region (30) that exhibits cellular adhesiveness and a non-adhesive region (32) that surrounds the adhesive region (30) and that exhibits cellular non-adhesiveness.

Abstract: A semiconductor nonvolatile storage circuit capable of stably storing and holding information by preventing pseudo-writing in storing/holding FETs is realized. The semiconductor nonvolatile circuit includes a first FET MNM1 forming a source-drain path between a ground potential GND and a bit line BL; a second FET MNM2 forming a source-drain path between the ground potential GND and a differential pair line BL_; a third FET MNM3 to open/close the connection between a drain terminal of the first FET MNM1 and the bit line BL; and a fourth FET MNM4 to open/close the connection between a drain terminal of the second FET MNM2 and the differential pair line BL_.

Abstract: A water-addition-type surfactant-based composition, containing: at least one of a fatty acid sodium salt and/or potassium salt, as a surfactant component; and at least one of N,N-bis(carboxymethyl)-L-glutamic acid tetrasodium salt, L -aspartate-(N,N)-diacetic acid tetrasodium salt, N-2-hydroxyethyliminodiacetic acid disodium salt, (S,S)-ethylenediaminesuccinic acid trisodium salt, methylglycinediacetic acid trisodium salt, ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, nitorilotriacetic acid, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid, hydroxyethylethylenediaminetriacetic acid, triethylenetetraminehexaacetic acid, 1,3-propanediaminetetraacetic acid, 1,3-diamino-2-hydroxypropanetetraacetic acid, dihydroxyethylglycine, glycol ether diamine tetraacetic acid, hydroxyethanediphosphonic acid, aminotrimethylenephosphonic acid, 1,2,4-butanetricarboxylic acid, dihydroxyethylethylenediaminediacetic acid, sodium gluconate, sodium glucoheptonate, inositol hexaphosphate, hydroxyethanoic acid, 2-hydroxypropanoic acid, 2-hydroxysuccinic acid, 2,

Abstract: Provided is an image coding technique capable of realizing a high speed coding processing for a mixed image with less of a visual distortion.

Abstract: An object is provision of a method and apparatus for generating ultrashort optical pulses through use of a Raman resonator, which can generate preferentially rotational Raman lines which resonate within the resonator, which can lower the threshold for generation of rotational Raman lines to thereby increase efficiency, and which enables generation of high-order rotational Raman lines to thereby obtain ultrashort optical pulses. An apparatus for generating ultrashort optical pulses by use of a Raman resonator includes a first laser (101); a second laser (102); a first wavemeter (111) for confirming the emitting wavelength of the first laser (101); a second wavemeter (121) for confirming the emitting wavelength of the second laser (102); and a Raman cell (130). These two laser beams are aligned by a beam splitter (113) to become coaxial and are focused by a lens (124) into the Raman cell (130).