Abstract: A moving image reproducer includes a generation section, a calculation section, a determination section, a correction section and a control section. The generation section generates an interpolation frame image interpolating between two adjacent frame images among a plurality of frame images. The calculation section sequentially calculates a progress level of a predetermined musical piece between the two adjacent frame images reproduced in synchronization with the predetermined musical piece. The determination section determines whether the progress level has varied along with a change in a tempo of the predetermined musical piece defined in the tempo information. The correction section corrects the progress level so as to reduce the variation in the progress level along with the change in the tempo if the progress level is determined to have varied. The control section controls the generation section to generate an interpolation frame image corresponding to the corrected progress level.

Abstract: A moving image generating method, a moving image generating apparatus and a storage medium for generating a moving image from a still image. According to one application, a moving image generating method uses a moving image generating apparatus which stores in advance a plurality of pieces of movement information showing movements of a plurality of movable points. The method includes, an obtaining step which obtains a still image; a setting step which sets a plurality of movement control points in the still image; a frame image generating step which moves the plurality of control points based on movements of movement information and deforms the still image to generate a plurality of frame images; and a moving image generating step which generates a moving image from a plurality of frames.

Abstract: A portable telephone and electronic device are provided. The portable telephone includes a casing having a first surface: a finger guide section that is provided in the first surface and guides a finger of a user to allow the finger to be placed so that a side portion of the finger faces the first surface; an illuminating section provided in the first surface so as to be adjacent to the finger guide section, the illuminating section being capable of radiating light of a predetermined wavelength that transmits through the placed finger; an imaging section provided in the casing so as to be spaced at a predetermined distance from the first surface with respect to a perpendicular direction, the imaging section being capable of imaging the light that has transmitted through the finger; and a control section that performs authentication of the user on the basis of an image obtained by the imaging.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sanitary washing apparatus includes: a nozzle including a jetting port and configured to squirt water from the jetting port to wash a user's body; a flow channel configured to guide water supplied from a water supply source to the jetting port; an electrolytic cell provided midway along the flow channel and being operable to produce sterilizing water; a heating device provided on the flow channel on upstream side of the electrolytic cell; a nozzle cleaning device configured to clean or sterilize the nozzle with the water heated by the heating device or the sterilizing water produced by the electrolytic cell; and a controller configured to perform control for stopping energization of the heating device or reducing an amount of energization of the heating device when energizing the electrolytic cell.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus, comprising: a detecting unit that detects a foreground area including a foreground object, a background area, and a boundary area between the foreground area and the background area, from data of a processing target image; and a display control unit that executes a control to display the boundary area in a first color distinguishable from other areas and the background area in a second color different from the first color when the processing target image is displayed.

Abstract: An antenna apparatus for use in a transmitter or a receiver in a communication system. The antenna apparatus includes: a dielectric substrate having a conductor layer on one of surfaces; and a slot antenna including an antenna electrode formed on the one surface and disposed substantially at the center, a grounded conductive surface surrounding the antenna electrode, and a slot transmission line made by a gap between the antenna electrode and the grounded conductive surface.

Abstract: An antenna apparatus for use in a transmitter or a receiver in a communication system. The antenna apparatus includes: a dielectric substrate having a conductor layer on one of surfaces; and a slot antenna including an antenna electrode formed on the one surface and disposed substantially at the center, a grounded conductive surface surrounding the antenna electrode, and a slot transmission line made by a gap between the antenna electrode and the grounded conductive surface.

Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a desolvation method for removing a solvent efficiently from a polymer solution. In the present desolvation method where the solvent is removed from the polymer solution by steam stripping using an apparatus comprising a pipe which connects a gas phase portion of a desolvation tank at the downstream and a liquid phase portion of a desolvation tank at the upstream, and an opening-degree adjusting mean (for example, pressure adjusting valve) fixed to this pipe, pressures are controlled such that a pressure difference (?P=P2?P1) between pressures of each gas phase portion of desolvation tanks at the downstream and at the upstream is allowed to be larger by from 0.005 to 0.6 MPa, preferably from 0.05 to 0.3 MPa than a pressure difference when the opening-degree adjusting mean is fully opened.

Abstract: A portable telephone and electronic device are provided. The portable telephone includes a casing having a first surface: a finger guide section that is provided in the first surface and guides a finger of a user to allow the finger to be placed so that a side portion of the finger faces the first surface; an illuminating section provided in the first surface so as to be adjacent to the finger guide section, the illuminating section being capable of radiating light of a predetermined wavelength that transmits through the placed finger; an imaging section provided in the casing so as to be spaced at a predetermined distance from the first surface with respect to a perpendicular direction, the imaging section being capable of imaging the light that has transmitted through the finger; and a control section that performs authentication of the user on the basis of an image obtained by the imaging.

Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a desolvation method for removing a solvent efficiently from a polymer solution. In the present desolvation method where the solvent is removed from the polymer solution by steam stripping using an apparatus comprising a pipe which connects a gas phase portion of a desolvation tank at the downstream and a liquid phase portion of a desolvation tank at the upstream, and an opening-degree adjusting mean (for example, pressure adjusting valve) fixed to this pipe, pressures are controlled such that a pressure difference (?P=P2?P1) between pressures of each gas phase portion of desolvation tanks at the downstream and at the upstream is allowed to be larger by from 0.005 to 0.6 MPa, preferably from 0.05 to 0.3 MPa than a pressure difference when the opening-degree adjusting mean is fully opened.

Abstract: The present invention provides a positioning mechanism for positioning, on a processing apparatus, a device mounted on a pallet transported by a conveyor to the processing apparatus. The positioning mechanism is provided with an information communication arrangement capable of storing adjustment data of the device by preceding processing apparatus. The data stored in the information communication arrangement is used in processing the device by the processing apparatus to enable the processing apparatus to process the device using the least number of necessary processing steps.