Abstract: It is intended to provide a medical material which enables a new method for cartilage tissue regeneration treatment based on an entirely new concept unlike a treatment method by transplantation of autologous cartilage tissue, a cartilage alternative or undifferentiated cells. The invention provides a bone filler for cartilage tissue regeneration comprising hydrogel having an interpenetrating network structure formed by two or more crosslinked network polymers or a semi-interpenetrating network structure formed by a crosslinked network polymer and a linear polymer. By filling the bone filler of the invention in a hole or a groove provided in subchondral bone just under damaged cartilage tissue, regeneration of the cartilage tissue or both the cartilage tissue and the subchondral bone can be promoted.

Abstract: A data combining apparatus and a data combining method in which timing for transformation, movement (arrangement), and generation of data combined in accordance with timing information can be corrected and a screen formation to be needed for matching of timing can be formed by combination, wherein a data combining apparatus 100 generates timing information of a change of the screen formation by a timing information generation unit 108 and synchronizes generation timing in the graphics generation unit 103 to process timing for image data in a transformation and movement processing unit 105 to enable combination of the image data and the graphics without timing deviation to thereby obtain desired combined data in a combining unit 107.

Abstract: An artificial meniscus, a base material of which is a hydrogel having a semi-interpenetrating network structure or an interpenetrating network structure (e.g., a linear polymer or a network structure composing the hydrogel is a polymer of an electrically charged unsaturated monomer and/or an electrically neutral unsaturated monomer or a crosslinked product thereof or/and a naturally occurring macromolecule or a crosslinked product thereof.), which can maintain moderate mechanical properties even in the case of application for an extended period of time between the joints where the severest mechanical environment is found in an organism, and which has no fear of causing osteoarthritis.

Abstract: An artificial knee joint, which makes a drag (a contact stress) acting on a sliding surface upon bending small so as to evade an extraordinary abrasion and damage of a sliding surface of a tibia component and which prevents an bending angle from being decreased by preventing lifting of a femoral component in a rotational movement. The artificial knee joint comprises a femoral component to be secured to a distal portion of a femur and a tibia component to be secured to a proximal portion of a tibia, comprising an inner sliding surface and an outer sliding surface receiving a load of the femoral component at the tibia component. In the inner sliding surface, both of a front side and a rear side are formed in a sectional shape of circular arc in the front-to-back direction thereof, while in the outer sliding surface, a front side is formed in a sectional shape of a circular arc and a rear side is formed in a linear sectional shape in the front-to-back direction thereof.

Abstract: A data combining apparatus and a data combining method in which timing for transformation, movement (arrangement), and generation of data combined in accordance with timing information can be corrected and a screen formation to be needed for matching of timing can be formed by combination, wherein a data combining apparatus 100 generates timing information of a change of the screen formation by a timing information generation unit 108 and synchronizes generation timing in the graphics generation unit 103 to process timing for image data in a transformation and movement processing unit 105 to enable combination of the image data and the graphics without timing deviation to thereby obtain desired combined data in a combining unit 107.

Abstract: A picture outputting apparatus for producing a display picture by synthesis and outputting the synthesized picture to a display unit.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus able to start decoding at a timing earlier than the conventional timing and able to reduce the storage capacity required for a storing means for storing the encoded data until a decoding side decodes the input encoded data in comparison with the conventional storage capacity, which apparatus selects frame data from frame data f(5) having the last decoding order to frame data f(0) having the first decoding order for processing for calculating a delay time min_delay and calculates the delay time min_delay. It calculates the delay time min_delay indicating the delay time from when the decoding side starts to receive input of the frame data to when the data is decoded based on the specified size and the bit rate of the input of the frame data to the decoding side for each of the frame data for processing.

Abstract: An artificial knee joint, which makes a drag (a contact stress) acting on a sliding surface upon bending small so as to evade an extraordinary abrasion and damage of a sliding surface of a tibia component and which prevents an bending angle from being decreased by preventing lifting of a femoral component in a rotational movement. The artificial knee joint comprises a femoral component to be secured to a distal portion of a femur and a tibia component to be secured to a proximal portion of a tibia, comprising an inner sliding surface and an outer sliding surface receiving a load of the femoral component at the tibia component.

Abstract: A moving picture compression apparatus in which signal deterioration can be minimized on repeated compression/expansion. The moving picture compression apparatus compresses a moving picture signal having a motion vector multiplexed in its blanking portion and includes a motion vector separator 13 for separating the motion vector multiplexed in the blanking portion of the moving picture signal and components from a difference calculating unit 2 to a motion compensation unit 10 for compressing the moving picture signal using the motion vector.

Abstract: A picture outputting apparatus for producing a display picture by synthesis and outputting the synthesized picture to a display unit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus including: moving image data storing means for storing moving image data; degree of importance setting means for setting the degree of importance of the moving image data; thinning-out means for thinning out the moving image data on the basis of the degree of importance and, thereby, generating thinned-out data; and transmitting means for transmitting the thinned-out data to another information processing apparatus.

Abstract: A moving picture compression apparatus in which signal deterioration can be minimized on repeated compression/expansion. The moving picture compression apparatus compresses a moving picture signal having a motion vector multiplexed in its blanking portion and includes a motion vector separator 13 for separating the motion vector multiplexed in the blanking portion of the moving picture signal and components from a difference calculating unit 2 to a motion compensation unit 10 for compressing the moving picture signal using the motion vector.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus including: moving image data storing means for storing moving image data; degree of importance setting means for setting degree of importance of the moving image data; thinning-out means for thinning out the moving image data on the basis of the degree of importance and thereby generating thinned-out data; and transmitting means for transmitting the thinned-out data to another information processing apparatus.

Abstract: A moving picture compression apparatus in which signal deterioration can be minimized on repeated compression/expansion. The moving picture compression apparatus compresses a moving picture signal having a motion vector multiplexed in its blanking portion and includes a motion vector separator 13 for separating the motion vector multiplexed in the blanking portion of the moving picture signal and components from a difference calculating unit 2 to a motion compensation unit 10 for compressing the moving picture signal using the motion vector.

Abstract: A moving picture compression apparatus in which signal deterioration can be minimized on repeated compression/expansion. The moving picture compression apparatus compresses a moving picture signal having a motion vector multiplexed in its blanking portion and includes a motion vector separator 13 for separating the motion vector multiplexed in the blanking portion of the moving picture signal and components from a difference calculating unit 2 to a motion compensation unit 10 for compressing the moving picture signal using the motion vector.

Abstract: A switching power supply wherein an inductor device is connected to the center tap of a primary winding of a transformer with a switching device provided to apply high frequency signals to the transformer concurrently with a rectified smoothed input signal applied to the primary winding concurrently by another inductor device so that the secondary winding of the transformer produces a DC output signal which is free of harmonic current and whereby the switching power supply power factor is improved.

Abstract: A method for processing a moving picture in which input digital moving picture signals of a pre-set picture rate are processed in accordance with pre-set picture processing and the processed digital picture signal are transmitted. The input digital moving picture signal has plural field pictures.

Abstract: A method for processing a moving picture in which input digital moving picture signals of a pre-set picture rate are processed in accordance with pre-set picture processing and the processed digital picture signal are transmitted. The input digital moving picture signal has plural field pictures.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an image signal coding apparatus and method, an image signal transmission method and a recording medium in which an input image signal is divided into a plurality of blocks and a reference image signal is used for carrying out a motion compensative prediction coding to each of the blocks. The present invention is characterized in that a reference image signal is used for each of the blocks to calculate: a motion vector prediction residue of a block for which a motion compensation is carried out; a residue of a block for which no motion compensation is carried out; and an average luminance value of pixel data within a block and a flatness value of the block. For each of the blocks, a magnitude of the aforementioned block motion vector prediction residue is compared to a magnitude of said block residue so that a result of this comparison is used to decide whether to carry out a motion compensation coding.

Abstract: A method of detecting a motion in image information includes a step of determining differential processing data by way of full search block matching, a step of processing a differential, and a step of generating differential processing data. The step of processing a differential includes a step STg1 for electing a motion vector, a step STg2 for establishing an area according to the selected motion vector, and a step STg3 for effecting full search block matching using the established area. The step of generating differential processing data includes a step STh1 for searching for a reverse region with an obtained motion vector, a step STh2 for calculating addresses of all macroblocks in the reverse region, a step STh3 for registering the differential processing data, a step STh4 for deciding whether one image frame is finished or not, a step STh5 for deciding whether there is a scene change or not, and a step STh6 for deciding whether a processing sequence is finished or not.