Abstract: A resist underlayer film-forming composition capable of reducing occurrence of defects caused by microparticles or the like that may be generated during formation of a coating film. A silicon-containing resist underlayer film-forming composition including: [A]a polysiloxane; [B] a glycol compound having a normal boiling point of 230.0° C. or higher and being of the following Formula (1): (wherein R1 and R2 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a C1-4 alkyl group, or a C3-4 acyl group; and n is an integer of 3 or more); and [C] a solvent (except for a compound corresponding to the compound [B]).

Abstract: A server disclosed herein may receive, from a printer, print quantity information related to a print quantity of the printer, calculate a first cost by using the print quantity information, and calculate a second cost by using the print quantity information. The first cost may be a print cost when the printer does not receive provision of a print service realized by the server. The second cost may be a print cost when the printer receives the provision of the print service. The server may output related information which is related to the calculated first cost and the calculated second cost.

Abstract: A printer may include a memory configured to store remaining amount-related information related to a remaining amount of color material in a single-purpose color material cartridge mounted on the printer. The printer may send first printer information to a server in a case where the single-purpose color material cartridge is mounted on the printer, and send second printer information to the server in a case where the general-purpose color material cartridge is mounted on the printer. The server may determine whether, regardless of which of the first printer information and the second printer information has been received from the printer, the remaining amount-related information included in the received first printer information or the received second printer information satisfies a predetermined condition, and execute a shipping process for shipping a new single-purpose color material cartridge in a case where the predetermined condition is satisfied.

Abstract: A printer may include a memory configured to store remaining amount-related information related to a remaining amount of color material in a single-purpose color material cartridge mounted on the printer. The printer may send first printer information to a server in a case where the single-purpose color material cartridge is mounted on the printer, and send second printer information to the server in a case where the general-purpose color material cartridge is mounted on the printer. The server may determine whether, regardless of which of the first printer information and the second printer information has been received from the printer, the remaining amount-related information included in the received first printer information or the received second printer information satisfies a predetermined condition, and execute a shipping process for shipping a new single-purpose color material cartridge in a case where the predetermined condition is satisfied.

Abstract: A packet transmission device includes a memory, and a first processor coupled to the memory and configured to allocate a packet to a free processor in a plurality of second processors, acquire output determination results of determining whether or not a transmission right value of the allocated packet is equal to or larger than an amount of output data, from the second processors, select an output target processor from the second processors, based on the output determination results of each of the second processors, and set the packet allocated to the selected output target processor to output by a first-in first-out manner.

Abstract: A power conversion device includes: a bridge circuit; a filter provided on an alternating current side of the bridge circuit, and connected to a neutral point; a reactor between the bridge circuit and the filter; a smoothing circuit provided on a direct current side of the bridge circuit; a snubber circuit between the bridge circuit and the smoothing circuit; and a switch circuit provided between the smoothing circuit and the snubber circuit. The smoothing circuit includes two smoothing capacitors connected in series between a positive line and a negative line. The neutral point is connected between the two smoothing capacitors. The snubber circuit includes two snubber capacitors connected in series between the positive line and the negative line. The neutral point is connected between the two snubber capacitors. The switch circuit includes a first switch provided on the positive line and a second switch provided on the negative line.

Abstract: A power conversion device includes: a bridge circuit; a filter provided on an alternating current side of the bridge circuit, and connected to a neutral point; a reactor between the bridge circuit and the filter; a smoothing circuit provided on a direct current side of the bridge circuit; a snubber circuit between the bridge circuit and the smoothing circuit; and a switch circuit provided between the smoothing circuit and the snubber circuit. The smoothing circuit includes two smoothing capacitors connected in series between a positive line and a negative line. The neutral point is connected between the two smoothing capacitors. The snubber circuit includes two snubber capacitors connected in series between the positive line and the negative line. The neutral point is connected between the two snubber capacitors. The switch circuit includes a first switch provided on the positive line and a second switch provided on the negative line.

Abstract: A sensing baseball game apparatus (10) has a game machine (12) connected to a television monitor (18). A bat input device (32) is provided with an acceleration sensor. An acceleration signal is transmitted by an infrared-ray LED (34) to an infrared-ray receiving part of the game machine (12) whereby the game machine (12) determines a moving speed of the bat input device (32) to calculate a moving parameter of a ball to be batted. Accordingly, a batted ball is moved in the game scene according to the parameter.

Abstract: A sensing baseball game apparatus (10) has a game machine (12) connected to a television monitor (18). A bat input device (32) is provided with an acceleration sensor. An acceleration signal is transmitted by an infrared-ray LED (34) to an infrared-ray receiving part of the game machine (12) whereby the game machine (12) determines a moving speed of the bat input device (32) to calculate a moving parameter of a ball to be batted. Accordingly, a batted ball is moved in the game scene according to the parameter.

Abstract: A sensing baseball game apparatus (10) has a game machine (12) connected to a television monitor (18). A bat input device (32) is provided with an acceleration sensor. An acceleration signal is transmitted by an infrared-ray LED (34) to an infrared-ray receiving part of the game machine (12) whereby the game machine (12) determines a moving speed of the bat input device (32) to calculate a moving parameter of a ball to be batted. Accordingly, a batted ball is moved in the game scene according to the parameter.

Abstract: A CMOS image sensor 1 outputs a differential signal (VF?VU) between a pixel signal (VF) in a period when a LED 7 is turned on in an exposure period and a pixel signal (VU) in a period when the LED 7 is turned off in the exposure period. This does not obtain a difference between a pixel signal in an exposure period and a pixel signal in a non-exposure period. It is possible to increase simplicity in utilization as well as suppressing fixed pattern noise by generating the difference between pixel signals in different exposure spans from each other.

Abstract: In step S260, a center server 31 accesses a search engine 98 to search for each of a company name and a commodity name corresponding to a barcode 11 as received in step S254, on a network 33. In step S262, the center server 31 acquires URLs which appear at the highest positions in the search ranking of the respective search results, and regards them as an address of an web site of the company and an address of an web site of the commodity. In step S264, the center server 31 transmits an individual portal screen, which includes link buttons for accessing the acquired URLs (the home page of the company and the web site of the commodity), to a PC 43.

Abstract: The invention is a method of measuring blood glucose excursions in general, and postprandial hyperglycemia in diabetic patients in particular, by the 1,5-anhydroglucitol assay (1,5-AG) or A1C/1,5-AG assay combination. 1,5-AG levels and percent changes of 1,5-AG levels in short period are indicative of differing postmeal glucose levels in moderately-controlled diabetic patients with similar A1C levels. Thereby 1,5-AG assay is useful to identify diabetic patients who may be at risk for cardiovascular complications which would not be identifiable by A1C levels alone. Furthermore, ratios of A1C divided by 1,5-AG in each patient are superior indicators to 1,5-AG levels.

Abstract: A sensing baseball game apparatus (10) has a game machine (12) connected to a television monitor (18). A hat input device (32) is provided with an acceleration sensor. An acceleration signal is transmitted by an infrared-ray LED (34) to an infrared-ray receiving part of the game machine (12) whereby the game machine (12) determines a moving speed of the bat input device (32) to calculate a moving parameter of a ball to be batted. Accordingly, a batted ball is moved in the game scene according to the parameter.

Abstract: A sensing baseball game apparatus (10) has a game machine (12) connected to a television monitor (18). A bat input device (32) is provided with an acceleration sensor. An acceleration signal is transmitted by an infrared-ray LED (34) to an infrared-ray receiving part of the game machine (12) whereby the game machine (12) determines a moving speed of the bat input device (32) to calculate a moving parameter of a ball to be batted. Accordingly, a batted ball is moved in the game scene according to the parameter.

Abstract: A sensing baseball game apparatus (10) has a game machine (12) connected to a television monitor (18). A hat input device (32) is provided with an acceleration sensor. An acceleration signal is transmitted by an infrared-ray LED (34) to an infrared-ray receiving part of the game machine (12) whereby the game machine (12) determines a moving speed of the bat input device (32) to calculate a moving parameter of a ball to be batted. Accordingly, a batted ball is moved in the game scene according to the parameter.

Abstract: A card game apparatus 12 includes an image sensor 54. The image sensor photographs a design (31: FIG. 2) printed on a card 30. A photographic signal from the image sensor is sampled by a game processor 64, and is further re-sampled to form a photographic pixel data array. A ROM 66 is provided with a database (67A: FIG. 7) which is assigned a comparison data array and a card ID for each entry. By searching the database based on the photographic pixel data array, the processor 64 obtains one card ID and displays card data of the card identified by the card ID on a television monitor.

Abstract: A sensing baseball game apparatus (10) has a game machine (12) connected to a television monitor (18). A bat input device (32) is provided with an acceleration sensor. An acceleration signal is transmitted by an infrared-ray LED (34) to an infrared-ray receiving part of the game machine (12) whereby the game machine (12) determines a moving speed of the bat input device (32) to calculate a moving parameter of a ball to be batted. Accordingly, a batted ball is moved in the game scene according to the parameter.

Abstract: A terminal 5 to which a USB device 7 is connected accesses a host computer 1 firstly to transmit a serial number of the USB device 7. The host computer 1 accesses a database 11 with the serial number as an index to retrieve a URL related to the serial number, and instructs the terminal to access the URL. Hence, a WEB page is sent from a WEB server W-2 addressed by the URL to the terminal 5, and is displayed on the terminal 5. In this way, the host computer 1 can subsequently determine the WEB server to be accessed in accordance with the serial number because of the fact of absolutely passing through the host computer 1.

Abstract: An effective bus arbitration unit is described in which it is possible to reduce, as much as possible, the waiting time until a bus master obtain bus ownership and improve the rate of operating the bus while improving the throughput of data transfer. A bus master issues a size signal (for example, signal “CDSZ”) indicative of the size of data to be read or written. A state machine 155 grants bus ownership to the bus master for the bus cycles corresponding to the size signal in order to enable the bus master to successively read or write data. Arbitration is performed once for every series of bus cycles corresponding to the size requested by the bus master. Since the size signal is issued by the bus master as a size signal indicative of the necessary and sufficient size for data transmission, the state machine 155 can set an optimal number of bus cycles.