Abstract: In a navigation device for providing a guide from an origin to a destination, a display section (5) displays a guide image indicating the guide to the destination. A state acquisition section (10) acquires a state outside a vehicle. A photographed guide generation section (9) generates a photographed guide image, using a photographed image of a captured forward direction of the vehicle. A map guide generation section (8) generates a map guide image, using map information. Based on the state outside the vehicle acquired by the state acquisition section (10), a state determination section (11) determines which one of the photographed guide image and the map guide image is to be displayed by priority. Based on the determination made by the state determination section (11), a guide display control section (12) allows the guide image including at least one of the photographed guide image and the map guide image to be displayed in the display section (5).

Abstract: An electrophoretic device in the form of a casing having inside sealed spaces isolated by an electrophoretic carrier. The device includes at least one liquid injection/discharge opening, communicable with the outside, on the outer wall of said sealed spaces. An electrophoretic method and a specimen detection method use the device. Additionally, an electrophoresis apparatus can have a structure for sandwiching the electrophoretic carrier between a pair of electrodes, and can have a space capable of holding liquid between the sandwiched electrophoretic carrier and the respective electrodes, and an electrophoretic method uses the same device.

Abstract: An audio conversation apparatus (1) comprises: an assignment section (15) for individually assigning units of spatial information which are different from each other, either to parties-to-talk-with each belonging to one of a plurality of predetermined groups, respectively, or to the plurality of predetermined groups, respectively; and a localization section (16) for localizing, in accordance with the units of spatial information assigned by the assignment section (15), audio data transmitted from outside, and one of a reproduction section connected to the audio conversation apparatus and a reproduction section (17) included in the audio conversation apparatus outputs an audio in accordance with the audio data having been localized by the localization section (16).

Abstract: The present invention relates to biological substance-immobilized fibers wherein a biological substance is immobilized on a fiber, fibers retaining a biological substance-immobilized gel, and fiber alignments having bundles of the above-described fibers and slices of the same.

Abstract: A data protection system is disclosed which is installed in a game machine together with a rewritable storage device, and protects the data stored in the storage device from illegal changes. A command receiving unit receives from the outside a command requesting data processing for the storage device. The received command is checked by a judgment unit against each valid command stored in a command storage unit. When the received command matches one of the valid commands, a data processing unit instructs the storage device to perform the data processing requested by the received command. When the received command does not match any of the valid commands, the data processing unit does not instruct the storage device to perform the data processing requested by the received command.

Abstract: By the present invention, there is provided a fiber having nucleic acid immobilized thereon, an alignment of fibers having nucleic acid immobilized thereon, and a slice thereof.

Abstract: In an attachment structure of a rear panel to a tuner, a rear panel to be attached to a tuner that is smaller in depth size has, in portions corresponding to connector connection parts of the tuner, two holes for inserting the connector connection parts, and has, in a portion corresponding to a small protrusion with a tapped hole of the tuner, a small cylindrical part. When the rear panel is attached onto the front surface of the tuner, the two connector connection parts of the tuner are inserted into the two holes, a leading end of the small cylindrical part is brought into contact with a front surface of the small protrusion with the tapped hole of the tuner, a male screw is inserted into the small cylindrical part from the front surface side of the rear panel, and a leading end of the male screw is screwed into the tapped hole.

Abstract: The data sending device (10) receives input biphase-mark-encoded sending data which is output from an apparatus on the sending side, and a biphase decoding section (12) biphase-mark-decodes the input sending data. The output data from the biphase decoding section (12) is transmitted to a data receiving device via a sending section (14). On the other hand, the data receiving device biphase-mark-encodes the data received from the data sending apparatus (10) and then supplies the data to an apparatus on the receiving side.

Abstract: A voice talk system 1 comprises a voice talk apparatus 11, and a voice talk control apparatus 13 which controls a talk between a sender's user and a receiver's user. In the voice talk control apparatus 13, after voice and additional information are received via a network 14, a database is searched using the received voice and additional information as search keys to specify a receiver's user. A grouping section groups the specified receiver's user(s) together. Further, a priority setting section is provided which assigns ordinal numbers as priorities for establishing a connection, to the receiver's users grouped by the grouping section.

Abstract: A data transmission device (1a) generates and transmits a lock signal for establishing clock synchronization with data transmission devices (1b-n). The data transmission device (1a) is capable of generating a pattern 1 lock signal for giving a notice of start of communication by use of data subjected to eight-value mapping, and a pattern 2 lock signal for giving a notice of start of communication by use of data subjected to four-value mapping. One of the two types of lock signals is transmitted to each data transmission device. Determining which lock signal has been received enables each data transmission device to give a notice of data communication method prior to training.

Abstract: To a data reception device, a signal having a frequency of 12.5 MHz and including data is transmitted. The data reception device generates a clock B having a frequency of 400 MHz of (1) in FIG. 8, and performs sampling for the above-described 12.5 MHz signal based on the clock B ((2) in FIG. 8). Then, the data reception device detects zero cross points of the sampled data, and generates a 25 MHz frequency clock signal indicating the zero cross points ((3) in FIG. 8). Next, the data reception device generates, by delaying the generated clock signal by the time amount corresponding to eight clocks ((4) in FIG. 8), a 25 MHz signal indicating symbol points. Thus, symbol points can be detected.

Abstract: In the case where transmission and reception is made impossible at a certain portion, a data transmission system configured in a ring LAN performs an initialization process for a physical layer (a transmission/reception section 4) repeatedly, thereby setting as a master a data transmission device which is located most upstream in electrical communication from a disconnection point. With that data transmission device being the master, an initial setting of the physical layer such as a clock synchronization with another data transmission device or the like is established, and an initialization process for a data link layer is performed, whereby subsequent data transmission and reception is enabled. That is, the data transmission system configured in a ring LAN is able to perform communication using transmission lines excluding a damaged point even in the case where transmission and reception is made impossible at a certain portion.

Abstract: A signal receiver (11) receives an analog signal via a twisted pair cable (31). An A/D converter (12) converts the analog signal to a digital signal. A phase detection unit (14) detects the phase of the digital signal, and generates a reception timing signal. A transmission timing generation unit (15) controls, based on the reception timing signal, timing for a transmission processing unit (16) to output the digital signal such that the reception signal (point A) and a transmission signal (point D) are different in phase by a predetermined degree. The transmission processing unit (16) outputs, in accordance with the timing, a digital signal obtained by performing mapping on data inputted from a connection device (20). A D/A converter (17) converts the digital signal to an analog signal. A signal transmitter (18) transmits the analog signal via a twisted pair cable (32).

Abstract: A data section is mapped such that the polarity of the signal level of each symbol is constantly inverted on a symbol by symbol basis. On the other hand, a header section is mapped such that the header section includes a distinguishing symbol for distinguishing the data section and the header section from each other, and such that the signal level of the distinguishing symbol is equal to the signal level of the symbol which is mapped immediately before the distinguishing symbol. Thus, data transfer, by which the header section and the data section can be distinguished from each other with certainty by an apparatus on the receiving side, is made possible.

Abstract: A receiver includes a noise reduction circuit for eliminating noise from a differential signal transmitted through a differential transmission line, and a data recovery circuit for recovering data from a differential signal outputted from the noise reduction circuit. The noise reduction circuit includes common-mode chokes for reflecting common-mode noise superimposed on an input differential signal, and a common-mode noise reduction circuit for directing the common-mode noise reflected by the common-mode chokes to a low potential point of the common-mode noise reduction circuit.

Abstract: A data transmission device (1) includes a controller (2), a reception section (5), a transmission section (6), and an MPU (3). The reception section (5) receives an electric signal sent from a preceding device, and outputs its data to the controller (2). The transmission section (6) converts a result of a process by the controller (2) into an electric signal and transmits it to a successive device. The MPU (3) controls operation of the controller (2), the reception section (5), and the transmission section (6) in accordance with the operation mode of the device. The reception section (5) detects cessation of the electric signal sent from the preceding device and, in response to the detection, stops operating. In response to the detection, the transmission section (6) stops operating and stops sending the electric signal to the successive device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a production method of a plastic optical fiber which comprises the steps of heat drawing an undrawn plastic optical fiber obtained by melt spinning and annealing the drawn fiber at a circumferential velocity ratio between the front and rear rollers (circumferential velocity of a rear roller/circumferential velocity of a front roller) of 0.5 to 1.2 under heating conditions which satisfy 4?y?1.5x+330 and (Tgc?5)° C.?x?(Tgc+110)° C. [Tgc: a glass transition temperature of a core, x: an annealing temperature (° C.), and y: an annealing time (seconds)]. According to the present invention, a plastic optical fiber having a small thermal shrinkage ratio and excellent heat resistance can be provided.

Abstract: Initialization processes of link layers in a data transmission system are started after initialization processes of respective physical layers are completed. Thus, at the time of initialization of the link layers, the respective physical layers can perform communication with each other. As a result, in the data transmission system in which electrical communication is performed, an initialization program (an API which is supplied assuming that physical layers requiring no initialization process are used) designed assuming that physical layers are in a state where they can perform communication during an initialization period of link layers can be used while satisfying the above assumption.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of precipitating protein crystals from a protein-containing sample. The present invention also relates to a novel microarray and a novel device for screening for protein crystallization condition. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a method of conveniently and quickly screening for protein crystallization conditions using the microarray or the device having highly integrated and held crystallization conditions even with an extremely small quantity of a sample.

Abstract: A microarray obtainable by slicing a block comprising a plurality of linear bodies or through-holes which carry an organism-related substance, in a direction intersecting the longitudinal direction of the linear bodies or through-holes, wherein the linear body and/or block comprise a substance that reduces the self-fluorescence thereof.