Abstract: For the purpose of providing an image encoding technique for reducing the amount of codes, in inter prediction in which motion search is performed by using a block obtained by dividing an input image and a reference image, the motion vector of the block is predicted by selecting from the motion vectors of the surrounding blocks. Further, in the method of calculating a differential vector and then performing encoding, the number or positions of candidate blocks from which a prediction vector is selected are changed block by block or frame by frame and thereby adaptive and efficient video image compression is performed.

Abstract: A tire having a rubber member formed by winding a ribbon rubber in uninterrupted fashion about a rotational axis of the tire. The rubber member has a parallel portion at which the ribbon rubber is parallel to a tire circumferential direction at an end toward an exterior in a tire width direction, and an inclined portion at which the ribbon rubber is inclined with respect to the tire circumferential direction in such fashion as to cause the ribbon rubber to be directed from the parallel portion toward an interior in the tire width direction. The ribbon rubber from which the parallel portion is formed is wound in the tire circumferential direction for a wrap angle of not 360° but N ° (N=210 to 300).

Abstract: Provided is a nucleic acid analyzer, which does not require manual processes by a highly trained operator such as a researcher and is easy to use, small-sized, capable of accepting multiple samples, and performs speedy analysis, and a nucleic acid analysis method using the analyzer. The analyzer and method perform detection in a plurality of exposure times, provide a program for determining a threshold for signal detection, and determine whether a faint signal peak is a false signal peak.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a pneumatic tire includes forming a green tire. Forming the green tire includes: a first step of forming a first belt portion by winding a first belt on an outer peripheral surface of an inner liner and, thereafter, forming a second belt portion by winding a second belt on the first belt portion thus acquiring a belt layer; and a second step of acquiring a reinforcing layer by winding a reinforcing belt on the second belt portion. The second step includes: a first parallel winding treatment where the reinforcing belt is wound one turn on a first circumference; a spiral winding treatment where the reinforcing belt is spirally wound in a tire width direction; and a second parallel winding treatment where the reinforcing belt is wound on a second circumference within a range of from 240°±30° with one turn set to 360°.

Abstract: The substrate 100 for use in the analysis of a nucleic acid according to the present invention has multiple analysis areas 12 which are partitioned on a substrate 10, and enables the measurement of the analysis areas 12 while interchanging the analysis areas 12 in turn, said substrate 100 being characterized in that each of the analysis areas 12 consists of an adsorption part 13 onto which a DNA fragment or a carrier having the DNA fragment carried thereon can be adsorbed and a non-adsorption part 14 which is a part outside of the adsorption part 13, and the non-adsorption part 14 has, formed on at least a part thereof, a marker part 15 that has a specified shape and helps to identify the positions of the analysis areas 12.

Abstract: For the purpose of providing an image encoding technique for reducing the amount of codes, in inter prediction in which motion search is performed by using a block obtained by dividing an input image and a reference image, the motion vector of the block is predicted by selecting from the motion vectors of the surrounding blocks. Further, in the method of calculating a differential vector and then performing encoding, the number or positions of candidate blocks from which a prediction vector is selected are changed block by block or frame by frame and thereby adaptive and efficient video image compression is performed.

Abstract: For the purpose of providing an image encoding technique for reducing the amount of codes, in inter prediction in which motion search is performed by using a block obtained by dividing an input image and a reference image, the motion vector of the block is predicted by selecting from the motion vectors of the surrounding blocks. Further, in the method of calculating a differential vector and then performing encoding, the number or positions of candidate blocks from which a prediction vector is selected are changed block by block or frame by frame and thereby adaptive and efficient video image compression is performed.

Abstract: A technique for performing spectral calibration simultaneously with electrophoresis of an actual sample to be analyzed, without performing electrophoresis using a special matrix standard which is time-consuming and costly, is provided. The device for genotypic analysis is characterized by obtaining reference fluorescence spectra using a size standard and an allelic ladder, which provide information concerning known DNA fragments used for electrophoresis of an actual sample, and is characterized by performing spectral calibration for a capillary in which the allelic ladder is not used by detecting a shift amount of the fluorescence spectra of the size standard and shifting the reference fluorescence spectra using the shift amount to determine fluorescence spectra.

Abstract: To provide a video coding technique to reduce the amount of code, a coding apparatus configured to code layers at a plurality of resolutions as a stream determines the coding unit, prediction unit, and frequency transform unit for each layer in compliance with given rules with reference to the coding unit, prediction unit, and frequency transform unit of the lower layer, respectively, and switches the given rules with a flag. This adaptively and efficiently compresses a video.

Abstract: Provided is a nucleic acid analyzer, which does not require manual processes by a highly trained operator such as a researcher and is easy to use, small-sized, capable of accepting multiple samples, and performs speedy analysis, and a nucleic acid analysis method using the analyzer. The analyzer and method perform detection in a plurality of exposure times, provide a program for determining a threshold for signal detection, and determine whether a faint signal peak is a false signal peak.

Abstract: In expansion and reduction of the size of a macroblock in a moving image encoding, a compression ratio falls because an information amount for describing size information of the macroblock increases. An image decoding device includes a CU dividing unit and a CU-size storing unit. The CU-size storing unit has stored therein size information of an encoded CU in an encoding target picture to be stored and size information of all CUs in preceding and following pictures used for prediction. The CU dividing unit predicts a CU size in an encoding target position using the CU size information stored in the CU-size storing unit and determines a CU size of a final encoding target CU.

Abstract: A technique for performing spectral calibration simultaneously with electrophoresis of an actual sample to be analyzed, without performing electrophoresis using a special matrix standard which is time-consuming and costly, is provided. The device for genotypic analysis is characterized by obtaining reference fluorescence spectra using a size standard and an allelic ladder, which provide information concerning known DNA fragments used for electrophoresis of an actual sample, and is characterized by performing spectral calibration for a capillary in which the allelic ladder is not used by detecting a shift amount of the fluorescence spectra of the size standard and shifting the reference fluorescence spectra using the shift amount to determine fluorescence spectra.

Abstract: The present invention relates to hypotriglyceridemic agent containing HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor and cAMP protease inhibitor.

Abstract: A vibration sensor has a first substrate, a second substrate relatively movable by an external vibration while opposed to the first substrate, an electret group having a plurality of electrets that are arrayed in a relative movement direction on a side of one of surfaces of the first substrate, and an electrode group having a plurality of electrodes that are arrayed in the relative movement direction on a side of a surface of the second substrate. The surface of the second substrate is opposed to the electret group. A positional relationship between the electret group and the electrode group changes with a relative change in position of the first and second substrates by the external vibration to output an external vibration detection signal.

Abstract: To provide a video coding technique to reduce the amount of code, a coding apparatus configured to code layers at a plurality of resolutions as a stream determines the coding unit, prediction unit, and frequency transform unit for each layer in compliance with given rules with reference to the coding unit, prediction unit, and frequency transform unit of the lower layer, respectively, and switches the given rules with a flag. This adaptively and efficiently compresses a video.

Abstract: A technique for improving a compression rate without needing new determination information (encoding flag information) is provided. For compression of each area to be encoded, based on a skip mode (a process which does not compress information of the area to be encoded, but copies previous information of the area to be encoded), it is determined whether an existing predicted image generated by an existing encoding standard is used, or an interpolation predicted image newly generated by executing move searching between decoded images is used.

Abstract: A vibration sensor has a first substrate, a second substrate relatively movable by an external vibration while opposed to the first substrate, an electret group having a plurality of electrets that are arrayed in a relative movement direction on a side of one of surfaces of the first substrate, and an electrode group having a plurality of electrodes that are arrayed in the relative movement direction on a side of a surface of the second substrate. The surface of the second substrate is opposed to the electret group. A positional relationship between the electret group and the electrode group changes with a relative change in position of the first and second substrates by the external vibration to output an external vibration detection signal.

Abstract: An electrostatic induction generator has a first substrate and a second substrate that can move relative to each other while remaining opposed to each other, an electret provided in the first substrate, and a first electrode and a second electrode provided on a surface side opposed to the electret in the second substrate. A positional relationship between the electret and the first electrode and a positional relationship between the electret and the second electrode change in association with a change of relative positions between the first substrate and the second substrate, whereby an electrostatic capacitance between the electret and the first electrode and an electrostatic capacitance between the electret and the second electrode change to output an electric power. A structure that decreases the electrostatic capacitance between the first electrode and the second electrode is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode.

Abstract: A video decoding method and image encoding method capable of utilizing a portion of the prediction image predicted in a size larger than the size of the macroblock of the encoding target, as the prediction image of the macroblock of the encoding target in order to lower the compression ratio in image coding accompanied by expansion and contraction of blocks containing coding units.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a triglyceride-lowering agent, exhibiting excellent triglyceride-lowering effect and a hyperinsulinemia-ameliorating agent. The triglyceride-lowering agent and hyperinsulinemia-ameliorating agent are characterized by containing a pitavastatin compound, and amlodipine or a salt thereof.