Abstract: A computer is caused to execute processing that that determines, based on a first usage amount of a hardware resource which is allocated for processing corresponding to objects of a first category including an essential object located in a target scene, a second usage amount of the hardware resource that is able to be allocated for processing for objects of a second category different to the first category. Also, the computer is caused to execute processing of deciding, for objects of the second category which are located in the target scene, types of those objects and an outer appearance parameter for each type based on the second usage amount and information for deciding outer appearances for when the objects of the second category are located in the target scene.

Abstract: An optical isolator for use with a wavelength band of 600-800 nm is improved in that it has a Faraday rotator made of an oxide material in which said oxide material contains (TbxR1-x)2O3 such that 0.5?x?1.0, and R is scandium, yttrium or any lanthanoid but Tb.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus (1) includes a touch panel (40), pressure-sensitive sensors (60), and a control device (90) which is connected to the touch panel (40) and the pressure-sensitive sensors (60). The control device (90) includes a touch panel control unit (91) which outputs a detection signal on the basis of an output value of the touch panel (40), a setting unit (94) which sets, as a reference value (OP0), an output value (OPn) of the pressure-sensitive sensors (60) at a predetermined timing in a case where a detection signal is input from the touch panel control unit (91), and a first calculation unit (95) which calculates, as a first pressure (fn) of the pressure-sensitive sensor (60), a difference between an output value (OPn) of the pressure-sensitive sensor (60) after a predetermined timing and the reference value (OP0). The setting unit (94) individually sets the reference value (OP0) with respect to each of the pressure-sensitive sensors (60).

Abstract: An apparatus for obtaining spectral image includes a variable spectral element capable of changing its spectral characteristics, a transmission wavelength setting unit for setting a wavelength of light to be transmitted by the variable spectral element, a variable spectral element control unit changing a first control of the variable spectral element and a second control of the variable spectral element for controlling spectral characteristics of the variable spectral element to each other, an image capturing unit capturing an image that is formed by light transmitted by the variable spectral element, and an image correction unit acquiring a difference image between a first image captured in the first control and a second image captured in the second control.

Abstract: A fluoroscopy apparatus is adopted which includes a fluorescence-image generating section that generates a fluorescence image of a subject, a white-light-image generating section that generates a white-light image of the subject, a fluorescence-image correcting section that generates a corrected fluorescence image in which luminance values of pixels are normalized by dividing the luminance values of the pixels of the fluorescence image by the luminance values of the pixels of the white-light image, an error-image identifying section that standardizes white-light-image acquisition conditions and identifies an error region, which is a region in which the luminance values of the corrected fluorescence image exceed a preset allowable error range, on the basis of a gray level of the normalized white-light image, and a monitor that displays the error region.

Abstract: The present invention provides: a compound represented by general formula (I) below, that has both angiotensin II receptor antagonism and a PPAR? activation effect and that is useful as a preventative and/or therapeutic agent for high blood pressure, cardiac disease, arteriosclerosis, type-2 diabetes, and the like; and a drug composition containing the compound. General formula (I) (in the formula: ring A represents a pyridine ring; ring B represents a tetrazole ring or an oxadiazol-5(4H)-one ring; X represents C—R5 or a nitrogen atom; R1 represents an alkyl group; R2 represents an alkyl group or a cycloalkyl group; and R3, R4, and R5 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group or similar.

Abstract: A fluorescence endoscope apparatus includes: a light source unit emitting light in a combination of light in plural types of wavelength bands in two types of wavelength ranges of RGB and two types of exciting light, with plural types of emitting patterns and in a time division; an image pickup unit receiving reflected light and two types of fluorescence; and an image-processing unit outputting a white light image and two types of fluorescence images.

Abstract: To provide a faraday rotator using a TGG ceramic sintered compact and a light isolator using the faraday rotator such that the influence of scattered light can be relatively reduced and overall characteristics degradation for the entire light isolator is minimized so that a high extinction ratio of at least 38 dB or greater is achieved. [Solution] The faraday rotator according to the present invention uses a TGG ceramic sintered compact having an average particle diameter of 0.2 to 5.0 ?m, and has a transmission beam diameter of 0.3 mm or more, the TGG ceramic sintered compact being preferably annealed.

Abstract: A method for producing a pressure detection device (1) includes a first process (S10) of preparing a pressure-sensitive sensor (2) which includes a first circuit (91) and a second circuit (92) electrically connecting each other in series, the first circuit (91) including a pressure-sensitive body (4) of which an electrical resistance value is consecutively changed according to a pressure, the second circuit (92) including a fixed resistor (5) of which an electrical resistance value can be adjusted to be a desired value; and a second process (S20) of adjusting the electrical resistance value of the fixed resistor (5) on the basis of a ratio (R2:R1) between an electrical resistance value (R2) of at least pressure-sensitive body (4) in the first circuit (91) and an electrical resistance value (R1) of at least fixed resistor (5) in the second circuit (92) in a case where a predetermined pressure is applied to the pressure-sensitive body (4).

Abstract: Employed is an image processing device including a fluorescence-image generating unit that images fluorescence generated at a subject irradiated with excitation light and generates a fluorescence image; a white-light-image generating unit that images white light returned from the subject irradiated with illumination light and generates a white-light image; a memory that converts the white-light image to a plurality of color signals constituting a color space; an image computing unit that corrects the plurality of color signals converted by the memory using at least one color signal among the plurality of the color signals and the fluorescence image; an image computing unit that generates a corrected image from the plurality of color signals corrected by the image computing unit; and an image combining unit that combines the fluorescence image generated by the fluorescence-image generating unit and the corrected image generated by the image computing unit.

Abstract: A light-transmitting bismuth-substituted rare-earth iron garnet-type calcined body expressed by R3?xBixYe5O12 and having an average crystal particle diameter of 0.3-10 micrometers, and a magneto-optical device using said calcined body; wherein R is at least one kind of elements selected from a group consisting of Y and lanthanoids, and x is a number from 0.5 to 2.5.

Abstract: A method for producing a ferroelectric thin film comprising: coating a composition for forming a ferroelectric thin film on a base electrode of a substrate having a substrate body and the base electrode that has crystal faces oriented in the (111) direction, calcining the coated composition, and subsequently performing firing the coated composition to crystallize the coated composition, and thereby forming a ferroelectric thin film on the base electrode, wherein the method includes formation of a orientation controlling layer b coating the composition on the base electrode, calcining the coated composition, and firing the coated composition, where an amount of the composition coated on the base electrode is controlled such that a thickness of the orientation controlling layer after crystallization is in a range of 35 nm to 150 nm, and thereby controlling the preferential crystal orientation of the orientation controlling layer in the (100) plane.

Abstract: Provided is an image processing device including an illuminating portion that irradiates a subject with illumination light and excitation light; a fluorescence image-acquisition portion that acquires a fluorescence image by capturing fluorescence generated at the subject; a return-light image-acquisition portion that acquires a return-light image by capturing return light returning from the subject; a color-image generating portion that generates a plurality of color images by adding different types of color information that constitute a color space to the acquired fluorescence image and return-light image; and an image combining portion that combines the plurality of color images that have been generated, wherein at least one of the fluorescence image and the return-light image is subjected to, by the color-image generating portion), correction processing in which exponents for distance characteristics, which are approximated to exponential functions, for the fluorescence image and the return-light image are

Abstract: A PZT-based ferroelectric thin film formed on a lower electrode of a substrate having the lower electrode in which the crystal plane is oriented in a (111) axis direction, having an orientation controlling layer which is formed on the lower electrode and has a layer thickness in which a crystal orientation is controlled in a (111) plane preferentially in a range of 45 nm to 270 nm, and a film thickness adjusting layer which is formed on the orientation controlling layer and has the same crystal orientation as the crystal orientation of the orientation controlling layer, in which an interface is formed between the orientation controlling layer and the film thickness adjusting layer.

Abstract: When a ferroelectric thin film-forming sol-gel solution contains a PZT-based compound, a viscosity-adjusting macromolecular compound including polyvinylpyrrolidone, and an organic dopant including a formamide-based solvent, the PZT-based compound is included at 17 mass % or more in terms of an oxide, the molar ratio of the polyvinylpyrrolidone to the PZT-based compound is PZT-based compound:polyvinylpyrrolidone=1:0.1 to 0.5 in terms of a monomer, and the formamide-based solvent is included at 3 mass % to 13 mass % of the sol-gel solution, it is possible to form a thick layer by coating the sol-gel solution once, the production efficiency improves, and crack-free and dense film formation even after calcination and firing becomes possible.

Abstract: A translucent sintered body having the following basic composition: Ca(1?x)YbxF(2+x), where 0.4?x?1.0, or preferably Ca(1?x?y)YbxRyF(2+x+y), 0.4?x?1.0, 0?y?0.5 wherein R is at least one element selected from Ce, Pr, Sm, Eu and Y.

Abstract: Coated film is removed at an outer peripheral edge of a substrate before heat-treating in CSD method by spraying or dropping liquid for removing CSD coated film including water and organic solvent mixed in a weight ratio of 50:50 to 0:100, in which the organic solvent is one or more selected from the group consisting of ?-diketones, ?-ketoesters, polyhydric alcohol, carboxylic acids, alkanolamines, ?-hydroxy carboxylic acid, ?-hydroxy carbonyl derivatives, and hydrazone derivatives.

Abstract: A liquid composition is provided for forming a thin film in the form of a mixed composite metal oxide in which a composite oxide B containing copper (Cu) and a composite oxide C containing manganese (Mn) are mixed into a composite metal oxide A represented with the general formula: Ba1-xSrxTiyO3, wherein the molar ratio B/A of the composite oxide B to the composite metal oxide A is within the range of 0.002<B/A<0.05, and the molar ratio C/A of the composite oxide C to the composite metal oxide A is within the range of 0.002<C/A<0.03.

Abstract: An optical module is provided that includes a Faraday rotator having a Verdet constant at a wavelength of 1.06 ?m of at least 0.27 min/(Oe·cm), a first hollow magnet disposed on the outer periphery of the Faraday rotator, and second and third hollow magnet units disposed so as to sandwich the first hollow magnet on the optical axis. The second and third hollow magnet units include 2 or more magnets equally divided in a direction of 90 degrees relative to the optical axis. A magnetic flux density B (Oe) applied to the Faraday rotator is in the range of 0.5×104?B?1.5×104. The Faraday rotator is disposed on a sample length L (cm) in the range of 0.70?L?1.10, and has an external diameter D (cm) in the range of 0.20?D?0.60.

Abstract: A method for producing a ferroelectric thin film comprising: coating a composition for forming a ferroelectric thin film on a base electrode of a substrate having a substrate body and the base electrode that has crystal daces oriented in the (111) direction, calcining the coated composition, and subsequently performing firing the coated composition to crystallize the coated composition, and thereby forming a ferroelectric thin film on the base electrode, wherein the method includes formation of an orientation controlling layer by coating the composition on the base electrode, calcining the coated composition, and firing the coated composition, where an amount of the composition coated on the base electrode is controlled such that a thickness of the orientation controlling layer after crystallization is in a range of 5 nm to 30 nm, and thereby controlling the preferential crystal orientation of the orientation controlling layer to be in the (110) plane.