Abstract: Provided is a carbon dioxide ground leakage monitoring system that is low cost, capable of real-time multi-point monitoring on a wide scale, and capable of providing the public with easy-to-understand information. A plurality of monitoring posts 100 and a field data server 200 and the field data server 200 and an administrative server 300 are connected by communication lines in respective sections therebetween. The plurality of monitoring posts 100 measure a concentration of carbon dioxide having leaked above the ground, and transmits the measured carbon dioxide data to the field data server 200, the field data server 200 transmits the data transmitted from the plurality of monitoring posts 100 to the administrative server 300, and the administrative server 300 discloses carbon dioxide ground leakage information on the Internet based on the carbon dioxide data transmitted from the field data server 200.

Abstract: In order to allow an arbitrary combination of image processing function blocks and an arbitrary processing order to be executed with a single command and avoid calculation loads on a host CPU even when image processes in varying output image sizes are combined, the image signal processing apparatus of the present invention includes an individual processing sub program that operates image processes in page units or with an arbitrarily specified number of lines for each image processing function block and an individual processing parameter table that determines the individual processing contents and also provides a composite processing parameter table including image processing order information and image size related information and when an individual image processing command is issued, the image signal processing apparatus sets an individual processing parameter table in an image processing function block and executes the individual processing sub program.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a knockout non-human animal whose genome comprises a disruption in at least one allele of the PHF3 gene, useful in developing drugs for diseases with the onset of atopic dermatitis or the like; a totipotent cell such as an ES cell which is essential to production of the above non-human animal; use thereof; and so on.

Abstract: In order to allow an arbitrary combination of image processing function blocks and an arbitrary processing order to be executed with a single command and avoid calculation loads on a host CPU even when image processes in varying output image sizes are combined, the image signal processing apparatus of the present invention includes an individual processing sub program that operates image processes in page units or with an arbitrarily specified number of lines for each image processing function block and an individual processing parameter table that determines the individual processing contents and also provides a composite processing parameter table including image processing order information and image size related information and when an individual image processing command is issued, the image signal processing apparatus sets an individual processing parameter table in an image processing function block and executes the individual processing sub program.

Abstract: Error addition section 201 generates correction data by adding correction value Emo and correction value E1 to the input data. Binary processing section 202 converts the correction data to binary data to generate output data. Binary error calculation section 203 calculates binary error E based on the correction data and output data. Propagation coefficient judgment section 204 judges propagation coefficients K1 to K4. Propagation error operation section 205 operates on binary error E and propagation coefficients K1 to K4 to calculate correction value E1 and correction value Emi. Error memory 206 temporarily stores correction value Emi, and outputs it to error addition section 201 when the pixel data to be corrected is input.

Abstract: An induction heating and fixing device includes a hollow cylindrical fixing member, a core for forming a closed magnetic circuit, a ring member formed of magnetic material and provided on the core in the vicinity of the bilateral ends of the fixing member, a coil wound around the core, and a pressure member disposed so as to press against the fixing member. This device suppresses temperature drop at the bilateral ends of the fixing roller and maintains uniform temperature distribution in the axial direction of the fixing roller by leaving the device open at both bilateral ends.

Abstract: A recycle information system for recycling reusable parts from machines and equipment such as image forming apparatus, and reutilize the recovered member as a manufacturing material. A recycle information system utilizing a production control computer to manage information on production parts being used or scheduled for use in manufacturing and maintenance services, is linked by a communications line with a control device for machines and equipment scheduled for recycling, monitors information on parts of machines and equipment capable of recycling, and when a machine is recovered from a user, compares production part information stored in the production control computer with recovered part information stored in the recovered device, and acquires information on whether individual parts used in the recovered machine are capable of being recycled, and information on a factory destination address.

Abstract: An O/W emulsion composition comprising fluorometholone or clobetasone butyrate, a phospholipid, an oil, a nonionic water-soluble cellulose derivative, and water. The O/W composition has advantages that fluorometholone or clobetasone butyrate contained therein is highly bioavailable and that the solubility of fluorometholone or clobetasone butyrate and the concentration thereof present in the composition can be kept stable. Thus, this composition is usable for the treatment of various inflammatory diseases by the generalized or local administration thereof. It provides a drug which shows an anti-inflammatory activity equal or higher than that of commercially available eye drops comprising a suspension of such an active ingredient even when it is applied in a smaller dose than that of commercially available one and further provides a drug having excellent storability, which reduces apprehension of systemic side effects of fluorometholone or clobetasone butyrate when it is applied to the eyes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an induction heating and fixing device comprising a hollow cylindrical fixing member, a core for forming a closed magnetic circuit, a ring member formed of magnetic material and provided on the core in the vicinity of the bilateral ends of the fixing member, a coil wound around the core, and a pressure member disposed so as to press against the fixing member.

Abstract: A recycle information system for recycling reusable parts from machines and equipment such as image forming apparatus, and reutilize the recovered member as a manufacturing material. A recycle information system utilizing a production control computer to manage information on production parts being used or scheduled for use in manufacturing and maintenance services, is linked by a communications line with a control device for machines and equipment scheduled for recycling, monitors information on parts of machines and equipment capable of recycling, and when a machine is recovered from a user, compares production part information stored in the production control computer with recovered part information stored in the recovered device, and acquires information on whether individual parts used in the recovered machine are capable of being recycled, and information on a factory destination address.

Abstract: An image processing device has a color/monotone common image processing section to execute a series of image processing corresponding to a monotone image having an external output terminal to take out an intermediate processing data to an external and an external input terminal to take in an image data color processed from an external section into an intermediate section. The data provided into the intermediate section of the color/monotone common image processing section is selected from the image data from the input terminal and the intermediate processing data from the former section of the color/monotone common image processing section.

Abstract: An O/W emulsion composition for eye drops comprises a drug selected from the group consisting of fluorometholone, clobetasone butyrate and clobetasol propionate; a phospholipid; liquid paraffine; and water. The O/W emulsion composition is excellent in solubility of fluorometholone, clobetasone butyrate and clobetasol propionate in the tear fluid. Therefore, the composition would exhibit an anti-inflammatory activity identical to or superior to those achieved by the conventional pharmaceutical preparations, by the administration thereof at a dose lower than those for these known drugs. The composition would also be excellent from the economical standpoint and permit reduction of systemic side effects which would be encountered when the conventional drugs are instilled in the eyes.

Abstract: The image scaling processing device distinguishes whether an original image data is a character image or a half-tone image per a pixel unit in the image domain separating portion and scales each image in the character scaling processing portion and the half-tone scaling processing portion. In order to get a desired scale factor L times image data, the character scaling processing is performed by the first scaling processing for enlarging an image data by 2.sup.n times (n is an integer, L<2.sup.n) in each sub scanning direction and main scanning direction and by the second scaling processing for reducing by L/2.sup.n times the image data enlarged by 2.sup.n times and the half-tone scaling processing is made by the first scaling processing for enlarging an image data by 2.sup.n times (n is an integer, L>2.sup.n) in each sub scanning direction and main scanning direction and by the second scaling processing for enlarging by L/2.sup.n times the image data enlarged by 2.sup.n times.

Abstract: A lipid emulsion which comprises (A) an oil component, (B) an emulsifying agent containing yolk lecithin and/or soybean lecithin, and (C) water, wherein the lipid emulsion further comprises citric acid or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and at least one member selected from the group consisting of methionine, phenylalanine, serine, histidine and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, provided that it does not simultaneously contain methionine and phenylalanine. The addition of citric acid and histidine, methionine, phenylalanine and/or serine to a lipid emulsion containing natural lecithin as an emulsifying agent permits the prevention of change of color and formation of oil drops associated with the conventional natural lecithin-containing lipid emulsion due to the synergistic effect of the foregoing additives.

Abstract: A port diagnosing device capable of diagnosing normal or abnormal ports provided with a single input terminal and a plurality of output terminals comprising a signal generator for outputting predetermined signals to an optional output terminal from among a plurality of output terminals, a feedback signal for feeding back to the single input terminal predetermined signals output from the signal generator, and determining changes detected in the level of the signal fed back to the input terminal in correspondence to changes in the level of the predetermined signal, and determining the normal or abnormal operation of the optional output terminal.

Abstract: A chromatic color pattern and a monochromatic color pattern are read by an image sensor. A masking coefficient in a color masking portion or a gamma conversion characteristic of a gamma correction portion are selected in accordance with the ratio V1/V0 of a read value V1 of the chromatic color pattern and a read value V0 of the monochromatic color pattern. An output of an image data is corrected by masking processing with the selected masking coefficient and the like.

Abstract: In an electrophotographic image forming apparatus including a charger for electrically charging the photoconductor to a predetermined initial electric potential, a laser projects a light onto the photoconductor so as to form an electrostatic latent image thereon, and a developing device develops the latent image with toner so as to form a toner image thereon. Further, a charger controller controls the charger based on a detection result of a detector for detecting a state of the photoconductor so that the initial electric potential of the photoconductor changes in a predetermined range, and a selection controller selects one of the plurality of gradation correction data stored in a storage unit based on the detection result of the detector when the initial electric potential of the photoconductor is an upper or lower limit value of the predetermined range.

Abstract: In an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, a charger sensitizes the photoconductor at a desired initial potential and the photoconductor is exposed to form an electrostatic latent image, which is developed by a developer to form a toner image. A gradation correction table on the relation of the input image signal to the exposure amount is provided in a memory, and it is amended by adding a common amendment value to the image density signal in the gradation correction table. The common amendment value is determined according to the density of a standard toner image. If a plurality of gradation correction tables are stored in a memory, one of them is selected according to the output voltage of the charger or the bias potential of the developer. The selected gradation correction table is amended according to the surface potential of the photoconductor, the temperature of the photoconductor or the humidity of the photoconductor.

Abstract: An electrophotographic image forming apparatus which comprises a photoreceptor medium including a substrate and a photosensitive layer formed on the substrate, and a photo-electric toner sensor assembly for measuring the amount of rays of light undergoing a diffuse reflection from the photoreceptor medium. The substrate has a regularly developed pattern of grooves formed thereon. The photoelectric toner sensor assembly comprises a light emitting element for projecting the rays of light onto the photoreceptor medium so as to reflect therefrom and a light receiving element for detecting the rays of light undergoing the diffuse reflection. The light emitting and receiving elements are so positioned that a common plane containing respective optical axes of those light emitting and receiving elements can lie substantially parallel to any one of the grooves on the substrate.

Abstract: In an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, a corona charger electrically charges the photoconductor to a predetermined initial electric potential so as to supply an amount of electric charge thereto, and a laser projects a light onto the charged photoconductor so as to form an electrostatic latent image thereon. A light projecting controller controls the laser to change a light amount of the projected light according to an image density signal, and a developing device develops the formed electrostatic latent image with toner so as to form a toner image thereon. Then, a voltage generator applies a developing bias voltage to the developing device.