Abstract: An image display device in which a plurality of pixel circuits are arranged has a current light-emitting element, a driver transistor for flowing current in the current light-emitting element, a retention capacitor for retaining a voltage determining an amount of current flowed from the driver transistor, and a writing switch for writing a voltage depending on an image signal to the retention capacitor. Transistors configuring the respective pixel circuits are an N-channel type transistor, each of the pixel circuits further includes an enable switch, an initialization capacitor for initializing the voltage of the retention capacitor, and a separation switch.

Abstract: Double-ended lancet unit for a lancet device. The unit includes a lancet body having a first end and a second end and being sized and configured to frictionally engage with a holding member of the lancet device. A first lancet needle projects from the first end and a second lancet needle projects from the second end and/or a lancet needle member has oppositely arranged pointed ends and is movably mounted to the lancet body. The body is made of a material different from that of the first and second needles or the pointed ends. First and second removable caps are respectively removably connected to the first and second ends. At least one of the first and second removable caps are re-installable on one of the first and second ends of the double-ended lancet unit. The unit is installable on the lancet device and each of the first and second needles or the pointed ends is structured and arranged to prick a user's skin to obtain a blood sample and is not usable for fluid injection.

Abstract: In SSL encryption communication in which a client and a server share a password, the client generates random number data, encrypts the random number data with a public key and a password, and transmits the encrypted random number data to the server, so that the client and the server safely share the random number data having a bit length longer than that of the password. Safe cryptographic communication is performed without intermediaries by using the random number data or by mutually presenting a hash value of the random number data.

Abstract: A coding device is provided with features in which optimum coding in a higher layer is flexibly carried out based on a coding result of a lower layer and a quality audio signal in limited circumstances is served to users. In this coding device, a basic layer coding unit codes an input signal to generate a basic layer information source code and outputs a linear prediction coefficient (LPC) and a quantum LPC, which are parameters calculated at coding, to an expanded layer control unit. A basic layer decoding unit decodes the basic layer information source code. An adding unit reverses a polarity of a basic layer decoded signal, adds the same to the input signal, and calculates a difference signal. The expanded layer control unit generates expanded layer mode information indicative of a coding mode in an expanded layer based on the LPC and the quantum LPC. An expanded layer coding unit codes the difference signal obtained from the adding unit under control of the expanded layer control unit.

Abstract: In a playback device for playing back a moving image recorded on a recording medium while executing an application recorded on the recording medium, to improve the use efficiency of a memory bus when combining the moving image with an image relating to the application. Whether or not to combine a background image, which is used as a background of GUI graphics such as a menu or a moving picture used by the application, is determined depending on whether the moving image covers the entire background image. If the moving image covers the background image, there is no need to combine the background image with the moving image. In this case, a memory bus allocated to the reading of the background image can be used for, for example, writing the moving image read from the recording medium onto a memory. Hence the memory bus bandwidth can be effectively used.

Abstract: A zoom adjustment system, comprising a touch panel, a course detector, and a first zoom adjuster, is provided. The touch panel has an input surface. The touch panel detects a certain location on the input surface when it is touched. The touch panel detects a touched location. The course detector detects a course traced on the input surface by the touched location when the touched location is moved about on the input surface while maintaining continuous contact with the input surface. The first zoom adjuster adjusts a magnification of a photographic optical system according to the traced course detected by the course detector.

Abstract: An objective lens for an optical information recording/reproducing optical system for an optical disc letting a laser beam impinge on a recording layer of the optical disc, and wherein a center wavelength ? (unit: nm) of the laser beam is in a range defined by a condition: 390???420, a base material of the objective lens is made of resin, the resin has a glass transition temperature Tg and light transmissivity T (unit: %) per a path length of 3 mm at a wavelength of 406 nm defined by conditions: Tg?115° C., 85?T?90, same antireflection films or different types of antireflection films are respectively formed on optical surfaces of the objective lens, and each of the antireflection films formed on the objective lens has a thickness of 100 nm or more in a vicinity of an optical axis of the objective lens.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor and a processor that merges together a plurality of images captured by said image sensor to produce a composite image. The positions or the plurality of images being adjusted to reduce displacement of a reference area that is determined within each one of said plurality of images before the plurality of images is merged together. The reference area includes at least one of an in-focus area determined by a focusing operation, a face area determined by face-sensing processes, a predetermined-color area determined by white-balance information and predetermined color information, and a predetermined-brightness area determined by photometry.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing book blocks includes a station to dispense a sheet web that moves in longitudinal direction and can be imprinted. A printing station has two cylinders that rotate with a circumferential speed corresponding to the movement speed of the web and function to support in a contacting manner the web with their circumferential surfaces over a specified angle. Contactless printing heads are assigned to each cylinder, arranged at a distance to the circumferential surface of the associated cylinder, and positioned side by side and at least essentially transverse to the circumferential and rotational direction of the associated cylinder. The printing head faces are oriented substantially tangential to the associated cylinder and the center lines of the printing heads are oriented to project substantially radially to the circumferential surface of the associated cylinder.

Abstract: A gas detector with a selectively adsorbing surface (3) and an acoustic measuring cell (5) is presented. The detector is characterized in that the selectively adsorbing surface (3) and the acoustic measuring cell (5) can be arranged with respect to one another such that gases desorbed by means of thermal desorption from the adsorbing surface (3) reach the acoustic measuring cell (5) and there trigger a pressure wave that can be measured by one or more acoustic pick-ups (13, 14), in particular microphones, which are arranged in the acoustic measuring cell (5). Furthermore, a corresponding method is provided. The detector is particularly suitable for measuring contaminants in interior spaces and ventilation systems.

Abstract: An optical scanning device of the invention includes: a substrate main body; two cantilever beam portions which protrude from both-side portions of one side of the substrate main body; a mirror portion whose both-sides are supported by torsion bar portions between the cantilever beam portions; a drive source which causes the substrate main body to oscillate; and a light source which projects light onto the mirror portion, where the mirror portion resonates and vibrates in accordance with a vibration imparted to a substrate by the drive source, and a direction of reflection light from the light projected onto the mirror portion from the light source changes in accordance with the vibration of the mirror portion, and where a fixed end portion of the substrate main body which is located on the opposite side thereof from the mirror portion side is fixed to a supporting component, and the drive source is provided on a portion of the substrate main body.

Abstract: A device which transmits an ISMA media stream subjected to MPEG-4 IPMP extension. An ISMA media stream having an ISMA header and including contents as a payload is constituted, an IPMP tool list descriptor representing, as a tool required for processing of the contents, at least one tool selected from a group including an IPMP tool, an ISMA Cryp decryption tool, and a key management system (KMS) tool is buried in the media stream, and the ISMA media stream is transmitted.

Abstract: A pressure bulkhead for an aircraft, a method of manufacturing an aircraft, and an aircraft. The bulkhead includes at least one anticlastic shaped surface element. The instant abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.

Abstract: An exemplary high-lift system for an aircraft includes a wing, a high-lift flap coupled to the wing, a kinematic element which is driven by a drive device, and a flap lever structured and arranged to rotate via an actuating drive between a retracted position in which the high-lift flap complements a wing profile and a plurality of extended positions in which a slot of a given width is formed between the wing and the high-lift flap. A first end of the flap lever is coupled to the high-lift flap. A second end of the flap lever is coupled to the kinematic element and is capable of rotating relative thereto via a first rotation point. The kinematic element is structured and arranged to rotate relative to a second rotation point that is fixed in position relative to the wing. The first rotation point is separated by a predetermined distance from the second rotation point.

Abstract: Disclosed is a vector quantizer capable of improving the quantization accuracy of vector quantization to switch over the codebook of the vector quantization of a first stage depending on the type of feature having a correlation with a vector to be quantized. In the quantizer, a classifier (101) selects a classification code vector indicating the type of feature having the correlation with the vector to be quantized from a plurality of classification code vectors. A switch (102) selects a first codebook corresponding to the type from a plurality of first codebooks. An error minimizing section (105) selects a first code vector closest to the vector to be quantized from a plurality of first code vectors constituting the selected first codebook. An additivity factor determining section (106) selects an additivity factor vector corresponding to the type from a plurality of additivity factor vectors.

Abstract: Method of evaluating precision of output data using error propagation includes performing numerical differentiation using input data in data processing, and thereby obtaining a Jacobian matrix J of the data processing; estimating variance-covariance of errors of the input data, and thereby obtaining an error matrix D of the input data; and calculating an error matrix from the Jacobian matrix J and the error matrix D of the input data, the error matrix R representing variance-covariance of errors of output data.

Abstract: The video and audio reproduction apparatus according to the present invention is a video and audio reproduction apparatus that decodes a video and audio stream and reproduces the decoded video and audio stream and that includes a reconstructing unit which reconstructs a packet in an inputted video and audio stream; a decoding unit which decodes the video and audio stream having the reconstructed packet, the video and audio stream being received from the reconstructing unit; and an output unit which outputs the decoded video and audio stream, wherein, when the packet to be reconstructed contains a plurality of payloads in the inputted video and audio stream, the reconstructing unit reconstructs the packet in the video and audio stream so that each packet contains one payload.

Abstract: Present invention provides an electrodeposited copper foil with carrier foil that assure high bonding strength between a surface of the bulk copper layer and a resin substrate layer even when surface roughness is low, and hardly occurs delamination even when pin holes and the like remain in a bulk copper layer or in the side wall of the through holes or via holes and the like after contact with a desmear solution and the like. To solve such a problem, electrodeposited copper foil with carrier foil with a primer resin layer comprising a bonding interface layer, a bulk copper layer, a plated Ni—Zn alloy layer and a primer resin layer which is formed in this order at least on one surface of the carrier foil is applied.

Abstract: The playback apparatus realizes stereoscopic viewing by overlaying planar or stereoscopic graphics over stereoscopic video in a way that reduces eye strain using following method in abstract: A graphics plane holds therein data composed of graphics data. A shift engine shifts, in a case when a composition unit composites the graphics data with a left-view video frame, coordinates of each of the pixels is shifted in a first horizontal direction, and in a case when the composition unit composites the graphics data with a right-view video frame, coordinates of each of the pixels is shifted in a second horizontal direction that is opposite to the first direction.

Abstract: A medical device for simultaneously cutting tissue with a heating element, cauterizing the tissue with sealing elements, and stapling the tissue together. The heating elements comprise bipolar RF electrodes.