Abstract: There is provided is an interface apparatus including: a stream converter receiving write-addresses and write-data, storing the received data in a buffer, and sorting the stored write-data in the order of the write-addresses to output the write-data as stream-data; a cache memory storing received stream-data if a load-signal indicates that the stream-data are necessarily loaded and outputting data stored in a storage device corresponding to an input cache-address as cache-data; a controller determining whether or not data allocated with a read-address have already been loaded, outputting the load-signal instructing the loading on the cache memory if not loaded, and outputting a load-address indicating a load-completed-address of the cache memory; and at least one address converter calculating which one of the storage devices the allocated data are stored in, by using the load-address, outputting the calculated value as the cache-address to the cache memory, and outputting the cache-data as read-data.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a management unit configured to manage a template arranged to determine the placement of an image, a clipping unit configured to clip a part of a first image, and a placement unit configured to dispose a second image clipped from the first image by the clipping unit on the template, wherein the clipping unit clips the second image from the first image so as to include a region which maintains the aspect ratio of a region of the template where an image is disposed, and also includes the first image as much as possible.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an electromagnetic coil means, comprising a terminal part and pins passing through the terminal part, wherein the pins are divided into a first group of pins connected with an upper coil stator and a second group of pins connected with a lower coil stator which are spaced apart from each other; the first group of pins comprises first outer sections with first head portions and first inner sections with first root portions; the second group of pins comprising second outer sections with second head portion and second inner sections with second root portions; the first and second head portions extend out from a pin leading-out surface of the terminal part, characterized in that, at least one group of the first and second groups of pins are bent, and a distance between adjacent said first and second head portions is larger than that between adjacent said first and second root portions.

Abstract: A system and method for obtaining a quantitative measurement of the location and size of a contrast material within a bodily organ, such as the GI tract of a person. A contrast material is introduced into the organ and a plurality of images is obtained. A curve representing the bodily organ is formed based on the images. Local image fields are defined along the curve and a field intensity is found for each by integrating the intensity of the image in the field. An intensity profile along the length of the curve is thus obtained for each image and provides a quantitative representation of contrast material along the bodily organ. The profiles are displayed in any suitable way. In some embodiments, identification of the curve may be aided by introduction of targets are into the organ. The target locations can be identified in each image.

Abstract: A diagnostic system for display of physiological data in a format useful for identifying or diagnosing physiological conditions. The system registers visual representations of different types of physiological data to aid in an understanding of bodily processes. In addition to registering the data, the system may display different types of physiological data with different visual characteristics. Further, the transparency of the visual representations of the different datasets may be controlled to enhance the understandability of displayed information. The system, for example, can be used with data representative of pressure and impedance within a patient's gastrointestinal tract to provide greater understanding of physiological processes during a swallow.

Abstract: In recognition of the need to develop novel therapeutic agents and efficient methods for the synthesis thereof, the present invention provides novel inhibitors of histone deacetylases, tubulin deacetylases, and/or aggresome inhibitors, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and derivatives thereof. The inventive compounds fall into two classes—“isotubacin” class and “isoisotubacin” class—all of which include a 1,3-dioxane core. The present invention further provides methods for treating disorders regulated by histone deacetylase activity, tubulin deacetylase activity, and/or the aggresome (e.g., proliferative diseases, cancer, inflammatory diseases, protozoal infections, protein degradation disorders, protein deposition disorders, etc.) comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of an inventive compound to a subject in need thereof. The present invention also provides methods for preparing compounds of the invention.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels each including an electro-optic element, a writing transistor writing a video signal into the pixel, a holding capacitor holding the video signal written by the writing transistor, and a driving transistor driving the electro-optic element based on the video signal held in the holding capacitor. The driving transistor includes a channel region, a gate electrode disposed opposite to the channel region, a first source/drain region closer to a power source, a second source/drain region closer to the electro-optic element, and impurity regions disposed between the channel region and the first and second source/drain regions and having a lower concentration than that of the corresponding source/drain region. The impurity region disposed between the channel region and the first source/drain region is formed in a region other than a region facing the gate electrode.

Abstract: The invention relates to a class of soft or semi-soft CpG immunostimulatory oligonucleotides that are useful for stimulating an immune response.

Abstract: A pickup apparatus includes a light source; a light separator; an object lens that concentrates the light which penetrated the light separator on the optical recording medium; a movable lens; and a light sensing element that receives the reflected light from the optical recording medium separated by the light separator, wherein a coma aberration generated by the transverse shift of the object lens is corrected by a coma aberration which is generated by the deviation of a spherical aberration generated in an optical path from the light source to the object lens and a spherical aberration generated in an optical path from the object lens to a light concentration position on the optical recording medium which are due to the transverse shift.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding a protein, preferably a hyperimmune serum-reactive antigen from Borrelia, a vector comprising such nucleic acid molecule, a host cell comprising such vector, a protein, preferably a hyperimmune serum-reactive antigen from Borrelia, a process for producing such protein, a process for producing a cell which expresses such protein, an antibody that binds to such protein, a hybridoma cell producing such antibody, a method for producing such antibody, a pharmaceutical composition comprising such nucleic acid molecule, protein, or antibody, use of such nucleic acid molecule, protein, or antibody for the manufacture of a medicament, a method for identifying an antagonist capable of reducing or inhibiting the activity of such protein, a method for diagnosis or treatment of an infection with a pathogen causing Lyme disease or an infection with Borrelia burgdorferi s.l.

Abstract: A sound field measuring apparatus includes a microphone set having a first and second microphones arranged at a prescribed interval, which collects audio signals outputted from a first and second speakers, a measuring unit measuring distances between the first and second speakers, and the first and second microphones based on audio signals collected by the first and second microphones, and a position calculating unit calculating a position of the first and second microphones and a position of the second speaker when the first speaker is taken as a reference position based on the respective measured distances.

Abstract: An optical information recording medium includes a recording layer that absorbs recording light in accordance with its wavelength, the recording light being condensed for information recording, and increases the temperature in the vicinity of a focus so as to form a recording mark and that has properties of increasing a light absorption amount with respect to the wavelength of the recording light by heating performed at a temperature of 120° C. or more.

Abstract: A video and audio processing system includes an output apparatus that outputs video data and audio data to be synchronized and reproduced; an audio processing apparatus that receives the video data and the audio data from the output apparatus, supplies at least the video data to a downstream apparatus, and processes the audio data to generate an audio signal to be supplied to a speaker; and a video processing apparatus that receives the video data output from the audio processing apparatus and generates a video signal used for displaying video. The video processing apparatus includes video signal processing means, control means, and determining means for determining a processing time. The video and audio processing system delays the audio signal to be supplied to the speaker so as to be synchronized with the displayed video on the basis of the determination result of the processing time.

Abstract: A speaker diaphragm includes a thermoplastic resin having a three-layer structure. The three-layer structure includes a polyester film as a base material of the three-layer structure, a polyimide-based resin layer as a top layer of the three-layer structure, and another polyimide-based resin layer as a bottom layer of the three-layer structure.

Abstract: In service providing apparatus and method, system identification data for specifying a service target device and the user of the device concerned are issued to the device concerned, and authentication processing is carried out on the basis of the system identification data to provide a service to the device concerned.

Abstract: The invention involves the loading and unloading of dynamic section grammars and language models in a speech recognition system. The values of the sections of the structured document are either determined in advance from a collection of documents of the same domain, document type, and speaker; or collected incrementally from documents of the same domain, document type, and speaker; or added incrementally to an already existing set of values. Speech recognition in the context of the given field is constrained to the contents of these dynamic values. If speech recognition fails or produces a poor match within this grammar or section language model, speech recognition against a larger, more general vocabulary that is not constrained to the given section is performed.

Abstract: A balun including on the common-mode side, an inductive element in series with a first capacitive element between a first common-mode access terminal and the ground; and on the differential-mode side, two inductive windings in series having first respective ends defining differential access terminals and having second common ends connected to ground, second capacitive elements being respectively connected in parallel on the differential-mode windings.

Abstract: The invention involves assays, diagnostics, kits, and assay components for determining levels of K41-glycated CD59 in subjects. Treatments for subjects based upon levels of K41-glycated CD59 also are provided.

Abstract: A wand, such as for a surface cleaning apparatus, comprises at least an upstream rigid tube and a downstream rigid tube releasably pivotally connected to the upstream rigid tube. A flexible fluid flow conduit connects the downstream, tube in fluid flow communication with the upstream tube.