Abstract: Provided is a disk-type mascara brush, used to makeup eyelash with mascara solution applied thereto, whose brush portion is formed whole at the end of a wand and in such a shape that pluralities of triangle-like elliptic disks are piled consecutively with an alternated arrangement with the angle of 120 degree. In a disk-type mascara brush where a brush portion 1 is provided at one end of a wand 2, a mascara cap 3 is provided at the other end of a wand 2 and the brush portion 1 is formed at the end of the wand 2 as if disks are piled; the mascara brush includes a brush portion 10 which is formed whole at the end of the wand and in such a shape that plurality of triangle-like elliptic disks are piled consecutively with an alternated arrangement with the angle of 120 degree.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided that includes circuitry configured for location determination arranged to obtain a geographic location of the apparatus; circuitry configured receiving connection point identification data, the connection point identification data useable in providing a wireless communication path to a remote circuitry providing a connection point, and wherein the connection point identification data is associated with a geographic location of the remote circuitry; and circuitry configured for associating one or more instances of the geographic location of the apparatus, as provided by the circuitry configured for location determination, with corresponding instances of the connection point identification data. This associating may be used to cross-check/validate the geographical location provided by the circuitry configured for location determination.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus. Each of a plurality of first nozzle rows includes a plurality of nozzles disposed in a predetermined direction that discharge cyan or magenta liquid. Each of a plurality of second nozzle rows includes a plurality of nozzles disposed in the predetermined direction that discharge yellow liquid. The number of second nozzle rows is smaller than the number of first nozzle rows. The first nozzle rows form cyan or magenta dots at pixels on a medium. The second nozzle rows form yellow dots at pixels whose number is smaller than the number of pixels at which the first dots are formed.

Abstract: A unit circuit includes a first transistor, a detection element, a second transistor, and a first capacitive element. The first transistor supplies a detection line with a detection signal corresponding to the electric potential of a gate electrode thereof. The detection element is connected to the gate electrode of the first transistor and varies the electric potential of the gate electrode of the first transistor in accordance with an external factor. The second transistor has a first terminal that is connected to the gate electrode of the first transistor and a second terminal that is connected to a second power supply line. The second transistor has a gate electrode that is connected to a scanning line. The first capacitive element holds the electric potential of the gate electrode of the first transistor.

Abstract: A battery capable of ensuring storage characteristics and overcharge characteristics is provided. The battery comprising a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. The cathode has a cathode current collector and a cathode active material layer provided on the cathode current collector. The cathode active material layer includes an aromatic compound having three or more benzene rings. The electrolytic solution includes at least one of an ester carbonate containing a halogen and an ester carbonate containing an unsaturated bond.

Abstract: An adapter for a memory card comprises a housing, an adapter interface and a plurality of terminals. The housing comprises a slot for accepting a first memory card that is to be adapted. The adapter interface is connected to one side of the housing. The adapter interface corresponds to a connection interface of a second memory card, and the size of the second memory card is smaller than the first memory card. The plurality of terminals is disposed in the slot. One side of the plurality of terminals may be electrically connected to the adapter interface. When the first memory card is inserted into the slot, the plurality of terminals may be electrically connected to the first memory card, and the first memory card may be electrically connected to the adapter interface.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for improving paging speed of a called user in CDMA trunking system. For a first trunking terminal supporting minus time slot call manner, said method includes: it makes minus time slot paging cycles of the first trunking terminal and a trunking core network keep synchronous; the first trunking terminal selects a minus time slot paging cycle to calculate a paging time slot according to the presence of its own minus time slot paging cycle and the presence of a minus time slot paging cycle contained in an overhead message of a call channel, and monitors the call channel on the calculated paging time slot; the base station system selects a minus time slot paging cycle to calculate a paging time slot of the user according to the presence of its own minus time slot paging cycle and the presence of a minus time slot paging cycle contained in a paging request message, and transmits a paging message on the call channel according to the calculated paging time slot.

Abstract: Driving directions can be helpful if in addition to spatial information, landmark information is provided. Landmarks assist in adding context to directions as well as allowing for a greater likelihood of success of an operator following directions. There can be employment of physical identification of landmarks as well as processing regarding the utility of a landmark in regards to driving directions. Driving directions can be highly useful if integrated landmarks relate to knowledge possessed by an operator of a vehicle. Landmark based driving direction can be integrated with advertisements that relate to the directions.

Abstract: Techniques for enhancing the throughput capacity available to client devices connected to a wireless local area network (WLAN) are described. Specifically, existing WLAN resources are converted into wireless access points (APs) to create a dense infrastructure of wireless APs. To leverage this dense AP infrastructure, central management techniques are employed. With client-to-AP mapping, these techniques are used to prevent the discovery of multiple APs in a WLAN by a client device and to select a single AP (using certain policies) to associate with the client device and provide it with an enhanced wireless connection to the WLAN. Additionally, techniques are employed to centrally determine, using certain policies, when the AP should disassociate from the client device and when another centrally selected AP should respond to, and associate with, the client device to provide it with an enhanced wireless connection to the WLAN—without interrupting/disrupting the client device's access.

Abstract: Navigation logic and related methods are described for assisting a user in using a remote control (RC) device. The navigation logic determines a current state of a user's interaction with an application, and then determines the keys of the RC device that are relevant to the determined state. The navigation logic then displays a representation of the relevant keys on a user interface presentation of a presentation device. The representation resembles a physical layout of associated physical keys on the RC device. To assist the user in focusing on the relevant keys, the representation de-emphasizes other input mechanisms of the RC device that do not have a bearing on the user's current interaction with the application. One exemplary way of de-emphasizing these other keys is to entirely omit these keys from the representation.

Abstract: A cathode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is provided. The cathode active material includes: composite oxide particles containing at least lithium and cobalt; a coating layer disposed on at least a part of the surface of said composite oxide particles and including an oxide containing lithium and at least one coating element selected from nickel and manganese; and a surface layer disposed on at least a part of said coating layer and including an oxide containing at least one element selected from among lanthanoids.

Abstract: The ink-jet recording method and device record an image by ejecting onto a recording medium an ink which cures upon exposure to active energy rays. The method and device apply an undercoat liquid to the recording medium so as to form thereon an undercoat layer of the undercoat liquid having a surface state, improve the surface state of the applied undercoat layer, semi-cure the undercoat liquid of the undercoat layer having the improved surface state, and form the image by ejecting the ink onto a semi-cured surface of the undercoat liquid of the undercoat layer. The method and device further curing completely the undercoat liquid of the undercoat layer and the ink of the image after forming the image.

Abstract: Embodiments include a cache controller adapted to determine whether a memory line for which the processor is to issue an address-only kill request resides in a fill buffer for the cache line in a shared state. If so, the cache controller may mark the fill buffer as not having completed bus transactions and issue the address-only kill request for that fill buffer. The address-only kill request may transmit to other processors on the bus and the other processors may respond by invalidating the cache entries for the memory line. Upon confirmation from the other processors, a bus arbiter may confirm the kill request, promoting the memory line already in that fill buffer to exclusive state. Once promoted, the fill buffer may be marked as having completed the bus transactions and may be written into the cache.

Abstract: A deformable mirror apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a flexible member having a mirror on a surface and having a part having a different section form to form a convex on the opposite surface of the mirror such that a predetermined strength distribution is imparted to the flexible member; a base substrate; a strength securing member provided between the base substrate and the flexible member to support the flexible member from the base substrate side; and a driving section that deforms the form of the mirror by applying driving force to the opposite surface of the mirror of the flexible member.

Abstract: A profiler may be detached from an actively running application by first sealing communications between the application and profiler, then evacuating the profiler by waiting for any profiler-modified or instrumented code to complete execution, profiler runtime code to complete execution, cleaning up any residual items from the profiler, and shutting down the profiler. The profiler may be operational in many different environments, including a managed environment such as a virtual machine and those environments having just in time compiling of executable code.

Abstract: An image forming medium includes a substrate and an imaging layer coated on or impregnated into said substrate, where the imaging layer includes a photochromic material dispersed in an ionomer, optionally with an additional polymeric binder, and where the photochromic material exhibits a reversible transition between a colorless state and a colored state in response to heat and optional light.

Abstract: A detector (1) is used distinguishing a phase from a multiphase fluid mixture. The detector comprises: an optical probe (2) for optically distinguishing one of the phases from the multiphase fluid mixture, the optical probe having a tip (20) in contact with the multiphase fluid mixture, and a detector cell (3) arranged to be coupled to a multiphase fluid mixture flowing line (L) and to the optical probe (2). The detector cell (1) further comprises: an internal flowing line (4) arranged so that the phases of the multiphase fluid mixture flowing in the internal flowing line are driven-on by capillarity effect, and a bore (5) coupled to the internal flowing line for positioning the optical probe in the detector cell so that the multiphase fluid mixture flows substantially around the tip (20) of the optical probe.

Abstract: Techniques for enhancing virtual reality using transformed real world data are disclosed. In some aspects, a composite reality engine receives a transmission of the real world data that is captured by embedded sensors situated in the real world. The real world data is transformed and integrated with virtual reality data to create a composite reality environment generated by a composite reality engine. In other aspects, the composite reality environment enables activation of embedded actuators to modify the real world from the virtual reality environment. In still further aspects, techniques for sharing sensors and actuators in the real world are disclosed.

Abstract: An image forming medium includes a substrate, and an imaging layer coated on or impregnated into said substrate, wherein the imaging layer includes an imaging composition including a photochromic or photochromic-thermochromic material dissolved or dispersed in a solvent or polymeric binder, wherein the imaging composition is imageable by light of a first wavelength and erasable in a short time period by a combination of heat and light of a second wavelength such that simultaneous erase with heat and light of the second wavelength is faster than erase by heat alone and exhibits a reversible transition between a colorless and a colored state.

Abstract: A monitoring device according to the present invention is a monitoring device connectable between a target device including a first memory holding a first data sequentially renewed and a host device acquiring a second data coinciding with the first data held in the first memory, and includes a first bus, a second memory holding the second data, a first control portion allowing the second data to be sequentially inputted to the second memory through the first bus according to the renewal of the first data, an event detection portion outputting an event detection signal when the data flowing to the first bus satisfies an event detection condition set in advance, and a second control portion allowing the second data to be outputted from the second memory based on the event detection signal.