Abstract: An information classifying device calculates, for a plurality of populations containing pieces of sample information, evaluation distance between a center of gravity of the pieces of sample information belonging to each population and a piece of sample information as an object of classification (object sample), calculates statistical information such as mean, variance and standard deviation of the evaluation distance for each population, evaluates the evaluation distance of the sample information to the population based on the evaluation distance and the statistical information and evaluates degree of assignment relevancy of the object sample to the population, determines to which population the object sample is to be assigned in accordance with the degree of assignment relevancy, and assigns the object sample to the population. Evaluation distance between the center of gravity of each updated population and the object sample belonging to each population is calculated.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a paper conveying portion for conveying a paper; an image forming portion for forming a visible toner image on the paper being conveyed, with a toner in accordance with input image information; and a fixing unit for fusing and fixing an unfixed toner image formed on the paper to the paper by using a heat roller and a pressing roller, and is constructed such that the pressing roller is composed of a metal core that forms a core shaft of the pressing roller and an elastic part that covers an outer periphery of the metal core, and a heat capacity at a center portion of the pressing roller with respect to a direction perpendicular to a paper's direction of conveyance is smaller than heat capacities at both ends of the pressing roller.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including two substrates, with a pixel electrode formed on one substrate and an opposite electrode formed on the other substrate. The device also includes an alignment film formed on the opposite electrode, a protrusion formed between the opposite electrode and the alignment film, spherical spacers, liquid crystal, and an alignment film protrusion formed by the alignment film in an area corresponding to the protrusion, such that the protrusion causes the alignment film protrusion to protrude toward the liquid crystal. The alignment film protrusion is recessed on a side opposite one of the substrates and regulates an alignment direction of the liquid crystal contacting it. Further, the alignment film protrusion includes a recessed portion, within an outer surface thereof, within which at least one spherical spacer is seated, whereby the recessed portion reduces compressive stress exerted on the substrates by the spherical spacer seated therein.

Abstract: A fuel cell has a structure that an area of an opening at which a first flow passage opens toward a diffusion layer side of a fuel electrode is smaller than an area of an opening at which a second flow passage opens toward the diffusion layer side. This structure serves as a supply suppression structure for suppressing supply of liquid fuel from the first flow passage to the diffusion layer of the fuel electrode, and a discharge acceleration structure for accelerating discharge of discharge gas from the second flow passage. As compared with the case where the opening area of the first flow passage and the opening area of the second flow passage are equal to each other, the supply of liquid fuel from the first flow passage to the diffusion layer is suppressed so that liquid fuel is more easily filled in the first flow passage.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for the treatment or prevention of conditions which can be ameliorated by Smo antagonism, which method comprises administration to a patient in need thereof of an effective amount of a compound of formula I or a composition comprising a compound of formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof; wherein: 2 of X, Y and Z represent nitrogen atoms, and the other represents an oxygen atom; R1 and R2 are taken together with the atom to which they are attached and represent a cyclobutyl ring, optionally substituted with 1-2 fluorine atoms, and R3 represents hydrogen or a fluorine atom; or R1 represents methyl, R2 represents methyl or a fluorine atom and R3 represents a fluorine atom.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds having the structure (I) useful as potassium channel inhibitors to treat cardiac arrhythmias, and the like.

Abstract: An operating environment of an image forming apparatus 3 is judged, and a program list which indicates programs which can be operated in this operating environment is generated by a server 1. The program list is then supplied to the image forming apparatus 3, and the server 1 is requested to transmit a program selected from the program list. The program is then supplied to the image forming apparatus 3 from the server 1. That is, a program is selected from the program list which indicates programs which are judged to be operable in the operating environment of the image forming apparatus 3. Thereafter, the program is supplied to the image forming apparatus 3.

Abstract: A method for producing a nitride semiconductor laser light source is provided. The nitride semiconductor laser light source has a nitride semiconductor laser chip, a stem for mounting the laser chip thereon, and a cap for covering the laser chip. The laser chip is encapsulated in a sealed container composed of the stem and the cap. The method for producing this nitride semiconductor, laser light source has a cleaning step of cleaning the surface of the laser chip, the stem, or the cap. In the cleaning step, the laser chip, the stem, or the cap is exposed with ozone or an excited oxygen atom, or baked by heat. The method also has, after the cleaning step, a capping step of encapsulating the laser chip in the sealed container composed of the stem and the cap. During the capping step, the cleaned surface of the laser chip, the stem, or the cap is kept clean.

Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing system, an information processor, a file concurrent editing method and a file concurrent editing program each of which improves the efficiency of editing works, which are concurrently carried out with respect to a shared file, by displaying a sectional region(s) of the shared file with a display layout according to editing purpose or according to each user individually. A shared text information edit processing section (i) places sectional regions A and B of shared text information at corresponding positions of a display section according to a display layout of local layout information and (ii) causes the display section to display, at the corresponding positions of the display section, text contents “Text-A” and “Text-B” corresponding respectively to the sectional regions A and B of text management tables of the shared text information.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a hard disk, an image compressing device, an image decompressing device, and a printing engine. The printing apparatus divides image data into plural pieces of divided image data, classifies one or more pieces of the divided image data as compressible image data and classifies one or more other pieces of the divided image data as non-compressible image data. In storing the image data in a storage section, the printing apparatus causes the image compressing device to compress the compressible image data and writes the compressible image data thus compressed into the hard disk, and writes the non-compressible image data into the hard disk.

Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid crystal display device including a first transistor, a plurality of sub-picture element electrodes formed in a picture element region, a control electrode formed in capacitance coupling with at least one of the plural sub-picture element electrodes, the control electrode being applied with a display voltage from the first transistor, and an auxiliary capacitance bus line held at a predetermined voltage level and constituting an auxiliary capacitance between the auxiliary capacitance bus line and the control electrode. A second transistor is provided between the sub-picture element electrode coupled with the control electrode by the capacitance coupling and the auxiliary capacitance bus line or between the sub-picture element electrode coupled with the control electrode by the capacitance coupling and the sub-picture element electrode connected to the first transistor.

Abstract: Waste gas/wastewater treatment equipment treats waste gas in a scrubber 18 by using micronanobubble water produced in a micronanobubble reaction vessel 31 as washing water. Waste gas is efficiently cleaned by the substance surface high-velocity cleaning function which micronanobubbles have. The washing water having been used in the waste gas treatment is reused in wastewater treatment in adjustment tank 1, denitrification tank 3 and nitrification tank 11 which constitute a wastewater treatment section. Thus, the micronanobubbles contained in the washing water are utilized in wastewater treatment, so that efficiency of wastewater treatment is enhanced.

Abstract: A base station device includes: a re-synchronization factor detector that detects an uplink re-synchronization factor of a mobile station device; a data controller that generates, when the re-synchronization factor detector detects the uplink re-synchronization factor, data in which information indicative of an uplink synchronization request addressed to the mobile station device is set to a region on a radio frame to which parameters to be used for synchronous communication with the mobile station device are to be set; and a transmitter that transmits data generated by the data controller.

Abstract: A light source unit that prevents deterioration of display qualities, caused by “sagging” of a diffuser, includes a light source, a diffuser, and a light source chassis, the diffuser having a main surface facing the light source, the diffuser being arranged within the light source chassis. The light source unit includes a mounting base at least below a corner of the diffuser, the mounting base includes a diffuser-mounted portion and a projection portion, the projection portion being arranged along an outer edge of the diffuser, the projection portion has a light-shielding property, and the projection portion is arranged to be above a level of an upper surface of the diffuser.

Abstract: An optical element module according to the present invention includes a plurality of optical elements laminated therein, each optical element including: an optical surface at a center portion thereof; and a spacer section having a predetermined thickness on an outer circumference side of the optical surface, wherein an adhesive is positioned on a further outer circumference side of the spacer section, and the upper optical element and the lower optical element are adhered to each other such that an inside and an outside of the adhesive are ventable through a ventilating section of the adhesive.

Abstract: In a wiring figure pattern of a display panel, each wiring is separated into bands of optimal widths by slits of a constant width as a wiring figure pattern so that minimum light irradiation for curing a photocuring sealing material can be carried out without increasing the electric resistance of the wiring. The optimal width means a resistance such that light coming from both sides of the band cures the sealing material on the upper surface of the band without influencing the driving and display of liquid crystal. At a point where the width of wiring becomes two times or more of the optical width between the start point and end point of intersection of the wiring and the sealing material region, the wiring is divided by the slit. A first branch forms the band of the optimal width extending from the branch point to the end point, whereas the second branch extends to the end point and is spaced apart from the first branch by the width of the slit.

Abstract: A resonator in a semiconductor laser device includes a semiconductor substrate, an n-type cladding layer and a p-type cladding layer formed on or above the semiconductor substrate, and an active layer sandwiched between the n-type cladding layer and the p-type cladding layer. A ridge extending in an axial direction of the resonator is formed at an upper surface of the resonator. The ridge includes an emitting-side end portion, a non-emitting-side end portion, a taper portion allowing a width of the ridge to be decreased in a taper-like manner from the emitting-side end portion toward the non-emitting-side end portion, and a step portion provided on a side of the emitting-side end portion with respect to the non-emitting-side end portion, and allowing the width of the ridge to be changed in a step-like manner.

Abstract: An error detection control system for a nonvolatile memory comprises: a nonvolatile memory having data areas for a plurality of addresses each including a main data area and a redundant data area for one address; memory control means for controlling on the nonvolatile memory a batch erasing process on a data area group basis, a reading process on the data area basis, a programming process on the data area basis, and an overwriting process on a bit basis; error detecting means for executing the error detecting process based upon the corresponding redundant data; error detecting control means for controlling availability of execution of the error detecting process based upon data types to be classified depending on whether or not the data is subjected to the overwriting process or a storage state indicating whether or not the overwriting process has been executed.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an optical element wafer according to the present invention, in which a plurality of optical elements are arranged in two dimensions, includes: a replica forming step of forming a replica, in which an optical element shape is formed on a front surface side, in each of a plurality of recesses formed in a base; a stamper mold forming step of forming a stamper mold using the optical element shape of the replica; and an optical element wafer forming step of transferring the optical element shape to an optical element material using the stamper mold to form an optical element wafer.

Abstract: A document reading apparatus including: a first scanning section that moves in a scanning direction along a document surface, for supporting a first mirror to reflect an image of a document in a direction parallel to the scanning direction; an intermediate scanning section that moves synchronous with the first scanning section, for supporting an intermediate mirror to reflect the image of the document reflected by the first mirror in a direction opposite from an incident direction of the image; a reading section including an imaging sensor for reading the image of a scanned document and a focusing lens for focusing the image of the document reflected by the intermediate mirror on the imaging sensor; a driving wire for pulling the first scanning section in the scanning direction; a supporting pulley for supporting the driving wire at a starting side for scanning or at an ending side for scanning; a position adjustment section capable of adjusting a position of the supporting pulley in its axial direction; a co