Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes: a first frame, a second frame spaced apart from the first frame in a first direction, and a first joint terminal provided above a second chip provided on the second frame. The first frame includes a first terminal portion extending toward the second frame. The first joint terminal includes a second terminal portion extending toward the first frame. The second terminal portion includes a plane portion, a first projecting portion and a second projecting portion each branching out from the plane portion. An end portion of the first projecting portion and an end portion of the second projecting portion are respectively joined on the first terminal portion. The first projecting portion is different in a length in a first direction from the second projecting portion.

Abstract: From each of in-vehicle units in vehicles, a travel behavior data indicating a travel behavior of the vehicle is received and recorded in a travel history database. The travel behavior data of the vehicles are read from the travel history database; an avoidance action arising in each of the vehicles is detected based on the read travel behavior data. From the detected avoidance actions of the vehicles, a related avoidance action group being avoidance actions arising due to an identical object at different positions at different points of times in different target vehicles is extracted based on an occurrence position and an occurrence point of time of each detected avoidance action. Information on position change of the identical object as a cause of the extracted related avoidance action group is recorded as an alert target data.

Abstract: A history management method for managing history information of multiple vehicles using blockchains is provided. The history management method includes generating a master block from history information collected in a vehicle, setting a node serving as a storage destination of a backup block of the master block per block, storing, together with the master block, backup blocks that are different in history information collecting vehicle from the master block in a block storage unit, and sending the backup block for a particular vehicle requested in a recovery request.

Abstract: A history management method for managing history information of a vehicle using a blockchain is provided. The history management method performed by at least one processor includes generating a block for being connected to the blockchain from the history information collected in the vehicle, per block, setting a storage destination of a backup of the generated block from among nodes communicable with the vehicle, and sending the backup of the block to the node that is set as the storage destination.

Abstract: A history management method for managing history information of a vehicle using a blockchain is provided. The history management method performed by at least one processor includes generating a block for being connected to the blockchain from the history information collected in the vehicle, per block, setting a storage destination of a backup of the generated block from among nodes communicable with the vehicle, and sending the backup of the block to the node that is set as the storage destination.

Abstract: A history management method for managing history information of multiple vehicles using blockchains is provided. The history management method includes generating a master block from history information collected in a vehicle, setting a node serving as a storage destination of a backup block of the master block per block, storing, together with the master block, backup blocks that are different in history information collecting vehicle from the master block in a block storage unit, and sending the backup block for a particular vehicle requested in a recovery request.

Abstract: From each of in-vehicle units in vehicles, a travel behavior data indicating a travel behavior of the vehicle is received and recorded in a travel history database. The travel behavior data of the vehicles are read from the travel history database; an avoidance action arising in each of the vehicles is detected based on the read travel behavior data. From the detected avoidance actions of the vehicles, a related avoidance action group being avoidance actions arising due to an identical object at different positions at different points of times in different target vehicles is extracted based on an occurrence position and an occurrence point of time of each detected avoidance action. Information on position change of the identical object as a cause of the extracted related avoidance action group is recorded as an alert target data.

Abstract: Disclosed is an ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus including an ultrasound probe which outputs a transmission ultrasound wave toward a subject due to a driving signal and which outputs a received signal by receiving a reflection ultrasound wave from the subject, a transmitting unit which makes the ultrasound probe generate the transmission ultrasound wave by outputting each of a first transmission signal, a second transmission signal, a third transmission signal and a fourth transmission signal as the driving signal, and a signal component extraction unit which extracts a higher harmonic component and a difference frequency component by compounding a first received signal, a second received signal, a third received signal and a fourth received signal.

Abstract: Disclosed is an ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus including an ultrasound probe which outputs a transmission ultrasound toward a subject and a received signal obtained by receiving a reflected ultrasound from the subject, a transmission unit, a receiving unit and a puncture needle position detection unit which obtains a puncture needle echo information indicating an angle and a position of the puncture needle from the plane-wave received signal, and an ultrasound image is displayed on the basis of the received signal, the transmission unit applies the driving signal to the ultrasound probe so that a plane-wave transmission ultrasound is output from the ultrasound probe, and the receiving unit receives a plane-wave received signal which is obtained in such a way that the plane-wave transmission ultrasound is transmitted from the ultrasound probe, reflected by a puncture needle to be the reflected ultrasound and received by the ultrasound probe.

Abstract: Disclosed is an ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus including an ultrasound probe which outputs transmission ultrasound waves toward a subject by a driving signal and which outputs received signals by receiving reflection ultrasound waves from the subject and a transmitting unit which generates the transmission ultrasound waves by the ultrasound probe by outputting the driving signal, and the transmitting unit generates the driving signal of square wave having a waveform in which a standard pulse signal where a pulse cycle is 2 T is combined with two first pulse signals of same polarity having a pulse width A (A<T) and a second pulse signal having a pulse width B (B=T?2A), the second pulse signal having a polarity different from the polarity of the first pulse signals.

Abstract: Disclosed is an ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus including an ultrasound probe which outputs a transmission ultrasound toward a subject and a received signal obtained by receiving a reflected ultrasound from the subject, a transmission unit, a receiving unit and a puncture needle position detection unit which obtains a puncture needle echo information indicating an angle and a position of the puncture needle from the plane-wave received signal, and an ultrasound image is displayed on the basis of the received signal, the transmission unit applies the driving signal to the ultrasound probe so that a plane-wave transmission ultrasound is output from the ultrasound probe, and the receiving unit receives a plane-wave received signal which is obtained in such a way that the plane-wave transmission ultrasound is transmitted from the ultrasound probe, reflected by a puncture needle to be the reflected ultrasound and received by the ultrasound probe.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of increasing the thermal hysteresis activity exhibited by a composition containing an antifreeze protein and water, wherein the method includes incorporating the antifreeze protein and any one or more substances selected from the following additive group A into the water. According to the present invention, the method of further increasing the thermal hysteresis activity inherently possessed by an antifreeze protein can be provided. Additive group A: an organic acid, an organic acid salt, an inorganic salt, an amino acid, an amino acid salt, an ammonium salt, a sugar, a sugar alcohol, urea, guanidine hydrochloride, spermidine, spermine, and N,N-dimethylformamide.

Abstract: Disclosed is an ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus including an ultrasound probe which outputs a transmission ultrasound wave toward a subject due to a driving signal and which outputs a received signal by receiving a reflection ultrasound wave from the subject, a transmitting unit which makes the ultrasound probe generate the transmission ultrasound wave by outputting each of a first transmission signal, a second transmission signal, a third transmission signal and a fourth transmission signal as the driving signal, and a signal component extraction unit which extracts a higher harmonic component and a difference frequency component by compounding a first received signal, a second received signal, a third received signal and a fourth received signal.

Abstract: Disclosed is an ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus including an ultrasound probe which outputs transmission ultrasound waves toward a subject by a driving signal and which outputs received signals by receiving reflection ultrasound waves from the subject and a transmitting unit which generates the transmission ultrasound waves by the ultrasound probe by outputting the driving signal, and the transmitting unit generates the driving signal of square wave having a waveform in which a standard pulse signal where a pulse cycle is 2T is combined with two first pulse signals of same polarity having a pulse width A (A<T) and a second pulse signal having a pulse width B (B=T?2A), the second pulse signal having a polarity different from the polarity of the first pulse signals.

Abstract: An image processor executes an image processing under an appropriate condition.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a small-scale diagnosis system for conducting simple and efficient examination, including: an image creating apparatus for creating photographic image data of examination object; a CPU to conduct image processing for creating defined photographic image data from the photographic image data; an input section to input the examination object information to specify the photographed examination object; a CPU to correlate the defined image data created and examination object information corresponding to the defined photographic image data; a server to store the defined photographic image data having been correlated and the examination object information; a display section capable of displaying at least any one of the photographic image data, the defined photographic image data or the examination object information; and a control device having at least the CPU to carry out image processing, the CPU to carry out correlation processing and the display section.

Abstract: An image processor executes an image processing under an appropriate condition.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus allows appropriate image processing with high versatility regardless of a site of a test subject and setting by an operator. There are provided a gradation transformation processing section 162 that performs gradation transformation processing on image data obtained by photographing a subject, based on a gradation transformation characteristic having a predetermined shift amount S and gradient G, a frequency enhancement processing section 163 that performs frequency enhancement processing on the image data having been subjected to the gradation transformation processing, based on a frequency enhancement characteristic being a characteristic of enhancement degrees for respective frequencies, and an image processing condition calculation section 130 that determines the gradation transformation characteristic and calculates the frequency enhancement characteristic, based on the gradation transformation characteristic.

Abstract: The invention concerns an image-processing apparatus, in which a high-frequency component signal of an original image-signal, representing a plurality of pixels, is added to either the original image-signal or a lowest frequency image-signal of the original image-signal, in order to generate a processed image-signal. The image-processing apparatus includes: a conversion-processing section to apply a conversion-processing to unsharp image-signals, generated from the original image-signal in respect to a plurality of frequency bands, so as to generate converted unsharp image-signals; a differential processing section to generate differential image-signals obtained from differences between the unsharp image-signals and the converted unsharp image-signals; and an addition-processing section to totally add the differential image-signals to generate the high-frequency component signal of the original image-signal.

Abstract: The invention concerns an image-processing apparatus, in which a high-frequency component signal of an original image-signal, representing a plurality of pixels, is added to either the original image-signal or a lowest frequency image-signal of the original image-signal, in order to generate a processed image-signal. The image-processing apparatus includes: a conversion-processing section to apply a conversion-processing to unsharp image-signals, generated from the original image-signal in respect to a plurality of frequency bands, so as to generate converted unsharp image-signals; a differential processing section to generate differential image-signals obtained from differences between the unsharp image-signals and the converted unsharp image-signals; and an addition-processing section to totally add the differential image-signals to generate the high-frequency component signal of the original image-signal.