Abstract: Provided are a toilet seat device saving energy and accurately stabilizing the temperature of a seating section at a predetermined level in a short time, and a toilet apparatus having the same. A control section adjusts the temperature of a toilet seat section to 18° C. when a heating function is turned on, and during a standby period D1, the control section performs low electric power drive of a lamp heater provided at the toilet seat section. The control section starts 600 W drive of the lamp heater at time t1 after the control section detects user's entry into a room, and the control section maintains the 600 W drive during an inrush current reduction period D2. The control section starts 1200 W drive of the lamp heater at time t2 and maintains the 1200 W drive during a first temperature rise period D3.

Abstract: Proposed are a storage system and a data management setting method capable of preventing the destruction of data while alleviating the management burden of system administrators and the like. This storage system has one or more host systems, and a storage control unit for providing a data logical volume configured from a storage extent for reading and writing data from and in each of the host systems. The storage control unit comprises a determination unit for determining the type of operation system loaded in the host system based on the type information of the operation system sent from the host system according to a command sent from the host system or a request of the storage control unit, and a parameter setting unit for setting a prescribed operation parameter of the host system according to the operation system determined with the determination unit.

Abstract: In the case where, e.g., because of provision of a high-gain and high-energy Q-switched laser oscillator in a laser system in a MOPA configuration, the duration ?z from the time point when oscillation-stage Q switches (13a and 13b) start the gate ON to the time point when a pulse laser beam (18) starts to grow is shorter than the fall time ?f of amplification-stage Q switches (13c, 13d, and 13e), by implementing control in such a way that the gate-ON timing of the oscillation-stage Q switches (13a and 13b) lag behind the gate-ON timing of the amplification-stage Q switches (13c, 13d, and 13e) by a predetermined time, the loss in the pulse laser beam (18) at the amplification-stage Q switches (13c, 13d, and 13e) can be prevented, while the gain deterioration due to a spontaneously amplified ray (17) produced in the amplification stage is being suppressed. Therefore, a high-energy pulse laser beam can efficiently be obtained.

Abstract: A system for carrying a notebook computer without a case is disclosed. The system comprises a computer that has two slots of the type which receive a locking mechanism on an edge surface, and a handle having a strap with attachment mechanisms at the ends thereof that are adapted to detachably and securely mate with the slots on the computer. When the handle is attached it can be used to carry the computer.

Abstract: A portable terminal displays a menu screen in which small screens respectively corresponding to categories are shown on display positions of a display unit, wherein the display positions respectively correspond to operation positions of an operation panel.

Abstract: A portable terminal displays a menu screen in which small screens respectively corresponding to categories are shown on display positions of a display unit, wherein the display positions respectively correspond to operation positions of an operation panel.

Abstract: An image-encoding apparatus includes an encoding unit that performs intra-frame encoding or inter-frame encoding on each picture of moving image data to output encoded data that includes an encoded group that includes at least one encoded picture, an encoding distortion calculating unit that calculates an amount of encoding distortion, an inter-frame correlation calculating unit that calculates a correlation between frames in the moving image data, an index value calculating unit that calculates an index value that is used to determine a structure of the encoded group based on the correlation, condition data, and the amount of encoding distortion, and an encoding control unit that outputs a control parameter for controlling at least the structure of the encoded group in the encoding unit based on the index value.

Abstract: A PET apparatus is provided, which ensures excellent quantitativeness by properly correcting the influence of scattered radiation while improving the resolution of a reconstructed image and keeping good photon pair detection sensitivity. A determining section 52 determines whether a straight line connecting the light-receiving surfaces 15b of a pair of photon detectors 15a which have simultaneously detected a photon pair crosses any one of slice collimators 21n. When it is determined that the straight line crosses none of the slice collimators 21n, the corresponding coincidence counting information is accumulated by a first coincidence counting information storage section 53 to generate a signal sinogram. When it is determined that the straight line crosses one of the slice collimators 21n, the corresponding coincidence counting information is accumulated by a second coincidence counting information storage section 54 to generate a scatter sinogram.

Abstract: A rotating ceptor 20 provided inside a detector portion 10 includes nine shield plates S1 to S9 disposed in parallel to each other in between adjacent detector rings R, acts as a collimator, and allows only those photon pairs that have traveled approximately parallel to a slice plane to be made incident upon photon detectors D located behind the rotating ceptor 20. Each of the shield plates S is not formed annularly, and provided near the measurement field of view 1 of part of N photon detectors D that constitute each of the detector rings R. The rotating ceptor 20 is rotatable about its center axis. Each of the shield plates S is provided with bar-shaped radiation source insertion holes 20a and 20b for allowing a bar-shaped positron emission radiation source 3 to be inserted therein and supported thereby.

Abstract: A portable terminal displays a menu screen in which small screens respectively corresponding to categories are shown on display positions of a display unit, wherein the display positions respectively correspond to operation positions of an operation panel.

Abstract: In response to key operation, a portable terminal lights up an LCD unit, and also lights up keys only when it is dark around the portable phone by measuring external brightness.

Abstract: A portable terminal displays a menu screen in which small screens respectively corresponding to categories are shown on display positions of a display unit, wherein the display positions respectively correspond to operation positions of an operation panel.

Abstract: The present invention makes possible recording motion pictures accurately starting at a point where a start recording event is received. The recording includes those pictures prior to the start recording event using a picture compressing method that compresses pictures both before and after the starting event, typically using the MPEG2 compression system. To make the above recording method possible, the present invention provides a signal processor and a photographic device that can search a motion vector for changing the object searching range properly, set an compression amount allocation for each picture type, and allow optimized parameters to be set when a start recording event is generated. The pictures processed before the start recording event is generated are stored in a memory buffer and on a recording medium so as to be used for recording or reproduction data entered after the recording starting time.

Abstract: The energy E of a signal pulse P inputted to an energy measurement apparatus 1 for measurement, and corresponding to the total integrated intensity, is calculated in an energy calculation unit 10 from the integrated signal intensity Q acquired by a gate integrator 32, and from the pulse interval T measured by a pulse interval measurement unit 23. At this time, pileup correction is performed using at least one of the integrated signal intensity or the energy, and the pulse interval of the signal pulse inputted prior to the signal pulse for measurement. By this means, the correct energy E, with the effect of pileup eliminated, can be determined with good precision. Hence a method and apparatus for energy measurement are realized which enable correct and precise measurement of the energy of individual signal pulses, even when the pulse interval between signal pulses is short.

Abstract: A service providing apparatus includes personal data specifying means for specifying personal data of a user of a mobile terminal based on user identification (ID) information received from the mobile terminal via a first line and terminal ID information received from the mobile terminal via a second line, and service executing means for executing a desired service for the user based on the personal data specified by the personal data specifying means. As a result, the user of a receiver for WEB service using the mobile terminal, such as a mobile telephone, is correctly specified (verified) in security by the service providing apparatus (e.g., a call center) without using a dedicated encoding technique, such as SSL (Secure Socket Layer).

Abstract: The correlation between the diplotype configuration of the NAT2 gene and the adverse effect of SASP in RA patients was assessed. It was discovered that the incidence rate of adverse effects was higher in the patients having no wild type haplotype who were treated with SASP. Thus, the risk of adverse effects of SASP for each individual can be evaluated by determining the diplotype configuration at the NAT2 gene for each subject in terms of the presence of the wild type haplotype.

Abstract: To provide a POS system so designed that where a commodity whose the time of consumption has been passed was read, a warning message is displayed to an operator to call an attention to the operator.

Abstract: The present invention makes possible recording motion pictures accurately starting at a point where a start recording event is received. The recording includes those pictures prior to the start recording event using a picture compressing method that compresses pictures both before and after the starting event, typically using the MPEG2 compression system. To make the above recording method possible, the present invention provides a signal processor and a photographic device that can search a motion vector for changing the object searching range properly, set an compression amount allocation for each picture type, and allow optimized parameters to be set when a start recording event is generated. The pictures processed before the start recording event is generated are stored in a memory buffer and on a recording medium so as to be used for recording or reproduction data entered after the recording starting time.

Abstract: A PET apparatus includes a detecting unit; slice septa for transmitting therethrough flying photons nearly perpendicular to the center axis; a slice septa position determining section for determining whether or not the slice septa exist in the measurement space side of at least one of the pair of photon detectors; a two-dimensional projection image storage section for storing coincidence-counting information of the photon pair obtained by the pair of photon detectors; a three-dimensional projection data storage section for storing coincidence counting information obtained by the pair of photon detectors; and an image reconstructing section for reconstruction an image indicative of a spatial distribution of a frequency at which photon pairs are emitted in the measurement space.

Abstract: A navigation apparatus measures the position of a vehicle based on position information and performing route guiding based on map information.