Abstract: The obtaining condition input user interface receives a gesture input while a subject appearance image (human body icon) is displayed, the endoscope condition identification unit recognizes an endoscope gesture representing an insertion path of an endoscope in the subject represented by the subject appearance image based on position information of the gesture and a position of the subject appearance image on the display surface and if, the endoscope gesture is recognized, identifies a medical information obtaining condition for obtaining medical information of an actual and/or a virtual endoscopic examination of the subject, the medical information obtaining unit selectively obtain medical information satisfying the identified medical information obtaining condition from the medical information database storing a plurality of sets of medical information, and the medical information display control unit displays the obtained medical information.

Abstract: In the processor device connected to the endoscope, the imaging signal transmitted in serial from an imaging chip of the endoscope is converted by an S/P converter to parallel data, and is then decoded by an 8B10B decoder. In the imaging signal, word synchronous data is inserted at predetermined intervals. In the processor device, a process of determining the word synchronous data as appropriate word synchronous data if the word synchronous data has been detected a plurality of number of times and establishing word synchronization is performed.

Abstract: A positive type resist composition for use in liquid immersion exposure comprises: (A) a resin having a monocyclic or polycyclic cycloaliphatic hydrocarbon structure, the resin increasing its solubility in an alkali developer by an action of acid; (B) a compound generating acid upon irradiation with one of an actinic ray and a radiation; (C) an alkali soluble compound having an alkyl group of 5 or more carbon atoms; and (D) a solvent.

Abstract: From radiation images obtained by driving radiation tube with a plurality of tube voltages, including a normal tube voltage, a density gradient with respect to at least two sections of a reference substance having different radiation transmission characteristics is obtained for each of the plurality of tube voltages prior to obtaining a bone mineral density. If a radiation image captured for obtaining a bone mineral density is determined to have been captured under a tube voltage other than the normal tube voltage, an image signal representing the image and/or a bone mineral density analysis result is corrected so as to correspond to that which should have been obtained if the image had been captured under the normal tube voltage based on the relationship between the density gradient in the image and the density gradient in the radiation image captured under the normal tube voltage.

Abstract: The obtaining condition input interface receives a gesture input while a subject appearance image (human body icon) is displayed, the obtaining condition identification unit identifies, based on a type of the gesture determined by the gesture type analysis unit and a region of the subject corresponding to the gesture identified by the gesture region analysis unit, a medical information obtaining condition for obtaining medical information corresponding to the gesture, the medical information obtaining unit selectively obtains medical information satisfying the identified medical information obtaining condition from the medical information database storing a plurality of sets of medical information, and the medical information display control unit displays the obtained medical information on the display means.

Abstract: Stereo image print observable without polarized glasses, having: a transparent support; first laminate and second laminate disposed on a front surface and a back surface, respectively, of the transparent support, each laminate having an image layer satisfying condition (1) and protective layer having at least one layer satisfying condition (2), the image layer and the protective layer being disposed in this order from the transparent support side: (1) each image layer has a dichroic image including pixels for a left eye and pixels for a right eye arranged in a predetermined array, each pixel has at least one horizontally aligned dichroic dye, and absorption axes of the dichroic images included in the first and the second laminates are orthogonal to each other, (2) the protective layer has an in-plane retardation value (Re) of 10 nm or less for visible light; and a linearly polarizing layer satisfying the according to predefined condition.

Abstract: An organic photoelectric conversion element comprises: a pair of electrodes; an organic photoelectric conversion layer arranged between the pair of electrodes; and an positive hole blocking layer arranged between one of the pair of electrodes and the organic photoelectric conversion layer, wherein an ionization potential of the positive hole blocking layer is larger than a work function of the adjoining electrode by 1.3 eV or more, and wherein an electron affinity of the positive hole blocking layer is equal to or larger than that of the adjoining organic photoelectric conversion layer. An electron blocking layer may be arranged between the other one of the pair of electrodes and the organic photoelectric conversion layer, wherein its electron affinity is smaller than a work function of the adjoining electrode by 1.3 eV or more, and its ionization potential is equal to or smaller than that of the adjoining organic photoelectric conversion layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a photosensitive resin composition comprising: (Component A) an oxime sulfonate compound represented by Formula (1); (Component B) a resin comprising a constituent unit having an acid-decomposable group that is decomposed by an acid to form a carboxyl group or a phenolic hydroxy group; and (Component C) a solvent wherein in Formula (1) R1 denotes an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heteroaryl group, each R2 independently denotes a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a halogen atom, Ar1 denotes an o-arylene group or an o-heteroarylene group, X denotes O or S, and n denotes 1 or 2, provided that of two or more R2s present in the compound, at least one denotes an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a halogen atom.

Abstract: A fat-reducing agent includes a carotenoid-containing composition as an active ingredient, the carotenoid-containing composition including: a carotenoid component including at least one crystalline carotenoid, wherein at least 90% by mass of the crystalline carotenoid is in the non-crystalline state; and a (poly)glycerin fatty acid ester containing from 1 to 6 glycerin units and from 1 to 6 fatty acid units, and having at least one hydroxyl group in the glycerin units.

Abstract: A projection image is generated from a three-dimensional image by projecting an observation target in a predetermined projection direction. The generated projection image is displayed at a center of a display screen of a display device. A region extending in the predetermined projection direction from a central part of the display screen is set as set region, and at least a part of an overlapped region between the set region, which has been set, and the observation target is determined, as rotation center candidate region. Center of rotation is determined in the determined rotation center candidate region or in the vicinity thereof.

Abstract: An aspect of the present invention relates to a method of manufacturing magnetic particles, which comprises adding a carboxylic acid compound to a water-based magnetic liquid, wherein the water-based magnetic liquid comprises magnetic particles dispersed in an acidic water-based solvent, and the carboxylic acid compound is selected from the group consisting of aromatic compounds and aliphatic compounds having one or more carboxylic acid (salt) groups denoted by: —COOM wherein M denotes a hydrogen atom or an alkali metal atom, when the number of the carboxylic acid (salt) group contained within the molecule thereof is 1, the number of carbon atoms, excluding the carboxylic acid (salt) group portion, ranges from 1 to 13; and then collecting the magnetic particles from the water-based magnetic liquid to obtain the magnetic particles the surfaces of which have been modified by being coated with the carboxylic acid compound.

Abstract: An aspect of the present invention provides an inkjet recording apparatus, including: a conveyance device which has a moving suctioning surface and which conveys a cut sheet medium by suctioning the medium on the suctioning surface, a concavoconvex pattern being formed in the suctioning surface by arranging recess sections regularly in the suctioning surface, and suction holes each having an opening smaller than a size of openings of the recess sections being formed inside the recess sections; and a recording head which forms an image by ejecting ink by an inkjet method onto a surface of the medium which is conveyed by the conveyance device. According to the aspect, it is possible to prevent floating and wrinkling of the medium during conveyance, and an image of high quality can be recorded.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprising an image processing unit that applies, for left and right complement target areas serving as non-output areas respectively positioned closer to the center of the output plane than the left and right reference boundaries set by the reference boundary setting unit, image information about adjacent areas serving as partial areas within the left and right viewpoint images respectively adjacent to the left and right complement target areas, respectively, to the left and right complement target areas, to complement image information about the left and right complement target areas in each of the stereoscopic image frames and an output unit that outputs each of the stereoscopic image frames in which the image processing unit has complemented the image information to the left and right complement target areas according to the disparities adjusted by the disparity adjustment unit.

Abstract: An aspect of the present invention relates to a method of manufacturing magnetic particles, which comprises: adding a compound to a water-based magnetic liquid, wherein the water-based magnetic liquid comprises magnetic particles dispersed in an acidic water-based solvent, and the compound is selected from the group consisting of amine compounds, aromatic compounds, and aliphatic compounds having one or more monovalent phosphorus polar groups denoted by: wherein m1 denotes 0 or 1, m2 denotes 1 or 2, and M denotes a hydrogen atom or an alkali metal atom; and then collecting the magnetic particles from the water-based magnetic liquid to obtain the magnetic particles the surfaces of which have been modified by being coated with the compound.

Abstract: An inkjet recording method included a feeding step of feeding a recording medium, a jetting step of jetting aqueous ultraviolet-curable ink onto the recording medium, a humidity controlling step of controlling the amount of moisture on the surface on the recording side of the recording medium after the jetting step in such a way that a difference between the amounts of moisture on the surface on the recording side of the recording medium after the jetting step and during the feeding step becomes equal to or greater than 2 g/m2 and equal to or less than 5 g/m2, and a fixing step of curing and fixing, with a dose of ultraviolet light equal to or greater than 800 mJ/cm2, the aqueous ultraviolet-curable ink on the recording medium in which the difference of the amounts of moisture has been controlled.

Abstract: The present invention provides a radiographic image detector that maintains even resolution in 6 directions before and after 4 pixel binning processing. In the radiographic image detector, first TFT switches of each pixel are switched ON according to control signals from plural first scan lines, and charge signals according to accumulated charges are transmitted through data lines. For each pixel group configured by combinations of plural adjacent pixels, second TFT switches of the pixels configuring each of the pixel groups are switched ON according to control signals from plural second scan lines, and binning processing is performed in which 4 pixels worth of charges are read simultaneously and are combined, and charge signals according to the amount of the combined charges are transmitted through the data lines.

Abstract: Provided is a technique for improving the quality of an image obtained by a pupil-division-type stereoscopic imaging device. First and second images obtained by the stereoscopic imaging device according to the present invention have the shading of an object in a pupil division direction. Therefore, when the first and second images are composed, reference data in which shading is cancelled is generated. The amount of shading correction for the first and second images is determined on the basis of the reference data and shading correction is performed on the first and second images on the basis of the determined amount of shading correction.

Abstract: A CCD image sensor is provided with a pixel set. The pixel set is composed of first and second pixels and a microlens. The pixels are arranged side by side in a horizontal direction. The microlens has a hemispheric shape. A diameter of the microlens is larger than a length of a rectangular region, being an external shape of the first and second pixels, in a height direction. The rectangular region has a height and width ratio of approximately 1:2. The pixel sets are arranged in a width direction of the rectangular region to constitute a pixel row. In the CCD image sensor, the pixel rows are arranged in the height direction of the rectangular region, with the adjacent pixel rows shifted from each other in the horizontal direction by half pitch of the rectangular region.

Abstract: A laser beam is emitted onto fluorescent molecules within a solution to orient the fluorescent molecules. The direction in which the laser beam is emitted is switched to switch the transition moment direction of the fluorescent particles to be parallel or perpendicular to the vibrating direction of linearly polarized excitation light. Thereby, the fluorescent molecules of free molecules and binding molecules can be switched between an excited and a non excited state. There is a difference in the speeds at which the orientation directions change for molecules which have undergone and molecules which have not undergone antigen antibody reactions. Therefore, the fluorescence contributed by fluorescent molecules associated with free molecules and the fluorescence contributed by fluorescent molecules associated with binding molecules can be calculated respectively, to measure the concentration of a detection target substance with high sensitivity.

Abstract: An optical film that does not cause display unevenness, includes a retardation layer A (A layer) satisfying the following relational expression, nz>nx?ny here, nx represents an in-plane refractive index in a direction of an in-plane slow axis, ny represents an in-plane refractive index in a direction orthogonal to the direction of an in-plane slow axis, and nz represents a refractive index in a thickness direction; and a retardation layer B (B layer) of which in-plane retardation Re and thickness direction retardation Rth satisfy the following relational expressions: 0 nm?Re?20 nm and 50 nm?Rth?300 nm, wherein the total film thickness is 5 ?m to 40 ?m.