Abstract: A device for treating the lumen of a living body includes a shaft insertable into a blood vessel, and a balloon provided on the shaft and shiftable between a deflated state and an expanded state. In the expanded state, the balloon has a recessed portion configured to form a coating chamber which is substantially blocked between an inner surface of the blood vessels and the device for treating the lumen of a living body, a discharge port provided on the recessed portion to discharge a coating substance toward the coating chamber; and a suction port provided on the recessed portion to apply a negative pressure to the coating chamber.

Abstract: To provide a fluorescent hydrogel having superior detectability of saccharides such as glucose and minimal invasiveness, a method for producing the same, and a sensor for measuring saccharides using the same. A florescent hydrogel having a structure represented by the following chemical formula 1, a method for producing the same, and a sensor for measuring saccharides using the same.

Abstract: A method of producing a microstructured gel in a shape in accordance with a pattern comprises: dropping a polymerizable monomer aqueous solution containing a polymerizable monomer component onto a portion of a surface of a substrate having a pattern comprising a fine groove in the surface; moving by capillary action the polymerizable monomer aqueous solution along the groove constituting the pattern; and subjecting the polymerizable monomer aqueous solution in the groove to polymerization.

Abstract: To provide a fluorescent hydrogel having superior detectability of saccharides such as glucose and minimal invasiveness, a method for producing the same, and a sensor for measuring saccharides using the same. A florescent hydrogel having a structure represented by the following chemical formula 1, a method for producing the same, and a sensor for measuring saccharides using the same.

Abstract: A wiring tool (10) includes a base (1) and a cover (2) each of which is a plate with projections and recesses. The base (1) has partition walls (12A, 12B) standing from a wiring portion (11) to surround protection spaces (90A, 90B) where protected portions (41, 42) are to be arranged. The cover (2) is assembled with the base (1) to cover an area of the base (1) including the wiring portion (11). The cover (2) includes lids (24) that project toward the base (1) and fit into the inner sides of the partition walls (12A, 12B) of the base (1) to close openings formed by the partition walls (12A, 12B). The base (1) and the cover (2) are obtained by vacuum forming a flat resin plate.

Abstract: A scanner device includes a scanner body enclosed by a housing and an external cover covering an outer side of the housing. The external cover is comprised of a plurality of external members. By spacing the adjacent external members apart from each other at the side edge parts of the housing, recesses are formed between the adjacent external members so as to constitute parts of the external design of the scanner body. Preferably, the side edge parts of the housing are exposed between the adjacent external members at the side edge parts of the housing, and information providing devices providing information on the scanner device are provided at the side edge parts of the housing exposed between the adjacent external members.

Abstract: An audio/video synchronous playback device includes a first synchronization section for repeating or skipping a first video data sequence in units of a video frame interval thereof to synchronize the first video data sequence with an audio data sequence, and a second synchronization section for repeating or skipping a second video data sequence in units of a video frame or video field interval thereof to synchronize the second video data sequence with the audio data sequence. A first video data sequence output and a second video data sequence output having different frame frequencies are separately synchronized with one channel of audio data sequence output with their respective precisions.

Abstract: A scanner device includes a scanner body formed with a document insertion opening and a document ejection opening and is configured so that a document taken in from the document insertion opening is read and then ejected from the document ejection opening. The scanner device further includes an upper surface cover covering the upper surface of the scanner body and a front surface cover covering the front surface of the scanner body. The front cover is connected at a lower end side thereof to the lower front part of the scanner body and connected at an upper end side thereof to pivotably connected to the front end side of the upper surface cover. By opening the front surface cover from the front surface of the scanner body, the upper surface cover and front surface cover form a document ejection tray.

Abstract: A scanner device includes a scanner body enclosed by a housing and an external cover covering an outer side of the housing. The external cover is comprised of a plurality of external members. By spacing the adjacent external members apart from each other at the side edge parts of the housing, recesses are formed between the adjacent external members so as to constitute parts of the external design of the scanner body. Preferably, the side edge parts of the housing are exposed between the adjacent external members at the side edge parts of the housing, and information providing devices providing information on the scanner device are provided at the side edge parts of the housing exposed between the adjacent external members.

Abstract: A scanner device includes a scanner body formed with a document insertion opening and a document ejection opening and is configured so that an document taken in from the document insertion opening is read and then ejected from the document ejection opening. The scanner device further includes an upper surface cover covering the upper surface of the scanner body and a front surface cover covering the front surface of the scanner body. The front cover is connected at a lower end side thereof to the lower front part of the scanner body and connected at an upper end side thereof to pivotably connected to the front end side of the upper surface cover. By opening the front surface cover from the front surface of the scanner body, the upper surface cover and front surface cover form a document ejection tray.

Abstract: A filter device includes a vertical NR process portion, a vertical resolution conversion portion and a vertical NR process decision portion. The vertical NR process portion receives a horizontal NR processed signal and produces an NR processed signal. The vertical resolution conversion portion includes a plurality of resolution conversion filters and uses the NR processed signal to perform a vertical resolution conversion. The vertical NR process decision portion decides whether or not the vertical NR process portion should perform the vertical NR process on the horizontal NR processed signal in accordance with a resolution conversion filter selection signal for selecting one of plurality of resolution conversion filters for the vertical resolution conversion portion.

Abstract: An audio/video synchronous playback device includes a first synchronization section for repeating or skipping a first video data sequence in units of a video frame interval thereof to synchronize the first video data sequence with an audio data sequence, and a second synchronization section for repeating or skipping a second video data sequence in units of a video frame or video field interval thereof to synchronize the second video data sequence with the audio data sequence. A first video data sequence output and a second video data sequence output having different frame frequencies are separately synchronized with one channel of audio data sequence output with their respective precisions.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus employs a liquid toner having nonvolatile high-viscosity silicon oil as a carrier fluid to form a toner image. The image forming apparatus includes a removing unit that removes a predetermined amount of carrier fluid contained in the toner image to thereby obtaining a carrier-fluid removed toner-image, a transfer unit that transfers the carrier-fluid removed toner-image onto an image forming medium; and a fixing unit that fixes the carrier-fluid removed toner-image on the image forming medium to the image forming medium.

Abstract: A device for easily determining whether a rare short circuit, which results from the generation of heat exceeding a predetermined value, has occurred in a load circuit. The device includes a fuse for detecting a load current that flows through the load circuit and generates a detection signal. A determination circuit is connected to the fuse to determine whether a rare short circuit has occurred. The determination circuit calculates one of a first parameter and a second parameter based on the detection signal. The first parameter relates to a first time period during which the load current exceeds a predetermined reference current value. The second parameter relates to a second time period during which the load current is less than or equal to the predetermined reference current value.

Abstract: An image coding apparatus is provided with a blocking circuit for dividing an input image signal into two-dimensional blocks each comprising plural pixels; a frequency distribution verifier for calculating the average and variance from a plurality of image feature data and the frequency distribution of each feature data for each block in a predetermined period; a filter characteristic decider, a filter circuit, and an encoder. The input image signal is divided into local regions each comprising plural pixels, the image feature data of each local region is extracted, the average and the variance of the extracted image feature data are calculated from the frequency distribution of the image feature data for a predetermined period, and a filter characteristic and a quantization step are decided for each local region according to the degree of singularity of each local region.

Abstract: In a video signal recording/reproducing apparatus capable of outputting as a reproduced video signal a video signal which has been recorded in advance, a cuttable portion detection section detects a cutting portion in the received video signal while recording a received video signal. A cuttable portion identification section identifies whether or not a reproduced video signal reproduced from a storage device belongs to the cuttable portion detected by the cuttable portion detection section. A switch judgment section receives a result of detection by the cuttable portion detection section and a result of identification by the cuttable portion identification section, and gives an output switch section an instruction to switch a video signal to an output switching section when the switch judgment section judges that the reproduced video signal and the received video signal are contained in the same cuttable portion.

Abstract: An image motion detecting circuit and an image motion detecting method of the present invention can accurately detect motion of such an image sequence that different still pictures are connected with each other. Inter-frame difference absolute values of an inputted image signal during a predetermined frame period are held by plural registers 105. Then, the maximum value is extracted from the inter-frame difference absolute values which are held by the plural registers 105, and the extracted maximum value is subtracted from the sum of the inter-frame difference absolute values during the predetermined frame period, thereby detecting the motion of the whole image sequence.

Abstract: A filter device includes a vertical NR process portion (14), a vertical resolution conversion portion (12) and a vertical NR process decision portion (20). The vertical NR process portion (14) receives a horizontal NR processed signal (26) and produces an NR processed signal (27). The vertical resolution conversion portion (12) includes a plurality of resolution conversion filters and uses the NR processed signal (27) to perform a vertical resolution conversion. The vertical NR process decision portion (20) decides whether or not the vertical NR process portion (14) should perform the vertical NR process on the horizontal NR processed signal (26) in accordance with a resolution conversion filter selection signal (32) for selecting one of plurality of resolution conversion filters for the vertical resolution conversion portion (12).

Abstract: A moving image coding method includes a first coding section, a decoding section and a second coding section. The first coding section compression-codes a moving image signal in a first time (T) and outputs the results as a coded moving image signal of a first information amount (V), and also obtains control information. The decoding section decodes the coded moving image signal coded by the first coding section and outputs the results as a decoded moving image signal. The second coding section compression-codes the decoded moving image signal from the decoding section based on the control information obtained by the first coding section and a set second information amount (R) and outputs the results as a coded moving image signal of the second information amount (R).

Abstract: An electrode module in the form of a flexible sheet which contacts with a toner layer and to which a bias voltage is applied is provided on a developing roller before development. The electrode module is adapted to separate the toner layer largely into a toner-rich layer and a carrier-rich layer by utilizing electrical migration occurring in the toner layer when an electric field is applied to the toner layer on the basis of the bias voltage. The electrode module is constructed in such a manner that the sheet is pulled toward a surface of the developer bearer body by a force attributable to surface tension or wetting characteristic of the liquid developer existing between the sheet and the developer carrying body, whereby the sheet comes into contact with the surface of the developer bearer body. This electrode construction increases the contact area or nip width of a bias blade provided for the developing roller and enhances its contact stability.