Abstract: Provided is an adhesion preventing medical material including a bioresorbable base material and a polyhydric alcohol or aqueous polyhydric alcohol solution, which contains the polyhydric alcohol, held in the bioresorbable base material. The bioresorbable base material includes a bioresorbable material, and has a swelling degree of 200 to 3,000 mass % and a water elution rate of not higher than 10 mass %. After immersed for 3 hours in water of 25° C. in an amount at least 50 times a total mass of the aqueous polyhydric alcohol solution or aqueous polyhydric alcohol solution and the bioresorbable base material, the polyhydric alcohol remains in an amount of not greater than 30 mass % of that of the polyhydric alcohol before the immersion.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a position detecting unit for detecting the position when a positioning unit completes positioning in a working distance direction, a first acquisition unit for acquiring information about a curvature radius of a cornea of a subject's eye, a second acquisition unit for acquiring information about an intraocular pressure of the subject's eye at a predetermined position in a movable range, which is set in the working distance direction in such a way as not to exceed a proximity limit position relative to the subject's eye, and a control unit for controlling the second acquisition unit based on outputs of the position detecting unit and the first acquisition unit in such a way as to maintain a predetermined distance between the cornea of the subject's eye and the proximity limit position in the working distance direction, regardless of the curvature radius of the cornea of the subject's eye.

Abstract: An embodiment provides a method, including: initiating communication between a first communication device with a first near field communication device and a second communication device with a second near field communication device, wherein said second near field communication device is in a stopped state comprising; receiving a request from said first communication device at said second communication device; after receiving the request, shifting said second near field communication device to an operational state; receiving other information from said first near field communication device at said second near field communication device; ending communication between said first near field communication and said second near field communication device; and shifting said second near field communication device to a stopped state. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: A method for booting up a computer is disclosed. Initially, a memory image of a boot program is stored in a main memory of a computer. The memory image includes a first initialization code and a second initialization code. During the booting process of the computer, first initialization code is executed. In response to the completion of the execution of the first initialization code, the boot program is shifted to an idle state. In response to an activation event, the second initialization code is executed.

Abstract: Provided is an ophthalmologic apparatus capable of executing accurate automatic alignment even for an eye having an intraocular lens (IOL) implanted therein. The ophthalmologic apparatus includes: an optical system including a light beam projecting unit for projecting a light beam to an eye to be inspected, and a light receiving unit for receiving a reflection light beam from the eye to be inspected; a detecting unit for detecting a plurality of bright spot images from the reflection light beam received by the light receiving unit; and a calculating unit for calculating an alignment status between the eye to be inspected and the optical system based on the detected plurality of bright spot images. The ophthalmologic apparatus is further provided with a selection unit for selecting bright spot images to be used for the calculation by the calculating unit, from among the plurality of bright spot images.

Abstract: In order to automatically determine whether an eye to be inspected is an IOL eye by using bright spot images on a cornea for inspection at high accuracy, an ophthalmologic apparatus is provided with: a light beam projecting unit for projecting a light beam on the cornea of the eye to be inspected; a light receiving unit including an image pickup element for receiving a reflection light beam obtained by reflection of the light beam projected by the projecting unit to obtain cornea bright spot images from the cornea of the eye to be inspected; and an IOL eye determining unit for determining whether the eye to be inspected is the IOL eye based on the cornea bright spot images received by the light receiving unit.

Abstract: A computer system having an operating environment configured for enabling boot up in a relatively short time is disclosed. A hard disk is utilized to store a boot file. A run process list registers a process to be run during boot up. When the computer system is being booted up, if the run process list registers a process to load the boot file, a process control unit does not control a process management unit, so that the process is run as usual. If the process is not registered, the process management unit suspends the process. When the suspended process is called by another process later, the process control unit makes the process resumed on demand.

Abstract: A mold-in fastening member which is composed of a strip of substrate, engaging elements formed on one surface of the substrate, and an elastomer layer completely surrounding the engaging elements, the substrate having slits or notches which extend from a widthwise central portion of the substrate to a widthwise end portion of the substrate. The mold-in fastening member bends in conformity with a two- or three-dimensionally complicated shape of a molded article. The mold-in fastening member prevents the surface having the engaging elements from being covered with a foamable liquid molding resin during a mold-in process, thereby preventing the engaging elements from losing the engaging function.

Abstract: For increasing a free memory amount, a computer is provided with a main memory and a virtual memory area. Working sets having a predetermined size in a main memory are allocated to virtual address spaces. The area from which working sets are removed is a free memory area, and a cache area is set to a part of the area. During booting, a predetermined process not affecting the booting is suspended. The size of the working set of the suspended process is decreased by swapping out the memory page into the virtual memory area. As a result, the size of the free memory area increases, and along therewith, the OS increases the size of a cache area, thus enabling more boot files to be read ahead and reducing the boot time.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for switching from a first screen display to a second screen display for a user to input data. An apparatus may comprise a first screen display for facilitating a thumb of a user to input on a touch screen of the apparatus, a second screen display for facilitating the other thumb of the user to input on the touch screen of the apparatus, and a switching system. The switching system may be configured to switch a screen item position between the first screen display and the second screen display. The switching system may receive orientation information of the apparatus from an orientation sensor, determine which hand of the user holds the apparatus, and may switch operation of the apparatus between the first screen display to the second screen display.

Abstract: There is provided a radar apparatus for detecting a target. A detection signal generating unit generates detection signals of the target based on transmission and reception waves of antennas. A detection signal processing unit performs frequency analysis on the detection signals to extract signal components of the target, and performs a predetermined process on the signal components to calculate at least one of a distance to the target, a relative speed to the target, and an orientation of the target. The detection signal generating unit includes a filter unit for giving changes to the detection signals in a frequency bandwidth higher than Nyquist frequency which is a half a sampling frequency. The detection signal processing unit acquires the signal components from the detection signals to which the filter unit gives the changes to determine whether the signal components are generated by replication due to the Nyquist frequency.

Abstract: A fundus camera includes an illumination unit configured to illuminate a fundus of a subject's eye with a visible light from a visible light source, an imaging unit which has sensitivity in a visible wavelength range and is configured to receive a reflected light from the fundus to capture a fundus image, and a light amount balance changing unit configured to independently change at least a part of a light amount emitted from LED elements wherein the visible light source includes a plurality of the LED elements discretely arranged into a ring shape.

Abstract: A hook surface fastener excellent in the heat resistance, flame resistance, retention of hook shape, and pull-out resistance of hook engaging elements (fibers). The hook surface fastener is composed of a base fabric and the hook engaging elements formed on the base fabric. The base fabric is a woven fabric composed of warp yarns, weft yarns and fibers constituting the hook engaging elements. The warp yarns and the fibers constituting the hook engaging elements are polyphenylene sulfide fibers. The weft yarns are substantially non-twisted, paralleled yarns of polyphenylene sulfide fibers and heat-fusible fibers having a melting point or softening point each being 230° C. or lower. The polyphenylene sulfide fibers constituting the hook engaging elements have a crystal orientation of 85.0 to 90.0% and a crystallinity of 32.0 to 42.0% so that the retention of hook shape is good. The fibers constituting the hook engaging elements are anchored to the base fabric by fusion of the heat-fusible fibers.

Abstract: A method for booting up a computer is disclosed. Initially, a memory image of a boot program is stored in a main memory of a computer. The memory image includes a first initialization code and a second initialization code. During the booting process of the computer, first initialization code is executed. In response to the completion of the execution of the first initialization code, the boot program is shifted to an idle state. In response to an activation event, the second initialization code is executed.

Abstract: A fundus camera includes an optical path splitting unit arranged between a focusing unit and an imaging unit. The splitting unit has characteristics adapted to reflect light of a visible light region and to transmit near-infrared light. The splitting unit retreats from an optical path when a still fundus image is photographed. A quick-return mirror having such characteristics is used as the splitting unit. When near-infrared illumination light having a wavelength of about 850 nm is used, such light can be incident upon the imaging unit without loss of the amount of light. Visible light output from an internal fixation target is projected onto a subject's eye. A cornea diaphragm and a crystalline lens diaphragm are used for observing a fundus with invisible light. Each of the cornea diaphragm and crystalline lens diaphragm can be changed to another one having a different diameter.

Abstract: The invention provides a boot method capable of reducing boot time even in the case of a change in the configuration of boot files. A boot file is booted from a hard disk drive in a computer equipped with a multitasking operating system. A plurality of tasks are observed, the tasks being created and sequentially executed in order to read out boot files. This observation is carried out at the corresponding boot and a log in the past boot is not used. On the basis of the observed boot files, a prefetch boot file is selected. The entire selected prefetch boot file is filled into a boot cache. The boot file is loaded from the boot cache to a main memory.

Abstract: An ophthalmologic imaging apparatus that captures a fundus image of a subject's eye includes a first extraction unit configured to extract, from a first fundus image photographed with a first light quantity, an image of a first area having intensity not less than predetermined intensity and an image of a second area other than the first area, a second extraction unit configured to extract an image of an area corresponding to the first area from a second fundus image photographed with a second light quantity based on the light quantity of the first area, a third extraction unit configured to extract an image of an area corresponding to the second area from a third fundus image photographed with a third light quantity based on the light quantity of the second area, and an image combining unit configured to combine the images extracted by the second and the third extraction units.

Abstract: A fundus camera includes an optical path splitting unit arranged between a focusing unit and an imaging unit. The splitting unit has characteristics adapted to reflect light of a visible light region and to transmit near-infrared light. The splitting unit retreats from an optical path when a still fundus image is photographed. A quick-return mirror having such characteristics is used as the splitting unit. When near-infrared illumination light having a wavelength of about 850 nm is used, such light can be incident upon the imaging unit without loss of the amount of light. Visible light output from an internal fixation target is projected onto a subject's eye. A cornea diaphragm and a crystalline lens diaphragm are used for observing a fundus with invisible light. Each of the cornea diaphragm and crystalline lens diaphragm can be changed to another one having a different diameter.

Abstract: A control unit, if insertion of a diopter correction lens or retraction of the diopter correction lens is detected, moves a focusing lens to a position according to an insertion or retraction state of the diopter correction lens corresponding to a position of the focusing lens detected by a focusing lens position detection unit.