Abstract: Conversion data D from an original color space into a new color space is set to D=A·B?1, where A is a profile for a printer in the original color space, and B is a profile for the same printer in the new color space. Even when the color space is changed, the same image can be output from the printer.

Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying apparatus for an internal combustion engine including a first filter and a second filter. The first filter traps particulates in exhaust gases from said engine. The second filter is provided for failure detection and disposed downstream of the first filter. The trapping state of the second filter is detected and a filtering capability of the first filter is diagnosed based on the detect trapping state of the first filter.

Abstract: A transgenic animal having diabetes, which is more suitable as a model of human than rodents, and its preparation method are disclosed. The method for preparing the transgenic pig comprises introducing a nucleic acid into a fertilized egg, clonal egg or embryo, the nucleic acid comprising a foreign gene which contains a region encoding dimerization domain of hepatocyte nuclear factor-1?, but does not encode a normal hepatocyte nuclear factor-1?, and a promoter located upstream of the foreign gene, which promoter is capable of expressing the foreign gene in a pig cell; and developing an individual from the fertilized egg, clonal egg or embryo.

Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying apparatus for an internal combustion engine, having a filter for trapping particulates in exhaust gases from the engine, is disclosed. A first particulate amount indicates an amount of particulates to be trapped by the filter and is calculated according to an operating condition of the engine. A second particulate amount indicates an amount of particulates trapped by the filter and is calculated according to a temperature of the filter when a filter regeneration of burning the particulates trapped by the filter is performed. The first particulate amount is compared with the second particulate amount, and a failure determination of the filter is performed according to a result of the comparison.

Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying apparatus for an internal combustion engine including a first filter and a second filter. The first filter traps particulates in exhaust gases from said engine. The second filter is provided for failure detection and disposed downstream of the first filter. The trapping state of the second filter is detected and a filtering capability of the first filter is diagnosed based on the detect trapping state of the first filter.

Abstract: A method for the cryopreservation of oocytes or embryos, which comprises centrifugation of oocytes or embryos to polarize cytoplasmic lipid outside the oocyte or embryonic cells, subjecting the oocytes or embryos to low temperature conditions in the presence of a cryoprotectant which results in freezing of the oocytes or embryos prior to lipid depolarization, followed by low temperature storage of the frozen lipid polarized oocytes or embryos are described, as are oocytes and embryos produced according to such methods, and methods for producing live animals.

Abstract: In an image reading apparatus in which a document is read with scanning by a image pickup device, a height of the document and an outline of the document are detected. Based on the detected height and outline data, together with a calculating of a document size, an offset amount from a setting reference position of the document is calculated. Based on the calculations, the image is processed properly. Also, if the document is not placed correctly or a degree of an image distortion is not within a correctable range, an alarm is issued.

Abstract: A method for the cryopreservation of zona pellucida-intact, early-stage swine embryos, morulae and blastocysts includes centrifuging the embryos prior to cryopreservation in order to remove intracytoplasmic lipids. The lipids are localized external to the embryo proper inside the zona pellucida, thus neutralizing harmful effects which prevent subsequent embryological development. The embryos may be cryopreserved by vitrification or conventional freezing. After recovery and rehydration, zona pellucidae are removed, and intact, viable embryos are transferred to recipient females.

Abstract: The drawing direction at the time of an increase in the drawing pressure is stored as the direction of a pen touch vector, and an increment in the drawing pressure per unit length of drawing is stored as the magnitude of the pen touch vector. A shape of the pen is defined by the direction of the pen touch vector as a pointed form according to the magnitude of the pen touch vector. When the drawing pressure is constant, this shape is used to draw.

Abstract: Two-dimensional pen tables with texture for a low pressure, a medium pressure and a high pressure are provided for each pen. According to the pen pressure, pen tables are interpolated to generate drawing data for one patch. The image data in the stroke and the drawing data of an unprocessed patch are mixed together to generate new image data. This processing is repeated till the completion of the processing of the stroke. Next, the data of the image memory and the data of the stroke are made to modify the data in the image memory.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus which reads out a document, such as as a book, placed face-up and opened on a document table. The apparatus includes an image reading device for reading out the document image placed on the document table, a mirror for imaging the document upper side plane, a projecting device which projects marks onto the document and mirror, and an image processing unit. A document characterized portion imaged on the mirror is read out by the image reading device and the image processing unit rectifies image distortion of the read out document image based on the characterized portion.

Abstract: A bump image for a three-dimensional model of an object is stored and modified as well as a texture image in a rendering stage. A reverse mapping address to the texture image and the bump image is stored in a rendering memory to obtain a drawing object address for the texture image according to the address in the rendering memory.

Abstract: To accelerate drawing input processing, a plurality of drawing pipelines 20 are provided and each drawing pipeline comprises a queue 21, a density data generator 23, a multiplier 24, an accumulator 25, and a cache 26. A stroke is divided, for example, into four, and allocated to each drawing pipeline 20. By each drawing pipeline 20, a next pixel is processed after a former pixel is processed for a plurality of patches according to the scan order.

Abstract: A high-strength aluminum alloy having good porthole extrudability is provided. It has a Vickers hardness Hv of not less than 40 as measured in a homogenized state created by heat treatment before extrusion and a Vickers hardness Hv of not less than 20 imparted by plastic working after the heat treatment.

Abstract: A three-dimensional image having a complicated shape is created from a two-dimensional image obtainable by simple drawing. When a drawing operation is carried out using a digitizer, density data to be stored in one of a density layer 0-data memory to a density layer n-data memory is created using a brush shape generated in a brush generating section. A distance up to a reference coordinate point with respect to a primitive shape is initially set in a distance data memory. A distance operating section computes a modification rate for modifying each point on the primitive shape, on the basis of two-dimensional density data selected by a selecting section. The selecting section sequentially reads out multilayered density data, to cause a normal computing section to compute a normal direction on each point on the primitive shape or on the modified primitive shape from data in the vicinity of the point.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a document placement device suitable for accommodating book-like documents for image reading and image reader device provided with the document placement device. The document placement device has a first platform for placement of pages on the right side of an open book document on the top surface thereof and a second platform provided adjacent to said first platform for placement of pages on the left side of an open book document on the top surface thereof. The first platform slides in a rightward direction when raised thereby inducing the second platform to slide in a rightward direction while being moved in a downward direction, and the first platform slides in a leftward direction when lowered thereby inducing the second platform to slide in a leftward direction while being moved in an upward direction.

Abstract: Soft-edge processing of a video color image is effected in accordance with a stylus nib pressure. Initially, a display circle unit is determined having center coordinance corresponding to display coordinance of a stylus and having a radius corresponding to a nib pressure of the nib stylus. A display region is set encompassing the display circle unit, the display region having a plurality of pixels. A distance from each pixel located outside the circle unit within the display region to the circle unit is determined. This distance is then used as the basis for determining a Z value of the pixel which is indicative of the relative illumination of the pixel to effect soft-edge processing of the image.

Abstract: A tool support mechanism for a robot is adapted for carrying a tool, such as a welding torch. A series of shafts, pulleys and belts cooperate such that upon rotary input, a first arm rotates about a first end thereof with respect to a frame, a second arm rotatably connected at a first end thereof to a second end of the first arm translates but does not rotate with respect to the frame, and a tool support rotatably connected to a second end of the second arm translates but does not rotate with respect to the first arm. The mechanism thus allows a tool to be rotated about an axis spaced from the axis of rotary input.