Abstract: A storage medium control apparatus capable of improving the processing performance, while protecting copyright protection information in a security mode, includes: a secure resource which executes mutual authentication processing with an authentication area of a storage medium, and performs encryption or decryption of data; a normal resource which sends or receives data to or from the storage medium; an encryption control unit which performs encryption or decryption of data by controlling the secure resource in the secure mode; a storage medium control unit which sends or receives data encrypted by the encryption control unit or data decrypted by the encryption control unit to or from the storage medium by controlling the normal resource, in the secure mode; and a storage medium processing unit which performs predetermined processing for the data decrypted by the encryption control unit or unencrypted data read from the storage medium by the storage medium control unit.

Abstract: A lens drive mechanism, enabled to move lens holding member in a stable state, is disclosed. The lens drive mechanism comprises: first and second guide members, each extending in a predetermined direction; a first lens holding member holding a first lens and including a first cam follower portion and a first sleeve portion which engages with the first guide member and is guided in the predetermined direction; a second lens holding member holding a second lens and including a second cam follower portion and a second sleeve portion, which engages with the second guide member and is guided in the predetermined direction; and a cam member engaging with the first and second cam follower portions and driving the first and second lens holding members.

Abstract: The present application relates to a method of manufacturing an image display device. The manufacturing method includes a step of arranging a side wall made of metal extending along an inner peripheral edge of a front substrate or a back substrate on the inner peripheral edge in a state that the side wall is spaced from a sealing layer, a step of melting or softening the sealing layer by heating the sealing layer and the side wall, and at the same time, discharging gas from the from the side wall, and a step of pressing the side wall against the sealing layer to be bonded thereto by moving the front substrate and the back substrate in a direction such that the substrates are close to each other.

Abstract: The present application relates to a method of manufacturing an image display device. The manufacturing method includes a step of arranging a side wall made of metal extending along an inner peripheral edge of a front substrate or a back substrate on the inner peripheral edge in a state that the side wall is spaced from a sealing layer, a step of melting or softening the sealing layer by heating the sealing layer and the side wall, and at the same time, discharging gas from the from the side wall, and a step of pressing the side wall against the sealing layer to be bonded thereto by moving the front substrate and the back substrate in a direction such that the substrates are close to each other.

Abstract: A plurality of templates are provided in which, in the case of managing a work condition of a content editing work, a work item corresponding to a processing privilege assigned to each user is indicated. A template corresponding to the processing privilege of the user is registered in advance in a database together with user information. At the time of a user access to content editing, an accessing user is authenticated referring to the database, and if the accessing user is a registered user, the corresponding template is selected, and work items presented on the template are displayed. Then, execution of a work that corresponds to each one of the work items is grasped, and its work history is stored in the corresponding item of the template. When the same user access has occurred again, the work history is indicated on a template.

Abstract: A game progress administering system is provided with a participation receiving section 361a for receiving the participation in a competition game from client terminal units, a combination generating means 361b for fitting the participating terminal units in combinations of a competition game tournament, a competition starting section 361c for allotting one game space to one combination and instructing the start of the competition games in each round, and a competition ending section 361d for instructing the end of the competitions in each round in accordance with a time limit for each round up to the semifinal round and determining winning participating terminal units in accordance with the dominance in the progress statuses of the competition games.

Abstract: A central server 3 (CPU 361, RAM 362) is provided with a player information storage 362a for storing player identification information in correspondence with shop identification information of belonging shops, a terminal storage 362b for storing terminal identification information in correspondence with the shop identification information, a shop information storage 362c for storing the shop identification information in correspondence with area identification information, a result tabulating section 361c for tabulating results of players for each belonging shop to determine a within-shop ranking, a shop judging section 361d for judging whether or not a shop where a client terminal unit 1 being played is installed is a belonging shop, a restricting condition judging section 361e for judging whether or not to satisfy a restricting condition that is a condition for transmitting guidance information to the client terminal units 1, and a guidance transmitting section 361f for transmitting the guidance information

Abstract: The present application relates to a method of manufacturing an image display device. The manufacturing method includes a step of arranging a side wall made of metal extending along an inner peripheral edge of a front substrate or a back substrate on the inner peripheral edge in a state that the side wall is spaced from a sealing layer, a step of melting or softening the sealing layer by heating the sealing layer and the side wall, and at the same time, discharging gas from the from the side wall, and a step of pressing the side wall against the sealing layer to be bonded thereto by moving the front substrate and the back substrate in a direction such that the substrates are close to each other.

Abstract: An optical pet guiding apparatus is provided with a light emitting section for emitting a light beam in a specified direction, direction changing sections for changing the facing direction of the light emitting section in a two-dimensional direction, and motors for causing the direction changing sections to change the facing direction of the light emitting section. The direction changing sections include a transversely changing section for rotating the light emitting section about a vertically extending shaft and a vertically changing section for rotating the light emitting section about a transversely extending shaft, and moves a light beam as a spotlight on a floor surface to guide a pet.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a glass frame, comprises a mold having a rectangular frame-shaped storage recess in which both end portions of a plurality of strip-like glass plates and are stored such that they are overlapped, coil heaters which simultaneously heat and melt the end portions of the plurality of strip-like glass plates and stored in the storage recess of the mold, and a pressing unit which simultaneously presses the end portions of the plurality of strip-like glass plates and molten by the coil heaters such that the resultant has a thickness equal to that of the strip-like glass plates.

Abstract: In order to locate and display the source of a sound such as a noise at a factory or the like accurately even when it is outside, a pair of microphones (M1, M3) and another pair of microphones (M2, M4) are disposed on the X axis and Y axis with a distance L therebetween, respectively, the direction of the sound source is estimated from a difference between sound arrival times to the microphones (M1, M3) and a difference between sound arrival times to the microphones (M2, M4), an image around the estimated location of the sound source is picked up by a camera, and the above estimated location of the sound source is displayed on the above image displayed on the display of a personal computer.

Abstract: The CPU 161 of the video game apparatus comprises a performance determination unit 161b that determines the order of finish of the players each time a game is completed, a parameter calculation unit 161g that calculates parameters indicating the characteristics of each player in playing games based on the game history data stored in a history storage unit 162b described below and a title assigning unit 161h that assigns a title applicable during games to each player based on the calculated parameters, and the RAM 162 comprises a history storage unit 162b that stores past player game history data for each player, and a title storage unit 162c that associates the titles assigned by the title assigning unit 161h with the players and stores them.

Abstract: objects to be achieved by the invention are to provide a nanobio device in which cultured cells are organized at a high-level in a state near in vivo, and to provide a method of using the nanobio device of imitative anatomy structure. The nanobio device of imitative anatomy structure of the invention is obtained by manufacturing a substrate with a bio-compatible substance and arranging a plurality of types of cells thereon in a desired array. A method of manufacturing a nanobio device in the invention includes a step of manufacturing a substrate for a nanobio device by a micromachine processing technique and a step of arranging a plurality of cultured cells on the substrate in a desired array with laser optical tweezers.

Abstract: A lens barrel includes a lens-holding cylinder which supports a lens and is provided with a cam-follower and a rectilinear key; a cam-cylinder having a cam-groove which engages with the cam-follower so as to apply a driving force to the lens-holding cylinder in the optical-axis direction; and a guide cylinder which is enclosed by the cam-cylinder and has a rectilinear guide opening that engages with the rectilinear key so as to guide the lens-holding cylinder in the optical-axis direction. A segment of the cam-cylinder adjacent to an object to be photographed has a greater wall thickness such that the cam-cylinder has a level difference. A portion of the guide cylinder adjacent to an object to be photographed, which corresponds to the level difference of the cam-cylinder, is made thinner by the amount of the level difference.

Abstract: A right information management method for managing a right information of contents retained in a storage medium comprising an authenticated memory region accessible after a mutual authentication is obtained relative to a contents processing device and an ordinary memory region accessible without obtaining the mutual authentication, comprising a step of reading an encrypted right information retained in the authenticated memory region, a step of decoding the read encrypted right information and retrieving a plaintext right information, and a step of retaining the plaintext right information in the ordinary memory region. According to the right information management method, a user can be notified of the contents and the right information of the contents managed in the storage medium in a speedy manner via the contents processing device.

Abstract: A lens barrel includes a lens-holding cylinder which supports a lens and is provided with a cam-follower and a rectilinear key; a cam-cylinder having a cam-groove which engages with the cam-follower so as to apply a driving force to the lens-holding cylinder in the optical-axis direction; and a guide cylinder which is enclosed by the cam-cylinder and has a rectilinear guide opening that engages with the rectilinear key so as to guide the lens-holding cylinder in the optical-axis direction. A segment of the cam-cylinder adjacent to an object to be photographed has a greater wall thickness such that the cam-cylinder has a level difference. A portion of the guide cylinder adjacent to an object to be photographed, which corresponds to the level difference of the cam-cylinder, is made thinner by the amount of the level difference.

Abstract: A lens barrel includes a lens-holding cylinder which supports a lens and is provided with a cam-follower and a rectilinear key; a cam-cylinder having a cam-groove which engages with the cam-follower so as to apply a driving force to the lens-holding cylinder in the optical-axis direction; and a guide cylinder which is enclosed by the cam-cylinder and has a rectilinear guide opening that engages with the rectilinear key so as to guide the lens-holding cylinder in the optical-axis direction. A segment of the cam-cylinder adjacent to an object to be photographed has a greater wall thickness such that the cam-cylinder has a level difference. A portion of the guide cylinder adjacent to an object to be photographed, which corresponds to the level difference of the cam-cylinder, is made thinner by the amount of the level difference.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing an optical fiber soot, which comprises a core partition having an opening portion at core burner side provided on a periphery of a core burner, in a reactor of the apparatus to be used in a conventional VAD method.

Abstract: The state of a polysilicon film formed by excimer laser annealing an amorphous silicon film is to be evaluated. When the amorphous silicon film is annealed to form a polysilicon film, linearity or periodicity presents itself in the spatial structure of the film surface of the polysilicon film formed depending on the energy applied to the amorphous silicon during annealing. This linearity or periodicity is processed as an image and represented numerically from the image by exploiting the linearity or periodicity. The state of the polysilicon film is checked based on the numerical results.

Abstract: A method of managing a file structure in a memory card comprises the steps of verifying whether or not a first management file exists in a general area of a memory card which is generally accessible, verifying whether or not available information on an encryption key stored in the first management file exists, when existence of the first management file is verified, and verifying whether or not a second management file exists in an authentication area which requires an authentication process for accessing a memory, when existence of the available information on said encryption key is verified.