Abstract: A camera can perform two different photographing operations with a lens at different positions without vignetting while preventing entry of light and dust. A camera includes a frame including a film compartment to contain a photographic film and a barrel extending from the film compartment in an optical axis direction, and a lens barrel movable in the barrel in X-direction. The lens barrel includes cylinders movable frontward relative to the barrel, and a cylinder movable frontward relative to the cylinder. The camera includes a rear bellows connecting the frame and the cylinder, and a front bellows connecting the cylinder and the cylinder. In a first photographing state in which the cylinders extend frontward relative to the barrel and the cylinder is accommodated inside the cylinder, the rear bellows is expanded and the front bellows is partially contracted. In a second photographing state, the cylinder extends frontward relative to the cylinder.

Abstract: An antenna apparatus is provided with: at least one antenna element; and a dielectric lens including a lens body made of a first dielectric material having a first dielectric constant, the lens body having first and second surfaces opposing each other. The lens body is formed so as to refract an incident wave on the antenna element or an incident wave from the antenna element, at refracting angles that gradually increase as a distance from an axis passing through centers of the first and second surfaces increases.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a sphygmomanometer that is worn on a measured part of the left wrist of a subject (user) for use. In the sphygmomanometer, on an inner peripheral surface of a band-like body that constitutes a base of a band, a portion for installing a pressure cuff and a protrusion for installing an antenna substrate are separately provided, and the pressure cuff and the antenna substrate are respectively installed on these portions.

Abstract: In an apparatus for measuring biological information using a radio wave, a technique for acquiring an index related to a setting position of the apparatus with respect to a measurement site is provided. A biological information measurement apparatus (1) according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a transmitter (3) configured to transmit a radio wave toward a measurement.

Abstract: Provided is a technique for detecting a state of an occurrence of a body motion of a measurement target person affecting measurement by using an apparatus configured to measure biological information using a radio wave. A biological information measurement apparatus (1) according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a transmitter (3) configured to transmit a radio wave to a measurement site of a living body; a receiver (4) configured to receive a reflected wave of the radio wave by the measurement site and output a waveform signal of the reflected wave; a feature extractor (1051) configured to extract information indicating a feature of a waveform from the waveform signal; and a body motion detector (1052) configured to detect a state of an occurrence of a body motion of the living body affecting measurement of the biological information, based on the extracted information indicating the feature of the waveform.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a sphygmomanometer that is worn on a measured part of the left wrist of a subject (user) for use. In the sphygmomanometer, on an inner peripheral surface of a band-like body that constitutes a base of a band, a portion for installing a pressure cuff and a protrusion for installing an antenna substrate are separately provided, and the pressure cuff and the antenna substrate are respectively installed on these portions.

Abstract: A vital sign measurement device includes a belt to be worn around an upper limb of a living body, and a transmission and reception unit provided to the belt, capable of transmitting and receiving radio waves. The transmission and reception unit includes transmission and reception antenna units. The transmission antenna unit emits radio waves respectively toward an artery of the upper limb and a heart. The reception antenna unit receives radio waves respectively reflected by the artery and/or a tissue being displaced in accordance with a pulse wave of the artery and by the heart and/or a tissue being displaced in accordance a heartbeat of the heart. The vital sign measurement device includes a vital sign detection unit that acquires a pulse wave signal representing the pulse wave of the artery and a heartbeat signal representing the heartbeat of the heart based on the outputs from the reception antenna unit.

Abstract: A pulse wave measurement device of the present invention includes a transmitter configured to emit a radio wave toward a measurement target site, a receiver configured to receive the radio wave reflected from the measurement target site, and a pulse wave detector configured to detect, based on an output of the receiver, a pulse wave signal representing a pulse wave of an artery passing through the measurement target site. The radio wave emitted from the transmitter has a bandwidth narrowed by a predetermined bandwidth index.

Abstract: A biometric antenna device of the present invention includes: a conductor layer configured to face the measurement site for emitting and/or receiving the radio wave; and a dielectric layer mounted along a facing surface facing the measurement site of the conductor layer or of a base material mounting the conductor layer and extending in parallel with the conductor layer, the dielectric layer having a predetermined relative permittivity. The dielectric layer keeps a distance between an outer surface of the measurement site and the conductor layer constant, in a mounted state in which a second surface on a side opposite to a side of a first surface on a side along the conductor layer of the dielectric layer abuts on an outer surface of the measurement site.

Abstract: An antenna device for biological measurement according to the present invention includes a belt to be worn as surrounding a measurement target site of a living body. A transmission/reception antenna group is provided to the belt and includes a plurality of antenna elements. In a wearing state where the belt is worn as surrounding an outer surface of the measurement target site, a radio wave is emitted toward the measurement target site using any one of the antenna elements as a transmission antenna. A reflected radio wave is received using any one of the antenna elements as a reception antenna. A transmission/reception antenna pair formed of the transmission antenna and the reception antenna is selected by switching or weighted among the plurality of antenna elements based on a reception output.

Abstract: A method for controlling an internal combustion engine, an internal combustion engine, and a vehicle equipped with the same which reduce roll vibrations due to a power plant including a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine and a support apparatus during start of the internal combustion engine without impairing its startability. A control apparatus of a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine includes: a device for determining whether or not a rotational speed of the engine is within a resonance-rotational-speed region around a resonance rotational speed at which resonance occurs due to the rotational speed, a power plant including the engine, and rubber mounts of the power plant; and a device for controlling injectors such that fuel injection amounts of respective cylinders become uneven when the rotational speed is within the resonance-rotational-speed region.

Abstract: A sensor module that transmits at a predetermined transmission interval, via a network, data obtained by measurement to an externally installed information processing device sets, together with a nearby sensor module, a predetermined module group in which a plurality of sensor modules for transmitting measurement data according to data processing in the information processing device are put together. Then, together with the nearby sensor modules, one sensor module among the predetermined module group is set as a reference sensor module for which a transmission interval is maintained at a predetermined transmission interval, and transmission intervals of measurement data of sensor modules other than the reference sensor module are changed to a prolonged transmission interval that is longer than the predetermined transmission interval.

Abstract: A sensor module that transmits at a predetermined transmission interval, via a network, data obtained by measurement to an externally installed information processing device sets, together with a nearby sensor module, a predetermined module group in which a plurality of sensor modules for transmitting measurement data according to data processing in the information processing device are put together. Then, together with the nearby sensor modules, one sensor module among the predetermined module group is set as a reference sensor module for which a transmission interval is maintained at a predetermined transmission interval, and transmission intervals of measurement data of sensor modules other than the reference sensor module are changed to a prolonged transmission interval that is longer than the predetermined transmission interval.

Abstract: A method for controlling an internal combustion engine, an internal combustion engine, and a vehicle equipped with the same which reduce roll vibrations due to a power plant including a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine and a support apparatus during start of the internal combustion engine without impairing its startability. A control apparatus of a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine includes: a device for determining whether or not a rotational speed of the engine is within a resonance-rotational-speed region around a resonance rotational speed at which resonance occurs due to the rotational speed, a power plant including the engine, and rubber mounts of the power plant; and a device for controlling injectors such that fuel injection amounts of respective cylinders become uneven when the rotational speed is within the resonance-rotational-speed region.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is supplied capable of preventing an information leakage even if encrypted print data outflows from the image forming apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention provides an integrated antenna with an identical ground member, in which the interference between the adjacent antennas can be suppressed while the antenna is miniaturized in not only the width direction but also the height direction. In the integrated antenna with the identical ground member, plural antenna elements having two different resonance frequency bands are disposed in an identical ground member. Each antenna element includes a first radiation portion corresponding to one of the resonance frequency bands and a second radiation portion corresponding to the other resonance frequency band. At a point where the two antenna elements are adjacent to each other, a dielectric material is disposed in one of radiation portions located inside the antenna element such that the dielectric material contacts the radiation portion.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is supplied capable of preventing an information leakage even if encrypted print data outflows from the image forming apparatus.

Abstract: What is disclosed is a printing apparatus consisting: a memory section for memorizing plural printing data, and a first admission information and a second admission information corresponding to each of plural printing data; a first admission information inputting section for inputting an admission information corresponding to the first admission information; a second admission information inputting section for inputting an admission information corresponding to the second admission information; an admission information managing section for outputting a command of indicating to perform a printing process of a prescribed print data contained in said memory section, in case where an admission information inputted by the first admission information inputting section accords with the first admission information, and where an admission information inputted by the second admission information inputting section accords with said second admission information; and a print processing section for performing a printing pr

Abstract: The present invention provides an integrated antenna with an identical ground member, in which the interference between the adjacent antennas can be suppressed while the antenna is miniaturized in not only the width direction but also the height direction. In the integrated antenna with the identical ground member, plural antenna elements having two different resonance frequency bands are disposed in an identical ground member. Each antenna element includes a first radiation portion corresponding to one of the resonance frequency bands and a second radiation portion corresponding to the other resonance frequency band. At a point where the two antenna elements are adjacent to each other, a dielectric material is disposed in one of radiation portions located inside the antenna element such that the dielectric material contacts the radiation portion.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is supplied capable of preventing data stored in a non-volatility memory from being read out when the non-volatility memory is stolen. In the image forming apparatus, an encryption function section of encryption/decryption function section encrypts print job received from an information processing apparatus or print data made in the image forming apparatus, and stores it to a non-volatility memory; and a decryption function section of the encryption/decryption function section decrypts the print job or the print data encrypted by the encryption function section and stored in the non-volatility memory, and outputs it.