Abstract: An ophthalmic laser treatment apparatus for treating a patient's eye, comprises: a treatment laser source for emitting a treatment laser beam; an aiming light source for emitting an aiming beam; an irradiation unit including a zoom lens for changing a size of each irradiation spot of the treatment beam and the aiming beam and a scanner for scanning each irradiation spot on a tissue of the patient's eye in two dimensions, the irradiation unit being arranged to irradiate the treatment beam and the aiming beam to the eye; an irradiation pattern setting unit including a switch for inputting a signal to set an irradiation pattern in which a plurality of irradiation spots of the treatment beam is arranged; and a controller for controlling driving of the irradiation unit to control a position of the irradiation spot of the aiming beam based on the set irradiation pattern during aiming before irradiation of the treatment beam, the controller being configured to divide the irradiation spots of the treatment beam in th

Abstract: An engine air intake system for an engine-powered working machine includes a lever cover which covers at least a base portion of an operation control lever mounted on an operation handle for operation by a human operator to control operation of at least one of the working machine and an engine of the working machine, a lower cover disposed inside the lever cover so as to define jointly with the lever cover a hollow space, an air intake portion having an air inlet opening and disposed in the lever cover such that at least the air inlet opening is disposed within the hollow space, and a fresh air guide hose interconnecting the air intake portion and the interior of an air-cleaner case.

Abstract: There is provided a cerebrum evaluation device for evaluating the state of the cerebrum of a subject by analyzing a speech signal of the subject by using chaotic signal processing utilizing the periodicity of the signal. The cerebrum evaluation device evaluates the state of the cerebrum according to the speech signal uttered by the subject. The cerebrum evaluation device includes: a statistic information database containing chaotic index values of speech signals of a plurality of subjects; a speech signal acquisition unit for acquiring a speech signal; a chaotic index value calculation unit for calculating a chaotic index value of the speech signal by the chaotic signal processing utilizing the periodicity of the speech signal acquired; an evaluation unit for evaluating the state of the cerebrum of the subject according to the calculated chaotic index value by referencing the statistic information database; and an output unit for outputting the result evaluated by the evaluation unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus, comprising: an acquisition section that acquires a plurality of items of document information to be time-sequentially presented and movie information which includes speech that time-sequentially changes in association with the plurality of items of document information; a character string extracting section that extracts, from character strings included in the plurality of items of document information, character strings to be searched for; and a partial selecting section that selects a part of the movie information where at least one of the character strings to be searched for, which are extracted by the character string extracting section, is spoken in the speech included in the movie information.

Abstract: There is provided an electronic conference system, including a display controller that arranges and displays a marker for specifying a display position on a display screen of a display apparatus which placed in a conference room, a unit that obtains information concerning the display position of each marker included in an image capturing range obtained by capturing an image of a portion of the display screen by a conference participant using an information terminal device and that specifies an image capturing region on the display screen based on the information concerning the display position of each marker that is obtained, and a unit that combines image data displayed on the display apparatus at the time of image capturing performed using the information terminal device having an image capturing function with display data, to be displayed in the image capturing region that is specified, to generate a screen image.

Abstract: There is provided an information terminal device in an electronic conference system, including a reception unit that receives information on a state of attendance of participants in a conference, who are present in a plurality of conference holding spaces; a disadvantageous degree calculation processor that calculates a disadvantageous degree indicating a degree of disadvantage which each participant has when participating in the conference, based on the received information; and a disadvantageous degree output processor that outputs the calculated disadvantageous degree.

Abstract: An electronic conference support device has a cut screen information management section that stores information related to a cut screen object which forms a portion of a screen image displayed on a presenter-side display unit; a screen image generation processor that generates a screen image based on stored information related to a cut screen object designated from among cut screen objects contained in a screen image displayed on a participant-side display unit, by incorporating the designated cut screen object into image data to be newly displayed on the participant-side display unit; and an edit screen information storage unit that stores, in association with each other, information related to the generated screen image and information related to the cut screen object incorporated into the screen image.

Abstract: Between a source electrode (25) of a main device (24) and a current sensing electrode (22) of a current detection device (21), a resistor for detecting current is connected. Dielectric withstand voltage of gate insulator (36) is larger than a product of the resistor and maximal current flowing through the current detection device (21) with reverse bias. A diffusion length of a p-body region (32) of the main device (24) is shorter than that of a p-body (31) of the current detection device (21). A curvature radius at an end portion of the p-body region (32) of the main device (24) is smaller than that of the p-body (31) of the current detection device (21). As a result, at the inverse bias, electric field at the end portion of the p-body region (32) of the main device (24) becomes stronger than that of the p-body region (31) of the current detection device (21). Consequently, avalanche breakdown tends to occur earlier in the main device 24 than the current detection device (21).

Abstract: Disclosed is an engine fuel supply apparatus which can be made smaller in size and in which the amount of fuel in an air-fuel mixture can be increased with a fast response in correspondence with the operation of a throttle valve when the engine is accelerated rapidly. The fuel supply apparatus is provided with a fuel booster pump. A portion of an air-fuel mixture is introduced into a negative-pressure chamber of the fuel booster pump via a negative-pressure chamber channel, and the fuel booster pump is actuated. The actuation forces air in a pump chamber to flow into a pressure chamber, and fuel in a fuel storage chamber is temporarily supplied to a carburetor.

Abstract: An electronic conference control device has a display controller that controls display of common screen images commonly displayed on display devices, local screen images displayed only on a connected one of the display devices, cut screen images generated by extracting a screen image portion contained in a closed space having a region designated by a user on a screen image displayed on the connected one of the display devices, and common cut screen images commonly displayed on the display devices on the connected one of the display devices, and a screen-dividing processor that, upon selection of one or multiple common cut screen images from among common cut screen images contained in a common screen image displayed on the screen and input of an instruction to start a local discussion at the site, to thereby manage the selected common cut screen image also as a local cut screen image.

Abstract: An IGBT is disclosed which separated into two groups (first and second IGBT portioZenerns). First and second Zener diodes each composed of series-connected Zener diode parts are disposed so as to correspond to the groups respectively. Each of the first and second Zener diodes has an anode side connected to a corresponding one of first and second polysilicon gate wirings, and a cathode side connected to an emitter electrode. Temperature dependence of a forward voltage drop of each of first and second Zener diodes is used for reducing a gate voltage of a group rising in temperature to throttle a current flowing in the group and reduce the temperature of the group to thereby attain equalization of the temperature distribution in a surface of a chip. In this manner, it is possible to provide an MOS type semiconductor device in which equalization of the temperature distribution in a surface of a chip or among chips can be attained.

Abstract: A scanned-document management system includes a first user identification information reading unit that acquires identification information of a user who operates a document reading unit. An attribute information generating unit acquires information of a user identified by the user identification information and generates attribute information based on the acquired information of the user. A document registration unit registers the document data and the attribute data in a document management unit. A second user identification information reading unit acquires identification information of the user. A request information generating unit acquires information of a user identified by the user identification information acquired by the second user identification information reading unit and generates document acquisition request information. A corresponding document selection unit selects document data related to the user based on document acquisition request information and the attribute information.

Abstract: The present invention provides a destination dedicating apparatus including a destination information reading section and a destination information recording section. The destination information reading section is configured to read destination information from a storage area mounted on a consumable good when the consumable good is first mounted into a printing apparatus. The destination information recording section is configured to record the destination information read above into a storage area provided in the printing apparatus to thereby set the printing apparatus to a dedicated machine for the consumable good having the specific destination information.

Abstract: The present invention provides a destination dedicating apparatus including a destination information reading section and a destination information recording section. The destination information reading section is configured to read destination information from a storage area mounted on a consumable good when the consumable good is first mounted into a printing apparatus. The destination information recording section is configured to record the destination information read above into a storage area provided in the printing apparatus to thereby set the printing apparatus to a dedicated machine for the consumable good having the specific destination information.

Abstract: A storage medium readable by a computer stores a program of instructions executable by the computer to perform a function. The function comprises comparing input image data with reference image data, extracting an annotation contained in the input image data based on a result of comparing, discriminating a geometry of the annotation, and classifying the annotation according to the geometry of the annotation.

Abstract: The present invention provides a destination dedicating apparatus including a destination information reading section and a destination information recording section. The destination information reading section is configured to read destination information from a storage area mounted on a consumable good when the consumable good is first mounted into a printing apparatus. The destination information recording section is configured to record the destination information read above into a storage area provided in the printing apparatus to thereby set the printing apparatus to a dedicated machine for the consumable good having the specific destination information.

Abstract: An engine air intake system for an engine-powered working machine includes a lever cover which covers at least a base portion of an operation control lever mounted on an operation handle for operation by a human operator to control operation of at least one of the working machine and an engine of the working machine, a lower cover disposed inside the lever cover so as to define jointly with the lever cover a hollow space, an air intake portion having an air inlet opening and disposed in the lever cover such that at least the air inlet opening is disposed within the hollow space, and a fresh air guide hose interconnecting the air intake portion and the interior of an air-cleaner case.

Abstract: A laser treatment apparatus for irradiating a laser beam to a patient's eye, comprises: a plurality of laser sources which emit treatment laser beams having different wavelengths, each laser source being held in a main body to be mountable and demountable and connected to a power source through a connector; a light delivery optical system having a mirror for making the laser beams from the laser sources coaxial with each other to deliver each laser beam to the patient's eye; an input unit for inputting mounting information of each laser source; a control unit which checks a predetermined operation of each laser source by a sensor at the time of activation to determine whether an abnormality is present or not in each laser source, and displays an indication that the abnormality is present on a display, wherein the control unit will not perform the operation check whether the abnormality is present or not in the laser source or laser sources unmounted in the main body, based on the mounting information input by

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for treating a substrate wherein a chemical is fed to a surface of the substrate, the method including the steps of: initially feeding a liquid whose electric conductivity is lower than the chemical to a surface of the substrate so as to wet at least a region where the chemical is to be discharged, and discharging the chemical to the region to treat the surface of the substrate with the discharged chemical.

Abstract: Wire burst faults at the time of solder attachment of conductors of an electronic component using insulation coated conductors having a core of copper or alloy containing alloy, is prevented. Solder attachment of connecting portions of insulation coated conductors having copper as a base material is carried out by melting lead-free solder alloy containing from 5.3 to 7.0 wt % copper (Cu), from 0.1 to less than 0.5 wt % nickel (Ni), with a remainder being tin (Sn), at a temperature ranging from 400° C. to 480° C.