Abstract: A solid-state imaging apparatus for motion detection that detects motion based on differences between pixel frames to make external image comparison processing unnecessary and to reduce erroneous detection of motion is disclosed.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging apparatus for motion detection detects motion based on differences between pixel frames to make external image comparison processing unnecessary and to reduce erroneous detection of motion.

Abstract: Solid-state image-pickup devices and associated drive methods are disclosed that simultaneously provide an image signal and a motion-detection signal. A representative device comprises an array of multiple pixels that produce pixel outputs according to amounts of light received by individual pixels. A vertical-readout line is provided for each column of pixels. A vertical-scanning circuit sequentially outputs signals from the pixels to the vertical-readout lines in horizontal-line units. Differential-processing circuits subtract out dark signals from image signals. Body-motion-detection circuits output a signal based on the difference between the pixel outputs during a current frame and the pixel outputs during a previous frame. A horizontal-scanning circuit sequentially delivers the outputs of the differential-processing circuits and the body-motion-detection circuits onto respective horizontal-readout lines to simultaneously form an image signal and motion-detection signal.

Abstract: A vacuum sealed container and a method for cooking food under vacuum including the steps of heating the food and the cooking liquid in a heat-and-cold resistant vacuum-sealed container having microwave permeability using the microwave oven at high power for boiling, heating the container for a required time, stopping the heating to cool the container, thereby producing a vacuum therein, heating the container for a required time to cook the food and the cooking liquid at low temperatures using the microwave oven at low power, while the container is under vacuum, and allowing the container to cool.

Abstract: The present apparatus initially shoots the object to generate a differential image signal. It processes row by row the differential image signal to detect a left-end edge and a right-end edge, and stores information about the end edges as a characteristic of a matter. The present apparatus preferably eliminates noise by expanding/contracting the detected end edges. The present apparatus also preferably obtains a calculation such as an area and position of a matter from the information about the end edges in order to judge occurrence of anomaly in the object based on the calculation. The processing described above is performed on two end edges per row on the screen. The amount of information to be processed is significantly reduced as compared with the cases where the processing is performed pixel by pixel, thereby realizing high-speed, simple processing.

Abstract: A humanoid detector for detecting a humanoid in a surveillance area that substantially reduces false intruder indications by having two types of sensors that provide two types of information of the surveillance area, is disclosed. A first sensor detects light images and determines a size of a moving object within the surveillance area and compares the size of detected moving objects to a threshold size to reduce intruder detection caused by small animals. A second sensor detects infrared radiation from the surveillance area provides a detected infrared radiation signal. A decision circuit receives the sensor signals and provides a decision signal that indicates a human intruder in the surveillance area when, simultaneously, the size of the moving body is greater than that of a small animal and the detected infrared radiation indicates that the moving body is a heat producing body.

Abstract: A thermal type infrared image sensor is provided, the sensor including rows and columns of pixels forming a matrix, each pixel having a thermosensing element connected to a switch, vertical read lines connected to columns of pixels, a vertical reading circuit for extracting, in parallel, signals from rows of pixels in the matrix via the vertical read lines, an accumulator for accumulating signals output from the vertical reading circuit, a horizontal switching device and a horizontal scan circuit for sequentially and serially reading the accumulated signals.

Abstract: A solid-state image pickup device which enables an improvement in the S/N ratio of the video signal. The solid-state image pickup device has a current sample-and-hold means which stores either a current signal consisting of a first component which is responsive to the sum of the incident light and the dark output from a plurality of pixels at separate times or a current signal consisting of a second component which is responsive to the dark output, and a means for the purpose of sequentially reading out, to a horizontal read line, only a current signal consisting of a component that is responsive to the amount of incident light, this being obtained by means of a subsequent subtraction performed between the other of the first-component and second-component current signals and the current signal which has already been stored in the current sample-and-hold means.

Abstract: A novel colony stimulating factor (CSF) that has the ability to promote the differentiation and proliferation of human bone marrow cells to neutrophiles, and a method for obtaining the same are disclosed. This CSF is produced from a novel cell line which has been established from tumor cells in patients with oral cancer.This CSF has the potential for use only as a curative for leukopenia but also as a reagent for clinical testing and research studies.

Abstract: A fixture for thermostatically mixing hot and cold water from hot- and cold-water pipes. The diameters of the annular axes of seals provided on both ends of a control valve are equal to the inside diameter of the valve guide for the control valve. The space left between the external surface of a temperature sensing element and the internal surface of the casing for the temperature sensing element is so narrow as to be adapted to allow the temperature sensing element to quickly respond to a change in the water temperature. A spring engages at opposite ends against a main valve and the control valve so as to bias the control valve against a valve seat.