Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a plurality of image processors, and is capable of providing an instruction of any one of a plurality of operation modes including a first recording mode. In the first recording mode, among the plurality of image processors, each image processor other than an image processor in a final stage performs predetermined image processing on image data of a portion that needs to be processed, and outputs image data of a portion other than the portion that needs to be processed to an image processor in a subsequent stage without performing the predetermined image processing thereon. One of the plurality of image processors that is set as a power supply master performs control so as to sequentially bring the plurality of image processors into a power supply state corresponding to the operation mode indicated by the instruction.

Abstract: Provided is an electrode material with excellent tab weldability and realizing decreased contact resistance with an active material layer. A collector (electrode material) (1) is provided with a metal foil substrate (1a) and a carbon-containing conductive substance (1b), and is configured such that, when observed from a square viewfield with a surface area of 0.1 mm2, the conductive substance (1b) is arranged in islands on the surface of the substrate (1a) with a 1-80% coverage ratio of the conductive substance (1b) on the surface of the substrate (1a).

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method of screening a modulator of Xkr8, comprising the steps of: (1) contacting Xkr8-expressing cells with a candidate of the modulator, and (2) selecting the candidate when the candidate alters distribution of a phospholipid in plasma membrane of the cells.

Abstract: A cell culture method is a cell culture method for arranging cultured cells in a culture dish and continuously culturing the cultured cells by supplying a liquid required to grow or maintain the cultured cells to the culture dish and discharging the liquid from the culture dish. The cell culture method includes: providing a supply port of the liquid at one end of the culture dish and providing a discharge port of the liquid at other end of the culture dish so as to sandwich the cultured cells between the supply port and the discharge port, and discharging the liquid while supplying the liquid to the culture dish so that a moving linear velocity of the liquid from the supply port toward the discharge port is less than a maximum velocity at which shear stress is not applied to the cultured cells.

Abstract: In order to increase the speed of a computation process using an accelerator, an accelerator control device 1 is provided with a generation unit 12 and a control unit 14. The generation unit 12 generates a directed acyclic graph (DAG) representing the process flow based on a computer program to be executed. If data corresponding to a DAG node is stored in a memory provided in an accelerator to be controlled, the control unit 14 controls the accelerator so as to execute a process corresponding to an edge of the DAG using the data stored in the memory of the accelerator.

Abstract: Disclosed are a management node and the like for enabling packets to be efficiently sent to a plurality of destination terminals, while preventing the increase of implementation scale of network interface cards (NIC). The management node includes: a rule determination means for determining a prescribed rule for distributing packets to a plurality of rate control means included in the network interface cards (NIC) provided to the terminals; and a rule sending means for sending the determined prescribed rule to the terminals.

Abstract: A Management system 10 includes: resource pools 111-114 which act as the hardware components on which multiple virtual machines are running; an inter-connecting network 12 which connects various resource pools; and a HA manager 13 which snoops all traffic of the inter-connecting network 12 to detect failure of a target VM and triggers corresponded actions when failure is detected.

Abstract: Endotracheal intubation support instrument comprises: a main body section having flexibility; a handle section and a blade section extending from both sides of the main body section respectively; and a U-shaped groove running through the main body section from the handle section to the blade section and allowing a flexible tube of a bronchial fiber to come in and out freely. The blade section comprises: a flap for subsuming all or a part of a larynx of a patient; and a lifting body having, on each bank of the U-shape groove, a first protruding portion allowed to contact with a peripheral portion of an epiglottis of the patient and a second protruding portion provided next to a main body section side of the first protruding portion and allowed to contact with a peripheral portion of a glossal root of the patient.

Abstract: A process for producing a separator material suitable for fuel cells, wherein the separator includes a pure titanium or a titanium alloy as a base material. The method comprises an application step and a heat treatment step. The application step is a step of applying a carbon black to a surface of the base material which has a carbon concentration, at a position located at a depth of 10 nm from an outermost surface, of 10 atom % or less. The heat treatment step subjects the base material, which has undergone the application step, to a heat treatment in a low-partial-oxygen-pressure atmosphere having a partial oxygen pressure of 0.0667 Pa or more and 25 Pa or less.

Abstract: A motion setting method that can set motions to a standing and sitting motion-supporting robot so that a care receiver can make standing and sitting motions comfortably is provided. The motion setting method is a motion setting method of a standing and sitting motion-supporting robot that supports standing and sitting motions being at least one of a standing motion and a sitting motion of a care receive. The motion setting method includes a custom tracking path acquisition step. In the custom tracking path acquisition step, a custom tracking path is obtained by correcting a base tracking path of the standing and sitting motions in accordance with the position of a predetermined body portion of each care receiver.

Abstract: To speed up processing for decoding a source packet from a coded packet based on rateless coding, a terminal is provided with: a storage unit which holds a matrix with n rows and n columns and an n-bit flag; and a calculation unit which performs processing for extracting an element that becomes 1 in both a received n-bit coded packet and the flag, and performing processing for performing an exclusive OR operation of a row vector of the matrix that corresponds to the element number of the extracted element and the received coded packet on all extracted elements, determines an element that is the first to become 1 in the coded packet after the exclusive OR operation, and inserts, into the matrix, the coded packet after the exclusive OR operation as a row vector corresponding to the element number of the determined element.

Abstract: A radio frequency electric power conversion mechanism of the present invention includes a circuit board including a fiber reinforced resin board, instead of an expensive ceramic circuit board. The radio frequency electric power conversion mechanism has a combined configuration of a plurality of fiber reinforced resin boards laminated to each other with a conductive foil therebetween, a via hole array made of an electric conductor passing through the boards, a transmission line closely adhered to the surface of a board, and a waveguide having a notch in a part of the waveguide on the aperture side. The radio frequency electric power conversion mechanism further has other structural features.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a subject detector that detects a predetermined subject in at least one of a first input image and a second input image between which parallax is present; and a combiner that combines a subject frame corresponding to the detected subject with each of the first and second input images stereoscopically displayed on a display section in such away that the subject frames combined with the first and second input images also provide a depth sensation.

Abstract: A corrosion protection cathode using an external power supply in which a reinforcing layer formed of a fiber base material is laminated with an adhesive layer on one surface of a conductive layer formed of a graphite sheet, and an electrolyte layer of an electrolyte-containing resin formed in a sheet shape and having adhesive power such that the layer is capable of being adhered to the conductive layer and to a surface layer of an object to be protected from corrosion is adhered by the adhesive power thereof to the other surface of the conductive layer, wherein the conductive layer always has a resistance value of 4? or less between any two points on the surface thereof on a side that comes into contact with the electrolyte layer.

Abstract: An I/O device sharing system characterized by comprising: an I/O device (50) shared by a plurality of hosts (20-1 to 20-N); a system manager (10) which sets the I/O device (50); a virtual bridge (40) which virtualizes the I/O device (50); and a network (3) which connects the I/O device (50), the system manager (10), the plurality of hosts (20-1 to 20-N) and the virtual bridge (40) to each other, wherein the virtual bridge (40) includes a connection virtualization unit (41) by which it is detected that an address setting of a plurality of virtual functions provided in the I/O device (50) that is set by the system manager (10) is performed, the virtual function is enabled, or both of them are performed and each host is permitted to access each virtual function.

Abstract: Void formation in a semiconductor device is to be prevented. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, signal lines, and a protective layer. In the semiconductor device, the semiconductor element is mounted on a substrate. The signal lines in the semiconductor device are connected to the semiconductor element on the substrate. Further, the protective layer in the semiconductor device is provided in an inter-line region interposed between both edges of two adjacent signal lines among the signal lines on the substrate.

Abstract: Provided is contribution for improving response performance. For that, a storage system includes a control device and a memory device that is connected to the control device via an interconnected network, wherein the memory device includes a data memory unit that stores data and a comparison write unit that performs a comparison write process of comparing first data specified by the control device with second data stored into a predetermined area in the data memory means and determining whether to update data in the predetermined area depending on a result of the comparison, and wherein the control device includes a read command issuance unit that issues a read command to the memory device; a write buffer memory unit that holds data that has been read based on the read command; and a comparison write command unit that designates data written to the write buffer memory means as the first data and instructs, in the form of a comparison write command, the memory device to perform the comparison write process.

Abstract: [Problem] In a case where a plurality of packets are compiled for transmission to a network, the length of data to be continuously transmitted to each of a plurality of destinations is increased and hence the time interval in which the packet(s) addressed to each destination gets a transmission opportunity is increased, with the result that the packet delay is disadvantageously increased. [Solution] A packet extraction unit (22 of FIG. 2) extracts a plurality of packets as a whole from a packet compilation queue (21 of FIG. 2) that sorts, according to destinations, and stores packets. A limited number of packets to be extracted as a whole at this time is given in accordance with a maximum packet compilation number defined by a maximum compilation number calculation unit (29 of FIG. 2) on the basis of a band increase and a delay increase due to a packet compilation.

Abstract: A fuel cell separator (10) which comprises a base (1) constituted of titanium or a titanium alloy and a conductive carbon layer (2) that was formed by press-bonding a carbon powder to the base (1) and that covers the surface thereof; an interlayer (3) having been formed between the base (1) and the carbon layer (2). The interlayer (3) has been formed by a heat treatment in an atmosphere containing a slight amount of oxygen, contains titanium carbide yielded by the reaction of the Ti of the base (1) with the C of the carbon layer (2), and has an oxygen content of 0.1-40 at %.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a subject detector that detects a predetermined subject in at least one of a first input image and a second input image between which parallax is present; and a combiner that combines a subject frame corresponding to the detected subject with each of the first and second input images stereoscopically displayed on a display section in such a way that the subject frames combined with the first and second input images also provide a depth sensation.