Abstract: According to one embodiment, water to be treated is passed through each of a first reactor vessel and second reactor vessel, phosphorus contained in the water is removed by using an adsorbent, thereafter the liquid held in each of the reactor vessels is discharged from each of a first treated water discharge path and second treated water discharge path, and thus the influence of soluble impurities derived from the water is eliminated. Further, when suspended solids impurities contained in the water are accumulated in the phosphorus adsorbent, the accumulated impurities are eliminated by a reverse cleaning operation using a liquid to be thereafter introduced from a reactor vessel liquid introduction path into the reactor vessel, and hence the influence of the suspended solids in the water on a desorption agent liquid to be thereafter introduced into a crystallization vessel, and containing phosphorus from the phosphorus adsorbent is eliminated.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus, including: a first image capturing unit which obtains an image of a subject and outputs first image data; a second image capturing unit which obtains another image of the subject and outputs second image data, wherein the second image capturing unit has a wider view than a view of the first image capturing unit; and a display which displays the first and second image data, wherein the first image capturing unit automatically captures an image after the subject moved from being only within the view of the second image capturing unit to be within the view of the first image capturing unit.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging lens forming an optical image of a subject, an image pickup device outputting an image signal according to the optical image of the subject, a display device displaying a subject image according to the image signal, an image processor converting the image signal to data in an image data format to be displayed on the display device, and a storage device storing a plurality of pieces of positional information respectively specifying a plurality of enlargement areas to be enlarged in the subject image. The image processor has an enlarged image generation device generating an enlarged image of each of the plurality of enlargement areas based on the positional information stored in the storage device, and an enlargement display device displaying the plurality of enlarged images on the display device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polymeric porous material characterized in that: the porous material has a bimodal pore size distribution attributable to macropores having a pore size of at least 50 nm and mesopores having a pore size of from 2 nm to less than 50 nm, the proportion of the specific surface area of the macropores to the specific surface area of all pores of the porous material is at least 10%, and the porous material is produced by (1) polymerizing a monomer in the presence of a polymerization initiator using as a porogen a solution obtained by dissolving a polymer having a weight-average molecular weight of at least 100,000 and a molecular weight distribution Mw/Mn of not more than 1.5 in a good solvent for the monomer, and (2) removing the porogen from the resultant product.

Abstract: An ultrasound probe includes a transducer array for a B-mode image which transmits and receives an ultrasonic beam for a B-mode image, and a transducer array for sound speed measurement which is laminated and formed above the transducer array for a B-mode image and receives an ultrasonic beam for sound speed measurement.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, water to be treated is passed through each of a first reactor vessel and second reactor vessel, phosphorus contained in the water is removed by using an adsorbent, thereafter the liquid held in each of the reactor vessels is discharged from each of a first treated water discharge path and second treated water discharge path, and thus the influence of soluble impurities derived from the water is eliminated. Further, when suspended solids impurities contained in the water are accumulated in the phosphorus adsorbent, the accumulated impurities are eliminated by a reverse cleaning operation using a liquid to be thereafter introduced from a reactor vessel liquid introduction path into the reactor vessel, and hence the influence of the suspended solids in the water on a desorption agent liquid to be thereafter introduced into a crystallization vessel, and containing phosphorus from the phosphorus adsorbent is eliminated.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, in order to eliminate impurities, and the like, water to be treated is passed through each of reactor vessels, phosphorus contained in the water to be treated is removed by using an adsorbent, and thereafter the liquid held in each of the reactor vessels is discharged through each of first to third treated water discharge paths, thereby eliminating the impurities, and the like derived from the water to be treated. It is possible to eliminate the influence of the impurities in the water to be treated on the discharged desorption agent liquid containing phosphorus from the phosphorus adsorbent can be eliminated, and hence it is possible to obtain a phosphorus-containing liquid containing no substance other than the recovered phosphoric matter material.

Abstract: A water treatment apparatus includes a first treatment tank forming thereon a first, fixed bed includes a powdery phosphorus adsorbent includes an inorganic layered compound, wherein the first bed separates phosphorus and solid matter from the water, and recovers the phosphorus in a state adsorbed on the phosphorus adsorbent in the first bed, a second treatment tank forming a second, fluidized or fixed bed includes the phosphorus adsorbent, wherein the second bed separates phosphorus from the water received from the first treatment tank, and recovers the phosphorus in a state adsorbed on the phosphorus adsorbent in the second bed, and a transferring line configured to transfer the phosphorus adsorbent, having phosphorus adsorbed thereon in the second treatment tank, from the second treatment tank to the first treatment tank.

Abstract: An image apparatus, comprising a image capture device that captures an image, a display device that displays the image, a display control block that enlarges and displays a first area, included in a first image, on the display device, a target setting block that sets an object in the first area as a target for tracking and a detecting block that detects a second area, including the object, in a second image which is specified to be displayed next on the display device in place of the first image, the display control block enlarging and displaying the second area on the display device.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging lens forming an optical image of a subject, an image pickup device outputting an image signal according to the optical image of the subject, a display device displaying a subject image according to the image signal, an image processor converting the image signal to data in an image data format to be displayed on the display device, and a storage device storing a plurality of pieces of positional information respectively specifying a plurality of enlargement areas to be enlarged in the subject image. The image processor has an enlarged image generation device generating an enlarged image of each of the plurality of enlargement areas based on the positional information stored in the storage device, and an enlargement display device displaying the plurality of enlarged images on the display device.

Abstract: An ultrasound probe includes a transducer array including vibrators arrayed in an azimuth direction each of which constitutes a single channel and has first transducer centrally located in an elevation direction and second transducers located on both sides of the first transducer, a first transmission and reception section for the first transducers of the respective channels, a second transmission and reception section for the second transducers of the respective channels, and a controller for controlling the first transmission and reception section to obtain reception data for B mode image through a simultaneous aperture for B mode image while controlling the first transmission and reception section and the second transmission and reception section to obtain reception data for sound speed through a simultaneous aperture for sound speed that is broader than the simultaneous aperture for B mode image.

Abstract: A phosphorus compound adsorbent; a phosphorus compound adsorption system, wherein the phosphorus compound adsorbed can be desorbed in a neutral solvent; and a method of using the phosphorus compound adsorbent are provided. The phosphorus compound adsorbent includes a nitrogen-containing compound having an amino group at an end of the molecular structure, a support carrying the nitrogen-containing compound, and at least one metal ion selected from the group consisting of a zinc ion, a copper ion, an iron ion, and a zirconium ion, which is fixed to the nitrogen-containing compound.

Abstract: An ultrasound probe includes a transducer array for a B-mode image which transmits and receives an ultrasonic beam for a B-mode image, and a transducer array for sound speed measurement which is laminated and formed above the transducer array for a B-mode image and receives an ultrasonic beam for sound speed measurement.

Abstract: An ultrasound probe includes a first transducer array for a B-mode image which transmits an ultrasonic beam for a B-mode image, a second transducer array for sound speed measurement which is tiltably provided and transmits an ultrasonic beam for sound speed measurement, and a tilting unit which tilts the second transducer array for sound speed measurement in accordance with the angle of an abdominal wall of the subject.

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes a channel selector for selecting channels that are simultaneously available for reception from a plurality of channels of a transducer array, and a controller for controlling a transmission driver to sequentially transmit a plurality of ultrasonic beams having different frequencies corresponding to a plurality of measuring depth regions from the transducer array, controlling reception signal processors and an image producer to form a same frame by receiving ultrasonic echoes having a frequency corresponding to each of the plurality of measuring depth regions, and controlling the channel selector to increasingly reduce the number of channels simultaneously available for reception as a measuring depth in the plurality of measuring depth regions decreases.

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus comprises an ultrasound probe including a transducer array, a transmitter for transmitting an ultrasonic beam from the transducer array toward a subject, an image producer for producing an ultrasound image based on a reception signal outputted from the transducer array having received ultrasonic echoes from the subject, a temperature sensor for detecting an internal temperature of the ultrasound probe, a channel selector for selecting simultaneously available channels for reception from a plurality of channels of the ultrasound probe, and a controller for controlling the channel selector so as to reduce a number of selected simultaneously available channels for reception as the internal temperature of the ultrasound probe detected by the temperature sensor increases and as a measuring depth decreases.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a communication system, including: a sending apparatus configured to transmit a Digital Visual Interface signal wherein pixel data formed from color data including red data, green data and blue data are disposed successively for the individually same color data through a Digital Visual Interface cable; and a receiving apparatus configured to receive the Digital Visual Interface signal transmitted from said sending apparatus through said Digital Visual Interface cable.

Abstract: An ultrasound probe comprises: a transducer array having an ultrasound transmission/reception surface; a processing circuit mounted on a signal processing board for processing an ultrasonic echo from a subject received with the transducer array to produce a reception signal; a housing including a transducer array compartment for housing the transducer array at one end and the signal processing board near the transducer array, the housing including a projection at another end projecting in a given direction perpendicular to a center line of an arrangement of the transducer array and a grip between the projection and the transducer array compartment for holding from the given direction, a center of gravity lying in a position away from the center line of the arrangement of the transducer array in the given direction when the ultrasound transmission/reception surface of the transducer array is in a horizontal posture.

Abstract: There is provided a video signal processing apparatus that includes: a video signal input unit that receives an input of interlaced video signals for displaying several screens including at least two screens adjacent to each other in the vertical direction; and a converting unit that converts the input interlaced video signals into progressive video signals, the lowermost line of a valid image region in which an image is displayed through the interlaced video signals being converted with the use of the interlaced video signal corresponding to the uppermost line of the valid image region of a screen located below the subject screen if any, the uppermost line of the valid image region of the subject screen being converted with the use of the interlaced video signal corresponding to the lowermost line of the valid image region of a screen located above the subject screen if any.

Abstract: The present invention provides a water purification material capable of selectively adsorbing phosphorus dissolved in wastewater, and also provides a water purification method employing the material. The water purification material comprises a composite metal hydroxide containing iron ions and calcium ions in its structure, and this composite metal hydroxide has a layered structure. In the water purification method of the present invention, the water purification material is brought into contact with wastewater so as to remove and recover phosphate ions in the wastewater.