Abstract: Aan electronic device includes: a focus degree map generation portion that generates a focus degree map indicating a focus degree in each position on an input image; an output image generation portion that performs image processing corresponding to the focus degree map on the input image to generate an output image; and a record control portion that sets the input image or the output image at a record target image and that records the record target image and the focus degree map in a recording medium such that the record target image and the focus degree map are associated with each other or that records the record target image in the recording medium such that the focus degree map is embedded in the record target image.

Abstract: The present invention provides a curable resin composition for coating natural or artificial nails, which in particular exhibits an excellent appearance after coating, high water and scratch resistances, and low levels of odor, damage to nails, and dermal irritancy, resulting in a high level of safety to human bodies and superior storage stability. The curable resin composition for coating a natural or artificial nail of the present invention comprises (A) an aqueous emulsion of a polymer having functional groups polymerizable by exposure to active energy radiation, (B) polyethylene glycol, and (C) a photo radical initiator containing no nitrogen atom in its molecule.

Abstract: A flux-cored wire for gas shielded welding use which can reduce the oxygen of weld metal to obtain a weld joint which is excellent in toughness and which enables all-position welding by direct current reverse polarity, wherein the wire contains, by mass % with respect to the wire total mass, CaO: 0.2 to 7.0%, one or more of MgF2, CaF2, SrF2, and BaF2 in a total of 1.0% or more (total of fluorides and CaO being 3.0 to 12.0%), one or more of Si, Al (less than 0.3%), Ti, Mg, Zr, Ca, Ce, and La in a total of 0.2 to 2.0%, and one or more oxides of Si, Mn, Al, Ti, B, and Zr in a total of 0.2 to 3.0%, ?=C+Si/30+Mn/20+Cu/20+Ni/60+Cr/20+Mo/15+V/10+Nb/10+5B is 0.15 to 0.40%, P and S in a total of 0.040% or less, a balance of Fe, an arc stabilizer, unavoidable impurities, and a content of iron powder in the flux of 5.0% or less.

Abstract: An electronic device has an input image acquisition section which acquires a plurality of input images obtained by shooting a subject group from mutually different viewpoints and an output image generation section which generates an output image based on the plurality of input images. The output image generation section eliminates the image of an unnecessary subject within an input image among the plurality of input images by use of another input image among the plurality of input images, and generates, as the output image, an image from which the unnecessary subject has been eliminated.

Abstract: An image-sensing apparatus has: an image-sensing portion that acquires an original image by shooting a subject; an alteration processor that applies reversible alteration to an image inside a specific region in the original image to produce from the original image an altered image; and a recording controller that records in a recording portion an image file in which the altered image is stored in association with restoration-oriented information that identifies the contents of the restoration that needs to be performed to restore the original image from the altered image.

Abstract: Electronic equipment is equipped with a distance information generating portion that generates distance information of a subject group. The distance information generating portion includes a first distance detecting portion that detects a distance of the subject group based on a plurality of input images obtained by simultaneously photographing the subject group from different visual points, a second distance detecting portion that detects a distance of the subject group by a detection method different from the detection method of the first distance detecting portion, and a combining portion that generates the distance information based on a detection result of the first distance detecting portion and a detection-result of the second distance detecting portion.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electroless palladium plating solution which can form a plating layer having excellent soldering properties onto electronic components and the like and excellent wire bonding properties. The electroless palladium plating solution comprises a palladium compound, an amine compound, an inorganic sulfur compound and a reducing agent, wherein a combination of hypophosphorous acid or a hypophosphorous acid compound and formic acid or a formic acid compound is used as the reducing agent, and wherein the palladium compound, the amine compound, the inorganic sulfur compound, the hypophosphorous acid compound, and formic acid or the formic acid compound are contained in amounts of 0.001 to 0.1 mole/l, 0.05 to 5 mole/l, 0.01 to 0.1 mole/l, 0.05 to 1.0 mole/l and 0.001 to 0.1 mole/l, respectively. The electroless palladium plating solution is characterized by having excellent soldering properties and excellent wire bonding properties.

Abstract: An image display apparatus includes an image display portion that displays a display image based on a reference image on a display screen, a pointing member detecting portion that detects a position of a pointing member existing on the display screen of the image display portion, and an output image processing portion that generates an output image to be displayed on the display screen based on the reference image. The output image processing portion is capable of generating a superposition image as the output image, in which an auxiliary image including a specific region in the reference image corresponding to the position of the pointing member detected by the pointing member detecting portion is superposed on a region for superposition different from the specific region in the reference image.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes an operating portion that receives an operation to instruct to obtain a target input image based on an output signal of an image pickup portion, an aimed image generating portion that generates an aimed image in which a specific subject is focused by performing a first image processing on the target input image after the target input image is recorded, and a blurred image generating portion that generates a blurred image in which a non-specific subject is blurred by performing a second image processing on the output signal of the image pickup portion before the operation to instruct to obtain is performed. Before the target input image is obtained in accordance with the operation to instruct to obtain, the blurred image is displayed on the display portion.

Abstract: An imaging device includes: an input moving image obtaining portion which obtains input moving image data which is image data of a moving image; an image processing portion which includes a plurality of processing blocks which apply predetermined processing to the input moving image data to thereby generate output moving image data; an operation portion which accepts a plurality of operations including a starting operation in which an instruction to start image recording is given; and a control portion which selects any of the plurality of processing blocks as a target processing block and, after the starting operation is performed, records the output moving image data from the target processing block into a recording medium. The control portion switches a processing block to be selected as the target processing block among the plurality of processing blocks according to an operation performed on the operation portion.

Abstract: An image sensing device includes: a subject detection portion which detects a specific subject from a preview image; a state determination portion which determines the state of the specific subject detected by the subject detection portion; a sound output portion which outputs a sound to the specific subject when the state of the specific subject is determined not to be a first state; and a shooting portion which shoots a target image when the state of the specific subject is determined to be the first state.

Abstract: An electroless pure palladium plating solution capable of forming pure palladium plating films having less plating film variations is provided. The electroless pure palladium plating solution comprises an aqueous solution containing (a) 0.001 to 0.5 mol/liter of a water-soluble palladium compound, (b) 0.005 to 10 mol/liter of at least two members selected from the group consisting of aliphatic carboxylic acids and water-soluble salts thereof, (c) 0.005 to 10 mol/liter of phosphoric acid and/or a phosphate, and (d) 0.005 to 10 mol/liter of sulfuric acid and/or a sulfate.

Abstract: An image processing unit includes a second-taken image generation unit which performs a blurring process on a first taken image including a plurality of small areas so as to generate a second taken image, a focus degree deriving unit which derives a focus degree of each small area, and a combination process unit which combines each small area of the first taken image with each second small area of the second taken image corresponding to each small area of the first taken image. The combination process unit sets a mixing ratio of the second taken image in the combination to a larger value as a focus degree of each small area derived by the focus degree deriving unit is smaller. The second-taken image generation unit includes a face area detection unit which detects a face image area from the first taken image, and a blurring process unit which performs the blurring process on the first taken image on the basis of the detected face image area so as to generate the second taken image.

Abstract: The present invention provides a flux cored wire for gas shielded arc welding of high-strength steel having proof stress of 690 MPa or more, which is capable of all-position welding with a higher efficiency and exhibits an excellent cracking resistance. The flux cored wire comprising a steel sheath, and a flux filled therein, wherein the flux cored wire comprises, by mass % with respect to the total mass of the flux cored wire: C: 0.03 to 0.10%, Si: 0.25 to 0.7%, Mn: 1.0 to 3.0%, Ni: 1.0 to 3.5%, B: 0.001 to 0.015%, Cr: limited to 0.05% or less, and Al: limited to 0.05% or less, and in the flux, TiO2: 2.5 to 7.5%, SiO2: 0.1 to 0.5%, ZrO2: 0.2 to 0.9%, and Al2O3: 0.1 to 0.4%; and the remainder comprising: Fe, arc stabilizer, and unavoidable impurities; and wherein the total mount of hydrogen in the flux cored wire is in 15 ppm or less.

Abstract: Provided is an image reproducing apparatus including a touch panel monitor which has a display screen and receives touch panel operation performed with an operation member touching the display screen, in which an output image obtained by extracting an image inside an extraction region as a part of an entire image area of an input image from the input image is displayed on the touch panel monitor or a monitor of an external display device. The touch panel monitor receives region specifying operation of specifying a position and a size of the extraction region as one type of the touch panel operation when an entire image of the input image is displayed on the display screen.

Abstract: This invention provides a photoresist coating liquid supplying apparatus and a photoresist coating liquid supplying method, for supplying a photoresist coating liquid having a low particle content to a photoresist coating apparatus, and a photoresist coating apparatus using such a photoresist coating liquid supplying apparatus, which can realize coating without causing significant defects in a cost-effective manner. The photoresist coating liquid supplying apparatus comprises a buffer vessel for a photoresist coating liquid, a circulation filtering apparatus for drawing a part of the coating liquid from the buffer vessel, filtering the coating liquid, and then returning the filtered coating liquid to the buffer vessel, and a pipe for supplying the coating liquid from the buffer vessel or the circulation apparatus to a coating apparatus. The photoresist coating liquid supplying method uses the photoresist coating liquid supplying apparatus.

Abstract: An image reproducing apparatus includes a reproduction control unit which selects n out of given m input images as n output images by evaluating similarity among different input images of the m input images, and outputs the n output images onto a reproduction medium (m is an integer of two or larger, n is an integer of one or larger, and m>n holds).

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a chondroitin sulfate having a decreased molecular weight which has utilization as an inhibitor of peritoneal disorder caused by long-term use of a peritoneal dialysis fluid containing glucose or a polysaccharide thereof as an osmotic agent, utilization as an osmotic agent in a peritoneal dialysis fluid, and the like. The chondroitin sulfate having a decreased molecular weight of the present invention as a means for achieving the object is characterized by having a weight average molecular weight of from 1000 to 20000 and containing a constituent disaccharide unit represented by the following structural formula in an amount of from 65 o to 100% (molar ratio) of the total.

Abstract: An electroless pure palladium plating solution capable of forming pure palladium plating films having less plating film variations is provided. The electroless pure palladium plating solution comprises an aqueous solution containing (a) 0.001 to 0.5 mol/liter of a water-soluble palladium compound, (b) 0.005 to 10 mol/liter of at least two members selected from the group consisting of aliphatic carboxylic acids and water-soluble salts thereof, (c) 0.005 to 10 mol/liter of phosphoric acid and/or a phosphate, and (d) 0.005 to 10 mol/liter of sulfuric acid and/or a sulfate.

Abstract: A clipping processing portion is provided with: a subject detection portion that detects a main subject and a sub-subject from an input image; a degree-of-relationship calculation portion that calculates the degree of relationship between the main subject and the sub-subject; a clip region setting portion that sets a clip region based on the positions of the main subject and the sub-subject in the input image and the degree of relationship; a clipping portion that clips the clip region from the input image. The clip region setting portion sets the clip region so as to include the main subject and the sub-subject having the high degree of relationship thereof.