Abstract: The present invention provides a substrate processing system in which a processing liquid is supplied to a substrate W from a processing nozzle 50a situated above the substrate W so as to process the substrate W, and which makes it possible to prevent unintended dripping of the processing liquid from the processing nozzle. A substrate processing system 20 comprises a processing nozzle 50a capable of supplying a processing liquid to a substrate to be processed, an arm 54 supporting the processing nozzle, and droplet removing nozzles 60, 62 capable of blowing a gas to the processing nozzle. The arm is movable between a processing position and a waiting position, the processing nozzle being above a substrate when the arm is in the waiting position and being outside a substrate when the arm is in the processing position. The droplet removing nozzles are so situated that they are in the vicinity of the processing nozzle when the arm is in the waiting position.

Abstract: An eye-opening margin measurement method for a high-speed serial data reception circuit which uses a circuit for eye-opening margin measurement involving operation of a clock data recovery circuit without fixing the clock phase. In this method, an error acceleration test can also be made on received data by giving an offset pulse signal to phase information to add a jitter component. The method uses a semiconductor integrated circuit device which includes a serializer/deserializer circuit (SerDes) for receiving serial data and a reference serializer/deserializer circuit (Ref_SerDes) for receiving an accompanying clock signal. The SerDes circuit converts received serial data into parallel data through a recovery clock whose phase is controlled using phase control signal P_CS generated by the Ref_SerDes circuit. An offset pulse signal Offset_Pulse from the pulse-forming circuit is applied to the phase control signal P_CS to make eye-opening margin measurement.

Abstract: A wavelength conversion laser light source includes: a fundamental light source for outputting fundamental light; a wavelength conversion element with a nonlinear optical effect for converting the fundamental light into harmonic light of a different wavelength; a first optical receiver for receiving light of a specific polarization direction contained in the fundamental light output from the fundamental light source and converting an amount of light thereof into an electrical signal; a second optical receiver for receiving the harmonic light output from the wavelength conversion element and converting an amount of light thereof into an electrical signal; a temperature holding unit for holding a temperature of the wavelength conversion element constant; a fundamental light control unit for performing first control of controlling an amount of light of the fundamental light output from the fundamental light source based on the electrical signal from the second optical receiver, and second control of controlling

Abstract: A turbo decoding device includes a memory unit that stores data in an interleaving process performed in a process of decoding a coded signal encoded with a turbo code and an access unit that accesses the memory unit to read and write the data. The memory unit includes memory circuits and is formed as one memory space by coupling the memory circuits. Furthermore, the memory circuit functions as a first bank configuration by which a first capacity is assigned to each bank or a second bank configuration by which a second capacity is assigned to each bank in accordance with a combination of the memory circuits. Moreover, the access unit selects by which of the first bank configuration and the second bank configuration the memory unit functions in accordance with a communication method of a coded signal and accesses the memory unit in accordance with the selected bank configuration.

Abstract: [Object] To improve analysis precision of communication characteristic, while minimizing the calculation amount, to determine a local dead area, thereby providing useful information for cell site design. [Solving Means] There are included the steps of: determining, on the basis of the maximum population of an area to be analyzed, an area attribute of big city, local city or rural area (S2); accepting the designation of a target building out of buildings in the area to be analyzed; finding that one or those ones of analyzing methods including quota analysis, topology analysis and geographic feature analysis which are associated with the determined area attribute, and executing a local analysis of the communication characteristic of the target building (S3-S5); and correcting, on the basis of the analysis result, the referential estimated value (A-value) of the area to be analyzed, and outputting the corrected value as a communication characteristic value of the target building (S6).

Abstract: The present invention provides an aqueous electrode binder for a secondary battery suitable as a water-soluble binder that is included in a composition forming an electrode for secondary battery, and does not reduce adhesion and flexibility of an emulsion because a water-soluble polymer is included that has dispersibility and a viscosity control function, and that supplementary works when an electrode is formed. An aqueous electrode binder for a secondary battery includes a water-soluble polymer, wherein the water-soluble polymer includes a structural unit (a) derived from an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid ester monomer in an amount of 50 to 95% by mass and a structural unit (b) derived from an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic salt monomer in an amount of 5 to 50% by mass, based on 100% by mass of the total amount of the structural units included in the water-soluble polymer, and wherein the water-soluble polymer has a weight-average molecular weight of 500,000 or more.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a receiving apparatus including: first to third position determination sections configured to determine the start position of an FFT interval which serves as a signal interval targeted for FFT by an FFT section; a selection section configured to select one of those start positions of the FFT interval which are determined by the first through the third position determination section; and the FFT section configured to perform FFT on the OFDM time domain signal by regarding the start position selected by the selection section as the start position of the FFT interval in order to generate the first OFDM frequency domain signal.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are described for reading a file into a universal representation and translating from that universal representation into various file formats. For example, a method according to one embodiment comprises: reading compressed audio data from a first audio file, the first audio file comprising audio data compressed using a first compression algorithm and bookkeeping data having a first format, the bookkeeping data specifying a location of the compressed audio data within the first audio file; and generating a universal representation of the first audio file without decompressing and recompressing the audio data, the universal representation having bookkeeping data of a second format specifying the location of compressed audio data within the universal representation.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus in one embodiment of the present invention is an image forming apparatus that includes a main body that performs processing to form an image on a recording paper, the image forming apparatus including, an ion generating section that is external to the main body, generates ions and emits those ions to the outside.

Abstract: A first cell mass substantially containing only either one of mesenchymal cells or epithelial cells and a second cell mass substantially containing only the other one of the cells are positioned in contact with each other inside a support carrier which can maintain a condition of cell contact; and cultured to obtain a tooth having a specific cell placement. Preferably, after the culturing, the support carrier having both cell masses is cultured with kidney cells.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a rearranging unit for rearranging coefficient data divided for each frequency band in order of executing synthesis processing for synthesizing the coefficient data of multiple sub-bands divided into frequency bands to generate image data for each line block; a calculating unit for calculating a quantization step size when encoding the image data for each coding unit which is the processing increment of encoding; a correcting unit for correcting the value of the quantization step size calculated by the calculating unit using a variable that exhibits the evenness of the code amount within a picture of the image data and takes such a large value that there is little deviation of the code amount; and an encoding unit for encoding the coefficient data rearranged by the rearranging unit for each coding unit to generate encoded data using the quantization step size corrected by the correcting unit.

Abstract: The invention provides a process for production of a composition comprising a perovskite structure compound, the process comprising: a first process to heat a hydrous oxide of at least one B group element selected from the group consisting of Ti, Zr, Hf, and Sn at a temperature within a range of 80 to 300° C. in the presence of an aqueous medium so as to dehydrate the hydrous oxide; and a second process to heat a reaction product obtained in the first process and a hydroxide of at least one A group element selected from the group consisting of Ba, Sr, Ca, Mg and Pb at a temperature within a range of 100 to 300° C. in the presence of an aqueous medium. The process provides a composition comprising an ABO3 compound in the form of uniform and fine spherical particles which have an average particle diameter of 1 ?m or less, preferably within a range of 0.01 to 0.5 ?m, high crystallinity, and a controlled A/B ratio as desired, as well as few internal pores in the crystalline particles.

Abstract: An information display device (10) includes a light source (11), a light guide plate (13) to which light from the light source (11) enters from a side surface and from which the light exits from one principal surface, and a liquid crystal panel (16) disposed adjacently to the light guide plate (13). Outside light is injected into the light guide plate (13) from an opposing surface opposing the one principal surface. The light guide plate (13) includes a light control mirror (19) electrically switchable to transmit light and to reflect light. At least one of the light from the light source (11) and the outside light exits from the one principal surface of the light guide plate (13). The light passes through the liquid crystal panel (16) and a character or an image is displayed.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a method for restoring the alveolar bone of a mammal with a missing tooth. The present invention provides a method for restoring the alveolar bone in a mammal with a missing tooth comprising a step of transplanting a regenerated tooth unit to the said missing site. The regenerated tooth unit is characterized in that it has a periodontal tissue portion in addition to a tooth crown portion.

Abstract: A pre-record data storage device includes: a first recording unit; a second recording unit having a capacitance larger than that of the first recording unit; a face comparison process executing unit that executes a face comparison process on a person's face detected from an image obtained by photographing the person; and a recording control unit. The recording control unit allows the first recording unit to start pre-recording of the image of the person from a face detection time when the person's face is detected, and to finish the pre-recording at a matched time when matching is confirmed as a result of the face comparison process of the face comparison process executing unit. The recording control unit stores pre-recorded data from the face detection time to the matched time in the second recording unit.

Abstract: A fat mass measurement apparatus includes an area detection unit that detects a predetermined position in a measurement subject's trunk area and detecting a predetermined area in the trunk area using the detected position; an electrode position setting unit that sets, on the body surface at the predetermined area detected by the area detection unit, a plurality of positions along the vertical direction of the trunk area for measuring the body impedance; an impedance measurement unit that measures the body impedance by bringing the impedance measurement electrodes into contact with each of the plurality of positions that have been set; and an abdominal area fat mass calculation unit that calculates a fat volume at the predetermined area based on the body impedances at each of the plurality of positions measured by the impedance measurement and the size of the trunk area at the predetermined area.

Abstract: A body fat measurement device includes a plurality of electrodes including back area electrodes and upper limb electrodes, a body impedance measurement unit that measures a body impedance using the plurality of electrodes, a body composition information calculation unit that calculates a body fat mass based on the body impedance, a fitting belt for bringing the back area electrodes into contact with the surface of the measurement subject's back area in a pressurized state, and an upper limb unit that includes a gripping portion that can be gripped by the measurement subject's hand, the upper limb electrodes being provided in the gripping portion. The upper limb unit can be attached to and detached from the fitting belt.

Abstract: A coil spring has an effective section that functions as a spring when a load in a coil axis direction has been applied, end turn sections that are formed on both ends of the effective section, and rising sections that are formed between the effective section and the end turn sections, wherein the rising sections are formed in such a way that, when ?1 represents the pitch angle of the rising sections and ?2 represents the pitch angle of the effective section, pitch angle ?1> pitch angle ?2 holds true in at least one of the rising sections.

Abstract: A wireless communication system comprises a mobile station and a base station, which use a plurality of communication channels and a pilot channel corresponding to at least one of the communication channels. The base station has a transmitting unit that employs at least one of the communication channels as a priority channel and transmits channel information of this priority channel and the other channels by use of a communication channel other than the pilot channel. The mobile station has a determining unit that determines a reception level of the pilot channel; an acquiring unit that acquires the channel information transmitted via the communication channel other than the pilot channel; and a deciding unit that decides, as an available communication channel, at least one of the communication channels based on both the channel information acquired by the acquiring unit and the reception level determined by the determining unit.