Abstract: The present invention is a virtual-slide specimen image acquisition apparatus that captures images by dividing a specimen into a plurality of sections, having a conveying device in which a plurality of specimens can be arranged and that conveys the plurality of the arranged specimens in a first direction by a distance corresponding to the length of a side along the first direction in one of the divided sections and at first time intervals and an image capturing device that has an image capturing portion for capturing images of the specimens magnified at a predetermined magnification and that scans the specimens conveyed to a predetermined position in a second direction, by a predetermined length at second time intervals, such that the image capturing portion captures images of all of the sections that are positioned identically in the first direction and that are positioned differently in the second direction perpendicular to the first direction.

Abstract: A drying and storing apparatus for powdered or granular material and a feeding system for powdered or granular material. The apparatus comprises a heating and drying chamber having a discharge port at its lower end and a thermal conductive heating means therein and a hopper chamber connected to the upper end of the heating and drying chamber, in which the heating and drying chamber and the hopper chamber constitute a integrally combined material storage processing tank for powdered or granular material.

Abstract: If a user specifies a location on a map image, he or she can see an image shot at that location. An imaging apparatus (an imaging/display apparatus 1 or an imaging apparatus 30) placed on a movable body transmits shot image data to a server apparatus together with additional data that includes location information about a photographing point, so that they are stored in the server apparatus. That is, the server apparatus accumulates pieces of image data obtained by photographing in various places by a great number of imaging apparatuses together with the location information thereof. A user of the display apparatus (the imaging/display apparatus 1 or the display apparatus 40) specifies a location on the map image.

Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to let a user arbitrarily and easily see any other scene than himself or herself in his or her view (the scene seen from any other moving body than him or her). In a display device (an image pickup and display device 1 or a display device 40), specification information is generated to specify a specific image pickup device of outer image pickup devices (the image pickup and display device 1 or and image pickup device 30), and image data are received from the image pickup device specifyed by the specification information and are displayed. As an outer image pickup device, for example, and image pickup device wore by some other person, image pickup devices set at a car, an electric train, and the like, or further mage pickup devices set at an animal, a bird, and the like are supposed. Image data picked up by these image pickup devices are transmitted to the display side and the image display is carried out in the display device.

Abstract: Each of processors has a barrier write register and a barrier read register. Each barrier write register is wired to each barrier read register by a dedicated wiring block. For example, a 1-bit barrier write register of a processor is connected, via the wiring block, to a first bit of each 8-bit barrier read register contained in the processors, and a 1-bit barrier write register of another processor is connected, via a wiring block, to a second bit of each 8-bit barrier read register contained in the processors. For example, a processor writes information to its own barrier write register, thereby notifying synchronization stand-by to the other processors and reads its own barrier read register, thereby recognizing whether the other processors are in synchronization stand-by or not. Therefore, a special dedicated instruction is not required along barrier synchronization processing, and the processing can be made at a high speed.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image display system including a display apparatus, an imaging apparatus placed on a movable body; and a server apparatus. The display apparatus and the imaging apparatus are capable of communicating with the server apparatus. The imaging apparatus includes: an imaging section; a speed detection section; and a control section that controls transmission of image data and speed information to the server apparatus. The server apparatus includes: a movable body speed management section that manages the moving speed of the movable body using the speed information; and a control section that identifies an imaging apparatus that matches speed specification information, and causes image data to be transferred from the identified imaging apparatus to the display apparatus. The display apparatus includes: a display section; and a control section that performs a speed specification process, an image request transmission process, and a display process.

Abstract: To reduce overhead of data transfer between processor cores and improve a processing capability of a processor, there is provided a processor including: a CPU for performing computing processing; an internal memory for storing data; and a data transfer unit for performing data transfer between the internal memory and a shared memory, in which: the data transfer unit includes: a command chain module for executing a command sequence formed of a plurality of commands including a data transfer instruction; and a monitor module for reading data set in advance in the internal memory and repeatedly monitoring the data until a comparative value and a value of the data become equal to each other, when one of the plurality of commands of the command sequence thus read is a predetermined command; and the command chain module executes a next command in the command sequence after the monitor module has finished monitoring.

Abstract: Performance of a heterogeneous multiprocessor is educed as much as possible within a short time without any awareness of parallelization matched with a configuration of the heterogeneous multiprocessor. In a heterogeneous multiprocessor system, tasks having parallelism are automatically extracted by a compiler, a portion to be efficiently processed by a dedicated processor is extracted from an input program being a processing target, and processing time is estimated. Thus, by arranging the tasks according to PU characteristics, scheduling for efficiently operating a plurality of PU's in parallel is carried out.

Abstract: A heterogeneous multiprocessor system including a plurality of processor elements having mutually different instruction sets and structures avoids a specific processor element from being short of resources to improve throughput. An executable task is extracted based on a preset depending relationship between a plurality of tasks, and the plurality of first processors are allocated to a general-purpose processor group based on a depending relationship among the extracted tasks. A second processor is allocated to an accelerator group, a task to be allocated is determined from the extracted tasks based on a priority value for each of tasks, and an execution cost of executing the determined task by the first processor is compared with an execution cost of executing the task by the second processor. The task is allocated to one of the general-purpose processor group and the accelerator group that is judged to be lower as a result of the cost comparison.

Abstract: Provided is a multiprocessor system and a compiler used in the system for automatically extracting tasks having parallelism from an input program to be processed, performing scheduling to efficiently operate processor units by arranging the tasks according to characteristics of the processor units, and generating codes for optimizing a system frequency and a power supply voltage by estimating a processing amount of the processor units.

Abstract: A liquid crystal (LC) compound having generally required physical properties, low viscosity, proper optical anisotropy, proper dielectric anisotropy and good compatibility with other LC compounds is described. An LC composition including the compound and an LCD device including the composition are also described. The compound is expressed by formula (1a): wherein the ring A1 and the ring A2 are independently 1,4-phenylene, pyridine-2,5-diyl, pyrimidine-2,5-diyl or naphthalene-2,6-diyl, in which any hydrogen can be replaced by halogen; Z1, Z2 and Z3 are independently a single bond, —(CH2 )2—, —(CH2 )4—, —CH?CH—, —C?C—, —CF2O—, —OCF2—, —COO— or —OCO—; Xa, Xb, Xc, Xd, Xe and Xf are independently hydrogen or fluorine; Y is —OCH2F, —OCHF2, —OCF3, —SCH2F, —SCHF2, —SCF3, —CH2F, —CHF2, —CF3, fluorine or chlorine; La and Lb are independently hydrogen or fluorine; and “l” and “m” are independently equal to 0 or 1.

Abstract: A compound represented by the following formula (1), a composition comprising the composition and an element comprising the composition: Ra is alkyl having 1 to 15 carbons and so forth; A1, A2 and A3 are 1,4-cyclohexylene and so forth; Z1, Z2 and Z3 are a single bond and so forth; n and m are 0 or 1; and phenyl having (F)p is phenyl, 2-fluorophenyl and so forth.

Abstract: A drying and storing apparatus for powdered or granular material and a feeding system for powdered or granular material. The apparatus comprises a heating and drying chamber having a discharge port at its lower end and a thermal conductive heating means therein and a hopper chamber connected to the upper end of the heating and drying chamber, in which the heating and drying chamber and the hopper chamber constitute a integrally combined material storage processing tank for powdered or granular material.

Abstract: A packaging material capable of displaying commodities such as clothes attractively as viewed from both front and rear sides thereof has a single sheet having sheet bodies connected at the front rear sides through a band part. Extension pieces are provided at the right and left sides of the front sheet body through bent parts. Locks are provided at the right and left ends of the extension pieces to lock the extension pieces to each other in the overlapped state. Additional extension pieces are connected at the right and left sides of the rear sheet body through bent parts having a width smaller than that of the band part. Additional locks are provided at the right and left ends of the additional extension pieces to lock the additional extension pieces to each other in the overlapped state, and a slit allows the extension pieces to be locked to each other between the rear sheet body and the bent parts.

Abstract: A packaging material capable of displaying commodities such as clothes attractively as viewed from both front and rear sides thereof in such a state that the head part thereof is covered completely, comprising a single sheet having sheet bodies (1a) and (1b) at the front and rear sides thereof through a band part (2), wherein extension pieces (3a) and (3b) are provided at the right and left sides of the front sheet body (1a) through a bent part (4), locking means (5a) and (5b) are provided at the right and left end parts of the extension pieces (3a) and (3b) to lock the extension pieces to each other in the overlapped state, extension pieces (7a) and (7b) are provided at the right and left sides of the rear sheet body (1b) through a bent part (6) having a width smaller than that of the band part (2), locking means (8a) and (8b) are provided at the right and left end parts of the extension pieces (7a) and (7b) to lock the extension pieces to each other in the overlapped state, and a slit (9) allowing the exten

Abstract: A noise reduction structure for a cab of a working vehicle, by which a high degree of noise reduction effectiveness can be surely obtained, is provided. For this purpose, the noise reduction structure has a configuration in which a sound-insulating chamber (A; B; C) adjacent to a cab (10a) is provided at a position of at least one of the following: under a floor (11a) of the cab (10a), behind a rear wall of the cab (10a), and at a side of a side wall of the cab (10a).

Abstract: A wafer transfer apparatus for taking out a wafer from a wafer cassette having grooves on both ends for holding circumferential edges of a plurality of wafers by moving a wafer transfer arm in height directions and back and forth directions relative to the wafer cassette. The apparatus comprises a wafer pushing out mechanism for pushing out a wafer on the back of a wafer inlet/outlet side of the wafer cassette into which the transfer arm is inserted. The wafer pushing out mechanism comprises a pushing pin rotatable when it is in contact with the wafer and a driving mechanism for driving the pushing pin so as to push the wafer from the back of the wafer cassette to the wafer inlet/outlet side.

Abstract: A cutting device for performing a cutting operation, which can reduce wasteful cutting, can easily perform an accurate and neat cutting, and can have a long service life. The cutting device includes a guide supporting member, mounted to a distal end of a working machine on a self-propelled working vehicle in such a manner as to be freely swingable; a guide element, horizontally supported by the guide supporting member; a cutter, mounted to the guide element; a first movement device, for moving the cutter with respect to the guide element; and a second movement device, for moving the cutter in a direction along the guide element. A vibration preventing system can be included. Since the cutter vertically moves at a time of entering, a cutting can be efficiently performed with no wasteful cutting; and since vibration is reduced, the service life is extended.

Abstract: Of a plurality of wafers (15) circumferential edge portions of which are held by slot grooves (14) of a wafer cassette (13), the positions of a wafer (15) to be transferred and the wafers (15) above and beneath it are detected by a first sensor (16) and a second sensor (17). A calculating unit calculates an amount of bend of each wafer (15) based on the detected information. It is determine, based on the calculation result, whether the transfer arm (18) can be inserted under the wafer (15) to be transferred without contacting with the wafer beneath (15) and whether the wafer (15) to be transferred can be lifted up by the transfer arm (18) without contacting with the wafer above (15).