Abstract: A vehicle strut assembly includes at least a strut member, a bearing assembly, a mounting bracket and a noise isolating member. The bearing assembly encircles an upper end portion of the strut member. The mounting bracket is configured to receive the bearing assembly with mounting bracket encircling the upper end portion of the strut member and further configured to attach to a portion of a vehicle body assembly of a vehicle. The noise isolating member is installed below the mounting bracket and along a surface of the bearing assembly reducing noises transmitted from the vehicle strut assembly to the portion of the vehicle body assembly.

Abstract: A vehicle strut assembly includes at least a strut member, a bearing assembly, a mounting bracket and a noise isolating member. The bearing assembly encircles an upper end portion of the strut member. The mounting bracket is configured to receive the bearing assembly with mounting bracket encircling the upper end portion of the strut member and further configured to attach to a portion of a vehicle body assembly of a vehicle. The noise isolating member is installed below the mounting bracket and along a surface of the bearing assembly reducing noises transmitted from the vehicle strut assembly to the portion of the vehicle body assembly.

Abstract: A lead frame includes a terminal part having a first side surface formed in a concave curve shape on a lower side from an upper end of the terminal part, and a second side surface formed in a concave curve shape on a lower side from a lower end of the first side surface. The concave curve shape of each of the first and second side surfaces has a depth in a surface direction of the terminal part. A boundary part of the first side surface and the second side surface becomes a protrusion protruding outward. The depth of the concave curve shape of the second side surface is larger than that of the first side surface. A distance between an upper end and a lower end of the second side surface is longer than a distance between an upper end and the lower end of the first side surface.

Abstract: A presence information notification system is provided which generates presence information indicating where or whether or not a user is present and notifies a terminal of the generated information substantially without requiring the user to perform any intentional operation therefor. The system includes: a portable device carried by the user; an installed device installed at a predetermined position and having a memory device A storing an identifier A for identifying the individual installed device, detection means, for detecting the portable device, and means for performing data communication via a data communication network; a first memory device storing association relationship between positional information indicating the position where the installed device is installed and the identifier A of the installed device installed at the position indicated by the positional information; and a server having means for performing data communication via a data communication network.

Abstract: When a wireless line between a spot base station device and a wireless communication terminal is connected, a charging device starts charging according to a charging plan set for the spot base station device instead of according to a charging plan uniformly set by a carrier so that the charging plan can be independent for each spot area covered by the spot base station device.

Abstract: A mileage service system using location information of a mobile communication terminal and a method thereof, capable of providing a user with a mileage service according to a travel distance are provided, in order for an information provider of the service industry or the like to differentiate a service to the user from a distance. A server 300 obtains location information, which a mobile communication terminal 100 detects by a detecting unit, by an obtaining unit, calculates a distance between a fixed property and a mobile communication terminal based on location information of the fixed property and location information of the mobile communication terminal, each stored in a database 330, by a mileage processing unit 320, and converts the distance to mileage points.

Abstract: An apparatus system for visible-light communication verification and method thereof is provided herein. The system includes a mobile terminal which includes, a light emitting circuit emitting a visible-light signal, the visible-light signal having a pattern of colors and the pattern being repeatedly emitted predetermined times, and a controller controlling the light emitting circuit and changing a period of the pattern gradually longer while repeating. The system also including an authentication device which includes, a light emitting circuit emitting a visible-light signal, the visible-light signal having a pattern of colors and the pattern being repeatedly emitted for a predetermined number of times, a controller controlling the light emitting circuit and gradually increasing a period of the color pattern with an each color pattern iteration.

Abstract: Disclosed is an authentication method used in the system including a communication network, a mobile communication terminal (MT) and an authentication sub-system. When the subsystem receives an authentication request, it generates a first password information and converts the first password information to a first password motion picture signal. The first password motion picture signal changes its uniform color of a frame according to the first password information. The first password motion picture signal is transmitted to the MT. The MT receives the first password motion picture signal and transmits a second password motion picture signal to the subsystem. The subsystem performs inversion of the received second password motion picture signal to the second password information, and compares this second password information with the first password information. One of the first and second password motion picture signals is transmitted as a light signal.

Abstract: An imaging system in a hospital includes plural diagnostic units each having a picture filing memory in which medical picture data of patients are stored. The memories are located in the diagnostic units at dispersed locations in the hospital. Each diagnostic unit includes a retrieval unit by which image data can be retrieved from the respective memory. A network interconnects the diagnostic unit and permits transmission of image data among the diagnostic units.

Abstract: An X-ray imaging system wherein serial frame images are stored in the image memories. Memory selection of image memories is controlled by a microcomputer in accordance with the number of frame images and an interval between R-waves of an electrocardiogram signal of a subject detected by phase detector. By such a system, each serial frame the image read out from image memories in accordance with an address signal supplied by address generator can be displayed by a TV monitor in the same period.

Abstract: A picture archiving communication system for storing, transferring various digital image data in a single or a plurality of hospitals includes a modality, a data base, a workstation as a display unit, and a network for connecting these components. The modality includes various diagnosis apparatuses for generating medical digital images, such as a film digitizer, an angiography apparatus, a CT scanner, an MRI system, a nuclear medicine diagnosis apparatus, an ultrasound diagnosis apparatus, and an electric endoscope. An examination ordering system is connected to the network. The workstation outputs computer-aided diagnosis data obtained by analyzing medical image data by means of a computer. This computer-aided diagnosis data includes the location, the type, and the degree of abnormality. In order to alarm an abnormality, the workstation displays a marker pointing the portion of the abnormal portion on the image, a text sentence representing the details of the abnormality.

Abstract: An optical image processing method and system in a radiographic system, wherein an image of an object is produced by an image intensifier and converted to video signal by a television (TV) camera system. A liquid crystal display (LCD) is placed bewteen the image intensifier and the T.V. camera system at a location shifted from a focal plane of the T.V. camera system. The liquid crystal display defines plural pixels which are controllable so that light produced by the image intensifier and impinging on the plural LCD pixels can be selectively attenuated by application of selected control signals to the LCD. Control signals are generated selectively based on predetermined parameters of the radiographic system and the image. These control signals are applied to the LCD to perform selective attenuation and corresponding dynamic range compression of light passing through respective LCD pixels, thereby to perform unsharp masking of the image produced by the image intensifier using the LCD.

Abstract: A linear photo sensing device comprises a first electrode section with a plurality of electrode elements linearly arrayed, a second linear electrode section, a linear semiconductor layer with photo-electric converting function sandwiched between the first and second electrode sections, and a third electrode section with a plurality of electrode elements each of which is disposed between the adjacent electrode elements of said first electrode section and which are held at a predetermined potential.

Abstract: A database system is provided in a network system capable of exchanging medical data, including at least image data and key data associated therewith, and can store and retrieve the medical data via the network system. The database system has first and second data file devices and a file management device. The first data file device stores image data supplied via the network system in a first rewritable storage. The second data file device stores image data transferred from the first storage in a non-rewritable second storage. The file management device has an index data storage for storing the key data, supplied via the network system, and memory addresses of image data, which correspond to the key data, on the first and second storages in correspondence with each other, and manages storing and reading of the image data in and from the first and second data file devices.

Abstract: An endoscope apparatus for producing a video signal by inserting an insertion portion in a body cavity of a patient and photographing a portion to be examined and for producing image information for medical diagnosis according to the video signal includes an adding memory, a position error detector, controllers, and a display. The memory sequentially adds and superposes succeeding image information signals constituting the video signal. The detector sequentially compares the adjacent image information signals on a time basis, and detects the position error information between the image information signals of at least portions of identical image area. The controllers cause the memory to start sequential additions in response to an external freeze instruction, and inhibit the sequential additions in response to a detection signal from the detector. The image information signals stored in the memory are displayed on the display.

Abstract: An X-ray diagnostic apparatus comprising an X-ray source for irradiating X rays to a patient, an image intensifier tube for converting an X-ray image, formed by transmitting X rays through the patient to an optical image, a television camera for receiving the optical image from the image intensifier tube through a diaphragm to output the video signal. In this pick-up apparatus, the X-ray source pre-irradiates one time a small dose of X-rays before main irradiation and there are provided a detector for detecting the maximum value of the video signal produced from the camera at the time of pre-irradiation, and an arithmetic operation circuit for calculating a diaphragm value from the maximum value detected and from pick-up conditions except a diaphragm value at the time of main irradiation of X rays in such a way that the maximum value of the video signal from the camera at the time of main irradiation becomes equal to the maximum permissible value of the camera.

Abstract: In an X-ray television diagnostic apparatus, the blanking operation of the grid control circuit for the image intensifier and also the scanning operation of the television camera are interrupted during the projection of pulsatory X-rays from the X-ray tube, and at least the blanking operation for the image intensifier commences immediately after the projection of the pulsatory X-rays is accomplished.