Abstract: The present invention proposes a dot pattern on which code information and x and y coordinate information can be defined even if the dot pattern is extremely small, and proposes an information reproducing method and an information reproducing device based on the dot pattern. More specifically, a medium such as a printed material on which is formed a dot pattern portion by arranging in accordance with a given rule dots generated by a dot code generating algorithm in order to recognize various kinds of multimedia information is scanned as image data by scanning means. Then, the image data is converted into code data. Multimedia information corresponding to the code data is read out of storing means to be reproduced.

Abstract: To realize a dot pattern which can be read even by a frame buffer of which algorithm for search is simple and of which resolution is low without sacrificing an information dot for defining a direction of a block. There is provided a dot pattern, wherein a plurality of reference points is provided in an area of a block having a predetermined information dot arranged thereon; a plurality of virtual reference points to be defined is arranged from the reference points (for example, a central point of a grid area); an information dot is arranged, of which information is defined by a distance and a direction from the virtual reference point; and at least the information dot at the predetermined position is made into a direction dot showing the direction of the block by a direction from the virtual reference point.

Abstract: The objective of the invention is to provide an information input assistance sheet that can accurately read infrared reflection light from an ultra minute area regardless of the contact angle of the optical reading device when the optical reading device reads a dot pattern by causing infrared light emitted from the light source of the optical reading device to be reflected off the information input assistance sheet printed with dots that absorb infrared light. The dots of the dot pattern are printed with an ink that has a characteristic that absorbs at least a predetermined wavelength light or the characteristic that absorbs the predetermined wavelength light and a visible light transmission characteristic, and the diffuse reflection layer is formed by arranging a directional reflection material so that the predetermined wavelength light that is irradiated by the irradiation means is diffusely reflected toward the dot pattern reading surface.

Abstract: New input systems, that is, a paper icon, a paper controller, a paper keyboard, and a mouse pad capable of inputting letters, characters or the like to a computer and performing operations with easy manipulation and replacing hardware devices such as a keyboard, a mouse, and a tablet are provided.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage device includes a storage medium configured to store second data groups including first data groups, each of the first data groups including user data encrypted with a common encryption key and first information concerned with the encryption key, and a controller configured to hold second information regarding a latest encryption key, read one of the first data groups included in one of the second data groups, compare the second information and the first information acquired from the one of the first data groups, and stop a read operation of reading the first data groups included in the second data groups upon the first information being different from the second information.

Abstract: A vehicle lamp according to an aspect of the present invention includes a light source, a metal light-source stage including a light-source mounting portion, and a lens member that emits light from the light source toward the front of the lamp. The light-source stage includes a support portion for the lens member. The lens member includes a leg projecting toward the light-source stage and having an end that is supported by the support portion. The support portion includes three projections that abut the leg in a state in which the leg is supported by the support portion and position the lens member in a direction of an optical axis. The three projections are positioned relative to one another such that at least a portion of the light source lies in an extension range of a triangle with vertices given by the three projections.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage apparatus includes a recording medium configured to record encryption data, and a controller configured to acquire generation information of an encryption key used to encrypt the encryption data read from the recording medium, determine whether the acquired generation information is coincide with generation information of latest encryption key held beforehand, and write specific data different from the read encryption data into an area where the encryption data is recorded upon the acquired generation information being not coincide with the generation information of the latest encryption key.

Abstract: Provided is a molding mold including a fixed mold and a movable mold which are caused to abut on each other so as to form a cavity. An air supply path configured to supply air and a gas discharge path configured to discharge a gas are formed in the fixed mold or the movable mold, the air supply path and the gas discharge path are communicated with the cavity, and a molten resin is filled in the cavity in a state where the cavity is maintained at a pressure higher than an atmospheric pressure by the air supplied from the air supply path.

Abstract: A projection lens formed of a light-transmitting resin including an incidence part on which light is incident, an emission part, a peripheral edge portion, and a thick part. Light is incident on the incidence part. The emission part emits the light incident from the incidence part. The peripheral edge portion is provided at a boundary between the incidence part and the emission part. The thick part is provided at a part of the peripheral edge portion, made thicker in an optical axis direction than other parts of the peripheral edge portion and having a gate mark formed at least on a part of an outer peripheral surface of the thick part.

Abstract: To achieve an information output device in which information of a medium disposed on a stage surface can be surely and efficiently read out, and a stage effect and a security are high. In the information output device, media are disposed on a stage surface in a state where the media are opposite to the stage surface, the media where dot patterns are printed on medium surfaces on the basis of a predetermined rule, the dot patterns are read by imaging units disposed in a space below the stage and converted into code values or coordinate values indicating the dot patterns from photographed images obtained by the imaging units, and information corresponding to the code values or the coordinate values is outputted.

Abstract: Recognition of a player's touch on a surface of a medium is made possible, as well as recognition of the medium such as a card by a dot pattern printed on a back surface of the medium placed on a stage. Input instructions according to each feature of a game or information processing device are made possible just by preparing a card on which a region for a touch operation is printed, by making possible recognition of a player's touch on a surface of a medium, as well as recognition of the medium such as a card by a dot pattern printed on a back surface of the medium placed on a stage, calculating where on a card placed on the stage is touched, and causing to perform a process according to a feature of the card.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory controller includes a bank controller including a queuing part queuing commands associated with a bank and having a first flag associated with each of the commands, the bank controller executing the commands in order, a data controller transferring write data to the bank when a particular command to be executed among the commands is a write command associated with one of physical addresses in the bank, and a parity controller generating parity data for restoring the write data based on a value of a first flag associated with the particular command, before execution of the particular command is completed.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a memory including a first storage area and a second storage area different from the first storage area, and a controller configured to generate a compressed data compressing input data, generate a header data related to a compressed data group including a plurality of compressed data, generate a packet data including the compressed data group and the header data, store the packet data in the first storage area, and store the header data in the second storage area.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus that includes a fuse circuit including a fuse element, the fuse circuit configured to provide a first output signal having a first voltage or a second voltage responsive to a state of the fuse element, and a sense circuit configured to provide a second output signal having the first voltage or a third voltage responsive to the first output signal, the third voltage different from the second voltage.

Abstract: It is intended to disclose an antibody which binds to DLL3 protein. Preferably, the antibody of the present invention recognizes a region from amino acids 216 to 492 in human DLL3 having the amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1. The present invention also provides a pharmaceutical composition, for example, an anticancer agent, comprising the antibody of the present invention as an active ingredient. The present invention further discloses a method for diagnosing cancer using the antibody of the present invention and a diagnostic drug for cancer comprising the antibody of the present invention.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus generates a GUI screen image for operating the imaging apparatus. A controller controls the generation of the GUI screen image upon detecting a predetermined operation.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display panel which has a display surface; an apparatus base to which the display panel is attached; a detecting unit which has a detecting surface disposed so as to face a region to be inspected being a part of the display surface, the detecting unit detecting by means of the detecting surface, light emitted from the region to be inspected, and outputting a detection result; and a case which supports the detecting unit, and is attached to a peripheral area of the region to be inspected.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a chien search device includes n operation units configured to perform exclusive-OR operations, for each of the coefficients. Further, the chien search device includes first register configured to hold operation results of a highest order operation unit, for each of the coefficients. Furthermore, the chien search device includes exclusive-OR operation unit configured to perform exclusive-OR operations of the results of the first exclusive-OR operations of the highest order operation unit, for each of the coefficients. Moreover, the chien search device includes second register configured to hold operation results of the exclusive-OR operation unit, for each of the coefficients. The respective operation units reduce the number of stages of exclusive-OR operations by using the second register values.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a device including a non-volatile memory and a controller. The non-volatile memory includes a memory cell array and an internal buffer. The controller is configured to, after failure of an error correcting process of first data read from the memory cell array, store second data generated from the first data in the internal buffer and read the stored second data from the internal buffer to perform the error correcting process.

Abstract: To realize a dot pattern which can be read even by a frame buffer of which algorithm for search is simple and of which resolution is low without sacrificing an information dot for defining a direction of a block. There is provided a dot pattern, wherein a plurality of reference points is provided in an area of a block having a predetermined information dot arranged thereon; a plurality of virtual reference points to be defined is arranged from the reference points (for example, a central point of a grid area); an information dot is arranged, of which information is defined by a distance and a direction from the virtual reference point; and at least the information dot at the predetermined position is made into a direction dot showing the direction of the block by a direction from the virtual reference point.