Abstract: Provided is a method for detection of HLA-A*31:01 allele. One or more single nucleotide polymorphisms which characterize HLA-A*31:01 are analyzed and the presence or absence of HLA-A*31:01 is determined based on the result of the analysis.

Abstract: Provided is a method for detection of HLA-A*31:01 allele. One or more single nucleotide polymorphisms which characterize HLA-A*31:01 are analyzed and the presence or absence of HLA-A*31:01 is determined based on the result of the analysis.

Abstract: A centrifugal fan comprises an impeller, a motor which is connected and rotates the impeller and a housing which has an intake and an air blowing port for housing the impeller. The impeller has a plurality of blades arranged on a circumference. The intake opens opposed to the right end (in FIG. 1) of the impeller. The air blowing port opens opposed to a side of the impeller. A gap enlarged portion, in which the distance between the outer circumference of the impeller and the inner face of the housing starts to increase at a point where the distance between the outer circumferential of the impeller and the surface of a nose portion is smallest therein, the nose portion being a region of the vicinity of an edge portion of the air blowing port, the edge portion being the closest side to the outer circumference of the impeller.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an electric power steering apparatus that can detect failure of a current detector quickly and with less misdetection using torque oscillation from a torque sensor. When the number of times N an absolute value of a differential value of a torque command value Tref exceeds a predetermined threshold value dTq in a predetermined time Tmr has reached a predetermined number Nref it is judged that the current detector has failed.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an electric power steering apparatus that can detect failure of a current detector quickly and with less misdetection using torque oscillation from a torque sensor. When the number of times N an absolute value of a differential value of a torque command value Tref exceeds a predetermined threshold value dTq in a predetermined time Tmr has reached a predetermined number Nref it is judged that the current detector has failed.

Abstract: A centrifugal fan comprises an impeller, a motor which is connected and rotates the impeller and a housing which has an intake and an air blowing port for housing the impeller. The impeller has a plurality of blades arranged on a circumference. The intake opens opposed to the right end (in FIG.1) of the impeller. The air blowing port opens opposed to a side of the impeller. A gap enlarged portion, in which the distance between the outer circumference of the impeller and the inner face of the housing starts to increase at a point where the distance between the outer circumferential of the impeller and the surface of a nose portion is smallest therein, the nose portion being a region of the vicinity of an edge portion of the air blowing port, the edge portion being the closest side to the outer circumference of the impeller.

Abstract: An antivibration zoom lens (10) for photography, video and the like. The zoom lens has an antivibration function and is capable of forming an image of an object over a zooming range from a maximum wide-angle state to a maximum telephoto state. The zoom lens comprises, objectwise to imagewise along an optical axis (A), a first lens group (G1) having a focal length f1 and positive refractive power. A second lens group (G2) is arranged adjacent the first lens group and serves as the antivibration lens group. The second lens group has a focal length f2, negative refractive power and comprises at least three lens sub-groups (G2A-G2C). One of the at least three lens sub-groups has a focal length t2B and is movable substantially perpendicularly to the optical axis. The zoom lens further comprises at least a third lens group (G3) and fourth lens group (G4). All the lens groups are separated by respective spacings which change when zooming from the maximum wide-angle state to the maximum telephoto state.

Abstract: Color information of a color image is represented by the Lab color space. A user can change hue by moving the position of a reference circle displayed on the a*b* plane in the Lab color space and change saturation by changing the size of the reference circle. The color information of the color image is changed with changes in the reference circle, allowing the user to conjecture changes in the color image visually and make color corrections easily and quickly.

Abstract: In a device for reproducing front MPEG 2 code a sequence of motion pictures, a slow-motion picture signal for N times slow motion playing is produced by combining the sequence of motion pictures reproduced and a plurality of interpolation picture sequences. Each of the interpolation picture sequences is interpolated between each one of the motion pictures and a succeeding one of the notion pictures. Each of the interpolation picture sequences comprises (n-1) interpolation pictures and in produced by calculating, from the motion vector data included in the MPEG 2, a motion vector between each one of the motion pictures and a succeeding one of the motion pictures, then calculating, from the motion vector, (n-1) interpolation motion vectors, and then producing the (n-1) interpolation pictures from the (n-1) interpolation vectors and the succeeding motion picture.

Abstract: In compressing a static image, image data is displayed in the window on the display unit, and the operator specifies a segmented rectangle. The specific coordinates of the segmented rectangle are stored as positional coordinate information, and are amended in an amending process so that the segmented rectangle may not destroy the basic blocks used in the compressing process. The image segmented by the amended and segmented rectangle is an image formed by basic blocks, and the data is not rounded in the recompressing process, thereby successfully maintaining the quality of the image.

Abstract: A zoom lens system with vibration-reduction function, comprising, in order from an object side:a first lens group having a positive refractive power;a second lens group having a negative refractive power;a third lens group having a negative refractive power;a fourth lens group having a positive refractive power; anda fifth lens group having a negative refractive power;wherein, when zooming, each of the distances between the first and second lens groups, the second and third lens groups, the third and fourth lens groups, and the fourth and fifth lens groups, respectively, changes. The fourth lens group has a shift lens unit movable in a direction across an optical axis, has positive refractive power, and a fixed lens unit fixed in the direction across the optical axis.

Abstract: A telephoto zoom lens system includes in order from an object side:a first lens group G.sub.1 having a positive refractive power;a second lens group G.sub.2 having a negative refractive power;a third lens group G.sub.3 having a negative refractive power;a fourth lens group G.sub.4 having a positive refractive power; anda fifth lens group G.sub.5 having a negative refractive power.When zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end, the distance between each of the adjacent lens groups changes. The second lens group G.sub.2, when zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end, first moves from the wide-angle end position toward the object side, then moves toward the image side, and once again moves toward the object side to reach the telephoto end. The second lens group G.sub.2 is positioned closer to the image side at its telephoto end than it is at its wide-angle end.

Abstract: A heating apparatus such as a microwave oven includes a magnetron and a heating chamber for accommodating food to be heated by microwaves generated by the magnetron. The heating chamber has a front opening opened and closed by a door. An operation panel is mounted to be adjacent to the door. The operation panel includes a panel section and an operation section mounted on the panel section and has a function of displaying a plurality of pieces of cooking information. The operation section includes a liquid crystal element subsection including a nematic curvilinear aligned phase (NCAP) liquid crystal permitting light to pass through it when voltage is applied to it, an indicia subsection laid on the liquid crystal element subsection and having a plurality of indicias corresponding to the pieces of cooking information, respectively, and a switch subsection including a plurality of switches corresponding to the indicias of the indicia subsection, respectively.

Abstract: A telecentric zoom lens is disclosed that comprises, in order from the magnifying side to the reducing side on an optical axis: first, second, third, fourth, and fifth lens groups having a positive, negative, negative, positive, and positive focal length, respectively. An open aperture is axially disposed between the third and fourth lens groups at the magnifying-side focal position of the combined fourth and fifth lens groups. When zooming from the maximum wide-angle state to the maximum telephoto state, the first, fourth, and fifth lens groups are stationary, while the second lens group axially moves linearly toward the reducing side and the third lens group axially moves along a convex path toward the magnifying side.

Abstract: A zoom lens has the capability to maintain image quality during image shifting for correcting for movement of the zoom lens. The zoom lens comprises, in order from the object side, a first lens group having positive refractive power, a second lens group having negative refractive power, a third lens group having negative refractive power, and a fourth lens group having positive refractive power. When changing magnification, the first lens group and the fourth lens group remain stationary along the optical axis and the second lens group and the third lens group move along the optical axis. The fourth lens group comprises, in order from the object side, a front lens group and a rear lens group. The front lens group of the fourth lens group moves in a direction substantially perpendicular to the optical axis to correct for movement of the image position caused by movement of the zoom lens.

Abstract: A compact, high-performance zoom lens is disclosed. The zoom lens comprises four lens groups having positive, negative, negative, and positive refractive power, respectively. The lens groups are disposed so as to enable the zoom lens to produce an image of an object on an image plane over a range of magnifications from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end. The second and third lens groups move along the optical axis during zooming. The first lens group preferably includes, objectwise to imagewise, a negative lens element and first, second, and third positive lens elements. The zoom lens satisfies at least the following conditions:0.6<F.sub.T.sup.1/2 (f.sub.1 /f.sub.T)<1.00.7<1.beta..sub.2W .multidot.V.sup.1/21 <1.1wherein f.sub.1 is the focal length of the first lens group, F.sub.T is the F-number of the zoom lens at the telephoto end, .beta..sub.2W is the lateral magnification of the second lens group at the wide-angle end, f.sub.

Abstract: A zoom lens has a first lens unit which is fixed in position during zooming and has a positive refractive power, a second lens unit which is movable upon zooming and has a negative refractive power, a third lens unit which is fixed in position during zooming and has a positive refractive power, a fourth lens unit which is movable upon zooming and has a negative refractive power, and a fifth lens unit which is fixed in position during zooming and has a positive refractive power. Upon zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end, the second lens unit is unidirectionally moved from the object side to the image side along the optical axis. The fourth lens unit is moved along the optical axis from the object side to the image side within the range from the wide-angle end to the middle position between the wide-angle and telephoto ends, and is moved along the optical axis from the image side to the object side within the range from the middle position to the telephoto end.

Abstract: A zoom lens system comprises in the following order from the object side: a first lens group of a positive refracting power; a second lens group of a negative refracting power; a third lens group; and a fourth lens group of a positive refracting power, wherein, when changing a focal length of the zoom lens system from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, the second lens group is shifted in one direction along an optical axis of the zoom lens from the object side toward the image side, the third lens group is shifted so as to reciprocate along the optical axis, and the first lens group has a gradient index lens whose refractive index varies along the direction of the optical axis and which satisfies the following condition:-10.6<(.nu.2-.nu.1)/[(n2-n1).multidot.100]<-0.9whereinn1: a refractive index at an object-side vertex of the gradient index lens,n2: a refractive index at an image-side vertex of the gradient index lens,.nu.1: Abbe number at the object-side vertex of the gradient index lens,.nu.

Abstract: A zoom lens system comprises, in an order from an object side, a first lens group with a positive refractive power; a second lens group with a negative refractive power; a third lens group with a negative refractive power; and a fourth lens group with a positive refractive power, wherein, for varying a focal length from a wide-end to a telephoto-end, the second lens group is moved from an object side to an image side along an optical axis and the third lens group is moved to reciprocate on the optical axis, the second lens group having an aspherical lens surface, and the aspherical lens surface is formed in a shape where the positive refractive power gradually increases or in a shape where the negative refractive power gradually decreases from the optical axis toward a periphery.

Abstract: Disclosed is a mixing circuit. A still-picture signal (S) input from a still-picture signal input terminal and a motion-picture signal (M) input from a motion-picture signal input terminal are added together by a first adder, and the resultant signal is converted to (S+M)/2 by a first 1-bit right shifter, and to (S+M)/4 by a 2-bit right shifter. One of the outputs of those shifters is selected by a first multiplexer in accordance with shift signals CI2-CI0. The still-picture signal (S) and motion-picture signal (M) are also respectively converted by a second 1-bit right shifter and a third 1-bit right shifter to S/2 and M/2, one of which or "O" is selected by a second multiplexer in accordance with the shift signals CI2-CI0. The outputs of the first and second multiplexers are added together by a second adder to be input to a third multiplexer. The output of the third multiplexer is determined by the shift signals CI2-CI0, and is output from an output terminal.