Abstract: According to exemplary embodiments of the present invention, references to a motion vector in a neighboring block of an enhancement layer or in a block of a previously coded picture, and a motion vector of a base layer are equally handled. Accordingly, a motion_prediction_flag with identification information can be integrated for further improved coding efficiency.

Abstract: A splitter includes, in parallel between trunk terminals and branch terminals, a signal branching circuit that blocks distributed power and passes a PLC communication signal and a power branching circuit that blocks the communication signal and passes the distributed power. In the signal branching circuit, impedance viewed from the branch terminal side is matched with characteristic impedance of a power line and impedance viewed from the trunk terminal side is higher than impedance viewed from the branch terminal side, in the frequency band of the communication signal. In the power branching circuit, input/output impedance is set to be sufficiently higher than the impedance of the signal branching circuit viewed from the trunk terminal side, in the frequency band of the communication signal.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an anti-obesity agent which contains a tea-derived component and which is safe and does not compromise the flavor of foods and beverages. According to the present invention, a safe and palatable anti-obesity agent can be provided by incorporating a benzotropolone ring-containing compound which has tea-derived, high inhibitory activities against lipase and alfa-glucosidase. The anti-obesity agent of the present invention does not compromise the flavor of foods and beverage, has palatability, and can be used in various use applications including foods and beverages intended for health enhancement such as reduction in triglycerides.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an anti-obesity agent which contains a tea-derived component and which is safe and does not compromise the flavor of foods and beverages. According to the present invention, a safe and palatable anti-obesity agent can be provided by incorporating a benzotropolone ring-containing compound which has tea-derived, high inhibitory activities against lipase and alfa-glucosidase. The anti-obesity agent of the present invention does not compromise the flavor of foods and beverage, has palatability, and can be used in various use applications including foods and beverages intended for health enhancement such as reduction in triglycerides.

Abstract: Disclosed is a rubber metal laminate comprising metal, an adhesive layer and a perfluoroelastomer layer, the perfluoroelastomer layer being formed from a vulcanizate layer of a blend comprising 2 to 10 parts by weight of a vinylidene fluoride-chlorotrifluoroethylene copolymer, based on 100 parts by weight of a perfluoroelastomer. The rubber metal laminate of the present invention can effectively improve the interlayer adhesion of the perfluoroelastomer to the metal and pockmarked surface (the state that crater-like irregularity is formed) of the perfluoroelastomer layer laminated on the metal.

Abstract: A peroxide-crosslinkable fluorine-containing elastomer IS produced by subjecting a fluorine-containing olefin and a perfluoroalkyl divinyl ether monomer represented by the general formula: CF2?CF—[OCF2CF(CF3)]aO(CF2)bO[CF(CF3)CF2O]c—CF?CF2 wherein a+c is an integer of 0 to 4 and b is an integer of 2 or more, to a copolymerization reaction; wherein the perfluoroalkyl divinyl ether monomer is added for copolymerization separately before and after the copolymerization reaction starts, or the total amount thereof is added for copolymerization after the copolymerization reaction starts. A peroxide-crosslinked molded product of the obtained fluorine-containing elastomer exhibits high compression set characteristic, while reducing a decrease in breaking strength, a decrease in elongation at break or an increase in hardness.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a division unit configured to divide an input image into a plurality of subblocks subjected to quantization control a subblock quantization parameter calculation unit configured to calculate a quantization parameter of each of the subblocks, a basic block quantization parameter calculation unit configured to set a basic block including at least two subblocks and to calculate a quantization parameter of the basic block, a difference value calculation unit configured to calculate a difference value between the quantization parameter of the basic block and the quantization parameter of each subblock included in the basic block, and a difference value coding unit configured to code the difference value.

Abstract: Disclosed is a peroxide-crosslinkable fluoroelastomer obtained by copolymerization of 0.1 to 20 mol % of a mixture of fluoroolefin iodides represented by the general formulae: CnF2n+1CF2CH?CF(CF2CF2)mI [Ia] and CnF2n+1CF?CHCF2(CF2CF2)mI [Ib], wherein n is an integer of 0 to 5, and m is an integer of 1 to 3. The peroxide-crosslinkable fluoroelastomer is copolymerized with a monomer having a side chain containing a peroxide-crosslinkable halogen atom, and has excellent vulcanizate physical properties and improved compression set characteristics when subjected to peroxide crosslinking.

Abstract: Provided is a fluorine-containing elastomer blend comprising 5 to 60 wt. % of a high-molecular-weight, fluorine-containing elastomer having a number average molecular weight of 3,000,000 or more, 20 to 80 wt. % of a medium-molecular-weight, fluorine-containing elastomer having a number average molecular weight of 100,000 to 1,000,000, and 10 to 50 wt. % of a low-molecular-weight, fluorine-containing elastomer having a number average molecular weight of 7,000 to 13,000; the number average molecular weight Mn of each fluorine-containing elastomer being measured by liquid chromatography using tetrahydrofuran as a developing solvent at a polymer concentration of 0.5 wt. % at a measurement temperature of 35° C. The fluorine-containing elastomer blend can achieve low hardness and low modulus while improving roll processability.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fluorine-containing elastomer having a copolymerization composition containing (A) 72.8 to 74.0 mol % of tetrafluoroethylene, (B) 26.8 to 24.0 mol % of perfluoro(lower alkyl vinyl ether) or perfluoro(lower alkoxy-lower alkyl vinyl ether), and (C) 0.2 to 3.0 mol % of a perfluoro unsaturated nitrile compound, and having a Mooney viscosity ML1+10(121° C.) of 70 to 115. The fluorine-containing elastomer is compounded with a bisamidoxime compound, which is used as a vulcanizing agent, in an amount of 0.2 to 5 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the fluorine-containing elastomer to form a fluorine-containing elastomer composition. The vulcanizate of the composition, even when used under plasma irradiation conditions or at temperatures as high as 300° C., can prevent weight loss caused by plasma irradiation and exhibits excellent heat resistance at temperatures as high as 300° C. or more.

Abstract: A mixture of polyfluoroalkadienes represented by the general formulae: CF3(CF2)nCF?CH(CF2)m+1CH?CH2 [Ia] and CF3(CF2)n+1CH?CF(CF2)mCH?CH2 [Ib], wherein n is an integer of 0 to 5, and m is an integer of 0 to 6, is obtained as a mixture fraction of products [Ia] and [Ib] by reacting a polyfluoroalkyl iodide represented by the general formula: CF3(CF2)n+1CH2(CF2)m+1(CH2CH2)I [II], with an organic basic compound. The polyfluoroalkadiene mixture is compounds having a perfluoroalkyl group in which the number of successive CF2 groups is 5 or less, and is effectively used as a copolymerizable monomer in the production of resinous or elastomeric fluorine-containing copolymers, which are used as active ingredients of surface-treating agents, such as water- and oil-repellents and mold-release agents.

Abstract: Disclosed is a mixture of fluoroolefin iodides represented by the general formulae: CnF2n+1CF2CH?CF(CF2CF2)mI [Ia] and CnF2n+1CF?CHCF2(CF2CF2)mI [Ib] wherein n is an integer of 0 to 5, and m is an integer of 1 to 3. The fluoroolefin iodide mixture is produced by subjecting a fluoroalkyl iodide represented by the general formula: CnF2n+1CF2CH2CF2(CF2CF2)mI [II] wherein n is an integer of 0 to 5, and m is an integer of 1 to 3, to an HF-elimination reaction in the presence of a basic compound.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an anti-obesity agent which contains a tea-derived component and which is safe and does not compromise the flavor of foods and beverages. According to the present invention, a safe and palatable anti-obesity agent can be provided by incorporating a benzotropolone ring-containing compound which has tea-derived, high inhibitory activities against lipase and alfa-glucosidase. The anti-obesity agent of the present invention does not compromise the flavor of foods and beverage, has palatability, and can be used in various use applications including foods and beverages intended for health enhancement such as reduction in triglycerides.

Abstract: Frames are divided into a plurality of sections on the basis of input images of the frames (S8). One representative image that represents the image of each frame is set in each of the sections (S10). One representative image to be referred to is selected so as to encode an image of a frame of interest from the representative images set for respective sections, and the image of the frame of interest is encoded by motion compensation using the images of the frames in the section that includes the selected representative image (S13, S14, S15).

Abstract: A motion detector detects the motion of an imaging device. On the basis of the detected motion information, a selector selects, from a plurality of frame memories for storing a plurality of frame data, a frame memory for storing reference frame data to be referred to when frame data to be coded is coded. A motion estimator estimates a motion vector on the basis of the reference frame data stored in the selected frame memory and the frame data to be coded. The frame data to be coded is coded by using the estimated motion vector, and the coded data is output.

Abstract: In order to perform appropriate image correction considering the moving image region and static image region of image data forming a moving image, the image data forming the moving image is input in a unit of frame, the image data is divided into a moving image region and static image region, and a feature amount of the moving image region and that of the static image region are calculated. At least one table for image correction is generated based on the feature amount of the moving image region and that of the static image region, and the image data is corrected using the table.

Abstract: A fluorine-containing elastomer composition, which comprises (A) a fluorine-containing elastomer consisting of a copolymer comprising (a) tetrafluoroethylene, (b) perfluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) or perfluoro-(alkoxyalkyl vinyl ether), and (c) a cyano group-containing perfluorovinyl ether, (B) a cross-linking agent, and (C) spherical silica, wherein the spherical silica is high purity amorphous silica particles obtained by calcining metallic silica powders, and cooling the resulting vaporous silicon oxide. The present fluorine-containing elastomer composition can provide seal materials having distinguished processability, product appearance, plasma resistance, etc. by the cyano group-containing perfluoroelastomer having a good heat resistance and only silica as contained therein.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an input unit configured to input a moving image on a frame-by-frame basis, a feature quantity calculating unit configured to calculate a feature quantity of the input image, a storing unit configured to store the feature quantity corresponding to a plurality of frames, a motion determination unit configured to determine whether an object of the input image is moving or motionless, a smoothing unit configured to smooth feature quantity of a plurality of images in accordance with a result of determination made by the motion determination unit, and an image correcting unit configured to correct the input image in accordance with an output from the smoothing unit.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel ascorbic acid derivative as a provitamin C with improved stability in the body and prolonged life in the body compared to conventionally known 2-O-(?-D-glucopyranosyl)ascorbic acid. The composition comprising the novel compound 2-O-(?-D-glucopyranosyl)ascorbic acid has been extracted from plants such as from Ningxia Lycium barbarum L. and/or Lycium chinense Mill. The compositions comprising 2-O-(?-D-glucopyranosyl)ascorbic acid may be enzymatically synthesized using ?-D-glucosyltransferase. Pure 2-O-(?-D-glucopyranosyl)ascorbic acid may be produced from such compositions. Alternatively, 2-O-(?-D-glucopyranosyl)ascorbic acid may be produced by chemical synthesis. The 2-O-(?-D-glucopyranosyl)ascorbic acid results in higher stability and a prolonged life of vitamin C when ingested in the body compared to the corresponding ?-D-glucopyranosyl derivative, and is therefore highly suitable as a provitamin C to be used in cosmetics and foods.

Abstract: Disclosed is a mixture of fluoroolefin iodides represented by the general formulae: CnF2n+1CF2CH?CF(CF2CF2)mI [Ia] and CnF2n+1CF?CHCF2(CF2CF2)mI [Ib] wherein n is an integer of 0 to 5, and m is an integer of 1 to 3. The fluoroolefin iodide mixture is produced by subjecting a fluoroalkyl iodide represented by the general formula: Cn2n+1CF2CH2CF2(CF2CF2)mI [II] wherein n is an integer of 0 to 5, and m is an integer of 1 to 3, to an HF-elimination reaction in the presence of a basic compound.