Abstract: A video conference apparatus includes a relay unit that is configured to transmit video image data acquired at a site of a first conference system to a second terminal provided in a second conference system and transmit video image data of the second conference system to a first terminal provided in the first conference system. The relay unit is configured to transmit only a combined video image of video images at respective sites of the first conference system to the second terminal as first video image data, and transmit a video image sent from the second terminal to the first terminal as second video image data.

Abstract: A video conference apparatus includes a relay unit that is configured to transmit video image data acquired at a site of a first conference system to a second terminal provided in a second conference system and transmit video image data of the second conference system to a first terminal provided in the first conference system. The relay unit is configured to transmit only a combined video image of video images at respective sites of the first conference system to the second terminal as first video image data, and transmit a video image sent from the second terminal to the first terminal as second video image data.

Abstract: Disclosed is a sanitary ware compatibly satisfying both low water absorption and weight reduction. The sanitary ware has a pottery substrate of a vitreous body and a glaze layer, in which part of the substrate is exposed to outside thereof without the glaze layer; the substrate has (A) an anorthite and (B) an alkali metal component; and an amount of the alkali metal component is in the range of 5 to 10% by weight in terms of an oxide conversion (A2O) relative to the substrate. This sanitary ware has the properties of low water absorption and light weight.

Abstract: A video conference apparatus includes a relay unit that is configured to transmit video image data acquired at a site of a first conference system to a second terminal provided in a second conference system and transmit video image data of the second conference system to a first terminal provided in the first conference system. The relay unit is configured to transmit only a combined video image of video images at respective sites of the first conference system to the second terminal as first video image data, and transmit a video image sent from the second terminal to the first terminal as second video image data.

Abstract: A video conference apparatus includes a relay unit that is configured to transmit video image data acquired at a site of a first conference system to a second terminal provided in a second conference system and transmit video image data of the second conference system to a first terminal provided in the first conference system. The relay unit is configured to transmit only a combined video image of video images at respective sites of the first conference system to the second terminal as first video image data, and transmit a video image sent from the second terminal to the first terminal as second video image data.

Abstract: An objective is to prevent occurrence of video loop even in a case where a plurality of video conference apparatuses are connected in cascade. In a cascade mode, that is, in a case where a location of a video conference apparatus is an intermediate location, video and speech selector/combiner 105 selects video data of a location (location where a speech is made) of a maximum sound-volume among connection locations other than the location of the video conference apparatus and a cascade destination. Communication controller 103 transmits video data of the location of the maximum sound-volume to video conference apparatus 10 of the cascade destination and transmits the video data transmitted from video conference apparatus 10 of the cascade destination to video conference apparatuses 10 in a connection location other than the cascade destination.

Abstract: An objective is to prevent occurrence of video loop even in a case where a plurality of video conference apparatuses are connected in cascade. In a cascade mode, that is, in a case where a location of a video conference apparatus is an intermediate location, video and speech selector/combiner 105 selects video data of a location (location where a speech is made) of a maximum sound-volume among connection locations other than the location of the video conference apparatus and a cascade destination. Communication controller 103 transmits video data of the location of the maximum sound-volume to video conference apparatus 10 of the cascade destination and transmits the video data transmitted from video conference apparatus 10 of the cascade destination to video conference apparatuses 10 in a connection location other than the cascade destination.

Abstract: An example information processing system includes: a computer; an imaging device; a display device; and a first and a second feature placed in a real space. The computer includes: an image acquiring unit that acquires an image of the real space; a feature detecting unit that detects the first feature and the second feature from the image; a changing unit that changes an association of the first feature with a virtual objects by adding a virtual object associated with the second feature, and an generating unit that generates an image of a virtual space in which the virtual object associated with the first feature is placed at a position based on the first feature; and a display controlling unit that displays an image on the display device.

Abstract: An example computer includes: an image acquiring unit that acquires an image of a real space captured by an imaging device; a feature detecting unit that detects a feature from the image; a determining unit that determines a virtual object, or, a virtual object and an aspect of the virtual object while changing the same in accordance with a recognition condition of the detected feature; an image generating unit that generates an image of a virtual space in which the determined virtual object or the virtual object in the determined aspect is placed on a basis of the feature; and a display controlling unit that displays an image on a display device such that the image of the virtual space is visually recognized by a user while being superimposed on the real space.

Abstract: An engine includes a cylinder block, and a piston slidably mounted in a cylinder, with the cylinder block being formed with an exhaust passage leading to a combustion chamber through an exhaust port, a first scavenging port opened to an inner circumferential surface of the cylinder, a first communication passage formed from the first scavenging port in a radial direction of the cylinder, and a first scavenging passage formed with an opening on a bottom surface of the first communication passage, in which a side surface on a far side from the exhaust port forming the communication passage is formed towards the far side from the exhaust port in the combustion chamber, and the opening portion of the first scavenging passage and a landing portion formed in the periphery of the opening portion are formed at a bottom portion of the communication passage.

Abstract: An example information processing system includes: a computer; an imaging device; a display device; and a first and a second feature placed in a real space. The computer includes: an image acquiring unit that acquires an image of the real space; a feature detecting unit that detects the first feature and the second feature from the image; a changing unit that changes an association of the first feature with a virtual objects by adding a virtual object associated with the second feature, and an generating unit that generates an image of a virtual space in which the virtual object associated with the first feature is placed at a position based on the first feature; and a display controlling unit that displays an image on the display device.

Abstract: An example computer includes: an image acquiring unit that acquires an image of a real space captured by an imaging device; a feature detecting unit that detects a feature from the image; a determining unit that determines a virtual object, or, a virtual object and an aspect of the virtual object while changing the same in accordance with a recognition condition of the detected feature; an image generating unit that generates an image of a virtual space in which the determined virtual object or the virtual object in the determined aspect is placed on a basis of the feature; and a display controlling unit that displays an image on a display device such that the image of the virtual space is visually recognized by a user while being superimposed on the real space.

Abstract: A loop scavenged two-stroke internal combustion engine which can effectively restrain blow-by of fresh gas with a relatively simple configuration is provided. A horizontal scavenging angle ?b in at least one spot of a scavenging passage 31L located at one side of the pair of or a plurality of pairs of left and right scavenging passages is made to differ from a horizontal scavenging angle ?a of a scavenging passage 31R located at the other side, and a main flow of a scavenging flow which is blown out from the scavenging passage 31L located at the one side and a main flow of a scavenging flow which is blown out from the scavenging passage 31R which is located at the other side intersect each other or collide with each other in plane view in a region displaced in a lateral direction from a center line C of an opening of an exhaust port 34.

Abstract: A reverse scavenged two-stroke internal combustion engine is capable of effectively suppressing the short-circuiting of fresh charge (unburnt air-fuel mixture), while at the same time being capable of further improving scavenging efficiency, combustion efficiency, etc. The horizontal sectional shape of at least one pair of scavenging passages is closer to a triangle than a parallelogram along substantially the entire lengths of the at least one pair of scavenging passages, where a cylinder outer circumferential side of the horizontal sectional shape is narrowest and a cylinder bore wall surface side of the horizontal sectional shape is wide. Further, horizontal scavenging angles, which are angles of intersection formed between lines extended towards an intake port from guide wall surfaces that define the scavenging passages, are acute.

Abstract: An engine includes a cylinder block, and a piston slidably mounted in a cylinder, with the cylinder block being formed with an exhaust passage leading to a combustion chamber through an exhaust port, a first scavenging port opened to an inner circumferential surface of the cylinder, a first communication passage formed from the first scavenging port in a radial direction of the cylinder, and a first scavenging passage formed with an opening on a bottom surface of the first communication passage, in which a side surface on a far side from the exhaust port forming the communication passage is formed towards the far side from the exhaust port in the combustion chamber, and the opening portion of the first scavenging passage and a landing portion formed in the periphery of the opening portion are formed at a bottom portion of the communication passage.

Abstract: In a portable terminal that is provided with a plurality of touch panels, it is possible to provide operation methods that are new until now, and compatible with two kinds of operations, including the contact operation which is performed by contacting a touch panel directly with a finger or the like, and the spatial operation which is performed without contacting the touch panel.

Abstract: A loop scavenged two-stroke internal combustion engine which can effectively restrain blow-by of fresh gas with a relatively simple configuration is provided. A horizontal scavenging angle ?b in at least one spot of a scavenging passage 31L located at one side of the pair of or a plurality of pairs of left and right scavenging passages is made to differ from a horizontal scavenging angle ?a of a scavenging passage 31R located at the other side, and a main flow of a scavenging flow which is blown out from the scavenging passage 31L located at the one side and a main flow of a scavenging flow which is blown out from the scavenging passage 31R which is located at the other side intersect each other or collide with each other in plane view in a region displaced in a lateral direction from a center line C of an opening of an exhaust port 34.

Abstract: There is provided a loop-scavenged two-stroke internal combustion engine that is capable of effectively suppressing the short-circuiting of fresh charge (unburnt air-fuel mixture), while at the same time being capable of further improving scavenging efficiency, combustion efficiency, etc., as well as of improving the durability and output stability of a cylinder and a piston. One pair or a plurality of pairs of scavenging passages (31, 31 and 32, 32) that adopt a reverse scavenging system are so provided as to communicate a combustion actuating chamber (15) formed above a piston (20) with a crankchamber (18). At least one pair of the scavenging passages (32, 32) comprises, in large part, passage portions with partitions (32k, 32k). A cutout opening or through-hole that serves as a scavenging inlet (32a, 32a), the upper portion or whole of which is of a substantially triangular shape that is narrower towards its upper side, is formed in a lower end portion of at least one of the partitions (32k, 32k).

Abstract: There is provided a reverse scavenged two-stroke internal combustion engine that is capable of effectively suppressing the short-circuiting of fresh charge (unburnt air-fuel mixture), while at the same time being capable of further improving scavenging efficiency, combustion efficiency, etc. The horizontal sectional shape of at least one pair of scavenging passages (31, 31 and 32, 32) is closer to a triangle than a parallelogram along substantially the entire lengths of the at least one pair of scavenging passages, where a cylinder outer circumferential side of the horizontal sectional shape is narrowest and a cylinder bore wall surface (10a) side of the horizontal sectional shape is wide. Further, horizontal scavenging angles (?, ?), which are angles of intersection formed between lines (Ea, Ea and Eb, Eb) extended towards an intake port (33) from guide wall surfaces (31c, 31c and 32c, 32c) that define the scavenging passages (31, 31 and 32, 32), are acute.

Abstract: A game apparatus includes, for example, a CPU, and a ROM and/or a RAM for executing and storing game programs and game program backup data. The RAM has multiple pre-allocated backup game data storage areas for use by different game programs during their respective execution including a single-player game backup data area, a multi-player game backup data area and a shared backup data storage area. The shared backup data storage area is provided for storing information that is accessible in common by a plurality of games, and separate game backup data storage areas are provided for each of the single-player version of a game and the multi-player version of a game.