Abstract: A vehicle periphery monitoring system is provided, in which by matching a behavior of a semitransparent tire image with an operation from a driver's viewpoint, a feeling of strangeness is reduced, an intuitive space perception is assisted and also a moving direction and a behavior of a vehicle can be easily perceived. In a side-view monitor system an image processing controller converts a real camera image including a blind spot into an image to be viewed from a driver's viewpoint to generate a blind spot image, and superimposes a semitransparent vehicle image which is obtained by making a vehicle viewed from the driver's viewpoint semitransparent and a semitransparent tire image which is obtained by making a tire semitransparent and displaying a behavior following a handle operation viewed from the driver's viewpoint on the blind spot image.

Abstract: The present invention detects SNX5 in a sample from a subject. The SNX5 is used as a tumor marker specific to papillary thyroid carcinoma, whereby diagnosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma is carried out easily. The present invention provides also a technique of discriminating papillary thyroid carcinoma using the tumor marker.

Abstract: A see-through side view monitor system (A1) including a camera (1), an external monitor (2), and an image processing controller (3) having an image deformation unit (33) configured to perform point-of-view conversion on a real camera image signal inputted from the camera into a blind-spot image that is viewed from the position of the driver's point of view, a vehicle cabin image formation unit (34) configured to form a vehicle cabin image that is viewed from the position of the driver's point of view, an image composition device (36) configured to generate a transparent display image showing a blind-spot image transmitted through a semi-see-through vehicle cabin image, and an image composition device (36) configured to generate an animation display image showing the blind-spot image to be shifted stepwise from the vehicle cabin image.

Abstract: A molecular marker for detecting a cancer stem cell in a cell mass which is a subject of interest, wherein the molecular marker can be detected in a cancer stem cell contained in the subject of interest but cannot be detected in a normal cell and a cancer cell that is different from a cancer stem cell; a method for determining the presence or absence of a cancer stem cell in a subject of interest by using the molecular marker as an measure; a kit for determining the presence or absence of a cancer stem cell, which comprises at least a reagent for detecting the molecular marker; a polypeptide encoded by the molecular marker; an antibody capable of recognizing an epitope of an expression product of a gene derived from the molecular marker; a nucleic acid capable of inhibiting the expression of the molecular marker; and a nucleic acid vaccine comprising a gene derived from the molecular marker.

Abstract: When an operation mode of an image forming apparatus returns from an energy-saving mode to a regular operation mode, a CPU of a main system outputs a power control signal set to High, and determines the necessariness of information display on an LCD of an operation unit control system to output a starting mode selection signal set to High when the result of the determination is positive. A CPU of the operation unit control system detects the state of a power control signal, and detects mode return from the energy-saving mode depending on the result of the above detection. The CPU of the operation unit control system also detects the state of a starting mode selection signal, and determines the necessariness of information display on the LCD depending on the result of the detection to carry out a display process depending on the result of the determination.

Abstract: A vehicle-peripheral image displaying system (a side view monitor system A1) comprises a side camera 1, a monitor 3 and an image processing controlling unit 2, wherein the image processing controlling unit 2 includes an image processor 43 configured to perform a viewpoint conversion of the actually shot camera image input from the side camera 1 into a virtual camera image which is to be converted as if it is viewed from the driver's eye position, an image memory 44 configured to store a vehicle interior image which is previously shot from the driver's eye position as a vehicle interior image, and a superimposing circuit 46 configured to make the vehicle interior image translucent to form a translucent vehicle interior image, to perform an image composition such that the translucent vehicle interior image is superimposed on the virtual camera image, and to produce a composite image which represents the virtual camera image transparently through the translucent vehicle interior image.

Abstract: A single polypeptide is disclosed that without the need of any direct ion flow, is capable of converting electrical signals to chemical signals. The polypeptide of at least one embodiment of the present invention can be a novel membrane protein including a specified domain capable of independently functioning as a potential sensor and another domain exhibiting a phosphatise activity. In one potential embodiment, the polypeptide preferably consists of the 1st to 239th amino acids of the amino sequence of SEQ ID NO. 2.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for monitoring a vehicle rear which permits a user to grasp the position of the vehicle concerned easily without a sense of incongruity even in the case where plural display modes on a monitor are provided and switched from one to another. The vehicle rear monitoring method comprises displaying a vehicle on one side of a monitor and displaying a rear image of the vehicle on an opposite side of the monitor, and displaying the vehicle on the opposite side of the monitor and displaying the rear image of the vehicle on the one side of the monitor, and switching from said one display to said other display on the monitor.

Abstract: When an operation mode of an image forming apparatus returns from an energy-saving mode to a regular operation mode, a CPU of a main system outputs a power control signal set to High, and determines the necessariness of information display on an LCD of an operation unit control system to output a starting mode selection signal set to High when the result of the determination is positive. A CPU of the operation unit control system detects the state of a power control signal, and detects mode return from the energy-saving mode depending on the result of the above detection. The CPU of the operation unit control system also detects the state of a starting mode selection signal, and determines the necessariness of information display on the LCD depending on the result of the detection to carry out a display process depending on the result of the determination.

Abstract: A single polypeptide is disclosed that without the need of any direct ion flow, is capable of converting electrical signals to chemical signals. The polypeptide of at least one embodiment of the present invention can be a novel membrane protein including a specified domain capable of independently functioning as a potential sensor and another domain exhibiting a phosphatise activity. In one potential embodiment, the polypeptide preferably consists of the 1st to 239th amino acids of the amino sequence of SEQ ID NO. 2.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a plurality of load units, a power supply device, and a control mechanism. The plurality of load units has an image forming mechanism serving as one of the plurality of load units and a specific load component. The power supply device has a first power source to supply a first power to the plurality of load units during a normal operation mode and to provide a second (e.g., minimal) power to the apparatus during an energy saving mode. The power supply device also has a second power source to supply a second power to the specific load component during the energy saving mode. The control mechanism changes a power mode from the normal operation mode to the energy saving mode according to at least one of an instruction for entering into the energy saving mode and satisfaction of a condition that the plurality of load units are inactivated.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for monitoring a vehicle rear which permits a user to grasp the position of the vehicle concerned easily without a sense of incongruity even in the case where plural display modes on a monitor are provided and switched from one to another.

Abstract: An optical pickup device includes a light source irradiating a record medium with plural light spots of light emitted therefrom, a plurality of light detecting elelments to which reflected light of the light spots are guided, respectively, to adequately synthesize and compare outputs of said light detecting elements, thereby reading information recorded in tracks of the record medium, and detecting an tracking error and a focusing error, and a hologram element which splits light emitted from the light source into plural beams is disposed in an optical path between the light source and the record medium, said hologram element is split by a split line, said split line elongating in a direction perpendicular to a track of the medium on an optical axis, and a hologram pattern having a diffraction function which is substantially directed in the track direction is disposed on at least one side of said split line, thereby differentiating diffraction conditions on both sides of said split line from each other.