Abstract: A communications terminal selection unit acquires, upon receipt of a call origination request, presence information including terminal information on terminals available to a call terminator from a presence management unit, and selects a specific terminal, if there are a plurality of terminals available to the call terminator based on the presence information, based on terminal selection information in which at least whether communication quality or charge takes priority is defined beforehand by the call terminator, notifying a call transfer unit of the selected terminal as a transfer destination terminal for call transfer.

Abstract: A requested cruise-control horsepower calculator obtains a requested cruise-control horsepower from a speed difference between a target cruising vehicle speed and an actual vehicle speed. A requested cruise-control torque calculator obtains a requested cruise-control torque on the basis of the requested cruise-control horsepower and an engine rotation speed. A cruise-control accelerator-opening calculator sets a cruise-control accelerator opening by referring to an engine torque map in which a cruise-control accelerator-opening characteristic curve is set along an equal horsepower line on the basis of the requested cruise-control torque and the engine rotation speed. A target primary rotation-speed calculator sets a target primary rotation speed by referring to a shift-line map on the basis of the cruise-control accelerator opening and the actual vehicle speed.

Abstract: An image-reading device includes an image sensor, a clock generator, a resolution setting unit, and a resolution switching unit. The image sensor has a plurality of photodetectors arranged linearly. The clock generator generates clocks having a clock speed. The resolution setting unit sets a resolution of the image sensor. The resolution switching unit switches the resolution set by the resolution setting unit when one of the plurality of photodetectors has read a border pixel between a pixel segment inside the original document and a pixel segment outside the original document while reading one line of the original document.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes: a reading table having a transparent plate having an exposed area which constitutes a part of an outer surface of the table exposed to the exterior, and on which a document with an image thereon is placed; a document holding member movable relative to the table and between a closed and an open position, and thus holding the document and covering the plate; a scanning device disposed on a side of the plate opposite to the side on which the document is placed on the plate, the scanning device being reciprocated in a direction along the plate; an image reading device mounted in the scanning device and including a light source, the reading device emitting light from the light source toward the document on the plate, and receiving the reflected light from the document, to read the image thereby; a control unit controlling reading by the reading device, and a reciprocating movement of the scanning device; a reference member disposed within the exposed area, and used as a referen

Abstract: A solvent for cleaning that offers particularly superior results for cleaning pigment-dispersed photosensitive resin compositions used for forming color filters and black matrix patterns. The solvent for cleaning has a hydrogen bonding parameter (?H) among the Hansen solubility parameters that falls within a range from 5 to 10.

Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a mobile base station apparatus connecting to a terminal apparatus and being movable, and a management server performing centralized control of the mobile base station apparatus. The mobile base station apparatus measures its position and notifies the management server of position information indicating the position. The management server transmits control information according to the position information notified from the mobile base station apparatus, to the mobile base station apparatus. The mobile base station apparatus operates using the control information received from the management server.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of formula I: wherein: R1 is a hydrogen atom, F, CN, etc.; R1? is a hydrogen atom or lower alkyl which may be substituted; R2 is O, S, SO, SO2, etc.; R3 is a phenyl which may be substituted; X1, X2, and X3 each independently CH, N, etc. provided, however, that among X1, X2 and X3, the number of nitrogen is 0 or 1; W is the following residue: wherein: W1, W2, and W3 each independently CH, N, etc., or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus which can copy necessary data without imposing a burden on a CPU when broadcasting specific data is realized. A data processing apparatus includes a reception FIFO memory which temporarily stores received data sequentially; a buffer management unit which reads out the received data stored in the reception FIFO memory, discriminates whether or not a plurality of the same data are required for transferring the received data, and searches a plurality of buffer memory areas that are different from each other when the plurality of the same data are required; and a DMA (Direct Memory Access) control circuit which writes the received data read from the reception FIFO memory into each of buffer memory areas designated by the buffer management unit.

Abstract: An aspect of the invention provides an image reading apparatus including: first and second light emitters that emit lights; a light guide unit that guides the lights emitted from the first and second light emitters to irradiate a document with the light; a photoelectric conversion unit that converts reflected light from the document into an image signal; and a control unit that controls the first light emitter to emit light for a first time period in a unit time period and controls the second light emitter to emit light for a second time period misaligned from the first time period in the unit time period.

Abstract: In an image-reading device, when the reading unit generates the set of image data, the top side is generated at first and the bottom side is generated subsequently to the top side. The scanned image includes a document image corresponding to the document. The specifying unit, when the reading unit scans and reads a part of the document and generates a part of the set of image data including a part of the document image, specifies a target vertex that is positioned at topmost among at least one vertex of the part of document image. The estimating unit defines a reference position in the scanned image corresponding to a center of the conveying path in the width direction, and estimates a size of the document based on a length in the second direction between the target vertex and the reference position.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of formula I: wherein: R1 is a hydrogen atom, F, CN, etc.; R2 is CO, SO2, etc.; R3 is a phenyl which may be substituted; X1, X2, and X3 each independently CH, N, etc. provided, however, that among X1, X2 and X3, the number of nitrogen is 0 or 1; W is the following residue: wherein: W1, W2, and W3 each independently CH, N, etc., or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof.

Abstract: Provided are cycloalkanopyridine derivatives of formula [I]: [wherein the symbols are the same as those stated in the description]. The compounds act as a nociceptin receptor antagonist, and are useful as medicines for diseases associated with a nociceptin receptor, for example, as a reliever against tolerance to a narcotic analgesic; a reliever against dependence on or addiction to a narcotic analgesic; an analgesic enhancer; an antiobesitic or appetite suppressor; a treating or prophylactic agent for cognitive impairment and dementia/amnesia; an agent for treating developmental cognitive abnormality; a remedy for schizophrenia; an agent for treating neurodegenerative diseases; an anti-depressant or treating agent for affective disorder; a treating or prophylactic agent for diabetes insipidus; a treating or prophylactic agent for polyuria; or a remedy for hypotension.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound represented by the general formula (I): wherein m1 and m2 are 1, 2, or 3; n1 and n2 are 0 or 1; i is an integer of any of 1 to m1; j is an integer of 1 to m2; R is aryl, heteroaryl, or cycloalkyl any of which may be substituted; Rai and Rai? is hydrogen atom, etc. and Rbj and Rbj? is hydrogen atom, etc.; Rc, Rd, and Re are hydrogen atom, etc; X1 is CH, CX1a, or N; X2 is CH, N, etc.; X3 is CH, N, etc.; X4 is CH or N; Y1, Y2, and Y3 are each independently CH or N; Z1 and Z2 are each independently CH or N; W is a 5-membered aromatic heterocyclic group such as pyrazolyl, thiazolyl, etc., or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof; a pharmaceutical composition or antitumor agent containing the same; and combinations of the antitumor agent with other antitumor agent(s).

Abstract: There is provided an image reading device, which comprises a photoreceptor unit having photoreceptors aligned in a line, and a signal output unit having output channels from which output signals of the photoreceptors are outputted. The output channels respectively correspond to regions into which the photoreceptors are divided. The image reading device further comprises an amplifier unit to amplify the output signals from the output channels, and a gain adjustment unit configured to use a maximum level of white signals outputted by the signal output unit as the output signals when the photoreceptor unit receives light from a white object to adjust a gain of amplification of the amplifier unit with respect to the output signals belonging to at least one of the regions other than a first region to which an output signal corresponding to the maximum level belongs.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming an image is disclosed which includes: an input device inputting image data; an image processor processing the inputted image data; an image forming device forming the image on a recording medium, based on the processed image data; a lightness setting device setting a lightness value of the image to be formed on the recording medium by the image forming device; a first corrector correcting the inputted image data according to a first correction characteristic; a first characteristic modifier modifying the first correction characteristic, in response to setting of increasing the lightness value by the lightness setting device; a second corrector correcting the processed image data according to a second correction characteristic; and a second characteristic modifier modifying the second correction characteristic, in response to setting of decreasing the lightness value by the lightness setting device.

Abstract: A gas sensor element is composed of a sensor section, a heater section, and a porous protective layer. The sensor section is composed of a solid electrolyte layer and a pair of electrodes. The heater section heats the sensor section to activate it. The porous protective layer covers surfaces of the sensor section and the heater section of the gas sensor element in a gas sensor which is exposed to a target detection gas to be detected. The porous protective layer is made of a mixture of hydrophobic heat resisting particles having a contact angle of not less than 75° to a drop of water, and the hydrophilic heat resisting particles having a contact angle not more than 30° to a drop of water. A gas sensor equipped with the above gas sensor element is also disclosed.

Abstract: An image reading device has a CIS unit. The CIS unit is held by a carriage. A compression coil spring that presses the CIS unit toward a contact glass plate is disposed between the bottom surface of the carriage and the bottom surface of the CIS unit. An extension coil spring that pulls the CIS unit toward the carriage is attached between the bottom surface of the carriage and the center portion of the CIS unit.

Abstract: An access control device controls access to a first device and a second device. The first device is connected with a first bus conforming to a first standard and conforms to the first standard. The second device is connected with the first bus and conforms to a second standard. The access control device includes a first signal generator and a second signal generator. The first signal generator generates a first transaction start signal indicating start of a transaction for the first device. The second signal generator generates a second transaction start signal for the second device based on the first transaction start signal.

Abstract: An image sensor, a reading device and a method for setting a resolution are provided for setting the resolution to multiple levels without increasing signal types.

Abstract: An energy saving type feeder voltage compensation apparatus improved in availability at low temperatures, wherein when a electric energy storage apparatus is lower in temperature than a predetermined value, an output voltage output to a feeder side is made equal to or higher than a no-load output voltage of a substation connected in parallel. Power is supplied to a power running rolling stock preferentially from the electric energy storage apparatus. The heating value of the secondary battery is increased and the battery temperature is raised by this discharging, whereby internal resistance of the electric energy storage apparatus is lowered, and the charging and discharging loss is suppressed, and the efficiency and availability of the energy saving type feeder voltage compensation apparatus as a whole are improved.