Abstract: A camera includes a columnar camera main body portion having a photographing lens, and a flexible display for displaying an image of an object to be photographed through the photographing lens, in which one end of the flexible display is attached to the camera main body portion, and which is provided so as to be taken-up into the camera main body portion.

Abstract: A transfer unit for transferring members such as reaction vessels having an upper end opening or dispensing tips or the like includes at least one arm pivotally movable about a shaft and a holder mounted on the arm for detachably supporting the member to be transferred. The holder is provided with a rod portion having a distal end adapted to be fitted in the upper end opening of the member to be transferred, a rod holding portion slidably and elastically supporting the rod portion and a guide portion surrounding the rod portion thereabout and sliding along the axis of the rod portion to release the fitting of the member from the distal end of the rod portion. The guide portion is formed with at least two elongated apertures extending in parallel with the axis of the rod portion, and the rod portion is provided with protrusions fixed thereto and extending through the elongated apertures to regulate the movement of the guide portion.

Abstract: An image-editing service system comprises a server, a user terminal, an administrator terminal, a worker terminal, and the server including a database for storing the image information sent from worker terminal, a first image generating section for generating a first image based on the image information stored in the database, a display section for displaying an image display frame so as to display the first image in a display window of the user terminal and displaying a window information so as to display a display condition of the first image which is allowed to be input, a second image generating section for generating a second image regard to the first image based on the display condition inputted by the user terminal and, a window information generating section for displaying the first image and the second image simultaneously.

Abstract: By executing an ordering program which causes a computer to work as process sequence storage unit 15c, display item setting unit 15d, order-screen creating unit 15f, order history information storing unit 15i, and display mode changing unit 15j, an ordering screen displays only items that were selected in previous steps and items that are set according to the result of previous selections and selectable in the current step. Further, the screen shows preset options or options recommended in reference to order history information. Therefore, the operator can place orders just by selecting options on the screen even the operator is unaccustomed to the terminal.

Abstract: Osteoblast activity is promoted and a large amount of extracellular substrates are produced so as to promote cell proliferation and/or differentiation. A material for repairing biological tissues, the material comprising a biocompatible material containing at least one of niobium and tantalum, is provided. These metal salts are not toxic even at high concentrations, and can activate osteoblasts to increase the production quantity of extracellular substrates. The material for repairing biological tissues is manufactured by mixing a metal salt solution, a calcium compound, and a phosphate compound (S4), then coprecipitating the metal-containing calcium phosphate.

Abstract: A print order form is provided for entering an order for a print of an image. The print order form includes a recording medium on which electrical information can be read or written in a non-contacting manner, and on which print order information of the image is recorded.

Abstract: An apparatus for displaying a virtual image to perform training for correction of strabismus includes an image capturing section for capturing an outside image such that a normal line-of-sight direction is always positioned at a center of the captured image, a display section for displaying the outside image captured by the image capturing section, an ocular optical system disposed in front of an eye, having a transparent plate-formed member facing the eye, and a control section that moves the image displayed by the display section from a strabismic line-of-sight direction to the normal line-of-sight direction. The apparatus leads light from the display section to the eye by the ocular optical system to provide the virtual outside image displayed by the display section, and makes light from the outside pass through the plate-formed member to lead the light to the eye to provide a real image of the outside.

Abstract: A camera is provided with a photographing element for converting photoelectrically image information of a object into electrical signals and for outputting first image data; first image processor for converting the first image data into second image data in first format; second image processor for converting third image data in second format different from the first format into fourth image data in third format different from the first format and the second format; and third image processor for converting the first image data into fifth image data in the third format.

Abstract: A visual aid display apparatus 1 includes, an image capturing section 50 for image capturing of a subject; an image processing section 60 for processing the image, information obtained from the image capturing section 50 so that the image information can be displayed, a display device for displaying the video of image information having been subjected to processing, an ocular optical system for providing video by leading to the eye the light coming from the display device, and a control section 70 for providing control in such a way that the video of the image information having been subjected to image processing can be displayed on the display area of the display section 10. The video of the external world and the image-processed image of the display area A can be viewed simultaneously by an observer on the display section 10.

Abstract: An order-receiving system comprising: a network; a user terminal which is connected to the network and is for inputting design determining information, uploading images for use in a design, and ordering the design; an order manager terminal which is connected to the network, and is for receiving the design orders, ordering design creation work based on the design orders and for doing order management via the order server, and which includes a design distribution screen for distributing images for use in the design, or design order work to workers; and a worker terminal which is connected to the network and is for creating the design based on the order placed for the design creation work, and e-mails are issued, and by including order progress information in the title of the issued e-mails, the e-mail title can be extracted or sorted by order progress information.

Abstract: An image capturing and printing apparatus, is provided with an electronic camera section having an image capturing device for photographic a object image to be photographed so as to convert the photographed object image into image signals; a printing section structured so as to be detachably attached to the electric camera section and having a printer for conducting printing based on the image signals received from the electronic camera section; and the electronic camera section having an engaging section adapted to mechanically engages with the printing section, and a connecting section adapted to electronically connect with the printing section.

Abstract: In a camera provided with image-pickup elements for receiving light to form an image of a subject, for converting the light into electric signals and for producing image information of the image of the subject by the electric signals; there are further provided a print information producing device to produce print information for printing the image information; and a transmitor to transmit the image information and the print information.

Abstract: In a camera provided with image-pickup elements for receiving light to form an image of a subject, for converting the light into electric signals and for producing image information of the image of the subject by the electric signals; there are further provided a print information producing device to produce print information for printing the image information; and a transmitor to transmit the image information and the print information.

Abstract: A camera includes a columnar camera main body portion having a photographing lens, and a flexible display for displaying an image of an object to be photographed through the photographing lens, in which one end of the flexible display is attached to the camera main body portion, and which is provided so as to be taken-up into the camera main body portion.

Abstract: A transfer unit for transferring members such as reaction vessels having an upper end opening or dispensing tips or the like includes at least one arm pivotally movable about a shaft and a holder mounted on the arm for detachably supporting the member to be transferred. The holder is provided with a rod portion having a distal end adapted to be fitted in the upper end opening of the member to be transferred, a rod holding portion slidably and elastically supporting the rod portion and a guide portion surrounding the rod portion thereabout and sliding along the axis of the rod portion to release the fitting of the member from the distal end of the rod portion. The guide portion is formed with at least two elongated apertures extending in parallel with the axis of the rod portion, and the rod portion is provided with protrusions fixed thereto and extending through the elongated apertures to regulate the movement of the guide portion.

Abstract: An automatic analyzing apparatus for measuring an object substance in a specimen includes a reaction portion for causing the substance and a reagent commensurate thereto to react on each other, a detecting portion for detecting a signal or reaction condition from the reagent for measuring the object substance, and a cleaning portion for removing the substance of the specimen or unreacted substance in the reagent or cleaning the reacted liquids which have completed the reaction. The reaction, detecting and cleaning portions are independently arranged in a single frame provided in the apparatus. The apparatus further includes a transfer portion for transferring reaction vessels in succession between the reaction, detecting and cleaning portions. With this arrangement, the automatic analyzing apparatus achieves the high speed analyzing treatment and compact construction of the apparatus.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a porous film of a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and a method of fabricating the electrode of a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery by which a highly safe and inexpensive non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery can be produced, and a highly safe and inexpensive non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery are disclosed. The method of fabricating the electrode of a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to the invention comprises the steps of forming an electrode plate providing a positive electrode or a negative electrode of a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and forming and attaching a porous film of a polymer material on the surface of the electrode plate thereby to produce the electrode plate having the porous film on the surface thereof.

Abstract: A turntable type liquid reagent-mixing device to be used in an automatically analyzing apparatus for the detection of a substance to be measured with using a liquid reagent containing fine particles, including (1) a turntable adapted for placing thereon a plurality of containers which contain liquid reagent to be mixed, (2) a turntable rotating mechanism adapted for rotating said turntable to rotate the containers around a rotary center of the turntable, and (3) a container-rotating mechanism for rotating the containers themselves around their own respective rotary centers at their respectively placed locations on the turntable, wherein while the containers are rotated around the rotary center of the turntable, and the containers themselves are rotated around their own respective rotary centers at places where the containers are placed, thereby uniformly dispersing the fine particles contained in the liquid reagent.

Abstract: In a camera provided with image-pickup elements for receiving light to form an image of a subject, for converting the light into electric signals and for producing image information of the image of the subject by the electric signals; there are further provided a print information producing device to produce print information for printing the image information; and a transmitor to transmit the image information and the print information.

Abstract: A mechanism to regulate a light amount passing through a lens comprises a lens rotatable around the rotation axis thereof, a driver to rotate the rotatable lens; a regulator having an adjustable aperture through which a light amount passing through the rotatable lens is regulated; and a linkage to link the rotatable lens and the regulator, whereby the regulator changes the size of the adjustable aperture in accordance with a rotated position of the rotatable lens.