Abstract: An electric power tool includes a tool element, an electric motor, a rechargeable battery, a fuel battery, a state measuring unit, and a control unit. The electric motor receives power supply to drive the tool element. The rechargeable battery is electrically connected to the electric motor and supplies power to the electric motor. The fuel battery is electrically connected to the rechargeable battery and charges the rechargeable battery. The state measuring unit measures a state of the rechargeable battery. The control unit controls charging of the rechargeable battery by the fuel battery at least based on the state of the rechargeable battery measured by the state measuring unit.

Abstract: In a propeller shaft for a motor vehicle, an outer periphery of an outer end of an annular support member is formed as an expanded poison.

Abstract: For example, in a conventional high frequency switch used for a mobile phone and so on, high frequency distortion is caused by a diode which is turned off upon transmission. A high frequency switch includes a switch circuit for switching transmission and reception performed via a transmitting terminal and receiving terminals, said switch circuit having a diode turned off upon transmission, and a low-pass filter for suppressing high frequency distortion caused by the diode upon transmission.

Abstract: A method for vapor-phase growth of a thin film by introducing into a reaction chamber a raw material gas wherein a dilute impurity gas, having a mixture of impurity gas of which the flow-rate is controlled by a first flow-rate controlling mechanism and diluting gas of which the flow-rate is controlled by a second flow-rate controlling mechanism, of which mixture the flow-rate is controlled by a third flow-rate controlling mechanism is mixed with a main gas of which the flow-rate is controlled by a fourth flow-rate controlling mechanism, and vapor-phase growth is carried out by supplying the raw material gas to the reaction chamber while changing continuously and simultaneously with arithmetic control the flow-rates of the gases flowing through said first, second and third flow-rate controlling mechanisms so that the resistivity distribution is controlled and a required resistivity profile is achieved in the thickness direction of the thin film.

Abstract: In a propeller shaft for a motor vehicle, a cover is provided in an outer end of an annular support member, the cover extends to an inner side in a radial direction from an outer end of the annular support member, and the extended end sets a gap formed with respect to an outer shell of a stopper means so as to be open in an axial direction to an inlet of a labyrinth seal.

Abstract: Disclosed is a picture quality evaluation method that evaluates the quality of a second image based on alternating current component measurements for a pixel set in a first image and alternating current component measurements for a pixel set in a second image in the same location as the pixel set in the first image.

Abstract: Disclosed is a picture quality evaluation system that comprises a difference calculation part, which calculates the difference between data that represent a feature value of a pixel set comprising at least 1 pixel that constitutes a first image and data that represent a feature value of a pixel set comprising at least 1 pixel that constitutes a second image, a main area of focus calculation part, which uses at least the first image or the second image to determine the main area of focus of an image that has a specific feature and then calculates the main area of focus, which indicates the extent of the main area of focus, a difference weighting part, which weights the difference in the feature value in the pixel set contained in the main area of focus, based on the main area of focus, and a picture quality value calculation part, which calculates the picture quality value of the first image, based on the weighted difference from the difference weighting part.

Abstract: Disclosed is a picture quality evaluation method with which the amount of pixel change in a pixel set of a specified size is calculated between specified frames of a first image, and weighting processing based on the amount of pixel change is applied to a first picture quality value calculated based on specified data from the first image between at least the aforementioned specified frames to calculate a second picture quality value for the first image.

Abstract: In a content distributing system, a feature amount distributing server 140 includes a processing information generation unit 141 which generates processing information, a feature amount extraction unit 112 which extracts a content feature amount from distributed contents, a processing unit 142 which processes the content feature amount and generates a processed feature amount, a selecting unit 143 which selects an evaluation feature amount from the content feature amount or the processed feature amount, and a distributing unit 144 that distributes the evaluation feature amount to a client 130. A monitoring server 117 has a warning unit which collates the processing information generated by the processing information generation unit 141 of the feature amount distributing server 140 and a quality evaluation value received from the client, and gives a warning when the processing information and the quality evaluation value are mismatched with each other.

Abstract: Provided is an image quality evaluation method for evaluating image qualities of a second image by using a difference from a first image. In the image quality evaluation method, a representative pixel component value indicating a pixel component value that represents pixels in the image frame of one of the images, and pixel position information indicating a pixel position where the representative pixel component value appears are extracted as a feature quantity. By using the representative pixel component value and the pixel position information, which are the image feature quantity, and based on a difference between a pixel component value at the pixel position indicated by the pixel position information in the image frame of the other image and the representative pixel component value, a difference of the entire second image from the first image is estimated.

Abstract: A curable composition containing a lake dye having an absorption maximum in the wavelength region of from 700 nm to 1100 nm and a thermosetting compound and/or a photo-setting compound; a solid imaging device installing therein a filter prepared using the curable composition; and a lake dye represented by the following formula (V): wherein L1 represents a methine chain composed of odd number(s) of methine group(s); A1 and A2 are each independently represents an alkyl group having a sulfo group; Y represents a cation necessary to balance a charge and selected from the group consisting of alkali earth metal ions (Mg2+, Ca2+, Ba2+, Sr2+), transition metal ions (Ag+, Fe+, Co2+, Ni2+, Cu2+, Zn2+) and (Al3+).

Abstract: In an interposer substrate, a plating stub conductor and a ground conductor form a capacitor, and a plating stub conductor and the ground conductor form a capacitor. Capacitances of the capacitors are adjusted so that a phase difference between signals transmitted by a differential transmission using a signal line including a connection wiring conductor and a signal line including a connection wiring conductor is equal to 180 degrees.

Abstract: The invention provides a pigment-containing heat-curable composition including a pigment dispersion solution obtained by dispersing a composition containing a heat-curable resin, a solvent, and a pigment, wherein the concentration of the pigment is 50% or more and less than 100% with respect to the total solid contents.

Abstract: Provided is an image quality evaluation system for evaluating quality of an image. The image quality evaluation system includes bit extraction means and image quality evaluation means. For predetermined data expressing an image frame of a first image, the bit extraction means extracts a predetermined number of bits which is smaller than the number of bits required for expressing one data piece. By using a value expressed by the bit string extracted by the bit extraction means and a value of data equivalent to the data to be extracted from the bit string in a second image, the image quality evaluation means estimates a difference between the first image and the second image and evaluates the image quality of the first to image or the second image.

Abstract: An interference analysis device that analyzes interference includes an input unit that inputs design data, a selection unit that selects an analysis region, a division unit that divides a wire into segments, a calculation unit that calculates a circuit matrix regarding a coupled line, and an analysis unit that obtains a degree of electromagnetic interference, wherein the calculation unit calculates a circuit matrix of the coupled line, using a parameter set obtained by adding an asymmetry parameter to RLGC parameters of a transmission line in the coupled line. Thus, a method for analyzing an interference of circuit wiring can be provided, which is capable of shortening a processing time substantially while maintaining high precision.

Abstract: The present invention provides a common marmoset-derived hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase gene and use thereof.

Abstract: A method for measuring electric circuit parameters of a 2-terminal circuit having first and second terminals, includes steps of: terminating one of the first and second terminals with a terminal impedance Z1, to measure reflection characteristics ?1 for the other terminal; terminating one of the first and second terminals with a terminal impedance Z2 different from the terminal impedance Z1, to measure reflection characteristics ?2 for the other terminal; terminating one of the first and second terminals with a terminal impedance Z3 different from the terminal impedances Z1 and Z2, to measure reflection characteristics ?3 for the other terminal; and calculating electric circuit parameters of the 2-terminal circuit based on the resultant reflection characteristics ?1, ?2 and ?3, whereby measuring electric circuit parameters, such as S-parameters, Z-parameters or the like, even of a DUT having a weak ground, in a simple way with high accuracy and low cost.

Abstract: The invention provides a pigment-containing heat-curable composition including a pigment dispersion solution obtained by dispersing a composition containing a heat-curable resin, a solvent, and a pigment, wherein the concentration of the pigment is 50% or more and less than 100% with respect to the total solid contents.

Abstract: To estimate an image quality deterioration level at a high accuracy. An image quality deterioration level is estimated by judging whether image quality deterioration is suppressed or not by error concealment processing when decoding is not correctly performed, based on information obtained in decoding processing. When it is judged that error concealment is effectively operated, it is estimated that deterioration of an image quality even in an image region not correctly decoded is small. When it is estimated that error concealment is not effectively operated, it is estimated that image deterioration is heavy.

Abstract: A design support system for circuit board includes: a noise source extracting unit for extracting a source of unwanted radiation noise which is generated from a circuit board mounted on an electronic equipment; a noise characteristics input unit for inputting noise characteristics of the unwanted radiation noise which is emitted by the extracted noise source; a noise attenuation ratio input unit for inputting an attenuation ratio of the unwanted radiation noise which is emitted by the noise source and propagated to a feed point of an antenna; a correlation value calculation unit for calculating a correlation value between the noise characteristics and the attenuation ratio of the unwanted radiation noise; and a comparator unit for comparing the calculated correlation value with a predetermined allowable value, whereby avoiding malfunction of an electronic equipment due to interference of unwanted radiation noises generated from the particular electronic equipment into the circuit board via the antenna.