Abstract: A voltage detector includes a comparison unit which is equipped with a plurality of comparators and which is configured to compare a threshold voltage and determination voltages corresponding to each comparator and output a first result of High or Low for each comparator and configured to compare an input voltage and the determination voltages and output a second result of High or Low for each comparator, and a determination unit configured to determine based on the first result and the second result whether or not the input voltage is less than or equal to the threshold voltage.

Abstract: A voltage detector includes a comparison unit which is equipped with a plurality of comparators and which is configured to compare a threshold voltage and determination voltages corresponding to each comparator and output a first result of High or Low for each comparator and configured to compare an input voltage and the determination voltages and output a second result of High or Low for each comparator, and a determination unit configured to determine based on the first result and the second result whether or not the input voltage is less than or equal to the threshold voltage.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory management device includes a history management unit, an address translation table, an address management unit, and a data management unit. The history management unit manages an access history for data stored in a nonvolatile semiconductor memory. The address translation table includes a translation table of a logical address and a physical address corresponding to the data. The address management unit specifies, based on the access history, second data to be accessed after access to first data being stored in the nonvolatile semiconductor memory, and registers a second physical address corresponding to the second data in the address translation table in association with a first logical address corresponding to the first data. The data management unit reads out the second data from the nonvolatile semiconductor memory to a buffer.

Abstract: A reference voltage circuit includes a first amplifier configured to output a reference voltage, a second amplifier coupled to the first amplifier, an offset adjustment voltage generation circuit, a first load device and a first pn junction device, and second and third load devices and a second pn junction device. The offset adjustment voltage generation circuit is configured to generate a voltage which is input to the third and fourth input terminals of the second amplifier, and reduce an offset voltage between the first and second input terminals of the first amplifier through the second amplifier. The first input terminal is coupled to a coupling node of the first load device and the first pn junction device, and the second input terminal is coupled to a coupling node of the second load device and the third load device.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a granule mass containing an antioxidant as a main component, which is excellent in flowability, produces little dust from an additive, and can be prepared by a simple facility when an additive such as an antioxidant is added to a plastic such as polyolefin, and affords a plastic having thermal stability which is hardly ununiformized, and a process for producing the same. There is provided a granule mass comprising a granule containing a phenol-based antioxidant represented by the following formula (1) and a sulfur-based antioxidant represented by the following formula (2), wherein a content of the sulfur-based antioxidant (2) relative to a total of 100 parts by weight of phenol-based antioxidant (1) and the sulfur-based antioxidant (2) is 3 to 70 parts by weight.

Abstract: A catalyst deterioration determination device for determining deterioration of an exhaust gas purging catalyst arranged in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The determination device forcibly changes an air-fuel ratio of an air-fuel mixture, calculates an oxygen occlusion amount of the catalyst based on an oxygen concentration of the exhaust gas at a downstream side of the catalyst that varies after the forcible changing of the air-fuel ratio, and performs deterioration determination on the catalyst based on the calculated oxygen occlusion amount. The determination device includes a prohibition unit which sets a prohibition period when calculating the oxygen occlusion amount after the increasing correction ends to prohibit calculation of the oxygen occlusion amount immediately after the increasing correction ends. The prohibition unit variably sets the prohibition period to be longer as a total increased amount of fuel during the increasing correction increases.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory management device includes a history management unit, an address translation table, an address management unit, and a data management unit. The history management unit manages an access history for data stored in a nonvolatile semiconductor memory. The address translation table includes a translation table of a logical address and a physical address corresponding to the data. The address management unit specifies, based on the access history, second data to be accessed after access to first data being stored in the nonvolatile semiconductor memory, and registers a second physical address corresponding to the second data in the address translation table in association with a first logical address corresponding to the first data. The data management unit reads out the second data from the nonvolatile semiconductor memory to a buffer.

Abstract: A reference voltage circuit includes a first amplifier configured to output a reference voltage, a second amplifier coupled to the first amplifier, an offset adjustment voltage generation circuit, a first load device and a first pn junction device, and second and third load devices and a second pn junction device. The offset adjustment voltage generation circuit is configured to generate a voltage which is input to the third and fourth input terminals of the second amplifier, and reduce an offset voltage between the first and second input terminals of the first amplifier through the second amplifier. The first input terminal is coupled to a coupling node of the first load device and the first pn junction device, and the second input terminal is coupled to a coupling node of the second load device and the third load device.

Abstract: An external storage device is connected to an image pickup apparatus provided with a first image storage medium capable of storing plural taken images and image display means, and adapted for backup of image information stored in the first image storage medium. The device includes a second image storage medium, a connection detecting unit, a reception unit, a transfer means, a conversion unit, and a second transfer unit. The transfer unit writes predetermined taken image information read from the first image storage medium into the second image storage medium and erases the predetermined taken image information from the first image storage medium according to a detection output of the connection detecting unit and an output of the reception unit. The conversion unit converts the predetermined taken image information into an image matching a display ability of the image display means. The second transfer unit writes the converted image information in the first image storage medium.

Abstract: An external storage device is connected to an image pickup apparatus provided with a first image storage medium capable of storing plural taken images and image display means, and adapted for backup of image information stored in the first image storage medium. The device includes a second image storage medium, a connection detecting unit, a reception unit, a transfer means, a conversion unit, and a second transfer unit. The transfer unit writes predetermined taken image information read from the first image storage medium into the second image storage medium and erases the predetermined taken image information from the first image storage medium according to a detection output of the connection detecting unit and an output of the reception unit. The conversion unit converts the predetermined taken image information into an image matching a display ability of the image display means. The second transfer unit writes the converted image information in the first image storage medium.

Abstract: A catalyst deterioration determination device for determining deterioration of an exhaust gas purging catalyst arranged in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The determination device forcibly changes an air-fuel ratio of an air-fuel mixture, calculates an oxygen occlusion amount of the catalyst based on an oxygen concentration of the exhaust gas at a downstream side of the catalyst that varies after the forcible changing of the air-fuel ratio, and performs deterioration determination on the catalyst based on the calculated oxygen occlusion amount. The engine includes a function for performing increasing correction on a fuel injection amount so that the air-fuel ratio of the air-fuel mixture becomes richer than the stoichometric air-fuel ratio.

Abstract: An external storage device is connected to an image pickup apparatus provided with a first image storage medium capable of storing plural taken images and image display means, and adapted for backup of image information stored in the first image storage medium. The device includes a second image storage medium, a connection detecting unit, a reception unit, a transfer means, a conversion unit, and a second transfer unit. The transfer unit writes predetermined taken image information read from the first image storage medium into the second image storage medium and erases the predetermined taken image information from the first image storage medium according to a detection output of the connection detecting unit and an output of the reception unit. The conversion unit converts the predetermined taken image information into an image matching a display ability of the image display means. The second transfer unit writes the converted image information in the first image storage medium.

Abstract: A radiographic imaging control apparatus includes an input unit configured to input a radiographic image from a sensor that detects radiant ray, and a control unit configured to cause a radiant ray generation apparatus to decrease the flux of radiant ray from a predetermined maximum value to a predetermined minimum value as time passes when the radiant ray generation apparatus irradiates the sensor with radiant ray.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a plurality of image processing units which execute different processes on input image data and an encoding unit which encodes the image data. A generation unit selects an image processing unit to be used from among a plurality of image processing units based on requests from a plurality of output destinations to process image data of each frame input. The selected image processing unit processes the image data in time-series and the encoding unit encodes the processed image data. Thus, a plurality of image data corresponding to requests from a plurality of output destinations are generated.

Abstract: A method of quantifying an ethylene oxide based nonionic surfactant in a sample containing a physiologically active protein, characterized in that quantitation is performed by colorimetry, in particular, a method of quantifying an ethylene oxide based nonionic surfactant in a sample containing a physiologically active protein, characterized in that an ammonium thiocyanate/cobalt nitrate reagent (CoSCN reagent) is added to said sample solution and the resulting cobalt thiocyanate complex is quantified by absorbance measurement.

Abstract: A radiographic imaging control apparatus includes an input unit configured to input a radiographic image from a sensor that detects radiant ray, and a control unit configured to cause a radiant ray generation apparatus to decrease the flux of radiant ray from a predetermined maximum value to a predetermined minimum value as time passes when the radiant ray generation apparatus irradiates the sensor with radiant ray.

Abstract: An image capturing system includes an image-capturing unit and a main unit, capable of serial communication therebetween. The main unit generates a first clock signal, converts data to be transmitted to the image-capturing unit into serial data using the first clock signal, and transmits the serial data to the image-capturing unit. The image-capturing unit detects a serial transfer frequency from the received serial signal, reproduces the first clock signal, generates a second clock signal from the reproduced first clock signal, converts a taken image into serial data using the second clock signal, and transmits this data to the main unit. The main unit then reproduces the second clock signal from the serial data transmitted from the image-capturing unit, and utilizes the second clock signal to generate the first clock signal, thereby synchronizing the image-capturing unit and the main unit.

Abstract: A robot toy comprises a first light source emitting light of at least two colors simultaneously or individually, five or more second light sources arranged around the first light source, a memory for storing at least two types of emotion parameters constituting emotion, and a control means for increasing/decreasing the value of emotion parameters based on an external operation input. The control means controls the first and second light sources to emit light in an emission pattern corresponding to a combination of the values of emotion parameters, thus realizing an inexpensive robot toy capable of effectively representing emotion.

Abstract: An object of this invention is to process image data in which a plurality of link destinations are set in one region. Another object of this invention is to allow the user intuitively to recognize the setup states of links, since link regions have different display patterns in correspondence with the numbers of link destinations upon displaying the link regions. If the designated link region has only one link destination, a dotted circle (for example) is displayed on the link region (S407). If the designated link region has two link destinations, a solid circle (for example) is displayed (step S409). If the designated link region has three or more link destinations, a double circle (for example) is displayed (step S408). Again, if the designated link region has only one link destination, an image at the link destination is set as display data (S421), while if the designated link region has a plurality of link destinations, all the link destinations may be displayed in a list (S415).

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an input unit for sequentially inputting image data and a display unit for displaying finder image data in the image data sequentially input from the input unit. The image processing apparatus also includes a processing unit that outputs encoded still-image data and the finder image data, the encoded still-image data being generated by compressing and encoding desired image data in the image data; an output unit for outputting the finder image data to the display unit; and a motion-picture compressing unit for compressing the finder image data into compressed and encoded motion-picture data and for outputting the compressed and encoded motion-picture data.