Abstract: A scanning endoscope includes: an optical fiber that guides illuminating light and emits the illuminating light from a distal end; an actuator for swinging a distal end of the optical fiber; a first tubular member that encloses a distal end of the optical fiber and the actuator; a holding portion that holds the optical fiber so that a distal end of the optical fiber is swung by the actuator; a second tubular member that encloses the first tubular member; a fixing portion that is disposed in an area perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the optical fiber, the area being aligned with a position where the holding portion is disposed, and fixes the first tubular member to the second tubular member; and a distal end fixing portion that is provided at a distal end of the first tubular member.

Abstract: An RFID information medium transmits and receives data to and from an external reader in a noncontact manner. The RFID information medium is provided with a main body section having an insulating member, either an antenna or an antenna member arranged on the main body section, and a conductor arranged on the main body section. The conductor has a conductive material layer. The conductive material layer partially overlaps the antenna or the antenna member in the thickness direction of the main body section.

Abstract: A scanning endoscope system includes: a fiber that guides illuminating light from a light source; a first actuator provided on a side of the fiber and expands/contracts according to an applied voltage, thereby swinging the fiber; a second actuator disposed at a position facing the first actuator across the fiber and expands/contracts according to an applied voltage, thereby swinging the fiber; a drive signal output section applying a first voltage for setting a reference position of the fiber where the first actuator is in a contracted state, to the first actuator, and applying a second voltage for setting the reference position of the fiber where the second actuator is in a contracted state, to the second actuator; and a controller that in order to change the reference position of the fiber, controls the drive signal output section to change at least one of the first voltage and the second voltage.

Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes: an insertion portion to be inserted into a living body, an optical fiber that is inserted through the insertion portion and emits light from a light source, a fixing member that holds the optical fiber in the insertion portion in a state where the optical fiber is protruded in a distal end direction of the insertion portion, an actuator that causes the distal end of the optical fiber to swing, and a distal end optical system having an optical characteristic in which a focal point position of the light is behind a distal end of the insertion portion when the optical fiber protruded from the fixing member is shortened by a predetermined length.

Abstract: The present invention has an object to enrich expression of contents of an e-mail message. In a mobile phone (1), text data (TxD) is input, and a 3D authoring operation is carried out. The text data (TxD) and 3D authoring instruction data (DD) are transmitted from the mobile phone (1) to a server (3), and then, scenario data (SD) which is control information about 3D graphics is generated in the server (3). The text data (TxD) and scenario data (SD) are stored in the server (3) as 3D message information (MD). When access information to the 3D message information (MD) is notified from the mobile phone (1) to a mobile phone (2), the mobile phone (2) makes access to the server (3) to download the 3D message information (MD) and a necessary 3D font. 3D character mail is thereby reproduced in the mobile phone (2).

Abstract: In order to provide a technique for simplifying pre-examination input tasks for a medical image imaging apparatus, an imaging support system includes the medical image imaging apparatus 1 generating a medical image of the object 4, the position calculation unit 111 detecting a current position of the medical image imaging apparatus 1, the object candidate search unit 116 searching object candidates to be examined based on the current position, the operation unit 31 receiving a selection operation of an object to be examined from among object candidates, and the imaging condition setting unit 93 setting imaging conditions of the object to be examined.

Abstract: To provide a method for controlling an X-ray image diagnostic apparatus and an X-ray generation device equipped with an ABS system tracking movement of an object position without an operator performing setting operation for a region of interest (ROI), the determination condition storage unit (6i) storing ROI position determination conditions in which image statistical information is used for defining conditions to determine a position of an ROI in an X-ray image out of plural blocks generated by dividing the X-ray image into plural regions, the first block statistical information calculation unit (6f) calculating the image statistical information for each of plural blocks, and the region-of-interest position selection unit (6g) selecting a block that serves as an ROI from among plural blocks using the ROI position determination conditions and the image statistical information of each block are provided.

Abstract: A scanning endoscope system includes: a fiber that guides illuminating light emitted from a light source; a first actuator provided on a side of the fiber, the first actuator expanding/contracting according to an applied voltage, thereby swinging the fiber; a second actuator disposed at a position facing the first actuator across the fiber, the second actuator expanding/contracting according to an applied voltage, thereby swinging the fiber; and a drive signal output section that applies a first drive signal that varies with reference to a first voltage that brings the first actuator into a contracted state to the first actuator and applies a second drive signal that varies with reference to a second voltage that brings the second actuator into a contracted state to the second actuator.

Abstract: A scanning endoscopic device includes an optical fiber allowing irradiation light guided from a proximal side fiber portion to a distal side fiber portion to exit from a distal end thereof, and an actuator section placed to a distal direction side of the proximal fiber portion. The scanning endoscopic device includes a light absorbing section absorbing beam light having directivity in one direction, and the light absorbing section includes a black filling member filling a space between the proximal side fiber portion and an outer envelope tube in radial directions. The device further includes a light scattering section provided between the proximal side fiber portion and the outer envelope tube in the radial directions to scatter the beam of light.

Abstract: Disclosed is a skin external preparation containing a triterpenic acid typified by ursolic acid. For obtaining a skin external preparation having excellent storage stability by improving the dissolution stability of the triterpenic acid and the like, 4-alkylresorcinol such as 4-n-butylresorcinol is added into a skin external preparation containing a triterpenic acid and the like such as benzyl ursolate.

Abstract: A scanning endoscope system includes a fiber, a first actuator that is provided laterally of the fiber to swing the fiber, a second actuator that is arranged at a position opposite to the first actuator with the fiber intervened in between to swing the fiber, and a driver unit that outputs, to the first actuator, a first drive signal having either a first waveform such that a minimum value of a voltage value, which varies periodically with a positive voltage value as a center, is not less than zero, or a second waveform such that a maximum value of a voltage value, which varies periodically with a negative voltage value as a center, is not more than zero, and configured to output, to the second actuator, a second drive signal having the same waveform as the first drive signal and different phase from the first drive signal.

Abstract: An endoscope system includes: an endoscope that has a light guiding member that guides an illuminating light, an optical system that irradiates the illuminating light onto an object, and a drive portion that rocks the light guiding member so that the illuminating light is irradiated along a predetermined scanning pattern; a coordinate information acquisition portion that can identify an irradiation position; a storage portion in which information regarding chromatic aberration of magnification caused by the optical system, is previously stored a correction information acquisition portion that, upon detecting that light of the predetermined wavelength band is irradiated onto a position corresponding to a predetermined image height, detects an aberration amount of the light of the other wavelength band and outputs image correction information that corrects chromatic aberration of magnification based on the aberration amount; and an image processing portion that performs image correction processing based on the

Abstract: A scanning endoscope system includes: a fiber that guides illuminating light from a light source; a first actuator provided on a side of the fiber and expands/contracts according to an applied voltage, thereby swinging the fiber; a second actuator disposed at a position facing the first actuator across the fiber and expands/contracts according to an applied voltage, thereby swinging the fiber; a drive signal output section applying a first voltage for setting a reference position of the fiber where the first actuator is in a contracted state, to the first actuator, and applying a second voltage for setting the reference position of the fiber where the second actuator is in a contracted state, to the second actuator; and a controller that in order to change the reference position of the fiber, controls the drive signal output section to change at least one of the first voltage and the second voltage.

Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes: an insertion portion to be inserted into a living body, an optical fiber that is inserted through the insertion portion and emits light from a light source, a fixing member that holds the optical fiber in the insertion portion in a state where the optical fiber is protruded in a distal end direction of the insertion portion, an actuator that causes the distal end of the optical fiber to swing, and a distal end optical system having an optical characteristic in which a focal point position of the light is behind a distal end of the insertion portion when the optical fiber protruded from the fixing member is shortened by a predetermined length.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a cleaning member has an annular part and an opening positioned radially inside the annular part, and can be moved up and down between a first position and a second position relative to a cleaning nozzle. For cleaning of the back surface of the wafer, the cleaning member is placed at its first position that allows a cleaning liquid to reach the back surface of the substrate through the opening of the cleaning member. For cleaning of the cup structure, the cleaning member placed at its second position higher than the first position is being rotated, and a cleaning liquid discharged from the cleaning nozzle collides with an annular part of the cleaning member and is guided to the inner surface of a cup structure.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method for information processing executed in an information processing apparatus processing recording data, including, dividing the recording data into a plurality of recording data blocks, recording management information on corresponding first management areas in n storage media, the n storage media comprising a first storage medium to an nth storage medium, wherein n comprises an integer equal to or larger than 2, and recording the recording data blocks on corresponding second management areas of the n storage media by a controller configured to control the information processing apparatus.

Abstract: A scanning endoscope system has a light guide portion that guides an illuminating light, a drive portion capable of causing the light guide portion to swing so that an irradiation position of the illuminating light draws a locus corresponding to a predetermined scanning pattern, a light detecting portion that receives a return light of the illuminating light and outputs a signal, a control portion that drives the drive portion to perform scan so that the irradiation position of the illuminating light becomes a locus in a spiral shape, and an image generating portion that generates an image of an object based on a signal outputted from the light detecting portion in a predetermined timing, wherein the control portion further performs control for driving the drive portion so that the irradiation position of the illuminating light circles on a same circumference in the predetermined timing.

Abstract: A scanning image display includes a light source, a light detector, a scanning section, a storage section, a current controlling section, a reference current section, a sweep section, and a change section. The light detector detects the laser light emitted from the light source. The scanning section scans the laser light. The current controlling section controls laser light by supplying a current supplied to the light source. The storage section is configured to store a reference current value, a reference light output value, and a gamma table. The reference current section supplies the reference current value to the current controlling section. The sweep section sweeps current values supplied to the current controlling section to obtain one current value where the detected laser light corresponds to the reference light output value. The change section changes the gamma table based on the one current value obtained by the sweep section.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information recording apparatus includes a divider, a generator, and a recorder. The divider is configured to divide recording data into a plurality of recording data blocks for each predetermined recording unit. The generator is configured to set, as a first block set, n recording data blocks recorded in corresponding areas in file system management areas of n, first to nth (n: integer, n?2) storages, and generate first parity data from the n recording data blocks forming the first block set. The recorder is configured to record the n recording data blocks forming the first block set and the first parity data.

Abstract: There is provided an IC tag, including a substrate made of a dielectric material, an antenna pattern disposed on a surface of the substrate, a communication circuit chip connected to one end and other end of the antenna pattern on the substrate surface, which performs transmission processing and/or reception processing of a radio signal, and external circuit connection parts connected to the antenna pattern in a vicinity of the one end and the other end thereof on the surface or a rear surface of the substrate, in which a conductive part having a predetermined area opposes to other conductive part having a predetermined area on an opposed surface at an opposite side of the substrate, and the conductive part on the opposed surface at the opposite side is formed as a pad to be connected to an external circuit.