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A surgical instrument includes a hollow member having a sidewall provided with a window and a closure member movably connected to the hollow member for alternately covering and uncovering the window. The hollow member has a first clamping surface along an edge of the window, while the closure member has a second clamping surface opposing the first clamping surface and disposable substantially adjacent thereto in a clamping or closure configuration of the instrument. The instrument additionally comprises a tissue occlusion component mounted to at least one of the hollow member and the closure member for acting on tissues gripped between the first clamping surface and the second clamping surface, to couple the tissues to each other.

A data transmitting / receiving system adds identifying information to a data packet based on characteristics of the data. The identifying information can be a data type of a payload data of an IP / UDP / RTP packet and / or a temporal data sequence of the payload data. The IP / UDP / RTP packet added with the identifying information is segmented into an IP / UDP / RTP header and IP / UDP / RTP data. The segmented IP / UDP / RTP header and the IP / UDP / RTP data can be transmitted through different channels. A receiver sends retransmission control information based on the added identifying information extracted by the receiver, the retransmission control information providing retransmission time and priority information. A transmitter retransmits reception error occurring IP / UDP / RTP data according to the retransmission control information received by the transmitter. Varying the retransmission times and / or retransmission priority based on the data characteristics, accommodates data retransmission so that data more influential to data restoration in case of loss / damage can be received more stably.

A liquid crystal display apparatus includes an applied gradation value acquiring section for receiving gradation data of a frame to be displayed, gradation data of a frame to be outputted, gradation data of the current frame supplied from a frame memory and measured data from a temperature sensor. An interpolation operation is then carried out in reference to look-up tables stored in a look-up table memory so as to calculate a target applied gradation data required for gradation display. The section sets for each LUT (a) a coordinate system in which a lattice point is represented by a combination of the gradation data of the current frame and the gradation data of the target frame and (b) a local coordinate system having lattice points corresponding to the target gradation data in the coordinate system; carries out interpolation operation by use of the local coordinate system, and carries out further interpolation operation based on the interpolated value (table interpolated value), in accordance with the measured data so as to calculate the target applied gradation data. The adoption of the interpolation by use of the local coordinate system enables the finding of the target applied gradation data (interpolated value) with higher accuracy, while a variety of additional conditions are taken into consideration.

An image recording apparatus includes: a recording head having a plurality of recording elements; a conveyance device which conveys at least one of the recording head and a recording medium so as to cause relative movement between the recording head and the recording medium; a recording defect information acquisition device which acquires recording defect information indicating a recording element having a recording defect, of the plurality of recording elements; a recording defect correction device which corrects an image defect caused by the recording element having a recording defect, according to the recording defect information acquired by the recording defect information acquisition device; an image reading apparatus which reads in an image of a test chart for density measurement recorded by the recording head, the image of the test chart for density measurement having been corrected by the recording defect correction device; a recording density information acquisition device which acquires recording density information indicating recording density of the plurality of recording elements, according to the image of the test chart for density measurement read in by the image reading apparatus; a density correction information calculation device which calculates density correction information according to the recording density information acquired by the recording density information acquisition device; a density correction device which corrects density of image data according to the density correction information calculated by the density correction information calculation device; an uncorrected recording defect information acquisition device which acquires uncorrected recording defect information indicating a recording element having a new recording defect which has not been corrected by the recording defect correction device when the test chart for density measurement is output; and a recording density information amendment device which amends the density correction information according to the uncorrected recording defect information acquired by the uncorrected recording defect information acquisition device.

In a vehicle control device, a target motion estimation unit estimates a motion for a target area representing an area where no other vehicle is traveling on a lane in the future based on motions of other vehicles traveling on the lane to which a course is to be changed. A control amount setting unit sets a control amount of an own vehicle required in order to make the motion of the target area and a motion of the own vehicle match. A motion control unit controls the motion of the own vehicle according to the set control amount.

There is provided an optical module capable of improving assembling efficiency and reducing the number of parts to reduce production costs, and an optical connector having the same. The optical module has a holder 3, a lens 12 and a diffraction grating 13 for damping the quantity of light. The holder 3, the lens 12 and the diffraction grating 13 are formed of a resin material so as to be integrated with each other. The diffracting grating 13 is designed to prevent high-order diffracted light beams from being coupled with an optical fiber 8.

According to the present invention, heat generation amount control information for controlling a heat generation amount of a heat generating section (20) is arranged to correspond to each of temperatures so that a predetermined heat generation amount is obtained at each of the temperatures. The present invention includes a first computing section (41) that controls the heat generation amount of the heat generating section (20) according to the heat generation amount control information that is arranged in advance to correspond to temperature information that is obtained from a temperature sensor (13). This easily makes it possible to appropriately carry out at least either recording or reproduction with respect to a magnetic recording medium.

A method of tire wear test capable of testing tire wear precisely by appropriately setting running modes in a simple manner.Frequency distribution of acceleration in each of lateral direction and longitudinal direction is previously obtained during running on a test course. Also, external conditions generated on a tire mounted on a particular wheel of a test vehicle under particular running conditions are previously obtained. The external conditions are obtained being associated with the acceleration in each of lateral direction and longitudinal direction. Running modes are set up so that the external conditions are input to the tire in accordance with the frequency of acceleration corresponding to the external conditions. The tire is rolled on the simulation road surface based on the running modes to test the tire wear.

A remote control system includes a plurality of control object terminals connected with the first network, a control server connected the first network and a second network to control the control object terminal and a remote control terminal connected with the second network. The remote control terminal issues a control request for a specific terminal of the plurality of control object terminals to the control server through the second network. The control server identifies the remote control terminal uniquely in response to the control request and carries out the control request in place of the remote control terminal when the remote control right of the specific terminal is allocated to the remote control terminal.

Appropriate vehicle stability control is enabled in a vehicle configured to carry out regeneration enhancement control. A predictive deceleration support control unit is configured to set a position at which the vehicle is predicted to finish deceleration as a target deceleration end position, and guide a driver to release an accelerator pedal so that the deceleration of the vehicle is finished at the target deceleration end position, to thereby carry out regeneration enhancement control under a state in which the accelerator pedal is released so as to generate a larger deceleration than in a normal state. The predictive deceleration support control unit is configured to read a vehicle stability control flag from a brake ECU and stop the regeneration enhancement control when the vehicle stability control is being carried out.

Appropriate tuck-in suppression control is enabled in a vehicle configured to carry out regeneration enhancement control. A predictive deceleration support control unit is configured to set a position at which the vehicle is predicted to finish deceleration as a target deceleration end position, and guide a driver to release an accelerator pedal so that the deceleration of the vehicle is finished at the target deceleration end position, to thereby carry out regeneration enhancement control under a state in which the accelerator pedal is released so as to generate a larger deceleration than in a normal state. The predictive deceleration support control unit is configured to read a tuck-in control flag from a brake ECU, and stop the regeneration enhancement control when the tuck-in suppression control is being carried out.

Even when a control mode is switched, hands-off driving handling processing can be appropriately carried out. A hands-off determination unit is configured to start measurement of a no-operation state continuation period when a no-operation state in which a driver is estimated not to be operating a steering wheel is detected, and to determine that the driver is carrying out hands-off driving when the no-operation state continuation period is more than a hands-off driving determination period. The hands-off determination unit is configured to take over, when the control mode is switched under a state in which the measurement of the no-operation state continuation period has been started, a value of the no-operation state continuation period that has been measured until the switching of the control mode, thereby continuing the measurement of the no-operation state continuation period.

An information searching method to be implemented in a computer includes accepting a first character string from characters or a character string in a reading or inspecting document that is displayed on a display unit, acquiring a second character string from index information for searching the reading or inspecting document, based on identification information of the reading or inspecting document, and executing a search based on the first character string and the second character string.

A technology is provided whereby correction may be carried out appropriately for both a person's face and other portions of an image, when performing color correction for image data of a photographic image in which a person appears. A process such as the following is carried out during color correction of image data of a photographic image. First, the image data of the photographic image is analyzed, and a first region which is part of the photographic image and in which a person's face is present is determined. Then, on the basis of the portion corresponding to the first region of the image data, a first parameter relating to color is calculated. On the basis of part of the image data corresponding to a second region which is part of the photographic image but different from the first region, a second parameter relating to color is calculated. The color tone of the data is then corrected on the basis of the first and second parameters.

The present invention suppresses movement of a power generating element in a case of a battery while minimizing an increase in a workload in an assembly process of the battery.In the battery including: a power generating element 3; a case BC housing the power generating element 3; an electrode terminal 5 disposed outside the case; a current collector 4 connected to the power generating element 3; and a fixing member FE for fixing the current collector 4 to the case BC and having electric conductivity, the current collector 4 and the fixing member FE forming an energizing path between the power generating element 3 and the electrode terminal 5, a spacer 11 which is positioned by engagement with the fixing member FE and which suppresses movement of the power generating element 3 is disposed between the fixing member FE and the power generating element 3.

The scanning operation controller allocates a scanned image memory area of a predetermined document size within a memory, and stores the image data of the scanned document to the scanned image memory area. The image processor eliminates unneeded data from the data in the scanned image memory area of the predetermined document size to thereby produce output image data, based on a document size of the scanned document that is detected after the automatic document feeder has initiated the feed of the document to the image reader.

A vehicle comprises an autonomous driving system and a vehicle platform that controls the vehicle in response to a command received from the autonomous driving system. In the present vehicle, when the autonomous driving system issues a first command to request the vehicle platform to provide deceleration to stop the vehicle and a first signal indicates 0 km / h or a prescribed velocity or less, the autonomous driving system issues a second command to request the vehicle platform to maintain stationary. And after brake hold control is finished, a second signal indicates standstill. Until the second signal indicates standstill, the first command continues to request the vehicle platform to provide deceleration.

Disclosed herein is a mapping mechanism for carrying out mapping for a FOUP which includes a wafer receiving section on which a plurality of wafers can be placed at a plurality of stages in a heightwise direction and a lid member mounted for opening and closing movement, including: a light emitting member and a light receiving member provided outside the FOUP; and a window member provided on a light path between the light emitting member and the light receiving member which can cross at least part of the wafers placed on the stage portions of the wafer receiving section; the light being caused to pass over all of the stages of the wafer receiving section of the FOUP to carry out the mapping for the FOUP.

The gradation representation capability is automatically controlled according to gradation regions and properties (moving or still image) of an input video signal. In a gradation representation pattern information storage circuit is stored a plurality of pieces of gradation representation pattern information which are different in the number of repetition unit frames for gradation representation according to a plurality of degradation regions. One piece of gradation representation pattern information stored in the gradation representation pattern information storage circuit is selected according to a gradation region detected from an input video signal. Gradation representation data of the frame rate corresponding to the selected gradation representation pattern information is output.

A slitting machine for slitting or longitudinally cutting material, especially fibrous material, where the cut is critical. A cutting arrangement produces a slit or cut that divides a sheet of material, the cutting arrangement comprising an upper blade and a lower blade. A non-cutting tool for producing a cutting channel in a surface of the sheet of material is disposed upstream of the cutting arrangement as viewed in a direction of slitting. The cutting arrangement is adapted to enter the cutting channel and to execute a cut or slit along the cutting channel.

In a multi-angle colorimeter, a light detecting portion 40 includes a main light receiving window disposed in a predetermined position on a main geometry plane, and first and second auxiliary light receiving windows disposed on a secondary geometry plane, and a main photoelectric conversion element for converting a main component light received by the main light receiving window in a light reflected from a measurement point into an electrical main signal and first and second auxiliary photoelectric conversion elements for converting first and second auxiliary component lights received by the first and second auxiliary light receiving windows in the reflected light respectively into first and second electrical auxiliary signals. A calculating portion corrects the electrical main signal based on the first and second electrical auxiliary signals to obtain color information about the measurement point.

A roll-over suppressing control apparatus for a vehicle is disclosed which can carry out roll-over suppressing control appropriately in response to the type of turning. Upon turning of the vehicle, if a parameter corresponding to the rolling behavior of the vehicle becomes higher than a control start criterion value set in advance, then roll-over suppressing control of suppressing rolling of the vehicle is started. Then, if the parameter becomes lower than a control end criterion value set in advance, then the roll-over suppressing control is ended. As the control end criterion value, a steady turning control end criterion value is used when the turning of the vehicle is steady turning, but when the turning of the vehicle is non-steady turning such as lane change turning, a non-steady turning control end criterion value set to a value lower than that of the steady turning control end criterion value is used.

Torque shares that express an exchange of torque are set as a constraint condition of an equation of motion of an automatic transmission, so it is suitable to control an exchange of torque between engagement devices, which is difficult in shift control, and it is possible to solve the equation of motion. In other words, it is possible to handle any shift pattern with the use of a predetermined shift model. Furthermore, at the time of a shift in which two elements are released and two elements are engaged, a first shift and a second shift in each of which one element is released and one element is engaged are carried out, so three control operation amounts are used in each of the first shift and the second shift, with the result that it is possible to solve the equation of motion.