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An instrument guide and implant holding device is provided which releasably secures an implant to the instrument guide. The device provides a convenient guide for surgeons to perform various operative techniques on the subject bone without the need for separate devices, and allows all these operative techniques to be performed without removing the instrument guide from the dissected area until all operative techniques have been completed. The releasable mechanism allows the surgeon to easily hold the instrument to an implant using a simple press-fit approach, and easily releases from the implant with a minimal amount of force. An embodiment also allows the surgeon to releasably lock the cannula in a given orientation about the centroidal axis of the implant fastener hole.

A circuit and method for driving pixels in an organic electroluminescent display that reduces the number of wirings of a compensation circuit for addressing brightness non-uniformity. The pixel driving circuit includes an organic electroluminescent device that emits light corresponding to an amount of a current being applied. A first transistor is connected to a power supply voltage and applies the current corresponding to a data voltage to the organic electroluminescent device. A first capacitor stores the data voltage, and a threshold voltage compensation unit stores a threshold voltage of the first transistor. A second transistor transmits the data voltage from a data line in response to a selection signal from an nth scan line. A switching unit electrically disconnects a second primary electrode of the first transistor from the organic electroluminescent device while the threshold voltage is stored in the threshold voltage compensation unit in response to a control signal.

Provided are a three-dimensional (3D) image acquisition apparatus, and a method of generating a depth image in the 3D image acquisition apparatus. The method may include sequentially projecting a light transmission signal, which is generated from a light source, to a subject, modulating reflected light, which is reflected by the subject, using a light modulation signal, calculating a phase delay using a combination of a first plurality of images of two groups, from among a second plurality of images of all groups obtained by capturing the modulated reflected light, and generating a depth image based on the phase delay.

The invention concerns a system for the storage and transport of sample material on absorbent material which is characterized in that the system contains no test reagents and it additionally includes a closable container containing a medium that can absorb moisture such as a desiccant in addition to the absorbent material for absorbing a liquid sample. Furthermore the system according to the invention can contain an agent to stabilize the sample material and optionally further auxiliary substances.

A chip coated LED package and a manufacturing method thereof. The chip coated LED package includes a light emitting chip composed of a chip die-attached on a submount and a resin layer uniformly covering an outer surface of the chip die. The chip coated LED package also includes an electrode part electrically connected by metal wires with at least one bump ball exposed through an upper surface of the resin layer. The chip coated LED package further includes a package body having the electrode part and the light emitting chip mounted thereon. The invention improves light efficiency by preventing difference in color temperature according to irradiation angles, increases a yield, miniaturizes the package, and accommodates mass production.

A method for manufacturing a magnetic recording medium is provided, which can manufacture a magnetic recording medium that includes a recording layer having a concavo-convex pattern and has a sufficiently flat surface. The method includes the steps of: forming an object to be processed including a recording layer having a predetermined concavo-convex pattern formed over a substrate and a first mask layer (temporary underlying material) formed at least on recording elements (convex portions) of the recording layer; depositing a filling material on the object to be processed to fill concave portions; removing a part of the filling material by dry etching to expose at least side faces of the first mask layer; and removing the first mask layer by an etching method in which an etching rate of the first mask layer is higher than that of the filling material to flatten a surface.

An endoscope device includes: a light source including an LED for emitting an R light, an LED for emitting a G light and an LED for emitting a B light, and a solid-state image pick-up element having a plurality of pixel parts including a photoelectric conversion part that may receive the R light, the G light and the B light to generate electric charges corresponding to the received lights and floating gates that may selectively store the electric charges generated in the photoelectric conversion part and a reading circuit that independently reads signals corresponding to the electric charges respectively stored in the floating gates.

A method of exchanging color-information includes the steps of: (1) grouping color spaces of CIELAB of a source device and an output device; (2) calculating gravity vectors and gravity points of each color category grouped in respective devices; (3) producing a color space normalized by using gravity vectors calculated for each color category of respective devices and variance covariance matrix expressing an extension from the gravity point as a center; (4) mapping control points of corresponding color category provided in respective normalized color spaces; and (5) exchanging color information by finding an agreement between the color categories of the two normalized color spaces as well as preserving color-perceptive-quantity such as chroma of two corresponding colors in the respective normalized color spaces. This method achieves that overall impressions of images rendered on each device produce difference as little as possible.

A seeder (20) includes a seed hopper (22) that feeds seed by gravity to a seed dispenser (24). The seed feed wheels (38) of the seeder are mounted in a seed metering tube (30) so that rotation of the seed feed wheels meters the output of the seeds. The seed feed wheels can be formed in segments (50 and 60) so that by matching different segments, different sizes of seed receiving detents can be used for dispensing the seeds. An adjustment bracket (72) shifts the seed feed wheels so that different sizes of detents can register with the openings of the seed metering tube (30), thereby achieving the desired matching of sizes of detents with the sizes of the seeds.

An instrument guide and implant holding device is provided which releasably secures an implant to the instrument guide. The device provides a convenient guide for surgeons to perform various operative techniques on the subject bone without the need for separate devices, and allows all these operative techniques to be performed without removing the instrument guide from the dissected area until all operative techniques have been completed. The releasable mechanism allows the surgeon to easily hold the instrument to an implant using a simple press-fit approach, and easily releases from the implant with a minimal amount of force. An embodiment also allows the surgeon to releasably lock the cannula in a given orientation about the centroidal axis of the implant fastener hole.

A spotlight is provided with a substrate having LEDs disposed thereon and a main body casing on which the substrate is provided. The main body casing has a rear side portion having thermal conductivity, which is thermally coupled to the substrate, and is capable of changing the irradiation angle of light emitted from the LEDs. A plurality of heat-radiating fins for forming grooves operating as a plurality of convection paths along the direction of changing the irradiation angle are provided on the rear side portion of the main body casing.

A method, system, and program enabling a variable varying with animal's motions such as a joint torque to be accurately measured in a series of the animal's motions. First, a reference relational expression representing a relation between myoelectric potentials and a knee joint torque is set on the basis of the myoelectric potentials and the knee joint torque (variable) measured by using an inverse dynamics model. Then, the knee joint torque is measured on the basis of the measured myoelectric potentials and according to the reference relational expression. For example, if an animal makes first and second motions continuously, first a reference relational expression is set on the basis of myoelectric potentials measured in the first motion and a knee joint torque corresponding to the first motion. Then, a knee joint torque corresponding to the second motion is measured on the basis of the myoelectric potentials measured in the second motion and according to the reference relational expression. The first and second motions are arbitrary and the animal is not forced to make a given motion.

A constant velocity universal joint system and method of substantially eliminating a pulsating angular velocity difference in such system comprises an input universal joint including an input shaft, an input coupling, and an input drive pin, and an output universal joint including an output shaft, an output coupling, and an output drive pin. A tubular coupler couples the input universal joint to the output universal joint, and the tubular coupler has a passage therethrough, and an end of the input and output shafts, the input and output couplings and the input and output drive pins as positioned in the passage. The input drive pin couples the input coupling to the coupler, and the input coupling couples the input shaft to the input drive pin such that the input shaft can both tilt and rotate relative to the input drive pin. The output drive pin couples the output coupling to the coupler, and the output coupling couples the output shaft to the output drive pin such that the output shaft also can both tilt and rotate relative to the output drive pin. A substantially spherical projection is positioned on an end of one of the shafts and a receptacle is positioned on an end of the other of the shafts. The projection extends into the receptacle when at least one of the shafts tilts or rotates to support the shafts, and the projection and receptacle are positioned in the coupler passage. The end of the input and output shafts has a first opening to receive the input and output couplings respectively therein, and a second opening in the ends to receive the input and output drive pins respectively therethrough, the first and second openings also are positioned in the coupler passage, and the second openings are slotted to permit the ends of the input and output shafts to tilt relative to their respective drive pins. The ends of the input and output shafts which include the first and second openings are also substantially spherical and are positioned in the coupler passage, and the drive pins are fixed against movement along their axis relative to the coupler either by a screw in the input and output couplings or by heat shrinkable tubing which is heat shrunk about the coupler.

A driving assistance system that projects images imaged by multiple vehicle cameras onto a plane, and synthesizes projection images from images obtained at different times to accurately determine whether the vehicle cameras have moved out of their proper positions or imaging directions. The system includes: first and second in-vehicle cameras that capture first and second images, respectively. The cameras capture overlapping regions respectively in different directions. An image converter converts the first and second images into first and second projection images projected onto a plane. A solid object detection unit determines whether a solid object exists in the overlapping region. When no solid object exists, the images of the overlapping regions within the first and second projection images are compared to generate a comparison value. The comparison value is in turn compared with a threshold value for the determination of vehicle camera movement out of its proper position.

A method for active noise cancellation in a volume generates a mathematical model of a noise process to be cancelled. Using the mathematical model, a noise signal in a next sample period is predicted from a measured noise signal. The predicted signal is inverted and applied to the volume. Destructive interference of the noise signal and the inverted signal cancels the noise in the volume.

A method for bonding a first copper element onto a second copper element including forming a crystalline copper layer enriched in oxygen on each of surfaces of each of the first and second elements through which the elements will be in contact, the total thickness of both layers being less than 6 nm, which includes: a) polishing the surfaces so as to obtain a roughness of less than 1 nm RMS, and hydrophilic surfaces, b) cleaning the surfaces to suppress presence of particles due to the polishing and the major portion of corrosion inhibitors, and c) putting both crystalline copper layer enriched in oxygen in contact with each other.

To provide a continuous oscillation laser apparatus, and a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device using the continuous oscillation laser apparatus, which can enhance processing efficiency. A laser apparatus according to the present invention includes: a laser oscillation apparatus; a unit for rotating an object to be processed; a unit for moving the object to be processed toward a center of the rotation or toward an outside from the center; and an optical system for processing a laser light outputted from the laser oscillation apparatus and irradiating the processed laser light to a definite region in a moving range of the object to be processed, in which, while the object to be processed is rotated, the object to be processed is moved toward the center of the rotation or toward the outside from the center to move a position where the definite region and the object to be processed overlap.

An information processing apparatus configured to generate an MR image displayed on a display apparatus includes a segmentation unit configured to segment the generated MR image into a plurality of regions, a generation unit configured to generate a pattern image to be superimposed on one of the plurality of segmented regions or each of the plurality of segmented regions, a superimposition unit configured to superimpose the generated pattern image on one of the plurality of segmented regions or each of the plurality of segmented regions, and an output unit configured to output the MR image, including the pattern image superimposed thereon, to the display apparatus.

A method for generating control data for an eye-surgical treatment device, which separates tissue layers in the eye cornea by application of a laser device, wherein a contact glass having a contact surface deforms the cornea to conform to the shape of the contact surface during the operation of the laser device. The contact surface is first placed on a cornea apex at a contact surface apex and is then pressed against the same for deforming the cornea. The method includes: generating the control data of the laser device such that the data specifies coordinates of target points located in the cornea for the laser device, and upon generation of the target point coordinates the deformation of the cornea which is present during the operation of the laser device as a result of the contact glass is taken into consideration. The invention provides that the several steps are carried out in consideration of the deformation in order to determine a displacement of a point P in the undeformed cornea caused by the deformation.

A lens array capable of making the characteristics of lens elements uniform is provided. A lens array 10 according to the present invention includes first liquid 11 that is conductive, second liquid 12 that is insulative and that has a refractive index different from that of the first liquid, and a plurality of lens elements 13 forming lens surfaces 13A at an interface between the first liquid 11 and the second liquid 12. The lens surfaces 13A of the lens elements 13 reversibly vary in accordance with output control of an applied voltage. The lens array is structured such that the adjacent lens elements 13 liquidly communicate with each other, whereby differences in the amounts of the first liquid 11 and the second liquid 12 between the lens elements can be avoided and the lens characteristics can be made uniform.

A mechanism which can avoid, as much as possible, a difference of picture quality that is caused by restricting color printing according to an authority and forcedly performing monochromatic printing is provided. A mechanism which restricts the color printing according to the authority without deteriorating performance is also provided. The processing refers to a color restricting mode in user information or a color restricting mode in setting information. When the referred color restricting mode indicates “force”, if the user does not have the authority in which a color job can be printed, the job is forcedly converted into monochrome. In case of “analyze”, if the user does not have the authority in which a color job can be printed, the job is analyzed. If it is the color job, a forced monochromatic printing or print inhibition is performed.

A wave-shaped portion 5b, the profile of which is formed into a wave-shape, is provided on the core plate 5, and tubes are brazed to the core plate 5 under the condition that the tubes are inserted into holes 5c formed in bent portions 5a. Due to the above structure, even when a pitch between the tubes is reduced, it is possible to ensure a sufficiently high mechanical strength of the core plate 5. Accordingly, the occurrence of a big difference in the mechanical strength between the core plate 5 and the tubes can be suppressed. Therefore, stress concentration at a joint portion of the core plate 5 and the tubes can be prevented. As a result, the mechanical strength of a radiator and the reliability (durability) of the joint portion of the core plate 5 and the tubes can be enhanced.

Image quality deterioration due to a drop in resolution or lowering of S / N ratio while reducing the amount of data stored during a 3D data acquisition process, and shortening the time from the start of an examination to the end of imaging. The method and apparatus of this invention perform, in parallel with the 3D data acquisition process, addition of sinograms, reading of subsets of the sinograms having been added, and image reconstruction. Consequently, the amount of data stored is reduced, and the time from the start of an examination to the end of imaging is shortened. At the same time, since 3D iterative reconstruction is not accompanied by conversion from 3D data to 2D data, a drop in resolution due to errors occurring with the conversion from 3D data to 2D data is avoided. The 3D iterative reconstruction can directly incorporate processes such as an attenuation correction process. It is thus possible to avoid also a lowering of S / N ratio resulting from an indirect incorporation of such processes.

The GPS / GNSS receiver and method disclosed herein improves the GPS / GNSS receiver tracking sensitivity for detecting low signal-to-noise (SNR) GPS / GNSS signals through improved vector tracking, multibit correlation, improved extended range code-phase discrimination, and discrimination and navigation filter measurement via Probabilistic Data Association, individually or in combination. The solution is achieved without any external data aiding, such as from an inertial measurement unit, other wireless infrastructure source, or communication of GPS / GNSS satellite vehicle (SV) subframe data to the GPS / GNSS receiver over a data link.

In one embodiment of the present invention, a display device includes: a display section in which a plurality of data signal lines and a plurality of scan signal lines are provided, the display section including (i) a first region including some of the plurality of scan signal lines to which a first scan signal is sequentially supplied and (ii) a second region including the others of the plurality of scan signal lines to which a second scan signal is sequentially supplied; and waveform adjusting sections for causing the first scan signal to have a waveform, during an active period, which is different from a waveform which the second scan signal has during an active period. This allows a display device, which drives a display section divided into a plurality of regions, to reduce a difference in luminance between the regions.

A lens array capable of making the characteristics of lens elements uniform is provided. A lens array 10 according to the present invention includes first liquid 11 that is conductive, second liquid 12 that is insulative and that has a refractive index different from that of the first liquid, and a plurality of lens elements 13 forming lens surfaces 13A at an interface between the first liquid 11 and the second liquid 12. The lens surfaces 13A of the lens elements 13 reversibly vary in accordance with output control of an applied voltage. The lens array is structured such that the adjacent lens elements 13 liquidly communicate with each other, whereby differences in the amounts of the first liquid 11 and the second liquid 12 between the lens elements can be avoided and the lens characteristics can be made uniform.

A display device, which has a bottom chassis provided with an opening formed at one side thereof and receiving light sources therein, and at least one optical member connected to the opening to enhance optical characteristics of light emitted from the light sources, includes an optical member fixing unit including integral supporters formed integrally with the bottom chassis; and separable supporters connected to the bottom chassis to prevent movement of the at least one optical member connected to the integral supporters. The display device allows the separable supporters to have a smaller size than that of a conventional middle bezel, thus reducing production costs and to easily assemble the at least one optical member to the bottom chassis.

This polyimide film is superior in heat resistance, rigidity and high frequency properties, is free of inconveniences due to curling even when various functional layers are laminated by heating, and is preferable as a substrate film superior in thermal degradation stability for electronic parts. This polyimide film has a planar orientation coefficient of 0.79-0.89 as measured by an X-ray diffraction method, a difference in the surface planar orientation degree between one surface thereof and the other surface thereof of not more than 2 and a curling degree of not more than 5%, which is obtained by imidation of a polyimide precursor film having a particular imidation rate.