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Disclosed is a “tracker system” that includes implanted electrical leads which are part of an implanted cardiotracker plus external equipment that includes external alarm means and a physician's programmer. The tracker system is designed to monitor the degradation of a patient's cardiovascular condition from one or more causes. These causes include the rejection of a transplanted heart and / or the progression of a stenosis in a coronary artery. As one or more stenoses in a coronary artery become progressively more narrow thereby causing reduced blood flow to the heart muscle coronary circulation, the tracker system can alert the patient by either or both internal and / or external alarm means to take the appropriate medical action. The physician's programmer can be used to display histograms of key heart signal parameters that are indicative of the patient's cardiovascular condition.

A sampled beat signal RD is split into a plurality of short-time data SD in the time direction, for each of antenna elements. Interference component frequency of an interference wave is detected from a frequency spectrum of the short-time data SD. A digital beam forming process is performed for the interference component frequency of the interference wave to extract a peak of the electrical power of an azimuth direction and estimate an absolute value of an incoming direction of interference components. Based on the absolute value of the incoming direction of the estimated interference components, a filter for suppressing the interference components is operated to suppress the interference components.

The technique of the invention calculates an edge gradient magnitude a(x,y) at each pixel position (x,y) and an edge width w(x,y) from luminance values of an object image, and computes an out-of-focus evaluation value M(x,y) at each pixel position (x,y) from the calculated edge gradient magnitude a(x,y) and edge width w(x,y). The technique then divides the object image into a preset number of blocks, determines a representative out-of-focus evaluation value Y(m,n) in each block, and compares the representative out-of-focus evaluation value Y(m,n) with a preset threshold value for block classification to categorize each block as an in-focus block or an out-of-focus block. The technique eventually determines the object image as in-focus or out-of-focus, based on the total number of blocks included in in-focus block areas, the total number of blocks included in out-of-focus block areas, and the relative positions of the in-focus block areas and the out-of-focus block areas to the whole image.

A resistance measuring apparatus includes: a voltage injector that injects an AC signal into a circuit by applying an AC voltage to an injection coil; a current measuring unit that measures an AC current produced in the circuit by the injection coil using a detection coil; a processing unit that calculates the circuit resistance from the AC signal voltage and the measured AC current; and a reference signal generator that outputs a binary reference signal that has a same period as the AC voltage and is synchronized to the clock. The voltage injector generates a stepped wave whose amplitude changes in synchronization with a clock, applies a signal based thereon as the AC voltage. The current measuring unit converts the current in the detection coil to a voltage signal, carries out synchronous detection using the reference signal, and measures the AC current based on the synchronous detection result.

In a method for displaying on a display device the surroundings of a vehicle, the surroundings are detected by at least one detection sensor as an image of the surroundings while the vehicle is traveling or at a standstill. A surroundings image from a given surrounding area is ascertained by the detection sensor in different vehicle positions, and / or at least one surroundings image from the given surrounding area is ascertained by each of at least two detection sensors situated at a distance from one another, and in each case a composite surroundings image is obtained from the surroundings images and displayed by the display device.

By sharing tasks between the CV and the KVs, the MKV interceptor provides a cost-effective missile defense system capable of intercepting and killing multiple targets. The placement of the acquisition and discrimination sensor and control sensor on the CV to provide target acquisition and discrimination and mid-course guidance for all the KVs avoids the weight and complexity issues associated with trying to “miniaturize” unitary interceptors. The placement of either a short-band imaging sensor and headlamp or a MWIR sensor on each KV overcomes the latency, resolution and bandwidth problems associated with command guidance systems and allows each KV to precisely select a desirable aimpoint and maintain track on that aimpoint to impact. An implicit divert and attitude control system (DACS) using tow or more divert thrusters performs KV divert and attitude maneuvers to respond to the command guidance pre-handover and to maintain track on the aimpoint to terminal intercept post-handover.

To provide an image processing system and the like which can correct image distortions and provide properly overlapped images when a plurality of projectors are used to project overlapped images, a projector includes: an image projection section projecting an image based on image signals to display the image in a manner to overlap another image projected from another projector at a projection target area; sensing section sensing an image and generating sensing information; overlap-area detecting section detecting projection areas for the projection target area, and detecting an overlap area at which the projection areas overlap, based on the sensing information; correction information generating section generating correction information indicating information for positions of the projection areas and a position of the overlap area; and projection area correction section correcting image signals, based on the correction information, to project an image onto a region corresponding to the overlap area.

Disclosed is a “tracker system” that includes implanted electrical leads which are part of an implanted cardiotracker plus external equipment that includes external alarm means and a physician's programmer. The tracker system is designed to monitor the degradation of a patient's cardiovascular condition from one or more causes. These causes include the rejection of a transplanted heart and / or the progression of a stenosis in a coronary artery. As one or more stenoses in a coronary artery become progressively more narrow thereby causing reduced blood flow to the heart muscle coronary circulation, the tracker system can alert the patient by either or both internal and / or external alarm means to take the appropriate medical action. The physician's programmer can be used to display histograms of key heart signal parameters that are indicative of the patient's cardiovascular condition.

A “tracker system” that includes electrical leads which are part of an implanted cardiotracker plus external equipment that includes external alarm and a physician's programmer. The tracker system is designed to monitor the degradation of a patient's cardiovascular condition from one or more causes, These causes include the rejection of a transplanted heart and / or the progression of a stenosis in a coronary artery. As one or more stenoses in a coronary artery become progressively more narrow thereby causing reduced blood flow to the heart muscle coronary circulation, the tracker system can alert the patient by either or both internal and / or external alarm to take the appropriate medical action. The physician's programmer can be used to display histograms of key heart signal parameters that are indicative of the patient's cardiovascular condition.

A foreign matter inspection apparatus, which enables more sufficient detection of foreign matter included in inspection objects, comprises: (1) a transparent drum having a cylindrical shape turning around a horizontal central axis; (2) an object supplying unit for supplying inspection objects to such a given region on the surface of the drum as will not cause the inspection objects to slide; (3) a first image capturing unit for imaging the inspection objects placed on a first imaging area included in the given region, such imaging being done from outside the drum; (4) a second image capturing unit for imaging the inspection objects placed on a second imaging area included in the given region, such imaging being done from inside the drum; and (5) an analyzing unit for analyzing existence / nonexistence of any foreign matter mingling with the inspection objects, such analysis being done on the basis of images captured by the first image capturing unit and the second image capturing unit.

A defective pixel detecting device determining defective pixels as correction targets in an imaging device that produces image signals is provided, and the device includes: defect information storage configured to store priority of defective pixels to be corrected; a defective pixel detector configured to detect defective pixels by comparing levels of imaging signals from the imaging device with a predetermined detection level; a priority setter configured to set priority of the detected defective pixels, based on the levels of the imaging signals of the defective pixels detected by the defective pixel detector; and a correction target determiner configured to newly determine defective pixels to be corrected based on the priority of the defective pixels out of the defective pixels that are currently detected by the defective pixel detector and the defective pixels to be corrected stored in the defect information storage, determining priority of the newly determined defective pixels to be corrected, and storing the priority of the newly determined defective pixels to be corrected in the defect information storage.

The engine misfire detection process according to one aspect of the invention first makes tentative detection on the occurrence or the non-occurrence of an engine misfire in execution of both vibration control and rotation speed control. In response to the tentative detection of an engine misfire, the engine misfire detection process subsequently makes final detection on the occurrence or the non-occurrence of an engine misfire. In the event of no final detection of an engine misfire, the engine misfire detection process makes tentative detection and final detection on the occurrence or the non-occurrence of an engine misfire in prohibition of the vibration control. In the event of still no final detection of an engine misfire, the engine misfire detection process makes tentative detection and final detection on the occurrence or the non-occurrence of an engine misfire in further prohibition of the rotation speed control. Even in the event of no final detection of an engine misfire in execution of both the vibration control and the rotation speed control, the procedure of the invention makes final detection on the occurrence or the non-occurrence of an engine misfire in prohibition of execution of the vibration control and further the rotation speed control. This arrangement desirably increases the detection frequency of engine misfires.

Alignment patterns are formed in scribe regions of a semiconductor substrate, and through grooves for exposing the scribe regions are disposed in an insulating layer formed on the semiconductor substrate. Formation positions of wiring patterns are aligned based on the alignment patterns, and a metal layer is patterned and the wiring patterns are formed.

In a liquid crystal display apparatus (1) including a touch panel, a liquid crystal panel (display portion) (2) having a plurality of pixels, and a backlight device (backlight portion) (3) that irradiates the liquid crystal panel (2) with illumination light, the touch panel includes optical sensors (25) that are provided in pixel units and that detect infrared light. Furthermore, the backlight device (3) includes white light-emitting diodes (first light-emitting diode portion) (26) which can emit white light, infrared light-emitting diodes (second light-emitting diode portion) (27) which emit infrared light, and a substrate (28) on which the white light-emitting diodes (26) and the infrared light-emitting diodes (27) are integrally provided.

The disclosure describes an absorption spectroscopy method for sensing hydrogen gas in a sample atmosphere and an associated hydrogen sensor. A light beam, having a wavelength corresponding to a vibrational transition of hydrogen molecules from a ground vibration state to any excited rotational vibration state via a quadrupole interaction, is introduced into an optical cavity adapted to receive a sample atmosphere to be tested for the presence of hydrogen gas. The light is introduced into the cavity in an off-axis alignment to systematically eliminate cavity resonances, while preserving the absorption signal amplifying properties of such cavities. Hydrogen absorption is measured is terms of cavity output, as in the ICOS technique.

An optical panel having an image-forming function is disposed in parallel with a virtual horizontal plane so that the optical axis thereof is orthogonal to the virtual horizontal plane. A flat panel display is disposed in offset relation below the optical panel such that a display surface of the flat panel display is inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to the virtual horizontal plane and faces upward. A light source for projecting light toward a hand, and a camera for imaging the reflection of the light from the hand are provided below or above a spatial image image-formed above the optical panel. This provides a user interface display device which does not include structure serving as an obstacle to manipulation around the spatial image projected in space to achieve an interaction with the spatial image by using the hand of the operator in a natural manner.

Upon incompletion of abnormality detection of an air-fuel ratio sensor provided in an exhaust pipe of an engine during operation of the engine (steps S310 and S320), when the state of charge SOC of a battery is lower than a preset reference charge level Sref or when the accelerator opening Acc is not less than a preset reference opening Aref (steps S330 and S340), the abnormality detection is not performed (step S350). When the state of charge SOC of the battery is not lower than the preset reference charge level Sref and when the accelerator opening Acc is less than the preset reference opening Aref (steps S330 and S340), the abnormality detection is performed to identify abnormality or normality of the air-fuel ratio sensor based on an air fuel ratio AF output from the air-fuel ratio sensor (steps S360 to S420). The drive control cuts off a fuel supply to the engine, controls a motor to enable motoring of the engine, and ensures output of a torque demand to a driveshaft, while the abnormality detection is performed.

A pre-smoke detector and system for use in early detection of developing fires whereby vapors of marker chemicals generated during the melting and / or smoldering of common household materials are detected before detection by conventional smoke detectors. Vapors resulting from heating and resultant vaporization of substances are detected as well as vapors resulting from their breakdown, decomposition, or pyrolysis during the pre-combustion stage. Conventional smoke detectors focus on particle detection and are most effective after a developing fire has produced smoke. To minimize false alarms caused by common household odors, the pre-smoke detectors focus on detecting medium temperature pyrolysis products using sensor coatings that can be consistent with a 10 year operational lifetime and multiple orthogonal detection processes. Since virtually all marker chemicals of interest for pre-smoke detection are heavier than air, a system is described that appropriately integrates with smoke detector alarm systems present in most homes.

A pre-smoke detector and system for use in the early detection of developing fires whereby vapors of marker chemicals generated during the melting and / or smoldering of common household materials are detected before detection by conventional smoke detectors. Vapors resulting from the heating and resultant vaporization of substances are detected as well as vapors resulting from their breakdown, decomposition, or pyrolysis during the pre-combustion stage. Conventional smoke detectors focus on particle detection and are most effective after a developing fire has produced smoke. To minimize false alarms caused by common household odors, the pre-smoke detectors focus on detecting medium temperature pyrolysis products using sensor coatings that can be consistent with a 10 year operational lifetime and multiple orthogonal detection processes. Since virtually all marker chemicals of interest for pre-smoke detection are heavier than air, a system is described that appropriately integrates with smoke detector alarm systems present in most homes.

The intensities of horizontal and vertical edges of each block of luminance signals of an image are measured, and horizontal and vertical edge intensity data of respective blocks are stored for one frame in an edge intensity mapping memory. A noise removal flag used to specify a filtering block is calculated based on the edge intensity data, and is stored in a noise removal flag mapping memory. A filter controller controls whether or not to apply filtering processing to each block, specified by this noise removal flag, of the current frame of the image based on the horizontal and vertical edge intensity data of that block of the current frame and those of the corresponding block of the immediately preceding frame.

A road lane marker detection apparatus includes an imaging portion that captures an image of the road surface such that a first road lane marker and a second road lane marker are captured in the image; a feature point obtaining portion that obtains feature points of the road lane markers; a storing portion that stores the feature points obtained; and a lane marker detecting portion that detects the road lane markers. The storing portion includes a first storage area in which the feature points of the first road lane marker are stored and a second storage area in which the feature points of the second road lane marker are stored. The number of feature points able to be stored in the first storage area and the number of feature points able to be stored in the second storage area are set independently of one another.

An image processing method in which a video signal is processed to detect a conspicuous area which is thought that a camera person intends to shoot, the method includes the steps of: detecting a motion vector in each portion of the video signal; detecting a representative value that represents a motion in two places in an outer part of a screen; detecting a motion component caused by zooming operations from the representative value; detecting a conspicuous degree by zooming in which a motion component caused by zooming operations is detected in each portion of the video signal based on the motion component caused by zooming operations; correcting a motion vector; detecting a motion component caused by making a pan and tilt from the representative value; detecting a conspicuous degree caused by making a pan and tilt; and detecting a total conspicuous degree.

The engine misfire detection apparatus of the invention successively determines whether a rotational fluctuation difference Nxd360 as a difference between a rotational fluctuation Nxd at a certain crank angle CA of an engine and a rotational fluctuation Nxd at a 360 degree-prior crank angle CA exceeds a predetermined reference value A1 (step S150) and whether a rotational fluctuation difference Nxd720 as a difference between the rotational fluctuation Nxd at the certain crank angle CA and a rotational fluctuation Nxd at a 720 degree-prior crank angle CA exceeds a predetermined reference value B1 (step S160). The engine misfire detection apparatus detects a misfire of the engine upon satisfaction of all conditions regarding rotational fluctuation difference proportions Nja2, Nja3, and Nja4 on the basis of the rotational fluctuation difference Nxd360 (step S200) and all conditions regarding rotational fluctuation difference proportions Njb2, Njb3, and Njb4 on the basis of the rotational fluctuation difference Nxd720 (step S210), when both the rotational fluctuation differences Nxd360 and Nxd720 exceed the respective reference values A1 and B1 (steps S150 and S160). This arrangement ensures adequate and accurate detection of an engine misfire during warm-up of a catalyst included in an exhaust emission control unit with a significant delay of the ignition timing in the engine.

A flow regulating valve (11), which has a valve disk (11b) operably disposed in a flow channel and is capable of regulating the flow of fluid according to the valve opening degree of the valve disk (11b), is characterized by comprising a stress detecting means (13) for detecting the flow-channel-direction force component of a load applied to the valve disk by the fluid, and a valve opening degree detecting means (12) for detecting the degree of opening of the valve disk. The flow rate calculating means (14) finds the flow rate (Qm) from the stress (fm) obtained from the stress detecting means and from the valve opening degree (θm) obtained from the valve opening degree detecting means. A control means (15) controls a valve disk driving means (18) on the basis of the flow rate to drive the valve disk for opening and closing. This makes it possible to find the flow rate with higher sensitivity and accuracy than in the prior art, the construction being compact and simple, providing stabilized data.

The present provides optical sensor based sensitive, label-free binding assay methods and kits for isothermal real-time detection of the binding of specific analytes (such as nucleic acids, proteins and low molecular weight antigenic or receptor binding ligands) present in low amount in different biological samples. In the binding assays of the invention, the analyte is captured at the specifically pretreated solid surface of optical biosensors in specific recognition reactions (such as hybridization, specific protein-protein interactions and receptor-ligand interactions). The specificity of the methods of the invention is further enhanced by a second specific recognition step using a padlock probe comprising an indicator sequence designed to keep the products of a subsequently performed isothermal nucleic acid amplification method (e.g. rolling circle amplification: RCA) anchored on the sensor surface, enhancing thereby the sensitivity of the detection of the specific binding of the analyte occurred on the sensor surface.

An image formation apparatus includes a toner cartridge, a toner-amount detector configured to detect a toner amount in the toner cartridge, a display unit, and an analyzer. The analyzer is configured to make the display unit display a used condition of the image formation apparatus when the image formation apparatus is in a small-amount mode where the toner amount is smaller than a threshold.

A laser radar apparatus that includes a rotating mirror is provided. The rotating mirror has a reflective area that reflects outgoing laser light. A flat reflective surface that forms a flat planar shape is formed in a center portion of the reflective area. A sloped reflective surface is formed in a peripheral portion of the center portion of the reflective area, the sloped reflective surface spreading the outgoing laser light incident on the peripheral portion to a periphery of an optical axis of outgoing laser light emitted from the flat reflective surface.

A monitoring device for a motor-driven door with a door controller for detecting a crash of a moving object with the door and for communicating information as to whether a crash has occurred to the door controller, wherein the monitoring device is equipped with at least one sensor for monitoring movement, shaking and / or vibration of the door in a Z axis, which sensor is disposed in and / or on the door leaf of the door, and wherein there is provided an analyzer unit, which is designed as an analyzer unit that analyzes the signals of the sensor and transmits an information stream to the door controller.