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In a first display mode, a common image function component is displayed to occupy at least a part of a display region of a second specific image function component. In a second display mode, the common image function component is continuously displayed outside the second specific image function component to avoid the overlap therebetween (i.e., such that an exclusive positional relationship is made therebetween). When the display mode is switched, a final transition of the display mode to a display state in the second display mode is made while or after a moving image showing a transition process, in which the common image function component is moved from a display position in the first display mode to a display position in the second display mode, is displayed as a mode transition animation.

An absorbent paper sheet is treated with an aqueous wax dispersion such that the sheet includes a fused wax and emulsifier residue in an amount of from about 1 to about 20 weight percent of the sheet based on the combined weight of the fiber, wax residue and an emulsifier residue in the sheet. The fused wax emulsion operates to make at least one surface of the sheet laterally hydrophobic, exhibiting a moisture penetration delay of at least about 2 seconds and less than about 40 seconds as well as a typical contact angle with water at one minute of at least about 50 degrees. There is thus provided absorbent products which exhibit both absorbency and resistance to moisture penetration. The treated sheet further exhibits microbial barrier properties, impeding transfer of bacteria, for example, through the sheet. There are produced tissue products which resist moisture penetration from propelled liquids as well as sequester sorbed liquids in the interior of the tissue.

An electric power steering system is provided which is capable of providing a favorable steering feeling without using compensation logics such as of inertia compensation and friction compensation. The electric power steering system includes road-noise suppression control means (213) for controlling a steering assist motor (9) in a manner to damp torque transmission in a higher frequency region representing road noises than a frequency region representing road information. A friction value of a steering mechanism (A) is decreased enough to allow the intrinsic vibrations of the steering mechanism (A) to appear. Rotor inertia of the steering assist motor (9) is set to a value small enough to allow the frequencies of the intrinsic vibrations to be present in the frequency region where the torque transmission is damped by the road-noise suppression control means (213).

Information that is no longer valid due to the passage of time is not provided to a user. When a stock price information server acquires updated stock price information from a securities market network, a message that instructs that a predetermined application be started up and to which a term of validity has been attached is sent to a user terminal over a paging channel via an SMS server. When the user terminal receives the message, it determines whether or not the message is within the term of validity, and if it determines that the message is within the term of validity, starts up the instructed application from among a plurality of applications that are stored. The stock price information server then sends to the user terminal the stock price information that is requested by the started up application.

Disclosed are nutritional compositions having a solid crisp matrix, or a flour derived from the solid crisp matrix, said matrix comprising (A) from about 10% to about 50% by weight of a soluble viscous fiber, preferably guar; (B) from about 10% to about 99% by weight of a carbohydrate other than and in addition to the soluble viscous fiber; and (C) from about 1% to about 49% by weight of protein, wherein the matrix has a bulk density of less than about 0.4 g/cc. It has been found that soluble viscous fiber sources such as guar gum can be formulated into a solid crisp matrix, which then minimizes several limitations commonly associated with the formulation of such fiber sources into a conventional nutrition bar, e.g. slimy mouthfeel, tooth packing. These compositions are especially effective when formulated with gelled inclusions, including those containing or associated with acidulants, sour flavorants, or both. The nutritional compositions are especially useful as satiety agents, weight reduction agents, and/or for blunting the postprandial glycemic response in diabetics or other individuals in whom such a response would be beneficial.

Lateral displacement reference positions LXL, LXR are set on left and right from a center in a width direction of a traffic lane L where a vehicle travels. Then, at least in a case where the vehicle is positioned on an inner side of the left and right lateral displacement reference position LXL, LXR, the vehicle is feedback-controlled so as to decrease a yaw angle deviation. Further, in a case where the vehicle is positioned at an outer side of the left and right lateral displacement reference position LXL, LXR with respect to the traffic lane center, the feedback control is performed so as to decrease the angle deviation and a lateral displacement deviation.

A cervical spine fixator and a screwdriver used therefore is disclosed wherein the fixator comprises plates (12, 212) for being adjoined to a cervical spine fixation region and a plurality of screws (14, 214). The plurality of screws are fixedly inserted into a patient's cervical spine and simultaneously coupled to the plates, wherein an adjacent region coupled with the screws in the plates is fixed with screw head fixture members (16, 216) having a protruder, which is deformed under the effect of pressure by a screw head when the screws are inserted and returns to their position of origin when the screw head is completely accommodated into the plates to be hitched by the screw head. The plates are formed thereon with receiving grooves (22, 222) for accommodating the screw head and the screw head fixture member. The receiving grooves are formed with openings into which the screws are inserted and a recess into which the screw head is received. The screw (214) formed with a groove of concaved curvature is installed or removed by a screwdriver (230) formed with a protruder of convex curvature, such that it is easy to manufacture, and the thickness of the plates is reduced, thus eliminating the feeling of a foreign substance after a surgical operation.

An image apparatus, including a main optical system that captures a first image, a sub optical system that captures a second image to assist capturing the first image, a display device that displays the first image and the second image in a live view, and a signal processor that controls at least one of a frame rate of the first image from the main optical system and a frame rate of the second image from the sub optical system. The signal processor controls the frame rate of the first image data and the second image data such that the first and second frame rates become the same, and the display device displays the first image and the second image on the display device.

To provide a swallowing-assistive drink for medicines that improves swallowing various medicines, is convenient and substitutable with ordinary drinking water, and does not disturb the efficacy of medicines and a swallowing method.A swallowing-assistive drink for helping swallowing medicines that contains water and an adhesive paste, forming a viscous liquid or a gelatinoid. If the drink is viscous liquid, the viscosity is 1,000-25,000 cP at 20° C., and if the drink is gelatinous, jelly strength is 10-100 g/cm2 at 20° C.

A digital zoom rate of two-dimensional images zoomed by a digital zoom unit is obtained. When the obtained digital zoom rate is larger than 100%, at least one of the digitally zoomed two-dimensional images is modified based on an enlarged amount of parallax to provide an amount of parallax between the digitally zoomed two-dimensional images equal to the enlarged amount of parallax. The enlarged amount of parallax is obtained by enlarging, at a moderated digital zoom rate, an amount of parallax between the two-dimensional images before being digitally zoomed, and the moderated digital zoom rate is obtained by moderating the digital zoom rate at a moderation rate, where the moderation rate increases as the zoom rate increases. Then, a display unit is caused to carry out three-dimensional display based on the modified two-dimensional images.

A personal digital unit includes an image display together with a software-driven processor for managing the display. The display also includes a writing input capability. The display is divided into a more comprehensive window and a less comprehensive writing window. A locator rectangle is added to the image within the more comprehensive window and corresponds in proportionate position and size to the location and size of the writing window within the virtual page of the display.

The conductive sheet according to the present invention includes a base and a conductive portion that is formed on at least one main surface of the base and is formed from a plurality of thin metal wires, where a mesh pattern in which different mesh shapes are arrayed in plan view is formed by the conductive portion, and the mesh pattern is configured such that, in a power spectrum of a two-dimensional distribution of centroid positions of the mesh shapes, an average intensity on a higher spatial frequency band side than a predetermined spatial frequency is larger than an average intensity on a lower spatial frequency band side than the predetermined spatial frequency. The conductive sheet can reduce the granular feeling of noise due to pattern which the conductive sheet has and greatly improve the visibility of an object for observation.

A skin care sheet comprising a nonwoven fabric; the nonwoven fabric having a break elongation of at least 250%; the nonwoven fabric comprising an embossed section and a non-embossed section defined by the embossed section, the non-embossed pattern having a pitch of 1.2 to 10.0 mm; a proportion of a total area of the embossed section occupying from 5 to 30% of a total area of the nonwoven fabric on at least one surface of the nonwoven fabric; fibers present in the nonwoven fabric having a number-average fiber diameter of 0.1 to 15.0 μm; and the fibers containing a resin having a flexural modulus of 0.5 GPa or less, as well as a skin care article comprising the sheet, are provided.

A dust collection unit for a vacuum cleaner includes a dust collection container for collecting foreign objects contained in air introduced therein, covers defining a top and bottom of the dust collection container, and a filter-cleaning unit having a plurality of brushes rotating around the porous filter unit to remove the foreign objects clogging the outer surface of the porous filter unit.

A walking aid apparatus comprising a sitting member which a user sits astride and leg links each coupled to a connection provided on the undersurface of the sitting member in such a way as to be free to swing in the forward/backward direction, which improves the stability of the sitting member. The connection is adapted in such a way that a forward/backward swinging fulcrum of the leg links is located above the sitting member. More specifically, the connection is provided with an arc-shaped guide track longitudinal in the forward/backward direction and having the center of curvature above the sitting member, so that each of the leg links swings along the guide track in the forward/backward direction. If the leg links are allowed to swing freely also in the lateral direction, preferably the lateral swinging fulcrum of the leg links is also located above the sitting member.

An apparatus includes a steering assist torque determination unit and a steering assist torque control unit. The steering assist torque determination unit determines a steering assist torque including a first component that is determined on the basis of a deviation between an actual steering angle and a target steering angle for achieving a target path determined irrespective of driver's steering. The steering assist torque control unit controls a steering assist mechanism such that the steering assist torque is applied. The ratio of the magnitude of the first component of the steering assist torque to the deviation between the target steering angle and the actual steering angle is determined on the basis of the magnitude of the deviation between the steering assist torque and the driver's steering torque in a past predetermined period.

A notification-purpose user state managing apparatus, a notification controlling apparatus, an information notification apparatus, an information notification system and an information notification method capable of reducing an unpleasant feeling and a burden and encouraging a user to recognize information are provided. The information notification system includes a notification-purpose user state managing apparatus including user's internal state assuming means for assuming a user's internal state based on an observable state element and user's notification utility assuming means for assuming utility to a user receiving information when information is notified based on the user's internal state; and a notification controlling apparatus including notification executing means for determining whether or not information is notified based on the utility and notifying information based on the determination. Whether notified information is renotified is determined based on the result of assumption of user's information recognizability, whereby it is not necessarily required to use a specified user's reaction indicating that information has been received, and whether information has been received is assumed, and if it is determined that information has not been received, notified information is renotified, whereby a possibility that the user recognizes information can be increased.

The present invention provides a glove that can reduce a humid feeling during usage while realizing a grip force, usability, workability, and breathability. The glove of the present invention includes a hand-shaped base layer (2a, 2b) made of fibers having a stretching property, a coating (3a, 3b) formed on the surface of the base layer (2a, 2b), at least on the surface of a palm of the base layer, and a plurality of breathing pores (4a, 4b) formed in the coating (3a, 3b), wherein the opening areas of the breathing pores (4b) when the glove is worn are larger than the opening areas of the breathing pores (4a) when the glove is not worn.

There are provided a high-order current distortion compensator which uses rotational position information on an electric motor and a target current value of the electric motor for deciding a compensation value for current high-order-component for canceling torque ripple caused by predetermined high-order components of a current flowing through the motor, and a correction portion which corrects the target current value by using the compensation value supplied from the high-order current distortion compensator. A feedback controller provides feedback control of the electric motor based on the target current value corrected by the correction portion. Thus is suppressed the torque ripple caused by the predetermined high-order components, whereby the degradation of steering feeling is reduced.