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Photographing apparatus having a plurality of photographic optical systems, comprises: an attitude detecting device which detects an attitude of the apparatus body; a physical relationship information obtaining device which obtains information on physical relationship among the photographic optical systems setting; and a shooting direction information obtaining device which obtains information on the shooting direction of each of the photographic optical systems. The images photographed by each of the photographic optical systems may be corrected based on information on the attitude of the apparatus body, information on the physical relationship among the photographic optical systems, and information on the shooting direction of each of the photographic optical systems. Thereby it enables to easily correct tilt and the like of the images.

A color information creating part calculates the average color of captured image data in units of macro blocks, and determines to which color index the average color of each macro block corresponds. Color arrangement information formed by associating color information with the macro blocks is stored in a color index memory. A histogram creating part creates color histograms representative of the distribution of macro blocks added with color information corresponding to aimed color indexes. Based on the color arrangement information and the color histograms, a color application execution part recognizes objects, surroundings, or the situation of a driver's own vehicle without performing area splitting (shape acquisition) of an image.

A method for quantitatively measuring nucleic acid amplification reactions, especially the polymerase chain reaction, employing microparticles as hybridization solid phase, a probe sequence labeled with a fluorescent label and a fluorescence detection system which is based on two-photon fluorescence excitation, contacting all the amplification reaction components and the solid phase simultaneously in a closed cuvette, performing the amplification reactions in the same cuvette, focusing a two-photon exciting laser beam into the cuvette during the amplification cycles and measuring the fluorescence signal emitted by the microparticles from one particle at a time when they randomly float through the focal volume of the laser beam. The features of this invention allow a method and device for performing a fast quantitative nucleic acid amplification assay of single or multiple target sequences in a very small closed sample volume.

A solid state storage system includes a controller configured to divide memory blocks of a flash memory area into first blocks and second blocks corresponding to the first blocks, newly allocates pages of the second blocks when an external write command is requested. The controller is also configured to allocate selected sectors in the allocated pages according to sector addresses and execute a write command.

The invention provides an ID chip with reduced cost, increased impact resistance and attractive design, as well as products and the like mounting the ID chip and a manufacturing method thereof. In view of the foregoing, an integrated circuit having a semiconductor film with a thickness of 0.2 μm or less is mounted on securities including bills, belongings, containers of food and drink, and the like (hereinafter referred to as products and the like). The ID chip of the invention can be reduced in cost and increased in impact resistance as compared with a chip formed over a silicon wafer while maintaining an attractive design.

A dew condensation sensor is described, including a nano-composite for generating local surface plasmon resonance, a light reflecting member disposed on one side of the nano-composite, a protection layer laminated on the light reflecting member, a light source/light receiver disposed facing the nano-composite, a spectroscope (or photo-detector) for detecting the light reflected by the light source/light receiver, a controller connected to the light source/light receiver and the spectroscope (or photo-detector) and used for overall control thereof, and a display unit connected to the controller. The dew condensation sensor detects occurrence of dew condensation based on the variation in the absorption spectrum, the absorption intensity or the reflected-light intensity of the local surface plasmon resonance of the nano-composite.

The invention relates to electronic equipment. The equipment includes camera means for forming data from an object located in the imaging direction, in which case the said camera means include at least two camera units (CAM1, CAM2) and data-processing means, which are arranged to process the data formed using the camera means, in a manner corresponding to the currently selected imaging mode, to form image information. In the equipment, the mutual position of the camera units (CAM1, CAM2) relative to each other is arranged to be altered to correspond to the current imaging mode.

A method for measuring the end point and for monitoring the real time kinetics of a bioaffinity reaction in biological fluids and suspensions, employing microparticles as bioaffinity binding solid phase, biospecific reagent labelled with a fluorescent label and a fluorescence detection system which is based on two-photon fluorescence excitation, contacting the analyte, the labelled reagent and the solid phase simultaneously, focusing a two-photon exciting laser beam into the reaction suspension and measuring the fluorescence signal emitted by the microparticles from one particle at a time when they randomly float through the focal volume of the laser beam. In this method the signal is monitored kinetically to obtain information about the analyte concentration before the reaction approaches the highest point of the response. Since the growth rate of the signal intensity is directly proportional to the analyte concentration, the analyte concentration can be predicted in the initial phase of the reaction. The growth rate monitoring also predicts whether the analyte concentration is higher than the binding capacity of the reagent and whether the reaction will be continued over the highest point of the response curve.

A method of detecting and localizing a source of partial discharge in an electrical apparatus placed in an enclosure containing an acoustically-conductive fluid. The method consists in:

• • positioning (31) acoustic detectors and acquiring the positions of the detectors;
  • defining (35) groups of detectors, each group including at least three detectors;
  • ensuring (37) that each group is free from any triangle having vertices embodied by three detectors in which at least one angle lies outside a range of angles, and otherwise eliminating the group;
  • for each non-eliminated group, calculating (38) an approximate position for the source;
  • ensuring (39) that each non-eliminated group is free from any triangle having vertices embodied by two detectors of the group and by the approximate position, including at least one angle that lies outside the range, and otherwise eliminating the group; and
  • calculating (43) the looked-for position of the source by averaging the approximate positions of all or some of the non-eliminated groups.

A culturing apparatus has a culture vessel having a first elastic seal bonded on its upper face and a culture space formed thereon, and a joint having supplying means for supplying solution such as a medium to this culture vessel and a second elastic seal having microprojection formed at the lower face. The first elastic seal has a valve for supplying or discharging solution. The second elastic seal is formed with microprojection at the position corresponding to a valve for preventing a spill. The culture vessel and the joint are sucked by the adsorbing means between the first elastic seal and the second elastic seal, thereby forming an integral seeding device.

An inter-base station frame synchronization system for use in a mobile communication system includes at least one master base station and a plurality of slave base stations. The master base station is provided with time information receiving means for receiving time information with high precision externally supplied, reference frame timing generation means for generating a reference frame timing on the basis of the time information, and first control channel signal transmission means for transmitting a control channel signal to the slave base stations in synchronism with the reference frame timing. Each of the slave base stations is provided with its own station frame timing generation means for generating an its own station frame timing on the basis of the reception timing of one of the control channel signals transmitted from the master base station and other slave base stations, and second control channel signal transmission means for transmitting a control channel signal in synchronism with the its own station frame timing.

A liquid crystal module (1) includes a transparent panel (2) having a frame (3) projecting substantially perpendicularly from one surface thereof. The module also includes a flat panel display unit having a liquid crystal cell (6), a liquid crystal back light (7), and a liquid crystal back light unit (8), for example. The module further includes a flat sensor (9), such as a thin digitizer (a coordinate position inputting sensor). The frame is configured such that the flat panel display unit and the flat sensor can be readily housed and secured within a housing portion inside the frame.

A self-contained multi-function system for preparing mail items, the system comprising a general-purpose computer for preparing a document to be sent and for preparing secure postage metering or "franking" information, a digital imaging device connected to the general-purpose computer so as to print both the document to be sent, and at least a destination address for the document but not the postage imprint on an envelope that is to receive the document, and a folder/inserter connected both to the digital imaging device and to the general-purpose computer so as to receive and fold the printed document, and, once the document has been inserted in the envelope, so as to affix the postage imprint selectively by performing a write operation in a writable microcircuit of an electronic tag carried by the envelope or by the document. The digital imaging device may further include an optical read module for making it possible to digitize documents inserted directly into the digital imaging device, and a fax-sending module for enabling documents that have been previously digitized by the optical read module to be transmitted directly over a communications network.

The present invention is directed to a microfluidic biochip based on an agglutination reaction that is frequently used in qualitative typing in the diagnostic medicine field by realizing a specimen inlet, a reagent inlet, a split microchannel, transfer microchannels, a chaos micromixer, a reaction microchamber, a microfilter, a passive microvalve, and an outlet on a plastic microchip. Particularly, the biochip of the present invention is characterized in that portability thereof is superior and a small amount (about 1 μl) of each of a specimen and a reagent is used. In addition, the biochip of the present invention can be cheaply made through conventional photolithography, electroplating, injection molding, and bonding. Therefore, by utilizing the microfluidic biochip for blood typing according to the present invention, a point-of-care diagnosis for performing blood typing based on an agglutination reaction at any place becomes possible.

An apparatus comprises a controller for controlling operation of the apparatus and a switch for switchably coupling electrical power to the controller to enable the controller and apparatus to operate. The controller includes a module for controlling the switch to decouple electrical power from the apparatus, including the controller, and the apparatus further comprises a switch controller for controlling the switch to restore electrical power to the apparatus and controller a predetermined period of time after the switch decouples electrical power therefrom. The apparatus may be embodied in a line card of a communication system and the controller may comprise a control processor for controlling local operations of the line card.

An ink container capable of being simply mounted in a holder with a small working space includes a rib-like guide portion for determining a mounting path during mounting of the ink container in a head cartridge at a side surface. The head cartridge includes a holder portion provided with a sliding projection which slides in contact with the guide portion. When the ink container is mounted, a user moves the ink container so that a first inclined portion first contacts the sliding projection and thereafter the ink contained is moved in an obliquely below direction toward the head cartridge while sliding the sliding projection along the first inclined portion.

A novel spotlight where the position of image formation does not change even when the zoom adjustment is made after focus adjustment, so that focus adjustment and zoom adjustment can be facilitated. When a drive shaft (10) is rotated by operating a zoom adjustment handle (5), a lens (4a) moves forward and backward according to an unequal pitch (P1) of a first screw section (15), and a lens (4b) moves forward and backward according to an equal pitch (P2) of a second screw section (16), so that the distances between the lenses (4a-4c) are changed and zoom adjustment is made. Focusing adjusted by a focus adjustment mechanism (b) does not change even when the distances between the lenses are changed. Therefore, focus adjustment and zoom adjustment can be made extremely simply, and the spotlight can be used particularly useful in performance space such as TV studios and theater stages.

The synthesizing circuit inputs signals representing the brightness coefficient K2 and the brightness coefficient K3 from the multiplexer, and inputs the overscanned frame image data D1 in pixel units from the first latch circuit. When the start frame image read the third time and the after frame image read the first time are input simultaneously, the synthesizing circuit calculates the brightness coefficient K2 for the brightness value of the pixels of the start frame image, and calculates the brightness coefficient K3 for the brightness value of the pixel of the after frame image. Then, it synthesizes the pixels of the start frame image and the pixels of the after frame image for which the respective brightness coefficients were calculated, and generates the intermediate frame image data D2. As a result, it moving image flicker is suppressed using an easier method than in the past, and it is possible to realize smoother moving image display.

A method for the functional control of a position measuring system that includes placing a scanning unit at a position with respect to a graduation, generating a first scanning signal and a second scanning signal during the displacing, forming a first measured position value, P1, in accordance with a first linkage rule that involves the first scanning signal and the second scanning signal and forming a second measured position value, P2, in accordance with a second linkage rule that involves the first scanning signal and the second scanning signal, wherein the first linkage rule differs from the second linkage rule. Comparing the first measured position value, P1, with the second measured position value, P2, and generating an error signal as a result of the comparing.

An axle assembly is supplied capable of solving that troublesome mounting and dismantling works needing a wrench to screw fasten bolt. In the axle assembly, the present invention is to furnish nipping and holding member with collet shape on tubular body; to insert the nipping and holding member into penetrating hole of shaft mounting portion so as to shrink diameter; and to directly insert the tubular body into the penetrating hole. When moving fastening bar by operation of cam lever, both nipping and holding members nip and hold the shaft mounting portion. While dismantling, diameter shrinking part moves so as to make the nipping and holding member shrink diameter.