Canon Patente

Provided are a measurement method for a target substance using immunoturbidimetry and a reagent therefor. The method is for measuring a target substance in a specimen, the target substance being a protein having a molecular weight of 150 to 500 kDa, incorporated into the specimen at a concentration of 0.8 to 2.0 ng/mL. The method includes: mixing the specimen and a first reagent to provide a first solution; mixing the first solution and a second reagent, including a particle immobilized a ligand that binds to the target substance, to provide a second solution; and measuring the absorbance of the second solution. The concentration of the specimen in the second solution is 4.0 to 30.0 vol%, the mass ratio of the particle to the specimen in the second solution is 1:500 to 1:50, and an amount of change in absorbance per 1.0 ng/mL of the target substance is 0.0012 to 0.0100.

[PROBLEMS] To reduce a communication error caused by a disconnection of part of terminals when an accessory is attached [SOLUTION MEANS] An accessory (200) detachably attached to an electronic apparatus (100) includes a plurality of contacts (TA01 to TA21) electrically connectable to the electronic apparatus and arranged in a row in a first direction orthogonal to a direction in which the accessory is attached to the electronic apparatus, a first protrusion portion arranged at a position on one outer side of the plurality of contacts in the first direction, and a second protrusion portion arranged at a position on another outer side of the plurality of contacts in the first direction. The first protrusion portion and the second protrusion portion protrude in a direction orthogonal to the direction in which the accessory is attached to the electronic apparatus and the first direction. The plurality of contacts include an attachment detection contact (TA06) used to detect an attachment of the accessory to the electronic apparatus, and a communication request contact (TA11) used for a communication request from the accessory to the electronic apparatus. The attachment detection contact and the communication request contact are disposed between a contact closest to the first protrusion portion and a contact closest to the second protrusion portion in the first direction. The attachment detection contact is disposed between the communication request contact and the contact closest to the first protrusion portion. In the first direction, a distance between the attachment detection contact and the communication request contact is shorter than a distance between the communication request contact and the second protrusion portion.

There is described a method of decoding video data from a bitstream. The bitstream comprising video data corresponding to one or more slices. The decoding comprises parsing the syntax elements, and not permitting use of a subpicture and/or parsing of subpicture information in combination with at least one syntax element that indicates that a picture to be decoded contains only one slice. The bitstream is decoded using said syntax elements.

A photoelectric conversion device (100) includes an avalanche photodiode (201), an output holding circuit (230) configured to hold a light reception signal based on an output of the avalanche photodiode (201), a first logic circuit (241) to which the light reception signal held in the output holding circuit (230) and a first reference signal indicating a first weight amount are input, and a first accumulating circuit (251) configured to hold a first count value obtained by accumulating an output of the first logic circuit (241). The first accumulating circuit (251) resets the first count value for each first period. The first period is divided into a plurality of second periods. The first weight amount changes for each second period. The output holding circuit (230) resets the light reception signal for each second period.

An image forming apparatus includes a main assembly frame including a first frame and a second frame opposing the first frame, an image reader provided above the main assembly frame; an image processing board and a fan for cooling inside the image forming apparatus. A side of a space for accommodating a photosensitive drum to the first frame is an inside of the first frame and a side opposite to the side of the space to the first frame is an outside of the first frame. The image processing board is in the outside of the first frame. A part of the image processing board is above an upper end of the first frame and below a lower end of the image reader. At least a part of the fun is above the upper end of the first frame and below the lower end of the image reader.

An inspection apparatus includes receiving means for receiving an image to be registered as a reference image together with a job setting, reception means for receiving an inspection setting for the received reference image, storage means for storing an inspection setting in a storage device, and inspection means for, if a scan image obtained by scanning of a printed matter is received, inspecting the scan image based on the received inspection setting, if the job setting is a predetermined job setting, wherein the inspection apparatus executes inspection based on the inspection setting stored in the storage device without the reception means receiving the inspection setting.

Control method wherein a printer driver is installed in an information processing apparatus including a registry and a print queue. The registry stores a driver object and a printer object. The driver object is information about a printer driver. The printer object includes identification information of the printer driver. The print queue corresponds to the printer object. The control method comprises: requesting acquisition of information about the driver object and the printer object; storing the driver object corresponding to the printer driver; when information about the driver object fails to be acquired in response to the acquisition request, storing, in the registry, a first printer object and creating a first print queue; and when information about a second printer object having the identification information of the printer driver is acquired in response to the acquisition request, deleting the second printer object and a corresponding second print queue.

A slid member (304) includes a metal base (304a) having a surface on which base projection portions (405) are formed and a slid layer (304b). A height (H) of surface projection portions (406), which are formed with the base projection portions and the slid layer, is 230 µm or more. A diameter (d) of a tip area (405a) of the base projection portions is 400 µm or less. A rising angle (θ) of the base projection portions is from 35° to 80°. A center-to-center distance (W) between a center (405cX) of the base projection portion X (405X) and a center (405cY) of the base projection portion Y (405Y) is 1.2 or less. A relationship of W×1,000>d+2(H1/tanθ) is satisfied. A thickness (hA) of the slid layer of a tip area (406a) is larger than a thickness (hB) of the slid layer coating a flat portion (407) between the base projection portions.

The present disclosure provides a piezoelectric element (10) including upper and lower electrodes (102, 106) and a piezoelectric layer (104) provided on a base substrate and an insulation layer (108) covering at least the base substrate, the upper and lower electrodes, and the piezoelectric layer. The piezoelectric layer's longitudinal cross section has a tapered shape wider at the lower electrode side than at the upper electrode side. A side surface of the piezoelectric layer has a step surface parallel to the lower electrode, a first side surface from the step surface to the lower electrode, and a second side surface from the step surface to the piezoelectric layer's upper surface. An angle θ₁ between the step surface and the first side surface exceeds 135°. An angle θ₂ between the second side surface and an imaginary plane extended from the step surface and parallel to the lower electrode is 45° or more and less than 75°.

To allow for printing on print media with pre-formed wrinkles a printer (1) is provided, which comprises :- a print assembly (2) which prints on a portion of a print medium (60, 70) at a print zone;- a transport mechanism (13) for moving the print medium (60, 70) with respect to the print assembly (2) in a first direction (X); and- a suction assembly (20) comprising:- a plurality of suction chambers (21-25), wherein at least one suction chamber (21-25) faces a print zone, and at least one other suction chamber (21-25) is arranged upstream and/or downstream of the print zone facing suction chamber (23) in the first direction (X), characterized in that the suction assembly (20) further comprises suction reduction means (51-52) configured to selectively prevent or reduce suction in the at least one other suction chamber (21-25).

The disclosure regards cross-component prediction and methods for deriving of a linear model for obtaining a first-component sample for a first-component block from an associated reconstructed second-component sample of a second-component block in the same frame, the method comprising determining the parameters of a linear equation representing a straight line passing through two points, each point being defined by two variables, the first variable corresponding to a second-component sample value, the second variable corresponding to a first-component sample value, based on reconstructed samples of both the first-component and the second-component; and deriving the linear model defined by the straight line parameters.

An image reading apparatus for reading image information from a sheet includes a cover unit, a sheet feeding member, a conveying guide, and a reading unit including a transparent member and a reading portion. The cover unit is rotatable between a closed position where the cover unit forms a sheet conveying passage in cooperation with the conveying guide and an open position where the sheet conveying passage is open. In a state in which the cover unit is positioned in the closed position, the transparent member is exposed to an outside of the image reading apparatus by rotation of the conveying guide and the reading unit.

In a case where an electrode-equipped button battery and a button battery socket are mutually exclusively mounted on a printed circuit board, a pattern prohibition region of one component is not overlapped with a mounting pattern of the other component, and outer shape regions of the two components are at least partially overlapped with each other on the printed circuit board.

Provided are a particle for immunoturbidimetry, a reagent, a test kit, and a method of detecting a target substance that can each detect a trace component in a low-concentration region and improve storage stability. The particle for immunoturbidimetry is a particle for immunoturbidimetry including a first resin and titanium oxide, wherein the particle for immunoturbidimetry includes a first layer containing the first resin and a second layer containing the titanium oxide, wherein the second layer is arranged outside of the first layer, wherein the titanium oxide has a density of 3.40 g/cm³ or less, and wherein a content of the titanium oxide in the particle for immunoturbidimetry is 10 mass% or more and 80 mass% or less.

A heating member includes a substrate, a first heat generating element, a second heat generating element, and a third heat generating element. A combined resistance of the first heat generating element and the second heat generating element is smaller than a resistance of the third heat generating element. Along a longitudinal direction of the substrate, the third heat generating element includes a first portion having a length shorter than respective lengths of the first and second heat generating elements, and includes a second portion and a third portion on mutually opposite longitudinal sides of the first portion, each of the second and third portions having a lower resistance of the first portion. The second portion, the first portion, and the third portion are connected in series with each other in this order.

An electronic apparatus (100) attachable to an accessory (200) includes a first processing unit (101) that can communicate with the accessory and receive accessory information by a first communication method, and a second processing unit (102) communicable with the accessory by a second communication method based on the accessory information. The electronic apparatus has a first power state and a second power state in which power is lower than that of the first power state. The first processing unit communicates with the accessory by the first communication method in the first power state and the second power state. The second processing unit communicates with the accessory by the second communication method in the first power state, but does not in the second power state.

A detection apparatus is configured to detect vibration of a subject. The detection apparatus includes a diaphragm (206) configured to deform in response to vibration of the subject, a housing (208) including the diaphragm, and a grip (120) extending in a longitudinal direction, the grip being joined to the housing so as to be pivotable relative to the housing about a rotation axis that extends in a direction intersecting the longitudinal direction. An outer surface of the grip includes a flat surface that, when viewed in a direction normal to the diaphragm, is positioned so as to overlap the diaphragm.

A detection apparatus is configured to detect vibration of a subject. The detection apparatus includes a diaphragm (206) configured to be displaced in response to vibration of the subject, a light emitter (202) configured to emit light toward the diaphragm, a photodetector (204) configured to receive light reflected by the diaphragm and generate a signal corresponding to the reflected light, a casing (208) configured to internally house the light emitter and the photodetector, and a grip (120) configured to rotate about a rotation shaft (1001b) relative to the casing, the grip including a portion grippable by a user. The light emitter and the photodetector are respectively arranged at one end and another end of the casing with respect to an axial direction of the rotation shaft.

A printing apparatus (101) includes: an ejection unit (110) configured to perform a print operation of forming an image on a print medium (103) by ejecting liquid from an ejection port by using drive of an ejection energy generation element (423) provided in a pressure chamber (424), the liquid flowing into the pressure chamber from a first flow passage (431); a sensor (S1-S9) configured to detect temperature of the ejection unit; a circulation unit (408) configured to circulate the liquid in a circulation flow passage including the first flow passage, the pressure chamber, and a second flow passage (432) configured to allow the liquid in the pressure chamber to flow to an outside of the pressure chamber; a recovery unit (210) configured to performs a cleaning operation of the ejection unit; and a control unit (301) configured to set wait time from completion of the print operation to execution of the cleaning operation depending on the temperature of the ejection unit detected by the sensor, and to execute the cleaning operation by the recovery unit in the case where elapsed time from the completion of the print operation exceeds the wait time.

A measurement method includes measuring fluorescent light emitted from fluorescent dyes of each of a plurality of fine particles that are bound with the fluorescent dyes, and measuring reference light emitted from each of the plurality of fine particles, using a plurality of solutions in which the plurality of fine particles are dispersed, acquiring, for each of the plurality of solutions, a ratio of particles for which both the fluorescent light from the fluorescent dyes and the reference light are detected in the plurality of fine particles, and acquiring a minimum number of fluorescent dyes detectable by a measurement apparatus (1000), based on the ratio for each of the plurality of solutions.

A developing unit (20Y, 20M, 20C, 20K) includes a rotatable developing member (11), a magnet (12), and a duct portion (70) including a suction port (74), a first duct wall (72) and a second duct wall (71). P1 is located downstream of P2 and upstream of P3. P1 is a point at which a line connecting the rotation center of the rotatable developing member (11) and a distal end (72c) of the first duct wall (72) intersects the outer peripheral surface of the rotatable developing member (11). Fθ≥0 is satisfied over a range from P1 to P3 in the rotation direction of the rotatable developing member (11). Fθ is a magnetic force in a tangential direction with respect to the outer peripheral surface of the rotatable developing member (11) in a magnetic force acting on the carrier on the outer peripheral surface of the rotatable developing member (11).

A resin mixture which includes a resin of a recycled material or a resin of a virgin material and carbon black added to the resin and can make a biaxially oriented molded article by a stretch blow molding method. A resin mixture includes a binder resin, carbon black and a compound having a carbodiimide group. The mass of the carbon black is 1.0 part by mass or more and 20.0 parts by mass or less, and the mass of the compound having a carbodiimide group is 3.0 parts by mass or more and 64.0 parts by mass or less, based on 100 parts by mass of the binder resin.

A measurement method includes measuring fluorescent light emitted from fluorescent dyes (2002) of each of a plurality of fine particles (2001) that are bound with the fluorescent dyes, and measuring reference light emitted from each of the plurality of fine particles, acquiring a ratio of particles for which both the fluorescent light from the fluorescent dyes and the reference light are detected in the plurality of fine particles, and acquiring a statistical value of a fluorescence amount of the fluorescent dyes based on the fluorescence amount of the fluorescent dyes and the ratio of the particles.

There is provided a particle for the immunoagglutination assay that is a particle for immunoagglutination assay, which includes a diamond particle and a ligand that specifically binds to a biological substance. The ligand is immobilized to the diamond particle, and the particle for the immunoagglutination assay has a particle size of 50 nm or more and 1,000 nm or less.

According to the present disclosure, an information processing system includes a data acquisition unit (103a), a feature acquisition unit (103c), and a similarity acquisition unit (103d). The data acquisition unit (103a) is configured to acquire first medical data including a plurality of items or different types of data relating to a subject. The feature acquisition unit (103c) is configured to acquire features representing characteristics of medical data. The feature acquisition unit (103c) acquires at least a subset of the features by inputting the medical data included in the first medical data into at least one of an encoder of a large language model and an encoder of a large multimodal model. The similarity acquisition unit (103d) is configured to acquire similarity between the features and a feature of another piece of the medical data.

A liquid-ejection-head package (100) includes a liquid ejection head (1) to be included in a liquid ejection apparatus (50) and configured to eject liquid, a humidity controlling agent (32), and an envelope (31) accommodating the liquid ejection head (1) and the humidity controlling agent (32).

A measurement method of measuring a height position of a measurement region by irradiating the measurement region with light and detecting reflected light from the measurement region with a sensor, the method including obtaining information concerning a distribution of reflectances in the measurement region, and setting a measurement target location in a region where the amount of reflected light detected by the sensor falls within a predetermined range in the measurement region based on the information.

An image processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit that obtains image data, a subject detection unit that detects a subject region in the image data, a region detection unit that detects a first region different from the subject region in the image data, and a classification unit that classifies, based on overlap between first portion of the subject region and the first region, a subject existing within the first region and a subject existing outside the first region.

A control method of an information processing apparatus (101) on which an expansion application (204) configured to expand a function of print data generation software (202) configured to generate print data runs, is provided. The control method comprises obtaining attribute data on a printing apparatus, the attribute data being output from the printing apparatus, obtaining data indicating a print function, and adding information related to a specific function based on attribute information included in the obtained attribute data if information indicating the specific function is not included in the obtained data indicating the print function. A setting screen including a setting item of the specific function is displayed based on the added information related to the specific function.

An information processing apparatus including a storage, a first user interface, a second user interface, one or more memories storing instructions, and one or more processors which, when executing the instructions, causes the information processing apparatus to register key data to be used for signature verification that is included in a key pair received from an external terminal and generated based on authentication processing in the external terminal, into the storage in association with the first user interface, receive user selection indicating whether to register the key data in association with the second user interface, and, in a case where user selection indicating that the key data is to be registered in association with the second user interface is received, register the key data into the storage in association with the second user interface.

An image forming apparatus (1) includes an apparatus body (1A) including at least a first frame body (100f) and a second frame body (100e) which are disposed in a vertical direction, a first electrical member (215, 216) disposed in the first frame body (100f) and configured to operate physically based on electrical control, a second electrical member (222, 223) disposed in the second frame body (100e) and configured to operate physically based on electrical control, a first control board (201) disposed in the first frame body (100f), connected to the first electrical member (215, 216), and configured to control the first electrical member (215, 216), and a second control board (202) disposed in the second frame body (100e), connected to the second electrical member (222, 223), and configured to control the second electrical member (222, 223).

An issue is solved by providing a program for causing execution of a first display control to display a notification screen to prevent a predetermined application program from being transitioned to the background during a predetermined period.

An image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a first classification unit configured to generate a two-dimensional result of rough classification by classifying a plurality of pixels in each of a plurality of pieces of two-dimensional axial image data constituting first three-dimensional image data including an object into a first class group by using a trained classifier by inputting each of the plurality of pieces of two-dimensional axial image data, wherein the trained classifier is a classifier in which a two-dimensional ground truth image and a training image which is a two-dimensional axial image are used as training data; a three-dimensional data generation unit configured to generate a three-dimensional result of rough classification based on the two-dimensional result of rough classification generated by the first classification unit; and a second classification unit configured to classify a plurality of pixels in second three-dimensional image data including the object into a second class group by inputting the second three-dimensional image data based on the three-dimensional result of rough classification generated by the three-dimensional data generation unit, wherein the second class group includes at least one class of the first class group and the second class group has fewer classes than the first class group.

An information processing apparatus linked to a first image capturing apparatus comprises: receiving means configured to receive image capturing plan information including at least one image capturing plan that uses the first image capturing apparatus from a management apparatus that manages information on a plurality of image capturing apparatuses; determination means configured to determine whether the image capturing plan information includes a history indicating that another information processing apparatus associated with another image capturing apparatus selects one of the image capturing plan or plans included in the image capturing plan information; and output means configured to, in a case where the history is included, select and output an image capturing plan indicated by the history.

An image processing apparatus including: an acquisition unit (603) configured to acquire subframes, which have different exposure periods during an image capturing period for one frame, from a photoelectric conversion element capable of performing a nondestructive readout for each of the subframes, a recognition unit (604) configured to perform a predetermined recognition process on the acquired subframes in a first frame, and an identification unit (605) configured to identify, among the subframes, a subframe for which a result of the predetermined recognition process satisfies a predetermined condition. In a case where the predetermined recognition process is performed on the acquired subframes in a second frame after the first frame, the predetermined recognition process is performed on a subframe among the acquired subframes in the second frame, the subframe corresponding to the subframe that is identified by the identification unit (605) and satisfies the predetermined condition in the first frame.

The present invention concerns an encoding method comprising the encoding of information allowing the decoder to infer the splitting of CTBs located at the right, respectively the bottom of a subpicture, which width, respectively height, is not a multiple of the size of the CTBs, when the subpicture is not located at the right, respectively the bottom, of the image. Corresponding decoding methods for the generated bitstream are also proposed.

An organic compound represented by formula [1]:R₁ to R₂₇ denote a hydrogen atom or a substituent. Ar denotes a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group. n denotes an integer of 1 or more and 5 or less. L denotes any one of multiple structural formulas or a combination thereof. When n is 2 or more, a plurality of Ls may be the same or different.

The disclosure regards cross-component prediction and methods for deriving of a linear model for obtaining a first-component sample for a first-component block from an associated reconstructed second-component sample of a second-component block in the same frame, the method comprising determining the parameters of a linear equation representing a straight line passing through two points, each point being defined by two variables, the first variable corresponding to a second-component sample value, the second variable corresponding to a first-component sample value, based on reconstructed samples of both the first-component and the second-component; and deriving the linear model defined by the straight line parameters.

The present disclosure aims to provide a technique for making it easy to clear a jam in a printing apparatus having a stacking unit configured to sort a printing medium in a direction orthogonal to a printing medium conveyance direction. One embodiment of the present disclosure is a printing apparatus (1) having a casing (91), a conveyance unit housed in the casing and configured to convey a printing medium, and a stacking unit (4) which is attached to the casing and on which a printing medium conveyed by the conveyance unit is be stacked. The stacking unit has a first stacking part (41) movable in a second direction intersecting with a first direction in which a printing medium is conveyed and a second stacking part (42) movable in the first direction relative to the first stacking part, and the stacking unit is detachable from the casing by moving in the first direction.

In a case where an image forming apparatus (151) operates as a master station determining a communication channel used in wireless communication, the image forming apparatus (151) transmits a second trigger frame that includes information indicating inexecution of carrier sensing and complies with an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 standard, to a slave station apparatus connected to the master station.