Disclosed is a method for producing a three dimensionally shaped structure by repeating the following steps (i) and (ii): (i) a step in which a predetermined portion of a powder layer is irradiated with a light beam so as to sinter or to melt and solidify the powder in the predetermined portion thereby forming a sol...

Disclosed is a method for producing a three dimensionally shaped structure wherein the following steps (i) and (ii) are repeated: (i) a step in which a predetermined portion of a powder layer is irradiated with a light beam so as to sinter or to melt and solidify the powder in the predetermined portion thereby formi...

Provided is an image encoding method in which an input image is encoded. The image encoding method includes: a step (S121) in which an offset value is converted into a binary signal said offset value being used in offset processing that is applied to the pixel values of a reconstructed image corresponding to the inp...

Provided is an antenna device comprising a first monopole antenna (110) and a second monopole antenna (120) arranged on an insulative base material (190) wherein the first monopole antenna (110) and the second monopole antenna (120) comprise first sections that extend in the same direction from the feeding ends ther...

A video encoder (900) includes a second coding unit (510) and a second adding unit (512) to obtain a high image quality with a small processing amount. The second coding unit (510) codes one frame (frame 1 + 2) out of two consecutive frames (frame (1 +2), frame (3 +4)) included in a stream (for example, k-th record-...

[ABSTRACT] A refrigerator (1) includes  in a front face of a right door (2f) covering a storage compartment  a sensor panel (7) to which an illuminance detection unit (8) that detects illuminance in a surrounding area is attached. The sensor panel (7) is provided to protrude forward from a surface of the right do...

A load control system includes: a power supply control unit for controlling a power feeding to multiple load devices; and a backup power supply unit for supplying backup power during a power failure. During a power failure, the power supply control unit supplies the power from the backup power supply unit only ...

A video coding method according to the present invention is for coding a signal to be coded which represents a video, and includes: generating a prediction signal predictive of the signal to be coded, based on a coded signal coded prior to the coding of the signal to be coded (S16); quantizing a prediction error obt...

[ABSTRACT] A refrigerator comprises: a main body (101); a partition body (122) which partitions the main body (101) into a plurality of storage compartments to which cool air is supplied; doors (119) each of which is provided in front of a corresponding one of the storage compartments so as to open and close the st...

Disclosed is a wireless communication system provided with: transmitters which alternatively select a plurality of wireless channels having different frequencies to each other and transmit wireless signals; and a receiver which receives the wireless signals transmitted by the transmitters. The receiver is provided w...

Disclosed is a method for AC TIG welding in which welding is performed by alternating a positive-polarity period and a negative-polarity period. It is detected whether the TIG electrode and the object to be welded comes into contact with each other during welding. When they are in contact with each other, a tra...

[ABSTRACT] To maintain an appropriate humidity in a refrigerator using a spray device to spray mist  without depending on a moisture sensor. A refrigerator (100) for forcibly circulating cold air which is gas cooled in a cooling compartment (110)  the refrigerator including: a first storage compartment (107) dispo...

An information storage medium according to the present invention has n information storage layers (where n is an integer and n.3), on which data can be written with a laser beam and which are stacked one upon the other. Each of the n storage layers has a test write zone for determining the recording power of the las...

A radio base station wherein when UE connected to an LTE access network performs a CS Fallback, the time required for the CS Fallback can be reduced. An eNB (100), which moves in a cell providing a first service and further covers a cell providing a second service different from the first service, gives UE, which is...

A wireless communication device, e.g., a mobile station, capable of performing its communication and relay processing for another mobile station, when requested, at the same time without stopping the communication and the relay processing. In the device, an outgoing/incoming call request detection unit (106) detects...

ABSTRACT An air conditioner includes an image pickup means 1 for taking a visible image of a whole indoor space, a display means 3 for displaying image information from the image pickup means 1, and a region designating means 5 for designating, as priority coordinate information in a coordinate system, a point or r...

Provided are a base station, a terminal, a band allocation method, and a downlink data communication method in which a mapping method for synchronization signals and report signals is implemented with high resource usage efficiency when a first system in which an independent single communication is allocated to a un...

Disclosed is a substrate for a light emitting element which has one of the two facing main surfaces as a mounting surface and has the light emitting element mounted on the mounting surface. The substrate for the light emitting element is provided with a protection element for the light emitting element said protecti...

There is provided a method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object. The method of the present invention comprises the steps of: (i) forming a solidified layer by irradiating a predetermined portion of a powder layer with a light beam, thereby allowing sintering of the powder of the predetermined portion ...

The object detection device includes: a pyroelectric element configured to output a current signal in response to a change in an amount of infrared light; an I/V conversion circuit including an operational amplifier  a capacitive element serving as a feedback circuit  and a discharging circuit  and configured to con...

A power supply device includes a fuel-cell power device which supplies a direct current (DC) power to one or more load devices using fuel cells as an input source; and a control unit which controls an output from the fuel-cell power device. In the power supply device, when a load current supplied to the load device ...

A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least 5 one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a re...

Disclosed are a antenna device and a portable wireless terminal equipped with same that achieve low coupling and high gain properties in each of at least two frequency bands without increasing the number of power supply units in a configuration wherein a wireless circuit and two antenna elements that operate in the ...

A microwave heating apparatus includes a microwave generation part (5) having a plurality of output parts, a heating chamber (4) to contain an object to be heated, a plurality of feeding parts (21a, 21b, 21c, 21d) supplying outputs of the plurality of output parts to the heating chamber, and a control part (6) contr...

A controller for embedding in a recording medium apparatus in order to control memory access comprises a unique key generation unit that generates a unique key assigned to the controller, a decryption unit that acquires encrypted key information generated by encrypting a private key for the recording medium appa...