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An apparatus, including a memory or a database which stores an electronic healthcare record of or for an individual or a patient a comment, note, or message, in advance of a video call, and information regarding an appointment for or regarding the video call; a processor which generates an appointment message or reminder message containing information regarding the appointment and containing a link or hyperlink for initiating the video call, wherein the video call is initiated via the link or the hyperlink; a receiver which receives information regarding the individual or the patient during the video call, receives information input into or entered into a provider communication device or a user communication device, wherein the processor or a computer generates a report containing information regarding the video call; and a transmitter, wherein the transmitter transmits the report to the user communication device.

There is provided a semiconductor device including: a semiconductor chip having a penetrating electrode penetrating through from a first main surface of the semiconductor chip to a second main surface on the opposite side thereof, a photoreceptor portion formed on the first main surface, and a first wire at a periphery of the photoreceptor portion; a light transmitting chip adhered to the first main surface at the periphery of the light transmitting chip, with a bonding layer interposed between the light transmitting chip and the first main surface, the light transmitting chip covering the light transmitting chip; and a light blocking resin layer formed only on the side surfaces of the light transmitting chip and the bonding layer.

A binocular visual performance measuring method including: a parallax image displaying step of displaying left and right parallax images at a predetermined measurement start position on a display screen when a measurement item is designated; a parallax image changing step of changing one of the left and right parallax images relative to the other of the left and right parallax images in accordance with the designated measurement item; a timing detecting step of detecting a timing when the subject viewing the left and right parallax images from a position a predetermined distance away from the display screen becomes unable to achieve fusion of the left and right parallax images; and a measurement value calculating step of calculating a measurement value of the designated measurement item based on the predetermined distance and a difference between the left and right parallax images defined at the detected timing.

A virtual machine system managed by a current host OS virtually operating on hardware is provided that activates a spare host OS by copying the current host OS to a prescribed memory device using a live migration function when the current host OS is activated, notifies the spare host OS of a request issued to the current host OS via a virtual machine monitor, changes a state of the spare host OS, and switches an OS for managing the virtual machine system from the current host OS to the spare host OS, when the current host OS is in an erroneous state.

There are provided an image processing method and an image processor for detecting an object to be detected in a simple and accurate manner without detailed adjustment of illumination. Light sources provided in four directions around a camera are sequentially lighted, and a camera is driven every time the one of the light sources is lighted to generate four images of a work. Further, a normal vector of a group of pixels having the same coordinate among the generated images is calculated by use of brightness of each pixel that belongs to the group and a previously obtained illumination direction vector corresponding to each of the light sources. Moreover, the normal vector of each pixel is converted into one-dimensional information showing a relation of the vector with respect to a space coordinate system, and after generation of an image representing the calculation result, a prescribed characteristic extracting process is executed.

A transparent conductive film including metal nanowires and a colored compound adsorbed by the metal nanowires is provided. The metal nanowires are a material which absorbs light in the visible light region, and also each has a functional group which is bound to a metal constituting the metal nanowire.

A refrigerating apparatus includes a refrigerating cycle including a compressor, a condenser, a flow divider, a first heat exchanger, a second heat exchanger, a decompressing device, and an evaporator. The refrigerant cycle has sealed therein a mixed refrigerant obtained by mixing at least first to third refrigerants with different evaporation temperatures. The first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger each includes a double pipe to form a first flow passage in an inner pipe of the double pipe, a second flow passage in an outer pipe of the double pipe, and an intermediate port in a piping connecting between the second flow passage of the first heat exchanger and the second flow passage of the second heat exchanger. A high-temperature and high-pressure refrigerant discharged from the compressor is cooled by the condenser to liquefy the first refrigerant having a high evaporation temperature into a liquid refrigerant.

Provided is an self-propelled cleaning robot that can efficiently clean a flat surface even if a step is formed. The self-propelled cleaning robot that self-travels on a structure to clean a flat surface of the structure, the structure being installed in an outdoor location, the robot includes: a robot main body (2) in which a self-propelled moving means(4) is provided; a cleaning unit (10) that is provided in a front portion and/or a rear portion of the robot main body (2); and a controller (30) that controls activation of the moving means (4). At this point, the controller (30) includes an attitude controller (35) that detects an attitude of the robot main body (2), the attitude controller (35) includes a floating detection sensor (36) that detects floating in one of the front portion and the rear portion of the robot main body (2), and, when the floating detection sensor (36) detects the floating in one of the front portion and the rear portion of the robot main body (2), the controller (30) controls the activation of the moving means (4) such that the cleaning unit (10) passes through a place where the floating is detected after the floating is eliminated.

Provided is a liquid crystal display device which is made in system-on-panel structure without complicating processes for TFTs and further can inhibit cost increase. The liquid crystal display is characterized in that: a pixel part is provided with a liquid crystal element and a pixel having a TFT controlling a voltage applied to the liquid crystal element; a TFT that a driving circuit has and the TFT controlling the voltage applied to the liquid crystal element have a gate electrode, a gate insulating film formed on the gate electrode, a 1st semiconductor film overlapping with the gate electrode across the gate insulating film, and a couple of 2nd semiconductor films formed on the 1st semiconductor film; impurities which impart a one-conductivity type are added to the couple of 2nd semiconductor films; and the 1st semiconductor film is formed of a semiamorphous semiconductor.

There is provided a semiconductor device which can maintain a high tuning accuracy while suppressing a cost increase and suppress an increase in the time required for tuning. There are included, in addition to variable resistors configuring a level shift circuit, an additional resistor coupled between the output node of a VBGR voltage of a BGR circuit and one of the variable resistors and an additional resistor coupled between the other of the variable resistors and a reference voltage. N-channel MOS transistors are coupled in parallel with the additional resistors, respectively.

A TCP 2003 is terminated in an intermediate driver 2006 within a gateway device 20, a TCP 3003 is terminated in an intermediate driver 3006 within a gateway device 30, and a frame is transferred between the intermediate drivers with a method not causing a congestion control such as a UDP. Besides, an SSL session is constructed between an SSL 2002 and an SSL 3002, and upon completing construction of the session, a public key and a secret key are sent by means of an Ethernet frame from a processing speed acceleration engine control to a processing speed acceleration engine. Thus, the gateway device transfers the frame not through a CPU but by employing the processing speed acceleration engine within an NIC in later communication between a terminal 21 and a server 31.

Provided is an exhaust emission control device which can properly burn off soot and soluble organic fraction attached to and accumulated on electrodes of a plasma generator.

The exhaust emission control device with a post-processing device (catalyst regenerative particulate filter 10) for allowing exhaust gas to pass therethrough for gas purification incorporated in an exhaust pipe 9 of an internal combustion engine (diesel engine 1) comprises a plasma generator 11 arranged upstream of the post-processing device for discharging electricity in the exhaust gas 8 to generate plasma, flow-through type oxidation catalyst 12 arranged upstream of the plasma generator 11, fuel adding means (controller 17) arranged upstream of the oxidation catalyst 12 for adding fuel into the exhaust gas 8, temperature increasing means (suction throttling valve 22 or controller 17) for increasing the exhaust temperature to a level enough for oxidation reaction on the oxidation catalyst 12 of the fuel added by said fuel adding means.

An imaging lens is provided and includes: in order from an object side of the imaging lens, a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a positive refractive power and being a spherical glass lens having a convex surface on an image side thereof; a third lens having a negative refractive power and having a concave surface on the object side in the vicinity of an optical axis thereof; and a fourth lens having a positive refractive power and having a meniscus shape in the vicinity of the optical axis thereof, a convex surface in the meniscus shape being directed to the object side, the imaging lens satisfying a specific condition.

A method (22) for coordinating information for use in advertising. The method (22) comprises receiving sets of advertisement information (26) associated with advertisements for distressed advertising space (28). The sets of advertisement information (26) are stored and the method (22) includes searching the stored sets of advertisement information (22) to locate at least one set (38) that meets with distressed advertising criteria (36). Other aspects are provided.

The invention is directed to a method of producing polycrystaline silicon metal from a silicon halide plasma source. The silicon halide is split into silicon and halide ions in an inductively coupled plasma and silicon ions are then condensed to form molten silicon metal that can be vacuum cast into polysilicon ingots. The halide ions are separated and recycled into silicon halide gas over a silicon dioxide bed. In this way, high grade polysilicon is produced without a metallurgical grade silicon precursor and the process these processes consumes the byproducts in a continuous manner madding it less expensive than traditional methods of producing polysilicon and more environmentally friendly.