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A route information supply system comprises a reception module which receives information on a current position and a destination from a terminal device by communication, a map data storage module storing at least detailed map data and summary map data, a traffic information storage module which stores traffic information, a route search module which searches for a guidance route based on the current position and the destination, a map information generation module which generates map information on an area containing the searched route by use of the map data storage module, and an output module which outputs the generated map information to the terminal device. When an event satisfying a prescribed condition regarding the traffic information exists in the area, the map information generation module generates map information on an area in the vicinity of a point where the event has occurred by use of the detailed map data.

The present invention includes novel techniques, apparatus, and systems for optical WDM communications. Various wavelocker apparatus and methods are disclosed that measure the frequency offsets between signal lasers and reference lasers. The measured offsets are used to adjust the signal laser frequencies to meet their target frequencies. The absolute accuracy of the reference laser frequency is improved by measuring the absorption of the reference laser by a gas cell with known fixed absorption lines versus the reference laser frequency. Apparatus and methods are disclosed to cover scenarios in which the reference laser polarization is aligned with the signal lasers, as well as those in which the reference laser polarization is not aligned with the signal lasers. The wavelocker apparatus may or may not be located at the same network site as the signal lasers.

Methods and devices are provided for maintaining visibility during surgical procedures. In general, the methods and devices can allow for a surgical instrument to maintain visibility during a surgical procedure using a protective element coupled to the surgical instrument. The protective element can protect a viewing element on the surgical instrument while the surgical instrument is being passed through an introducer device into or out of a body cavity (e.g., during insertion and/or withdrawal). The protective element can also optionally protect the surgical instrument's viewing element while at least a portion of the surgical instrument is disposed in a body cavity.

An imaging apparatus 10 includes a lower housing 11, an upper housing 21, a lower LCD 12, an outer camera, a plurality of buttons 14A to 14E, and a touch panel 13. The lower housing 11 has a horizontally long shape. The upper housing 21 has a horizontally long shape, and a long side of the upper housing 21 is connected to an upper long side of the lower housing 11 such that the lower housing 11 and the upper housing 21 are foldable. The lower LCD 12 has a display screen which is provided in an inner surface of the lower housing 11. The outer camera is provided in an outer surface of the upper housing 21, and located at an end of the outer surface of the upper housing 21 which is opposite to a connection portion where the upper housing 21 is connected to the lower housing 11. The plurality of buttons 14A to 14E are provided on an inner surface of the lower housing 11 and on both sides of the display screen in a horizontal direction of the lower housing 11. The touch panel 13 is provided on the display screen.

The present invention includes novel techniques, apparatus, and systems for optical WDM communications. Tunable lasers are employed to generate subcarrier frequencies representing subchannels of an ITU channel to which client signals can be mapped. Client circuits can be divided and combined before being mapped, independent of one another, to individual subchannels within and across ITU channels. Subchannels may be independently routed to a single subchannel receiver filter, such that each subchannel detected at the receiver may come from a different source location. Network architectures and subchannel transponders, muxponders and crossponders are disclosed, and techniques are employed (at the subchannel level/layer), to facilitate the desired optical routing, switching, concatenation and protection of client circuits mapped to these subchannels across the nodes of a WDM network. Subchannel hopping may also be used to increase the optical network security.

An imaging apparatus 10 includes a lower housing 11, an upper housing 21, a lower LCD 12, an outer camera, a plurality of buttons 14A to 14E, and a touch panel 13. The lower housing 11 has a horizontally long shape. The upper housing 21 has a horizontally long shape, and a long side of the upper housing 21 is connected to an upper long side of the lower housing 11 such that the lower housing 11 and the upper housing 21 are foldable. The lower LCD 12 has a display screen which is provided in an inner surface of the lower housing 11. The outer camera is provided in an outer surface of the upper housing 21, and located at an end of the outer surface of the upper housing 21 which is opposite to a connection portion where the upper housing 21 is connected to the lower housing 11. The plurality of buttons 14A to 14E are provided on an inner surface of the lower housing 11 and on both sides of the display screen in a horizontal direction of the lower housing 11. The touch panel 13 is provided on the display screen.

Provided is a polarization laminate that allows a distinct transmission image to be displayed on a translucent screen while maintaining the visibility of a projection image from a projector even in a case where the translucent screen contains a diffusion-polarization plate. A transparent polarization laminate as a member of a translucent projector screen for displaying a projection image from a projector comprises a diffusion polarization layer and an absorption polarization layer, the diffusion polarization layer comprises a continuous phase comprising a first transparent thermoplastic resin and a dispersed phase comprising a second transparent thermoplastic resin and having a refractive index different from that of the continuous phase, and these layers are laminated so that the diffusion polarization layer may have a transmission axis substantially parallel with a transmission axis of the absorption polarization layer. The diffusion polarization layer may comprise a stretched sheet, the continuous phase may have an in-plane birefringence of less than 0.05, the dispersed phase may have an in-plane birefringence of not more than 0.05, and a difference in refractive index for linearly polarized light between the continuous phase and the dispersed phase in a stretching direction may be different from that in a direction perpendicular to the stretching direction.

A color image processing apparatus is provided with a black text emphasis mode, in which, when compressing an image in a compression processing section, edges of a black text in the image are detected, a foreground layer in which the detected edges of the black text are represented by a binary image is generated, and lossless compression is performed on the foreground layer. When the black text emphasis mode is selected, a background layer in which the difference in density between the edges of the black text and pixels in the vicinity of the edges in the image is reduced is generated, and lossy compression is performed on the background layer. With this operation, in an image obtained by decompressing a compressed file, outline of the black text is clearly represented, and an artifact caused by the lossy compression is suppressed.

An apparatus is configured to straddle a patient's legs or torso when in a reclined position, and includes a mirror located in a position elevated above a treatment site of a stoma for angularly directing an image as reflected from an overhead vantage of the site to the patient for viewing while in a reclined position.

An in-vehicle system includes a instrument cluster display arranged in an instrument cluster and a heads-up display that projects an image in an area on a front window above the instrument cluster. When a user continues viewing a display screen of the instrument cluster display for a predetermined period of time or longer, the display of the instrument cluster display is stopped, and content displayed on the display of the instrument cluster display is displayed on the heads-up display.

An aircraft has a generally circular main body including an upper surface portion supported for rotation about a central passenger compartment to produce a gyroscopic effect on the aircraft. The rotatable upper surface portion includes viewable panes therein arranged to provide visibility therethrough from the central passenger compartment to an exterior of the main body. An engine communicates between a central inlet opening in the upper surface portion and an exhaust opening in the bottom of the main body to provide upward thrust to the aircraft.

A roaming method that enables the home network (HPMN) to use S8 Home Routed (S8HR) model for out-bound roaming while the visited network (VPMN) uses Local Breakout (LBO) model for in-bound roaming. An IMS Roaming Gateway (IR-GW) establishes an IMS bearer between the IR-GW and the home network's Packet Data Network Gateway (P-GW). The IR-GW replaces the source IP address on the SIP-Register message with the client IP address assigned to the UE by the HPMN P-GW. Upon receiving a SIP-Response message responsive to successful authentication of the UE with the HPMN, the IR-GW inserts its own IP address into the SIP-Response message and forwards it to the UE. IR-GW performs network address translation (NAT) between the source IP assigned to the UE by the VPMN and the client IP assigned to the UE by the HPMN.

A riding lawn mower comprises, a plurality of front wheels and a plurality of rear wheels; a vehicle body supported by the front wheels and the rear wheels, and supporting a driver's seat; an engine disposed in a rear position of the vehicle body; a hood housing the engine; a mower unit suspendible from the vehicle body; and a grass catcher for collecting grass clippings from the mower unit. The grass catcher includes a left side container portion; a right side container portion; and a center container portion communicating with the left and right side container portions in upper positions of the left and right side container portions, and having a planar bottom. When the grass catcher is in a collecting position, the bottom of the center container portion is located above and along the hood, and at least lower part of each of the left side container portion and the right side container portion is located laterally of the hood, the center container portion, the left side container portion and the right side container portion defining a recessed space extending over an entire fore and aft length thereof for accommodating at least part of the hood.

A first exhaust treatment device, a second exhaust treatment device, and a relay connection pipe are disposed in front of an engine of a bulldozer. A relay connection pipe connects the first and second exhaust treatment devices. An injector assembly is attached to the relay connection pipe. The first exhaust treatment device, the relay connection pipe, and the second exhaust treatment device are arranged in sequence such that longitudinal directions thereof extend along the vehicle lateral direction. An attachment surface for the injector on the relay connection pipe is provided on an offset portion of the relay connection pipe at a connection portion between the first exhaust treatment device and the relay connection pipe. The distance between the injector assembly and a first side surface of the engine cover closest to the injector assembly is substantially equal to the distance between the first side surface and the first exhaust treatment device.

An improved system for isolating and removing a large mass of tissue from a female patient's abdominal cavity during a laparoscopic surgery, includes: (1) a wound retractor platform, (2) a vaginally-insertable, tissue collection bag having a flexible and resilient ring at its open end that is distortable for vaginal insertion but quickly resumes its open and undistorted shaped within the patient's abdominal cavity upon insertion, and whose open end receives the large mass of tissue and is then connected to the wound retractor platform so as to form a sealed bag, (3) a tissue cutting instrument which cuts the large mass of tissue into smaller pieces and then aspirates them along with some of the surrounding fluid, and (4) a fluid recirculation system which filters and recirculates the aspirated fluid back through the bag.