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Neuroimaging as a Marketing Tool
Neuroimaging as a means for validating whether a stimulus such as advertisement, communication, or product evokes a certain mental response such as emotion, preference, or memory, or to predict the consequences of the stimulus on later behavior such as consumption or purchasing.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5309137 | Motor car traveling control device A motor car travelling control device which measures the distance between a first car and a second car while tracking the image of the second car. When the second car changes its travelling lane, the control device informs the driver of the first car and ... | 05/03/1994 |
| 5218414 | Distance measuring apparatus utilizing two-dimensional image A distance measuring apparatus which can accurately measure the distance to an object and keep track of the object. In the apparatus, a pair of image-pickup optical systems pick up an object. A window including the object is set in an image picked up by o... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5189712 | Correlation detector for images A correlation detector for images including: a unit for converting pixel signals of two images into digital data; a unit for deriving either an absolute value of a difference between the two pixel signals or a product of the two pixel signals from a table... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5023712 | Tracking distance-measuring equipment system with means for setting a window and means for sampling image signals at predetermined time intervals A tracking distance-measuring equipment for measuring the distance from a moving target on the principle of triangulation by electrically detecting the respective dislocations of first and second images focused on the image sensors of paired first and sec... | 06/11/1991 |
| 4963800 | Apparatus for controlling throttle actuator There is provided an apparatus for controlling a throttle actuator which detects the magnetic pole position of a rotor of a brushless motor connected to a throttle valve and drives the brushless motor in response to the detected magnetic pole position det... | 10/16/1990 |
| 4903936 | Throttle valve actuator including separate valve driving devices In a throttle valve actuator, there are provided a first spline gear driven by a motor in a sliding operation, a second spline gear meshed with the first spline gear for rotating a shaft of a throttle valve device, a housing for rotatably supporting the s... | 02/27/1990 |
| 4658599 | Cooler for automotive use A cooler for automotive use which uses neither the power of the engine nor that of the battery, but instead operates from power supplied by solar cells mounted on the roof of the vehicle. The cooler includes a liquid coolant filled evaporator, a radiator,... | 04/21/1987 |