PIONEER CORPORATION Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160119167 | DIVERSITY RECEPTION DEVICE, DIVERSITY RECEPTION METHOD, RECEPTION PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A CFR estimation unit ( | 04-28-2016 |
20160118617 | ORGANIC EL ELEMENT - An organic EL element ( | 04-28-2016 |
20160109617 | INFORMATION TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, WEATHER CONDITION ACQUISITION SYSTEM, SERVER APPARATUS, INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD AND PROGRAM - This information transmission apparatus that moves with a mobile body is provided with: a photographing means; a weather information generating means which generates, on the basis of a mobile body wiper image photographed by means of the photographing means, weather information that indicates weather conditions of a location where the photographing means photographed the image; an acquisition means that acquires positional information of the photographing location; and a transmission means, which transmits the weather information and the positional information. | 04-21-2016 |
20160081165 | LIGHTING MODULE HAVING SURFACE LIGHT SOURCE AND LIGHTING SYSTEM - A lighting system includes a master device for transmitting a light emission control command, and a plurality of lighting modules. Each of the plurality of lighting modules has a surface light source, receives the light emission control command, and drives and controls the surface light source in accordance with control data for its own, the control data being included in the received light emission control command. | 03-17-2016 |
20160065269 | WIRELESS POWER FEEDING APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A wireless power feeding apparatus ( | 03-03-2016 |
20160056406 | OPTICAL DEVICE - An optical device ( | 02-25-2016 |
20160041389 | DISPLAY SYSTEM - Provided is a low-cost display system with a small-sized shutter shielding an opening portion in an accommodation state. In a display system in which a display device displaying an image is located at different positions as a use position and an accommodation position, the display system includes a first shutter and a second shutter which are formed so that opening portions are wider than the display device. Here, when the display device is located at the use position, at least a part of the display device is located near the front surface of the first shutter and the second shutter and at least one of the first shutter and the second shutter is closed. | 02-11-2016 |
20160039375 | SOUND OUTPUT DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - A loudspeaker device is installed in a space between a bumper reinforcement for reinforcing a bumper of a vehicle and a bumper absorber attached to a front side of the bumper reinforcement. An approach notification sound output from a front side of the loudspeaker device is radiated outside through a first opening provided on a driver's seat side of the bumper absorber. An approach notification sound output from a rear side of the loudspeaker device passes through a sound path between the bumper reinforcement and the bumper absorber and is then radiated outside through a second opening provided on a passenger seat side of the bumper absorber. | 02-11-2016 |
20160039312 | TRACTION CONTROL DEVICE AND TRACTION CONTROL METHOD - The movement speed v of a moving body having driving wheels driven by a motor, the rotational speed ω of the drive wheels of the moving body, and the actual torque value Tm generated by the motor are acquired. Subsequently, a limiting part calculates an estimated slip ratio λ and an estimated driving torque T | 02-11-2016 |
20160039311 | TRACTION CONTROL DEVICE AND TRACTION CONTROL METHOD - The movement speed v of a moving body having drive wheels driven by a motor, the rotational speed ω of the drive wheels of the moving body, and the actual torque value T | 02-11-2016 |
20160037262 | VIBRATING BODY FOR SPEAKER DEVICE AND SPEAKER DEVICE - Provided are a vibrating body for speaker device which prevents interlayer from peeling in advance and includes a large effective vibration area, and a speaker device including this vibrating body for speaker device. The vibrating body for speaker device includes a first interlaced fiber member, and a second interlaced fiber member which overlaps with the first interlaced fiber member, and one of the first interlaced fiber member and the second interlaced fiber member includes polyvinyl alcohol fibers containing boron, and an outer circumferential portion of the first interlaced fiber member is larger than an outer circumferential portion of the second interlaced fiber member. | 02-04-2016 |
20160006330 | ACTUATOR - An actuator ( | 01-07-2016 |
20150365745 | SPEAKER FRAME AND SPEAKER HAVING THE SAME - A speaker frame, including: a vibration support portion supporting a vibrating body of a speaker; a magnet support portion arranged inside of said vibration support portion and supporting magnetic circuit portion of said speaker; and a plurality of connection beams connecting said vibration support portion and said magnet support portion, wherein the vibration support portion and the magnet support portion have a circular ring shape having the same major axis length and minor axis length, said plurality of connection beams are arranged radially centering on a central axis from said magnet support portion to said vibration support portion, the central axis being parallel to a direction of an acoustic radiation, and a length of one of said connection beams and a length of another connection beams are different from each other. | 12-17-2015 |
20150362772 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVE METHOD FOR DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device having a simple circuit configuration and capable of lowering power consumption, and a drive method for the display device are provided. Rectangular wave voltage which changes between positive voltage V | 12-17-2015 |
20150355042 | MEASURING DEVICE - There is provided a measuring device capable of measuring a propulsion force and a loss force by using a simple method. A first detection circuit that is a bridge circuit, to which a first strain gauge and a second strain gauge disposed such that detection directions are parallel to a longitudinal direction of a crank are connected, detecting bending deformation x occurring in the crank, and a second detection circuit that is a bridge circuit, to which a third strain gauge disposed such that a detection direction is parallel to the longitudinal direction of the crank and a fourth strain gauge disposed such that a detection direction is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the crank are connected, detecting bending deformation y and tensile deformation z occurring in the crank are included. | 12-10-2015 |
20150329005 | INFORMATION UPDATE SYSTEM AND METHOD, VEHICLE, CHARGER AND SERVER APPARATUS - In the present invention, an information update system is equipped with an automobile ( | 11-19-2015 |
20150325809 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT PANEL | 11-12-2015 |
20150323158 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - A light emitting device ( | 11-12-2015 |
20150293354 | DISPLAY INFORMATION GENERATING APPARATUS, DISPLAY INFORMATION GENERATING METHOD, A PROGRAM FOR DISPLAY INFORMATION GENERATING, AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided is a display information generation apparatus that displays information in a manner so that it becomes possible to immediately and intuitively recognize the information, which is for guiding a mobile body. A navigation apparatus provided with a display that moves together with a vehicle is provided with a display data generation unit that acquires position information indicating the position of the vehicle, acquires, on the basis of the acquired position information, distance information indicating the distance from the position of the vehicle of facilities positioned along the road along which the vehicle is moving, and, on the basis of the acquired position information and distance information, displays an icon indicating the facilities at both sides of the road at the display arranged in order of the order of appearance accompanying the motion of the vehicle. | 10-15-2015 |
20150270316 | LIGHT EMITTING APPARATUS - A first luminous body is formed on a substrate and is linear. A second luminous body is also formed on the substrate and is linear. The second luminous body extends in parallel with the first luminous body. A first anode and a first cathode are formed on the substrate, and supply electric power to the first luminous body. A second anode and a second cathode are also formed on the substrate, and supply electric power to the second luminous body. The first anode and the first cathode extend in parallel with each other, and the second anode and the second cathode extend in parallel with each other. In a range overlapping with the first luminous body when seen in a plan view, the first anode is not connected to the second anode, and the first cathode is not connected to the second cathode. | 09-24-2015 |
20150251658 | SLIP RATIO ESTIMATION DEVICE AND SLIP RATIO ESTIMATION METHOD - An acquisition part acquires the rotational speeds of a plurality of driving wheels of a moving vehicle, and normal reaction forces acting on the plurality of driving wheels. Subsequently, a friction coefficient information calculation part calculates friction coefficients relating to the plurality of driving wheels on the basis of torque command values for the plurality of driving wheels transmitted from a torque control part and the results of acquisition by the acquisition part. A slip ratio calculation part calculates the slip ratios of the plurality of driving wheels on the basis of the calculated friction coefficients, and the rotational speeds acquired by the acquisition part. Consequently, the slip ratios of the respective driving wheels are easily, rapidly, and accurately estimated. | 09-10-2015 |
20150236728 | IMPEDANCE MATCHING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A impedance matching apparatus ( | 08-20-2015 |
20150230314 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE - A light-emitting device ( | 08-13-2015 |
20150222857 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A mark irradiation unit ( | 08-06-2015 |
20150217186 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM STORING THE COMMUNICATION PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A communication terminal receives information such as game information of a quiz including a predetermined question and an answer, a sender, goods or service, and a store offering the goods or the service from a communication terminal with a network communication unit. A CPU of the communication terminal judges whether an answer input from an input unit such as a touch panel or a microphone is correct. The communication terminal receives a location for receiving the goods or the service when playing the game. | 08-06-2015 |
20150208485 | LIGHTING MODULE HAVING SURFACE LIGHT SOURCE AND LIGHTING SYSTEM - A lighting system includes a master device for transmitting a light emission control command, and a plurality of lighting modules. Each of the plurality of lighting modules has a surface light source, receives the light emission control command, and drives and controls the surface light source in accordance with control data for its own, the control data being included in the received light emission control command. | 07-23-2015 |
20150206927 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE - An organic EL device includes at least one insulating bank disposed on a translucent substrate, a translucent electrode in contact with the bank, an organic layer containing a light-emitting layer and formed on the translucent electrode, and a reflection electrode formed on the organic layer. The bank is made from a translucent dielectric material having a low refractive index that is equal to or less than that of the organic layer. The bank has a side face that is a slope inclined with respect to the translucent substrate. The side face has a concave surface shape that faces the light-emitting layer from a slope in contact with the light-emitting layer to a slope in contact with a portion of the organic layer in the vicinity of the reflection electrode. | 07-23-2015 |
20150189722 | LIGHTING MODULE HAVING SURFACE LIGHT SOURCE AND LIGHTING SYSTEM - A lighting module includes: a surface light source; a drive control section receiving a light emission control command transmitted from a master device via a communication line, and driving and controlling the surface light source in accordance with control data for its own, the control data being included in the received light emission control command; and an ON-OFF switch to be connected to the communication line, wherein the ON-OFF switch is joined integrally with the surface light source and the drive control section. | 07-02-2015 |
20150188319 | POWER RECEIVING APPARATUS AND POWER RECEIVING METHOD - A power receiving apparatus ( | 07-02-2015 |
20150179716 | SURFACE LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE - A surface light-emitting device having a light-emitting surface including at least one single-color light-emitting panel and at least one multi-color light-emitting panel disposed alongside the single-color light-emitting panel. | 06-25-2015 |
20150162129 | WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION ANTENNA APPARATUS - A wireless power transmission antenna apparatus ( | 06-11-2015 |
20150159856 | ILLUMINATED MAKEUP MIRROR SET - An illuminated makeup mirror set includes: a mirror unit; a surface light source with adjustable color that is used to illuminate a makeup subject; a setting unit for setting illumination conditions with the surface light source according to an input operation; an adjustment unit for adjusting color and brightness of the surface light source according to the illumination conditions set by the setting unit; a speaker; and a playback unit that stores a plurality of musical pieces as data, plays a musical piece selected from the plurality of musical pieces according to the illumination conditions and time of illumination with the surface light source, and causes the speaker to output the selected musical piece as a reproduced sound. | 06-11-2015 |
20150145440 | ORGANIC EL PANEL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE USING THE SAME - An organic EL panel with less variation in an emission luminance thereof and a method for manufacturing a light-emitting device using the same are provided. The organic EL panel of the present invention includes: a substrate; a light-emitting section of the organic EL panel provided on the substrate; a current supply terminal provided on the substrate for supplying a current to the light-emitting section; and a current density adjusting section electrically connected to the current supply terminal in parallel to the light-emitting section and provided on the substrate. A current density of the light-emitting section is adjusted by processing of the current density adjusting section. Moreover, in the method for manufacturing a light-emitting device according to the present invention, after a light-emitting characteristic is adjusted by processing a post-processing region of the above-described organic EL panel, a light-emitting device including the processed organic EL panel is manufactured. | 05-28-2015 |
20150145408 | ILLUMINATED MIRROR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ILLUMINATION THEREOF - Provided is an illuminated mirror device including: a mirror; a light-emitting part for illumination disposed near the mirror; and driving means for driving the light-emitting part, and detection means for detecting a direction of a face of a person in front of the mirror with respect to the mirror, wherein the driving means controls an emission luminance distribution on a light-emitting surface of the light-emitting part on the basis of the face direction detected by the detection means. Also provided is a method for controlling illumination thereof. | 05-28-2015 |
20150137613 | WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION ANTENNA APPARATUS - A wireless power transmission antenna apparatus ( | 05-21-2015 |
20150131842 | ELECTRONIC MACHINE, AND AUTOMOBILE AND ACCOMMODATION UNIT PROVIDED WITH THE SAME - Provided is an electronic machine that is provided with a speaker and that enables a direction of the speaker to be appropriately and arbitrarily changed. The electronic machine includes a speaker unit, housings, and a rotating device. The speaker unit is supported by the housing. The rotating device includes a first rotating device configured to rotate the speaker unit with respect to the housings about a direction intersecting with an axis of the housings serving as a rotational axis, and a second rotating device configured to rotate the speaker unit with respect to the housings about the axis of the housings serving as a rotational axis. | 05-14-2015 |
20150124249 | LIGHT MEASUREMENT APPARATUS - The light measurement apparatus according to the present invention includes: an integrating sphere; a reference calibration light source body holding unit that is arranged on the integrating sphere and to which a reference calibration light source body is attached; a test light source body holding unit that is arranged on the integrating sphere and to which a test light source body to be measured is attached; a light detection unit that is arranged on the integrating sphere and detects light from the reference calibration light source body and the test light source body; and a control unit that controls lighting of the reference calibration light source body and the test light source body, the light measurement apparatus being configured so that only either one of the reference calibration light source body and the test light source body is able to selectively emit light in the integrating sphere. | 05-07-2015 |
20150112508 | TRACTION CONTROL DEVICE AND TRACTION CONTROL METHOD - A parameter calculation part calculates an adaptive gain coefficient ‘k’ for the road surface conditions, based on frictional coefficient μ and a slip ratio λ from an acquisition part and a coefficient ‘b’ in a storage part. Subsequently, the parameter calculation part calculates an adaptive time constant τ by which the stability of traction control can be ensured, based on the gain coefficient ‘k’ and a coefficient ‘a’ within the storage part. Along with the calculated gain coefficient ‘k’ being set in a gain multiplication part, the calculated time constant τ is set in a filter part. According to these settings, model following control is executed by taking, as a reference model, an adhesion model in which the driving wheel does not slip. This enhances slip prevention performance while ensuring control stability, making stable travel possible while ensuring the required drive force in accordance with road surface state. | 04-23-2015 |
20150109262 | TERMINAL DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, CALIBRATION METHOD AND CALIBRATION PROGRAM - A terminal device such as a smartphone displays a first image on a display unit, and outputs a second image including the first image as a part to a display device such as a navigation device. Also, the terminal device obtains calibration information indicating a relative positional relation of the first image with respect to the second image from an external server. When a user makes a touch input to the second image displayed on the display device, the input position is transmitted from the display device to the terminal device. The terminal device converts the input position on the second image to the input position on the first image based on the calibration information. | 04-23-2015 |
20150103096 | DISPLAY DEVICE, HEAD MOUNT DISPLAY, CALIBRATION METHOD, CALIBRATION PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An optically transmissive display device is configured displays additional information to a real environment visually recognized by a user. The display device includes: a position detecting unit which detects a specific position in the real environment; a calibration unit which obtains a correspondence between the specific position in the real environment and a specific position of the display device to compute calibration data for transforming from a first coordinate system of the position detecting unit at the specific position in the real environment to a second coordinate system of the display device; and a determining unit which determines a natural feature point suitable for computing the calibration data in the natural feature points existing in the real environment, based on a taken image. The specific position in the real environment in the calibration unit is specified by detecting the position of the natural feature point determined by the determining unit. | 04-16-2015 |
20150097449 | DRIVING APPARATUS - A driving apparatus ( | 04-09-2015 |
20150084913 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD FOR TOUCH PANEL DEVICE AND TOUCH PANEL DEVICE - A touch panel device includes: a display having a display surface disposed to face upward; an image-displaying unit being configured to display an object image on the display surface; a pointed position detector being configured to detect pointed positions that are positions where three or more fingers are brought into contact or almost into contact with the display surface; an image identifier being configured to identify the object image that is displayed at the pointed positions; an estimating unit being configured to estimate a position where an operator, who has the fingers, is present based on a position relationship of the pointed positions of the three or more fingers; and a display changer being configured to change a display state of the object image such that the object image is set in a predetermined orientation in accordance with the estimated position of the operator. | 03-26-2015 |
20150080673 | BLOOD PRESSURE ESTIMATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A blood pressure estimation apparatus ( | 03-19-2015 |
20150079708 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRONIC DEVICE - When a coating film | 03-19-2015 |
20150076463 | ORGANIC EL DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - In an organic EL device, a risk of a short circuit between adjacent terminals in a connection space on a substrate can be reduced. An organic EL device includes a substrate, one or a plurality of organic EL elements formed on the substrate, a plurality of connection terminals provided on the substrate and electrically connected to electrodes of the organic EL elements, an insulating cover layer that covers the connection terminals and the substrate between the connection terminals, and a mounted component mounted via an anisotropic conducive layer and including terminals to be connected electrically connected to the connection terminals. The anisotropic conductive layer includes conductive particulates that electrically connect the connection terminals and the terminals to be connected. The conductive particulates electrically connect the connection terminals and the terminals to be connected piercing through the cover layer. | 03-19-2015 |
20150070770 | OPTICAL ELEMENT, HEAD-UP DISPLAY AND LIGHT SOURCE UNIT - An optical element includes a microlens array on which plural microlenses are arranged. The microlens array includes plural areas whose microlenses have different curvature radii per area. The plural areas are configured so that the farther the area exists from the center of the microlens array, the smaller the curvature radius of the microlenses arranged on the area is. | 03-12-2015 |
20150048336 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE PANEL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - In an organic EL panel, a transparent conductive film, a functional layered body including at least one light-emitting layer, and an opposing electrode film are layered in this order on a substrate, and the light-emitting layer which overlaps the transparent conductive film and the opposing electrode film serves as a light-emitting portion. The organic EL panel has at least one auxiliary electrode that is formed on the substrate below the light-emitting portion and directly covered with the transparent conductive film. The transparent conductive film has a film thickness more than that of the auxiliary electrode and the side surface of the transparent conductive film is covered with the functional layered body. | 02-19-2015 |
20150029711 | STRAIGHT TUBE LIGHT-EMITTING LAMP - A straight tube light-emitting lamp includes: a pipe-shaped transparent tube; an organic EL tubular illuminant disposed inside the pipe-shaped transparent tube so as to surround a center axis of the pipe-shaped transparent tube; a battery box disposed at an inner side than the tubular illuminant for housing a battery; and a wiring circuit for supplying an output voltage of the battery housed in the battery box to the tubular illuminant. | 01-29-2015 |
20150016625 | AUDIO PROCESSING DEVICE - An audio processing device includes an earphone with a microphone, a cord, and a cord holding part, and a main unit connected to the cord. The main unit processes an audio signal sent from the microphone, and the earphone includes a housing that stores the microphone. The housing also includes a microphone hole part, and the cord holding part faces the microphone hole part. | 01-15-2015 |
20140368112 | ILLUMINATED MAKEUP MIRROR SET AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING LIGHT SOURCE - An illuminated makeup mirror set includes: a mirror unit; a surface light source for illumination with adjustable color and adjustable brightness; a memory unit in which illumination conditions corresponding to a plurality of scenes are stored; a detection unit for detecting the color and brightness of ambient light at an installation position of the makeup mirror set; a selection unit for selecting one of the plurality of scenes according to an input operation; an acquisition unit for acquiring, from the memory unit, illumination conditions corresponding to the scene selected through the selection unit; and an adjustment unit for adjusting the color and brightness of the surface light source according to the color and brightness of the ambient light detected by the detection unit and the illumination conditions acquired by the acquisition unit. | 12-18-2014 |
20140366124 | DETERMINATION DEVICE, DETERMINATION METHOD AND DETERMINATION PROGRAM - The determination device displays a target image specifying a random position on a screen, and obtains a designated position by the user for the target image. Then, the determination device determines whether or not the designated position coincides with the position of the target image. When a number of times determined to coincide reaches a predetermined necessary number of coincidence, the determination device determines that the authentication is successful. | 12-11-2014 |
20140340048 | FACILITY INFORMATION PRESENTATION DEVICE AND FACILITY INFORMATION PRESENTATION METHOD - A calculating part acquires a current position from an acquiring part. The calculating part searches for the position of a charging facility in charging facility information within a retaining part on the basis of the acquired current position, and specifies the charging facility for a next charging. The calculating part calculates a charging time based on a charged amount and a charging capacity of the specified charging facility. A selecting part selects peripheral facilities presented to a user based on calculated charging time and a standard time indicating an average time spent on using each peripheral facility registered in association with the specified charging facility retained in the retaining part, and displays the information regarding the selected peripheral facilities on the display part. Thus, assistance can be provided for the effective use of the time needed to charge a storage cell onboard a moving body at a charging facility. | 11-20-2014 |
20140333150 | POWER TRANSMITTING APPARATUS AND POWER TRANSMITTING METHOD - A power transmitting apparatus ( | 11-13-2014 |
20140307065 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND EYE GLASSES FOR STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE VIEWING - A stereoscopic display comprises: a first light-emitting unit that emits a first infrared ray in a first direction directed outward from a display surface; a second light-emitting unit that emits a second infrared ray in a second direction opposite the first direction; a display controller that alternately displays a right eye image and a left-eye image for a front-side user at a side of display surface in the first direction; and a vision controller that controls a vision of the user so that, in accordance with a control signal transmitted through the infrared ray, the image is visible | 10-16-2014 |
20140292223 | LIGHTING APPARATUS AND LIGHT EMISSION CONTROL METHOD - A lighting apparatus includes: a plurality of light emission units that respectively emit lights in luminescent colors different from each other; and a control unit that controls in luminance the respective light, which are emitted from said plurality of light emission units, for the respective luminescent colors. In response to a control input, said control unit switches between a first light emission mode that it makes said light emission units emit light with luminance set for the respective luminescent colors and a second light emission mode that makes it light emission units corresponding to at least one luminescent color turn off or emit light with luminance lower than the luminance in the first light emission mode. | 10-02-2014 |
20140288819 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD - A navigation system includes: a sensor unit which is mounted on a movable body and which includes a first position obtaining unit that obtains first position information; and a portable movable unit which communicates with the sensor unit and which includes a display unit that displays map information and a second position obtaining unit that obtains second position information. The navigation system performs navigation by using the second position information obtained from the second position obtaining unit until a first predetermined time passes after the sensor unit is activated, and performs the navigation by using the first position information obtained from the first position obtaining unit after the first predetermined time passes. | 09-25-2014 |
20140283622 | POWER METER, POWER MEASUREMENT METHOD, PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There are provided a versatile power meter, a power measurement method, a program and a recording medium. The power meter includes a first measurement unit | 09-25-2014 |
20140252334 | ORGANIC EL PANEL COMPRISING A LIGHT-EMITTING PART AND A SEAL STRUCTURE SEALING THE LIGHT-EMITTING PART AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An organic EL panel including at least a light-emitting part and a sealing structure. The light-emitting part further includes at least an organic EL element formed on a substrate. The sealing structure further includes a sealing adhesive layer that contacts a coating film. The organic EL panel emits light from the light-emitting part through the substrate. The organic EL element includes at least the organic layer formed on a first electrode. The organic EL element further includes a second electrode formed on the at least one organic layer. The organic EL panel further includes the coating film coating the light-emitting part. A surface of the sealing adhesive forms a convex part formed by an inorganic material. A surface of the coating film forms a concave part that contacts the convex part. | 09-11-2014 |
20140247849 | METHOD OF PRODUCING NEAR-FIELD LIGHT DEVICE, AND NEAR-FIELD LIGHT DEVICE - A method for producing a near-field optical device is provided with: a step for forming a near-field light generation unit ( | 09-04-2014 |
20140246658 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE - On or above a substrate, a first electrode layer and a connection wiring connected to the first electrode layer are provided. On or above the first electrode layer, an organic function layer made of an organic material and a second electrode layer are deposited so as to construct an organic EL element. A sealing layer is provided to cover the organic EL element and the connection wiring. The connection wiring includes a fuse part to cause a break resulting from an overcurrent. The fuse part has an upper surface in contact with a gap layer. | 09-04-2014 |
20140223456 | WOBBLE DETERMINING APPARATUS AND METHOD, OPTICAL DISK DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A wobble determining apparatus is provided with: a calculating device for calculating (i) a first time required until reaching a number of revolutions of a motor which allows a predetermined linear velocity, and (ii) a second time required to move an optical head to a position which allows the predetermined linear velocity, on the basis of the number of revolutions of the motor and the position of the optical head; a judging device for judging whether to keep the optical head in accordance with the calculated first time and the calculated second time; and a controlling device for controlling a moving device not to move the optical head if it is judged to keep the optical head, and for controlling the moving device to move the optical head to the position which allows the predetermined linear velocity if it is judged not to keep the optical head. | 08-07-2014 |
20140219493 | SPEAKER FRAME AND SPEAKER HAVING THE SAME - A speaker frame, including: a vibration support portion supporting a vibrating body of a speaker; a magnet support portion arranged inside of said vibration support portion and supporting magnetic circuit portion of said speaker; and a plurality of connection beams connecting said vibration support portion and said magnet support portion, wherein the vibration support portion and the magnet support portion have a circular ring shape having the same major axis length and minor axis length, said plurality of connection beams are arranged radially centering on a central axis from said magnet support portion to said vibration support portion, the central axis being parallel to a direction of an acoustic radiation, and a length of one of said connection beams and a length of another connection beams are different from each other. | 08-07-2014 |
20140218804 | VIRTUAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A virtual image display device includes: an image forming element which forms an image to be displayed; and an optical element which reflects a light emitted from the image forming element to display a virtual image. The optical element has a concave shape opposite to a traveling direction of the light emitted from the image forming element. The light emitted from the image forming element enters the optical element without being reflected by other optical element. The image forming element is arranged in a direction substantially orthogonal to a direction of viewing the virtual image through the optical element. | 08-07-2014 |
20140197391 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT PANEL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A method for producing an organic electroluminescent panel having an organic layer formed by a coating step and a large aperture ratio includes: a first step of arraying and distributing a plurality of first electrodes on or above a substrate; a second step of forming stacking bodies each composed of a plurality of organic-emitting layer on the top face of each of the first electrodes; and a third step of forming organic electroluminescent elements by forming second electrodes respectively on or above the stacking bodies. In the first step, a conductive body having an angled edge portion forming a edge line surrounding the top face itself is used. The second step includes a step of supplying at least a liquid having a light-emitting organic material that is ejected from a nozzle and supplied in a fine flow shape to the organic layer on the top face. | 07-17-2014 |
20140191819 | IMPEDANCE MATCHING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD - In an impedance matching device, a storage unit stores a control value representing a load value and a value equivalent to input impedance in advance. The control value identifies inductance and capacitance values matching a predetermined impedance value by use of either a first or second matching circuit. An impedance estimation unit estimates input impedance of the power transmission antenna. The load value estimation unit estimates load value of a circuit connected to a power reception antenna and consuming transmitted electric power. A circuit selection unit electrically connects the first matching circuit, the second matching circuit, or a through circuit per the load value and the input impedance equivalent value. A control value output unit reads out the control value stored in the storage unit based on the load value and the input impedance equivalent value, and outputs the control value to the circuit selected by the circuit selection unit. | 07-10-2014 |
20140185305 | LIGHTING DEVICE - A lighting device includes a face light emitter and a housing having an internal cavity. The internal cavity is defined by a wall and the face light emitter. The face light emitter is an electroluminescence panel having a permeable substrate to planarly radiate visible light. The electroluminescence panel has a plurality of holes each communicating from the internal cavity to an outside space. | 07-03-2014 |
20140177017 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - The image display device includes an output unit which outputs an image information light including image information; and a hologram element on which the image information light is incident, and projects the image information light via the hologram element on a retina to make a user visually recognize an image. The hologram element includes a first hologram area and a second hologram area. A first image projected on the retina by a first image information light of the image information light via the first hologram area and a second image projected on the retina by a second image information light of the image information light via the second hologram area are different images. | 06-26-2014 |
20140151669 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY PANEL - Organic semiconductor layers comprise between a first electrode and a photoelectric converting layer a light extraction improving layer that contains at least silver or gold in part as a component, partially reflects light, and has transparency. The light extraction improving layer is in contact with or is inserted into a functional layer containing, for example, an organic semiconductor material, an oxide, a fluoride, or an inorganic compound having strong acceptor properties or strong donor properties with an ionization potential of 5.5 eV or higher, within the organic semiconductor layers. | 06-05-2014 |
20140111839 | DRIVING APPARATUS - A driving apparatus ( | 04-24-2014 |
20140105427 | SPEAKER DEVICE - A speaker device includes a voice coil, a lead wire configured to be pulled out of the voice coil, a vibrating body connecting to the voice coil, a magnetic circuit comprising a yoke, and a frame that supports the vibrating body. The yoke includes a bottom portion including a plurality of corners and a side portion extending toward the vibrating body from one side of the bottom portion. The lead wire is configured to pass through a space that is outside of and next to the side portion of the yoke and between the frame and the vibrating body. The lead wire is configured to pass above a cutout of the yoke and bend toward and through the space. | 04-17-2014 |
20140097748 | SYSTEM FOR DETECTING SURROUNDING CONDITIONS OF MOVING BODY - This system for detecting the surrounding: conditions of a moving body forcibly changes the state of at least one of a plurality of lighting devices (change from an unlit stats to a lighting state or a blinking state, change in the emission color, or change in the luminance) installed inside the moving body if an object to which attention must be paid during traveling of the moving body is detected in the surroundings of the moving body. | 04-10-2014 |
20140055864 | OPTICAL ELEMENT, HEAD-UP DISPLAY AND LIGHT SOURCE UNIT - An optical element includes a first microlens array unit and a second microlens array unit in each of which a plurality of microlenses are arranged. The first and second microlens array units are arranged opposite to each other with a distance which is longer than a focal length of the microlenses arranged in the first microlens array unit. The first microlens unit is arranged on a light-incident side with respect to the second microlens array unit. The interval between the microlenses arranged in the second microlens array unit is narrower than the interval between the microlenses arranged in the first microlens array unit. The optical element can appropriately suppress the occurrence of excessive pixel bright spot. | 02-27-2014 |
20140036647 | NEAR-FIELD LIGHT DEVICE, RECORDING APPARATUS USING THE SAME, AND RECORDING METHOD - A recording apparatus records information onto a recording medium. The recording apparatus is provided with: a near-field light device; and a control unit for controlling the near-field light device. The near-field light device is provided with: a light source; a quantum dot structure which is laminated on the light source; a plurality of quantity dots which are included in the quantity dot structure and each of which generates near-field light on the basis of light emitted from the light source; and an output end which is configured to output at least one portion of energy of the near-field light to the exterior of the quantity dot structure. The control unit of the recording apparatus controls the light source to emit the light upon recording the information, thereby increasing temperature of a region of the recording medium based on a size of the output end. | 02-06-2014 |
20140035522 | CHARGING CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD, CHARGING SYSTEM, CORRELATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A charging control apparatus ( | 02-06-2014 |
20140018988 | EFFICIENCY MAP GENERATING APPARATUS, EFFICIENCY MAP GENERATING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An efficiency map generating apparatus ( | 01-16-2014 |
20140012499 | GUIDING DEVICE, SENSOR UNIT, PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE, GUIDING METHOD AND GUIDING PROGRAM - A guiding device, includes: a first position detecting unit which detects a present position; an obtaining unit which obtains a present position detected by a second position detecting unit, from a sensor unit having the second position detecting unit which detects the present position; a detecting unit which detects a communication condition with the sensor unit; a determining unit which determines whether to preferentially use the present position detected by the first position detecting unit or the present position detected by the second position detecting unit, based on the communication condition; and a controlling unit which displays a guidance based on the present position determined by the determining unit, on a display unit. Therefore, since the present position can be calculated with accuracy, it becomes possible to appropriately perform the guide based on the present position. | 01-09-2014 |
20130337216 | OPTICAL DISC - In an optical disc including a discoid optical-disc substrate and a coating film formed on the optical-disc substrate, the optical-disc substrate includes a first region including the innermost periphery thereof and having a projection formed on the whole of the first region, and a second region located outside of the first region. The coating layer is formed on the second region. Before the coating film is formed, the thickness of the optical-disc substrate at the first region is greater than the thickness of the optical-disc substrate at the second region. After the coating film is formed, the total thickness of the optical-disc substrate at the second region and the coating film is greater than the thickness of the optical-disc substrate at the first region. | 12-19-2013 |
20130322227 | RECORDING MEDIUM - A recording medium is provided with: a guide layer on which a guide track or guide tracks are formed; and recording layers, wherein (i) an information mark group and (ii) a distinctive mark group are formed in the guide layer, the information mark group being formed on each of a plurality of guide tracks, the distinctive mark group distinguishing a center track out of the plurality of guide tracks on each of which the information mark group is formed, the distinctive mark group including a pair of distinctive record marks which are shifted toward a right side and a left side, respectively, from a track center of the center track, a width of each distinctive record mark is twice or more a width of the guide track. | 12-05-2013 |
20130320884 | DRIVE DEVICE FOR LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT - A drive device for a light-emitting element that improves accuracy while driving the light-emitting element at small currents for which a comparatively simple configuration is provided. The drive device includes detecting means, comparing means, a driving voltage source, and offset means. The detecting means detects a voltage corresponding to a current flowing through a first resistor for current detection. The first resistor is coupled to a light-emitting element in series. The comparing means compares a magnitude of the detection voltage of the detecting unit with a comparison voltage. The driving voltage source applies a voltage corresponding to a comparison result by the comparing means to a series circuit of the light-emitting element and the first resistor. The offset means corrects the voltage corresponding to a current flowing through the first resistor by a correction voltage. | 12-05-2013 |
20130315435 | SPEAKER EDGE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME AND SPEAKER - A speaker edge includes a resin layer including a resin member and a fiber layer including a tangled fiber body. A melting temperature of the tangled fiber body is higher than a melting temperature of the resin member. The hardness of the tangled fiber body is lower than the hardness of the resin member. | 11-28-2013 |
20130307887 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image display apparatus is provided to display a smoothly moving image with a high resolution that includes: a light source 60; a light source drive part 20 that drives the light source; a deflector that repeatedly scans light from the light source in predetermined Lissajous patterns; and a drive waveform generation part 40. One of the Lissajous patterns is constituted by a first field and a second field, the first field being formed by first scanning trajectories and the second field being formed by second scanning trajectories. The light source drive part 20 drives the light source 60 based on image data corresponding to a field rate that is a repetition frequency to repeat the first field and the second field; and the drive waveform generation part 40 controls the deflector such that main scanning position X and sub-scanning position Y hold relationships represented by following equations. | 11-21-2013 |
20130279712 | ACTIVE VIBRATION NOISE CONTROL DEVICE, ACTIVE VIBRATION NOISE CONTROL METHOD AND ACTIVE VIBRATION NOISE CONTROL PROGRAM - An active vibration noise control device obtains error signals corresponding to a cancellation error between vibration noise and control sounds generated by multiple speakers, from microphone(s), and actively controls the vibration noise. A basic signal generating unit generates a basic signal based on a vibration noise frequency. An adaptive notch filter unit generates control signals provided to each of the multiple speakers by applying a filter coefficient to the basic signal. A reference signal generating unit generates a reference signal from the basic signal based on multiple transfer characteristics from the multiple speakers to the one or more microphones. A filter coefficient updating unit updates the filter coefficient used by the adaptive notch filter unit so as to minimize the error signals. A controlling unit changes amplitude of the control signals of the speakers based on a similarity between the transfer characteristics and characteristics of the vibration noise. | 10-24-2013 |
20130266155 | OPERATION DEVICE, REPRODUCTION SYSTEM, OPERATION METHOD OF OPERATION DEVICE AND PROGRAM - The DJ controller | 10-10-2013 |
20130261969 | NAVIGATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A navigation apparatus includes an obtaining unit, a storage unit, an extracting unit, a navigation unit and a determination unit. The obtaining unit obtains an image captured by an imaging unit. The storage unit stores landmark information relating to facilities. The extracting unit extracts at least one landmark corresponding to a navigation point from the stored landmark information when moving along a route. The navigation unit guides the navigation point by use of the at least one landmark extracted. The determination unit determines, at a position possible to take an image of a characteristic object corresponding to the landmark information thereat, whether the characteristic object can be recognized from the obtained image. The navigation unit guides the navigation point after omitting a landmark corresponding to the characteristic object from the at least one extracted landmark if the determination unit determines that the characteristic object cannot be recognized. | 10-03-2013 |
20130250141 | TERMINAL DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAYING METHOD AND IMAGE DISPLAYING PROGRAM EXECUTED BY TERMINAL DEVICE - This terminal device, which is removable from/attachable to a holding device attached to a mobile body, is provided with: an imaging means; a recording means that records captured images captured by the imaging means in the state of the terminal device being attached to the holding device; an adjustment image generating means that generates an image for adjustment that is for adjusting the imaging direction of the imaging means on the basis of a captured image recorded by the recording means; and a display control means that displays the adjustment image generated by the adjustment image generating means in a manner so as to be comparable to the captured image captured by the imaging means. As a result, the user can easily adjust the imaging direction by referring to the screen at which the adjustment image is displayed. | 09-26-2013 |
20130231861 | TERMINAL DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAYING METHOD AND IMAGE DISPLAYING PROGRAM EXECUTED BY TERMINAL DEVICE - A terminal device mounted on a movable body, includes: an image capturing unit; a determining unit which determines whether to preferentially display an actually captured guide image using a captured image captured by the image capturing unit or a map guide image using map information, based on a relationship between an image capturing direction of the image capturing unit and a traveling direction of the movable body; and a display controlling unit which displays either the actually captured guide image or the map guide image based on a determination by the determining unit. Therefore, it is possible to appropriately determine whether to preferentially display the actually captured guide image or the map guide image. | 09-05-2013 |
20130210583 | PEDALING-GOAL SETTING APPARATUS, PEDALING-GOAL SETTING METHOD, PEDALING-GOAL SETTING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING PEDALING-GOAL SETTING PROGRAM STORED THEREON - There are provided a pedaling-goal setting apparatus, a pedaling-goal setting method, a pedaling-goal setting program and a recording medium having the pedaling-goal setting program storing thereon. The pedal-goal setting apparatus includes a riding posture detection sensor | 08-15-2013 |
20130208133 | TERMINAL DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM EXECUTED BY A TERMINAL DEVICE - A terminal device is mounted on and used in a movable body such as a vehicle. The terminal device includes an image capturing unit, an image generating unit and a display unit. The image generating unit corrects the captured image captured by the image capturing unit based on the deviation of the image capturing direction of the image capturing unit with respect to the traveling direction of the movable body, and generates a display image. Thus, based on the deviation angle of the image capturing direction with respect to the traveling direction of the movable body, the captured image can be appropriately corrected to generate the display image. | 08-15-2013 |
20130207277 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device | 08-15-2013 |
20130205916 | MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD - A measurement module that measures force being applied to a man-powered machine includes: a strain sensor that detects strain of a crank of the bicycle configured to transmit force being applied from a user through the crank and one front gear selected among one or more front gears; an MM magnetic sensor that detects the crank passing through a predetermined position; and an MM control part. The MM control part calculates a rotation angle of the crank based on an elapsed time from a time the crank passes through the predetermined position that the sensor has detected, calculates force applied to the crank based on a strain amount of the crank that the strain sensor has detected, associates the rotation angle with the force applied to the crank to calculate distribution of the force applied from the user. | 08-15-2013 |
20130201806 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An information recording medium adopting a zone CAV method is provided with: a guide layer in which tracks are formed in advance; and a plurality of recording layers laminated on the guide layer. On the tracks, a plurality of guide areas, each of which has a physical structure for carrying guide information for guidance, are arranged discretely at arrangement intervals of predetermined distance or less which is set in advance in a track direction and are shifted between a plurality of tracks throughout the plurality of tracks which are adjacent to each other in a radial direction. On the tracks, moreover, a plurality of specific areas, each of which has a predetermined pattern, are respectively arranged in a same phase from an inner circumference to an outer circumference in the radial direction such that the predetermined pattern can be detected in a state in which tracking servo is open. | 08-08-2013 |
20130195282 | ACTIVE VIBRATION NOISE CONTROL DEVICE - An active vibration noise control device is preferably used for canceling a vibration noise by making a speaker generate a control sound. Concretely, the active vibration noise control device includes an attenuating unit which attenuates a control signal generated by an adaptive notch filter, and provides the attenuated control signal to the speaker, when amplitude of a filter coefficient is larger than a threshold. Therefore, it is possible to suppress continuous ups and downs of the filter coefficient during an occurrence of an abnormality. Hence, it becomes possible to appropriately suppress an occurrence of a cyclic abnormal sound and an increase in the vibration noise during the occurrence of the abnormality. | 08-01-2013 |
20130188929 | INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An information recording apparatus is provided with a storing device for storing one or a plurality of content data and records at least one portion of the one or plurality of content data onto a recording medium having a recordable recording layer. The information recording apparatus is provided with: a management data generating device for generating management data with reference to an application program corresponding to the at least one portion of the content data when the at least one portion of the content data is recorded onto the recording medium, the management data including information indicating the application program as specific information, the management data being data for managing reproduction of the at least one portion of the content data; and a recording device for recording the at least one portion of the content data, the application program, and the generated management data onto the recording medium. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188469 | RECORDING MEDIUM - A recording medium is provided with: a guide layer on which a guide track or tracks are formed; and a plurality of recording layers, wherein a same mark group is formed in a same rotational phase position of each of a plurality of guide tracks which are included in a beam spot of guide laser light, the mark group including a pair of record marks which are shifted by a predetermined distance toward a right side and a left side, respectively, from a track center. | 07-25-2013 |
20130179062 | TRAVEL DISTANCE ESTIMATING APPARATUS, TRAVEL DISTANCE ESTIMATING METHOD, TRAVEL DISTANCE ESTIMATING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A travel distance estimating apparatus ( | 07-11-2013 |
20130176669 | TERMINAL HOLDING DEVICE - The terminal holding device is attached to an installation surface such as a dashboard of a vehicle by an attaching unit. A supporting unit has one end connected to the attaching unit in such a manner that the angle is adjustable, and the other end connected to the holding unit which holds the terminal device. A sensor substrate for holding a sensor is mounted on the holding unit so as to be perpendicular to the display surface of the terminal device held by the holding unit. Normally, in order to easily view the display unit of the terminal device, a user will install the terminal device such that the display surface thereof is nearly perpendicular to the ground. Because the sensor substrate is mounted on the holding unit so as to be perpendicular to the display surface of the terminal device, the sensor substrate is mounted horizontally to the ground. | 07-11-2013 |
20130174660 | TERMINAL HOLDING DEVICE - The terminal holding device includes an attaching unit to be attached to a vehicle, a holding unit which removably holds a terminal device in such a manner that a display unit of the terminal device is exposed and which includes a contact surface to be contact with the terminal device, an acceleration sensor which detects acceleration in a direction from a side of the contact surface to a side opposite to the contact surface, and a supplying unit which supplies a detection signal of the acceleration sensor to the terminal device. | 07-11-2013 |
20130170648 | SURROUND SIGNAL GENERATING DEVICE, SURROUND SIGNAL GENERATING METHOD and SURROUND SIGNAL GENERATING PROGRAM - A surround signal generating device includes: a surround signal generating unit which subtracts a sound signal obtained by multiplying a first gain by an inputted sound signal of a right channel from an inputted sound signal of a left channel so as to generate a surround signal of the left channel, and which subtracts a sound signal obtained by multiplying a second gain by the inputted sound signal of the left channel from the inputted sound signal of the right channel so as to generate a surround signal of the right channel; and a gain setting unit which sets the first gain and the second gain so that a correlation between the surround signal of the left channel and the surround signal of the right channel which are generated by the surround signal generating unit realizes a correlation between surround signals of an actual content having a surround sound. | 07-04-2013 |
20130168715 | LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT - A light emitting element includes a resonator structure which has a first reflecting member, a second reflecting member, and a light emission layer placed between the first reflecting member and the second reflecting member, and part of light resonated between the first reflecting member and the second reflecting member is transmitted through the first reflecting member or the second reflecting member in the resonator structure. A wavelength at which a resonator output spectrum from the resonator structure has a maximum value is located between a wavelength at which an inner light emission spectrum of the light emission layer has a maximum value and a wavelength at which relative luminous efficiency has a maximum value. | 07-04-2013 |
20130158898 | MOBILE-OBJECT INFORMATION ACQUIRING APPARATUS, MOBILE-OBJECT INFORMATION ACQUIRING METHOD, MOBILE-OBJECT INFORMATION ACQUIRING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A mobile-object information acquiring apparatus ( | 06-20-2013 |
20130120225 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus that displays an image, includes: a scanning section that scans light from a light source in a main scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction orthogonal to the main scanning direction, as drawing sine waves; a detecting part that detects a change in a position of the scanning part in the main scanning direction and a change in a position of the scanning part in the sub-scanning direction; a phase difference comparator that detects a phase difference and a frequency ratio between the main scanning direction and the sub-scanning direction, based on the change in the position of the main scanning direction and the change in the position of the sub-scanning direction; and an image data generation part that estimates a scanning trajectory of the scanning part based on the phase difference and the frequency ratio, and generates pixel data corresponding to the scanning trajectory. | 05-16-2013 |
20130110269 | REPRODUCTION SYSTEM, REPRODUCTION METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF | 05-02-2013 |
20130099121 | INFRARED RAY DETECTION ELEMENT AND INFRARED RAY DETECTION DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - An infrared ray detection element has a plurality of pyroelectric layers that are laminated in a same direction as an incident direction of infrared rays, one or more intermediate electrode layers laminated between the plurality of pyroelectric layers; a front side electrode layer that is laminated on a front side of the pyroelectric layer positioned at a top side; and a back side electrode layer that is laminated on a back side of the pyroelectric layer positioned at a bottom side. The two pyroelectric layers adjacent in a front and back direction are performed with a polarization process such that polarization directions thereof are set to reverse directions to each other. | 04-25-2013 |
20130090564 | LIGHT DETECTING APPARATUS AND FLUID MEASURING APPARATUS - A light detecting apparatus includes: a first photoelectric conversion element unit ( | 04-11-2013 |
20130044891 | ACTIVE VIBRATION NOISE CONTROL DEVICE - The disclosed active vibration noise control device is suitable for use in cancelling out vibration noise by outputting control noise from a plurality of speakers. When a vibration noise frequency is in a dip bandwidth, the active vibration noise control device alters the step size parameters used to update the filter coefficient at at least one filter coefficient update means from among a plurality of filter coefficient update means. Thus, the filter coefficient update speed can be retarded in unstable dip bandwidths, enabling loss in silencing effect which occurs during dip characteristics to be appropriately reduced. | 02-21-2013 |
20130021889 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An information recording medium ( | 01-24-2013 |
20130021883 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An information recording medium ( | 01-24-2013 |
20130020935 | ORGANIC EL MODULE - An organic EL module | 01-24-2013 |
20130016851 | PSEUDONOISE GENERATION DEVICE AND PSEUDONOISE GENERATION METHODAANM Asao; KojiAACI Kawagoe-shiAACO JPAAGP Asao; Koji Kawagoe-shi JPAANM Tanaka; JunichiAACI Kawagoe-shiAACO JPAAGP Tanaka; Junichi Kawagoe-shi JP - A determination part specifies the road width upon which the vehicle CR is traveling based on the current position of a vehicle CR detected by a position detection part, referring to road width information in a storage part. The part determines an arrival ranges for pseudonoise being outputted outside the vehicle based on the specified road width. Subsequently, a control part determines audio volume settings for pseudonoise from left and right speakers of a pseudonoise generation part, based on the determined arrival range. As a result, pseudonoise at audio volumes corresponding to the audio volume settings is outputted outside the vehicle from the speakers of the part. Thus, the output of the pseudo engine noise is properly controlled with in consideration for the presence of the possible subject to be warned in a variety of surroundings changed depending on the classification of the road. | 01-17-2013 |
20130016218 | GENERATION DEVICE FOR VEHICLE-EVOCATIVE SOUND AND GENERATION METHOD FOR VEHICLE-EVOCATIVE SOUNDAANM Asao; KojiAACI TomiokaAACO JPAAGP Asao; Koji Tomioka JPAANM Tanaka; JunichiAACI KumagayaAACO JPAAGP Tanaka; Junichi Kumagaya JP - Based on the current position of a vehicle MV detected by a position detection part | 01-17-2013 |
20130002516 | RECEIVING APPARATUS - A switching diode | 01-03-2013 |
20120329414 | FM RECEIVING DEVICE AND FILTERING METHOD - A level detection part | 12-27-2012 |
20120323442 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PSEUDONOISE GENERATION - A derivation part derives accelerator information AR corresponding to accelerator opening angle and rotating speed information ER corresponding to engine rotating speed, based on the traveling information reflecting the operational state of a drive mechanism of a vehicle, acquired by an acquisition part. Subsequently, a generation part generates a pseudo sound signal of a waveform pattern corresponding to a combination of AR and ER. On the other hand, a level control part calculates a level designation value LVC based on the derived rotating speed information. The level control part reduces the pseudo sound signal level at a change rate to decrease discomfortness for the passengers in the vehicle, if ER continuously changes in a predetermined range for a predetermined time period during the calculation of LVC. As a result, pseudo sound that does not impart any discomfort sense to the passengers in the passenger compartment is generated. | 12-20-2012 |
20120319570 | ORGANIC EL PANEL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An organic EL panel forms at least one organic EL element on a substrate. The organic EL element has a laminating structure in which an organic layer including a light-emitting layer is arranged between an anode and a cathode. A light-emitting region in which the organic EL element is formed and a wiring region in which a wiring electrode is formed are formed on the substrate, the wiring electrode is drawn out from the light-emitting region and is electrically connected to the anode or the cathode of the organic EL element, and the wiring electrode has a planarly R shaped portion having a rounded corner at the end part on the side of the organic EL element. | 12-20-2012 |
20120319220 | METHOD OF BONDING SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE AND MEMS DEVICE - A method of bonding a semiconductor substrate having a substrate | 12-20-2012 |
20120316734 | ALERT SOUND OUTPUT CONTROL APPARATUS, ALERT SOUND OUTPUT CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - An alert sound output control apparatus provides audio data to a speaker unit that outputs an alert sound directed outside a vehicle. The alert sound output control apparatus includes a road information acquiring unit that acquires lane count information for a road being traveled by the vehicle; a position information acquiring unit that acquires traveling position information for the vehicle; and an output unit that based on the lane count information and the traveling position information, controls output of the alert sound directed outside the vehicle. | 12-13-2012 |
20120306032 | METHOD OF BONDING SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE AND MEMS DEVICE - Disclosed is a method for bonding semiconductor substrates, wherein an eutectic alloy does run off the bonding surfaces during the eutectic bonding. Also disclosed is an MEMS device which is obtained by bonding semiconductor substrates by this method. Specifically, a substrate ( | 12-06-2012 |
20120300955 | ACTIVE VIBRATION NOISE CONTROL DEVICE - An active vibration noise control device cancels vibration noise by making plural speakers generate control sounds. The active vibration noise control device selects one or more speakers which output the control sounds, from plural speakers, based on a relationship between (1) a first phase difference which corresponds to a difference between phase characteristics of the vibration noise from a vibration noise source to an evaluation point and phase characteristics of the vibration noise from the vibration noise source to a pseudo evaluation point and (2) a second phase difference for each of the plural speakers corresponding to a difference between phase characteristics of the control sound from the speaker to the evaluation point and phase characteristics of the control sound from the speaker to the pseudo evaluation point. Therefore, it stably decreases the vibration noise at the pseudo evaluation point independently of a frequency band of the vibration noise. | 11-29-2012 |
20120299443 | POWER GENERATING APPARATUS AND POWER GENERATING METHOD - When a rotating shaft member rotates, centrifugal force acts upon pressure members 152 | 11-29-2012 |
20120299128 | METHOD OF BONDING SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE AND MEMS DEVICE - A method of bonding a semiconductor substrate in which a first semiconductor substrate is bonded with a second semiconductor substrate by eutectic bonding with pressurization and heating, an aluminum containing layer primarily made of aluminum and a germanium layer in a polymer state being interposed between a bonding surface of the first semiconductor substrate and a bonding surface of the second semiconductor substrate, the method including a step of: setting a weight ratio of the germanium layer to an aluminum containing layer to be eutectic alloyed is between 27 wt % to 52 wt %. | 11-29-2012 |
20120274615 | ACTIVE MATRIX TYPE MODULE AND DRIVING METHOD OF ACTIVE MATRIX TYPE MODULE - A data voltage error due to a feed-through effect is corrected without an increase in the number of transistors in capacitive memory cells. A display panel ( | 11-01-2012 |
20120249795 | SIGNAL RECOGNIZING DEVICE, SIGNAL RECOGNIZING METHOD AND SIGNAL RECOGNIZING PROGRAM - A signal recognizing device is mounted on a moving body, and connects to a camera. The signal recognizing device includes a storage unit, a signal display candidate detecting unit (SDCDU), a reference calculating unit (RCU) and a green lighting determination unit (GLDU). The SDCDU detects red lamp candidate areas from an image. The RCU calculates a moving average of pixel value per pixel existing in the green lamp candidate area, and stores the moving averages. For each pixel value of the green lamp candidate area, the RCU omits the pixel value from the samples for calculating the moving average if a difference between the pixel value and the moving average exceeds a threshold. Upon red lamp transition to an unlit state, it determines whether a green lamp is lit based on the image captured at the time of the unlit state of the red lamp and the moving averages. | 10-04-2012 |
20120249585 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD THEREOF, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - When an indicating situation recognizer recognizes an indicating situation on a display surface of a display unit indicated by a finger, a drawing processor superimposes a drawn image corresponding to the indicating situation onto a map displayed on the display surface. When recognizing an image masking request signal indicating that the map is hidden, an image masking processor provides a display state where the map is hidden and only the drawn image is displayed. When recognizing the indicating situation by the indicating situation recognizer while the map is masked, an image exposure processor performs an image exposure process to display the hidden map in an area corresponding to the indicating situation. Accordingly, it can be prevented that the meaning of the drawn image becomes difficult to grasp because an area irrelevant to the drawn image is displayed on the displayed map M. The meaning and the tendency of the drawn image is easily checkable on the displayed map. | 10-04-2012 |
20120247266 | SLIDE HANDLER - A slide handler | 10-04-2012 |
20120239290 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND BICYCLE MAP - A bicycle map is displayed on a screen. The bicycle map includes travel route information obtained by associating map information and cyclist information regarding bicycle travel routes. First, bicycle positional information regarding a bicycle being running is acquired, by use of a positioning system and also bicycle-related information when the bicycle positional information is acquired. Second, travel route information obtained by associating the bicycle positional information with the bicycle-related information is created and stored in a storage device. Then, pieces of travel route information created by the same or different information processing apparatuses are merged, and merged running route information is displayed with the map information on the screen. | 09-20-2012 |
20120236134 | HANDHELD BRAILLE CONVERTING DEVICE, BRAILLE CONVERTING METHOD, BRAILLE CONVERTING PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A handheld Braille converting device includes a Braille display unit, an image capturing element, a character recognition element, a Braille converting element, and a display control element to complete the process from the reading of the characters to the output of the Braille by itself. Also, the device has a size capable of being held by a single hand. The Braille display unit includes multiple single Braille display units each corresponding to one Braille character and each single Braille display unit includes multiple movable members. The display control element displays whether or not the relative position of the handheld Braille converting device is correct with respect to a character or character string existing in the captured image, by operating members included in a part of the single Braille display units. The display control element also displays Braille by operating members included in the other single Braille display units. | 09-20-2012 |
20120235540 | DRIVING APPARATUS - A driving apparatus ( | 09-20-2012 |
20120235113 | ELECTRON EMISSION ELEMENT AND IMAGING DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - An electron emission element has an electron emission layer that emits an electron from a surface emission portion, a focusing electrode layer that is film-formed on a surface of the electron emission layer via a first insulation layer and focuses the emitted electron, a gate electrode layer that is film-formed on a surface of the focusing electrode layer via a second insulation layer, an emission concave portion that penetrates the gate electrode layer, the second insulation layer, the focusing electrode layer and the first insulation layer and opens in a concave shape on a surface of the surface emission portion, a carbon layer that is film-formed from a surface of the gate electrode layer over an inner peripheral surface of the emission concave portion, and a partial insulation portion that insulates the focusing electrode layer from the carbon layer. | 09-20-2012 |
20120235039 | MEMS SENSOR - A MEMS sensor has a frame portion | 09-20-2012 |
20120230504 | NOISE-REDUCTION DEVICE - When cancelling noise by acoustically outputting, to a room interior, sound having a phase opposite to that of noise leaked into the room interior of a movable body, if detected movable body exterior sound is predetermined specific sound, a cancelling amount of a noise cancelling operation is automatically reduced. | 09-13-2012 |
20120230364 | SENSOR ARRAY - A sensor array has a plurality of sensor elements, each of which has a rectangular frame shaped frame portion formed by connecting a plurality of frame pieces and a membrane that is constructed within the frame portion and has sensitivity as sensor, and the plurality of sensor elements are disposed in a planar shape in a state that the frame pieces in adjacent sensor elements are shared. The membrane has covexoconcave shape in which rectangular concave portions and rectangular convex portions are disposed in a web shape. | 09-13-2012 |
20120228996 | DRIVING APPARATUS - A driving apparatus ( | 09-13-2012 |
20120228504 | MEMS SENSOR AND SENSOR ARRAY HAVING THE SAME - A MEMS sensor has a membrane | 09-13-2012 |
20120228460 | DRIVING APPARATUS - A driving apparatus ( | 09-13-2012 |
20120224235 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL LIGHT SCANNING APPARATUS - A two-dimensional light scanning apparatus includes: a deflector to drive at a resonance frequency in a main scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction different from the main scanning direction; a position sensor to detect a scanning position of the deflector; a resonance frequency predicting part to predict the resonance frequency of the deflector; and a deflector drive control part to: for drawing a Lissajous figure in which scanning trajectories of the deflector do not overlap with each other for one frame, store a plurality of pairs of respective frequency ratios of driving signals in the sub-scanning direction to driving signals in the main scanning direction, and respective phases of the driving signals in the sub-scanning direction with respect to the driving signals in the main scanning direction; select one pair of a frequency ratio and a phase; and control the deflector with a driving signal. | 09-06-2012 |
20120218641 | OPTICAL ELEMENT, HEAD-UP DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING OPTICAL ELEMENT - An optical element includes first and second microlens array units on which microlenses are arranged. The microlenses are formed by lens contour having a polygonal shape in a plan view. The first and second microlens array units are arranged opposite to each other at a position where a distance between the first and second microlens array units is at least longer than a focal distance of the microlens, and are formed so that a direction of vertices of the lens contour of the microlens arranged on the first microlens array unit is different from a direction of vertices of the lens contour of the microlens arranged on the second microlens array unit. According to the above optical element, it is possible to appropriately suppress an influence of shift of the position between the first and second microlens array units, and it becomes possible to produce the optical element with ease. | 08-30-2012 |
20120207321 | SPEAKER DEVICE - A speaker device includes a static part, a driving part and a vibrating body. The vibrating body includes a plurality of diaphragms supported by the static part. A vibration direction converter part is provided between a first diaphragm and a second diaphragm facing each other in a plurality of the diaphragms, and connects the first diaphragm with the second diaphragm such that the first diaphragm and the second diaphragm synchronously move toward and away from each other. A part of the vibration direction converter part disposed in the proximity of the static part is supported by the static part, and a part of the vibration direction converter part disposed in the proximity of the driving part is supported by the driving part. | 08-16-2012 |
20120200951 | CONTENT DUPLICATION DEVICE AND CONTENT DUPLICATION SYSTEM - A duplication device is provided. When content is duplicated by recording, in a recording medium of a recording destination, the same content as content recorded in a recording medium of a duplication source, even if a reading speed is slower than a writing speed, the duplication device can reduce a duplication time as much as possible. The duplication device | 08-09-2012 |
20120200604 | MAP DISPLAY DEVICE, MAP DISPLAY METHOD AND MAP DISPLAY PROGRAM - The map display device may be a mobile terminal device, and a map is displayed on the display unit. The display unit may be a liquid crystal display device of touch-panel type, and detects the contact position of the contact body such as a user's finger, a touch pen or else. When plural contact bodies contact the display unit, the display mode is changed from the normal display mode to the map rotation mode based on the movement amounts of the contact bodies. In the map rotation mode, the displayed map is rotated and displayed based on the movement amount of the contact position of the contact body. When only one contact body is in contact with the display unit after the change to the map rotation mode, the displayed map is rotated and displayed based on the movement amount of the contact position of the one contact body. | 08-09-2012 |
20120195439 | ACTIVE VIBRATION NOISE CONTROL DEVICE - An active vibration noise control device is preferably used for cancelling a vibration noise by making a speaker generate a control sound. The active vibration noise control device includes a step-size parameter changing unit which changes a step-size parameter used for updating a filter coefficient. The step-size parameter changing unit calculates a parameter-for-change based on the filter coefficient updated by using a basic step-size parameter, and changes the basic step-size parameter by a minimum value in the previously calculated parameter-for-change. Therefore, it is possible to appropriately change the step-size parameter by using the minimum value of the parameter-for-change. Hence, it becomes possible to effectively suppress a divergence of an adaptive notch filter due to a secular change of the speaker. | 08-02-2012 |
20120194881 | IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS - The image sensing apparatus includes an intermediate electrode disposed between the electron emission source array and the photoelectric conversion film; an intermediate-electrode current detection portion for detecting an intermediate electrode current flowing in the intermediate electrode when an electron is emitted from the electron emission source array to the photoelectric conversion film; an intermediate current complete integrator for generating an integration signal by performing complete time integration of the intermediate electrode current; and an intermediate-electrode signal generating device for generating an intermediate electrode signal by sampling the integration signal for every pixel period that is a period for supplying electrons to each of the pixel regions. | 08-02-2012 |
20120194063 | LIGHT EMITTING APPARATUS WITH AN ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE CELL - A light emitting apparatus includes a transparent substrate made of glass material, for example, a first electrode layer formed on the substrate, a light emitting functional layer including organic material formed on the first electrode layer, a back surface electrode made of metallic material, for example, as a second electrode layer formed on the light emitting functional layer, and dot-shaped conductors arranged on the first electrode layer. | 08-02-2012 |
20120193615 | ORGANIC EL ELEMENT AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - A technology having resistance to moisture and oxygen, and in which the occurrence and expansion of non-light-generating portions, such as dark spots, are suppressed is provided. An organic EL element in which an organic functional layer including at least one or more light-emitting layers is arranged between a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein the organic functional layer includes a bipolar charge generation layer which generates electrons and holes, and one of the first electrode and the second electrode is a hole-receiving electrode. | 08-02-2012 |
20120191334 | FUEL EFFICIENCY DISPLAY DEVICE, FUEL EFFICIENCY DISPLAY METHOD, AND FUEL EFFICIENCY DISPLAY PROGRAM - A fuel efficiency display device includes a past average fuel efficiency (AFE) calculating unit, a present AFE calculating unit, an AFE comparison unit, and a display unit. The past AFE calculating unit calculates AFE from a start time of use of the fuel efficiency display device to a finish time of a last driving operation as a past AFE. The present AFE calculating unit calculates an AFE at constant time intervals or at constant intervals of running distance as a present AFE since a start time of a present driving operation. The AFE comparison unit makes a comparison between the present AFE and the past AFE. The display unit displays a proportion of a number of times that the present AFE is more efficient than the past AFE to a total number of the comparisons between the present AFE and the past AFE. | 07-26-2012 |
20120189208 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus ( | 07-26-2012 |
20120181445 | ELECTRON BEAM RECORDING APPARATUS | 07-19-2012 |
20120179522 | ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION DEVICE, TERMINAL, ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION METHOD, AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A server of an advertisement distribution system allows downloading of content data in response to a request of a terminal and makes the terminal periodically download shared content managing information. Then, when the server recognizes that the content data stored in a server storage before the server storage goes out of order has to be stored in a new server storage (restoration process), the server makes the terminal upload the shared content managing information and acquires from the terminal the content data specified by the shared content managing information to store the content data in the new server storage. | 07-12-2012 |
20120173145 | NAVIGATION DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A determination unit determines whether or not the vehicle is running on a road known by a user. A mode setting unit sets an output mode to a known road running mode in a case where the determination unit determines that the vehicle is running on the known road, and sets the output mode to a normal mode in a case where the determination unit determines that the vehicle is not running on the known road. A function suppressing unit suppresses the interrupt function in the known road running mode. A valuable information presenting unit displays, in the known road running mode, some or all valuable information in a larger scale compared to the normal mode among plural piece of information displayed in the normal mode, and/or which displays other valuable information which is not displayed in the normal mode. | 07-05-2012 |
20120170430 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS - An information recording medium ( | 07-05-2012 |
20120166613 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVER, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - An information management server includes an information provision request receiving unit which receives an information provision request together with request information, a probe information provision requesting unit which performs the probe information provision request to the probe information providing apparatus, a probe information obtaining unit which obtains the probe information from the probe information providing apparatus, a message information provision requesting unit which performs the message information provision request to the message information providing apparatus, a message information obtaining unit which obtains the message information from the message information providing apparatus, a response-to-request information generating unit which generates response-to-request information corresponding to the request information by using the probe information and the message information, and a response-to-request information providing unit which provides the response-to-request information to the information provision requesting apparatus and optionally aerating the composition are also disclosed. | 06-28-2012 |
20120162169 | ACTIVE MATRIX TYPE ORGANIC EL DISPLAY DEVICE AND ITS DRIVING METHOD - To control a chronological luminance decrease of an organic EL element in an active matrix drive type organic EL display and to provide a reliable organic EL display. An organic EL display comprising a luminance decrease detector to detect a luminance decrease of an organic EL element; a reverse bias voltage generator to generate a reverse bias voltage pulse according to an amount of the luminance decrease; and a controller to control applying the above reverse bias voltage pulse to a driving transistor in a time period in which the organic EL element emits no light. | 06-28-2012 |
20120161172 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A display device capable of suppressing a reduction in color purity includes: a first resonator structure having an upper reflective member, a lower reflective member, and a light-emitting functional layer therebetween, the light-emitting functional layer including a red light-emitting layer which emits red light; a second resonator structure having an upper reflective member, a lower reflective member, and a light-emitting functional layer provided therebetween, the light-emitting functional layer including a blue light-emitting layer which emits blue light; and a third resonator structure having an part reflective member, a lower reflective member, and a light-emitting functional layer provided therebetween, the light-emitting functional layer including a green light-emitting layer which emits green light, wherein the red light-emitting layer is a common layer provided in each of the light-emitting functional layers of the first to third resonator structures. | 06-28-2012 |
20120159525 | GUIDE-LAYER SEPARATED OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM, OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM DRIVE APPARATUS, AND RECORDING LAYER ACCESS METHOD - A guide-layer separated optical recording medium includes a guide layer with a guide track formed therein and a plurality of recording layers, these layers being separately deposited from each other. A layer position information region for indicating position information of each of the recording layers, is formed on the guide track within a different range of the guide layer for each of the recording layers. Each of the recording layers includes a preformat region having a predetermined signal written on a record track along the guide track, and the preformat region on each of the recording layers is provided in a region corresponding to the layer position information region. An optical recording medium drive apparatus and a recording layer access method for the guide-layer separated optical recording medium are also provided. The apparatus and method implement: determining whether a reproduced signal has been obtained, based on the detection level of a reflected beam from the preformat region by a read/write optical system; acquiring position information of one of the plurality of recording layers based on the detection level of a reflected beam from a layer position information region by a servo optical system; and causing a second laser beam to access a desired one of the plurality of recording layers in accordance with the determination result of the reproduced signal and the position information. | 06-21-2012 |
20120155651 | SOUND FIELD ADJUSTMENT DEVICE - A sound field adjusting device reproduces signals from plural speaker pairs arranged in an acoustic space. The device supplies signals to the plural speakers, gives different delays for the respective frequency bands to the signals supplied to at least to a proximity speaker pair which is a speaker pair closest to a listening position among the plural speakers, and gives a delay of a constant delay amount regardless of the frequency band to the speaker pairs other than the speaker pair to which the delays of different delay amounts for the respective frequency bands are given. In this case, the sound field adjusting device does not perform level adjustment, and the sound field adjustment is performed by only adjusting the delay amounts. Therefore, deterioration of sound pressure balance at the position other than the listening position can be avoided, and sound pressure balance at the listening position improved. | 06-21-2012 |
20120155244 | INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS, INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, AND INFORMATION RECORDING/PROCESSING PROGRAM - An information recording apparatus recording disc structure definition information defining a structure of an optical disc, in management areas of the optical disc including a data area and the management areas positioned on inner and outer periphery sides of the data area, includes: a memory which stores disc structure definition information of a new version including an invalid mark which cannot be interpreted as the disc structure definition information by an information reproducing apparatus and an information recording/reproducing apparatus being non-adaptive; and a recording control element for, when the disc structure definition information of the new version is recorded in the management areas, controlling recording of the disc structure definition information of the new version so the invalid mark is positioned at a position in the management areas in which all or part of disc structure definition information of an old version without the invalid mark needs to be recorded. | 06-21-2012 |
20120153129 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus which can provide a uniform magnetic field distribution in an image pickup device and can be reduced in size includes an electron emission source array with a plurality of electron emission sources arranged on a plane perpendicular to an optical axis, and a translucent substrate having an optoelectronic film disposed on the optical axis to be opposed to the electron emission source array with a space therebetween. The imaging apparatus has a magnet portion for forming in the space a magnetic field in a direction orthogonal to each principal plane of the translucent substrate and the electron emission source array. The magnet portion includes a plurality of magnets which are disposed in parallel to the optical axis so that the respective magnetic poles thereof are arranged in a forward direction in parallel to the optical axis and will not contact with each other. | 06-21-2012 |
20120149471 | MIXER DEVICE, REPRODUCTION SYSTEM, PLAYER, AND PROGRAM - A mixer 20 of the invention has a plurality of LAN ports that are connected with a plurality of players 10 and input/output a control signal from/to the players 10, an input detection device 210 that detects that the control signal is input from connected one of the players 10, an ID determination device 220 that determines an ID pre-assigned to the detected one LAN port as an ID of the player 10 connected to the one LAN port, and an ID transmission device 230 that transmits the determined ID to the player 10 through the one LAN port. | 06-14-2012 |
20120145885 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus which can provide a uniform magnetic field distribution in an image pickup device and can reduce the size of the device includes an electron emission source array with a plurality of electron emission sources arranged on a plane, and a translucent substrate having an optoelectronic film opposed to the electron emission source array with a space therebetween. The imaging apparatus includes a magnet portion for forming in the space a magnetic field in a direction orthogonal to each principal plane of the translucent substrate and the electron emission source array, and a magnetic force supply portion. The magnetic force supply portion has a magnetic body which is disposed on the light incident side to be opposed to the translucent substrate with a space therebetween and connected to the magnet portion, and an opening which defines an optical path that will not hinder formation of the optical image. | 06-14-2012 |
20120139935 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE - A content playback device | 06-07-2012 |
20120138975 | LIGHT- EMITTING ELEMENT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A light-emitting element and a display device having a resonator structure which has a small luminance fluctuation, even if a film thickness is deviated from a designed value, thereby resulting in a variation in resonator optical path length. There are included: a first reflective member; a second reflective member; and a light-emitting layer provided therebetween, and there is provided a resonator structure that transmits part of light by the first reflective member or the second reflective member, the light being resonated between the first reflective member and the second reflective member. The resonator structure has at least two or more resonance spectral peaks at respective wavelengths in a visible light range with a wavelength of a maximum value relative luminosity being a border line and an emission output spectrum has at least two or more peaks at respective wavelengths based on the resonance spectral peaks. | 06-07-2012 |
20120134512 | MIXER DEVICE, PLAYER, REPRODUCTION SYSTEM, METHOD OF CONTROLLING MIXER DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING PLAYER AND PROGRAM - A mixer device, a player and a reproduction system and the like are provided which enable a user to acknowledge at the player side whether reproduction signals being reproduced with the player are in an on-air state (whether it is output from the mixer device side) and can prevent mistaken operations by the user. The mixer device | 05-31-2012 |
20120124674 | RIGHT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, RIGHT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, AND CONTENT PLAYBACK SYSTEM - In a content playback system | 05-17-2012 |
20120120783 | GUIDE-LAYER SEPARATED OPTICAL DISK, OPTICAL DISK DRIVE APPARATUS, AND TRACKING CONTROL METHOD - A guide-layer separated optical disk which includes a guide layer having a guide structure whose tracking guide tracks are divided into areas by discontinuous portions, the areas each having concentric guide tracks of arc shape at a regular track pitch, the guide tracks in adjoining two of the areas across one of the discontinuous portions deviating from each other in a radial direction of the disk by ¼ the track pitch. An optical disk drive apparatus and a tracking control method in which a servo optical system switches the tracking center of the irradiation spot of a first laser beam between on the guide tracks and in between the guide tracks alternately each time the irradiation spot passes two of the discontinuous portions. | 05-17-2012 |
20120120586 | DEVICE, AND DEVICE MOUNTING APPARATUS - A device, and a device mounting apparatus providing ease of use similar to an optical disc, and a protection against erroneous ejection, while reducing cost, are provided. A memory device mounting apparatus, includes a memory device mounting unit in which a memory device can be mounted, the memory device including a nonvolatile semiconductor memory, a controller for controlling the writing and reading of data in and from the nonvolatile semiconductor memory, a host interface unit for the controller to communicate with a host computer, and a connection unit which is electrically connected to the controller. The device mounting apparatus includes a connection unit which is electrically connected to the connection unit of the memory device, an operation unit which receives an ejecting instruction of the memory device from a user, and an ejecting unit which includes an ejecting mechanism which ejects the memory device from the memory device mounting unit. | 05-17-2012 |
20120119188 | SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS MANUFACTURING METHOD AND SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS - A semiconductor apparatus manufacturing method is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor apparatus having a peak wavelength of PL emission of greater than or equal to 1.2 μm at a temperature of 300K. The manufacturing method is provided with: a first forming process of forming a buffer layer ( | 05-17-2012 |
20120114136 | SPEAKER DEVICE - A speaker device has a diaphragm, a static part vibratably supporting the diaphragm in a vibration direction and a driving part applying vibration to the diaphragm in response to an audio signal. The driving part is provided at the static part. The driving part includes a magnetic circuit forming a magnetic gap in a direction different from the vibration direction of the diaphragm, a voice coil vibrating along the magnetic gap, and a vibration direction converter part direction-converting the vibration of the voice coil and transmitting the vibration to the diaphragm. The vibration direction converter part includes a link body angle-converting a link part formed between the voice coil and the diaphragm. The static part includes an outer peripheral frame part surrounding the diaphragm and a bridge part bridging the inside of the outer peripheral frame part. | 05-10-2012 |
20120109968 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION CREATING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION CREATING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING POROGRAM, INFORMATION CREATINGN PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a point database of position information and address information (text data of an address without a predetermined area name) for a point and with which a point search process is executed; a map database that includes text data of an area name for map display and with which a map display process is executed; and a control unit that, when a process is executed that uses text data of an address of a search point retrieved by the point search process, acquires from the point database, the position information and address information of the search point, acquires based on the position information of the search point and from the map database, the text data of the area name in the address of the search point, combines the acquired address information and acquired text data, generating the text data of the address of the search point. | 05-03-2012 |
20120109871 | REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A reproducing apparatus ( | 05-03-2012 |
20120109348 | CROSS FADER UNIT, MIXER AND PROGRAM - A cross fader unit, a mixer and a program which can achieve various music expressions with a simple manipulation are provided. A cross fader unit CF has an adjustment device by band | 05-03-2012 |
20120106777 | SPEAKER DAMPER AND SPEAKER DEVICE - A damper for a speaker for vibratably supporting a voice coil to a static part includes a first damper and a second damper formed in an annular shape having an inner periphery part and an outer periphery part, respectively. The first and second dampers are formed in a shape expandable and contractable in a direction crossing a circumferential direction of the annular shape. The inner periphery part of the second damper is connected to the first damper between the inner periphery part and the outer periphery part of the first damper, and each outer periphery part of the first damper and the second damper is connected to each other such that annular space is formed between the first damper and the second damper. | 05-03-2012 |
20120106772 | SPEAKER DEVICE - A diaphragm, a static part vibratably supporting the diaphragm in the vibration direction, and a driving part provided at the static part and applying vibration to the diaphragm in response to an audio signal are provided, and the driving part includes a magnetic circuit forming a magnetic gap, a voice coil vibrating in a different direction from the vibration direction of said diaphragm in response to an inputted audio signal and a rigid vibration direction converter part direction-converting the vibration of the voice coil and transmitting the vibration to the diaphragm, and the vibration direction converter part is connected to an attaching counterpart including the diaphragm and the voice coil and includes a hinge part in the proximity of the attaching counterpart, and a contact avoiding part avoiding contact with the hinge part is formed on the face side of the attaching counterpart in the proximity of the hinge part. | 05-03-2012 |
20120105033 | LIGHT AMOUNT DETECTING APPARATUS, AND LIGHT AMOUNT INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A light amount detecting apparatus includes: a photoelectric converting element converting quantity of light inputted to current; a current/voltage converting device having a positive input terminal connected to a first terminal of the photoelectric converting element, a negative input terminal connected to a second terminal of the photoelectric converting element, a negative output terminal for reversing polarity of a current inputted to the positive input terminal and outputting it as a voltage, a positive output terminal for reversing polarity of a current inputted to the negative input terminal and outputting it as a voltage, a first negative feedback resistor connecting the positive and negative output terminals, and a second negative feedback resistor connected between the negative and positive output terminals, the current/voltage converting device setting the photoelectric converting element in zero bias and converting the converted current to the voltage; and an amplifying device for amplifying the converted voltage. | 05-03-2012 |
20120099840 | TERMINAL DEVICE, SERVER DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD THEREFOR - The terminal device is configured to be able to reproduce and record contents, and performs reproduction and recording of an optical disc of high recording density, such as a BD. The offer information receiving unit receives the offer information, indicating a condition for performing the managed copy defined by the AACS, from the managed copy server. The offer information transmitting unit transmits the offer information to the server device in order to register the offer information with the server device. By this, the offer information of plural contents can be managed by the server device, and plural users can appropriately share the offer information. Therefore, it becomes possible to know the offer information of a disc, in advance, without actually buying the disc. | 04-26-2012 |
20120099312 | LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A light emitting element includes a resonator structure which has a first reflecting member, a second reflecting member, and a light emission layer placed between the first reflecting member and the second reflecting member, part of light resonated between the first reflecting member and the second reflecting member being transmitted through the first reflecting member or the second reflecting member in the resonator structure, and a band absorption filter transmitting the part of the light transmitted through the first reflecting member or the second reflecting member, wherein a wavelength at which the transmission of the band absorption filter has a minimum value is located between a wavelength at which a resonator output spectrum from the resonator structure has a maximum value and a wavelength at which relative luminous efficiency has a maximum value. | 04-26-2012 |
20120094693 | TELEPHONE DIRECTORY DATA SHARING SYSTEM, NAVIGATION DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A telephone directory data sharing system includes a mobile terminal and a navigation device. The mobile terminal includes an information obtaining unit, a telephone directory data generating unit, and a telephone directory data supplying unit. The information obtaining unit obtains objective information including latitude-longitude information based on an external input. The telephone directory data generating unit generates telephone directory data in which the latitude-longitude information is inserted into a field of a name and/or a field of a telephone number. The navigation device includes a telephone directory data obtaining unit and a latitude-longitude information extracting unit. The telephone directory data obtaining unit obtains the telephone directory data supplied from the terminal device. The latitude-longitude information extracting unit extracts the latitude-longitude information from the obtained telephone directory data. | 04-19-2012 |
20120092872 | LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A light emitting element includes a resonator structure which has a first reflecting member, a second reflecting member, and a light emission layer placed between the first reflecting member and the second reflecting member, and part of light resonated between the first reflecting member and the second reflecting member is transmitted through the first reflecting member or the second reflecting member in the resonator structure. A wavelength at which a resonator output spectrum from the resonator structure has a maximum value is located between a wavelength at which an inner light emission spectrum of the light emission layer has a maximum value and a wavelength at which relative luminous efficiency has a maximum value. | 04-19-2012 |
20120088523 | NOTIFICATION DEVICE, NOTIFICATION SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING NOTIFICATION DEVICE, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING A CONTROL PROGRAM RECORDED THEREUPON - A mobile phone ( | 04-12-2012 |
20120084442 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, ADDRESS RESOLUTION SERVER, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A communication terminal ( | 04-05-2012 |
20120083409 | TIO2 NANOPARTICLES - Disclosed is a TiO | 04-05-2012 |
20120072869 | COPY SUPPORTING DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, COPY SUPPORT METHOD, AND COPY SUPPORTING PROGRAM - A copy supporting device includes a receiving unit, a content list display unit, a first input accepting unit, a sub menu display unit, a second input accepting unit, and a relevant content extracting unit. The sub menu display unit displays, on the basis of attribute information of the designated content which is designated from the content list by the external input, a sub menu which includes items designating relevance to the designated content. The second input accepting unit accepts a designation of an item in the sub menu by the external input. The relevant content extracting unit extracts contents related to the designated content from the content list on the basis of the designated item. | 03-22-2012 |
20120069723 | OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM DRIVE DEVICE AND RECORDING METHOD - An optical recording medium drive device including: a combining prism for combining a recording first laser beam emitted from a first light source with a recording second laser beam emitted from the first light source so as to coaxially guide them; an objective lens for condensing the first and second laser beams from the combining prism toward an optical recording medium; a first photodetecting means for detecting reflected light of the first laser beam from a recording layer; a second photodetecting means for detecting reflected light of the second laser beam from a guide layer; a magnification conversion element disposed on an optical path of the second laser beam between a second light source and the combining prism for diffusing or converging the second laser beam incident upon the objective lens; a first focus error generating means for generating a first focus error signal indicating an error between a condensed spot position of the first laser beam and the recording layer based on an output signal of the first photodetecting means; a second focus error generating means for generating a second focus error signal indicating an error between a condensed spot position of the second laser beam and the guide layer based on an output signal of the second photodetecting means; a first focus control means for controlling the objective lens in an optical axis direction thereof in accordance with the first focus error signal; and a second focus control means for controlling a magnitude of the diffusion or convergence of the second laser beam by the magnification conversion element in accordance with the second focus error signal. | 03-22-2012 |
20120066261 | CONTENT SEARCH APPARATUS, CONTENT SEARCH METHOD, CONTENT SEARCH PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A content search apparatus that searches for content matching keywords, includes a history acquiring unit that acquires a user behavior history; a keyword acquiring unit that acquires keywords based on the user behavior history acquired by the history acquiring unit; a correlating unit that correlates with each of the keywords acquired by the keyword acquiring unit, attribute related information; a combining unit that among the keywords acquired by the keyword acquiring unit, combines the keywords that have been correlated with mutually different attribute related information by the correlating unit; and a searching unit that searches for content that matches the keywords combined by the combining unit. The correlating unit correlates with each of the keywords, attribute related information concerning plural attributes, and the combining unit combines the keywords whose correlated attribute related information overlap least. | 03-15-2012 |
20120056731 | DEVICE CONTROL SYSTEM - A controller | 03-08-2012 |
20120045073 | SPEAKER DEVICE - A flat speaker device capable of emitting loud reproduced sound with a relatively simple configuration is provided. The speaker device includes a diaphragm, a frame supporting the diaphragm vibratably in the vibration direction, a magnetic circuit disposed in the frame, and a driving member for driving the diaphragm. The driving member includes a voice coil movably disposed in a magnetic gap of the magnetic circuit, a driving part formed movably in a direction different from the vibration direction of the diaphragm, and an angle conversion and transmission part, one end of which is angle-variably joined to the driving part and another end of which is angle-variably joined to the diaphragm. The angle conversion and transmission part has rigidity and is obliquely disposed with respect to each of the vibration direction of the diaphragm and the moving direction of the driving part. | 02-23-2012 |
20120045065 | SURROUND SIGNAL GENERATING DEVICE, SURROUND SIGNAL GENERATING METHOD AND SURROUND SIGNAL GENERATING PROGRAM - A surround signal generating device generates surround signals of plural channels from input sound signals of two channels, and is preferably applied to an audio device, for example. A setting unit sets a correlation value between channels in the plural channels and/or a level difference of the plural channels, in accordance with a genre of a content. A surround signal generating unit generates the surround signals of the plural channels based on the correlation value and/or the level difference which are set by the setting unit. Therefore, it becomes possible to appropriately generate the surround signals having the correlation value and/or the level difference between the channels which are appropriate for the genre of the content, from a stereo sound source. | 02-23-2012 |
20120044952 | CONTROL DEVICE, NETWORK SYSTEM, TRANSMITTING DEVICE, RECEIVING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM - The control device is a system controller that controls a connection in a network system, which establishes a connection, by connecting by a channel corresponding to a frequency band, between a logical output plug of a transmitting device and a logical input plug connected to the transmitting device via a bus. The control device includes a channel setting unit. The channel setting unit sets non-overlapping channels to the output plugs of all the transmitting devices in the network system. | 02-23-2012 |
20120042143 | INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS AND COPY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - An information recording apparatus includes: means that obtains medium identifying information of an inserted information recording medium; means that obtains information regarding an allowable number of copies from a server | 02-16-2012 |
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20120010737 | AUDIO ADJUSTING DEVICE - The audio adjusting device is preferable applied to an audio system, and includes an audio analyzing unit, a control unit and an adjusting unit. The audio analyzing unit analyzes audio based on the inputted audio signals on the real time basis. The control unit generates the control signal for adjusting the audio signals based on the analysis information of the audio analyzed by the analyzing unit and the volume level instructed by the user. The adjusting unit adjusts and outputs the audio signals based on the control signal in terms of at least one of spreading feeling, speech clearness and bass volume feeling. The control unit varies the adjusting amount by the adjusting unit based on the signal level of the audio signals and the volume level. | 01-12-2012 |
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20120001936 | MAP INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, MAP INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, MAP INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided are a map information processing device, a map information processing method, a map information processing program, and a recording medium by which useful information such as address information can be given to an architectural structural shape efficiently with high accuracy while the time and cost are drastically reduced. First map data configured to include address information indicating the address of a building or a lot and dot coordinate information indicating dot coordinates for representing the position of the building or the lot as a dot and second map data configured to include shape coordinate information indicating a coordinate group for representing the planar outer shape of the building or the lot are read, it is judged from the dot coordinate information included in the first map data and the shape coordinate information included in the second map data whether or not the address information corresponding to the dot coordinate information and the shape coordinate information are associated with each other, and when it is judged by an association judging means that both are associated with each other, association information for associating the address information corresponding to the dot coordinate information and the shape coordinate information with each other is generated. | 01-05-2012 |
20120001891 | ACTIVE MATRIX TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes a capacitor which is provided on each of the pixels and stores the data signal while a first terminal of the capacitor is connected to a control electrode of the driving transistor, an application voltage generating unit which generates an application voltage to a second terminal of the capacitor, and a capacitor voltage adjusting unit which adjusts an application voltage to the second terminal of the capacitor. | 01-05-2012 |
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