| FUJITSU LIMITED Patent applications |
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| 20120036387 | STORAGE SYSTEM, CONTROL APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD - A storage system includes a storage and control units. In each of the control units: a relay unit relays access to the storage; an access controller accesses the storage through one of the relay unit in the control unit and the relay unit in another of the control units; and an operational-state controller determines whether or not the relay unit in the above-mentioned another control unit is usable when the operational-state controller detects occurrence of an abnormality in the above-mentioned another control unit, and makes the above-mentioned another control unit transition to a partially-operational state when the relay unit in the above-mentioned another control unit is usable. In the partially-operational state, at least the access controller in the above-mentioned another control unit is not in operation and the access controller in the control unit can access the storage through the relay unit in the above-mentioned another control unit. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120036306 | SWITCHING CIRCUIT, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND SWITCHING CIRCUIT CONTROL METHOD - A switching circuit connected to an I/O device having a plurality of functions, the switching circuit comprising: a processing unit that includes tables, each of which corresponds to one of the function of the I/O device, when the processing unit receives a packet that instructs to add a function to the I/O device, configured to select the table that contains a bus number of a destination of the received packet, and configured to notify a number of the selected table; and a filter configured to change a function number of the destination of the received packet to the number of the table notified from the processing unit. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120036217 | DATA CONVERSION DEVICE AND DATA CONVERSION METHOD - A data conversion device includes a receiving unit which receives first data and first sequence information and second data and second sequence information that are transmitted from a first device to a second device, the first sequence information indicating that the first data is transmitted before the second data and the second sequence information indicating that the second data is transmitted after the first data, a transmitting unit that transmits the received first data and second data to a third device, and a control unit that instructs the transmitting unit to transmit the first data and the second data to the transmitting unit in accordance with a sequence indicated in the first sequence information and the second sequence information. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120035920 | NOISE ESTIMATION APPARATUS, NOISE ESTIMATION METHOD, AND NOISE ESTIMATION PROGRAM - A noise estimation apparatus includes a correlation calculator configured to calculate a correlation value of a spectrum between a plurality of frames in sound information obtained using one or more microphones, a power calculator configured to calculate a power value indicating a sound level of one target frame among the plurality of frames, an update determiner configured to determine an update degree indicating a degree to which the sound information of the target frame is to be reflected in a noise model stored in a storage, or determine whether or not the noise model is to be updated to another noise model, based on the power value of the target frame and the correlation value, and an updater configured to generate the other noise model based on a determined result, the sound information of the target frame, and the noise model. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120034906 | STORAGE MEDIUM STORING RELAY CONTROL PROGRAM, RELAY SERVER DEVICE, AND RELAY CONTROL METHOD - A relay server receives from a mobile terminal a delivery request to a delivery server device that provides an application to the mobile terminal. The relay server obtains position information of the mobile terminal from a representative device connected to a position managing server that holds the position information of the mobile terminal. The relay server transmits the position information of the mobile terminal obtained from the representative device to a relay device that relays a communication to inquire about the position information of the mobile terminal to the representative device. The relay server updates the position information obtained from the representative device with the position information received from the relay device when the position information of the mobile terminal is received from the relay device. The relay server transfers the received delivery request to the delivery server device identified based on the updated position information. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120034865 | BASE STATION, RELAY STATION, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A base station, by relay of a relay station provided in a cell of the base station, wirelessly communicates with a mobile station located in the cell and includes a receiver that receives from an adjacent-cell relay station provided in an adjacent cell, adjacent cell resource information related to wireless resources allocated to the adjacent-cell relay station; and a processor that preferentially allocates to a wireless path between the relay station and the mobile station, wireless resources that are different from the wireless resources indicated in the received adjacent cell resource information. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033773 | Phase Interpolation-Based Clock and Data Recovery for Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving N input streams; generating a recovered clock signal based on the input data bits in the N input streams, the recovered clock signal having a clock frequency and a recovered clock phase; generating a clock signal for each one of the N input streams based on the recovered clock signal having the clock frequency and a respective phase at a respective phase offset relative to the recovered clock phase; detecting a phase difference between each of the N input bit streams and the respective N clock signals; and adjusting the phases of the N clock signals to eliminate the respective phase differences, the adjusting comprising shifting the N respective clock phase offsets such that each of the N clock signals is locked to the input data bits in the respective one of the N input streams. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033757 | MONITORING SYSTEM, DEVICE, MONITORING METHOD, AND MONITORING PROGRAM - In a monitoring system, a first device among devices includes a generating unit that generates third data indicating a string of an identical section when strings each indicated in first data and second data acquired through communications with the devices are identical to each other by a predetermined proportion or more, and a first transmitting unit that transmits the third data generated by the generating unit and information for identifying the third data to a second device included in the devices. The second device includes a second transmitting unit that transmits, when a string indicated in fourth data to be transmitted to the first device includes the string indicated in the third data, fifth data indicating a string obtained by excluding the string indicated in the third data from the string indicated in the fourth data, and the information for identifying the third data to the first device. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033726 | DECISION FEEDBACK EQUALIZER, RECEIVING CIRCUIT, AND DECISION FEEDBACK EQUALIZATION PROCESSING METHOD - A decision feedback equalizer includes: L equalization calculation circuits to perform an equalization calculation of a first sample of input data for each of M combinations of data decision values of a second sample sampled from the input data before sampling the first sample; a first logic circuit to generate first M logical values by selecting and arranging calculation values of M calculation values calculated by at least one equalization calculation circuit among the L equalization calculation circuits based on a data decision value for a third sample sampled before sampling the first data; and a selection circuit to select one of the first M logical values based on a data decision value for a fourth sample sampled before sampling the third sample, and to output the selected logical value as a data decision value of the first sample. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033723 | METHOD, PRE-CODING APPARATUS AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT COLLABORATIVE COMMUNICATION - A method for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) collaborative communication in a wireless communication system includes at least one user equipment and M base stations performing collaborative communication with the user equipment. Here, M is an integer that is greater than or equal to 2. The method includes the following processes for each user equipment: a first level of MIMO pre-coding process is performed for each base station to acquire each first level of pre-coding matrix corresponding to each base station; a second level to the X-th level of MIMO pre-coding process is performed sequentially to acquire the second level to the X-th level of pre-coding matrices of the corresponding base stations. Here, X is an integer that is greater than or equal to 2. A pre-coding device, a user equipment and a wireless communication system related to the method are also provided. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033709 | TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT METHOD - A temperature measurement system includes: a laser light source; an optical fiber; and a temperature measurement unit configured to acquire a measured temperature distribution of a temperature of a temperature measurement area along an installation path of the optical fiber by detecting backscattered light of the incident laser light in the optical fiber, wherein the temperature measurement unit sequentially makes a correction for the measured temperature distribution a plurality of times so as to make a square error between a convolution of a transfer function of the optical fiber along the installation path and the corrected temperature distribution and the measured temperature distribution smaller in each of the corrections, and the temperature measurement unit also replaces a corrected temperature at a specific point of the installation path with an estimated temperature at the specific point in each of the corrections. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033609 | RELAY APPARATUS, TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - In a communication system that further includes a receiving apparatus and a transmitting apparatus that after a given period that starts after transmission of a wireless signal to the receiving apparatus, receives delivery confirmation information concerning the wireless signal, a relay apparatus includes a receiver that receives and decodes the wireless signal transmitted by the transmitting apparatus; a determiner that determines whether the decoded wireless signal is subject to relay; a notifier that, if the determiner determines that the wireless signal is subject to relay, notifies the transmitting apparatus of relay information indicating that the wireless signal is to be regenerated and relayed; and a transmitter that transmits to the receiving apparatus, the wireless signal that has been determined to be subject to relay. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033567 | DATA TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, DATA RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD - In a data transmission apparatus a processor refers to a storage unit storing a usage percentage indicative of a percentage by which each of a plurality of routes is used for transmitting data destined for an apparatus, distributes the data destined for the apparatus to routes according to the usage percentage of each route to transmit the data destined for the apparatus, lowers the usage percentage set in the storage unit of a route on which a data transmission load is light compared with other routes to zero. If a state in which the usage percentages of two or more routes are greater than zero continues for a determined period of time, then the processor determines that an equilibrium state has arisen. Upon detecting the equilibrium state, the processor sets usage percentages of the two or more routes between which there is a difference in the storage unit. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033382 | HEAT SINK, LIQUID COOLING UNIT, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A heat sink for absorbing heat which is generated by an electronic module by using a coolant which flows in its internal portion, comprises a housing which is provided with, in its internal portion, a first surface which is located in the vicinity of the electronic module and a second surface which faces the first surface and comprises fins which extend from the first surface toward the second surface, wherein a projecting portion projecting from the second surface toward the first surface is formed at the second surface, between the top edges of the fins on the second surface side and the second surface. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033206 | CABLE INSTALLED STATE ANALYZING METHOD AND CABLE INSTALLED STATE ANALYZING APPARATUS - An image of an installed state of an optical fiber is captured by a camera. The optical fiber is provided with position marks at fixed intervals, the position marks each indicating a distance from a predetermined position and a direction of the optical fiber. An installed state analyzing apparatus performs image processing on the captured image and analyzes the installed state of the optical fiber by using the optical fiber installation tools and the position marks. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033077 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MEDIUM RECORDING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A device has a unit acquires photograph images taken by a first and a second camera; a unit sets correspondences between positions in a first photograph image, in a first display image, in a second photograph image, and in a second display image on the basis of a first photographic line-of-sight from the first camera, a line-of-sight in the first display image based on the first photograph image, a second photographic line-of-sight from the second camera, and a line-of-sight in the second display image based on the second photograph image; and a unit generates the first display image based on correspondence with the first photograph image, generates a third display image by interpolating between the first display image and the second display image based on correspondence with the first photograph image or the second photograph image, and generates the second display image based on correspondence with the second photograph image. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032824 | SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATION REGISTER ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER, AND OPERATING CLOCK ADJUSTMENT METHOD THEREFOR - A successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter includes: a digital-to-analog converter to generate an analog voltage based on an input voltage sampled in accordance with a sampling clock and a digital code; a comparator to receive the analog voltage; a controller to generate the digital code based on an output of the comparator; a delay circuit to delay a signal based on the output of the comparator and to feed back the delayed signal to a reset terminal of the comparator; an adjustment circuit to count a number of edges of a signal generated in a loop that feeds back the delayed signal, and to adjust an amount of delay of the delay circuit based on a count value; and a sampling clock generation circuit to generate the sampling clock based on the signal generated in the loop and the external clock signal. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032745 | Frequency-Coupled LCVCO - In one embodiment, a method includes generating, by a LCVCO, a first signal having a first phase based on a resonant frequency of a first LC tank; generating, by a second LCVCO, a second periodic signal having a second phase based on a resonant frequency of a second LC tank; determining a phase offset between the first LC tank and the second LC tank based on the first and second signals; generating a first output signal and a second output signal based on the determined phase offset; and adjusting the phase offset such that the phase offset is substantially equal to a predetermined phase offset. In one embodiment, the adjusting comprises modulating a first impedance of the first LC tank based on the first output signal, and/or modulating a second impedance of the second LC tank based on the second output signal. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032714 | OUTPUT DRIVER DEVICE FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A driver device drives a load circuit by a common output signal from a first driver transistor and a second driver transistor. The driver device includes a first pre-driver unit that outputs a first driver control signal to the first driver transistor in response to the input signal; and a second pre-driver unit that outputs a second driver control signal to the second driver transistor in response to the input signal. The first pre-driver unit controls the first driver control signal in such a manner that the first driver control signal is rounded in the vicinity of a threshold of the first driver transistor and is sharply changed in a region exceeding the threshold. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032700 | MULTILAYER WIRING BOARD AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING MULTILAYER WIRING BOARD - A method for evaluating a multilayer wiring board is provided. The multilayer wiring board includes an inner-layer on which a test pattern is disposed. The method includes arranging a plurality of first patterns and a second pattern of the test pattern such that the first patterns have a comb-like shape opposed to one another, and the second pattern has an unbranched shape extending between the opposed first patterns. A voltage is applied between the first patterns and the second pattern. An impedance of the second pattern is measured. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032327 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REINFORCING CHIP PACKAGES - In accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure, a chip package is provided. The chip package may include a chip, a substrate, and an interconnect layer disposed between the chip and the substrate. In some embodiments, the interconnect layer may include an array of bonding interconnects configured to provide electrical communication between the chip and a printed circuit board and reinforcement interconnects arranged around an outermost row of the array of bonding interconnects. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032188 | COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Two layers of protection films are formed such that a sheet resistance at a portion directly below the protection film is higher than that at a portion directly below the protection film. The protection films are formed, for example, of SiN film, as insulating films. The protection film is formed to be higher, for instance, in hydrogen concentration than the protection film so that the protection film is higher in refractive index the protection film. The protection film is formed to cover a gate electrode and extend to the vicinity of the gate electrode on an electron supplying layer. The protection film is formed on the entire surface to cover the protection film. According to this configuration, the gate leakage is significantly reduced by a relatively simple configuration to realize a highly-reliable compound semiconductor device achieving high voltage operation, high withstand voltage, and high output. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120031592 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT REPAIR METHOD, ELECTRONIC COMPONENT REPAIR DEVICE, AND HEAT TRANSFER PLATE - An electronic component repair method for removing an electronic component soldered on a substrate, the method includes: mounting a heat transfer plate on the electronic component to be removed, the heat transfer plate being formed by bonding a plurality of heat transfer members via a heat insulating member, heating the heat transfer plate mounted on the electronic component by a heating unit, the heating unit heating individually each of the heat transfer members by different heat amount; and removing the electronic component from the substrate after the heating. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120030743 | Fingerprint authentication server, client computer and fingerprint authentication method - A fingerprint authentication server device is disclosed. The fingerprint authentication server device includes a database in which user IDs and the registered fingerprint data of plural users are stored; and a hash value table including user hash values of the user IDs and the registered fingerprint data of the users. The fingerprint authentication server device is configured to receive a hash value of a user ID of a user to be authenticated and a hash value of registered fingerprint data associated with the user ID from a client computer; perform a search in the hash value table to determine whether there are hash values corresponding to the received hash values in the hash value table; and transmit a determination result to the client computer, thereby to cause the client computer to perform a fingerprint authentication process for a user for which correspondence of the hash values has been confirmed. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120030693 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An electronic apparatus includes a disk drive unit, a first casing and a second casing. The disk drive unit is provided inside the electronic apparatus and has an insertion slot into which a disk medium is to be slid or placed. The first casing covers an upper side of the disk drive unit and includes a cover portion covering an upper edge of the insertion slot. The second casing joins to the first casing and provides a housing portion housing the disk drive unit. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120030671 | Information transmission device, network system, and information transmission method - An information transmission device stores an identifier representing an information processing device connected to a network in association with an identifier representing a storage device used by the information processing device. When transmission of information is requested from the information processing device, the information transmission device specifies an identifier representing an information processing device. The information transmission device acquires an identifier representing a storage device stored in association with the specified identifier. The information transmission device transmits information on a request for transmission by the information processing device to the storage device represented by the acquired identifier. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120030640 | DESIGN SUPPORT APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM - A design support apparatus that supports designing of a circuit and is connected to a display unit, the design support apparatus includes a storage unit that stores logical connection information of the circuit and cell information of a plurality of cells included in the circuit, a selection unit that selects target cell information of a cell to be placed out of the cell information stored in the storage unit, a placement unit that provisionally places the cell corresponding to the selected target cell information based on inputted positional information, a determination unit that determines whether a wiring mode is set, a wiring unit that provisionally arranges wiring connected to the provisionally placed cell when the determination unit determines that the wiring mode is set, and a finalization unit that finalizes a position of the wiring provisionally arranged based on finalization of a position of the cell provisionally placed. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120030397 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing system includes a memory, a controller that reads data from a device coupled thereto and writes the data on the memory, a bridge that couples a system bus and an input output bus, the system bus being coupled to the memory and the processor, the input output bus being coupled to the controller, a check code generator that generates a check code from the data read from the device, and a determining unit that determines whether a second check code generated from the data read from the memory corresponds with the first check code. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120030350 | PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A processing apparatus includes: an address converter configured to return an address in response to a search request from a server; and a substitute controller configured to control the address converter to return a first address in response to a first search request from a first server when the address converter has not received a second search request for a second address from a second server, and return the second address in response to the first search request from the first server when the address converter has received a second search request for the second address from the second server. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120030349 | CONTROL DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR DEPLOYING VIRTUAL MACHINE - A control device includes a storage unit that stores a correspondence relationship between a first information processing device and attribute information of a first virtual machine provided by the first information processing device, and a correspondence relationship between a second information processing device and attribute information of a second virtual machine provided by the second information processing device; and a processor that refers to the storage unit and deploys a deployment object virtual machine to the first information processing device when the number of the first virtual machines with the same attributes as the attributes of the deployment object virtual machine among the first virtual machines provided by the first information processing device is detected to be fewer than the number of second virtual machines with the same attributes as the attributes of the deployment object virtual machine among the second virtual machines provided by the second information processing device. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120030323 | Method and apparatus for managing data of operation system - A server for an operation system includes a monitor to monitor a status of another server, a first storage to retain a first network configuration information, a second storage to copy the first network configuration information when an abnormality is detected in the another server, a third storage to retain a first update history information including update information of a network configuration information obtained from a client in the operation system, and an operation configuration manager to update the first network configuration information and a second network configuration information retained in the another server when the another server recovers from the abnormality. The operation configuration manager is configured to update the first network configuration information and the second network configuration information based on the first update history information and a second update history information retained in the another server. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120030155 | MODEL GENERATING DEVICE AND MODEL GENERATING METHOD - A model generating device acquires event information including a time when execution of an event is started, a time when execution of the event is finished, and the type of the event. The model generating device assumes model candidates each showing a relationship between an event and another event triggered by the former event on the basis of the acquired event information, and makes a combination of the assumed model candidates. The model generating device searches the assumed model candidates to find a candidate that matches an existing model. The model generating device withdraws the model candidate searched for from the combination of the model candidates, and withdraws a candidate that is to be withdrawn from the combination of the model candidates in association with withdrawal of the model candidate found as a result of the search, thereby updating the combination of the model candidates. The model generating device thereafter generates a new model on the basis of the updated combination of the model candidates. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120029849 | Magnetic exchange coupling energy calculating method and apparatus - A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a magnetic program causing a computer to perform an exchange coupling energy calculating process including interpolating a rotation angle between two magnetization vectors disposed at the respective centers of two adjacent elements used in a finite volume method with reference to a rotation axis perpendicular to the two magnetization vectors, and calculating a magnetic exchange coupling field by integrating a magnetic field acting as a force exerted on the two magnetization vectors with the interpolated rotation angle. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120027057 | IMAGING APPARATUS, AND TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION APPARATUS - A transmission and reception apparatus includes: a transmitter circuit to transmit to an object a transmission signal including a comb-shaped wave in which a first plurality of pulses are arranged in a comb shape; and a receiver circuit to receive a reflection signal based on the transmission signal. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026905 | COMPUTER PRODUCT, TESTING APPARATUS, AND TESTING METHOD - A computer-readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute acquiring a transmission interval for packets transmitted from a first-source to a first-destination; judging whether a given packet, among the packets whose destination has been changed to a second-destination are transmitted from a second-source, is a designated-packet requiring acknowledgment for the preceding packet; transmitting the given packet after acknowledgment is received, if acknowledgment is required; correcting an interval between the designated-packet and the subsequent packet, to be shorter than intervals for 2 packets transmitted from the first-source to the first-destination and corresponding to the designated-packet and the subsequent packet, if an interval between transmission of the preceding packet and transmission of the designated-packet exceeds intervals for 2 packets transmitted from the first-source to the first-destination and corresponding to the preceding packet and the designated-packet; and transmitting the subsequent packet from the second-source to the second-destination, at the corrected interval. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026860 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CROSS PHASE MODULATION RECOVERY - Apparatus and method for cross phase modulation recovery are disclosed. An apparatus for cross phase modulation recovery may include M stages of cross phase modulation recovering devices connected in cascade, wherein M≧2, and each stage of the M-stages of cross phase modulation recovering devices is configured to perform cross phase modulation recovery to a polarization de-multiplexed signal input into the each stage. An optical coherent receiver including such an apparatus for cross phase modulation recovery is also disclosed. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026739 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An electronic apparatus includes a cover unit, a touchpad unit and a contact member. The cover unit has a window through which an operation section is exposed and the window has an inwardly inclined peripheral surface as an inclined portion. The touchpad unit is arranged substantially in the window. The contact member is secured on the touchpad unit and is exposed through the window. The contact member has a joining part for the cover unit. The joining part of the contact member forms a contiguous inclined surface together with the inclined portion of the cover unit. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026686 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An information processing apparatus system includes: an information processing apparatus or apparatuses configured to measure the flow rate of coolant flowing from a coolant inflow surface of its enclosure to a coolant outflow surface of the enclosure; and a cooling apparatus configured to form a circulating path of the coolant from the coolant outflow surface to the coolant inflow surface, the cooling apparatus configured to control the discharged amount of the coolant based on the measured flow rate. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025879 | PLL CIRCUIT, METHOD FOR OPERATING PLL CIRCUIT AND SYSTEM - A PLL circuit includes: a first counter to accumulate a frequency command word in response to a reference clock signal and to generate a first counted value; a second counter to count an output clock signal and generate a second counted value; a time measuring circuit to measure an interval between a transition edge of the reference clock signal and a transition edge of the output clock signal to output a third counted value; a phase difference normalizing circuit to multiply the third counted value by a normalizing coefficient to generate a first phase difference; an operating circuit to subtract a value obtained by subtracting the first phase difference from the second counted value from the first counted value to generate a phase difference signal; and an oscillator to change a frequency of the output clock signal based on the phase difference signal. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120024593 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD UNIT, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD UNIT, AND ELECTRIC APPARATUS - A printed circuit board unit includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a spacer. The second substrate is coupled to the first substrate via a solder material. The second substrate has different coefficient of thermal expansion from the first substrate. The spacer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The spacer is formed of a thermally-expandable material and a thermosetting material. The thermosetting material has a curing temperature higher than a melting point of the solder material. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120024586 | PRINTED WIRING BOARD, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - A printed wiring board including a substrate that includes wiring through-hole portions where wiring through-holes which each penetrate the substrate from a surface on a front side of the substrate to a surface on a back side of the substrate, the wiring through-hole portions being made using a dielectric material having a thermal expansion coefficient different from a thermal expansion coefficient of the substrate; and thermal-expansion adjusting portions produced by filling prepared-holes with the dielectric material, the prepared-holes being produced at a surface of the substrate. The surface is partitioned into predetermined blocks, in each of which the thermal-expansion adjusting portions are placed in a layout that minimizes a difference between a thermal expansion coefficient in the block in a length direction and a thermal expansion coefficient in the block in a width direction according to a placement of the wiring through-hole portions in the block. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120024512 | HEAT SINK DEVICE AND METHOD OF REPAIRING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method of repairing a semiconductor device includes turning a press member to apply pressure on an electronic component which is mounted on a substrate. A heat sink which is provided on the electronic component via a bonding layer is thus displaced with respect to the electronic component in a transverse direction. The heat sink is removed from the electronic component by shearing the bonding layer with the press member. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120024475 | DISPLAY BONDING DEVICE AND METHOD - A display bonding device includes a stage configured to place an adhesive tape and an adherend thereon, a pressure head configured to press the adhesive tape onto the adherend with a pressure surface having a tapered shape or a curved shape which is tilted with respect to the stage, and a movement mechanism configured to move the pressure head toward the adhesive tape through a pressure rod which is coupled to the pressure head. The pressure head is configured to rotate around the pressure rod. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120023493 | JUDGING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM OF PROGRAM - A judging apparatus including an obtaining unit to obtain a first value which indicates a capacity of a resource assigned to a virtual machine of a plurality of virtual machines deployed in a first computer, a first rate which indicates a rate of a resource used by the plurality of virtual machines in the first computer, a second value which indicates a capacity of a resource, assigned to processing of an application, in a second computer, and a second rate which indicates a rate of a resource used by the processing of the application, and a judging unit to judge whether or not a sum of the first rate and the second rate that is corrected based on a ratio between the first value and the second value is over a certain value corresponding to the amount of the resource of the first computer. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023470 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DESIGNING INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An integrated circuit designing apparatus for designing a semiconductor integrated circuit. The designing includes verifying the timing based on delay information included in the design data, the delay information is extracted from results of placing and wiring of the semiconductor integrated circuit; determining whether each value of hold-time errors generated as a result of the timing verification is smaller than a criteria value; extracting, when the value of a hold-time error is smaller than the criteria value, a wiring line in which the hold-time error is improved by performing a wiring line extension process, the wiring line is included in a path having the hold-time error; calculating, for the extracted wiring line, a wiring line extension distance corresponding to an insertion delay value that improves the hold-time error; and performing the wiring line extension process to extend the extracted wiring line by the calculated wiring line extension distance. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023380 | ALGORITHMIC MATCHING OF A DESKEW CHANNEL - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving input data bits over data channels; receiving deskew channel bits constituting frames that each comprise ones of the input data bits; determining frame boundaries; mapping each of the input data bits in each of the frames to one of the data channels; for each set of the frames, comparing the input data bits in the set with the input data bits in the corresponding input data words; determining relative delays among the data channels and the deskew channel; when non-zero delays are determined, rearranging the input data bits to reduce the delays; and when it is determined that one or more of the data channels have a delay of greater than a predetermined number of data-channel clock periods relative to a particular data channel, delaying input data bits in the particular data channel by an additional number of input data bits. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023379 | STORAGE DEVICE, STORAGE SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD - A storage device stores the types of errors together with the details of processes to be executed by a control device that controls the storage device when an error occurs so as to associate the types of the errors with the details of the processes. The storage device detects an error that occurs therein and determines the type of the detected error. The storage device acquires the details of the stored process associated with the determined type of the error and transmits the acquired details of the process to the control device. More specifically, the storage device is controlled by the control device such that the transmitted details of the process are executed. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023378 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus receives a request transmitted from a client to a server and a response transmitted from the server to the client. The information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor counts a first number of first requests having no corresponding response within a first time period, counts a second number of second requests having a corresponding response, and detects a failure in the server on the basis of the first number and the second number. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120021617 | ELECTRONIC PART AND LEAD - A lead configured to join to a signal line of an electronic part through solder is disposed in an opposing relationship to the signal line and extends for sliding movement. A first opposing face section including a pair of faces having wettability to the solder is formed on surfaces of the signal line and the lead. Further, a second opposing face section including a pair of faces having wettability lower than the wettability of the first opposing face section is formed on the surfaces of the signal line and the lead along an extending direction of the lead. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020665 | Optical signal processor - A probe light source produces probe light having a second wavelength different from a first wavelength of signal light. To a light modulator, the probe light and signal light produced from the probe light source are supplied. The light modulator multiplexes the probe light and signal light produced from the probe light source, and supplies it to a nonlinear optical medium. Further, the light modulator modulates the probe light by an intensity change of the signal light in the nonlinear optical medium, and outputs modulated light having the second wavelength based on the data of the signal light. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020661 | Optical communication device and dispersion compensation method - An optical communication device comprises a variable dispersion compensator, a photoelectric converter, and a processor. The variable dispersion compensator compensates an amount of wavelength dispersion of an optical signal received from an optical transmission line. The photoelectric converter converts the compensated optical signal into an electrical signal. The processor is operative to extract a frequency of the converted electrical signal, and to discriminate bit information of the electrical signal based on the frequency extracted using a decision phase and a decision threshold. The processor is operative to detect bit error information that is information related to an error of the discriminated bit information, and to control the amount of wavelength dispersion based on the detected bit error information. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020437 | OFDM COMMUNICATION RECEPTION DEVICE - An reception device includes: a fast-fourier-transform (FFT) circuit to FFT a first Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal including a plurality of first symbols with a guard interval and a valid symbol using a plurality of FFT windows that includes different timings within a symbol length period; a propagation channel estimation circuit to extract pilot signals from the fast-fourier-transformed first OFDM signal, and estimate a plurality of propagation channel characteristics of the plurality of first symbols based on the pilot signals; and a propagation channel compensation circuit to obtain a propagation channel characteristic of a second symbol without a pilot signal based on the plurality of propagation channel characteristics and remove the propagation channel characteristic of the second symbol from a second OFDM signal obtained by fast-fourier-transforming the second symbol. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020399 | RECEIVER CIRCUIT - A receiver circuit includes: a first sampling circuit to sample input data in synchronization with a first edge of a sampling clock signal; a second sampling circuit to sample the input data in synchronization with a second edge of the sampling clock signal; a duty-cycle-distortion detection circuit to detect a duty-cycle-distortion amount indicating an error in a duty ratio of the sampling clock signal based on first data which is sampled by the first sampling circuit and second data which is sampled by the second sampling circuit; a correction circuit to correct the first data or the second data to generate first corrected data or second corrected data, respectively, based on the duty-cycle-distortion amount; and a clock data recovery circuit to select data out of the first corrected data and the second data and to recover the selected data. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020381 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION MODULE AND CONTROLLING METHOD FOR OPTICAL TRANSMISSION MODULE - An optical transmission module includes a bias current driver circuit adapted to input bias current set in response to a temperature of a laser diode to the laser diode, a modulation current driver circuit adapted to input modulation current set in response to the temperature of the laser diode to the laser diode, and a decision circuit adapted to decide whether or not an error of optical output power of the laser diode detected by a light reception device with respect to a target value of the optical output power of the laser diode at the set bias current and the set modulation current is equal to or higher than a threshold value. The modulation current driver circuit inputs, while the error is equal to or higher than the threshold value, correction modulation current higher than the set modulation current to the laser diode. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020372 | PROHIBITION TURN DETERMINATION APPARATUS - A prohibition turn determination apparatus determines an initial path so that the communication amounts of respective links connecting switches to each other are most efficiently distributed between a communication pair, that is, a pair of servers communicating with each other via a network. Then, the prohibition turn determination apparatus calculates the communication amounts of respective turns formed along the initial path based on the communication amounts set between end nodes which are the communication pair. Next, the prohibition turn determination apparatus determines prohibition turns, which are not used for packet communication, based on the communication amounts of respective turns by an Up/down method or a TP method. Finally, the prohibition turn determination apparatus determines the final routing to avoid the prohibition turns. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020312 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND NODE USED IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A wireless communication network includes a plurality of peer nodes, the plurality of nodes communicating with each other through a control channel and a plurality of data channels, the communication method including: a source node in the plurality of nodes reserves a data channel used for transmitting data to a destination node in the plurality of nodes through the control channel; the source node and the destination node switch to the reserved data channel; the source node transmits the data to the destination node through the reserved data channel; and after the data transmission between the source node and the destination node is completed, the destination node sends a data transmitting success acknowledgement signal to the source node through the reserved data channel, and then both of the destination node and the source node switch to the control channel from the reserved data channel for operation. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020273 | RELAY DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A relay device includes a receiver that receives a wireless signal and outputs the received signal; a regenerator that restores original data from the received signal, and generates a regeneration signal from the original data; a non-regenerator that generates, using the received signal, a non-regeneration signal; a switching controller that selects and outputs the non-regeneration signal when the received signal is a multicast signal, and that selects and outputs the regeneration signal when the received signal is a unicast signal; and a transmitter that transmits a signal output from the switching controller as a transmission signal. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020236 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A transmission apparatus includes (N+1) or more transmission antennas. A first receiving apparatus detects N or fewer transmission antennas from a received signal. A second receiving apparatus detects more than N transmission antennas from a received signal. The transmission apparatus uses a first radio resource for outputting a known signal from each of transmission antennas and uses a second radio resource for outputting a known signal from at least one of the transmission antennas. A timing difference between the first and second radio resources is smaller than or equal to a first determined difference and a frequency difference therebetween is smaller than or equal to a second determined difference. The first receiving apparatus estimates a channel state based on the known signal outputted on the first radio resource. The second receiving apparatus estimates a channel state based on the known signals outputted on the first and second radio resources. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020121 | CURRENT DETECTION CIRCUIT AND SWITCHING REGULATOR CIRCUIT - A current detection circuit that includes a winding part including a core provided on a switching element and a lead wire which is wound around the core, and a signal generation unit configured to generate a signal with a value having correlation to a current passing through the switching element based on a current passing through the lead wire. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020038 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD RELATED THERETO - An electronic apparatus includes a first printed circuit board on which a first connector is provided, a first member connected with the first printed circuit board and having a first hole, a second member connected with the first printed circuit board and including a projecting portion extending in a standing direction on the first printed circuit board, and a second printed circuit board that includes a second connector connected to the first connector, a first end portion that penetrates the first hole, and a second end portion having a second hole, where the projecting portion of the second member penetrates the second hole. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019903 | OPTICAL AMPLIFICATION MODULE AND OPTICAL SWITCH DEVICE - An optical amplification module has a semiconductor optical amplifier, a package accommodating the semiconductor optical amplifier, and a first connector and a second connector holding respective collimator lenses and arranged in parallel on the package. A sum of bend radii of the first optical fiber and the second optical fiber is greater than a space between the first connector and the second connector. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019427 | ANTENNA DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - An antenna device includes a helical antenna that radiates a circularly polarized radio wave in a direction of an axis S, in which the helical antenna is formed with linear conducting bodies each helically winding around the predetermined axis and adjacent linear conducting bodies are spaced a distance P apart. The antenna device further includes a director that is on the axis S, along which a radio wave is radiated from the helical antenna, at a position a distance X away from the helical antenna, the distance X being substantially equal to the distance P. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019299 | Clock Signal Correction - In one embodiment, a method includes generating two or more clock signals, sequentially selecting each one of the clock signals, and adjusting the respective clock duty cycle of the selected one of the clock signals until it substantially matches a predetermined clock duty cycle. The adjustment of the respective clock duty cycle includes generating a control signal based on the respective clock duty cycle, generating a duty-cycle-distortion (DCD) correction signal based on the control signal, adjusting the respective clock duty cycle of the selected one of the clock signals based on the DCD correction signal, and adjusting the control and DCD correction signals and re-adjusting the respective clock duty cycle of the selected one of the clock signals until the respective clock duty cycle of the selected one of the clock signals substantially matches the predetermined clock duty cycle. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019262 | TIME DIFFERENCE MEASUREMENT APPARATUS - A time difference measurement apparatus for measuring a time difference between transmission delay times of signals transmitted on two signal lines, includes: a selector for outputting one of the signals transmitted on the signal lines in accordance with a selection signal; a switch for outputting the selection signal in accordance with an output signal of the selector, the output signal being delayed for a predetermined time; a feedback loop for connecting the output of the selector to the input ends of the two signal lines; and a controller for calculating a time difference between transmission delay times of the signals transmitted on the two signal lines on the basis of self-oscillation cycles of signals transmitted through the feedback loop, the self-oscillation cycles changing in accordance with a logical value of the selection signal. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120017679 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT ANALYZING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An electronic component analyzing apparatus is provided with a fixing part configured to hold a substrate to which an electronic component is soldered; a gripper configured to grip the electronic component; a transmission part coupled to the gripper, and configured to transmit an external force to the gripper as a force acting in a direction away from the substrate; and a support part configured to pivotally support the transmission part. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120017217 | MULTI-CORE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDED THEREON A SCHEDULE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - A multi-core processor system has a processing order manager which manages command blocks in a lock acquired state under exclusive control, an assigner which assigns a command block managed by the processing order manager to one of the processor cores, an exclusion manager which manages command blocks in a lock acquisition waiting state under the exclusive control, and a transfer controller which, when the command block in the lock acquisition waiting state managed by the exclusion manager gets into the lock acquired state, releases the command block from the exclusion manager, and registers the command block in the processing order manager, thereby efficiently processing tasks. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120017200 | Solving Hybrid Constraints to Validate a Security Software Module for Detecting Injection Attacks - In one embodiment, a method includes analyzing one or more first numeric constraints and one or more first string constraints associated with a software module including one or more numeric variables and string variables; inferring one or more second numeric constraints applying to specific ones of the string variables; inferring one or more second string constraints applying to specific ones of the numeric variables; representing each one of the first and second numeric constraints with an equation; representing each one of the first and second string constraints with a finite state machine; and verifying whether the software module is able to detect one or more forms of injection attacks by attempting to solve for a solution including one or more values for specific ones of the numeric and string variables that satisfies all the first and second numeric constraints and all the first and second string constraints. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120017119 | Solving Hybrid Constraints to Generate Test Cases for Validating a Software Module - In one embodiment, a method includes analyzing one or more first numeric constraints and one or more first string constraints associated with a software module including one or more numeric variables and string variables; inferring one or more second numeric constraints applying to specific ones of the string variables; inferring one or more second string constraints applying to specific ones of the numeric variables; representing each one of the first and second numeric constraints with an equation; representing each one of the first and second string constraints with a finite state machine; and testing the software module for one or more possible errors by attempting to solve for a solution including one or more values for specific ones of the numeric and string variables that satisfies all the first and second numeric constraints and all the first and second string constraints. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120017117 | Solving Hybrid Constraints to Validate Specification Requirements of a Software Module - In one embodiment, a method includes analyzing one or more first numeric constraints and one or more first string constraints associated with a software module including one or more numeric variables and string variables; inferring one or more second numeric constraints applying to specific ones of the string variables; inferring one or more second string constraints applying to specific ones of the numeric variables; representing each one of the first and second numeric constraints with an equation; representing each one of the first and second string constraints with a finite state machine; and validating the software module with respect to one or more requirements associated with the software module by attempting to solve for a solution including one or more values for specific ones of the numeric and string variables that satisfies all the first and second numeric constraints, all the first and second string constraints, and all the requirements. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120017057 | DATA COPYING DEVICE, METHOD FOR COPYING DATA AND DATA STORAGE DEVICE - A data copying device that copies data stored in a first data storage device to a second data storage device is disclosed. The data copying device includes a data reading unit that reads data that has an amount determined based on a number of a plurality of logical volumes included in the first data storage device storing the data to be copied and an amount of data to be transferred from each of the logical volumes, a storage unit that stores the data read by the data reading unit, and a data transfer unit that transfers the data stored in the storage unit to the second storage device. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120017017 | Data transfer circuit and data transfer method - A port A request queue is configured with a port AQ | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120016997 | RECORDING MEDIUM STORING COMMUNICATION PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION PROCEDURE - A computer acquires correspondence data including a plurality of combinations of identifiers of selected computers, in which parallel processes are started, and identifiers of the parallel processes, wherein the selected computers are among a plurality of computers connected to a multipath network having relay devices extending over two or more hierarchies. The computer specifies a network identifier to be used for distributing communication paths among the selected computers for every selected computer that includes an identifier in the correspondence data, wherein the specified network identifiers is among network identifiers of respective communication paths in the multipath network, and the specified network identifier corresponds to each identifier of a plurality of computers, and is used for routing. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120016842 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND STORAGE APPARATUS - In a data processing apparatus, a snapshotting unit creates a second snapshot in a first storage space while a first snapshot of the first storage space exists in a second storage space. A storage unit stores first progress data indicating progress of physical copy to the first storage space for a current second snapshot, and second progress data indicating progress of physical copy to the first storage space for a preceding second snapshot. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120016837 | MERGING APPARATUS, MERGING METHOD, AND MERGING PROGRAM - A merging apparatus includes a first database in which a plurality of attributes including a key attribute that is set in advance as a key for merging is set and a second database in which one or a plurality of attributes excluding the key attribute is set. Furthermore, the merging apparatus checks an attribute that is set in the first database against an attribute that is set in the second database and extracts a common attribute that is set in common in both the first database and the second database. Then, the merging apparatus merges the first database with the second database by determining whether attribute values classified under the extracted common attribute match. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120016669 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR VOICE PROCESSING AND TELEPHONE APPARATUS - A voice processing apparatus includes a voice signal acquiring unit that acquires a voice signal converted to plural frequency bands from an input signal having a narrowed band; an expanding unit that generates based on a narrowband component of the voice signal acquired by the voice signal acquiring unit, an expansion band component expanding the band of the voice signal; a correcting unit that corrects the power of the expansion band component by a correction amount determined based on a noise component included in the voice signal acquired by the voice signal acquiring unit; and an output unit that outputs the voice signal of which the band has been expanded based on the expansion band component corrected by the correcting unit and based on the narrowband component of the voice signal acquired by the voice signal acquiring unit. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120015601 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RELAY DEVICE, CONTROL DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A radio communication system including a first communication device configured to transmit a signal, a relay device which includes a receiver configured to receive the transmitted signal, an amplifier configured to amplify the received signal according to a gain determined by a processor included in a control device, and a transmitter configured to transmit the amplified signal to a second communication device, the second communication device being configured to receive the amplified signal, and the transmitted signal, which is transmitted directly from the first communication device, and the control device being configured to improve a reception quality of the amplified signal and the directly transmitted signal. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120015548 | Electronic apparatus equipped with connectors - An electronic apparatus includes a connector provided to a surface of a housing; and a guide part configured to guide a connection connector, which is to be connected to the connector, to a connecting position. The guide part includes a pair of width direction guide surfaces and a height direction guide surface. The width direction guide surfaces guide the connection connector to the connecting position with respect to a direction of width of the connector by sandwiching the connection connector therebetween in the direction of width. The height direction guide surface guides the connection connector to the connecting position with respect to a direction of height of the connector in a state where the connection connector is in contact with the height direction guide surface. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120015530 | Electronic apparatus - The embodiments relate to an electronic apparatus having a connector. The electronic apparatus includes a main circuit board configured to have a first face on which a through hole penetrating through the main circuit board is formed and a second face on which the through hole is formed; the connector mounted on the first face; and a supporter including a supporting portion for supporting the connector on the first face of the main circuit board, and a fixing portion having a screw hole overlapping the through hole on a side of the second face, wherein the supporter is fixed to the main circuit board by a screw inserted from a side of the first face into the screw hole while the connector is supported by the supporter. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014692 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CROSS-PHASE MODULATION NOISE REDUCED TRANSMISSION IN HYBRID NETWORKS - In one embodiment, a method for receiving optical signals includes receiving a first set of one or more signals and a second set of one or more signals, determining a block length used to process the first set of signals, and processing the first set of signals using the block length. The first set of signals and the second set of signals are separated by a guard band. The block length is based upon the width of the guard band. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014570 | BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION DEVICE AND BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION METHOD - A biometric authentication device includes: a biometric information acquiring unit which acquires a user's biometric information and generates a biometric image representing the biometric information; a storage unit which stores data concerning registered biometric information of at least one registered user; and a processing unit. The processing unit detects from the biometric image a moderately blurred region having a first degree of blurring and a highly blurred region having a second degree of blurring which is higher than the first degree of blurring, identifies the cause of the occurrence of the highly blurred region and the moderately blurred region, and presents to the user a warning message corresponding to the cause of the occurrence of the blurred regions. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014475 | MULTI-ANTENNA COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MULTI-ANTENNA COMMUNICATION - To reduce an error rate of received data, a MIMO processing unit receives data transmitted from a transmitter via antennas and separates packets of layers | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014469 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, DEVICE AND METHOD - A wireless communication system includes an inverse matrix calculating unit which uses an inverse matrix of a channel matrix of a first combination of L antennas (where L is an integer, 1≦L≦N) selected from the N antennas, so as to calculate an inverse matrix of a channel matrix of a second combination of L antennas selected from the N antennas through an arithmetic operation, and an antenna selecting unit which selects a combination of L antennas from the N antennas as L antennas to be used for communication, the selected combination determining a reference value for antenna selection related to the inverse matrix calculated by the inverse matrix calculating unit so that the reference value for antenna selection fits a successive interference cancellation process carried out for a signal transmitted from the L antennas of the selected combination. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014461 | Phase adjustment method, data transmission device, and data transmission system - A method of adjusting a phase includes generating phase adjustment patterns corresponding to transmission circuits by performing a serial-to-parallel conversion on a fundamental phase adjustment pattern in a transmission side circuit; transmitting, by the transmission circuits, transmission signals including the phase adjustment patterns; generating phase adjustment patterns corresponding to receiving circuits corresponding to the transmission circuits by performing the serial-to-parallel conversion on the fundamental phase adjustment pattern in a receiving side circuit; receiving, by the receiving circuits, the transmission signals using a reception clock signal; comparing signal patterns included in the transmission signals with the phase adjustment patterns and output comparison results; and adjusting a phase of the reception clock signal based on the comparison results. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014347 | TRANSMISSION CONTROLLING METHOD, WIRELESS TRANSMITTER, WIRELESS RECEIVER, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A wireless transmitter that transmits data to a wireless receiver generates a plurality of data blocks based on the data destined for the wireless receiver; encodes and modulates each of the plurality of data blocks in accordance with an encoding scheme and a modulating scheme that are to be applied; and transmits the plurality of data blocks encoded and modulated using a wireless resource. In the generation of the data block, the size of each of the plurality of data blocks is adjusted by dividing the data destined for the wireless receiver such that an amount of data of each of the plurality of data blocks encoded and modulated is equal to or less than an amount of maximum data that the wireless transmitter is able to transmit using the wireless resource when the encoding scheme and the modulating scheme are applied. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014298 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING PACKETS TO A PLURALITY OF CARRIER WAVES - Packets are transmitted from an apparatus to another apparatus via a plurality of carrier waves. The apparatus calculates, for each of the plurality of carrier waves, a tolerance parameter indicating a tolerable margin of the current line-quality value for causing a change of a modulation method to be used, based on a line-quality value received from the another apparatus, and allocates packets to the plurality of carrier waves based on a service-quality level assigned to each of the packets and the tolerance parameter calculated for each of the plurality of carrier waves, such that a first packet having the service-quality level equal to or higher than a second packet is allocated, on a priority basis, to a first carrier wave having the tolerance parameter equal to or larger than a second carrier wave to which the second packet is allocated. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014270 | Frame signal generating method and frame signal generating device - A method for generating a frame signal includes monitoring a first frame signal and obtaining a first parameter based on the monitoring result; setting a second parameter based on the type of the first frame signal; when the first frame signal is being input, generating a second frame signal with a bit rate different from that of the first frame signal by determining data and stuff byte positions based on the first parameter and performing frame processing on data and stuff bytes corresponding to the first frame signal based on the determined data and stuff byte positions; and when the first frame signal is not being input, generating the second frame signal by determining the data and stuff byte positions based on the second parameter and performing the frame processing on data and stuff bytes corresponding to a maintenance signal based on the determined data and stuff byte positions. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014068 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes an electronic component mounted on a substrate; a cooling system for cooling the electronic component; and a fastening structure for fastening the cooling system to the substrate. The fastening structure includes a first magnet provided to one of the substrate and the cooling system, a second magnetic material fixed to the other of the substrate and the cooling system and magnetically coupled with the first magnet, and a magnetic shield that covers a part or all of the first magnet except for a coupling face to be coupled with the second magnetic material. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013975 | OPTICAL AMPLIFIER AND TRANSMISSION LOSS MEASUREMENT METHOD - An optical amplifier that amplifies signal light with Raman amplification in the Raman amplification medium. The optical amplifier includes a light source that supplies pump light into the Raman amplification medium, a first detector that detects input power of the pump light to be input to the Raman amplification medium, a second detector that detects output power of the pump light output from the Raman amplification medium, and a processor operable to calculate transmission loss of the pump light in the Raman amplification medium by comparing the input power with the output power, and calculate transmission loss of the signal light in the Raman amplification medium based on the transmission loss of pump light corrected based on a wavelength of the signal light and a wavelength of the pump light. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013796 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND TANGIBLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus has: a first motion vector calculation unit which determines a first motion vector between one image frame and an image frame immediately before this one image frame in a second image frame group which frame rate is an n number of frames per predetermined time; a second motion vector calculation unit which determines a second motion vector between one image frame and an image frame which is n frames before the one image frame in the second image frame group; and a detection unit which detects that the second image frame group has been obtained from a first image frame group which frame rate is an m number of frames per the predetermined time by the frame conversion, when the ratio of the first motion vector and the second motion vector is in a predetermined range. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013518 | Antenna unit and electronic apparatus - An antenna unit includes a housing, a substrate, and an antenna. The housing includes a bottom wall, first and second side walls extending upward from the corresponding side edges of the bottom wall, a rear wall extending upward from the rear edge of the bottom wall, and an upper wall extending from the upper edge of the first side wall toward the second side wall leaving a gap between an edge of the upper wall and the second side wall. The substrate is fixed to the upper wall, and a part of the substrate projects from the edge of the upper wall to a position that is closer to the second side wall than is the edge of the upper wall. The antenna is fixed to the part of the substrate projecting from the edge of the upper wall such that a radio-wave emitting aperture of the antenna faces forward. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013469 | ANTENNA SHEET, TAG, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING TAG - An antenna sheet includes a mounting section on which an integrated circuit (IC) chip electrically connected with an antenna pattern is mounted, a first loop forming section that extends from both ends of the mounting section that holds the IC chip therebetween and forms a first loop, an intersection portion in which at least parts of both forefronts of the first loop forming section intersect with each other, and a second loop forming section that extends from the forefronts of the first loop forming section that intersect in the intersection portion and forms a second loop outside the first loop. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013437 | BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS, BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An authentication processing device receives biometric data to be checked from a biometric measuring device; transforms the biometric data that is input from the biometric measuring device by using a checking transformation parameter that is different from a registration transformation parameter; and creates checking biometric data. Then, the authentication processing device performs a differential transformation process on the created checking biometric data by using a differential parameter by which a transformation state transformed by the checking transformation parameter and a transformation state transformed by the registration transformation parameter have the same state. Thereafter, the authentication processing device checks the transformed checking biometric data against the registration biometric data stored in a transformation registration data DB and performs authentication. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013436 | BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION DEVICE, BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A biometric authentication device including: a data-for-matching generation portion generating a data for matching from biometric information; an update-demand determine portion determining whether a registered data registered for matching with the data for matching needs updating or not, based on a difference between biometric quality of the registered data and biometric quality of the data for matching; and a registered data replace portion replacing the registered data by a generated data for updating, according to a determination result of the update-demand determine portion. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013381 | Semiconductor integrated circuit and power supply voltage control method - A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a selector to selectively output and supply to a monitoring target voltage terminal one of a power supply voltage from an outside of the semiconductor integrated circuit and a predetermined reference voltage depending on an adjusting mode signal, a voltage monitoring circuit to monitor a voltage fluctuation at the monitoring target voltage terminal and converting the voltage fluctuation that is monitored into a control signal, and an input and output circuit to output the control signal to the outside. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120012655 | ANTENNA DEVICE AND RFID SYSTEM - There is provided an antenna device for transmitting a radio wave to a tag capable of receiving the radio wave includes a first layer, a second layer, and a first plate which is disposed on or above the second layer. These are electrically conductive. The second layer is disposed apart from the first layer and includes a plurality of non-electrically conductive portions to generate an electromagnetic wave travelling along a first axis above the second layer. Further, the first plate is disposed on or above the second layer to allow the tag to receive the radio wave transmitted from the antenna. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120011579 | BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION DEVICE, BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A biometric authentication device includes: a biometric information obtain portion obtaining biometric information of a user; a biometric condition determine portion determining good and bad of biometric condition of the user according to the biometric information of the user; a biometric matching portion performing a matching of registered biometric information registered in advance based on the biometric information; an alternate authentication portion performing an authentication based on information that is different from the biometric information; and an alternate authentication control portion switching validation and invalidation of the authentication by the alternate authentication portion according to a determination result of the biometric condition determine portion. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011577 | ACCESS AUTHENTICATION METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An account information operation terminal device is registered in advance in a system that performs access authentication based on account information. The system manages the account information operation terminal device registered in the system based on registered terminal information. The system uses the registered terminal information to permit only the account information operation terminal device registered in advance in the system to operate the account information. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011506 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING CONTROL PROGRAM - A computer is provided with a measuring unit that measures elapsed time at a non-access state between one of the guest virtual machines and the devices as a non-access time with respect to each of the guest virtual machines accessing the devices via the device driver virtual machine; a storage unit that stores the operation profile information that matches the non-access time with the operation mode information representing the operation modes of the devices; a decision unit that decides the operation mode with reference to the operation profile information on the basis of the measured access time; and a transition control unit that transits the devices to the operation mode, so that this makes it possible to appropriately carry out power saving management of the devices not depending on a power saving function of the guest OS. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011505 | Computer system and recording medium - A disclosed computer system having a virtual computer management mechanism realizing a virtual computer includes a user virtual computer that communicates with a device via a virtual computer for a device driver under a control of the virtual computer management mechanism, an input receiving unit that receives a signal of an input operation from the device, a reset level determination unit that determines a reset level based on the received signal of the input operation, a reset target specifying unit that specifies a virtual computer to be a target of a reset process based on the determined reset level, and a reset signal transmission unit that transmits a reset signal to perform the reset process on the specified virtual computer. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011414 | NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGED APPARATUS, AND NETWORK MANAGEMENT METHOD - A network management system includes a management apparatus and a managed apparatus which is managed by the management apparatus via a network. The managed apparatus transmits trap information provided with a sequence number to the management apparatus and stores the trap information in a first storage unit. The management apparatus stores the received trap information in a second storage unit, and creates information indicating a missing sequence number and a sequence number of a last trap information received from the managed apparatus, and transmits the information to the corresponding managed apparatus. The managed apparatus determines whether trap information is to be retransmitted is present based on the trap information stored in the first storage unit and the information received from the management apparatus, and retransmits the trap information, based on the determination. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011397 | Computer apparatus, non-transitory computer-readable medium storing an error recovery control program, and error recovery control method - A computer apparatus includes a managing unit realizing virtual computers including device driver virtual computers and user virtual computers, the user virtual computers communicating with various devices via the device driver virtual computers. Error detection information is received from one of the virtual computers upon detection of error in one of the device drivers used for communication with one of the devices in one of the virtual computers. One or more types of the virtual computers and the contents of recovery process corresponding to the type of device driver and the type of error indicated in the received error detection information are acquired from error recovery control information. A recovery instruction is transmitted to one or more of the virtual computers identified by the one or more acquired types of virtual computers in order to cause the one or more identified virtual computers to perform the acquired contents of the recovery process. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011353 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS HAVING VERIFICATION CAPABILITY OF CONFIGURATION CHANGE - An information processing apparatus having a verification capability of a configuration change. The information processing apparatus includes: a configuration storage unit to store information on components having been connected to the information processing apparatus as reference configuration information; a detecting unit to detect configuration information on components being connected to the information processing apparatus in booting; a comparing unit to compare, detected configuration information and the reference configuration information when the information processing apparatus is booted; a boot control unit to terminate booting of the information processing apparatus when an unequal comparison occurs; a monitoring unit to monitor, after the information processing apparatus is booted, a configuration change of the information processing apparatus in operation; and a dynamic update unit to update, when the configuration change of the information processing apparatus in operation is recognized, the reference configuration information with configuration information of the configuration-changed information processing apparatus. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011352 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF STARTING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STARTUP PROGRAM - When a match of a pair of a first configuration register value obtained by a configuration register value obtainment unit and a first configuration register value related to the first configuration register value stored in a storage unit with being related to the first startup control unit, or a match of a pair of a second configuration register value obtained by the configuration register value obtainment unit and a second configuration register value related to the second configuration register value stored in the storage unit with being related to the second startup control unit, is detected, startup processing of an information processing apparatus is continued. Thereby, the startup processing can be completed even when a part of processing units is swapped with a spare processing unit having the same configuration, and the functions of the startup control units can be effectively exploited. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011332 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND MEMORY CONTROL APPARATUS - A data processing apparatus includes a first memory that has first storage areas, a capacity of each first storage area being variable, a second memory that has second storage areas, a capacity of each second storage area being variable, and each second storage area is redundant to a first storage area corresponding to a second storage area, a memory controller that stores data stored in each first storage area to the corresponding second storage area, and writes data stored in a second storage area to the corresponding varied first storage area and writes data stored in a first storage area to the corresponding varied second storage area when capacities of the first storage area and the second storage areas are varied. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011317 | DISK ARRAY APPARATUS AND DISK ARRAY CONTROL METHOD - When executing a sequential process on a volume of disks constituting RAID, a disk array apparatus determines whether a process other than the sequential process is executed in a predetermined period. The disk array apparatus specifies a disk type when the execution determining unit determines that no process other than the sequential process is executed in the predetermined period. The disk array apparatus then determines a multiplicity according to the disk type and executes the sequential process with the determined multiplicity. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011288 | Specific identification information management device, information processing device, and specific identification information setting method - A specific identification information management device coupled to a feature expansion device includes: a storage unit configured to store the specific identification information of the feature expansion device; a detection unit configured to detect access to the feature expansion device; and a control unit configured to transmit the specific identification information stored in the storage unit to the source of access to the feature expansion device when the access is detected by the detection unit. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011281 | CONTENT CONVERSION SYSTEM AND CONTENT CONVERSION SERVER - A conversion server stores therein a combination of client information indicating the type of a client terminal and content information that is requested to be sent from the client terminal. Furthermore, the conversion server stores therein server information indicating a conversion server responsible for the format of content in such a manner that the server information is associated with the combination of the client information and the content information. If the conversion server receives, from the client terminal, a send request for content, the conversion server distinguishes between the client information on the client terminal and the content information on the content requested to be sent. The conversion server notifies a conversion server indicated by the server information associated with the combination of the distinguished client information and the distinguished content information of the distinguished client information and the distinguished content information. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011277 | DATA TRANSFER CONTROLLING APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD - A data transfer controlling apparatus includes a first controlling unit that performs a broadcast transfer to a plurality of nodes connected to a first route switching device, and requests a second node representing nodes connected to a second route switching device that is connected to the first route switching device to perform a broadcast transfer when the first controlling unit receives a request of the broadcast transfer from a first node connected to the first route switching device, and a second controlling unit that performs the broadcast transfer to all of nodes connected to the first route switching device when the second controlling unit receives a request of a broadcast transfer from the second node. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011250 | COMMUNICATION PROGRAM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND ELECTRIC APPARATUS - An apparatus includes an information transmission part that transmits first information including an allocated IP address and a group identifier identifying a group to another apparatus that manages communication by the group, when connecting to the Internet; and a list reception part that receives a list in which IP addresses used for performing intercommunication in the group identified by the group identifier in the first information are listed, as a response to the first information from the computer. A communication part of the apparatus performs communication by using the IP addresses listed in the received list. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011236 | SERVER MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND SERVER MANAGEMENT METHOD - A computer is communicable with a managed server having a network boot function. The computer refers, when the managed server starts network boot, to data stored in a storage unit which stores status management data and status-program connection data. The status management data specifies an operation status into which the managed server is to be shifted when the managed server has been network booted. The status-program connection data indicates a program for shifting the managed server into the specified operation status. The computer determines, on the basis of the status management data and the status-program connection data, a program to be executed during the network boot to shift the managed server into the specified operation status. The computer notifies the managed server of information necessary for loading the determined program. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011220 | INFORMATION SEARCH SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND TERMINAL APPARATUS - An information search system is connected to a search server that searches for information. The information search system includes a first apparatus and a second apparatus. The first apparatus selects a particular image from among images displayed on the second apparatus and specifies a range within the particular image. The second apparatus transmits a character recognized in the range within the particular image specified by the first apparatus to the search server. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011188 | Distributed processing system - A distributed processing system includes a plurality of information processing apparatuses, each of the information processing apparatuses including a transferring unit that divides data to be processed including data elements for each of which one of the information processing apparatuses is set for processing, that assigns divided data to the information processing apparatuses in the distributed processing system, and that transfers the divided data assigned to a different information processing apparatus to the different information processing apparatus; an allocation unit that allocates the data elements included in the divided data which is assigned to own information processing apparatus by the transferring unit in the own information processing apparatus or by the transferring unit in a different information processing apparatus, to an information processing apparatus that processes the data element; and a data processing unit that processes the allocated data elements. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011172 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - An object is to integrate pieces of information related to mutually the same target, though the pieces of information do not contain, in common, an attribute unique to one target. To achieve the object, from a generated condition storage unit storing generated integration conditions each specifying one or more attributes contained, in duplicate, in pieces of information related to mutually the same target, one of the generated integration conditions specifying one or more attributes being the same as one or more attributes contained in integration target information is obtained as a generated integration condition corresponding to the integration target information. A CI | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011171 | NODE DETERMINATION APPARATUS AND NODE DETERMINATION METHOD - A node determination method includes: associating a function with each of a plurality of nodes; calculating, by inputting a key for identifying specific data to each of the functions, a function value of the each of the functions; determining, on the basis of magnitude relation of the calculated function values, nodes for storing the specific data; and outputting a result of the determination. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011100 | SNAPSHOT ACQUISITION PROCESSING TECHNIQUE - This method includes, in response to receipt of a snapshot request from a first node that receives an instruction to obtain a snapshot, identifying transactions in progress; transmitting data representing states of the identified transactions in progress to the first node; after the identifying, carrying out a first processing to prevent the transactions in progress from normally completing; receiving a list of first transactions whose results are reflected to snapshot data or a list of second transactions whose results are not reflected to the snapshot data; and executing copy-on-write on a basis of a specific time after removing the first transactions from among transactions to be processed in the first processing and confirming that the respective first transactions are normally completed or cancelled. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120010829 | Fault diagnosis method, fault diagnosis apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium - A fault diagnosis may perform a statistical analysis based on a fault report of a semiconductor device, in order to output a feature that becomes the cause of the fault depending on a contribution of the feature to the fault. A process of grouping circuit information of the semiconductor device into N groups using one kind of feature as an index may be performed for K kinds of features, in order to group the circuit information into K×N groups. A sum total of feature quantities of partial circuits belonging to each of the groups may be output in a form of a list of learning samples. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120009980 | BASE STATION AND MOBILE STATION - A base station and a mobile station, the base station includes common antennas configured to transmit signals to all mobile stations (UEs) served by the base station; a special antenna to transmit a signal to a UE which is served by the base station and supports the special antenna; a sub-frame selecting unit to select a sub-frame for transmitting a common pilot of the special antenna in the current frame; a resource block (RB) selecting unit to select a RB for transmitting the common pilot, in the sub-frame for transmitting the common pilot selected by the sub-frame selecting unit; a notifying unit to notify the sub-frame and RB for transmitting the common pilot antenna selected by the UE supporting the special antenna in a cell; and a transmitting unit to transmit a signal having the common pilot in the RB selected by the RB selecting unit. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120009967 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A radio communication system including: a base station apparatus; and a terminal apparatus, wherein the base station apparatus and terminal apparatus performs radio communication, the base station apparatus includes: a scheduler which divides a radio frequency band used for the radio communication into first and second sub-bands of which respective bandwidths are different, assigns the divided first or second sub-band for transmitting user data to the terminal apparatus or for transmitting the user data from the terminal apparatus, and generates assignment information indicating which of the first or second sub-band is assigned to each terminal apparatus; and a transmitter which transmits the assignment information to the terminal apparatus, and the terminal apparatus includes a receiver which receives the assignment information. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120009965 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, MOBILE STATION, AND BASE STATION - A wireless communication method between a first communication device such as a base station and a second communication device such as a mobile station having an interference canceling function is provided, wherein the wireless communication method includes determining, with the second communication device, whether the second communication device undergoes an interference; transmitting, with the second communication device, a first notification signal to the first communication device; allocating, with the first communication device, a null signal within a predetermined frequency band for a predetermined transmission period in response to the first notification signal; and activating, with the second communication device, an interference canceling function in response to the allocated null signal. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120009957 | CELL IDENTIFIER DECIDING METHOD, RADIO BASE STATION AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A cell identifier deciding method includes: judging whether identification of cell identifiers allocated to cells covered by a plurality of radio base stations is allowed among the plurality of radio base stations; and changing the cell identifier of a radio base station which is relatively low in processing load imposed on changing of its cell identifier in the plurality of radio base stations, in a case that it is judged that identification of the cell identifiers is not allowed. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008957 | Optical transmission system and optical transmission method - An optical transmission system includes a plurality of optical nodes that transmits wavelength multiplexing light including a plurality of signal light components having different wavelengths, wherein each of the optical nodes includes superimposed signal light generation circuit which superimposes a low frequency signal having a common frequency on a corresponding signal light component included in the wavelength multiplexing light; low frequency signal extraction circuit which extracts a low frequency signal having a frequency of a given range from a corresponding signal light component; and pass-through node number measurement circuit which measures, for each of the signal light components, a pass-through node number based on the frequency of the low frequency signal extracted by the low frequency signal extraction circuit, the pass-through node number being the number of optical nodes through which the signal light component has passed before being transmitted to a specific optical node. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008782 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A data processing apparatus includes an address bus, a scramble unit, and a data bus. The address bus outputs address data to be given to a memory apparatus. The scramble unit scrambles write-in data into a storage position in the memory apparatus identified by the address data to obtain confidential data. The data bus outputs the confidential data. The scramble unit includes a first scrambler, a first converter and a second scrambler. The first scrambler XORs first mask data corresponding to the address data and the write-in data for each bit and makes it first scrambled data. The first converter performs one-to-one substitution conversion of the first scrambled data. The second scrambler XORs second mask data corresponding to the address data and data after the conversion of the first scrambled data by the first converter and outputs obtained second scrambled data as the confidential data. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008700 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, RECEPTION APPARATUS, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD IN RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A radio communication system, including: a transmission apparatus; and a reception apparatus, wherein the transmission apparatus and reception apparatus performs a radio communication, the transmission apparatus includes: one or more processor configured to enlarge a sequence length of a transmission data by repeating a sequence of the transmission data, and to perform a first subcarrier arrangement to arrange each of components included in the enlarged transmission data to each of subcarrier according to positions of the each of components in the enlarged transmission data, and to puncture the component of the arranged transmission data, when the subcarrier is not used for transmission; and a transmitter which transmits the transmission data arranged on the subcarrier to the reception apparatus, and the reception apparatus includes a receiver which receives the transmission data. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008699 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TERMINAL APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A radio communication system including: a base station apparatus; and a terminal apparatus, wherein the base station apparatus and terminal apparatus perform radio communication, the terminal apparatus includes: a holding unit which holds a pre-coding matrix; a relative value determining unit which determines a relative value with respect to a parameter included in the held pre-coding matrix; and a transmitting unit which transmits the determined relative value, and the base station apparatus includes a receiving unit which receives the relative value. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008670 | SELF-TESTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PHASE ADJUSTMENT CIRCUIT - A signal inversion unit inverts an adjustment pattern signal input as received data. A clock adjustment control circuit acquires a first TAP value adjusted and obtained when a phase adjusting operation is performed on a clock adjustment circuit in a state in which the adjustment pattern signal is not inverted, a first detection frequency of the adjustment pattern signal in a runtime of the operation, a second TAP value adjusted and obtained when the phase adjusting operation is performed in a state in which the adjustment pattern signal is inverted by the signal inversion unit, and a second detection frequency of the adjustment pattern signal in the runtime of the operation. A controller tests an operating state of the phase adjusting operation based on the first and second TAP values and the first and second detection frequencies of the adjustment pattern obtained by the clock adjustment control circuit. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008656 | DEVICE FOR JUDGING STATE OF SEMICONDUCTOR LASER AND METHOD FOR JUDGING STATE OF SEMICONDUCTOR LASER - A device includes: a providing unit that provides a driving electric current to a semiconductor laser, the electric current being superimposed a first alternating current signal having a first frequency at a low side of an operational range of the semiconductor laser and a second alternating current signal having a second frequency at a high side of the operational range; a first filter that extracts a first component corresponding to the first frequency from a voltage to be applied to the semiconductor laser; a second filter that extracts a second component corresponding to the second frequency from the voltage to be applied to the semiconductor laser; and a judge circuit that judges a state of the semiconductor laser based on a first differential resistance obtained from the result of the extracting by the first filter and a second differential resistance obtained from the result of the extracting by the second filter. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008633 | BRIDGE APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A bridge apparatus including a first line card and a second line card is provided. The first line card includes a first memory storing an association between a line card and a destination address, a first receiver receiving a frame from the second line card including a flag indicating whether a memory of the second line card stores the destination address of the frame, a determination circuit determining whether the first memory stores the destination address of the received frame, when the first flag added to the received frame indicates that the second memory does not store the destination address of the frame, and a first transmitter transmitting, when the determination circuit determines the first memory stores the destination address of the frame, address information associated with at least the destination address of the frame to the second line card, the destination address being stored by the first memory. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008581 | MOBILE STATION, WIRELESS BASE STATION, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - In a mobile station which communicates wirelessly with a wireless base station with a plurality of connections established by using part or all of a plurality of frequency bands, a plurality of wireless communication interfaces is associated with the plurality of frequency bands, and a processor makes a sleep request to the wireless base station, acquires from the wireless base station information about a result of scheduling complying with the sleep request and indicating non-sleep intervals of the individual connections and the frequency bands to be used for the respective non-sleep intervals, and performs sleep control on the plurality of wireless communication interfaces in accordance with the acquired information. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008548 | Radio Base Station, Relay Station, Radio Communication System And Radio Communication Method - In order to achieve effective utilization of radio communication resource, there is provided a relay station, for relaying a signal to be transferred between a radio base station and a radio terminal, which includes a storage section adapted to store communication controlling information for communication control with the radio terminal, a base station side signal reception section adapted to receive, from the radio base station, scheduling information in communication between the radio base station and the radio terminal through the relay station, a complementation section adapted to complement contents of the scheduling information received by the base station side signal reception section in accordance with the communication controlling information stored in the storage section, and a terminal side signal transmission section adapted to transmit the scheduling information whose contents are complemented by the complementation section to the radio terminal. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008547 | RELAY STATION, BASE STATION, RELAY METHOD AND COMMUNICATION METHOD USED IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A relay station includes a wireless communication interface configured to receive radio signals transmitted from plural mobile stations; and a processor configured to descramble the radio signals and extract identification information of physical layers of the mobile stations, and to convert the identification information of the physical layers to identification information of MAC layers, which are data link layers, and form a protocol data unit which includes the identification information of the MAC layers in a header and includes service data units of the radio signals. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008546 | RELAY NODE, BASE STATION, AND USER EQUIPMENT FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A relay node includes a processor that determines, based on uplink scheduler information, a target frequency band from plural frequency bands assigned to signals received from plural user equipments and multiplexes the signals received from the plural user equipments and a wireless communication interface that transmits the signals as a single carrier signal to a base station based on the target frequency band. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008545 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD THEREOF - The invention provides a wireless communication system and a data transmission method thereof. The wireless communication system includes a base station, a mobile station and a relay station which is transparent to the mobile station. The method includes that: the base station receives a first signal sent from the mobile station, and decodes the first signal. When the result of the decoding is incorrect, the base station sends a response to the relay station for indicating that the decoding is incorrect, but it does not send a response to the mobile station for indicating that the decoding to be incorrect. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008507 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication apparatus connected to an adjacent communication apparatus through a first path and a second path to receive a frame with a path identifier through the first path or the second path, the apparatus including: a first network interface configured for communicating via the first path; a second network interface configured for communicating via the second path; and a processor configured for extracting a first monitoring frame and a second monitoring frame, which are failure monitoring frames, from frames received on the first network interface and the second network interface; detecting a failure, based on input monitoring frames; and converting the path identifier of the first monitoring frame or the path identifier of the second monitoring frame, which are extracted, to make the path identifiers equal to each other. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008351 | VOLTAGE-DIVIDING POWER FACTOR CORRECTION CIRCUIT, VOLTAGE-DIVIDING POWER FACTOR CORRECTION APPARATUS AND VOLTAGE-DIVIDING POWER FACTOR CORRECTION METHOD - A circuit include: a first power factor correction circuit that forces current produced by the positive AC voltage to be in phase with the positive AC voltage so that a power factor of electric power is improved; a second power factor correction circuit that forces current produced by the negative AC voltage to be in phase with the negative AC voltage so that a power factor of electric power is improved; and an output circuit including a first capacitor storing first electric power with a power factor improved by the first power factor correction circuit and a second capacitor storing second electric power with a power factor improved by the second power factor correction circuit, the first capacitor and the second capacitor being provided in series, the output circuit outputting the first electric power stored in the first capacitor and the second electric power stored in the second capacitor. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008281 | ELECTRONIC UNIT, ELECTRONIC SYSTEM, AND CONTAINING DEVICE - In an electronic unit accommodated in a containing device so as to be adjacent to another electronic unit accommodated in the containing device, the electronic unit includes: a housing that is formed into a tub shape, that is provided with a plate comprising an air blowing hole, and that is closed by said another electronic unit when the electronic unit and the other electronic unit are accommodated in the containing device; and an interrupting portion that interrupts power supply to the electronic unit when said another electronic unit is detached from the containing device and the housing of the electronic unit is opened. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007976 | BIOMETRIC DATA ACQUIRING DEVICE AND BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION DEVICE - An organism information acquisition device is provided with an imaging part which images a user' s hand opened and the user' s hand bent to acquire a first image and a second image respectively; a dark line extraction part which extracts dark lines from the first image and the second image; a dark line element feature extraction part which extracts the darkness and width of the dark lines extracted by the dark line extraction part from the first image and the second image; and a surface information judgment part which extracts the dark lines being surface information relating to the hand on the basis of the darkness of the dark line in the first image, the deepness of the dark line in the second image, the width of the dark line in the first image, and the width of the dark line in the second image. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007719 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication device includes a transmitter configured to transmit test signals a predetermined number of times at an interval shorter than a transmission interval of data signals and a processor configured to measure reception status of a plurality of acknowledgement signals transmitted back in response to the respective test signals transmitted by the transmitter. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007470 | PIEZOELECTRIC GENERATING APPARATUS - A piezoelectric generating apparatus includes a plurality of piezoelectric bodies arranged at intervals via a gap. Each of the plurality of piezoelectric bodies includes a fixed end and a free end. A first surface electrode is formed on one side of each of the plurality of piezoelectric bodies, and a second surface electrode is formed on an opposite side of each of the plurality of piezoelectric bodies. A weight spans the plurality of piezoelectric bodies and attached to the free ends of the plurality of piezoelectric bodies. The plurality of piezoelectric bodies are curved upon application of acceleration to the weight from the outside in a lateral direction. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007376 | ROBOT HAND AND LIBRARY DEVICE - A robot hand includes: a drive source; a baseboard; a housing that is capable of advancing and retreating on the baseboard by means of the drive source; a pair of hands that are provided to grasp an object and held by the housing; an operation body that is provided to be capable of being pushed by the object and is held by the housing; and a close mechanism that changes a state of the hands from a non-grasping state where the hands release the object into a grasping state where the hands grasp the object, in response to pushing of the operation body, and that is held by the housing, | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120006977 | OPTICAL AMPLIFIER AND LIGHT RECEIVING DEVICE - An optical amplifier includes an optical signal path that optically couples an input port and an output port, and transmits an optical signal input from the input port to the output port; an optical amplification medium that is arranged in the optical signal path, and amplifies the optical signal in a predetermined amplification wavelength band; and an optical filter that is arranged between the optical amplification medium and the output port in the optical signal path, flattens gain wavelength characteristics of the optical amplification medium in the amplification wavelength band, and attenuates amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) at a center of the amplification wavelength band more greatly than ASE at both sides of the amplification wavelength band among ASE that occurs in the optical amplification medium on the optical signal amplified by the optical amplification medium. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120006147 | OPERATOR CONDITION DETECTING DEVICE AND STEERING WHEEL - When the electrical condition of a driver who is an operator of a vehicle is acquired by providing an electrode part on a steering wheel or the like that comes into contact with the driver, the electrode part is formed on a steering-wheel structure and is covered with a protective member. Conductive parts that pass through the protective part are formed by way of holes that are formed in the protective member. The conductive parts make the hand of the driver touching the steering wheel be in electrical contact with the electrode part. This configuration enables detection of the electrical condition of the operator without losing the degree of freedom in design by increasing the durability and easing the restrictions on the material and shape. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120005732 | PERSON AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM AND PERSON AUTHENTICATION METHOD - A person authentication system includes: an authentication server storing biometric data for matching related to an anonymous ID of a user; a biometric sensor acquiring biometric data of the user; and a terminal acquiring an anonymous ID stored in an electronic storage medium and transmitting the anonymous ID to the authentication server together with the biometric data acquired by the biometric sensor, wherein the authentication server transmits data needed for an access to personal data stored in the electronic storage medium to the terminal when there is a correspondence to a predetermined extent between the biometric data acquired by the biometric sensor and biometric data for matching related to the anonymous ID. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005664 | Storage device and configuration-information storing method - When configuration information about a configuration of a storage is changed, a determining unit of a storage device determines whether configuration information just updated is to be stored in accordance with a main update cause of the configuration information and/or a update content of the configuration information. If the determining unit determines that the configuration information is to be stored, a configuration-information storing unit stores the configuration information just updated in a configuration-information storage unit. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005550 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION BASE STATION APPARATUS - When transmitting retransmission data, MCS information of a control channel for when communicating the new data is replaced with retransmission control information and the control channel is transmitted. When receiving retransmission data, the control channel is received to obtain the retransmission control information, the replaced MCS information is estimated from the control channel received at the time of communication of new data, and a reception process of retransmission data is controlled using the estimated MCS information and the retransmission control information. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005549 | TRANSFER APPARATUS, TRANSFER PROGRAM, AND TRANSFER METHOD - A transfer apparatus includes: a receiver to receive one of an error correction packet and a data packet, the error correction packet for recovering the data packet through error correction, and the data packet having protective coverage information written thereon, the protective coverage information identifying a protective coverage on the data packet recoverable through an error correction of the error correction packet; an updater to update the protective coverage information in accordance with an order of reception of the data packets received by the receiver unit; a generator to generate an error correction packet of the data packet identified by new protective coverage information updated by the updater unit; and a transmitter to transmit the data packet having the protective coverage information updated by the updater unit, and the error correction packet generated by the generator unit. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005545 | Computer product, verification support apparatus, and verification support method - A computer-readable, non-transitory medium stores a program that causes a computer to execute detecting in a circuit-under-test, a change in a signal output from each circuit element on a transmission-side, during one clock cycle on a reception-side at an asynchronous location; inputting to each circuit element on the reception-side, a signal for which a change is not detected at a detection time among detection times when a signal change is detected at the detecting and replacing with a random logic value, a signal for which a change has been detected at a detection time among the detection times and inputting the random logic value to each circuit element on the reception-side, in an action triggered by a rising edge of an operation clock on the reception-side after the one clock cycle; and outputting for each circuit element on the reception-side, an operation result obtained based on input at the inputting. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005525 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR STORING CONTROL PROGRAM FOR DIRECTING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus includes a degeneration control unit and a re-synchronization processing instructing unit. The degeneration control unit degenerates, of a first controller group including a first controller and a second controller group including a second controller, the second control device group when the first and second controller performing a synchronization operation with each other detect occurrence of errors. The re-synchronization processing instructing unit instructs a controller included in the first controller group to execute re-synchronization processing. When another controller different from the first controller receives the instruction for the execution of the re-synchronization processing, the another controller performs interrupt mask setting. When the first controller receives the instruction for the execution of the re-synchronization processing, the first controller withholds the execution of the re-synchronization processing, starts error processing, and instructs the controller that performs the interrupt mask setting to release the interrupt mask. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005472 | MANAGEMENT SERVER, BOOT SERVER, NETWORK BOOT SYSTEM, AND NETWORK BOOT METHOD - The management server saves boot images corresponding to boot nodes that are connected to itself through a network. When condition information is received from the boot server provided in each network, the management server transmits a boot image specified by the condition information to the boot server. The boot server provides the boot image received from the management server to the boot node to make the boot node perform a network boot. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005464 | START UP PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A method includes loading a first module including first shared information commonly used by two or more of the plurality of modules; store access information for accessing the first shared information to a storage areas; load a second module including interface information for accessing the access information; and accessing the access information by the second module using the interface information and obtaining the first shared information via the access information, thereby, the size of a program related to the startup processing of the information processing apparatus can be reduced, and information can be shared among phases during the startup processing. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005442 | STORAGE DEVICE, ACCESS CONTROL PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM, AND CONTROL METHOD OF STORAGE DEVICE - A storage device for storing data includes a device configured to store data read or written by a host, a command storage unit configured to store commands transmitted by the host to acquire information relating to the device, a command acquisition unit configured to acquire commands issued to the device when the host requests access to the data stored in the device, and an access determination unit configured to permit the access, if the commands acquired by the command acquisition unit have been stored in the command storage unit. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005439 | COMPUTER SYSTEM HAVING A CACHE MEMORY AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME - A computer includes a memory that stores data, a cache memory that stores a copy of the data, a directory storage unit that stores directory information related to the data and includes information indicating that the data is copied to the cache memory, a directory cache storage unit that stores a copy of the directory information stored in the directory storage unit, and a control unit that controls storage of data in the directory cache storage unit, manages the data copied from the memory to the cache memory by dividing the data into an exclusive form and a shared form, and sets a priority of storage of the directory information related to the data fetched in the exclusive form in the directory cache storage unit higher than a priority of storage of the directory information related to the data fetched in the shared form in the directory cache storage unit. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005438 | INPUT/OUTPUT CONTROL APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An apparatus that enables data to be input to and output from a first processing device that performs an arithmetic operation and outputs first data, a second processing device that performs an arithmetic operation and outputs second data that has a number of bits which is smaller than the first data, a first storage device and a second storage device. The apparatus includes a data dividing unit and a storage control unit. The data dividing unit divides the first data output from the first processing device. The storage control unit causes the divided first data to be stored in the first storage device and the second storage device and causes the second data output from the second processing device to be stored in one of the first and second storage devices. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005436 | CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROLLER MODULE, AND CONTROL METHOD - A control device including: a storage device that includes a first storage area including a plurality of blocks into which data can be written more than once and a second storage area into which data can be written only once, wherein the first storage area further stores a flag for each of the blocks, the flag indicating whether or not the block is allowed to be used; a flag management information creation unit configured to create, on the basis of the flag, a flag management information for managing whether or not data can be stored in each block of the storage device; and a management information controller configured to cause the flag management information to be stored in the second storage area. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005426 | STORAGE DEVICE, CONTROLLER OF STORAGE DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD OF STORAGE DEVICE - A storage device includes a plurality of data storage units that store data; an attribution storage unit that stores an attribution group including each data storage unit on the basis of attributions of the plurality of data storage units; a defect storage unit that stores defects that occurred in a data storage unit; and a preventive-maintenance-subject extracting unit that extracts, as a preventive-maintenance subject, another data storage unit belonging to the same attribution group as the data storage unit in which the defects stored by the defect storage unit has occurred, on the basis of an occurrence history of the defects that occurred in the data storage unit and the attribution group stored by the attribution group storage unit. The storage device also includes a preventive-maintenance performing unit that performs preventive-maintenance on data stored in the other data storage unit extracted by the preventive-maintenance-subject extracting unit. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005425 | Storage system and storage control method - A storage control program causes a computer to execute a RAID level acquisition unit, a mapping unit, and a mapping information storage unit therein. The RAID level acquisition unit acquires RAID levels, supportable by a storage device including a plurality of storage mediums, from the storage device. The mapping unit maps the function types of a storage virtualization function in a host device accessing the storage device on the respective RAID levels acquired by the RAID level acquisition unit. The mapping information storage unit stores the correspondence relationship between the RAID levels and the function types mapped by the mapping unit as mapping information. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005417 | ARITHMETIC PROCESSING DEVICE AND DATA ERASING METHOD - Predetermined information is received from an external device and when receiving the information, an area in which the data stored in the first memory shall be erased is determined corresponding to a battery residual quantity of a power supply unit of the arithmetic processing device, and a data erasing process is controlled and executed with respect to the thus-determined area. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005384 | ACCESS CONTROL APPARATUS, ACCESS CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE SYSTEM - An access control apparatus which establishes a connection based on connection establishment requests from connected devices and controls accesses to a connection target device. The access control apparatus includes a connection information managing unit which manages connect wait conditions to the connection target device of the connected devices based on criterion information in a connection request transmitted from the connected devices and determination for selecting one connected device from the connected devices. The access control apparatus includes a selecting unit which selects one of the connected devices which has a delay tendency related to connection based on adjustment information which is set in accordance with the connect wait conditions of the connected devices and increases a delay tendency in connection of the connected device, and a determining unit which determines the connected device selected by the selecting unit as one to be connected to the connection target device. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005373 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes: a memory configured to store a first group of character strings each of which corresponds to a header name defined in accordance with a communication protocol for communication, a second group of character strings each of which corresponds to a character string that is obtained by converting the character strings of the first group into lower case letters or upper case letters, and a third group of character strings each of which is not identical to any of the character strings of the first group, the character strings of the third group being extracted from a signal received; an extracting unit configured to extract a header value from another signal received from the other communication apparatus when a header name included in the other signal is identical to any character string of the first group, or the third group, or the second group. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005352 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND METHOD - An information processing method for transmitting a provisional response signal, the information processing method includes: receiving a request signal indicating a request for processing; determining whether a load to be processed in a local device exceeds or equals to a threshold value; transmitting a provisional response signal that stops re-transmission of the request signal to a transmission source of the request signal when it is determined that the load to be processed exceeds or equals to the threshold value in the determining operation and the request signal is received; and transmiting the provisional response signal to the transmission source of the request signal when it is determined that the load to be processed falls below the threshold value in the determining operation and a specific time period elapses after the request signal is received. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005335 | Computer product , verification support apparatus, and verification support method - A computer-readable, non-transitory medium storing therein a verification support program that causes a computer to execute a process that includes detecting a point in time when data of any one transaction among a series of transactions that are to be transmitted in a prescribed sequence from a device under verification, is skipped; detecting a point in time when the data is first transmitted after the detected point in time when the data is skipped; computing time elapsing from the detected point in time when the data is skipped until the detected point in time when the data is transmitted; and outputting a computation result obtained at the computing. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005234 | Storage medium, trie tree generation method, and trie tree generation device - A retrieval device according to the present embodiment associates one tag key with one node and removes a node not having a tag key when a trie tree generating unit generates a trie tree. Moreover, because a tag key having a low priority is registered in a node close to a root node when the trie tree generating unit registers tag keys in the nodes of the trie tree, the retrieval device can narrow down a node region that is a comparison target when a trie tree searching unit performs a retrieval process. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005227 | Content recommending method, recommendation information creating method, content recommendation program, content recommendation server, and content providing system - A search input item acquisition unit acquires a search input item. A recommended content information creation unit acquires recommendation information records, compares the search input item acquired in a search input item acquisition unit with the search input items of the recommendation information records to extract recommendation information having the matched search input item according to their points, and creates recommended content information that links to content indicated by the extracted recommendation information records. A recommended content information providing unit provides the user with the recommended content information created by the recommended content information creation unit. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005172 | INFORMATION SEARCHING APPARATUS, INFORMATION MANAGING APPARATUS, INFORMATION SEARCHING METHOD, INFORMATION MANAGING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - A computer-readable recording medium stores therein an information searching program that causes a computer having access to archives including a compressed file group of compressed files that are to be searched and that have described therein character strings, to execute: sorting the compressed files in descending order of access frequency of the compressed files; combining the compressed files in descending order of access frequency after the sorting at the sorting such that a storage capacity of a cache area for a storage area that stores therein the compressed file group is not exceeded by a combined size of the compressed files combined; and writing, from the storage area into the cache area, the compressed files combined at the combining, the compressed files combined being written prior to a search of the compressed files combined. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120004001 | COVERAGE HOLE COMPENSATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A method of coverage hole compensation is provided in a wireless telecommunications network including a plurality of base station transmitters, each transmitter providing a coverage area for communication with user equipment, wherein a coverage hole is present within a coverage area provided by a transmitting transmitter; the method comprising selecting transmitters which are to be adjusted, including a first dominant transmitter within the coverage hole, and adjusting a transmission parameter of the selected transmitters, wherein the amount of adjustment of the selected first dominant transmitter in the coverage hole is greater than the amount of adjustment of any other selected transmitter. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002964 | OPTICAL ADD DROP MULTIPLEXER - An optical add-drop multiplexer having first and second routes includes: an optical cross connect; a first multiplexer optically coupled to a plurality of output ports of the optical cross connect; a second multiplexer optically coupled to a plurality of other output ports of the optical cross connect; a first wavelength selective switch to generate a first WDM optical signal including an optical signal output from the first multiplexer and to guide the first WDM optical signal to the first route; and a second wavelength selective switch to generate a second WDM optical signal including optical signal output from the second multiplexer and to guide the second WDM optical signal to the second route. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002944 | REPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND REPLAY APPARATUS - A replay control method of controlling reply means for replaying video content executed by a computer, the method includes: accepting one or more keywords; retrieving, from pieces of correspondence information each containing fraction part information specifying a piece of video content and a fraction part in the piece of video content, and a word string expressed in the fraction part, each piece of correspondence information whose word string contains at least one of the accepted one or more keywords; and making the replay means replay the fraction part specified by each retrieved piece of correspondence information. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002921 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE ELEMENT, OPTICAL HYBRID CIRCUIT, AND OPTICAL RECEIVER - An optical waveguide element includes a first optical coupler, a second optical coupler, and a first optical waveguide and a second optical waveguide that couple an output side of the first optical coupler and an input side of the second optical coupler to each other, the first optical waveguide and the second optical waveguide each include a bent waveguide, and the first optical waveguide and the second optical waveguide are different in optical path length from each other. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002915 | Optical module and fabrication method - An optical module includes an optical waveguide that transmits and outputs signal light; a circuit board that transmits the signal light output from the optical waveguide, and includes a low refractive-index portion that neighbors and surrounds a transmissive portion and has a lower refractive index than the transmissive portion, which transmits the signal light; and a light-receiving element that includes, on a side toward the circuit board, a light-receiving portion that receives the signal light that has transmitted through the circuit board, where the signal light is reflected toward the light-receiving element at a boundary surface between the transmissive portion and the low refractive-index portion. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002877 | Non-transitory computer readable storage medium, marker creating apparatus, restoration apparatus, and marker creating method - When creating a marker, an encryption apparatus extracts each pixel value in a region and allows a storing unit to save, as restoration information, the high-order bits of each extracted pixel value. Then, the encryption apparatus creates a marker by changing the high-order bits of the pixel value in a region in which the marker is created and embeds encrypted information in an encrypted region specified by the marker. When decoding the encrypted information, a decoding apparatus detects the marker from a digital image, decodes the encrypted information in the encrypted region specified by the marker, and overwrites bits contained in the restoration information with the high-order bits of the pixel value of the marker. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002846 | DATA COLLATION APPARATUS - A data collation apparatus has: a collation unit which calculates a similarity between input data measured by a measurement apparatus and each of registered data; and a calculation unit which adjusts, if a similarity of first registered data of which similarity with the input data is highest is lower than a first threshold, and a difference between the similarities of the first registered data and second registered data of which similarity with the input data is second highest is smaller than a predetermined value, or if a degree of separation to indicate a distance between the similarity of the first registered data and a similarity distribution of a group of registered data items of which similarities with the input data are second highest or lower is smaller than a predetermined value, the parameters of the measurement apparatus, and instructs the measurement apparatus to remeasure the measurement subject. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002844 | Computer product, information display apparatus, and information display method - A 3-dimesional model of an antigen is regarded as a display subject and a 3-dimesional model of an antibody is regarded as a comparison subject. A portion of the molecular surface of the display subject at a distance enabling binding with the comparison subject is cut out as a display surface. The 3-dimensional model of the antigen, which is the display subject, is displayed in a rotated state, where the normal of the display surface is rotated to point in a counter viewing direction, whereby the 3-dimensional model is rotated in a viewing coordinate system. The display surface alone is displayed in color, whereas other portions of the molecular surface are not, thereby enabling the display surface of the antigen that is at a distance enabling binding with the antibody to be displayed at a position easily viewed by the user. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002842 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING MOVEMENT OF OBJECT - A device for detecting a movement of an object includes: an image shooting unit to generate a first image and a second image by continuous shooting; a detection unit to detect a movement region based on a difference between the first and second images; an edge detection unit to detect an edge region in the first image; a deletion unit to delete the edge region from the movement region; and a decision unit to determine a degree of object movement in accordance with the movement region in which a part of the movement region being deleted by the deletion unit. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002827 | SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A signal processing system includes a transmitter, a sensor, a plurality of processing apparatuses, a placement determiner and a signal distributor. The transmitter transmits a wireless signal. The sensor detects the wireless signal transmitted by the transmitter. The plurality of processing apparatuses receives corresponding signals and executes processing on the received signals. The placement determiner determines placement of the processing apparatuses based on the detection of the wireless signal performed by the sensor. The signal distributor distributes and sends signals to the processing apparatuses respectively, on a basis of the placement determined by the placement determiner. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002725 | Video coding apparatus and video coding control method - In a video coding apparatus, a plurality of coding units perform compression coding of a single source stream of video data. A control unit controls those coding units in such a way that all the coding units produce respective interframe coded pictures with identical playback times as a first-coded picture in a picture group (e.g., GOP) and produce identical local decoded pictures based on the respective intraframe coded pictures. A selection decision unit makes a selection, for each picture group, of one of the coded video data from the coding units on the basis of their coding results. According to this selection, a selection unit selectively outputs one of the coded video data. This output switching operation is performed at a point immediately before a forward interframe predictive coded picture that appears first of those in a picture group included in each of the coded video data outputs being switched. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002715 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE TRANSMISSION PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus that generates images for displaying a computer execution result on a display unit of a terminal device connected through a network and that transmits the images to the terminal device. The apparatus includes an image memory that holds the images; a first transmitting unit that transmits the images, a detecting unit that detects an area obtained by updating accumulated changes between frames of the images or a frequency of changes between frames of the images, and a second transmitting unit that compresses the images by a compression method and that transmits the compressed images, when the area or the frequency detected by the detecting unit is larger than or equal to a predetermined threshold, the compression method being different from a compression method for the first transmitting unit. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002677 | Arbitration method, arbiter circuit, and apparatus provided with arbiter circuit - An arbitration method includes a first process to perform a path control to transfer data from physically plural input ports logically having plural virtual channels to an arbitrary one of the plural output ports, wherein only one channel is selectable at one input port at an arbitrary point in time, by performing an arbitration among the channels of each of the plural input ports according to an arbitrary arbitration algorithm other than a time-division algorithm, and a second process to perform an arbitration among the plural input ports according to the arbitrary arbitration algorithm. The arbitrary arbitration algorithm used in the first and second processes is switched to the time-division algorithm for a predetermined time in response to a trigger. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002676 | TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, DESTINATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - A transmission system including: transmission apparatuses; and a destination management apparatus including: first ports which are coupled to the transmission apparatuses; and a first processor configured to manage an address entry which indicates a relation between the first port which receives the frame from among the first ports and a transmission source address included in the frame; and to transfer the frame received by one of the first ports, to the first port in association with the transmission destination address from among the first ports based on the address entry, wherein one of the transmission apparatuses including: second ports which are coupled to another transmission apparatus in the network; a third port which is coupled to the destination management apparatus; and a second processor configured to transmit the frame received by one of the second ports only to the third port. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002657 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD IN RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A radio communication system including: a base station apparatus; and a mobile station apparatus, the mobile station apparatus includes: a receiver which receives data signal transmitted from the base station apparatus; a controller which switches a unit of grouping to the data signal and groups the data signal, according to one parameter or a combination of a plurality of parameters out of a type of a channel, a type of modulation scheme and encoding rate, an assigned resource amount, or a number of transmitting antennas of the mobile station apparatus, when an ACK signal or an NACK signal to the data signal is transmitted; and a transmitter which transmits the ACK signal or the NACK signal in each the group, and the base station apparatus includes: a transmitter which transmits the data signal; and a receiver which receives the ACK signal or the NACK signal. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002590 | BASE STATION, COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS, RELAY METHOD AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A base station relays communication between a wide area communications network and a mobile terminal in a nearby wireless area, and includes a storage device storing correspondence information that correlates a first address and a second address that are assigned to the mobile terminal, the first address being for a mobile communications network coupled to the wide area communications network and the second address being for the wireless area; a first communication interface that receives from the wide area communications network, a packet addressed to the second address; a processor that based on the correspondence information, converts the destination of the received packet, from the second address to the first address; and a second communication interface that transfers to the mobile communications network, the packet of which the destination has been converted, if the mobile terminal has performed handover to a second base station in the mobile communications network. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002585 | INFORMATION DOWNLOADING APPARATUS AND MOBILE TERMINAL - A technique for improving the efficiency of downloading transmission data is disclosed. An information downloading apparatus downloads differing sets of information to predetermined groups to which a mobile terminal may belong. This apparatus includes a channel selecting unit for selecting from plural information channels an information channel for transmitting transmission data and a transmitting unit for transmitting transmission data using the selected information channel. The channel selecting unit selects an information channel so that sets of transmission data with differing destination addresses may be transmitted through differing information channels. The transmitting unit transmits to each group, through a control channel, information pertaining to whether a set of transmission data exists, the information channel to be used if the set of transmission data exists, and the data length of the set of transmission data. The control channel includes time slots that are associated with the groups. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002584 | MULTICAST DATA COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An MBMS-GW delivers multicast data from a contents management server respectively to base stations, partitions and codes the multicast data into a plurality of pieces of multiple description code data, and delivers the plurality of pieces of MD-code data respectively to the base stations. Each of the base stations arbitrarily sets a plurality of transmission carrier frequencies for respectively transmitting the plurality of pieces of MD code data, and concurrently transmits the plurality of pieces of MD code data delivered from the MBMS-GW by respectively using the plurality of transmission carrier frequencies set by the transmission frequency setting unit. An LTE terminal or an LTE-A terminal receives, from a corresponding base station, any one or more of the plurality of pieces of MD code data transmitted by using the plurality of transmission carrier frequencies, and decodes and reproduces the multicast data from the received MD-code data. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002383 | DIFFERENTIAL PATH REPLACEMENT COMPONENT, PRINTED BOARD, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A differential path replacement component includes: a first signal line that comprises one end and the other end; and a second signal line that comprises one end adjacent to one end of the first signal line and the other end adjacent to the other end of the first signal line, that transmits a signal having a phase opposite to a phase of a signal transmitted through the first signal line, and that is paired with the first signal line. The first and second signal lines are twisted together such that an arranged sequence of one end of the first signal line and one end of the second signal line is reversed to an arranged sequence of the other end of the first signal line and the other end of the second signal line. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002363 | Electronic apparatus - An electronic apparatus includes a heat dissipating module mounted at a position interposed between a shield plate and a main circuit board and air sent from a fan through a heat dissipating fin is discharged from an air vent, wherein the heat dissipating module includes the heat dissipating fin in contact with the heat generating electronic component; the fan sending the air; and a base body supporting the fan and the heat dissipating fin at a position closer to a side of the shield plate than a position of the fan, and having a slope between the fan and the heat dissipating fin for guiding the air sent from the fan to the heat dissipating fin, wherein the shield plate includes a cut and raised piece which faces the slope and obliquely guides the air sent from the fan to the heat dissipating fin along the slope. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002285 | OPTICAL ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An optical device includes: an optical waveguide; and a plurality of diffraction grating layers, provided along the optical waveguide, each including a diffraction grating defined by a discontinuous first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer having a refractive index different from a refractive index of the first semiconductor layer and burying the first semiconductor layer, one diffraction grating layer of the plurality of diffraction grating layers including a third semiconductor layer being continuous with the diffraction grating and made from a material different from materials of the first and the second semiconductor layers. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002270 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - An optical transmission system includes an optical transmitter that sends signal light to a transmission path, an optical receiver that receives the signal light from the transmission path, and an optical amplifier that is provided on the transmission path and that amplifies the signal light, the optical amplifier being configured to control a gain characteristic of the optical amplifier such that a power of signal light having a wavelength included within a wavelength range in which polarization hole burning occurs is higher than a power of another signal light having a wavelength outside the wavelength range. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120001943 | Electronic device, computer-readable medium storing control program, and control method - In an electronic device, a control unit determines a state of changes of tilt angles detected by a tilt sensor, modifies at least one of control information stored in a control information storage unit, and a tilt direction and tilt angle detected by the tilt sensor, depending on the determined state of the changes, and changes the display orientation of a display unit on the basis of the modification result. The tilt sensor detects the tilt direction and tilt angle of the display unit with respect to the vertical downward direction. The control information storage unit stores the control information indicating correlations between display orientations of the display unit and tilts of the own device. A detected tilt data storage unit stores detected tilt data indicating a history of tilt directions and tilt angles detected by the tilt sensor. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120001822 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A wireless communication apparatus includes a first housing, a second housing which is openably and closably connected to the first housing through a hinge, a first conductor part which is arranged on the first housing, a second conductor and an antenna element, which are arranged on the second housing and an antenna switching part that makes the first conductor part, the second conductor part, and the antenna element serve as a dipole antenna when the first housing and the second housing are in an open state, and makes the antenna element serve as a monopole antenna when the first conductor and the second conductor are in a closed state. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120001485 | WIRELESS POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM, WIRELESS POWER TRANSMITTING DEVICE, AND WIRELESS POWER RECEIVING DEVICE - A wireless power supply system includes: a wireless power transmitting device configured to include a variable resonant circuit having a variable-controllable resonant frequency characteristic, and to transmit electric power wirelessly via the variable resonant circuit; a power transmission control unit configured to variably control the resonant frequency characteristic of the variable resonant circuit; and a plurality of wireless power receiving devices configured to include respective unique resonant circuits having respective unique resonant frequency characteristics which are different to each other, and to wirelessly receive power from the wireless power transmitting device by a magnetic field resonance mode arising as a result of the unique resonant circuit tuning to a resonant frequency of the variable resonant circuit. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20110321000 | TECHNIQUE FOR CREATING ANALYSIS MODEL AND TECHNIQUE FOR CREATING CIRCUIT BOARD MODEL - According to a circuit board creation program presented herein, a simulation assuming a case in which an addition of a bypass capacitor near a another bypass capacitor provided between a pin and via of an LSI part can be performed, simply by adding a bypass capacitor property model and changing the value of a coefficient parameter by which the property value of an element of a line part is to be multiplied or divided. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320907 | DATA PROCESSING CIRCUIT AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A data processing circuit includes a receive circuit that receives data including a control bit for controlling a process of the data, a hold circuit that holds the received data, an error detection circuit that detects an error in the received data, a first correction circuit that corrects the received data when an error of the control bit in the received data is detected, and outputs the corrected data, and an output select circuit that outputs data held in the hold circuit when no error is detected in the control bit, and outputs the corrected data outputted from the first correction circuit when an error is detected in the control bit. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320901 | DATA TRANSFER DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD OF DATA TRANSFER DEVICE - A data transfer device includes a data transmitting circuit includes an error detection code generating unit generating an error detection code for detecting an error in the data, and a transmission unit transmitting the data and the error detection code together with retransmit enable information representing that corresponding data transmitted before the former data or transmitted next can be retransmitted, the data receiving circuit includes a reception unit receiving the transmitted data, the transmitted error detection code and the transmitted retransmit enable information, an error detection unit detecting the error in the received data based on the error detection code, an error data retaining unit retaining the data in which an error is detected when the reception unit receives the retransmit enable information, and an error data comparing unit that comparing the error detected data retained in the error data retaining unit with corresponding data that is retransmitted. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320900 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ERROR CHECK OF TRANSMISSION DATA - An error check apparatus including, a packet protocol error check processing circuit configure to detect a protocol error of a packet, a retry control circuit configured to receive the protocol error of the packet from the packet protocol error check processing circuit, and to perform request for retry for data of the packet if the received protocol error has not been detected from a packet retransmitted by retry request, and an error notification circuit configured to notify of the protocol error of the packet to a processing unit in a higher-level layer if the protocol error is not a first protocol error for the packet. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320885 | TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION DEVICE, RECEPTION DEVICE, AND DATA TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION METHOD - A transmission/reception device includes a transmission device that divides a plurality of connection lines into a plurality of groups, determines corresponding connection lines in the plurality of groups, determines a correspondence between test pattern and the connection line, and outputs the test pattern to the plurality of connection lines based on the correspondence between the test pattern and the connection line, and a reception device that receives the test pattern from the transmission device, compares bits in a same position of the test pattern received through a corresponding connection line in the plurality of groups based on the correspondence between the test pattern and the connection line, and generates erroneous connection line information indicating an erroneous connection line as a connection line in which an error has occurred in the plurality of connection lines based on a result of the comparison. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320875 | INFORMATION TERMINAL AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information terminal includes a start processing unit of a central processing unit which executes restart processing and a notification unit which outputs reason information indicating a reason for executing the restart processing. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320874 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING CANDIDATE CAUSE - A method for estimating a candidate cause in a failure occurred in an information processing apparatus by a computer, the method includes retrieving, by the computer, a first set of incident information from a data storage region on the basis of failure symptom data which is set on the computer, the data storage region storing incident information, each piece of the incident information including failure symptom data, first cause data of a positive judgment result of a cause in the failure, and second cause data of a negative judgment result of the cause in the failure, each of the first set including the failure symptom data identical to the set failure symptom data. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320801 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND START-UP METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes, a processer, a non-volatile memory to store a plurality of programs, a volatile memory to store at least one program executed by the processor and data accessed by the program, an acceptance unit to accept context information when power supplied to the processor is resumed from a state in which power supplied to the processor is interrupted while a power supplied to the volatile memory is maintained, a selection unit to select one program from the plurality of programs stored in the non-volatile memory based on context information accepted by the acceptance unit, and a program determination unit to determine whether the one program selected by the selection unit is stored in the volatile memory. When the processor determines the one program selected by the program determination unit is stored in the volatile memory, the processor starts the one program stored in the volatile memory. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320717 | STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS, STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A storage control apparatus includes a memory configured to store access management information concerning access from a host to each of a plurality of logical volumes, and a controller configured to refer to the access management information read from the memory, when receiving an entirety of updated data from the host, to set a write mode for data transfer from each of the plurality of logical volumes to the corresponding physical volume on the basis of the access management information to one of a difference data write mode in which difference data indicating a difference between an entirety of data stored in a storage apparatus and the entirety of updated data is written into a storage apparatus and an entire data write mode in which the entirety of updated data is written into the storage apparatus. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320708 | STORAGE SYSTEM - A storage expander apparatus for accessing storage units includes first interfaces for accessing the storage units, a second interface for accessing subordinate expander apparatus, and a processor for executing receiving from an external apparatus a first request for obtaining first information indicative of a state of a connection of the storage expander apparatus, transmitting a second request for obtaining second information indicative of a state of a connection of the subordinate expander apparatus, measuring an elapsing time that has elapsed since transmitting the second request, storing a first response corresponding to the second request upon receiving the first response, starting a process for obtaining third information indicative of a state of a connection to be connected with the first interfaces upon the elapsing time exceeding a predetermined time, and transmitting a second response including the third information to the external apparatus upon receiving the third response. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320683 | Information processing system, resynchronization method and storage medium storing firmware program - An information processing system includes sets of multiple processors performing processing synchronously. The system includes: a ROM storing a firmware program activating the processors to a synchronized state; a RAM defined by one address map; a firmware copying section copying the firmware program in the ROM to the RAM, on system boot; and a RAM address register storing an address of the RAM and of a copy destination of the firmware program. The system further includes: a RAM address storing section storing the address of the RAM and of the copy destination of the firmware program; a loss-of-synchronism detection section detecting loss of synchronism of the processors; and an address replacing section referring to the RAM address register upon detection of the loss of synchronism, thereby replacing an address for reading the stored firmware program, with the address of the RAM and of the copy destination of the firmware program. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320641 | CONTROL APPARATUS, SWITCH, OPTICAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD - A control apparatus includes a first processor that is operative to perform outputting first data including control data, a first input/output interface that receives the first data, a second input/output interface that receives and outputs data, a third input/output interface that receives and outputs data using a second communication method, in which transmission speed is lower than transmission speed in the first communication method, and a second processor that is operable to perform controlling the second input/output interface outputs third data, which is obtained by replacing the control data included in the first data received by the first input/output interface with second data received by the third input/output interface, to a control target apparatus, controlling the control target apparatus outputs the third data received from the second input/output interface, and controlling the third input/output interface outputs response data in response to the third data received from the control target apparatus. | 12-29-2011 |
