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| 20120131355 | RANGE SEARCH SYSTEM, RANGE SEARCH METHOD, AND RANGE SEARCH PROGRAM - In case of a range search to the encryption DB (database), conventionally, because there is a correlation between a value of the data and the number of search keys for the range search, the contents of the encrypted data can be inferred and are not safe. Also, it is not efficient sufficiently in case of insertion of the data, and search. In the present invention, the search keys related by the data are generated for a predetermined number without depending on the value of the data. Also, when the search keys showing a range are generated, the search keys are provided from the search key having a narrow width to the search key having a wide range, and the widths have a relation of a power series length, to suppress the number of necessary search keys. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120131030 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND INFORMATION CONTROL PROGRAM - An information management apparatus includes: a confidential data storing section configured to store a plurality of individual identifies (IDs) and data which is related to each of the plurality of individual IDs as confidential data. A receiving section is configured to receive a first search condition used to acquire desired confidential data to be transmitted from a first service providing unit. A searching section is configured to extract first candidate data which matches to the first search condition from the confidential data storing section. A transmission record storing section is configured to store a plurality of anonymized data which has been already transmitted to the first service providing unit. An anonymizing section is configured to generate first transmission data by carrying out processing to contain said first candidate data and the first data of the plurality of anonymized data based on first data which has data of a same kind as the first candidate data. A transmitting section is configured to transmit the first transmission data to the first service providing unit. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120130938 | NETWORK STATE PREDICTION DEVICE, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A network state prediction device | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120130818 | ADVERTISEMENT OUTPUT CONTROL DEVICE, ADVERTISEMENT OUTPUT CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An advertisement output control device provided with an advertisement distribution unit ( | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120129491 | METHOD OF PROVIDING TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK SECURITY - Disclosed is a method of providing network security within a mobile radio communications network and including creating a security context for communications between a mobile radio communications device and the network, the security context being created responsive to an input parameter such as the downlink NAS count, and the method further including, as part of each initial handover attempt, controlling the parameter so as to apply a version of the parameter different from a previous version, for example as incremented downlink NAS count, and preferably independently of network signaling messages. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120128254 | MARKER GENERATION DEVICE, MARKER GENERATION DETECTION SYSTEM, MARKER GENERATION DETECTION DEVICE, MARKER, MARKER GENERATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - Provided is a marker generation device which has a feature comparison means and a marker pattern generation means. The feature comparison means disposes feature points extracted from an image in a predetermined space, sets parts in which the number of feature points in the predetermined space is equal to or less than a predetermined number as singular features, disposes feature points extracted from an identifier in the predetermined space, and counts the number of feature points that coincide with the singular features. The marker pattern generation means converts the structure of the identifier and extracts the feature points from the converted identifier. The feature comparison means disposes the feature points extracted from the converted identifier in the predetermined space, counts the number of feature points that coincide with the singular features, and selects, as a marker for detection, an identifier having the most counts from among identifiers before conversion and one or two or more identifiers that have been converted. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127551 | SMALL SIZE FAST STEERING MIRROR HAVING SMALL SIZE AND EXCELLENT VIBRATION CHARACTERISTICS - A fast steering mirror has n plate springs ( | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127542 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD, AND IMAGE CAPTURING CIRCUIT - Provided is an image capturing apparatus for capturing an image of a target object by optically scanning the target object by moving in a predetermined scanning direction. The apparatus includes a light-receiving device that is disposed on a light-receiving surface of the image capturing apparatus and accumulates an electric charge according to an amount of light received from a light detection window, a length of which in the scanning direction is shorter than a length in the scanning direction of an area defined as one pixel of the target object; and an output device that outputs the electric charge accumulated by the light-receiving device when the light-receiving device has completed the optical scanning of the area defined as one pixel. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127236 | CARBON NANOTUBE INK COMPOSITION - A carbon nanotube ink composition that exhibits excellent storage stability and superior printability during printing using a printing device. The carbon nanotube ink composition includes at least carbon nanotubes, a solvent, and an acetylene glycol compound represented by general formula (1) shown below. In general formula (1), m represents an integer of 0 to 5, n represents an integer of 0 to 5, each of R | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120126865 | CLOCK REGENERATION CIRCUIT - A clock regeneration circuit according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is characterized in that a phase comparison result of serial data being inputted and a clock signal is shaped with use of the clock signal or another clock signal having a predetermined phase difference from the clock signal, and a phase of the clock signal is controlled with use of the shaped phase comparison result. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120126854 | FREQUENCY REGENERATION CIRCUIT AND FREQUENCY REGENERATION METHOD - A frequency regeneration circuit according to the present invention compares a width of a single pulse of input data with a time width of a 1/n clock cycle defined by a phase difference of multi-phase clock signals (where n is a natural number) in order to regenerate a frequency that is 1/n of a rate of the input data. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120124594 | EVENT PROCESSING SYSTEM, DISTRIBUTION CONTROLLER, EVENT PROCESSING METHOD, DISTRIBUTION CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - The number of dispatch rules set to each dispatcher is reduced in an event processing system. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120124379 | ANONYMOUS AUTHENTICATION SIGNATURE SYSTEM, USER DEVICE, VERIFICATION DEVICE, SIGNATURE METHOD, VERIFICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - The user device includes: a recording unit which stores system parameters as respective parameters given in advance, a disclosure public key, a user public key, a user private key, a member certificate, and an attribute certificate; an input/output unit which receives input of the document from the user and an attribute the user intends to disclose; a cryptograph generating module which generates a cryptograph based on the inputted document, the attribute to be disclosed, and each of the parameters; a signature text generating module which generates a zero-knowledge signature text from the generated cryptograph; and a signature output module which outputs the cryptograph and the zero-knowledge signature text as the signature data. The user public key and the attribute certificate are generated by using a same power. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120124166 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is an information processing system that reflects a processing load of the virtual machine actually running in one server, and reproduces the processing load generated in the case where this virtual machine is run in the other server. An information processing system ( | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120124159 | CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM, CONTENT DELIVERY METHOD AND CONTENT DELIVERY PROGRAM - In order to stably deliver content data over a network, a content delivery system is provided with: a content retention module for storing content data consisting of hierarchically encoded hierarchical data; a cache retention module for caching content data; a hierarchical score determination module for calculating an access requirement frequency for each piece of cached hierarchical data; a hierarchical arrangement determination module for replacing hierarchical data having an access requirement frequency lower than a fixed value with the hierarchical data stored in the content retention module; and a content delivery module for delivering content data in response to requests from a client device. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120124048 | CLUSTERING APPARATUS, AND CLUSTERING METHOD - A technique extracts an object that is characteristic although the number of appearances is less demanded. A clustering apparatus includes: a similarity degree calculating section calculating a similarity degree of a combination of optional two of objects to store the calculated similarity degree in a similarity degree table, excluding a combination of one of the optional two and itself; a merging object selecting section selecting as merging objects, two objects related to the similarity degree which satisfies a predetermined reference; a new object generating section generating a new object from the merging objects; a merging object removing section removing from the similarity degree table, a similarity degree between each of the two objects selected as the merging objects and each of the objects; and a new object adding section calculating a similarity degree between the new object and each of the plurality of objects other than the new object. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120122443 | SOFTWARE OUTPUT DESTINATION HANDLING TERMINAL, SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR THE SAME - A software output destination handling terminal that handles a display terminal as a software output destination. Data indicating a type of the display terminal is received from the display terminal with which communication connection has been established, and data indicating a usage status of the user is obtained. Data indicating a display rule for a software application to be displayed under the usage status is obtained. In the rule, information designating the display terminal type is associated with information designating a category of the software application to be displayed at the display terminal having the type. Based on the rule, the category of the software application to be displayed at the relevant display terminal is specified. Based on the category, a software application belonging to the category is specified among software applications. Data indicating an instruction to the display terminal to display the software application is generated and sent thereto. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120122412 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE POWER FOR BROADCASTING A COGNITIVE PILOT CHANNEL - The invention relates to a method for controlling the power for broadcasting a Cognitive Pilot Channel broadcasting lists of information to each of a plurality of meshes M | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120122404 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A direction deciding unit calculates a plane the perpendicular of which is a directional vector from the wireless communication apparatus toward a radio station. A group deciding unit decides, as groups, antenna combinations each consisting of some ones but not all of a plurality of antennas. A distance calculating unit calculates the distances each between the coordinates of antennas projected, in parallel with the directional vector, onto the plane, and further calculates, for each group, as a group shortest-distance of the group, the shortest one of the calculation results of the distances each between the coordinates of the antennas constituting the group. An identifying unit identifies a group the group shortest-distance of which is the longest. A plurality of communication units communicate with the radio station by use of respective ones of a plurality of antennas in the group identified by the identifying unit. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120121217 | PROBE FOR ELECTRIC/MAGNETIC FIELD - In an electric/magnetic field probe using an optical fiber, when a stress is applied to the fiber, the polarization state of the light propagating in the fiber changes, and the signal level of the electric or magnetic field detection becomes unstable. For coping with this problem, for suppressing the curve or waggle of the optical fiber caused by a stress applied to the fiber, an electric/magnetic field sensor unit composed of the fiber and EO/MO material is fixed on a quartz substrate, for example, and the part of the fiber other than the sensor unit is stored in an acrylic tube and fixed. Further, polarization adjustment parts like a polarization controller, an optical analyzer or the like is installed in the housing, so that a stress caused by wind pressure or contact is not applied to the fiber connected to the parts. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120909 | METHOD FOR CONFIGURING PHICH CARRIER LINKAGE - There is provided a method of configuring the downlink component carrier between one or more linkage methods for PHICH reception on User Equipment (UE), which is configured for carrier aggregation, over a mobile communication network. This method includes (a) providing an indicator, and (b) determining whether the PHICH carrier linkage should be dynamic linkage or cell specific, based on the value of the indicator. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120841 | METHOD OF PCI AND CQI ESTIMATION IN CDMA SYSTEMS - A method includes: receiving symbols from antenna(s); calculating average-channel estimates of the symbols over a measurement period; forming a channel matrix from the average-channel estimates; calculating a power ratio between a closed-loop mode and an open-loop mode for each PCI using the channel matrix; calculating RSCP value(s) and ISCP value(s) corresponding to the antenna(s); averaging the RSCP value(s) and ISCP value(s) over the antenna(s) to provide averaged RSCP and ISCP; calculating open-loop SINR from the averaged RSCP and ISCP; calculating SINR for stream(s) for each PCI from the power ratio and the open-loop SINR; determining TBS for a single stream from a single-stream-CQI table using calculated SINR; determining TBS for all streams from a dual-stream-CQI table using calculated SINR; comparing the TBS of the single stream and TBS of the dual stream to determine whether to select single stream or dual stream; and determining PCI and CQI for the stream(s). | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120792 | MONITOR/CONTROL DEVICE AND MONITOR TARGET DEVICE - A monitor and control device includes a monitor and control unit transmitting to a monitor target device a monitor and control signal (M&CS) through a M&CS path in a case of a malfunction occurred in a main signal path, and transmits to the monitor target device the M&CS through the main signal path in a case of a malfunction occurred in the M&CS path, the monitor target device including: a first path connection unit connected to the main signal path passing either a main signal in which the M&CS for monitoring and controlling the monitor target device is multiplexed or a main signal in which the M&CS is not multiplexed; a second path connection unit connected to the M&CS path passing the M&CS; and a selection unit selecting whether to perform transmission and reception of the M&CS by either one of the main signal path and the M&CS path. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120617 | FEED LINE STRUCTURE, CIRCUIT BOARD USING SAME, AND EMI NOISE REDUCTION METHOD - Provided is a feed line structure that enables suppression of noise entering a primary power supply from an electronic circuit without using a circuit component such as a choke coil and a capacitor and also without increasing an occupied area on the circuit board, so that an EMI countermeasure is achieved. The feed line structure includes a feed line composed by pairing a power supply wire 41 and a reference potential wire 42 in an insulator 40, and is characterized in that a wire 43 in a floating state in potential is provided. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120119707 | ELECTRIC CELLS FOR BATTERY PACK, BATTERY CONTROL SYSTEM, AND BATTERY CONTROL METHOD - There are provided a battery control system and a battery control method which can eliminate a management device controlling voltages of individual cells in a battery pack, resist the influence of noise, prevent an increase in size, and reduce the load on a management device. A cell for a battery pack will be interconnected with another cell to be used as a battery pack, the cell comprises unit cell | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120119617 | PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR AND AUDIO COMPONENTS - One object of the present invention is to an achieve increase of amplitude of vibrations and/or flattening of frequency dependence of the amplitude of a piezoelectric actuator. Piezoelectric actuator ( | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120117623 | SECURE NETWORK CONNECTION - The invention provides for a method for use in a mobile radio communications network connection procedure and including the step of rejecting at a mobile radio communications device a handover request from a network responsive to determination of support of the security algorithm associated with the handover, and for a mobile radio communications device arranged to determine support of security algorithms as proposed by the network, preferably at AS level, within a handover command, and to provide notification to the network of rejection of the connection due to non-support of the algorithm. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117619 | SECURE NETWORK CONNECTION ALLOWING CHOICE OF A SUITABLE SECURITY ALGORITHM - The invention provides for a method for use in a mobile radio communications device network connection procedure and including the step of, at a network, sending to a mobile radio communications device a list of a plurality of security algorithms supported in the network and so as to allow choice of a suitable algorithm irrespective of the degree of update that the device may have experienced. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117447 | Data transmission - If the number of bits at which 64-bit width data has changed at the same time has exceeded a threshold, the data is outputted, with the polarity of each bit inverted. Otherwise, the data is outputted. A 7-bit width error correcting code is given to the outputted data and the inversion instruction signal indicating whether the number of the changed bits has exceeded the threshold. Error code correction is performed for the data and the inversion instruction signal with the use of the transmitted error correcting code. If the inversion instruction signal for which the error code correction has been performed indicates that the number of the changed bits has exceeded the threshold, the data for which the error code correction has been performed is outputted, with the polarity of each bit inverted. Otherwise, the data for which the error code correction has been performed is outputted. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117337 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND EXPONENT CALCULATION METHOD - Provided is a semiconductor integrated circuit and an exponent calculation method that, when normalizing a plurality of data by a common exponent, speed up exponent calculation and reduce circuit scale and power consumption. When normalizing a plurality of data by a common exponent, a semiconductor integrated circuit calculates the exponent of the plurality of data. Included is a bit string generator that generates a second bit string containing bits having a transition value indicating that values of adjacent bits are different or a non-transition value indicating that values of adjacent bits are not different for each pair of adjacent bits of a first bit string constituting the data, and an exponent calculator that calculates the exponent of the plurality of data based on bit position of the transition value of a plurality of second bit strings generated from a plurality of first bit strings respectively constituting the plurality of data. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117068 | TEXT MINING DEVICE - The text mining device 300 includes a clustering section 301. The clustering section 301 performs clustering on a plurality of characteristic expressions extracted from a document set such that characteristic expressions, in which sentences to be referred to as original sentences are the same, are compiled in one cluster, based on the similarity in original document sets which are sets of documents including the respective characteristic expressions, the documents being of the document set. Consequently, the probability of repeatedly viewing the same original document by a user can be reduced reliably. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120116765 | SPEECH PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A speech recognition unit ( | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120116763 | VOICE DATA ANALYZING DEVICE, VOICE DATA ANALYZING METHOD, AND VOICE DATA ANALYZING PROGRAM - A voice data analyzing device comprises speaker model deriving means which derives speaker models as models each specifying character of voice of each speaker from voice data including a plurality of utterances to each of which a speaker label as information for identifying a speaker has been assigned and speaker co-occurrence model deriving means which derives a speaker co-occurrence model as a model representing the strength of co-occurrence relationship among the speakers from session data obtained by segmenting the voice data in units of sequences of conversation by use of the speaker models derived by the speaker model deriving means. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120115139 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING CANCER - Provided is a cancer evaluation method using a novel cancer marker for evaluating the onset, the preclinical stage, the clinical stage, or the prognosis of a cancer in a subject. At least one miRNA selected from hsa-miR-92 and hsa-miR-494 is used as the novel cancer marker in cancer evaluation. The cancer marker in a sample of a cell or a tissue is detected, and the possibility of a cancer in the sample is evaluated based on the expression level of the cancer marker. According to this evaluation method, by detecting the miRNA as the cancer marker, it becomes possible to evaluate the possibility of a cancer in the sample with excellent reliability. As a method for detecting the cancer marker, it is preferable to perform an in situ hybridization method using a labeled probe with respect to the sample that has been immobilized, for example. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120114337 | CAPTURING DEVICE, CAPTURING METHOD, AND CAPTURING PROGRAM - There have been problems that a capturing device requires an optical source having a large power output, and a scanning operation and a capturing operation must be alternately performed by the respective devices. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120114254 | MARKER DETERMINATION DEVICE, MARKER DETERMINATION DETECTION SYSTEM, MARKER DETERMINATION DETECTION DEVICE, MARKER, MARKER DETERMINATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - Provided is a marker judgment device which has a feature storage means and a feature comparison means. The feature storage means disposes feature points extracted from an image in a predetermined space, sets parts in which the number of feature points in the predetermined space is equal to or less than a predetermined number as singular features, and stores the singular features and feature points extracted from an existing mark. The feature comparison means disposes the feature points extracted from the existing mark in the predetermined space, and judges that the existing mark is capable of being used as a marker which is detectable from the image, when the number of feature points that coincide with the singular features is equal to or more than a predetermined number. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120114253 | MARKER GENERATION DEVICE, MARKER GENERATION DETECTION SYSTEM, MARKER GENERATION DETECTION DEVICE, MARKER, MARKER GENERATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - Provided is a marker generation device which has a measurement means, an invariant feature conversion means, a singular feature selection means, and a marker generation means. The measurement means measures a change in posture of an object in a background image on the basis of the image. The invariant feature conversion means indicates feature points extracted from the background image in an invariant feature space by means of a predetermined conversion process in accordance with the change in posture. The singular feature selection means selects, as a singular feature, a part in which the feature points are not indicated in the invariant feature space. The marker generation means generates a marker with the use of the singular feature. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120114027 | DATA PROCESSING TERMINAL SYSTEM AND TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING METHOD USING THE SAME - An information processing terminal system includes an information processing terminal ( | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113989 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, LOGICAL CHANNEL CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND PROGRAM - A configuration having a control device that sets a processing rule in a forwarding node, the configuration being capable of forwarding control of duplicated packets in private IP address spaces. At least one forwarding node among forwarding nodes operates as a logical channel control device that establishes a logical channel to an external node, generate or delete a virtual port information associated with said logical channel established to said external node, and gives notification thereof to the control device, and the control device computes a forwarding path of a packet using the notified port information. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113931 | PILOT SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD AND RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - In a radio communication system, transmission of CAZAC sequences as the pilot signal sequences by using code division multiplexing as at least one of user multiplexing schemes, is done by dividing a system band as a frequency band usable in the system into frequency blocks B | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113930 | PILOT SIGNAL TRANSMITTING METHOD, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND APPARTUS AND PROGRAM USED FOR THE SAME - A larger cell uses a pilot pattern with a higher pilot density in a frequency axis direction to improve a channel estimation accuracy when a frequency selective fading variation is large. Meanwhile, a smaller cell uses a pilot pattern with a lower pilot density in the frequency axis direction. A pilot pattern that each base station uses is transmitted to a mobile station in a cell as a report signal. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113929 | Method and Device for Resource Allocation Control in Radio Communications System - A resource allocation control method and device that can reduce inter-cell interference in a radio communications system are provided. According to a method for resource allocation control between a plurality of cells in a radio communications system, radio communication devices respectively controlling at least two cells notify information about control resources of its own cell to each other. In the resources of its own cell, each of the radio communication devices sets a buffer resource within a predetermined resource range corresponding to a control resource of the other cell. At a request for information transmission in its own cell, each of the radio communication devices restricts the allocation of the set buffer resource. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113820 | CONGESTION DETECTING METHOD AND COMMUNICATION NODE - An inspection signal to inspect forward-path or return-path communication, is transmitted from a reference node of a network. A response signal is transmitted in a priority class from a node of a forward path to the reference node. In the case of inspection of return-path communication, a replica of the response signal is transmitted in a non-priority class from the node of the forward path to the return path, and the node that receives the replica of the response signal transfers the replica in a priority class to the reference node. In the case of inspection of forward-path communication, a replica of the inspection signal is transmitted in a non-priority class from the node of the forward path to the forward path, and a replica of the response signal is transmitted in a priority class from the node that receives a replica of the inspection signal to the reference node. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113753 | POSITION DETECTION SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND RECEPTION DEVICE, AND POSITION DETECTION METHOD - A position detection system, includes at least one moving body (MB) including a transmission device simultaneously emitting a trigger signal indicating transmission timing and an ultrasonic signal obtained by modulating a signal of a frequency as a reference by pseudo random sequence data having high self-correlativity, and a reception device detecting MB position. The reception device includes ultrasonic reception units, a unit calculating a correlation value between a waveform of the ultrasonic signal and a model waveform of the pseudo random sequence, a unit subjecting the waveform of the ultrasonic signal and the model waveform to calculate a correlation value between the two waveforms, a unit calculating a propagation time of each ultrasonic to arrive at each of the ultrasonic reception units from trigger signal reception to correlation peak detection, and a unit calculating MB position from the ultrasonic propagation time and the interval length between the ultrasonic reception units. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120112344 | SUBSTRATE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF - Disclosed is a substrate for a semiconductor package in which leakage of radiation noise from a gap between a semiconductor element and a mounting substrate can be prevented. The substrate for the semiconductor package includes a coplanar waveguide including a signal and ground electrodes on the mounting substrate, the signal electrode flip-chip connected to the semiconductor element, the ground electrodes arranged on both sides of the signal electrode with intervals therebetween. A step part is formed in the ground electrodes in an outer circumferential part of a mounting region of the semiconductor element, the step part having a larger distance between upper surfaces of the mounting substrate and the ground electrode in the outer circumferential part of the mounting region than such distance in the mounting region, and an insulator for covering the signal electrode in the outer circumferential part of the mounting region is formed. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120110170 | MALICIOUS CALL DETECTION APPARATUS, MALICIOUS CALL DETECTING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR DETECTING MALICIOUS CALLS - To improve detection accuracy of SPIT, first, an identification information gathering apparatus receives various identification information from an IP phone terminal which has transmitted an INVITE message. A PUCI server generates bind identification information by binding or associating various identification information received from an identification information gathering apparatus via an SIP server and registers the bind identification information to a gray list stored in a list storing portion. A SPIT determination portion evaluates the bind identification information in reference to the gray list and determines whether or not the session start request from the IP phone terminal is allowed. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120109990 | INFORMATION SEARCH SYSTEM, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE, INFORMATION SEARCH METHOD, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An evaluation target information processing means ( | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120109963 | CLASSIFICATION HIERARCHY REGENERATION SYSTEM, CLASSIFICATION HIERARCHY REGENERATION METHOD, AND CLASSIFICATION HIERARCHY REGENERATION PROGRAM - A classification hierarchy regeneration system is provided, wherein when a new classification hierarchy is generated by restructuring an existing classification hierarchy, a classification hierarchy in view of hierarchical relationship of classifications and a classification hierarchy integrating classifications of the same meaning can be efficiently generated. The clustering means clusters a data group associated with a hierarchical classification, and generating a classification group, i.e., a group obtained by extracting a classification satisfying a condition defined in advance from classifications corresponding to respective data in a cluster. The cooccurrence degree calculation means calculates a degree of cooccurrence of two classifications selected from the classification group. The classification hierarchy regeneration means regenerates the hierarchy of classification based on the classification group and the degree of cooccurrence. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120109901 | CONTENT CLASSIFICATION APPARATUS, CONTENT CLASSIFICATION METHOD, AND CONTENT CLASSIFICATION PROGRAM - Event occurrence information storing means stores event occurrence information in which an event into which a content is classified is associated with photographic acquisition information including shooting date information indicative of the date when the content was shot. Event occurrence information correcting means corrects the event occurrence information based on shooting date information for multiple years and a base year. On condition that the shooting date information on the content to be classified corresponds to the date of the event occurrence information corrected by the event occurrence information correcting means, event determination means determines an event determined to be likely among events corresponding to the date of the event occurrence information to be the event into which the content should be classified. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120108247 | METHOD, BASE STATION AND USER EQUIPMENT FOR REDUCING A COGNITIVE PILOT CHANNEL BANDWIDTH - The invention relates to a method for reducing a Cognitive Pilot Channel (CPC) bandwidth used for transmitting lists of information to a plurality of meshes of a geographical area comprising at least one base station ( | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120108211 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND AUTOMATIC MODE-CHANGING METHOD - A mobile communication system includes: a mobile terminal; plural base stations each of which can conduct communication with the mobile terminal; and a cooperative server that can conduct communication with the base station. The base station detects entrance and exit of the mobile terminal into and from an area covered by the base station and notifies the cooperative server of a detection result. The cooperative server acquires positional information on the mobile terminal from the notification, and stores a residence history of the mobile terminal based on the positional information and a script indicating a rule of a mode setting designated in each mobile terminal in history storing means. The cooperative server activates the script to determine a mode changing command in each mobile terminal based on the residence history and transmits the mode changing command to the base station. The base station transmits the received mode changing command to the mobile terminal that exists in the area covered by the base station. The mobile terminal executes the received mode changing command to change the mode setting. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106798 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING REPRESENTATIVE FEATURE - A representative feature extraction system which selects a representative feature from an input data group includes: occurrence distribution memory means for memorizing an occurrence distribution with respect to feature quantities assumed to be input; evaluation value calculation means for calculating, with respect to each of data items in the data group, the sum of distances to the other data items included in the data group based on the occurrence distribution, to determine an evaluation value for the data item; and data selecting means for selecting the data item having the smallest evaluation value as a representative feature of the data group. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106498 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, HIGHER-ORDER APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A mobile communication system includes terminals and a plurality of base stations that use scrambling codes to perform radio communication with the terminals. Each of the plurality of base stations transmits to neighboring base stations information of the range of scrambling codes for uplink that is reserved in its own station, and when determining the range of scrambling codes for uplink to be reserved in its own station, receives from neighboring base stations information of the ranges of scrambling codes for uplink reserved in the neighboring base stations. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106459 | GATEWAY APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A femtocell gateway apparatus arranged on a mobile IMS network comprises a conversion unit that when receiving a request from a terminal via a mobile network, transfers the request to a femtocell access point located in a home, reads a stream or file including at least one of video and audio, from at least one of devices connected to the femtocell access point and devices connected thereto via a home network, subjects the read stream or file to a conversion suitable for at least one of the capability of the terminal and the characteristics of the network, and outputs the stream or file converted. The output packet is then sent through a packet forwarding apparatus on the mobile network to the terminal. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106323 | NETWORK SYSTEM - A link control function unit | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105775 | CIRCULAR POLARIZER, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TERMINAL DEVICE - In an LCD device, a circular polarizer is provided to each of two substrates that hold a liquid crystal layer. The circular polarizer on the display surface side includes a polarizer, λ/2 plate in which Rth>0, and a λ/4 plate in which Rth<0; and the circular polarizer on the backlight side includes a polarizer, a λ/2 plate in which Rth<0, and a λ/4 plate in which Rth>0. Rth is a retardation in the thickness direction of a λ/2 plate or a λ/4 plate. The absolute value of the sum of the Rth between the λ/2 plate for which Rth>0 and the λ/2 plate for which Rth<0 is reduced, and in the absolute value of the sum of the Rth between the λ/4 plate for which Rth<0 and the λ/4 plate for which Rth>0. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105766 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY WITH NARROW ANGULAR RANGE OF INCIDENT LIGHT AND METHOD OF MAKING THE DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel in the pixel electrode and common electrodes formed within a pixel comprise repeating structures. The angular range of light incident from the light source is narrower along a direction of the repeating structures than along an orthogonal direction. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105192 | EVENT NOTIFICATION DEVICE, EVENT NOTIFICATION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided is an event notification device capable of notifying an event with excellent immediacy without giving a shock or a sense of discomfort to a user. The event notification device | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120103809 | METHOD FOR SEPARATING NANOCARBON MATERIAL, SEPARATION DEVICE, AND SEPARATED NANOCARBON DISPERSION SOLUTION - A method for separating a nanocarbon material includes a step in which a dispersion solution of the nanocarbon material which is dispersed into nanocarbon micelle groups having a plurality of different electric charges, and a retaining solution having a different specific gravity from the nanocarbon material, are introduced into an electrophoresis tank to form a layered state disposed in layers in a predetermined direction; and a step separating the nanocarbon micelle groups into at least two nanocarbon micelle groups by means of applying direct current voltage in series across the dispersion solution and the retaining solution which had both been introduced and disposed in layers. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120103772 | OPERATION KEY AND TERMINAL DEVICE - Provided is an operation key in which power of a finger is efficiently transmitted and a terminal device equipped with the operation key. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120102209 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING A THIN CLIENT SESSION - The exemplary embodiment concerns a method for establishing a Thin Client session between a Thin Client device ( | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120101986 | PROCESSING PROCEDURE MANAGEMENT DEVICE, PROCESSING PROCEDURE MANAGEMENT METHOD, PROCESSING PROCEDURE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND PROCESSING PROCEDURE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - The present invention provides a processing procedure management device which can determine a process procedure by adapting to a performance change of a function engine used for information processing at a high speed. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120100437 | ELECTRICITY STORAGE DEVICE - There can be provided an energy storage device comprising a positive electrode comprising a nitroxyl compound having a nitroxyl cation partial structure in an oxidized state and having a nitroxyl radical partial structure in a reduced state; a negative electrode comprising a carbon material which lithium ions can be reversibly intercalated into and deintercalated from; and an electrolytic solution comprising a lithium salt and an aprotic organic solvent, wherein the negative electrode is a negative electrode comprising the carbon material which lithium ions are previously intercalated into, apart from lithium ions associated with a capacity A of lithium capable of being intercalated and deintercalated in charge and discharge, thereby allowing the energy storage device to simultaneously achieve high energy density, high output characteristics, low environmental load, and high stability in charge and discharge cycles. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120099552 | WIRELESS TRANSMISSION SYSTEM HAVING REDUCED INTERFERENCE - In the present invention, a wireless transmission system includes a plurality of mobile stations in a cell area, and a base station. The base station divides each of an uplink frame and a downlink frame into a plurality of blocks, assigns a specific one of the plurality of blocks to each of the plurality of the mobile stations, assigns a specific frequency channel to the mobile station, and notifies the specific block and the specific frequency channel to the mobile station. The length of each of the plurality of blocks is optional, and a sum of the lengths of the plurality of blocks is equal to the length of the frame. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120099517 | Mobile Communication System, Radio Base Station Controller, and Relocation Method - Radio base stations connect by radio lines with radio terminals in cells that make up each radio base station and relay data communication realized by the radio terminals on bearers on radio lines. Base station controllers record correspondence information of the data flow of data communication with the radio terminals and the bearers on the radio lines and, by referring to the correspondence information, effects termination of data communication with the radio terminals. When, in a state in which a drift base station controller relays and transfers data communication between radio base stations to which the radio terminals are connected and a serving base station controller, the serving base station controller is transferred to the drift base station controller, the plurality of base station controllers then report to the drift base station controller the correspondence information from the serving base station controller. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120099455 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, MANAGEMENT SERVER, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication system is provided including a first base station, and a second base station having a coverage area at least one part of which overlaps a coverage area of the first base station. The communication system includes a measurer that measures a utilization degree of at least one mobile station connected to the second base station, and an adjuster that adjusts a wireless resource allocation of the at least one mobile station connected to the second base station based upon the utilization degree. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120097916 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - The objective of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device provided with a resistance-variable element having sufficient switching property and exhibiting high reliability and high densification as well as good insulating property. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120096421 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF, AND CONTROL PROGRAM THEREOF - A semiconductor integrated circuit design apparatus ( | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120096418 | BEHAVIORAL SYNTHESIS APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM HAVING TEST BENCH GENERATION FUNCTION - Disclosed is a behavioral synthesis apparatus for generating a test bench where the same test vector can be used in both the behavioral simulation and the RTL simulation. The apparatus includes input application/output signal observation timing signal generation means that generates an input application timing signal, an output observation timing signal, and logic circuits for the input application timing signal and the output observation timing signal; and test bench generation means that generates a test bench that observes the signals, applies inputs, and observes outputs. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120096029 | INFORMATION ANALYSIS APPARATUS, INFORMATION ANALYSIS METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An information analysis device ( | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120095179 | PYRROLINE-BASED NITROXIDE POLYMER AND BATTERY USING SAME - The present invention provides a pyrroline nitroxide polymer, an electrode active material containing the polymer, and a cell utilizing the electrode active material. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120094606 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication device capable of maintaining service quality and reducing an amount of communication simultaneously when updated information is transmitted is provided. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120093256 | Transmit Diversity Scheme - The present invention relates to methods for implementing transmit diversity in a telecommunication network. In particular there is provided an algorithm for performing transmit diversity encoding in a transmitter ( | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120093158 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, NODE, CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PORGRAM - A communication system includes a node that processes a received packet; and a control device that sets a processing rule, which defines a matching rule and processing for a packet that conforms to the matching rule, in the node. The node holds an identifier in association with a processing rule and determines whether or not to perform processing for a received packet depending upon whether or not an identifier of the received packet corresponds to an identifier associated with a processing rule corresponding to a matching rule that conforms to the received packet, wherein the processing is performed according to the processing rule corresponding to the matching rule that conforms to the received packet. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120092572 | LIQUID CRYSTAL SHUTTER EYEGLASSES - A liquid crystal shutter eyeglass that can solve the problem in which the provision of excellent images cannot be kept if the situation of the viewer varies is provided. a liquid crystal shutter ( | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120092571 | LIQUID CRYSTAL SHUTTER AND LIQUID CRYSTAL SHUTTER EYEGLASS - A liquid crystal shutter that realizes a high speed response and that solves a problem in which light leakage cannot be alleviated is provided. An alignment film coated on substrate | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120091426 | RESISTANCE-VARIABLE ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A resistance-variable element as disclosed has high reliability, high densification, and good insulating properties. The device provides a resistance-variable element in which a first electrode including a metal primarily containing copper, an oxide film of valve-metal, an ion-conductive layer containing oxygen and a second electrode are laminated in this order. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120089884 | ERROR CORRECTION ENCODING APPARATUS, DECODING APPARATUS, ENCODING METHOD, DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAMS THEREOF - Provided is an encoding apparatus wherein a transmission data sequence is divided into L short sequences, each of which is then encoded by use of an m-stage pseudo-cyclic low-density parity check encoding system. Each of the L encoded sequences is further divided into shorter sequences, the number of which is identical to the number m of the stages of the pseudo-cyclic codes and each of which has a length m. The shorter sequences are rearranged in order by a replacing module, thereafter encoded, by use of the m-stage pseudo-cyclic low-density parity check encoding system, and outputted. Accordingly, a decoding apparatus with a simple structure where node processing circuits (e.g., minimum-value calculating circuits), the number of which is p that is a submultiple of the number m of the foregoing stages, are provided, can be employed to efficiently decode the codes having a large frame length and a large encoding gain. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120089628 | SEARCH EXPRESSION GENERATION SYSTEM - A search expression is automatically generated for designating a target element for a Web page whose contents change according to a system state or the number of elements to be displayed. The search expression generation device comprises the model sentence accumulation unit which accumulates a plurality of model sentences of structured documents to be searched on a kind basis, the element designation unit which designates an element to be searched in a model sentence designated from the plurality of model sentences of the structured documents, the structured document analysis unit which analyzes a structure of a model sentence designated to select an element to be added to a search expression as a condition and an element to be deleted from the search expression as a condition based on a search target element designated, and the search expression structuring unit which adds or deletes the element selected to or from a search expression, wherein the structured document analysis unit analyzes a structure of a model sentence designated by the element designation unit to generate a search expression with a condition added which is common to a plurality of model sentences of the same kind. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120088504 | CALL CONTROL SYSTEM AND CALL CONTROL METHOD - A call control system performs call control for a terminal which accesses different radio access network systems. A communication exchange processing apparatus includes: a device storing maximum bandwidth for specified calls processed in the radio access network system; a device measuring present bandwidth for specified calls presently processed in the radio access network system; a device computing a ratio of the present bandwidth to the maximum bandwidth for specified calls; and a device sending specified call band ratio information indicating the ratio of present bandwidth to maximum bandwidth for specified calls to a radio network control apparatus in the radio access network system and connected to the present communication exchange processing apparatus. The radio network control apparatus provided in the radio access network system includes a device sending the specified call band ratio information to a terminal which is connected to the present radio network control apparatus by radio communication. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120087654 | OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, OPTICAL RECEIVER OF SAME, AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATION METHOD OF SAME - In a polarization demultiplexing optical communication system ( | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086662 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, GESTURE PROCESSING METHOD AND GESTURE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An electric device supports gesture input, so a user can determining whether the electric device is in a state of accepting the gesture input. An electronic device includes a touch panel display, a storage unit for storing sets of display data and trajectory related information that is associated with each set of display data, and a control unit. The trajectory related information includes trajectory data and function information that is associated with the trajectory data, and the control unit determines whether or not to accept the gesture input on the basis of the trajectory related information that is associated with the display data displayed on the touch panel display. When having determined to accept the gesture input, overlay-displays on the touch panel display, the trajectory data included in the trajectory related information that is associated with the display data so as to be overlaid on the display data. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120083281 | NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, WIRELESS COVERAGE CONTROL METHOD AND WIRELESS COVERAGE CONTROL PROGRAM - A network management system includes: wireless link quality information collection means for collecting, from a mobile terminal that is connected to the mobile communication network, wireless link quality information that indicates wireless link quality measured by the mobile terminal, the wireless link quality information containing information about quality of wireless links between the mobile terminal and two or more wireless cells; coverage evaluation means for evaluating the wireless cell coverage on the basis of wireless link quality information calculated for each of the wireless cells using the wireless link quality information collected by the wireless link quality information collection means; and wireless parameter calculation means for calculating an amount of change in changing for a wireless parameter of a wireless base station on the basis of the result of the evaluation provided by the coverage evaluation means. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120082464 | COHERENT OPTICAL RECEIVING APPARATUS, COHERENT OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM EMPLOYING SAME, AND COHERENT OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS METHOD - With respect to a coherent optical receiving apparatus, a polarization multiplexing light signal, whereupon a first signal is placed upon a first polarized wave light and a second signal is placed upon a second polarized wave light, is polarization divided upon the transmitting side thereof, and the first signal and the second signal cannot be received in correspondence with the transmitting side. Accordingly, disclosed is a coherent optical receiving apparatus, comprising a coherent light receiving unit that detects coherent light, and a signal processing unit that carries out signal processing that is set with control coefficients. The coherent light receiving unit receives a first polarized light that is modulated with a first transmitted signal and outputs a first detected signal, and simultaneously receives the first polarized light with a second polarized light that is modulated with a second transmitted signal, and outputs a second detected signal. The signal processing unit establishes a first control coefficient on the basis of the first detected signal, and establishes a second control coefficient on the basis of the first control coefficient and the second detected signal, and employs the second control coefficient to output a first received signal corresponding to the first transmitted signal, and a second received signal corresponding to the second transmitted signal. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120082370 | MATCHING DEVICE, MATCHING METHOD AND MATCHING PROGRAM - Provided is a matching device capable of improving the accuracy of the degree of similarly in the calculation of the degree of similarly between data sets. Element selection means | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120082366 | PATHOLOGIC IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM, PATHOLOGIC IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC METHOD, AND PATHOLOGIC IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC PROGRAM - Pathologic tissue images are to be output which allow effective image diagnosis to be performed. There are included an index amount calculating unit that divides a captured pathologic image into a predetermined divisional areas and sets a measurement index value related to a reference of pathologic diagnosis for each divisional area; and a significance calculating module that sets, for each divisional area, a significance related to the pathologic measurement on the basis of both the measurement index value of each divisional area and the measurement index value of a respective divisional area adjacent to that divisional area. The significance calculating module extracts that one of the divisional areas in which the areas for which images of the living tissues have been captured represent a given percentage, and further the significance calculating module associates, with the extracted divisional area, the measurement index value and significance set therefor for transmission. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120082365 | PATHOLOGIC TISSUE IMAGE ANALYZING APPARATUS, PATHOLOGIC TISSUE IMAGE ANALYZING METHOD, AND PATHOLOGIC TISSUE IMAGE ANALYZING PROGRAM - This invention is directed to improvement of the accuracy of cancer differentiation in the pathologic diagnosis using a pathologic tissue image analysis. There are included a stroma area/duct area detecting module for detecting, from a biological tissue image, a duct area on the basis of duct characteristic information indicating the characteristic of ducts included in a tissue area in the biological tissue image; an intraduct cell-nucleus detecting module for extracting, based on a predetermined pigment reference, cell nucleuses included in the detected duct area; and a duct formation evaluating module for calculating a heterotypic degree of each duct on the basis of the distribution state of the cell nucleuses for a predetermined base areas in each duct. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120082123 | BASE STATION, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A base station that executes scheduling for an uplink and scheduling for a downlink per subframe to communicate with mobile stations. The base station comprises: a control information item number estimation unit that estimates the number of control information items usable for the uplink and the number of control information items usable for the downlink per subframe; and a scheduling unit that executes scheduling for the uplink and scheduling for the downlink per subframe by using a number of control information items usable for the uplink and a number of control information items usable for the downlink, the numbers estimated by the control information item number estimation unit. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120082063 | QUARANTINE DEVICE, QUARANTINE METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A quarantine device | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120082030 | PACKET RETRANSMISSION CONTROL SYSTEM, PACKET RETRANSMISSION CONTROL METHOD AND RETRANSMISSION CONTROL PROGRAM - A packet retransmission control system includes an application processing module on which an application for executing communication processing operates, a retransmission control determination module which determines whether to execute high-speed retransmission control by a lower layer based on a predetermined rule with respect to a packet whose sending is requested by the application processing module, a packet processing branching module which allocates a packet determined to be subjected to high-speed retransmission control and a packet determined not to be subjected to high-speed retransmission control, an MAC retransmission control module which executes retransmission control of a transmission packet by a retransmission time-out shorter in time than a protocol of a transport layer with respect to a packet determined to be subjected to high-speed retransmission control, and an external output module which externally outputs a packet sent from the MAC retransmission control module or the packet processing branching module. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120076083 | Resource allocation - A method of signalling resource allocation data in a communication system which uses a plurality of sub-carriers arranged in a sequence of chunks includes receiving an allocation of the sub-carriers for each of a plurality of user devices. The received allocations are processed to determine, for each user device, data identifying a start chunk and an end chunk within the sequence of chunks, which depend upon the sub-carriers allocated to the user device. Different resource allocation data are generated for each of the user devices using the data identifying the corresponding start chunk and end chunk determined by the processing, the resource allocation data including a bit pattern which defines a grouping of the sequence of chunks into a sequence of groups, in dependence upon the sub-carriers allocated to each user device. The respective resource allocation data is signaled to each of the plurality of user devices. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120076066 | TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL METHOD OF UPLINK PACKET DATA TRANSMISSION - A mobile station (MS) transmits a first data flow to a first group of base stations with a first power offset, transmits a second data flow to a second group of base stations, and further transmits a pilot signal. A radio network controller (RNC) controls the power of the pilot signal power based on reception errors of the second data flow, calculates the first power offset based on signaled required level of the first power offset from base stations (BTS) of the first group which calculate the required level of the first power offset based on an occurrence of retransmission, and signals the calculated first power offset to the mobile station. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120075991 | Network system, control method thereof and controller - A network system includes a server which accommodates a plurality of tenants, at least one network appliance which has a resource shared by the plurality of tenants, a plurality of switches arranged between the at least one network appliance and a network; and a controller which controls the switches. Each switch has a flow table indicating an association of an input source with a transfer destination of packets for each flow, and transfers packets received from the input source to the transfer destination by referring to the flow table. The controller includes an assignment control block which dynamically assigns each of a plurality of tenants to any of the at least one network appliance; a route design block which designs a flow route for each of the tenants; and a switch setting block which sets the flow table for each of switches along the designed route. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120075977 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/ REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING AND REPRODUCING METHOD - An optical information recording/reproducing device includes a liquid optical element containing a liquid crystal polymer layer in an optical head. A liquid crystal optical element drive unit drives a liquid crystal optical element having a first pattern electrode divided into a plurality of region at one side of the liquid crystal polymer layer in the optical axis direction. The first pattern electrode includes a first region arranged to surround the optical axis and second to ninth regions arranged outside the first regions in such a manner that the circumference is divided eight portions. The liquid crystal optical element drive unit applies an effective voltage to each region. The voltage applied to the respective regions of the pattern region of the liquid crystal optical element is decided in a short time so as to optimize the quality of the reproduction signal. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120075229 | TOUCH SCREEN, RELATED METHOD OF OPERATION AND SYSTEM - An exemplary embodiment concerns a touch screen arranged to determine when touched by a user's screen-engagement member and further arranged to identify an identifying characteristic of the engagement member and so as to differentiate between different screen-engagement members and wherein at least one aspect of subsequent operation of the screen is responsive to the identification of the member. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120073944 | SWITCH INTEGRATED CASING AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT HAVING THE CASING - A switch integrated type housing includes a housing body, a switch button sheet, a conductor and a cover sheet. The housing body is provided with a plurality of concave sections on an outer surface of the housing body. The switch button sheet is provided on the outer surface to cover the plurality of concave sections. The conductor has a dome shape downwardly projecting and is provided in each of the plurality of concave sections to contact the switch button sheet. The cover sheet is provided between the switch button sheet and the outer surface of the housing body in a portion of the outer surface of the housing body other than the plurality of concave sections and to cover a lower surface of the conductor in each of the plurality of concave sections. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120072727 | MULTI-ISP CONTROLLED ACCESS TO IP NETWORKS, BASED ON THIRD-PARTY OPERATED UNTRUSTED ACCESS STATIONS - A mechanism that allows sharing of an existing infrastructure for access to public or private IP networks, such as the public Internet or private LANs is provided. Specifically, infrastructure owners lease the infrastructure resources on a short-term basis to different Internet Service Providers (ISPs). An ISP uses these resources to provide Internet services to subscribing customers or users. The ISP controls all aspects of the Internet service provided to the subscriber, including billing, bandwidth management, and e-mail. The ISP also ensures privacy for the subscriber by means of encryption. Leasing network resources from an existing network infrastructure frees the ISP from building an expensive access infrastructure itself while the infrastructure owner is given an opportunity to generate additional revenue from infrastructure. Importantly, neither the user, nor the ISP need to trust the access station (i.e.: the access station is untrusted) through which the access to the IP network is accomplished. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120072637 | I/O BRIDGE DEVICE, RESPONSE-REPORTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An I/O bridge device includes: a command receiver that receives a command signal indicating a command to a memory controller from a peripheral component; a converter that converts the command signal into a command packet including the command and identification information for identifying the command signal; a command transmitter that transmits the command packet to the memory controller; a response receiver that receives, from the memory controller, a response packet to the command packet, the response packet including the identification information; and a write command transmitter that transmits a write command signal to the peripheral component that is a transmission source of the command signal, the write command signal indicating a command for the writing a content of the response packet to an internal memory of the peripheral component. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120072492 | BROWSING INFORMATION GATHERING SYSTEM, BROWSING INFORMATION GATHERING METHOD, SERVER, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - When a client transmits an HTML request to a server (step S | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120071164 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CORE NETWORK NODE SELECTION METHOD, AND BASE STATION AND MOBILE STATION USED THEREFOR - A mobile communication system in which a plurality of base stations and a plurality of core network nodes are distributed in a plurality of areas, wherein a source base station or a mobile station in a handover procedure of the mobile station transmits information for selecting a core network node to a target base station. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120070043 | DETERMINATION DEVICE, FINGERPRINT INPUT DEVICE, DETERMINATION METHOD, AND DETERMINATION PROGRAM - A device is not able to detect the forgery of a finger with high accuracy by the comparison of a reflected light image and a transmitted light image that are obtained from the same finger. A determination device is provided with an input element for receiving the reflected light image obtained by photographing a fingerprint of a finger with light reflected from the surface of the finger and the transmitted light image obtained by photographing the fingerprint of the finger with light transmitted through the finger, and a determination element for comparing the reflected light image and the transmitted light image, and outputting a real-forgery determination result of the fingerprint of the finger. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120069886 | WIRELESS STATION, AN INTERFERENCE ESTIMATION METHOD, A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM - A wireless station of the present invention includes: a synchronization unit configured to synchronize with a transmission suspension period of a transmitting station of a wireless system, a measurement unit configured to measure a reception level of a wireless signal of said transmitting station in a transmission period and a reception level in the transmission suspension period, and an interference estimation unit configured to estimate an amount of interference to another wireless system according to the measured reception level in the transmission suspension period and reception level in the transmission period. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120069809 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ALLOCATING COMMON CHANNEL RESOURCES - A resource allocation method and device are provided that can achieve uniform loads on and stable quality of a common channel available to mobile stations having no dedicated channels. A method for allocating common channel resources in a system in which a plurality of first radio communication devices transmit data to a second radio communication device over a common channel, based on first resource allocation information, includes: by the second radio communication device, transmitting second resource allocation information to at least one of the first radio communication devices; and by each of the first radio communication devices, transmitting data to the second radio communication device over the common channel, based on any one of the first resource allocation information and the second resource allocation information. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120069738 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION FORWARDING CONTROL SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION FORWARDING CONTROL METHOD, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION FORWARDING CONTROL PROGRAM - There is provided a wireless communication terminal that autonomously determines whether the wireless communication terminal is in a state in which flooding should be performed or a state in which the flooding should not be performed in a wireless ad-hoc network. At each predetermined time, the wireless communication terminal that performs the flooding autonomously infers whether the wireless communication terminal is in a state in which the flooding should be performed or a state in which the flooding should not be performed from the number of flooding packets that are of a packet flooded from surrounding wireless communication terminals based on a hidden Markov model. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120066698 | DYNAMIC DATA FLOW TRACKING METHOD, DYNAMIC DATA FLOW TRACKING PROGRAM, AND DYNAMIC DATA FLOW TRACKING APPARATUS - A dynamic data flow tracking apparatus, a dynamic data flow tracking method, and a dynamic data flow tracking program are provided which can raise the dynamic data flow analysis speed for a program linked to plural shared libraries. A specification of data passing between functions included in a shared library is defined in a signature, which is stored in a storage unit ( | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120064381 | FILM-COVERED ELECTRIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - Battery element | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120063729 | CONNECTOR HOLDER, OPTICAL-ELECTRICAL CONVERTER WITH ATTACHED CONNECTOR HOLDER, OPTICAL CONNECTOR FIXING STRUCTURE AND CONNECTOR HOLDER ASSEMBLY METHOD - A connector holder fixes an optical connector assembled at a leading end of an optical fiber to an optical module having a light input/output end so that the optical fiber and the light input/output end is optically connected. The connector holder is provided with a holding section for storing at least a part of the optical connector, and a cover section attached to the holding section to be freely opened and closed. The cover section is provided with a cover section main body, and a pressing section which presses the optical connector toward the optical module. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120063463 | Packet aligning apparatus and packet aligning method - A packet aligning apparatus includes a packet analyzing section configured to receive a reception packet, and extract a sequence number contained in the reception packet; a packet storage section; a write control section configured to determine whether the reception packet is stored in the packet storage section based on the extraction sequence number or transferred to a subsequent block; an expectation managing section configured to generate expectation data which indicates the sequence number of the packet which should be transferred next to the subsequent block, as the expectation; and a read control section configured to read a group of storage packets stored in the packet storage section, to transfer to the subsequent block. The write control section compares the extraction sequence number and the expectation, stores the reception packet in the packet storage section when the extraction sequence number is larger than the expectation. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120063317 | BASE STATION, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING BASE STATION, CONTROL PROGRAM, AND MOBILE STATION - To provide a base station in which an electric power consumed in the base station can be suppressed and an electromagnetic wave interference between the base stations can be avoided, a method for controlling a base station, a control program, and a mobile station. The base station includes storage means, traffic history generation means for measuring a traffic of the base station for each unit time and storing it in the storage means as a traffic history, and control means for controlling transmission of a control signal based on the traffic history. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120061844 | COPPER ALLOY FOR WIRING, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, METHOD FOR FORMING WIRING, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A wiring metal contains a polycrystal of copper (Cu) as a primary element and an additional element other than Cu, and concentration of the additional element is, at crystal grain boundaries composing the Cu polycrystal and in vicinities of the crystal grain boundaries, higher than that of the inside of the crystal grains. The additional element is preferably at least one element selected from a group consisting of Ti, Zr, Hf, Cr, Co, Al, Sn, Ni, Mg, and Ag. This Cu wiring is formed by forming a Cu polycrystalline film, forming an additional element layer on this Cu film, and diffusing this additional element from the additional element layer into the Cu film. This copper alloy for wiring is preferred as metal wiring formed for a semiconductor device. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120058646 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device in which a semiconductor layer is formed on an insulating substrate with a front-end insulating layer interposed between the semiconductor layer and the insulating substrate is provided which is capable of preventing action of an impurity contained in the insulating substrate on the semiconductor layer and of improving reliability of the semiconductor device. In a TFT (Thin Film Transistor), boron is made to be contained in a region located about 100 nm or less apart from a surface of the insulating substrate so that boron concentration decreases at an average rate being about 1/1000-fold per 1 nm from the surface of the insulating substrate toward the semiconductor layer. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120057797 | PATTERN NOISE REMOVAL DEVICE, PATTERN NOISE REMOVAL METHOD, AND PATTERN NOISE REMOVAL PROGRAM - Disclosed is a pattern noise removal device for removing background pattern noise having periodicity from a digital image, which includes a candidate pixel extracting module for extracting candidate pixels that constitute the background pattern noise from the pixels in the image on the bases of the concentration of each of the pixels, a dot pattern feature extracting module for extracting the feature of a dot pattern formed by each of the candidate pixels and the peripheral neighborhood pixels among the extracted candidate pixels, a dot pattern area extracting module for extracting a dot pattern area including the candidate pixels of the periodicity and the neighborhood pixels, which have the feature of the dot pattern, and a periodic pattern noise removal module for removing the candidate pixels of the periodicity and the neighborhood pixels, which are included in the dot pattern area, as the background pattern noise. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120057764 | STRIPE PATTERN IMAGE ANALYSIS DEVICE, STRIPE PATTERN IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREOF - Provided is a stripe pattern image analysis device by which a burden of an appraiser regarding a new charting point searching designation operation can be reduced. The device includes a charting point modification element obtaining or modifying a first point located on a first stripe pattern image displayed in a first window, and a second point which is corresponding to the first point and located on a second stripe pattern image displayed in a second window; a nonlinear coordinate transformation element transforming the first stripe pattern image using a nonlinear coordinate transformation so that a first coordinate of the first point in the first window matches a second coordinate of the second point in the second window; and a charting figure edit and display element displaying the first stripe pattern image, transformed by the nonlinear coordinate transformation element by use of the nonlinear coordinate transformation, in the first window. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120047515 | TERMINAL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD USED IN THE TERMINAL DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention relates to a terminal device having an operation system and is capable of using a first application program for use in real time communication and a second application program for another purpose simultaneously on the operation system, the terminal device is characterized by being provided with a means for setting interval between system calls which calculates a frequency of system call executions when the issuance of the system call to the operation system by the second application program is simultaneously executed during the real time communication by the first application program, and when the execution frequency has exceeded a predetermined threshold, sets an execution interval time between the system calls to a given length of time or more. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120047349 | DATA TRANSFER SYSTEM - A data transfer system includes: a plurality of processors; and a plurality of data transfer units that executes a data transfer from one processor to other processor via a plurality of input ports and a plurality of output ports. The data transfer unit includes: an arbitration unit that executes arbitration of conflicting data sent to a same next destination; and a strength information notification unit that sends strength information indicating a number of conflicts of the arbitrated conflicting data to the next destination. The arbitration unit decides a selection ratio, which is a ratio of selecting each of the input ports and receiving the conflicting data from the selected input port, according to a ratio between the input ports in relation to magnitude of the number of conflicts indicated by the strength information received from each of the input ports. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120046940 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING MULTICHANNEL ACOUSTIC SIGNAL, SYSTEM THEREOF, AND PROGRAM - A method for processing multichannel acoustic signals, whereby input signals of a plurality of channels including the voices of a plurality of speaking persons are processed. The method is characterized by comprising: calculating the first feature quantity of the input signals of the multichannels for each channel; calculating similarity of the first feature quantity of each channel between the channels; selecting channels having high similarity; separating signals using the input signals of the selected channels; inputting the input signals of the channels having low similarity and the signals after the signal separation; and detecting a voice section of each speaking person or each channel. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120044935 | Relay control unit, relay control system, relay control method, and relay control program - Communication allowance determination means determines, using information of a packet received by a packet relay unit and based on a policy which is information associating a match condition with communicability information, whether to allow or not to allow communication to a destination unit for the packet that meets the match condition, the match condition being information identifying the packet, and the communicability information indicating whether to allow or not to allow the communication to the destination unit for the packet that meets the match condition. Rule setting means sets, at least in the packet relay unit receiving the packet, a rule of executing a process for suppressing forwarding of the packet to the destination unit, on condition that the communication allowance determination means determines not to allow the communication to the destination unit for the packet that meets the match condition. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120044567 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE, DISPLAY PANEL AND FLY EYE LENS - In a three-dimensional image display device for displaying color three-dimensional images, a fly eye lens, a display panel, and a light source are provided in this order from the observer side. A display panel has four pixels arrayed in a (2×2) matrix correlated with one lens element of the fly eye lens. In the event that j is a natural number, a pixel magnifying projection width e in a second direction is set in a range of the following expression according to mean interpupillary distance Y of the observers. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120042129 | ARRANGEMENT METHOD OF PROGRAMS TO MEMORY SPACE, APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - For a program that is made up of functions in units, each function is divided into instruction code blocks having a size CS where CS is the instruction cache line size of a target processor and an instruction code block that is X | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120041958 | EFFICIENT RETRIEVAL OF VARIABLE-LENGTH CHARACTER STRING DATA - Prefixes are registered on a first list as index elements for respective registration patterns. Each prefix is selected as the longest of different-length prefixes that are extractable from a registration pattern in accordance with an extraction rule. Suffixes, which are the remaining parts of the registration patterns excluding the respective prefixes, are registered on a second list. Using different-length prefixes that are extracted from a retrieval key in accordance with the extraction rule, a prefix retriever searches the first list to retrieve a registration pattern whose prefix matches any of the prefixes of the retrieval key. A suffix checker carries out a check on the suffix of the registration pattern retrieved by the prefix retriever, among the suffixes on the second list, as to whether the suffix of the registration pattern matches the suffix of the retrieval key. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120041807 | INCENTIVE-BASED SERVER COOPERATION SYSTEM, INCENTIVE-BASED SERVER COOPERATION METHOD AND INCENTIVE-BASED SERVER COOPERATION PROGRAM - Only a limited number of service servers have been provided with the function of feeding back profits obtained through cooperation of multiple service servers to developers of cooperation modules and business entities running the service servers as incentives. In the present invention, a cooperation server for achieving cooperation between the service servers includes: a business entity data storage means for storing business entity data of the respective service servers; a cooperation module storage means for storing cooperation modules used for achieving cooperation between the service servers; a developer data storage means for storing developer data related to developers of the cooperation modules; a cooperation history storage means for storing cooperation history data of the cooperation modules; and an incentive settlement means for performing calculation of amounts of incentives and payment of the incentives. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120039370 | PHASE SHIFTER, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND PHASE CONTROL METHOD - Disclosed are a phase shifter, a wireless communication apparatus, and a phase control method in which power consumption is reduced. A phase shifter includes a 90° step phase shifter ( | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120039338 | NETWORK SYSTEM, CONTROLLER, AND NETWORK CONTROL METHOD - A switch transfers a predetermined packet to an appliance. The appliance generates a rewritten packet by carrying out the packet header rewriting on the predetermined packet and forwards the rewritten packet back to the switch. The switch transfers the rewritten packet received from the appliance to a controller. In a case when the rewritten packet meets a predetermined condition, the controller generates entry setting data which instructs to set a new entry on the basis of a destination of the rewritten packet and the predetermined rewriting mode, and sends the entry setting data to the switch. The new entry indicates that packets belonging to the same flow as the predetermined packet are transferred to the destination without being routed through the appliance. The switch adds the new entry to the flow table in accordance with the entry setting data received from the controller. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120038680 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE, MOVING DISTANCE DISPLAY METHOD AND MOVING DISTANCE DISPLAY PROGRAM - Information display means displays information. Movement instruction detecting means detects an instruction to move the information displayed on the information display means. Number of moving regions calculating means calculates, based on the instruction, the number of moving regions, which is the amount of movement of the present invention displayed on the information display means. Movement indicator line determination means determines a movement indicator line, which is a predetermined line, according to the number of moving regions from a reference position that is used as reference when the information displayed on the information display means is moved. Movement display means displays the movement indicator line determined by the movement indicator line determination means on the information display means. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120036555 | INFORMATION SHARING DEVICE, INFORMATION SHARING METHOD AND INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM - The load of setting and managing the access rule for access control is large. Provided is an information sharing system comprising an information gathering means, a transportable storage device for storing at least first information and second information, a certified acquisition request generation means, and a certified acquisition request processing means, sheering the information gathering means gathers the first information and the second information from the transportable storage device, the certified acquisition request generation means transmits a certified acquisition request including certification information comprising at least part of the second information, and the certified acquisition request processing means determines, on the basis of the result of checking whether or not the certification information included in the received certified acquisition request matches any part of the first information, whether or not to transmit the first information to a device equipped with the certified acquisition request generation means that is a transmission source of the certified acquisition request. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120036138 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DESIGN SPACE EXPLORATION IN HIGH LEVEL SYNTHESIS - A method for automatically exploring a design space of an untimed high level language, comprising at least one of: (a) exploring automatically a set of local operations parsing an input source and assigning a set of attributes to each of the local operations; (b) exploring a set of global synthesis option that affects an entire design of a target circuit; and (c) exploring number and type of functional units allocated to the design. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120034878 | CELL MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND PROCESS - A cellular communications system is described in which a mobile cellular device can, if necessary, obtain cell measurements for cells contained within a first cell list after it has received a second cell list. The mobile device then reports the cell measurements for cells within both lists so that a best candidate cell is less likely to be discarded in a cell handover procedure. A network node is also disclosed that can receive cell measurements for cells within a first cell list after the node has issued a second cell list. The node then uses the received cell measurement data to control a handover procedure. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120034517 | SECONDARY BATTERY USING AN ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION - There is provided a lithium secondary battery which has excellent characteristics such as energy density and electromotive force and is excellent in cycle life and storage stability. An electrolyte solution for secondary battery comprising at least an aprotic solvent having an electrolyte dissolved therein and a compound represented by the general formula (1). | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033974 | OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, OPTICAL COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATION METHOD THEREOF - An optical communication system includes a first optical communication apparatus configured to insert a wavelength control signal in a main signal to produce a modified main signal; convert the modified main signal into a first optical signal; and transmit the first optical signal, and a second optical communication apparatus configured to receive the first optical signal; extract the wavelength control signal from the received first optical signal; determine a wavelength of a second optical signal based on the extracted wavelength control signal; and transmit the second optical signal to the first optical communication apparatus. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033969 | WAVELENGTH PATH MULTIPLEXING AND DEMULTIPLEXING OPTICAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS - A sending apparatus includes: a wavelength path multiplexing part; a sending wavelength path selection part; and an optical transmitter having optical sending parts. The wavelength path multiplexing part includes: sending wavelength path demultiplexing ports; and sending wavelength multiplexing ports connected thereto. The sending wavelength path multiplexing ports are connected to optical transmission paths respectively. The sending wavelength path selection part includes a wavelength multiplexing parts which multiplexing a set combination of optical signals among the optical signals inputted to the sending input ports and outputs it to any of the sending output ports. In the wavelength path sending or receiving by the wavelength path multiplexing/demultiplexing optical transmission apparatus, a non-selectable combination between a wavelength and a route can be avoided. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033828 | Signal Processing Method and Apparatus, and Recording Medium in Which a Signal Processing Program is Recorded - A signal processing method for converting a signal received via a transmission path or read from a storage medium into a first audible signal, and suppressing a noise other than a desired signal contained in the first audible signal based on predetermined audio quality adjustment information, comprising steps of: in suppressing a noise other than a desired signal contained in the first audible signal to generate an enhanced signal, receiving audio quality adjustment information for adjusting audio quality; and adjusting audio quality of the enhanced signal using the audio quality adjustment information | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033751 | CHANNEL ESTIMATION FOR A CONTROL CHANNEL IN AN OFDM SYSTEM - A method of channel estimation for a control channel in an OFDM system of the present invention includes the steps of: performing weighted averaging over time of input LS estimates of a plurality of channel condition matrices; performing frequency domain averaging on the input LS estimates; performing channel estimates on multiple subcarriers of pilot OFDM symbols from the frequency domain averaged input LS estimates; and performing channel estimates on multiple subcarriers of OFDM symbols in the control channel from the channel estimates on the subcarriers of pilot OFDM symbols. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033090 | NETWORK CAMERA, OPERATION CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The object of the present invention is to provide a network camera, an operation control method and a program that can improve convenience. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033029 | PORTABLE TERMINAL WITH ROTATABLE AXIAL FLIP UNIT AND DUAL LENS ARRANGEMENT - This portable terminal comprises a main unit having a microphone, a key operation unit, and a radio sending/receiving function of image and sound, a
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| 20120032925 | HANDWRITING INPUT DEVICE - This handwriting input device is equipped with an object to be coated | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120030582 | INFORMATION DELIVERY SYSTEM, INFORMATION DELIVERY SERVER, INFORMATON PRESENTATION TERMINAL, AND INFORMATION DELIVERY METHOD AND PROGRAM - An information delivery server of the present invention delivers information to information presentation terminals, and includes a control unit and a storage unit. The storage unit includes: a user attribute information storage unit that stores user attribute information; and a presentation information object storage unit that stores a presentation information object including user presentation information, feature information related to a context and an attribute of the user presentation information, and information indicating a relevancy of the user presentation information to a user of a delivery target. The control unit includes: a relevancy calculation unit which calculates a relevancy of the user presentation information to the user based on user attribute information of the user of the delivery target of the user presentation information and feature information of the user presentation information, and stores the calculated relevancy in the presentation information object storage unit; a delivery management unit that determines an information presentation terminal of a delivery target and a presentation information object to be delivered to the information presentation terminal based on the calculated relevancy at a delivery time of the user presentation information; and a delivery unit that delivers the determined presentation information object to the information presentation terminal of the delivery target. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120030448 | SINGLE INSTRUCTION MULTIPLE DATE (SIMD) PROCESSOR HAVING A PLURALITY OF PROCESSING ELEMENTS INTERCONNECTED BY A RING BUS - A single instruction multiple data (SIMD) processor having a plurality of processing elements and including: a splitting unit for splitting an address of the read-only parameter data in the data memory into a first part and a second part at a bit position corresponding to the number of the processor elements; and a comparing unit for comparing the number of shifting, on a ring bus, of the read-only parameter data, which is taken from the internal memory at the address in accordance with the first part, with a difference between an own processor element position and a portion of the global address of the read-only parameter data to be accessed, the portion designating a position in the ring of the processor element in which the read-only parameter data to be accessed is stored and corresponding to the second part, to cause the other processor elements to take the read-only parameter data. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120030377 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION COMPRESSION DEVICE, INFORMATION DECOMPRESSION DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - In order to improve the compression rate for configuration information including address information and data information when transmitting or storing configuration information which includes addresses and data having differing characteristics, an information compression device is provided with a compressor which receives as input and compresses the configuration information provided with the addresses and data, and a compressed information storage module for storing the configuration information which is compressed, that is, compressed configuration information, as the information to be decompressed for the user, said compressor including an information separating module for separating the configuration information into address information and data information, an address compressor and data compressor which separately compress the separated address information and data information, and a compressed information outputting module for combining the compressed address information and data information and outputting the result as compressed configuration information. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120030364 | Proxy appparatus and operation method thereof - A proxy apparatus includes a multi-core CPU comprising a plurality of CPU cores; and an extended listen socket comprising a plurality of queues provided for the plurality of CPU cores respectively. A kernel thread and a proxy thread operate on each of the plurality of CPU cores. The kernel thread executes a receiving process of an establishment request packet of a first connection with a client terminal, assigned to a corresponding one of the plurality of CPU cores, and registers an establishment waiting socket which contained information of the first connection, on a corresponding one of the plurality of queues. The proxy thread refers to the corresponding queue, and establishes the first connection based on the establishment waiting socket when the establishment waiting socket is registered on the corresponding queue. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120030334 | DNS NAME RESOLUTION SYSTEM, OVERRIDE AGENT, AND DNS NAME RESOLUTION METHOD - A DNS name resolution system according to the present invention has a DNS server; a terminal which generates and transmits a DNS query packet containing DNS name information described in accordance with a specific description method and whose destination is said DNS server; and an override agent which is disposed along a communication path between the terminal and the DNS server. The override agent has a capture unit which captures a DNS query packet transmitted from the terminal; an analysis unit which stores in advance information concerning the specific description method based on which the DNS name information was described by the terminal, analyzes the DNS name information contained in the DNS query packet captured by the capture unit based on the specific description method, and selects the information for reply to the terminal based on the analysis results; and a reply unit which generates and transmits a DNS response packet containing the information for reply selected by the analysis unit and whose destination is the terminal | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120030237 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, SERVER, DATA STORING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Image data stored in a server can be easily removed therefrom by use of a communication terminal. There are included a communication terminal for transmitting an acquired image data and a server for storing the image data received from the communication terminal. The communication terminal transmits an acquired image data to the server, displays abbreviated data which allows the image data to be identified and the data amount of which is smaller than the data amount of the image data. And, when having accepted, from the exterior, a removal of the image data instructed by designating the displayed abbreviated data, the communication terminal requests the server to remove the image data corresponding to the abbreviated data. The server stores, into a database provided therein, the image data received from the communication terminal. And, when having been requested, by the communication terminal, to remove the image data, the server removes the image data from the database. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120030157 | TRAINING DATA GENERATION APPARATUS, CHARACTERISTIC EXPRESSION EXTRACTION SYSTEM, TRAINING DATA GENERATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - The disclosed apparatus uses a training data generation apparatus | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120029916 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING MULTICHANNEL ACOUSTIC SIGNAL, SYSTEM THEREFOR, AND PROGRAM - A method for processing multichannel acoustic signals which is characterized by calculating the feature quantity of each channel from the input signals of a plurality of channels, calculating similarity between the channels in the feature quantity of each channel, selecting channels having high similarity, and separating signals using the input signals of the selected channels. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120029915 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING MULTICHANNEL ACOUSTIC SIGNAL, SYSTEM THEREFOR, AND PROGRAM - A method for processing multichannel acoustic signals which processes input signals of a plurality of channels including the voices of a plurality of speaking persons. The method is characterized by detecting the voice section of each speaking person or each channel, detecting overlapped sections wherein the detected voice sections are common between channels, determining a channel to be subjected to crosstalk removal and the section thereof by use of at least voice sections not including the detected overlapped sections, and removing crosstalk in the sections of the channel to be subjected to the crosstalk removal. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120027309 | IMAGE SIGNATURE EXTRACTION DEVICE - The image signature extraction device includes an extraction unit and a generation unit. The extraction unit extracts region features from respective sub-regions in an image in accordance with a plurality of pairs of sub-regions in the image, the pairs of sub-regions including at least one pair of sub-regions in which both a combination of shapes of two sub-regions of the pair and a relative position between the two sub-regions of the pair differ from those of at least one of other pairs of sub-regions, and being classified into a plurality of types based on a combination of shapes of two sub-regions and a relative position between the two sub-regions of each of the pairs. The generation unit generates an image signature to be used for identifying the image based on the extracted region features of the respective sub-regions. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120027306 | IMAGE SIGNATURE EXTRACTION DEVICE - The image signature extraction device includes an image signature generation unit and an encoding unit. The image signature generation unit extracts region features from respective sub-regions in an image in accordance with a plurality of pairs of sub-regions in the image, the pairs of sub-regions including at least one pair of sub-regions in which both a combination of shapes of two sub-regions of the pair and a relative position between the two sub-regions of the pair differ from those of at least one of other pairs of sub-regions, and based on the extracted region features of the respective sub-regions, generates an image signature to be used for identifying the image. The encoding unit encodes the image signature. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120027020 | MULTIPLEXING TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, MULTIPLEXING APPARATUS, DEMULTIPLEXING APPARATUS AND A MULTIPLEXING TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A multiplexing apparatus stores fixed length data into which information signals supplied from channels are divided; determines an output channel by selecting the each channel cyclically; and acquires the fixed length data from the output channel based on a channel multiplexing ratio number to store the fixed length data in a payload in turn. Also, the multiplexing apparatus adds assignment information, which includes a channel arrangement of each channel of the fixed length data stored in the payload, to the payload. Further, the multiplexing apparatus creates a multiplexing frame by using the payload to transmit to a transmission channel. A demultiplexing apparatus detects the assignment information from the payload of the multiplexing frame received to the transmission channel; and creates distribution information for distributing the fixed length data to each channel based on the assignment information. Also, the demultiplexing apparatus detects the fixed length data from the payload to distribute the fixed length data to each channel based on the distribution information. Further, the demultiplexing apparatus couples the fixed length data to reproduce the information signal. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026962 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, SERVER, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a wireless communication technique capable of supporting communication using a single component carrier, and communication using a plurality of component carriers. The communication using the plurality of carriers comprises a processing means for performing the signal processing in accordance with each of the carriers with respect to the common signal sequence used by the plurality of carriers. The present invention makes it possible to cope with the communication employing a single component carrier and the wireless communication employing a plurality of the component carriers. Further, PAPR of the reference signals can be made small because there is no possibility that the identical CAZAC sequence is used among the component carriers when a plurality of the component carriers are employed. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026891 | Communication network management system and method and management computer - A management computer includes a storage unit in which route information indicating a transfer route of frames in a communication network is stored; and a monitoring unit. First to N-th nodes (N is an integer not less than 2) line up in order along a transfer route. In identifying a location of failure on the transfer route, the monitoring unit transmits a state notification frame to the first node. The i-th node, when receiving the state notification frame, updates a forwarding table by adding the management computer to the forwarding destination and forwards the state notification frame to the (i+1)-th node. The i-th node, when receiving a check frame, forwards the check frame to the (i+1)-th node and the management computer by referring to the post-update forwarding table. The monitoring unit identifies the location of failure based on reception state of the check frame from the transfer route. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026864 | PACKET DATA NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AND METHOD - The invention provides for a mobile radio communications device for communication within a packet data network and arranged for transmitting dedicated bearer set-up signalling to the network as part of a network attachment procedure, the device further being arranged to store the said dedicated bearer set-up signalling and to transmit or retransmit the same responsive to the success of attach complete signalling. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025913 | Envelope amplifier - An envelope amplifier includes an amplifier unit, a comparator unit and an output unit. The amplifier unit is made up of a first output section that outputs a first current in response to an amplitude of an input envelope signal, and a second output section. The second output section outputs a second current of a current value proportionate to a current value of the first current. Absolute value of the current value of the second current is greater than that of a current value of the first current. Comparator unit compares the current value of the first current. The output unit sums a current via an inductor derived from a current sustained or broken in response to a compared result of the comparator unit to the second current to deliver the resulting sum current at an output end. The first current is configured to be terminated without being delivered to the output unit (FIG. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025790 | ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT, CIRCUIT APPARATUS, TEST SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD OF THE ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT - An electronic circuit includes: a first power line capable of supplying power; a second power line capable of supplying power independently from the first power line; a main circuit connected to the second power line; a detector that detects the supply of power from the first power line or the second power line; and a controller connected to the first power line and the second power line, wherein the controller controls a voltage or a current supplied from the first power line and supplies the voltage or the current to the main circuit when the detector detects supply of power from the first power line. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120024949 | POWER NEGOTIATION IN A COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - A mobile device is provided having a smart card. The smart card is powered by the mobile device and a maximum power supply value is defined by the mobile device to control the power drawn by the smart card. Provision is made for the smart card to inform the mobile device of the processes supported by the smart card and their classes of current. Provision is also made for the smart card to inform the mobile device whether or not the smart card supports high density memory. The mobile device is operable to use the information provided by the smart card to determine the optimal or best value of electrical current that is to be made available to the smart card. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120023495 | REJUVENATION PROCESSING DEVICE, REJUVENATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - In a rejuvenation processing device ( | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023308 | PARALLEL COMPARISON/SELECTION OPERATION APPARATUS, PROCESSOR, AND PARALLEL COMPARISON/SELECTION OPERATION METHOD - Provided is a parallel comparison/selection operation apparatus which efficiently executes a search for a maximum value or a search for a minimum value with an index. The parallel comparison/selection operation apparatus includes a vector comparison/selection unit | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023231 | Network system, control method for the same, and controller - In a network system, each server is assigned to at least one relay processing devices. A plurality of switches are arranged in a network and a controller controls the switches. Specifically, the controller designs, in response to a request from a request source switch, a route of a flow from the request source switch to a destination address. Here, the controller refers to assignment information indicating an assignment relationship between servers and relay processing devices to select, as a target, any one relay processing device assigned to a server specified by the destination address, and designs the route so as to include the target. Then, the controller instructs each switch on the designed route to set the flow table such that a packet is forwarded along the designed route. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023134 | PATTERN MATCHING DEVICE, PATTERN MATCHING METHOD, AND PATTERN MATCHING PROGRAM - An optimal subspace for a distance or a similarity cannot be obtained by a pattern matching device which obtains a subspace independent from the distance or the similarity used for matching. A pattern matching device includes a feature extraction unit for extracting a feature value by lowering the dimension of data using a feature extraction parameter; a calculation unit for calculating a distance or a similarity of the data to be matched using the feature value; and a parameter updating unit for comparing the distance or the similarity, and updating the feature extraction parameter so that the value of the distance or the similarity becomes closer to a matching result regarding whether or not the values of the distance or the similarity are in the same category. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120021803 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL CONTROL SYSTEM - The present invention makes it possible to perform the setting, editing and browsing of various data on a mobile phone from an external device. A mobile phone is equipped with a wireless communication function and a web browser function. When the wireless communication function of the mobile phone has been accessed from a personal computer (PC) via wireless communication, the web browser function of the mobile phone is launched, and menus are displayed on a browser screen. Accordingly, a menu displayed on a browser screen can be selectively displayed, and a setting change or an editing of desired information can be performed, both from the PC. Further, the menu displayed on a browser screen can be browsed from the PC. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120021798 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND ITS TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL METHOD IN RADIO COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A transmission power control method and a communication device using it are provided that can prevent the delay of a receipt from increasing and varying in reservation-type scheduling. In a radio communications system in which a radio resource is reserved (step S | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120021735 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A WIMAX FEMTOCELL BASE STATION AND FEMTOCELL BASE STATION - A method for operating a WiMAX femtocell base station, wherein the femtocell base station has an active operational mode, in which the radio interface subsystem of the femtocell base station is fully power supplied, is characterized in that a power saving mode with reduced radio interface activity is provided, wherein the femtocell base station is enabled to transit between the active operation mode and the power saving mode. Furthermore, a corresponding femtocell base station for deployment in a WiMAX network is disclosed. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120021426 | METHOD OF DETECTING TARGET SUBSTANCE - Provided are a method of detecting a target substance and the like using a probe with a simple design for target substance detection. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120021357 | POSITIVE-TYPE PHOTOSENSITIVE INSULATING RESIN COMPOSITION, AND PATTERN FORMING METHOD USING SAME - A photosensitive insulating resin composition, comprising a polymer, a photosensitizer, and an amide derivative that is expressed by the following general formula (1); | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120021160 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - The method of manufacturing an optical information recording medium includes a first resin applying step of applying a first photo-curing resin to one surface of a first substrate, a first resin curing step of laminating a first stamper having an uneven surface on the first photo-curing resin, and irradiating ultraviolet rays via the first stamper to cure the first photo-curing resin, a second resin applying step of applying a second photo-curing resin to the other surface of the first substrate, a second resin curing step of laminating a second stamper having an uneven surface on the second photo-curing resin, and irradiating ultraviolet rays via the first second to cure the second photo-curing resin, a first stamper peeling step of peeling the second stamper from the second photo-curing resin, and a first recording layer laminating step of laminating a first recording layer on an exposed surface of the second photo-curing resin. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020677 | RECEIVING DEVICE AND DEMODULATION DEVICE - To adequately perform sampling, a receiving device that solves problems that involve an increase in circuit area and an increase in cost, is provided. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020660 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING SKEW BETWEEN PARALLEL SIGNALS - A method is provided for detecting the skew between parallel light signals generated from a serial data stream. The method can be used with polarization multiplexed signal, as well as with wavelength division multiplexed signals, spatial division multiplexed signals, phase modulated signals, or intensity modulated signals. The method can be used with direct detection schemes as well as with coherent detection schemes. The method is provided with: imprinting dips between a fixed number of transmitted symbols of the parallel signals; detecting an electrical signal related to the dips for each parallel signal; and comparing the electrical signals in delay. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020524 | TRACKED OBJECT DETERMINATION DEVICE, TRACKED OBJECT DETERMINATION METHOD AND TRACKED OBJECT DETERMINATION PROGRAM - Determination whether a moving object appearing in input video is an object tracked and captured by a cameraman is enabled. It is determined that a moving object is a subject image to which a cameraman pays attention based on a time difference between time when a movement state determined by a motion vector of the moving object changes and time when a shooting state determined by a motion vector of a camera motion changes. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020431 | ANTENNA DEVICE AND MULTI-ANTENNA SYSTEM - An object of the present invention is to provide an antenna device that exhibits, in wireless communication of an omni-cell system for simultaneously transmitting a plurality of data corresponding to one another, excellent cost performance, and can reduce antenna loss and prevent radio wave interference. This antenna device includes a plurality of sector antennas | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020387 | Frequency hopping - A cellular communications system includes a base station and a plurality of user devices, wherein each user device is operable to communicate with the base station over a communication channel having a plurality of frequency resources, wherein the base station is operable: i) to provide each user device with a respective initial allocation of the frequency resources; and ii) to provide at least one user device with a periodic communications opportunity in which the user device can communicate with the base station, wherein each user device is operable to apply a frequency shift to its initially allocated frequency resource in accordance with a frequency hopping sequence, wherein the user devices use the same frequency hopping sequence and are synchronized with each other so that, at any point in time, a common frequency shift is applied by the user devices. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020361 | Switch network system, controller, and control method - A controller has an entry control block and a flow table setting block. In a case where an action of a target entry in a flow table is to be changed to “forwarding of a reception packet to the controller”, the entry control block forecasts a load when packets matching the target entry are forwarded to the controller. If the load exceeds a permissible value, the entry control block repeats entry division processing until the load becomes within the permissible value. In the entry division processing, the entry control block divides the target entry into a plurality of post-division entries, divides the match condition of the target entry into a plurality of conditions, and sets respective match conditions of the plurality of post-division entries to the plurality of conditions. The flow table setting block instructs a switch to set the plurality of post-division entries in the flow table. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020346 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system comprising macro and femto cells in which, during relocation of a mobile device from a source macro/femto cell to a target femto cell, mobile device capability, registration cause, and/or mobile device identity information available at the base station of the source macro/femto cell prior to relocation is made available to the home base station and gateway device of the target femto cell. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020241 | HARQ INDICATOR DETERMINATION - In order to determine whether a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) indicator received by user equipment (UE) from a base station is an acknowledgment (ACK) or negative acknowledgement (NACK), when a signal representing the HARQ indicator is received by the UE, a plurality of symbols encoded in the received signal are determined to obtain a softbit for each of the symbols by summing an in-phase component and a quadrature component of each symbol. Thereafter, the softbits are summed up to be compared with the amplitude of the symbols to determine whether the HARQ indicator is an ACK or NACK. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020220 | Network system, controller, and network control method - When an appliance, which has a packet discard function, discards a packet, transmits packet discard information as information related to the discarded packet to a controller. A controller performs a switch control process in response to the packet discard information. In the switch control process, the controller selects a target switch from the network, creates entry setting information for instructing the target switch to create an entry such that a packet belonging to the same flow as the discarded packet is discarded, and transmits the created entry setting information to the target switch. The target switch sets an entry in its own flow table in response to the entry setting information transmitted from the controller. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020219 | Network system and congestion control method - A transmission terminal has a plurality of congestion control units (RPs) each controlling a frame transmission rate. A switch arranged between the transmission terminal and a reception terminal has a plurality of congestion detection units (CPs) each generating a congestion information notification frame addressed to the transmission terminal. A plurality of routes exist between the transmission terminal and the reception terminal. The management computer manages a correspondence relationship between the routes and the RPs, assigns any of the routes to a flow, selects a RP associated with a route assigned to the flow, and notifies the transmission terminal and the switch of the flow and the selected RP. When the switch receives a frame belonging to the flow, a CP associated with the selected RP generates the congestion information notification frame addressed to the selected RP. The transmission terminal transmits a frame belonging to the flow through the selected RP. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019783 | PROJECTION TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - There is provided a projection-type image display apparatus which is capable of solving the problem in which the reduction ratio of speckles is small. Light source | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019717 | CREDIT INFORMATION SEGMENT DETECTION METHOD, CREDIT INFORMATION SEGMENT DETECTION DEVICE, AND CREDIT INFORMATION SEGMENT DETECTION PROGRAM - A credit information segment detection device is equipped with: an input means which inputs the video data of video content; a search starting point determination means which, based on the probability that a credit information high-text-density part wherein text is displayed with a high density exists in a credit display segment, determines a starting point that indicates a time position for starting a credit information search process; and a display segment judgment means which, after the credit information search process with respect to the starting point has been performed, determines a credit information display segment by expanding the segment during which the search process is performed before and after the starting point. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019412 | GPS TERMINAL, POSITIONING METHOD, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - A GPS terminal, comprises: a communication unit that receives assist data from a network, the assist data used for positioning via GPS (Global Positioning System); and a GPS positioning unit that receives a GPS signal using the assist data and outputs a positioning result. A communication session with the network is released without waiting for said GPS positioning unit to complete positioning. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019402 | MOBILE INFORMATION TERMINAL HAVING OPERATION KEYS AND A DISPLAY ON OPPOSITE SIDES - A mobile information terminal has a front surface on which a display surface of a display device is arranged and a rear surface on which a plurality of operation keys are arranged. The mobile information terminal further has a half-depressing sensor for detecting that each of the operation keys is half-depressed and/or a touch sensor for detecting that each of the operation keys is touched. A control section executes a processing operation to cause the display device to display an image showing the arrangement of said operation keys and to change an icon which corresponds to a key of operation keys when a control section determines, according to an input signal from the half-depressing sensor or the touch sensor, that the finger of the operator is placed on this key of operation keys. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120017230 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - A super-resolution optical information recording medium comprises a super-resolution layer and a recording layer which are laminated on a support substrate, wherein the super-resolution layer is provided with properties consisting of a first state to maintain a solid phase against irradiation of a laser beams, and a second state to become a liquid layer state against irradiation of a laser beam onto a recording mark on the recording layer to thereby change an optical constant. The optical constant is determined so that a ratio of a super-resolution signal intensity obtained at a second state region against a background light interference intensity obtained at a first state region is at least 1.8, and a ratio of the super-resolution signal intensity obtained at the second state region against a disk noise intensity obtained at first and second state regions is at least 0.16. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120017202 | TRANSLATION DEVICE, TRANSLATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PROGRAM - A declaration translation unit ( | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120017160 | PORTABLE TERMINAL AND DISPLAY DATA EDITING METHOD FOR THE SAME - The present invention is a portable terminal and a display data editing method for the same capable of easily changing preliminarily stored display data to any expression preferable to the user. A display processor | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120016664 | LANGUAGE ANALYSIS APPARATUS, LANGUAGE ANALYSIS METHOD, AND LANGUAGE ANALYSIS PROGRAM - A language analysis apparatus of the invention includes division rules, each of which is classified into one of levels according to the degree of risk of causing analysis accuracy problems when applied; a division point candidate generation unit | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014609 | IMAGE SIGNATURE EXTRACTION DEVICE - The image signature extraction device includes an extraction unit and a generation unit. The extraction unit extracts region features from respective sub-regions in an image in accordance with a plurality of pairs of sub-regions in the image, the pairs of sub-regions including at least one pair of sub-regions in which both a combination of shapes of two sub-regions of the pair and relative position between the two sub-regions of the pair differ from those of at least one of other pairs of sub-regions. The generation unit generates an image signature to be used for identifying the image based on the extracted region features of the respective sub-regions, using, for at least one pair of sub-regions, a method different from that used for another pair of sub-regions. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014388 | Path selection method, information processor, network system, and path selection program - A path selection method, an information processor, a network system, and a path selection program are provided which rapidly determine a path that has no loop when determining the path by using a control server to probabilistically select a pass node. A network having a plurality of paths from a source to a destination is controlled. A node forming the path is selected on the basis of a node-to-node transfer probability, and in the case where the selected node is a node that has already been passed through on the path, the transfer probability is reset such that the selection of the node is suppressed. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014365 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A mobile communication network includes a radio communication device which is installed in a mobile communication network to carry out radio communication with a mobile terminal, a gateway which relays a communication from the terminal device from the radio communication device to the Internet, and a node which carries out an authentication process in response to a connection request from the mobile terminal. The gateway is installed in the radio communication device or in a carrier network. The node establishes a direct tunnel between the radio communication device and the gateway, so that the mobile terminal is connected to the Internet via the direct tunnel and via the mobile communication network. Thus, it is possible to reduce traffic simply passing through the carrier network. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014331 | RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, AND MOBILE STATION - A radio communication method is provided for reducing the overhead of radio resources (transmission power, transmission time, frequency band) caused by the transmission of a control signal to a mobile station in a poor propagation environment and thus enabling an improvement of throughput of the entire system. A base station ( | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014274 | BASE STATION, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING BASE STATION, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, CONTROL PROGRAM, AND MOBILE STATION - [Problem] The number of the base stations that are activated uselessly cannot be sufficiently reduced even in a light traffic state. As a result, interference between adjacent cells and power consumption cannot be sufficiently reduced. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014259 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system includes a transmission device configured to transmit a packet and a reception device configured to receive the packet. The reception device is equipped with a behavior information acquisition unit, a model specification information acquisition unit, and a model specification information transmission unit. The behavior information acquisition unit acquires behavior information representing the behavior of a packet before the packet reaches the reception device from the transmission device. The model specification information acquisition unit acquires model specification information for specifying a mathematical model representing the behaviors of a plurality of packets based on the acquired behavior information. The model specification information transmission unit transmits the acquired model specification information to the transmission device. The transmission device is equipped with a model specification information reception unit. The model specification information reception unit receives model specification information. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014257 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A mobile communications system is proposed in which mobile communications devices are arranged to transmit signals to and to receive signals from a base station using one or a subset of available sub-bands, with the base station being configured to move the mobile communications devices between the sub-bands. An anchor sub-band is also provided on which idle mobile communications devices camp until they are moved to one or more other sub-bands in addition to or instead of the anchor sub-band. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013373 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, CIRCUIT CORRECTION METHOD, DESIGN SUPPORT DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING DESIGN SUPPORT PROGRAM - There has been a problem in a conventional semiconductor device that a great deal of time is needed for a returning process associated with circuit correction. A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a plurality of trigger signal driving elements (FFa and FFb) that synchronize with a trigger signal and operate, trigger wiring lines (CW | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013023 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - The present invention provides a multilayer wiring technology by which high adhesiveness and high insulation reliability between wirings are obtained, while maintaining effective low capacitance between wirings. A semiconductor device is characterized in that a first insulating film is an insulating film formed of at least one layer which contains a siloxane structure containing silicon, oxygen and carbon; the siloxane structure in the inner part of the first insulating film contains a larger number of carbon atoms than the number of silicon atoms; and a modified layer which containing a smaller number of carbon atoms and a larger number of oxygen atoms per unit volume than the inner part of the first insulating film is formed on at least one of an interface between the first insulating film and the metal and an interface between the first insulating film and a second insulating film. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120012995 | Semiconductor device - A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element having a rectangular two-dimensional geometry and serving as a heat source, a first heat sink section including the semiconductor element mounted thereon, and a second heat sink section joined to an opposite side of the first heat sink section that includes the semiconductor element. A relation among directional components of thermal conductivity is K | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120011496 | SERVICE PROVIDING APPARATUS, SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM, METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA IN SERVICE PROVIDING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A service providing apparatus ( | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011487 | MODEL VERIFICATION SYSTEM, MODEL VERIFICATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A model verification system includes a formal language conversion part operable to convert model figure data registered as a design pattern in association with a program into formal language expression data based upon an expression format of a predetermined formal language, and a formal language increment part operable to add a modification to a component of the formal language and/or attribute information on the formal language expression data converted by the formal language conversion means to generate formal language expression data of a derivative design. The model verification system conducts refactoring. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011264 | Communication flow control system, communication flow control method, and communication flow processing program - When a processing method determination means is not able to determine a processing method for a communication flow of packets, flow identification information transmission means transmits information within the packets equivalent to a portion or all of first flow identification information for identifying the communication flow to a processing determination unit. Control action determination means determines a control action on the basis of information received from a communication flow processing unit and second flow identification information stored in control action storage means. Control instruction means instructs the communication flow processing unit to control the communication flow on the basis of the control action. Processing method registration means registers a processing method for the communication flow with process method storage means on the basis of control instructions from a control unit. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120009962 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, USER EQUIPMENT, BASE STATION, TRANSMIT POWER DECIDING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - This invention has been accomplished in consideration of problems, and an object thereof is to provide a technology that enables a maximum transmit power suitable for each user equipment. This invention is a communication system, is characterized in deciding a maximum value of a transmit power of a user equipment by employing at least one of an access scheme and control information indicating a content of a communication control. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008956 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE, OPERATIONAL WAVELENGTH NUMBER RESTRICTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An optical transmission device that is connected to transmission paths of a network, that performs optical communication according to a wavelength division multiplex format and that transmits optical signals over the transmission paths according to path types that have been set to wavelengths of the optical signals, including an upper limit value storage section that stores an upper limit value of the number of operational wavelengths that is the number of wavelengths to which the path types are set; an acceptance section that accepts a changing request that requests that the number of operational wavelengths be changed; and a license determination section that decides the number of operational wavelengths, wherein if the number of wavelengths that has been changed according to the accepted changing request is equal to or smaller than the stored upper limit value, the license determination section newly sets the changed number of wavelengths for the number of operational wavelengths. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008949 | CIRCUIT, CONTROL SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR RECORDING PROGRAM - In order to provide a circuit which can realize high-speed frequency tracking performance while satisfying jitter/wander suppression performance, the circuit controls loop gain of a PLL means, which extracts a clock signal of a SDH signal or an Ethernet signal from an OTN signal, on the basis of a result of processing a jitter/wander component and a frequency change state on the basis of phase comparison data of the PLL means. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008922 | IMAGE QUALITY CONTROLLING CONTENTS GENERATION DEVICE, IMAGE QUALITY CONTROL DEVICE, COPY IMAGE QUALITY CONTROL SYSTEM, COPY IMAGE QUALITY CONTROL METHOD, IMAGE QUALITY CONTROLLING CONTENTS GENERATION PROGRAM AND IMAGE QUALITY CONTROL PROGRAM - An image quality controlling contents generation device which generates image quality controlling contents from video contents, includes a scalable coding unit which hierarchically codes said video contents to generate image quality controlling video contents, and a scalable coding parameter generation unit which generates a coding parameter for controlling a hierarchical structure for use in executing scalable coding at said scalable coding unit. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008629 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, NODE, CONTROL SERVER,COMMUNICATION METHOD AND PROGRAM - A packet contains an array of processing operations that are to be performed by a node of a data forwarding network. Each node in a data forwarding network receiving performs the processing it has to the packet and perform in accordance with the array of the processing operations contained in the packet. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008615 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, TERMINAL, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a wireless communication technique capable of supporting communication using a single component carrier, and communication using a plurality of component carriers. The communication using the plurality of carriers is characterized by using a different signal sequence in each of the carriers, and using the signal sequences as reference signals. The present invention makes it possible to cope with the communication employing a single component carrier and the wireless communication employing a plurality of the component carriers. Further, PAPR of the reference signals can be made small because there is no possibility that the identical CAZAC sequence is used among the component carriers when a plurality of the component carriers are employed. | 01-12-2012 |
