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| 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 |
| 20120008576 | NON-COHERENT DETECTION METHOD OF THE NUMBER OF TRANSMIT ANTENNA PORTS FOR OFDMA - A method of non-coherent detection of the number of cell-specific transmit antenna ports for a communications device, includes the steps of, at the communications device: (a) generating a downlink reference signals (RS) sequence replica; (b) for a first possible transmit antenna port only, determining a downlink system bandwidth from non-coherent correlation of the generated downlink RS sequence replica and received RS samples; (c) at the determined downlink system, performing a correlation of the generated downlink RS sequence replica and received RS samples for each of a plurality of possible transmit antenna ports; and (d) determining the number of transmit antennas from a comparison of the correlation results in step (c). | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008522 | CHANNEL QUALITY INDICATOR METHOD - The disclosed a method will work with future versions of LTE-A, be backwards compatible, and alleviate interference to signals for basic system operation. The method includes generating one or more Reference Signals associated with the one or more Channel Quality Indicators, and includes mapping the one or more Channel Quality Indicator-Reference Signals to the last symbol of the second slot of the one or more subframes. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007786 | RESONATOR ANTENNA - A meta-material ( | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007701 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication control method according to the present invention is a communication control method for a communication system using a common AC coupling element for transmitting and receiving signals between first and second circuits, the method including: setting a first transmission circuit Tx | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120005314 | SERVICE SHIFTING METHOD, SHIFT MANAGEMENT SERVER, TERMINAL, SERVICE SERVER, SERVICE SHIFT PROGRAM AND SERVICE SHIFT SYSTEM - A method makes possible the transfer independent services used on a certain terminal to another terminal and easy use of them. A service transferring method of transferring service being used at a transferring source terminal (TST) to a transferring destination terminal (TDT), in which information about correlation between a session ID which identifies a session between a service server which provides the service and the TST using the service and a terminal ID of the TST is stored in at least either one of the service server and a transfer management server (TMS), and either one of the TST and TDT transmits terminal IDs of the one terminal and the other terminal to the TMS to notify service transfer and upon receiving the notification of the service transfer, the information about correlation between the session ID and the terminal ID recorded in either the service server or the TMS updates. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005240 | EVENT DATABASE, DATA MANAGEMENT DEVICE, DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, DATA MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD - Provided is a device capable of effectively retrieving a product, etc., under a predetermined condition (for example, in stock), from a database in which event data relating to products, etc., is accumulated. A data management device is provided with an event storage means which stores event data including the occurrence time of an event which changes the state of a target from a specific state to another state or from the another state to the specific state, the type of event, and a target ID which is an identifier of the target the state of which has been changed by the event; and a CKPT creation unit which retrieves the earliest time at a predetermined creation time (the time that the target which was changed to the specific state earliest was changed to the specific state, among the targets which are judged to have been in the specific state at that time, on the basis of the event data) from the event data in the event storage means, creates a check point containing the creation time and the earliest time, and stores the check point in a CKPT storage means. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005135 | RECOGNITION DICTIONARY TRAINING METHOD, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - The present invention provides a recognition dictionary training method, a system, and a program for allowing a computer to function as a recognition dictionary training system that does not cause a lowered recognition performance with regard to input vectors other than training data. In a recognition dictionary training system, an initial value setting means | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120004916 | SPEECH SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE - A speech signal processing device is equipped with a power acquisition unit, a probability distribution acquisition unit, and a correspondence degree determination unit. The power acquisition unit accepts an inputted speech signal and, based on the accepted speech signal, acquires power representing the intensity of a speech sound represented by the speech signal. The probability distribution acquisition unit acquires a probability distribution using the intensity of the power acquired by the power acquisition unit as a random variable. The correspondence degree determination unit determines whether a correspondence degree representing a degree that power acquired by the power acquisition unit in a case that a predetermined reference speech signal is inputted into the power acquisition unit corresponds with predetermined reference power is higher than a predetermined reference correspondence degree, based on the probability distribution acquired by the probability distribution acquisition unit. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120004008 | TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL METHOD, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND TERMINAL APPARATUS - A transmission power control method, a wireless communication system and a terminal apparatus which can reduce radio interference to each terminal apparatus installed into peripheral cars other than the communication counterpart are provided. In wireless communication between at least two movable terminal apparatuses, a terminal apparatus which has received a predetermined wireless signal transmitted with a known electric power from another terminal apparatus measures its received power and sets a numerical value of transmission power when transmitting information to the other terminal apparatus according to the measured value of the received power. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120003979 | RADIO WAVE STATE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, RADIO WAVE STATE MEASUREMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING RADIO WAVE STATE MEASUREMENT PROGRAM - A propagation state measurement system includes a parameter update information reception means ( | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120003971 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD - A mobile communication system includes a mobile station connected with a base station by radio when being in a cell formed by the base station, and configured to communicate with a counter side unit through the base station; and a relay station configured to form a limitation area. The relay station receives a downlink signal from the base station and transmits a limitation downlink signal obtained by adding information showing that it is in the limitation area to the downlink signal to the limitation area. When receiving the limitation downlink signal, the mobile station transmits an uplink signal showing a function limited state to the base station in synchronization with a downlink channel received from the base station. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120003963 | MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE, AND METHOD OF UPDATING TELEPHONE DIRECTORY OF MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - A mobile communications device includes: a telephone directory storage unit for storing a telephone directory; a comparator for comparing a service identifier included in a received message with a service identifier stored in the telephone directory; and an update unit for updating the telephone number stored in the telephone directory. If the service identifier corresponding to the telephone number received in the message matches the service identifier stored in the telephone directory, the update unit updates the telephone number stored in the telephone directory with the received telephone number. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120003940 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM FOR CONTROL PROGRAM OF COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - In order to settle a problem of suppressing degradation of a throughput of a communication system, a communication device is provided with a reception means which receives and accumulates a first datum which a first device transmits addressing a second device and a second datum which the second device transmits, a transmission means which transmits the first datum to the second device, a quality index acquisition means which acquires a first index which is a quality of communication between the first device and the second device and a second index which is a quality of communication between the communication device and the second device, and a judgment means which forces to transmit the accumulated first datum to the second device using the transmission means in the case of judging that the second index is better than the first index and a reception condition of the second datum shows that the second device does not receive normally the first datum. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120003767 | OPTICAL MODULATOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - An optical modulator according to the present invention is configured at least by a semiconductor layer subjected to a doping process so as to exhibit a first conductivity type, and a semiconductor layer subjected to a doping process so as to exhibit a second conductivity type. Further, in the optical modulator, at least the first conductivity type semiconductor layer, a dielectric layer, the second conductivity type semiconductor layer, and a transparent electrode optically transparent in at least a near-infrared wavelength region are laminated in order. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002931 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF - In an optical waveguide device of the present invention, optical element mount ( | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002771 | RECEIVER, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD - A receiver comprises: a reception coil through which flow a current of a polarity corresponding to data is allowed to flow by flowing a current through a transmission coil for every rising edge or falling edge of a clock signal relating to transmission of data, and generates a signal induced by means of electromagnetic induction by flowing the current through the transmission coil; a transition detection circuit which detects a level transition of a signal generated in the reception coil; and a clock recovery circuit which recovers the clock signal based on the detection result of the transition detection circuit. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002759 | DEMODULATION METHOD FOR MIMO SYSTEMS - A method for processing a plurality of data streams from a transmitter, includes: receiving symbols via the plurality of data streams; generating a channel matrix; sorting the channel matrix to provide a sorted channel matrix; performing QR decomposition on the sorted channel matrix and a column-row-swapped-sorted-channel matrix; performing QR equalization on a sorted received symbol vector and a swapped received symbol vector to provide a equalized-sorted vector and a equalized-swapped-sorted vector; processing first and second portions of the equalized-sorted vector and the equalized-swapped-sorted vector via a QR-MLD demodulation scheme to determine soft bits and soft symbols; and rearrange soft bits in the above steps to provide an output vector. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120001675 | TRANSCONDUCTANCE AMPLIFIER - The present invention is intended to achieve a transconductance amplifier and a voltage/current converting method which can provide a sufficient amplitude and a high degree of design freedom. The method comprises the steps of converting a first voltage signal to a first current signal; converting a second voltage signal to a second current signal; obtaining the common-mode components of the first and second current signals; and subtracting the common-mode components from the first and second current signals to obtain third and fourth signals, and further, subtracting the fourth current signal from the third current signal to generate a first output, while subtracting the third current signal from the fourth current signal to generate a second output. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120001525 | WATERPROOF STRUCTURE - A waterproof structure includes a casing including a first case member having a first facing surface, and a second case member having a second facing surface. A water repellent slit is provided on at least either one of the first and second facing surfaces, extends in one direction perpendicular to a direction of liquid droplet ingress, and has unidirectional fine recesses and protrusions that make water repellency anisotropic. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120001163 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, OPTICAL SENSOR, AND SOLAR CELL - A photoelectric conversion element is provided which includes a photoelectrode ( | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120000289 | TARGET DETECTION DEVICE, TARGET DETECTION CONTROL PROGRAM, AND TARGET DETECTION METHOD - A target detection device includes: a sound source which projects a sound pulse; a transducer array disposed in a region for receiving a forward scattered wave from an object in the propagation environment; an addition processing unit which extracts only a signal of the forward scattered wave by applying vector addition processing on a reference signal in a reference sound field received when an obstacle exists in the propagation environment and a mixed signal in a mixed sound field received when the target exists with the obstacle; a phase conjugation determination unit which checks whether a phase conjugacy is established by receiving the signal of the extracted forward scattered wave and employing a passive phase conjugation for determining the reference sound field; and a time reversal processing unit which generates a time reversal signal on condition that the phase conjugation determination unit judges that the phase conjugacy is established. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20110321121 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND OPERATION METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing system is equipped with a first information processing device that stores first object group, and a second information processing device that obtains an operation request from a subject, said operation request indicating content of an operation for an object to be operated, and processes the object to be operated on the basis of the operation request. The first information processing device is equipped with a storage means for additional access control policies, wherein for each first object in the first object group, a set of second objects for which the feasibility of an operation is determined using the same control rule as the first object is indicated as a changed object group. In cases when the object to be operated is included in the aforementioned changed object group, the second information processing device references the additional access control policy and acquires the changed object group corresponding to the object to be operated. Thereafter, the determination of whether an operation request can be processed for the object to be operated is made by determining whether the operation request can be processed for the changed object group. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110321045 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING VIRTUAL MACHINE, AND CONTROL APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - A virtual machine management system includes an image capturing unit ( | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320994 | APPARATUS FOR DESIGNING SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, METHOD OF DESIGNING SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND PROGRAM FOR DESIGNING SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A device comprises a analysis section for detecting hold errors according to data including the values of the input and output nodes of the FF circuit, and identifying the node in which a hold error has occurred, a determining section for determining insertion of the trailing edge FF or the buffer into hold error sections on the basis of the results of the analysis by the analysis section, a FF insertion section for inserting the FF into a hold error section subjected to position determination so as to insert the trailing edge FF, and connecting a clock line to the FF based on the results of the determining section, and a buffer insertion section for inserting the buffer into the hold error section subjected to the position determination so as to insert the FF based on the results of data of the determining section. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320912 | DECODING DEVICE AND DECODING METHOD - A multistage difference cyclic permutation means ( | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320753 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM THEREFOR, AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A data processing apparatus uses a characteristic where an OS or an application program divides a file in units of cluster and writes information when information is written in an HDD and changes (redirect) a writing place in the units of cluster, thereby classifying and storing confidential information with a small consumption amount of the HDD. Therefore, the present invention provides a data processing apparatus that can classify and store confidential information and normal information with a small consumption amount of the HDD. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320650 | ANALYSIS PREPROCESSING SYSTEM, ANALYSIS PREPROCESSING METHOD AND ANALYSIS PREPROCESSING PROGRAM - An analysis preprocessing system is provided which is capable of rapidly passing data to means for analyzing data while preventing the data from overflowing, even if large amounts of data are transmitted from a large number of data generation sources. Data acquisition means | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320635 | DATA SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM - While a server ( | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320632 | Flow control for virtualization-based server - A server includes a processor, a network adapter connected to the processor and a route switcher. The processor includes a virtual machine and a virtual switch relaying packets exchanged between the virtual machine and an exterior. The network adapter has a transfer function of transmitting and receiving packets to and from the virtual machine not through the virtual switch. The route switcher dynamically switches a flow of the packets transmitted and received by the virtual machine between first and second route pattern flows. And, the route switcher instructs the transfer function to process the first route pattern flow instructs the virtual switch to process the second route pattern flow. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320591 | ACCESS NODE MONITORING CONTROL APPARATUS, ACCESS NODE MONITORING SYSTEM, ACCESS NODE MONITORING METHOD, AND ACCESS NODE MONITORING PROGRAM - Disclosed is an access node monitoring control apparatus for monitoring a plurality of access node devices that each include one or more interface cards corresponding respectively to a plurality of users. This apparatus includes SLA information storage means for storing information about reliability-related SLAs signed by the users; fault information receiving means for receiving information about faults in a device used to provide communication services to the users; fault history storage means for storing a history of faults indicated by the information received by the fault information receiving means in association with the users affected by the faults; and next maintenance operation determination means for determining the next maintenance operation in accordance with information about a currently faulty device, information about an SLA for a user affected by a fault in the faulty device, and a fault history associated with the user. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110319133 | ME NETWORK PARAMETERS CONFIGURATION BY UICC - A mobile device is provided having a smart card. The smart card is programmed to generate a new configure command that can be used to configure network related parameters with in the mobile device. The configure command can be used to override existing network related parameters or to add additional network related parameters. The network related parameters may relate to different access points and an identifier may be associated with each set of network parameters to facilitate the subsequent identification of desired network related parameters. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110319127 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL PROGRAM - Provided is a communication device which transmits a signal by setting appropriate transmission power under the situation that the communication device moves. The mobile communication device includes transmitting and receiving means for receiving a first signal transmitted from other mobile communication device; control means for holding first circumference information including transmission power setting information of the first signal, time information including receiving time when the transmitting and receiving means receives the first signal, and receiving power information of the first signal in the transmitting and receiving means, and deleting the first circumference information in a case where a predetermined period has passed from the receiving time; and transmission power control means for generating transmission power setting information of a second signal and outputting to the transmitting and receiving means, and providing a predetermined value to the transmission power setting information of the second signal in a case where the first circumference information is deleted. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110319110 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, RADIO BASE STATION AND CONTROL STATION - A radio communication system includes a plurality of radio base stations and a control station connected to the radio base stations. One of the radio base stations notifies state control information including information regarding state control to the control station before or after execution of state control in the one radio base station. The control station notifies at least one of management information regarding the radio parameter updated in accordance with the state control and the state control information to the radio base stations connected to the control station, with the exclusion of the one radio base station that notified the state control information. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110319070 | ENABLING LONG INTER-RAT MEASUREMENTS - A cellular communications system is described in which a mobile cellular device is configured to return status data to the network when instructed to obtain cell measurements. When used, the status data may indicate that measurements are in hand and that further measurement reports may or will follow. The status data may also indicate if the reporting interval and/or the measurement gaps defined by the network are suitable to make the measurements given the current status of the mobile device. A network node is also disclosed that can receive the measurement reports and interpret the status data to decide to wait for further measurement results or to issue a new reporting interval or a new cell list or arrange a new configuration of idle gaps in which cell measurements may be made. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110318926 | Wiring structure, semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof - A semiconductor device manufacturing method for manufacturing a semiconductor device having a transistor mounted in a wiring of a plural-layer structure includes in manufacturing the semiconductor device that is formed on a semiconductor element and includes a barrier insulating film, a porous interlayer insulating film, a wiring, a via plug formed by embedding a metal wiring material in a wiring trench, and a via hole formed in the porous interlayer insulating film, irradiating an electron beam or an ultraviolet ray onto at least a portion of the porous interlayer insulating film before forming an opening in the barrier insulating film. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110318007 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - An optical transmission system | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317999 | WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEX DEVICE, WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEX TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, AND WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEX SIGNAL CONTROL METHOD - To provide a wavelength division multiplex device capable of detecting an abnormality in counting of a wavelength number of a wavelength multiplex signal transmitted and received between two opposing devices. When a comparison result of a wavelength number information comparison unit | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317929 | 2 DIMENSIONAL SIGNAL ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE - An image is divided into subbands by wavelet transform using the Haar function as the base, and the lowest-frequency LL subband is entirely encoded. LH, HL, and HH subband coefficients which belong to the wavelet decomposition level of each hierarchy are then encoded such that coefficients at the same spatial position are encoded at once. The decoding side first decompresses the lowest-frequency LL subband, and then decodes sets of the LH, HL, and HH coefficients at the same spatial position in the subband of each wavelet decomposition level one by one. The decoding side immediately performs inverse wavelet transform by using the coefficient values, thereby obtaining the LL coefficient value of the next wavelet decomposition level. This makes it possible to sufficiently increase the processing speed even when the wavelet encoding/decoding is performed using a sequential CPU. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317701 | Communication system, control device, processing rule setting method, packet transmission method, and program - A communication system comprises control devices, and forwarding nodes each includes packet processing unit that performs processing of a received packet based on a processing rule set in advance or received from control device associated with the node. First control device among the control devices, in response to a predetermined trigger, refers to correspondence between forwarding nodes and control devices, and transmits, among forwarding path information, at least forwarding path information that includes a forwarding node associated with the first control device, to second control device associated with a forwarding node that is not associated with first control device, among forwarding nodes on a forwarding path of the received packet. Second control device generates and sends the processing rule to a forwarding node on the forwarding path, among forwarding nodes associated with the second control device, based on the forwarding path information. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317691 | INTERPROCESSOR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD, NETWORK SWITCH, AND PARALLEL CALCULATION SYSTEM - A network switch transfers data, which are to be transferred between nodes, in a time-division multiplex manner after allocating the data to slots, which are created by dividing a unit of time into a plurality of sections. An input unit includes a selection unit that selects a buffer unit according to an input slot in order to transfer the data input from the input port to the buffer unit, an input slot correspondence management table that stores a correspondence relationship between the input slots and the buffer units, and input port management information used to control a communication bandwidth of the input port. An output unit includes a multiplexing unit that selects the buffer unit according to an output slot in order for data, which is to be output to the output port, to be transferred from the selected buffer unit to the output port, an output slot correspondence management table that stores a correspondence relationship between the output slots and the buffer units, and output port manage information used to control a communication bandwidth of the output port. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317563 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND RESOURCE REALLOCATION METHOD IN RADIO COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A resource reallocation method that can suppress variations in reception delay time in reservation-type scheduling and a communication device using the method are provided. In a radio communications system in which a radio resource is reserved to periodically perform a communication between communication devices, the number of retransmissions of a packet transmitted to a communication device using the reserved radio resource (Step S | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317388 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING A WIRING SUBSTRATE - A semiconductor chip of the present invention has a wiring substrate and a chip part. The wiring substrate has an insulating resin layer having a first major surface and a second major surface, and a first wiring layer disposed on the insulating resin layer on the second major surface side. The chip part has a projection electrode on the bottom surface. The insulating resin layer holds the chip part such that the bottom and side surfaces of the chip part are in contact with the insulating resin layer, and the top surface of the chip part is exposed on the insulating layer on the first major surface side. The projection electrode of the chip part is connected with the first wiring layer. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317082 | LIQUID CRYSTAL SHUTTER AND LIQUID CRYSTAL SHUTTER GLASSES - Disclosed is a liquid crystal shutter having two superimposed liquid crystal layers in which no leakage of light occurs. In a liquid crystal shutter in which oriented films ( | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110314517 | Communication system, authentication device, control server, communication method, and program - A configuration that can perform access control for each user/client, without arranging an Authenticator or an EAPoL pass switch at each location. A forwarding node processes a packet between a supplicant and a prescribed authentication device, in accordance with a processing rule that has been set. The authentication device performs a prescribed authentication procedure with the supplicant and notifies a result thereof to a control server. In a case where an authentication procedure with the authentication device succeeds, the control server creates a first forwarding path between the supplicant and a destination node, and transmits a processing rule for a packet received or transmitted between the supplicant and a destination node, following the first forwarding path, in at least one forwarding node in the first forwarding path. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110314205 | STORAGE SYSTEM - A storage system includes a first storage device, and a second storage device retrieving stored data at higher speeds than the first storage device. The storage system further includes a feature calculation unit calculating feature data based on a data content of storage target data, a data management unit storing the storage target data and managing a storing position thereof based on the feature data calculated from the storage target data, and a duplication determination unit determining whether or not the same storage target data as the storage target data to be newly stored is already stored in the first storage device. In a case that the same storage target data as the storage target data to be newly stored is already stored in the first storage device, the data management unit stores the storage target data already stored in the first storage device into the second device. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110314146 | DISTRIBUTION MONITORING SYSTEM, DISTRIBUTION MONITORING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A network distribution monitoring method is executed by a computer which configures each of a plurality of nodes, in a network which comprises the plurality of nodes which are connected with a management network. The network distribution monitoring method includes: generating a first detection message by detecting a first traffic on an object network of a corresponding one of a plurality of first predetermined applications, in each of first probe nodes of the plurality of nodes; transmitting the first detection message to a node determined from a first hash value to only a first function identifier showing a kind of the corresponding one or the first function identifier and address data of the first traffic; generating a first mediation processing result by performing first mediation processing on the first detection message to the plurality of first applications, in a first mediation node of the plurality of nodes; and storing a result of the first mediation processing in a first collector node of the plurality of nodes. In this way, the distribution monitoring system is provided in which it is possible to monitor the advanced function. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110313971 | STORAGE SYSTEM - A system includes: a copy processing means configured to copy a copy source file system that includes storage data and key data referring to the storage data and being unique depending on the data, from a copy source storage system storing the copy source file system into a copy destination storage system, thereby forming a copy destination file system; and an update data specifying means configured to compare the key data within the copy source file system with the key data within the copy destination file system and specify, as update data, the storage data within the copy source file system referred to by the key data within the copy source file system, the storage data not existing in the copy destination file system. The copy processing means is configured to copy the update data stored within the copy source file system into the copy destination file system. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110313114 | POLYSILOXANE-MODIFIED POLYLACTIC ACID COMPOSITION, COMPOSITION UTILIZING SAME, MOLDED ARTICLE, AND PRODUCTION METHOD - Disclosed are a polysiloxane-modified polylactic acid resin, composition using same, molded article, and production method, whereby it is possible to produce a molded article via a simple method, and where said article may be used in applications demanding a high level of impact resistance as an alternative to ABS resin or the like, has a similar level of impact resistance as said substances, has superior flexibility with respect to rupture bending strain and tensile breaking strain, and has bleed resistance. The polysiloxane-modified polylactic acid resin has a segment which is a polylactic acid compound, and a segment which is an amino polysiloxane compound which has an amine group. With respect to the amino poly-siloxane compound, amine groups are on average contained in the range of 0.01 to 2.5% inclusive by mass, and with respect to the polylactic acid compound, are on average contained in the range of 3 to 300 ppm inclusive by mass. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110311216 | OPTICAL SIGNAL LEVEL ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM, INFORMATION ANALYSIS/CONTROL SIGNAL GENERATION APPARATUS IN THE SAME SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION ANALYSIS/CONTROL SIGNAL GENERATION METHOD - The present invention enables to prevent transmission characteristics from deteriorating due to the nonlinear effect in the transmission path caused by an increase in the channel power when a cable disconnection occurs. An optical signal level adjustment method comprises the steps of: obtaining, based on one or more optical signal disconnections which are detected per wavelength block and each of which is detected by a signal disconnection detection section included in each of terminal station devices, a location at which the optical signal disconnection has occurred, a combination of a terminal station device and a wavelength block, and a dummy light adjustment amount, said combination being required to be subjected to adjustment of transmission dummy light, said combination and said dummy light adjustment amount corresponding to the location; and transmitting, to the terminal station device which is required to be subjected to adjustment of the transmission dummy light, a control signal for adjusting the intensity of the dummy light in the obtained wavelength block by the dummy light adjustment amount. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110311178 | OPTICAL MODULATION STRUCTURE AND OPTICAL MODULATOR - The components are a lower clad layer ( | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310901 | PACKET FORWARDING APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, PROCESS RULE UPDATE METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided are a packet forwarding apparatus, a communication system, a process rule update method that can accurately delete process rules used for packet forwarding and the like. The packet forwarding apparatus comprises: a process rule storage unit storing a process rule defining a process content for each flow; a packet process unit using a process rule matching a received packet among the process rules and processing a received packet; an end determination information extraction unit extracting information for checking a flow end from the received packet; and a flow end check unit deleting, when a flow end is checked based on the extracted information, a process rule corresponding to the flow. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310894 | Network system, network control device and control method - A module train determination block determines a module block being composed of at least one of a plurality of control application modules having different network control functions respectively. A plurality of attached data prepared for the plurality of control application modules are used. Each of the plurality of attached data indicates an operational parameter being referred or rewritten when the operation determined by a corresponding control application module is executed. The module train determination block refers to each attached data and determines a module train whose consistency is insured. A scheduling block executes the module train in turn and generates a single entry setting data indicating a sequence of the operation which corresponds to a sequence of network control devices. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310797 | Packet retransmission control apparatus and packet retransmission controlling method - The present invention provides a packet retransmission control technique in which the communication performance can be improved in a state that the load of a network is high. The packet retransmission control apparatus includes a priority determining section configured to set a packet kind to each of transmission packets to indicate a kind of the transmission packet, and determine a priority level based on the packet kind to indicate an transmission order of the transmission packets; a packet buffer comprising a plurality of queues respectively assigned with priority levels, and configure to store the transmission packet in one of the plurality of queues which is determined based on the priority level of the transmission packet; and an arbitrating section configured to output the transmission packets from one assigned with the highest priority level of the plurality of queues to a lower layer in order of higher priority level. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310746 | COMMUNICATION NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD AND MANAGEMENT COMPUTER - A management computer has: a storage unit in which a route information indicating a transfer route of frames in the communication network is stored; and a monitoring unit. The monitoring unit refers to the route information to transmit a frame to the transfer route and performs identification processing that identifies a location of a failure on the transfer route. First to N-th nodes (N is an integer equal to or more than 3) line up in order along the transfer route. The i-th node (i=1 to N−1) forwards a received frame to the (i+1)-th node, and the N-th node forwards a received frame to the management computer. In the identification processing, the monitoring unit sets at least one node between the first node and the N-th node as an insertion node. Then, the monitoring unit transmits a frame to the insertion node each, and identifies the location of the failure based on reception state of a frame from the N-th node. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310734 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, FLOW CONTROL DEVICE, FLOW TABLE UPDATING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A communication system, wherein a switch node to which a terminal is connected can be recognized, and a flow table can be updated promptly in accordance with the status of the switch node. The communication system includes: a switch node that operates in accordance with a flow table in which processing content is defined for each of a plurality of flows, and a flow control device that includes a terminal management unit that records, based on a request to set a flow entry from the switch node, information of association between a terminal of a packet source and a switch node to which the terminal is connected, wherein the flow control device refers to the information of association to make the switch node execute a modification or deletion of a flow entry in the flow table. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310129 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING APPLICATION ARRANGEMENT DISPLAY RULE, AND APPLICATION EXECUTION TERMINAL DEVICE, AND DISPLAY METHOD THEREFOR - To make it possible to display an application that is suitable for specific circumstances of a specific user, from among a large number of applications, without complicating a rule file and without increasing its capacity. An application execution terminal acquires context information from received sensor information, acquires an arrangement display rule file that matches the acquired context information from among arrangement display rule files in which a category indicating a type of an application and a display position of the application are defined, analyzes a category defined by the acquired arrangement display rule file, acquires a list of applications that match the category, links the applications indicated by the list of the applications to the acquired arrangement display rule file, and arranges and displays the applications in accordance with a description of the arrangement display rule file. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310098 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, IMAGE GENERATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An image display apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention that is capable of providing an image display apparatus is able to efficiently achieve 2D/3D mixed representation while suppressing data transmission amount. The image display apparatus refers to shape information | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110308617 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, OPTICAL SENSOR, AND SOLAR CELL - A photoelectric conversion element is provided which includes a semiconductor electrode ( | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110307628 | Communication system, node, control server, communication method and program - A communication system comprises a node that receives a packet with a process rule sequence including a plurality of process rules that should be set in a process rule storage unit of a node on a data transfer network, and sets a process rule in the process rule storage unit of own node according to the process rule sequence. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110307603 | BROKER NODE AND EVENT TOPIC CONTROL METHOD IN DISTRIBUTED EVENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A broker node transmits an event in a distributed event distribution system. In order to flexibly deal with fluctuations in event transmission load, the broker node includes monitoring means that monitors fluctuations in event transmission load on the broker node for each event rule, and control means that dynamically changes an event topic to transmit the event in accordance with fluctuations in transmission load and notifies another node of an instruction of the change using a control message (event Topic control message). | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110307470 | DISTRIBUTED DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND DISTRIBUTED DATABASE MANAGEMENT METHOD - Provided is a non-shared type database system capable of efficiently manipulating data in a distributed database. A distributed database management system has a query receiving unit (load balancer) that receives a query; and, plural storage processing units that manipulate data in the distributed database in a cooperative manner on the basis of the received query. Each of the storage processing units includes: a storage device that stores one of partial databases constituting the distributed database; and, a data manipulation unit that manipulates data in the partial databases stored in the storage device on the basis of the received query. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110305452 | OPTICAL SIGNAL DETECTING DEVICE AND OPTICAL SIGNAL DETECTION METHOD - An optical signal detecting device and an optical signal detection method which can detect true signal strength from a signal including a noise are provided. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110305168 | Communication system, and method of creating topology information - Provided is a communication system that includes a plurality of packet transfer units and a control unit which controls each packet transfer unit, in the communication system of which, a communications network used for each packet transfer unit to transfer packets, and a communications network used for the control unit to control each packet transfer unit can be integrated into one kind. The control unit transmits a reply request to each packet transfer unit. The packet transfer unit, upon receiving the reply request, transmits the reply request from a port other than that through which the packet transfer unit has received the reply request. Upon receiving the reply request, the packet transfer unit also returns a reply including information on ports of the local packet transfer unit, the reply being transmitted through a path for the control unit. On the basis of the reply transmitted from each packet transfer unit, the control unit creates topology information, the topology information including port interconnection information relative to ports provided at the control unit and each port of the packet transfer units. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110305167 | Communication system, and method of collecting port information - The control unit specifies an undetected connection destination port and sends a reply request to a connection destination of the undetected connection destination port. The packet transfer unit determines whether the received reply request is to be transferred to any other packet transfer unit. The packet transfer unit, upon determining the reply request to be transferred to any other packet transfer unit, transfers the reply request to any other packet transfer unit. The packet transfer unit, upon determining the reply request not to be transferred to any other packet transfer unit, returns a reply that includes information on ports of the local packet transfer unit, the reply being sent along a path leading to the control unit. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110304521 | RESONATOR ANTENNA AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A resonator antenna includes a first conductor pattern as a first conductor, a second conductor pattern as a second conductor, a plurality of first openings, a plurality of interconnects, and a power feed line. The first conductor pattern has, for example, a sheet shape. The second conductor pattern has, for example, a sheet shape, and at least a portion thereof (which, however, may be nearly the entirety thereof) faces the first conductor pattern. A plurality of first openings is provided in the first conductor pattern. The interconnect is provided in each of a plurality of first openings, and one end thereof is connected to the first conductor pattern. The power feed line is connected to the first conductor pattern. Unit cells including the first opening and the interconnect are repeatedly, for example, periodically disposed. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110304357 | DIGITAL PHASE COMPARATOR - A digital phase comparator is provided in which first phase difference signals and second phase difference signals are used as digital phase difference information. The first phase difference signals are generated by sampling a second clock signal with a first group of clock signals having regular intervals. The second phase difference signals are generated, using a second group of clock signals and a first group of signals which are obtained by delaying a second clock signal and a first signal generated by performing a logic operation on the first phase difference signal respectively at different regular intervals, by sampling the second group of clock signals with the first group of signals. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110302753 | CAPACITOR PRODUCING METHOD, CAPACITOR PRODUCING DEVICE, AND CAPACITOR PRODUCING PROGRAM - In a capacitor producing method, a bottom electrode, a thin-film dielectric, and a top electrode are deposited on a substrate so as to form a capacitor, wherein defects including particles and electrical short-circuits between the bottom electrode and the top electrode are detected before the capacitor is divided into capacitor cells. Next, defects such as particles and electrical short-circuits between the bottom electrode and the top electrode are removed before the capacitor is divided into capacitor cells. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110302213 | STORAGE SYSTEM - A storage system includes: a data storing means configured to store storage target data and also store address data so as to be tree-structured, the address data being based on a content and storing position of data to be referred to, and the address data referring to the storage target data or other address data; an operation log generating means configured to generate an operation log that represents a content of an operation of storing the storage target data into the data storing means and a content of an operation of storing the tree-structured address data referring to the storage target data into the data storing means; and a file system committing means configured to store the storage target data and the tree-structured address data into the data storing means based on the operation log. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110301952 | SPEECH RECOGNITION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND SPEECH RECOGNITION PROCESSING METHOD - The present invention provides a speech recognition processing system in which speech recognition processing is executed parallelly by plural speech recognizing units. Before text data as the speech recognition result is output from each of the speech recognizing units, information indicating each speaker is parallelly displayed on a display in emission order of each speech. When the text data is output from each of the speech recognizing units, the text data is associated with the information indicating each speaker and the text data is displayed. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110300856 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION, CONTROL METHOD OF BASE STATION, CONTROL METHOD OF MOBILE STATION, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An object of the present invention is to provide a radio communication system capable of effectively coping with the two problems, which are in a trade-off relation between the deterioration of the use efficiency of the radio resources and the deterioration of the radio quality of the secondary cell, in the cases where both a combination of carrier frequency bands that are away from each other and a combination of carrier frequency bands that are adjacent to each other can be alternatively used as the combination of carrier frequency bands for a primary cell and a secondary cell. A radio communication system according to the present invention includes a mobile station ( | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299795 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing system produces highly accurate determination of a local area that does not conform to an assumed change. Positional displacement amount calculation element | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110298810 | MOVING-SUBJECT CONTROL DEVICE, MOVING-SUBJECT CONTROL SYSTEM, MOVING-SUBJECT CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A moving-subject control device controls a motion of a moving subject based on motion data indicating the motion of the moving subject, and includes an input unit which receives an input of attribute information indicating an attribute of the moving subject, a generation unit which generates motion data for a user based on the attribute information the input of which is received by the input unit, as motion data for controlling a motion of a moving subject for the user generated based on the attribute information input by the user of the moving-subject control device, and a control unit which varies the motion of the moving subject for the user based on the motion data for the user generated by the generation unit. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110298067 | MAGNETIC MEMORY ELEMENT AND MAGNETIC MEMORY - A magnetoresistive effect element includes: a magnetization free layer; a non-magnetic insertion layer provided adjacent to the magnetization free layer; a magnetic insertion layer provided adjacent to the non-magnetic insertion layer and opposite to the magnetization free layer with respect to the non-magnetic insertion layer; a spacer layer provided adjacent to the magnetic insertion layer and opposite to the non-magnetic insertion layer with respect to the magnetic insertion layer; and a first magnetization fixed layer provided adjacent to the spacer layer and opposite to the magnetic insertion layer with respect to the spacer layer. The magnetization free layer and the first magnetization fixed layer have magnetization components in directions approximately perpendicular to a film surface. The magnetization free layer includes two magnetization fixed portions and a domain wall motion portion arranged between the two magnetization fixed portions. Magnetization of one of the two magnetization fixed portions and magnetization of the other of the two magnetization fixed portions are fixed approximately anti-parallel to each other in a direction approximately perpendicular to a film surface. The domain wall motion portion has a magnetic anisotropy in a direction perpendicular to a film surface. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110298021 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, includes: forming an insulating film containing silicon, oxygen and carbon on at least one of a first substrate and a second substrate; and bonding the first substrate and the second substrate together, with the insulating film interposed therebetween. There can be provided a method capable of manufacturing a semiconductor device having high element density, high performance and high reliability, with high yield. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110296232 | Communication system, communication unit, control unit, and controlling method - Whether or not a signal which is transmitted from a current operation side node to a stand-by side node has been disconnected is determined on a communication route for the signal. When the signal is determined to have been disconnected, the network route is switched to the network route used when a client unit and the stand-by side node perform data communication. With this, the switching of the network route when processing having been performed by a node of a system is performed by another node in place of the node can be made quickly. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110295991 | Network system, controller, and network control method - A network system includes appliances provided in a network; a switch provided in the network; and a controller connected to the appliances and the switch. The switch contains a flow table. Entries in the flow table each specify an action to be performed on a packet matching with a matching condition. Upon receiving a packet, the switch refers to the flow table and performs the action specified by matching one of the entries which matches the received packet, on the received packet. A first appliance of the appliances performs a first packet process on a packet belonging to an existing flow, when being selected as an active appliance. When the active appliance is switched from the first appliance to a second appliance of the appliances, the controller performs a switching process after performing a shortcut process. In the shortcut process, the controller instructs the switch to set a first entry into the flow table, the first entry specifying that the first packet process is to be performed on a packet belonging to the existing flow. In the switching process, the controller instructs the switch to set a second entry into the flow table, the second entry specifying that a packet which is addressed to the active appliance and belongs to a new flow other than the existing flow is to be transferred to the second appliance. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110295914 | STORAGE SYSTEM - A storage system includes: a data storing unit that stores division data configuring a file; a metadata storing unit that stores metadata representing a storing position of the division data; and a data processing unit that stores the division data into the data storing unit and stores the metadata representing the storing position of the division data into the metadata storing unit. Into the metadata storing unit, the data processing unit stores the metadata that has a key part storing position-in-file information representing a position in the file of the division data and an address part storing address information representing a storing position in which the division data is stored corresponding to the position represented by the position-in-file information so as to correspond to the position-in-file information. The key part and the address part are configured by mutually separated data. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110294546 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An imaging device comprising: a camera; and a control unit that encodes an image photographed by the camera to form an encoded image, wherein re-booting of the camera and the encoding by the control unit are carried out in parallel to each other. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110294507 | REGISTRATION DEVICE FOR MOBILE STATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, REGISTRATION METHOD, PROGRAM AND BASE STATION - A registration device, registering a mobile station in a small cell, comprises a determination unit that determine if the mobile station is to be registered based on distance to the mobile station and length of stay of the mobile station. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110293287 | OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATION METHOD - An optical communication system in which optical transmitter | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110293178 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing device ( | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110293165 | Epithelial Structure Detector and Related Methods - A method for training a classifier to be operative as an epithelial texture classifier, includes obtaining a plurality of training micrograph areas of biopsy tissue and for each of the training micrograph areas, identifying probable locations of nuclei that form epithelia, generating a skeleton graph from the probable locations of the nuclei that form the epithelia, manually drawing walls on the skeleton graph outside of the epithelia to divide the epithelia from one another, and manually selecting points that lie entirely inside the epithelia to generate open and/or closed geodesic paths in the skeleton graph between pairs of the selected points. Data is obtained from points selected from the walls and the paths and applied to a classifier to train the classifier as the epithelial texture classifier. A method and detector for detecting epithelial structures includes applying a sample micrograph area of biopsy tissue to an epithelial texture classifier; identifying probable locations of nuclei that form epithelia of the sample micrograph area with the epithelial texture classifier, generating a skeleton graph from the probable locations of the nuclei that form the epithelia of the sample micrograph area, determining a set of open and/or closed geodesic paths in the skeleton graph of the sample micrograph area; and determining a set of the epithelial masks using the open and/or closed epithelial paths of the sample micrograph area. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110292945 | Packet Receiving Device, Packet Communication System, and Packet Reordering Method - Under an environment where a packet retransmission is performed, a packet receiving device includes a reordering section, configured to perform a reordering of a receiving packet in a lower layer than a network protocol stack, and a buffer section. Out-of-Order packet among receiving packets is associated with a flow and stored in the buffer section. The reordering section determines whether the receiving packet is an In-Order packet or an Out-of-Order packet. In a case where the receiving packet is an In-Order packet of a flow and an Out-of-Order packet of the flow is stored in the buffer section, the reordering section transfers the receiving packet to the network protocol stack and then transfers all of Out-of-Order packet of the flow stored in the buffer section to the network protocol stack. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110292912 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION CONTROLLING METHOD - A communication method in LIPA/SIPTO architecture is provided which, when a user equipment (UE) is to connect from a serving area to an external network, allows re-selection of an optimal gateway. The communication method allows selecting a gateway apparatus physically or topologically close to a site, where the user equipment is attached. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110292021 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING SAME - In a liquid crystal display device which uses an electric field whereby a sufficient reset effect or sufficient overdrive effect is obtained at a lower-limit temperature at which the device is used, but which does not produce bounce at normal temperatures, the electric field applied has an intensity greater than that of an electric field at which a 99% response is obtained, and less than that of an electric field at which a 99.9% response is obtained, between a white image and a black image at the lower-limit temperature at which the device is used. Alternatively, the electric field applied has an intensity greater than that of an electric field at which average tilt angle of the liquid crystal exceeds 81 degrees, and at which average tilt angle does not exceed 85 degrees. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110289552 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An information providing device which provides information, a privilege policy providing device which stores a privilege policy setting whether or not information is allowed to be provided and provides the privilege policy, and an authentication device, are provided. The authentication device includes a privilege information management means for storing privilege information indicating whether or not the privilege policy is allowed be provided by the privilege policy providing device, and a privilege certificate issuance means for issuing a privilege policy certificate including a content of the privilege information. The information providing device includes a privilege policy acquisition means for requesting the privilege policy providing device for the privilege policy based on the privilege policy certificate and acquiring the privilege policy, and an information providing means for providing stored information to another device based on the acquired privilege policy. The privilege policy providing device includes a privilege policy providing means for providing the privilege policy to the information providing device based on the privilege policy certificate. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289235 | Distributed processing system and distributed processing method - A distributed processing system | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289230 | APPLICATION SWITCH SYSTEM AND APPLICATION SWITCH METHOD - In data processing of network traffic (a communication amount), relay processing is distributed in a wide area. Specifically, an application switch system which controls a connection between a plurality of client terminals and a plurality of servers, is provided with at least one switch, a relay unit configured to perform protocol relays; and a controller. The controller is provided with a section for performing a centralized control on a route table used to determine a destination in the switch; a section for controlling relay processing of the relay unit; a section for selecting one server as a connection destination from the plurality of servers; a section for selecting a route which links between one client terminal of the plurality of client terminals and the selected server, and which contains the relay unit, and for setting the selected route to the route table in the switch; and a section for setting relay information used when the relay unit performs the protocol relay, to the relay unit. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289028 | PATTERN RECOGNITION DEVICE, PATTERN RECOGNITION METHOD, AND PATTERN RECOGNITION PROGRAM - A pattern recognition device executes feature selection using a feature selection table. High recognition performance is possible by dimensionally lowering an n-dimensional feature vector. A feature selecting table generating section for generating a feature selecting table in a manner so that when features with up to p | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110287775 | METHOD FOR INTERFERENCE MITIGATION FOR FEMTOCELL BASE STATIONS OF A WIMAX NETWORK - A method for interference mitigation for femtocell base stations of a WiMAX network, wherein the femtocell base station is located within the transmission range of at least one macrocell base station and/or at least one other femtocell base station, is characterized in that the femtocell base station performs downlink measurements to detect neighboring macrocell and/or femtocell base stations and reports results of the downlink measurements to at least one higher layer network controller, wherein the network controller allocates transmission parameters to the WiMAX femtocell base stations on the basis of at least the reported measurement results and the current resource occupation in the network. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110287742 | AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, SMALL BASE STATION, AND AUTHENTICATION METHOD - The present invention relates to an authentication system, a small base station, and an authentication method which allow a server side to authenticate whether an installation position of a small base station is valid or not. In a packet to be sent as an authentication request from the femto base station | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110286469 | Packet retransmission control system, method and program - A lower layer retransmission control unit performs the following processing. When transmitting a transmission packet, giving a sequence number indicating a transmission order to the transmission packet. Receiving, from a receiving device that receives the transmission packet as a reception packet, an ACK packet indicating the sequence number of the reception packet. Referring to the sequence number of the received ACK packet to determine whether or not the ACK packet is received in an order of the sequence number. Transmitting first to third transmission packets and, if receiving a first ACK packet and receiving a third ACK packet following the first ACK packet without receiving a second ACK packet, performing fast retransmission control processing. Specifically, determining whether or not to receive the second ACK packet before a fast retransmission determination period passes after a reception time of the third ACK packet. If failing to receive the second ACK packet within the fast retransmission determination period, retransmitting the second transmission packet. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110286461 | PACKET SORTING DEVICE, RECEIVING DEVICE AND PACKET SORTING METHOD - A packet sorting device includes: a buffer for storing packets belonging to a plurality of communication flows; and a control section which determines, when receiving one of a series of packets, whether the one of the received packets is a disorder packet by a determination process, and sorts the received packets in a correct order by storing the disorder packet and communication flow information thereof in the buffer so that the disorder packet and communication flow identification information are correlated. The disorder packet is one of the received packets which is received in an order different from a transmission order of the packets. The communication flow information identifies the plurality of communication flows. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110286449 | Packet retransmission control device, packet retransmission control method, and packet retransmission control program - A packet retransmission control device has a flow table and a processing determination unit. The flow table indicates, with respect to each of flows to which packets belong, retransmission management information for managing retransmission control. The retransmission management information includes, as a retransmission management parameter, at least one of a packet retransmission count and a delay excess count. The processing determination unit refers to the flow table to determine whether or not to apply the retransmission control to packets. Specifically, when receiving a packet from the upper layer, the processing determination unit refers to the flow table to obtain the retransmission management parameter associated with a flow to which the received packet belongs. If the retransmission management parameter is not more than a threshold value, the processing determination unit determines to apply the retransmission control to the received packet. If the retransmission management parameter exceeds the threshold value, the processing determination unit stops application of the retransmission control to the received packet. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110286430 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION CONTROLLING METHOD - A communication method in LIPA/SIPTO architecture is provided which, when a user equipment (UE) is to connect from a serving area to an external network, allows re-selection of an optimal gateway. The communication method allows selecting a gateway apparatus physically or topologically close to a site, where the user equipment is attached. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110286417 | SMS TRANSPORT RESOURCE CONTROL - The invention provides for a method of controlling release of SMS transport resources between User Equipment and a MME of a communications network, wherein the release is permitted subsequent to a Control Protocol Acknowledge signal at a Mobile Switching Centre of the network, and in particular a method wherein the release is initiated by the MME responsive to receipt of a release signal, and further provides for a SGs Interface, and MME arranged to be employed with such a control method. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110286410 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION CONTROLLING METHOD - A communication method in LIPA/SIPTO architecture is provided which, when a user equipment (UE) is to connect from a serving area to an external network, allows re-selection of an optimal gateway. The communication method allows selecting a gateway apparatus physically or topologically close to a site, where the user equipment is attached. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110286359 | ROUTE SETUP SERVER, ROUTE SETUP METHOD AND ROUTE SETUP PROGRAM - A route setup server has a storage unit, an IP routing unit and a flow management unit. A routing determination table indicating a router node assigned to an IP router among the plurality of nodes is stored in the storage unit. The IP routing unit has a software-based IP routing module having a same function as an IP router with respect to each router node. The flow management unit refers to the routing determination table to check whether or not a requestor node of a route setup request corresponds to any router node. The IP routing unit performs packet IP routing by using the software-based IP routing module associated with the corresponding router node to update a header of the packet. After that, the requestor node of the route setup request is updated to a destination node designated by a destination MAC address of the packet. Such the processing is repeated and thus the communication route is determined. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110286348 | Quality-deteriorated part analyzing system, quality-deteriorated part analyzing device, quality-deteriorated part analyzing method, and quality-deteriorated part analyzing program - Provided is a quality-deteriorated part analyzing system capable of analyzing a quality-deteriorated part in a network while increasing the degree of freedom of precision (coverage ratio, sectioning divisions, etc.) independently of the number and installation locations of devices transmitting and receiving flows. Path calculation means | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110286332 | Flow control apparatus, network system, network control method, and program - A flow control apparatus that sends control information to one or more switching node apparatuses, where the control information is assigned to each series of communications performed between terminal devices via the switching node apparatuses. The flow control apparatus includes an effective time setting unit that sets an effective time of the control information based on an elapsed time measured from when the terminal devices which perform the series of communications start a communication via a specific one of the switching node apparatuses, in a manner such that the longer the elapsed time, the longer the effective time; and a sending unit that sends the control information every time when the effective time has elapsed. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110286326 | Communication system, forwarding node, path management server, and communication method - A communication system comprises: a path management server that generates a plurality of forwarding path information items each includes a sequence of identifiers, each of which identifies a communication interface provided in each of a plurality of forwarding nodes on a forwarding path in a data forwarding network or a link established between the forwarding node and a neighboring node thereof; and a forwarding node that, in accordance with at least one of the plurality of forwarding path information items, executes a packet forwarding processing of a packet with a header including the plurality of forwarding path information items. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110285904 | VIDEO SIGNATURE GENERATION DEVICE - The video signature generation device includes a visual feature extraction unit that extracts a visual feature to be used for identifying a video based on features of a plurality of pairs of sub-regions in the video; and a confidence value calculation unit that calculates a confidence value of the visual feature, in which if the video is a particular video, the confidence value calculation unit calculates a confidence value having a smaller value compared with the case of a video other than the particular video. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110284865 | HETEROJUNCTION FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR, METHOD FOR PRODUCING HETEROJUNCTION FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A heterojunction filed effect transistor with a low access resistance, a low on resistance, and the like, a method for producing a heterojunction filed effect transistor and an electron device are provided. In the heterojunction field effect transistor, an electron transit layer | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110283171 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING - A method of encoding a bit sequence over a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) having Downlink Control Information (DCI) including: determining DCI bits to provide a DCI bit sequence; performing a CRC calculation on the DCI bit sequence to provide a CRC parity bit sequence; scrambling the CRC parity bit sequence to provide a scrambled CRC bit sequence; if the DCI format is LTE-A, further scrambling the DCI together with the attached scrambled CRC bit sequence to provide a LTE-A scrambled bit sequence; channel coding either the DCI attached scrambled CRC bit sequence or LTE-A scrambled bit sequence to provide a channel coded bit sequence; modulating the channel coded bit sequence to provide a modulated symbol sequence; layer mapping the modulated symbol sequence to one or more antennas associated with a transmitter to provide one or more layers having a symbol sequence; and precoding the layered symbol sequences. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110283016 | LOAD DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, LOAD DISTRIBUTION METHOD, APPARATUSES CONSTITUTING LOAD DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - A load distribution system that can further reduce load on a single apparatus and a network and that can distribute load for each process. The load distribution system of the present invention comprises: at least one packet forwarding apparatus comprising a packet forwarding unit that forwards a packet by using a forwarding rule sent from a flow control apparatus and a flow end check unit that detects a flow end; a load distribution apparatus that determines a load distribution destination from among a plurality of service provider servers by referring to a flow end notification sent from the flow control apparatus; and a flow control apparatus comprising a flow route setting unit that determines a forwarding route for a flow using a service provider server determined by the load distribution apparatus and notifies a packet forwarding apparatus on the forwarding route of a forwarding rule realizing the forwarding route and a flow end determination unit that notifies the load distribution apparatus of a flow end, based on flow end information detected by the packet forwarding apparatus. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110281526 | RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTIC ESTIMATION SYSTEM, RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTIC ESTIMATION METHOD, AND RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTIC ESTIMATION PROGRAM - Disclosed are a radio wave propagation characteristic estimation system, radio wave propagation characteristic estimation method, and radio wave propagation characteristic estimation program for estimating propagation characteristics of radio waves at high speeds, without deteriorating accuracy. An object selection module reads map data prerecorded on a map data memory unit and selects structures from the structures indicated in structure data included in the map data according to the height thereof, a radio wave propagation path calculation module searches for the path of radio waves emitted from a transmission point based on the structure data related to the selected structures and location data for the transmission point and an observation point, and calculates the propagation path of the radio waves until the radio waves reach the observation point, and a radio wave propagation characteristic estimation module estimates the propagation characteristics of radio waves at the observation point based on this calculated path. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110281401 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A transparent board is positioned on a support board provided with a positioning mark, and a release material is provided. A semiconductor element is then positioned so that the electrode element faces upward, and the support board is then removed. An insulating resin is then formed on the release material so as to cover the semiconductor element; and a via, a wiring layer, an insulation layer, an external terminal, and a solder resist are then formed. The transparent board is then peeled from the semiconductor device through the use of the release material. A chip can thereby be mounted with high precision, there is no need to provide a positioning mark during mounting of the chip on the substrate in the manufacturing process, and the substrate can easily be removed. As a result, a semiconductor device having high density and a thin profile can be manufactured at low cost. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110280487 | IMAGE SIGNATURE EXTRACTION DEVICE - The image signature extraction device includes a first feature extraction means for extracting, from an image, first features corresponding to the respective dimensions of a feature vector; a second feature extraction means for extracting, from the image, second features which are different from the first features, corresponding to the respective dimensions of a feature vector; a feature type determination means for analyzing at least one of the image and the extracted first features as a subject for analysis to determine whether or not the feature vector constituted of the extracted first features has effectiveness in discriminating an image, and if the feature vector has the effectiveness, determining the first features to be the type of the features used for the respective dimensions, while if the feature vector does not have the effectiveness, determining the second feature to be the type of the features used for at least part of the dimensions and determining the first features to be the type of the features used for the remaining dimensions; and a feature vector generation means for generating a feature vector of the image from the extracted first features and the extracted second features, according to the determined type of the features used for the respective dimensions. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110280250 | Semiconductor integrated circuit system and packet transmission control method in semiconductor integrated circuit - A semiconductor integrated circuit includes: a plurality of cores connected with each other via an interconnection network; and a plurality of routers arranged on the interconnection network. Each router includes a transfer table, and each entry of the transfer table designates an output destination of a packet matching a match condition. The each router searches the transfer table upon receiving a reception packet, and, when there is a hit entry matching the reception packet in the transfer table, transfers the reception packet to an output destination designated by the hit entry. The path control circuit dynamically determines a transmission path of a packet from a source core to a destination core, and instructs each router on the determined transmission path to set the transfer table so that a packet transmission is carried out along the determined transmission path. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110280240 | Packet retransmission control system, method and program - A packet retransmission control system has: a network control block configured to perform packet retransmission control in an upper layer; and a packet retransmission control block configured to perform packet retransmission control with a shorter retransmission timeout than the upper layer in a lower layer that is lower than the upper layer. If the network control block receives a duplicate acknowledge packet being an acknowledge packet notifying a same sequence number for a predetermined number of times, the network control block performs packet retransmission. The packet retransmission control block determines whether or not retransmission of a same packet is performed earlier in the upper layer than in the lower layer. If retransmission of the same packet is performed earlier in the upper layer than in the lower layer, the packet retransmission control block prohibits retransmission of the same packet in the lower layer. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110280145 | Loop detecting device, system, method and program - A loop detecting device is provided which is capable of detecting a loop packet or a loop flow with less processing load. A sorting means | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110280128 | GROUP CONFERENCE SYSTEM, CONFERENCE SERVER, SESSION SWITCHING CONTROL METHOD AND SESSION SWITCHING CONTROL PROGRAM - In switching of a conference server in a group conference system, switching of a session of each terminal device is completed smoothly in as a short time period as possible without imposing loads on a call control server. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110280122 | SIGNALING PROCESSOR AND LINK SWITCHING METHOD - A signaling processor has a message transfer part for a Layer 2 operable to notify a message transfer part for a Layer 3 of a signal indicative of stop (release) completion of a link being connected when it receives a response to a request for a link release process after detection of a failure of the link being connected and notification of the request for the link release process to a correspondent signaling processor and a message transfer part for the Layer 3 operable to perform a retrieval process of a received signal that has not been retrieved and has been stored in the message transfer part for the Layer 2 when it receives the signal indicative of stop (release) completion of the link. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110280044 | OPTICAL MEMBER, LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS, DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND TERMINAL APPARATUS - A planar light source, Fresnel lens sheet, and louver are disposed in the stated order in a light source apparatus. The Fresnel lens sheet deflects and focuses in one dimension light that has entered from the planar light source. The louver is disposed in the optical path of the light emitted from the Fresnel lens sheet, and the directivity of the light can be increased by restricting the traveling direction of the light to the focal direction of the Fresnel lens sheet. The light utilization ratio can thereby be increased, the directivity of planarly emitted light can be increased, and the brightness can be made uniform at the point of observation. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110279954 | ELECTRIC APPARATUS - An electric apparatus is provided in which it is possible to connect a signal line to multiple key panels which are rotatably attached to a main body chassis. The electric apparatus has multiple first hinges and multiple second hinges. The first hinge rotatably attaches a panel to the second hinge. Further, the second hinges are rotatably attached to a main body of the electric apparatus. The multiple second hinges are rotatably connected. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110279195 | BROADBAND TRANSITION FROM A VIA INTERCONNECTION TO A PLANAR TRANSMISSION LINE IN A MULTILAYER SUBSTRATE - According to one embodiment, a broadband transition to joint a via structure and a planar transmission line in a multilayer substrate is formed as an intermediate connection between the signal via pad and the planar transmission line disposed at the same conductor layer. The transverse dimensions of the transition are equal to the via pad diameter at the one end and strip width at another end; the length of the transition can be equal to the characteristic dimensions of the clearance hole in the direction of the planar transmission line or defined as providing the minimal excess inductive reactance in time-domain according to numerical diagrams obtained by three-dimensional full-wave simulations. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110279180 | POWER AMPLIFIER AND POWER AMPLIFYING METHOD - An aspect of a power amplifier according to the present invention is a power amplifier that amplifies a modulated signal including amplitude modulated components and phase modulated components, the power amplifier including a first voltage source | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110277041 | CIRCUIT CARD DATA PROTECTION - The present invention provides for a method data of achieving protection in a circuit card such as a UICC arranged for storage of a plurality of data elements and providing protection on the basis of a domain protection-element serving to define operations that can be permitted on a data element, and on the basis of a password protection-element serving to control access to a data element and wherein at least one of the plurality of data elements is associated with both a domain protection-element and a password-protection element, and the invention further provides for a circuit card arranged for the secure storage of such data elements and for a ME arranged to employ such a circuit card. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110276980 | COMPUTING RESOURCE ALLOCATION DEVICE, COMPUTING RESOURCE ALLOCATION SYSTEM, COMPUTING RESOURCE ALLOCATION METHOD THEREOF AND PROGRAM - Provided is a computing resource allocation device capable of allocating computing resources to accommodate changing activity patterns. The device is equipped with an external environment recognition means that analyzes input values from sensors to specify the current environment, a memory means that stores a table in which the sensors required to specify the environment are correlated, a transition frequency computation means that computes the transition frequency at which a transition is made from an environment to another environment, and a computing resource allocation means that computes the amount of allocation of the computing resources to be used for the analysis based on the current environment by referencing the table and the transition frequency, and that allocates the computing resources for the analysis. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110276819 | 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 or the mobile device to renegotiate the maximum power supply level for the smart card without having to reset the mobile device. This provides the mobile device with dynamic control of the power drawn by the smart card, which can help the mobile device to optimize the power saving management. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110275371 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING THE REDUCTION OF MOBILITY SIGNALLING AT INTER-RAT CHANGE - Method for optimizing the reduction of mobility signalling after an Inter-RAT change for a UE roaming between a source area covered by a source telecommunication core network and a target area covered by a target core telecommunication network, wherein a signalling reduction function is activated by the source telecommunication core network, and wherein deactivation triggering events of the signalling reduction function generates a need for registration update at next IRAT change occurred. The method comprises the steps: storing in the UE a parameter the value of which indicates whether or not the deactivation triggering events of the signaling reduction function only correspond to the UE context modification, and, after the Inter-RAT change,
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| 20110274359 | TIME SEGMENT REPRESENTATIVE FEATURE VECTOR GENERATION DEVICE - The time segment representative feature vector generation device includes an intra-time segment feature vector group selection means for selecting, for each time segment and from a feature vector series for respective frames, feature vectors of a plurality of frames included in a time segment; and a dimension selection means for selecting, for each time segment and from the selected feature vectors of different frames in the time segment, features of different dimensions of the feature vectors, and generating a time segment representative feature vector which is a feature vector representing the time segment. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110274357 | 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. The generation unit generates, based on the extracted region features of the respective sub-regions, an image signature to be used for identifying the image. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110274355 | VIDEO DESCRIPTOR GENERATION DEVICE - The video descriptor generation device includes a first extraction unit, a second extraction unit, and a feature combining unit. The first extraction unit extracts a first feature for each picture which is a frame or a field of a video. The second extraction unit extracts a second feature from a region defined by an edge of an image included in the video. The feature combining unit combines the first feature and the second feature to generate a video descriptor. | 11-10-2011 |
