| PANASONIC CORPORATION Patent applications |
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| 20120036376 | POWER CONTROL DEVICE FOR PROCESSOR - A processor has: a power table including a plurality of power control registers each rewritably storing power control information; a condition determiner for rewritably storing a plurality of operating conditions (e.g., a comparison address to be compared with the program counter) and determining which one of the plurality of operating conditions is satisfied by a current operation of the processor so as to supply an index signal to select one of the plurality of power control registers based on the determination; and a voltage/clock controller for controlling the power consumption in a control object circuit block according to the power control information in one of the power control registers that is selected by the index signal. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120035480 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE - An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to the present invention sends out an ultrasonic wave toward a subject and receives the ultrasonic wave reflected from the subject, thereby generating the subject's tomographic image. The apparatus includes: a receiving section | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120034884 | MOBILE PHONE - A mobile phone includes: an insert metal plate; a pin fixed to the insert metal plate; and a resin portion. The resin portion is formed by insert molding and covers a peripheral edge of the insert metal plate such that an end surface of the pin is exposed. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120034821 | AC ADAPTER - There is provided an AC adapter to which an external connection cable is detachable and which can easily preventing intrusion of foreign substances from an external connection connector while the cable is detached and the AC adapter is not in use. The AC adapter including a rotatable AC plug part and having a recess part configured to store the AC plug part while the AC adapter is not in use, and an insertion port of the external connection connector is arranged so as to oppose the recess part. Accordingly, the insertion port of the external connection connector is covered with the AC plug part. Therefore, it is possible to prevent intrusion of foreign substances into the external connection connector. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033958 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes an input unit configured to receive an instruction for starting a continuous shooting operation, a sound output unit configured to output a predetermined sound according to a shooting operation, and a controller configured to control output/non-output of the predetermined sound from the sound output unit according to a setting of sound output, and to control the continuous shooting operation. The setting of sound output includes an ON setting for outputting the predetermined sound from the sound output unit according to a start of the shooting operation and an OFF setting for non-outputting the predetermined sound from the sound output unit according to the start of the shooting operation. When receiving the instruction for starting the continuous shooting operation via the input unit with the setting of sound output being the OFF setting and the shooting interval in the continuous shooting operation being set to be variable, the controller performs a control so as to prevent the continuous shooting operation at the variable shooting interval from being performed in a state that the predetermined sound according to the shooting operation is not output. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033945 | INFORMATION PLAYBACK APPARATUS, INFORMATION PLAYBACK METHOD, PROGRAM, INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A playback apparatus for playing back video data includes a read section and a control section, a first content includes first information and the first video data, a second content includes second information and second video data recorded in a different format from a format of the first video data, the first information is a part of management information for third video data recorded in a different format from the format of the first video data, the second information is a part of management information for the second video data, the read section reads out the first information and the second information from the first content and the second content, respectively, and outputs the first information and the second information to the control section, and when the first information and the second information match, the control section plays back the first video data. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033941 | REPRODUCTION DEVICE, PROGRAM, REPRODUCTION METHOD - A playback apparatus that, when it is incorporated in a home theater system, judges via the HDMI whether an apparatus such as a speaker | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033893 | IMAGE REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND IMAGE REPRODUCTION METHOD - An image reproduction apparatus decompresses and outputs compressed data, and includes: a reproduction unit which reads, per predetermined unit of processing, the compressed data as unit compressed data from a recording medium; a decompression unit which decompresses the unit compressed data, so as to generate unit decompressed data; a display processing unit which outputs decompressed data including the unit decompressed data; an error management unit which detects, per unit compressed data, an error caused in either the reproduction unit or the decompression unit; and a control unit which determines whether or not to output the decompressed data when the error is detected, and when it is determined to output the decompressed data, the control unit complements, with implement image data, unit decompressed data corresponding to the unit compressed data in which the error has been detected, and the display processing unit outputs decompressed data including the complement image data. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033766 | RECEIVER CIRCUIT AND RECEIVER APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - In a receiver circuit, an analog signal processor frequency-converts an input high frequency signal into a baseband signal, and performs low pass filtering at a cutoff frequency below a desired-wave band. An ADC converts an output of the analog signal processor into a digital signal. A digital signal processor compensates an output of the ADC for a signal component in the desired-wave band which has been attenuated by the filtering operation of the analog signal processor. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033752 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - To lessen a disparity in stream mapping of transmission data when modulation data are mapped into a plurality of streams and when the plurality of streams are transmitted and received. In a wireless communication device, a stream mapper ( | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033717 | INTERFACE DEVICE FOR HOST DEVICE, INTERFACE DEVICE FOR SLAVE DEVICE, HOST DEVICE, SLAVE DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND INTERFACE VOLTAGE SWITCHING METHOD - A communication system in which an operating voltage can be selected from a plurality of interface voltages enables an interface voltage to be switched in a stable manner during operation of the system. When the interface voltage is to be switched, a host device ( | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033640 | COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR A MOBILE TERMINAL AND MOBILE TERMINAL - A technique for flexibly performing processes depending on the type of a path for providing an additional service when there are a plurality of paths for providing additional services for the same session between terminals communicating with each other over a network is disclosed. According to the technique, when a mobile terminal (MN | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033381 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE COOLING STRUCTURE - A cooling structure ( | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033303 | LENS BARREL, IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, AND LENS BARREL MANUFACTURING METHOD - A lens barrel includes a fourth lens, a prism, and a sixth lens. The fourth lens receives a light flux incident along a first optical axis. The prism includes a reflecting surface reflecting the light flux passing through the fourth lens to a direction along a second optical axis intersecting with the first optical axis. The sixth lens receives the light flux reflected by the prism. A second group frame includes an opening portion, a prism retaining frame that is arranged in a more inner position than the opening portion and in which the prism is contained, and a plurality of adhesive pockets arranged on an area around the prism retaining frame and being open to the side of the opening portion. Adhesive agent is filled in the adhesive pockets. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033279 | OPTICAL REFLECTION ELEMENT - An optical reflection element has a frame-shaped supporting body, a first oscillator and a second oscillator each having a meander shape, and a mirror portion. A line segment connecting a joining position between the mirror portion and the first oscillator to a joining position between the supporting body and the first oscillator, and a line segment connecting a joining position of the mirror portion and the second oscillator to a joining position of the supporting body and the second oscillator cross a mirror portion central axis. An outer circumference of at least any one of turn portions of the first oscillator and the second oscillator is deviated from a first end portion axis that is parallel to the mirror portion central axis and extends along a first side of the mirror portion. Alternatively, an outer circumference of at least any one of the turn portions of the first oscillator and the second oscillator is deviated from a second end portion axis T | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033157 | Backlight Unit and Liquid Crystal Module - A backlight unit disposed behind a liquid crystal panel | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033136 | FILM-ORIGINATED VIDEO REGION DETECTION METHOD - Film-originated video detection is performed on an input video signal in each of regions into which an entire screen is divided. Based on the detection result, a case where there is not film-originated video is separated from a case where film-originated video covers the entire screen. When both a film region and a non-film region are contained, film-originated video detection is performed in sub-regions into which a region which has been determined to be a film region is subdivided. Based on the detection result, it is determined whether or not all the sub-regions are film regions. The determination is repeatedly performed until it is determined that all sub-regions are film regions. If it is determined that all sub-regions are film regions, a film-originated video region is determined, and the process is ended. Thus, a film-originated video region can be accurately detected in a screen containing film-originated video and non-film-originated video. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033126 | LIGHT-COLLECTING DEVICE, LIGHT-COLLECTING DEVICE GROUP, AND SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS - A light-collecting device includes at least one first annular region having a first refractive index, and at least one second annular region having a second refractive index different from the first refractive index, the at least one first annular region and the at least one second annular region are adjacently and alternately arranged in a concentric manner, and at least one of the at least one first annular region and the at least one second annular region includes a gap at a portion where a width of the annular region gradually decreases. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033120 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC CAMERA - An object of the present invention is to provide a highly-accurate AF without adding a mechanism of the camera or increasing the power consumption. A solid-state imaging device according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a plurality of photoelectric conversion units configured to convert incident light into electronic signals, the photoelectric conversion units being arranged in a two dimensional array, the photoelectric conversion units including a plurality of first photoelectric conversion units and a plurality of second photoelectric conversion units; a plurality of first microlenses each of which is disposed to cover a corresponding one of said first photoelectric conversion units; and a second microlens disposed to cover the second photoelectric conversion units, in which at least two of the second photoelectric conversion units are located at respective positions which are offset from an optical axis of the second microlens, in mutually different directions. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033117 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD - A plurality of pixel circuits arranged in rows and columns, and each of which outputs an electric signal according to an amount of received light; a first column signal line provided for each of the columns, and for sequentially transferring the electric signals from said pixel circuits in a corresponding column; and a holding circuit provided for each of the pixel circuits in each column, and which holds the electric signal transferred through the column signal line in the corresponding column are provided. A holding circuit includes a first capacitor which holds a first electric signal of the corresponding pixel circuit in a reset state; and a second capacitor which holds a second electric signal after the corresponding pixel circuit receives light. A difference circuit calculates a difference between two electric signals held by the first capacitor and the second capacitor in a same holding circuit. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033094 | IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD FOR IMAGING DEVICE - An image capture device of the present invention includes: a first image capture element | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033048 | 3D IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, 3D IMAGE PLAYBACK APPARATUS, AND 3D IMAGE VIEWING SYSTEM - A 3D image display apparatus comprises a transmission-reception device and a control signal output device. The transmission-reception device receives a video data including a plurality of image informations which is base data of 3D images from a 3D image playback apparatus through a transmission cable and thereby generates an image signal. The control signal output device transmits a control signal for controlling light penetration states of penetration units for right and left eyes to shutter glasses. The transmission-reception device receives the video data from the 3D image playback apparatus through the transmission cable and thereby generates the image signal and a synchronizing signal. The synchronizing signal indicates which of the plurality of image informations is included in the image signal currently outputted. The control signal output device generates the control signal based on the synchronizing signal. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033047 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device is provided that comprises a movement detection component configured to detect movement of the imaging device based on a force imparted to the imaging device, an imaging component configured to produce image data by capturing a subject image, a movement vector detection component configured to detect a movement vector based on a plurality of sets of image data produced by the imaging component, and a three-dimensional NR component configured to reduce a noise included in first image data produced by the imaging component, based on second image data produced earlier than the first image data, wherein the three-dimensional NR component is configured to decide whether to correct the second image data in response to the detection result of the movement vector detection component, based on both the detection result of the movement detection component and the detection result of the movement vector detection component. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032944 | OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT, SIGNAL DRIVER, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND OFFSET VOLTAGE ADJUSTING METHOD - Provided is an operational amplifier circuit including a Rail-to-Rail differential amplifier including: first and second differential transistors forming a first differential pair; and third and fourth differential transistors forming a second differential pair, wherein each of the first and second differential transistors is an n-type MOS transistor, each of the third and fourth differential transistors is a p-type MOS transistor, and the operational amplifier circuit further includes: a first correction current supply unit configured to supply the first differential pair with a first correction current to adjust an input offset voltage of the operational amplifier circuit; and a second correction current supply unit configured to supply the second differential pair with a second correction current to adjust the input offset voltage of the operational amplifier circuit. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032932 | SIGNAL DRIVER AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a signal driver including: operational amplifier circuits; a voltage generating unit configured to generate voltage signals; and selecting units configured to select one of the voltage signals, and to output the selected voltage signal as a correction voltage signal to a corresponding one of the operational amplifier circuits, each of the operational amplifier circuits including a differential amplifier and a correction current supply unit, and the differential amplifier including: first and second differential transistors forming a differential pair; and a current source transistor that supplies a current to source terminals of the first and the second differential transistors, wherein the correction current supply unit is configured to supply a drain terminal of the first differential transistor with a correction current corresponding to the correction voltage signal to adjust an input offset voltage of the operational amplifier circuit. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032850 | ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE - Provided is an array signal processing device capable of, when a spatial averaging method is applied to array signal processing, reducing the number of antennas constituting an array antenna while making use of the spatial averaging method. In the array signal processing device ( | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032738 | POWER AMPLIFIER - An efficient power amplifier with a design which, even in cases when the phase characteristics of high frequency devices used in a main amp and peaking amp differ, reduces the combination loss of the two amps at a wide range of output levels. A class AB power amplifier ( | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032536 | ELECTRIC MOTOR AND ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT WITH SAME - A motor includes a stator integrally molded together with a stator member, which includes a stator iron-core wound with a winding, by insulating resin, a rotor mounted on a shaft as a center and confronting the stator, two bearings supporting the shaft rotatably, brackets fixing the bearings, and a drive circuit board including a drive circuit which supplies an electric current to the winding and drives the rotor. Either one of the two bearings includes an outer ring and an inner ring both of which are electrically insulated from each other. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032528 | INTERFACE DEVICE FOR HOST DEVICE, INTERFACE DEVICE FOR SLAVE DEVICE, HOST DEVICE, SLAVE DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND INTERFACE VOLTAGE SWITCHING METHOD - A communication system in which an operating voltage can be selected from a plurality of interface voltages enables an interface voltage to be switched in a stable manner during operation of the system. When the interface voltage is to be switched, a host device ( | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032504 | POWER SOURCE DEVICE - An electrical generator is connected with a first end of DC/DC converter and an electric storage section is connected with a second end of the converter. An output voltage detecting circuit is connected to the electrical generator, and a control circuit is connected to both the DC/DC converter and the output voltage detecting circuit. The electrical generator raises an adjusting voltage Va at an output terminal to a first predetermined output voltage Vdc1 at a timing when regenerated electric power is produced. Control circuit 35 controls an output voltage Vd to be a lower control voltage Vdk which is lower than the first predetermined output voltage Vdc1. The lower control voltage Vd is set at a value which allows a main power supply to be charged maximally with the regenerated electric power. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032333 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A first insulating film is formed on a semiconductor substrate, an interconnect groove is formed in the first insulating film, the inside of the interconnect groove is filled with a metal film, thereby forming a first interconnect. Then, a protective film is formed on the first insulating film and the first interconnect, and the surface of the protective film is exposed to reactive gas, thereby forming a reaction layer on an interface between the first interconnect and the protective film. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032207 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DISPLAY PANEL, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DISPLAY PANEL - An organic light-emitting display panel is provided that improves luminous efficiency and luminescent color by adjusting the difference in film thickness between layers of different luminescent colors, such as intermediate layers, when the intermediate layer and light-emitting layers are formed by a wet method. By varying the film thickness of an interlayer insulation film, which is a lower layer of an organic light-emitting element, the volume of a contact hole is varied by color, thereby adjusting the volume of a concavity in each anode plate. When ink that includes material for the intermediate layer, or like, is sprayed by an inkjet method, the film thickness of the intermediate layer, or like, changes in accordance with the amount of ink filing the concavity. Therefore, by adjusting the difference in volume between concavities of different colors, the difference in film thickness between the intermediate layers, or like, is finely adjusted. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032180 | THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - In the thin-film transistor device: the stacked thickness of either a source electrode or a drain electrode and a corresponding one of silicon layers is the same value or a value close to the same value as the stacked thickness of a first channel layer and a second channel layer; the stacked thickness of the first channel layer and the second channel layer is the same in a region between the source electrode and the drain electrode and above the source electrode and the drain electrode; the first channel layer and the second channel layer are sunken in the region between the source electrode and the drain electrode, following a shape between the source electrode and the drain electrode; and the gate electrode has one region overlapping with the source electrode and an other region overlapping with the drain electrode. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032179 | THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR ARRAY DEVICE, ORGANIC EL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR ARRAY DEVICE - A thin-film transistor array device includes: a driving TFT including a first crystalline semiconductor film including crystal grains having a first average grain size; and a switching TFT including a second crystalline semiconductor film including crystal grains having a second average grain size that is smaller than the first average grain size. The first crystalline semiconductor film and the second crystalline semiconductor film are formed at the same time by irradiating a noncrystalline semiconductor film using a laser beam having a Gaussian light intensity distribution such that a temperature of the noncrystalline semiconductor film is within a range of 600° C. to 1100° C., and the first crystalline semiconductor film is formed such that the temperature of the noncrystalline semiconductor film is within a temperature range of 1100° C. to 1414° C. due to latent heat generated by the laser irradiation. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120031770 | METHOD FOR REDUCING CARBON DIOXIDE - The method for reducing carbon dioxide of the present invention includes a step (a) and a step (b) as follows. A step (a) of preparing an electrochemical cell. The electrochemical cell comprises a working electrode ( | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120031209 | DRIVE UNIT - A drive unit includes an actuator main body configured to vibrate to output a driving force, a movable body, which is contacted by the actuator main body and is movable relative to the actuator main body in a predetermined moving direction, and an opposing member positioned to face the actuator main body with the movable body interposed therebetween and hold the movable body together with the actuator main body so that the movable body is sandwiched therebetween. A portion of the movable body, which contacts the opposing member, has an elastic modulus lower than that of the opposing member. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120030430 | CACHE CONTROL APPARATUS, AND CACHE CONTROL METHOD - A cache control apparatus according to the present invention includes a cache allocation control unit which allocates each of a plurality of ways included in a cache memory to one or more of tasks to be executed by a plurality of processors. In the case where a group of ways includes an unallocated way that is not allocated to any of the tasks and a way allocated to one or more of the tasks which is to be executed by one of the processors, the cache allocation control unit allocates the unallocated way included in the group to the one or more of the tasks to be executed by the one of the processors. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120029336 | ELECTRODE ATTACHMENT STATE DETERMINATION SYSTEM, ELECTRODE ATTACHMENT STATE DETERMINATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREOF - An electrode attachment state determination system includes: an electroencephalogram measurement section for measuring an electroencephalogram signal of a user by using at least one set of electrodes including a ground electrode, a reference electrode, and a measurement electrode; a frequency analysis section for performing a frequency analysis of the electroencephalogram signal; an insufficient electrode determination section for extracting at least one parameter of a total frequency power and a noise amount from a result of the frequency analysis, and through a comparison of a value of the parameter against a predetermined threshold value, determining whether the ground electrode, the reference electrode, or the measurement electrode has an insufficient state of attachment; and an output section for, when an insufficient state of attachment is determined, presenting information indicating the insufficient state of electrode attachment to the user. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120029326 | METHOD FOR MEASURING A CONCENTRATION OF A BIOGENIC SUBSTANCE CONTAINED IN A LIVING BODY - The object of the present invention is to provide a method for measuring concentration of a biological substance contained in a living body in which deterioration of the accuracy due to the reflected light and the interruption component is suppressed. Linear-polarized light is emitted to a particle chip implanted in the skin with modulating its modulating direction continuously. A surface enhanced Raman scattering light of the biological substance generated on the particle chip. A concentration of the biological substance is calculated based on the received signal. The receiving signal satisfy the following equation (III). | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120028684 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND ERROR CORRECTION/ENCODING METHOD - Provided is a radio communication device which can obtain an error ratio characteristic equivalent to the one obtained by using a tail bit, without using a tail bit in the error correction and encoding. The device includes: a blocking unit ( | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120028247 | PLASMON SENSOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, AND METHOD FOR INSERTING SAMPLE INTO PLASMON SENSOR - A plasmon sensor includes a first metal layer and a second metal layer having an upper surface facing a lower surface of the first metal layer. The upper surface of the first metal layer is configured to receive an electromagnetic wave. A hollow space is provided between the first and second metal layers, and is configured to be filled with a test sample containing a medium. This plasmon sensor has a small size and a simple structure. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120028144 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - Provided are a fuel cell system capable of shortening the wait time of an observer who confirms set points of a system interconnection protective device before starting a system interconnection operation, and a method for operating the fuel cell system. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120028141 | PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELL AND ENERGY SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A photoelectrochemical cell ( | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120027919 | ELECTRODE FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - An electrode for a lithium secondary battery including a sheet-like current collector and an active material layer carried on the current collector. The active material layer is capable of absorbing and desorbing lithium, and the active material layer includes a plurality of columnar particles having at least one bend. An angle θ | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120027392 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PICKUP METHOD - A three-dimensional image pickup apparatus for capturing a three-dimensional image which includes a left-eye image and a right-eye image includes: a first imaging unit having a first optical system and operable to take the left-eye image; a second imaging unit having a second optical system and operable to take the right-eye image; and a controller operable to control the first imaging unit and the second imaging unit. The first optical system and the second optical system individually include a convergence angle changing unit capable of optically changing a convergence angle and a focal length changing unit capable of optically changing a focal length. The controller, when controlling the focal length changing unit to change the focal length, controls the convergence angle changing unit based on a predetermined constant convergence angle tracking curve to keep the convergence angle constant before and after the change of the focal length. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120027243 | PRESSURE ADJUSTOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, SPEAKER DEVICE USING THE PRESSURE ADJUSTOR, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND VEHICLE - A pressure adjustor includes a sheet-like supporter formed of unwoven fabric or woven fabric, a plurality of activated carbon powder particles attached to the supporter, and binders binding the plurality of activated carbon powder particles to each other. If this pressure adjustor is disposed inside a cabinet of a speaker device including a speaker unit provided in the cabinet, a speaker device is obtained which has an excellent bass reproduction effect even if the device is made small. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120027214 | KEY IMPLEMENTATION SYSTEM - An LSI includes a first decryptor which receives first encrypted key data, and decrypts the first encrypted key data using a first cryptographic key, thereby generating first decrypted key data, a second cryptographic key generator which generates a second cryptographic key based on a second ID, a second encryptor which encrypts the first decrypted key data using the second cryptographic key, thereby generating second encrypted key data, and a second decryptor which decrypts the second encrypted key data using the second cryptographic key, thereby generating second decrypted key data. At a time of key setting, the second encryptor stores the second encrypted key data in a storage unit. At a time of key usage, the second decryptor reads the second encrypted key data from the storage unit. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120027124 | BASE STATION, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM INCLUDING BASE STATION AND TRANSMISSION METHOD - Channel fluctuation values on propagation paths of modulated signals transmitted from a plurality of antennas are estimated, an eigenvalue of a channel fluctuation matrix created with the above-mentioned channel fluctuation values as elements is found in order to relate antenna received signals to modulated signals, and using that eigenvalue, receiving antenna selection, combining of modulated signals, and weighting processing on soft decision decoded values, are performed, and modulated signals are demodulated. By this means, it is possible to perform demodulation processing based on the effective reception power of a modulated signal (that is to say, the essential reception power, of the reception power obtained by a receiving apparatus, that can be effectively used when demodulating a modulated signal), enabling the precision of demodulation of modulated signals to be improved. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120027087 | IMAGE DECODING DEVICE - An image decoding device for processing an input bit stream containing encoded data obtained by encoding a moving picture using intra-frame prediction, includes a stream divider configured to divide the input bit stream into a plurality of sub-streams, and a plurality of image decoders each configured to decode the corresponding one of the plurality of sub-streams, thereby outputting images. The stream divider divides the input bit stream so that the plurality of sub-streams each contain the encoded data corresponding to one or more prediction units, where macroblocks of the moving picture each include a plurality of the prediction units for the intra-frame prediction. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026969 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR CONTROLLING A PROCESS - Provided is a radio communication base station device which can obtain a maximum frequency diversity effect of a downstream line control channel. The device includes: an RB allocation unit ( | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026953 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - Disclosed are a wireless communication base station device, a wireless communication terminal device, and a wireless communication method with which the amount of signaling is reduced while maintaining a high scheduling gain. A judgment unit ( | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026933 | ROUTING METHOD, ROUTING SYSTEM, MOBILE NODE, HOME AGENT, AND HOME BASE STATION - Disclosed in a technique for registering, with a home agent, a routing rule for specifying packets destined to a second address generated from a home prefix as well as a home address and/or flow destination interfaces without increasing the number of messages. According to this technique, when a UE | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026892 | BASE STATION APPARATUS AND TERMINAL APPARATUS - A base station apparatus and terminal apparatus with a configuration which achieves highly flexible retransmission control while preventing increases in the uplink control channel overhead. In the base station ( | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026850 | OPTICAL DISC REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - An instantaneous jitter information detection section detects, based on first and second digital values indicating different polarities relative to a predetermined reference value, an instantaneous gradient value corresponding to a difference value between the first and second digital values, and an instantaneous deviation value corresponding to a difference value between an intermediate value between the first and second digital values and the reference value. An information conversion section converts, based on an inversely proportional conversion table, the instantaneous gradient value to an inversely proportional value. An arithmetic section detects an instantaneous variance value by multiplying the instantaneous deviation value and the inversely proportional value together, and squaring a value obtained by the multiplication, and detects an integrated value by accumulating the instantaneous variance value. A standard deviation detection section detects a square root of a mean value of the integrated value as the absolute jitter value. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026849 | OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - An optical disc device includes: a focus error signal generation section configured to generate a focus error signal based on reflected light from an optical disc; and a focus control section configured to generate a drive signal for focus control of an optical pickup from the focus error signal. The focus control section includes a filter adjustment portion configured to activate a filter adjustment signal when the absolute value of the focus error signal is equal to or more than an error threshold, a proportional term computing unit, an integral term computing unit configured to multiply the focus error signal by an integral gain and integrate the multiplied result, a differential term computing unit, and an adder configured to add up results of these computing units to be output as the drive signal. The integral term computing unit decreases the integral gain when the filter adjustment signal is active. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026782 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - In two inverters included in a latch in a memory cell, the source or drain of a PMOS load transistor connected to a memory node is cut off, and the source or drain of an NMOS drive transistor connected to another memory node is cut off, whereby internal data is fixed or permanently stored in the memory cell while ensuring a resistance to damage to the gate of the transistor and without impairing the regularity of the layout. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026602 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, INTERCHANGEABLE LENS APPARATUS AND CAMERA SYSTEM - A zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising a front unit and a rear unit, wherein the rear unit, in order from the object side to the image side, comprises: a subsequent first lens unit and a subsequent second lens unit having negative optical power and being a focusing lens unit which moves along an optical axis at the time of focusing from an infinity in-focus condition to a close-object in-focus condition, the subsequent first lens unit comprises a first-N sub lens unit having negative optical power and a first-P sub lens unit having positive optical power, and the first-N sub lens unit or the first-P sub lens unit is an image blur compensating lens unit which moves in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis in order to optically compensate image blur; an interchangeable lens apparatus; and a camera system are provided. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026601 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA - A zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising a first lens unit having negative optical power and at least one subsequent lens unit, wherein a second lens unit is located closest to the object side in the subsequent lens units, an interval between the first lens unit and a lens unit which is one of the at least one subsequent lens unit varies in zooming, the condition: L | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026600 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA - A zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising a first lens unit having positive optical power and at least one subsequent lens unit, wherein an interval between the first lens unit and a lens unit which is one of the at least one subsequent lens unit varies in zooming, and at least one lens element among all the lens elements constituting the lens system satisfies the condition: 0.0002399×vd | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026360 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device according to the present invention includes: image side non-telecentric imaging optics including a first lens | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026349 | IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD FOR IMAGING DEVICE - An image-capturing device of the present invention includes an image-capturing element | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026271 | OPTICAL DISC RECORDING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRAWING IMAGE ON OPTICAL DISC - The reflected light amount acquiring process acquires the reflected light amount of a laser beam with which a color changeable layer is irradiated from at least one irradiation position included in a predetermined drawing determination area, where the color changeable layer is formed on a label side of an optical disc and changes in color due to heat or light. The operation process compares the reflected light amount acquired from the at least one irradiation position by the reflected light amount acquiring process with a predetermined threshold value to determine whether or not the drawing determination area is suitable for formation of a visible image. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026142 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL DRIVE METHOD AND PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - The luminance of black level in an image displayed on a plasma display panel is reduced to enhance the contrast and image display quality. For this purpose, in an initializing period, one of a forced initializing waveform, a selective initializing waveform, and a non-initializing waveform is applied to scan electrodes. Further, one field is formed of a special initializing subfield where the forced initializing waveform and the non-initializing waveform are selectively generated, and a plurality of selective initializing subfields where only the selective initializing waveform is generated. The number of forced initializing waveforms applied to one scan electrode is one in one field group. The non-initializing waveform is applied to the scan electrodes on both sides of the scan electrode applied with the forced initializing waveform in a special initializing subfield, in at least two special initializing subfields, i.e. the special initializing subfield and a special initializing subfield immediately succeeding the special initializing subfield. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025939 | ANTENNA DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - There is disclosed an antenna device including: a metal portion which has a surface; and a coil section which is provided above the surface of the metal portion and has an opening portion. Here, a surface of the coil section in which the opening portion is formed is approximately perpendicular to the surface of the metal portion, and the coil section is disposed in the vicinity of an edge of the metal portion. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025716 | BACKLIGHT DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a backlight device that suppresses the increase of maximum power consumption. A light-emitting unit ( | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025699 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DISPLAY DEVICE - An organic EL display device including organic EL light-emitting regions which includes a red-light emitting layer, a green-light emitting layer, and a blue-light emitting layer that are arranged on a main substrate includes: a first light-adjusting layer including a first portion and a second portion, the first portion selectively transmitting desired blue light, and the second portion absorbing visible light other than at least the desired blue light; and a second light-adjusting layer selectively absorbing light with a wavelength between desired red light and desired green light at an entire surface, in which the blue light-emitting layer is overlaid with the first portion, and a bank which is a non-light emitting portion is overlaid with the second portion. The first portion and the second portion may be integrally formed of a same material, and the second portion may absorb an entire range of visible light. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025613 | ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLY DEVICE - A power supply device includes an electric storage unit connected to a main power supply and a load via a charging circuit; and a control circuit connected to the main power supply, the charging circuit, a voltage detection circuit, and a current detection circuit. When the electric storage unit is charged up to a steady-state voltage Vcs of the electric storage unit, the control circuit controls the electric storage unit to be charged until the voltage Vc of the electric storage unit reaches a voltage for determining the property deterioration of the electric storage unit. During the charge process, the control circuit calculates at least one of the internal resistances and the capacitance of the electric storage unit from the variation width ΔVcr of the voltage Vc, the current Ic of the electric storage unit, the variation width ΔVct per unit time of the voltage Vc, and the current-time product ∫(Ic)dt of the electric storage unit. One of these values is used to determine the property deterioration of the electric storage unit. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025381 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME - An interlayer insulating film containing oxygen and carbon is formed on a semiconductor substrate. A groove is formed in the interlayer insulating film. An auxiliary film containing predetermined first and second metallic elements is formed on a bottom surface and a sidewall of the formed groove. Then, an interconnect body layer containing copper is formed to fill the groove. By performing a thermal treatment, a first barrier film containing a compound of the first metallic element and an oxygen element of the interlayer insulating film, and a second barrier film containing a compound of the second metallic element and carbon element of the interlayer insulating film are formed on the interlayer insulating film on the bottom surface and the sidewall of the groove. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025336 | CONVERTER MODULE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - To provide a converter module easily achieving miniaturization and profile reduction without decreasing the pressure detection sensitivity. The converter module includes: a converter which converts vibration of a diaphragm into an electric signal; and a semiconductor substrate which processes the electric signal obtained as a result of the conversion performed by the converter. The converter includes: a base including a cavity part having an opening in a front surface of the base; and the diaphragm which is arranged on the front surface to cover the opening of the cavity part and converts the vibration into the electric signal. The semiconductor substrate is formed as a part of the base. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025326 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - An interface oxide layer, a gate insulating film, and a gate electrode are sequentially provided on the upper surface of a semiconductor substrate. The gate insulating film has a first high-k film and a second high-k film. The first high-k film is provided on the interface oxide layer, and contains nitrogen. The second high-k film is provided on the first high-k film, and contains nitrogen. The first high-k film has a lower nitrogen concentration than the second high-k film. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025272 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CHIP AND LAYOUT METHOD FOR THE SAME - A semiconductor integrated circuit chip mounted on a substrate by flip chip bonding includes: a plurality of electrode pads; a corner portion of a flat periphery of an inner layer; a first linear region adjoining one side of the corner portion; a second linear region adjoining another side of the corner portion; and a third linear region adjoining a side of the first linear region opposite to the side adjoining the corner portion. A circuit core placeable region is provided in at least part of the corner portion and the first linear region. A plurality of IO cells connected to the electrode pads are arranged in the second and third linear regions. The IO cells in the second linear region are connected to the electrode pads arranged inwardly in n rows×n columns from a corner of the chip above the corner portion. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025224 | ORGANIC EL DISPLAY PANEL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An organic electroluminescence (EL) display panel and method of manufacturing an organic EL display panel. The display panel includes a substrate on which a thin-film transistor layer is formed, with an interlayer insulating film formed above the thin-film transistor layer. A plurality of strip-shaped barrier ribs are arranged in parallel on the interlayer insulating film. Each electrode of a plurality of first electrode groups has first electrodes arranged in a line and arranged between two adjacent barrier ribs of the plurality of strip-shaped barrier ribs, with each of the first electrodes including a transparent conductive film and a reflective metal film formed of a metal material. A plurality of light-emitting layers are each formed to cover a different electrode of the plurality of first electrode groups, while a second electrode is formed above the plurality of light-emitting layers. Each electrode of the plurality of first electrode groups is formed such that an end portion of the first electrode in a parallel direction with respect to the barrier ribs includes a single-film portion in which the transparent conductive film is not formed, and a portion of the first electrode other than the single-film portion includes a two-film portion in which the transparent conductive film is layered on the reflective metal film. A metal oxide film is formed on an entire surface of the single-film portion of each first electrode by partially oxidizing the metal material. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025132 | THERMOCONDUCTIVE COMPOSITION, HEAT DISSIPATING PLATE, HEAT DISSIPATING SUBSTRATE AND CIRCUIT MODULE USING THERMOCONDUCTIVE COMPOSITION, AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF THERMOCONDUCTIVE COMPOSITION - A thermally conductive composition is made to contain a cured thermosetting resin containing a crystalline epoxy resin component, and an inorganic filler. The content by percentage of the inorganic filler in the thermally conductive composition is 66% or more and 90% or less by volume. This thermally conductive composition has a main portion made mainly of the inorganic filler, and a surface layer portion made mainly of the crystalline epoxy component and formed on the main portion to be continuous to the main portion. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120024938 | SOLDERING APPARATUS - A solder drawing member ( | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120024716 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REDUCING CARBON DIOXIDE - A device for reducing carbon dioxide includes a vessel for holding an electrolyte solution including carbon dioxide, a working electrode and a counter electrode. The working electrode contains metal hexaboride particles. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120023514 | COMPOUND OBJECTIVE LENS, OPTICAL HEAD DEVICE, OPTICAL INFORMATION DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A compound objective lens, an optical head device, an optical information device, and an information processing device that can inhibit the occurrence of aberration even when a light beam source wavelength shifts from the designed value. A diffraction structure having a sawtooth or stepwise cross section is formed in the region (R | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023358 | HOST DEVICE, PERIPHERAL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - In a communication system in which data is transmitted and received in synchronization with a clock signal, a peripheral device cannot transfer data to a host device when the host device stops outputting the clock signal and thus the peripheral device cannot promptly transmit an interrupt request to the host device. A peripheral device transmits an interrupt request to a host device using a signal line for a clock signal when the clock signal output has been stopped. The host device receives the interrupt request, and resumes outputting a clock signal to enable data transmission and reception to and from the peripheral device. This enables the peripheral device to transmit an interrupt request to the host device promptly when the output of the clock signal from the host device has been stopped. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023311 | PROCESSOR APPARATUS AND MULTITHREAD PROCESSOR APPARATUS - A processor apparatus according to the present invention is a processor apparatus which shares hardware resources between a plurality of processors, and includes: a first determination unit which determines whether or not a register in each of the hardware resources holds extension context data of a program that is currently executed; a second determination unit which determines to which processor the extension context data in the hardware resource corresponds; a first transfer unit which saves and restores the extension context data between programs in the processor; and a second transfer unit which saves and restores the extension context data between programs between different processors. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023275 | DATA TRANSFERRING METHOD - A first device ( | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023164 | NETWORK CONTROL DEVICE, NETWORK CONTROL SYSTEM, NETWORK CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A network control system enables a server to supply content information matching the functions and settings of a client device to the client device. The client has a profile generating unit that generates a client profile, and sends the generated client profile with a server request to the server, and a GUI generating unit that receives and displays content and content information as received. The, server includes a client profile interpreting unit that interprets a client profile received from the client; a content information generating unit that generates content information appropriate to functions and settings of the client based on the interpreted client profile and content, and sends the content information to the client; and a storage unit that stores the content information. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120021754 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND BANDWIDTH DETERMINATION METHOD - Disclosed is a radio communication device that, even when a terminal erroneously receives a retransmission grant or a response signal from a base station, can reduce the number of other terminals in which the terminal interferes at a retransmission. In this device, a determination unit ( | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120021640 | COMMUNICATION CABLE - A serial-parallel conversion circuit provided on one end of a cable body converts a first serial signal into parallel signals and outputs the parallel signals to parallel signal lines. A parallel-serial conversion circuit provided on another end of the cable body converts the parallel signals inputted from the parallel signal lines into a second serial signal and outputs the second serial signal to outside. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120021608 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD, SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND RESIN-ADHESIVE-LAYER-BACKED SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP MANUFACTURING METHOD - To provide a substrate processing method and a semiconductor chip manufacturing method that enable low-cost formation of a mask for etching using plasma etching. During formation of a mask used in plasma dicing for separating a semiconductor wafer | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120021549 | METHOD FOR GROWING CRYSTALS OF NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR, AND PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURE OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A nitride semiconductor layer formation method includes the steps of: (S1) placing a substrate in a reaction chamber, the substrate including a −r-plane nitride semiconductor crystal at least in an upper surface; (S2) increasing a temperature of the substrate by heating the substrate placed in the reaction chamber; and (S3) growing a nitride semiconductor layer on the substrate. In the temperature increasing step (S2), a nitrogen source gas and a Group III element source gas are supplied into the reaction chamber. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120021320 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING FUEL CELL SYSTEM - A fuel cell system ( | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120021260 | BATTERY MODULE - The battery module includes a plurality of cells serving as cylindrical secondary batteries; and a temperature regulator configured to regulate a temperature of the cells, wherein the cells are aligned with their side surfaces adjacent to each other, all the cells are electrically connected to each other in series, the temperature regulator includes a heat transferring member, and a heat dissipation member, the heat transferring member includes a plurality of insertion portions inserted into space surrounded by the side surfaces of the plurality of cells, and a base portion facing lower surfaces of the cells, at least a part of the heat transferring member which faces the cells is made of an electrically insulative substance, and the cells connected to each other in series are isolated from each other by the heat transferring member in a liquid-tight manner at the side surfaces and bottom surfaces of the cells. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020817 | RECIPROCATING COMPRESSOR - Provided is a reciprocating compressor having a structure in which friction losses between a shaft and a bearing can be reduced without impairing the ability of the bearing to support the shaft. A reciprocating compressor ( | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020653 | IMAGE BLUR CORRECTING MECHANISM AND IMAGING DEVICE - An image blur correcting mechanism is provided that includes an imaging element, a movable frame, a fixed frame, and first and second actuators. The imaging element has a light receiving face with first and second edges that intersects. The movable frame holds the imaging element. The fixed frame movably supports the movable frame along first and second directions that intersects. The first and second directions are parallel to the light receiving face. The first actuator is configured to move the movable frame in the first direction, and the second actuator is configured to move the movable frame in the second direction. The actuators are positioned on opposing sides of the imaging element, and disposed relative to a first perpendicular plane located perpendicular to the first edge and coincident with the second edge. The actuators are positioned on opposing sides of a second perpendicular plane located perpendicular to the second edge. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020642 | METHOD FOR DETECTING PROGRAM OVERLAPPING PORTION AND AUDIO/VIDEO RECORDING DEVICE USING THE SAME - A data recorder records (n−1)th episode data and n-th episode data of a drama series, where n is an integer of two ore more. An audio decoder generates respective audio data of these episodes. An overlapping portion determiner extracts and compares a tail portion of the audio data of the (n−1)th episode and a head portion of the audio data of the n-th episode to detect an overlapping portion, and records an overlapping time between the (n−1)th and n-th episodes to an overlapping time storage. A recorded data editor deletes a portion of the (n−1)th episode data corresponding to the overlapping time recorded in the overlapping time storage, from a tail end of the (n−1)th episode data, and records the resulting (n−1)th episode data as (n−1)th episode edited data to the data recorder. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020575 | AUTOMATIC VERIFICATION SYSTEM FOR VIDEO PLAYBACK APPARATUS - An automatic verification system for a video playback apparatus includes: a continuous-shoot recording/storage section configured to capture a video output of the video playback apparatus continuously and store a plurality of captured images; an image comparison section configured to compare one of the plurality of stored images with one of a plurality of reference images prepared in advance; and a continuous-shoot determination control section configured to send the plurality of stored images to the image comparison section one by one and control the image comparison section. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020506 | HEARING AID - In a hearing aid ( | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020505 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A signal processing apparatus and signal processing method capable of correctly detecting that a conversation is established even in a daily environment are provided. In signal processing apparatus ( | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020416 | FLEXIBLE CABLE AND TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A flexible cable is provided in which a transmission characteristic can be ensured in a high frequency band, and electromagnetic noises can be suppressed. A flexible cable | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020391 | RADIO TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING CIRCUIT, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND RADIO TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING METHOD - A radio transmitting/receiving circuit, a wireless communication apparatus and a radio transmitting/receiving method wherein low power consumption can be achieved without complicating software even if a plurality of communication systems are applied. In a control unit ( | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020390 | ANGLE MODULATOR, TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Disclosed are an angle modulator, a transmission apparatus, and a radio communication apparatus that can compensate phase discontinuity when an operational mode of a voltage controlled oscillator is switched. Angle modulator ( | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020343 | GATEWAY CONNECTION METHOD, GATEWAY CONNECTION CONTROL SYSTEM, AND USER EQUIPMENT - Disclosed is a technique in which when mobile terminal having multiple communication interfaces attaches to an access network, the mobile terminal can connect to a desired PGW quickly in a short time even if a PGW different from the desired PGW is allocated. According to the technique, when a mobile terminal (UE) | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020187 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: a plurality of vibration elements ( | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020095 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - In an electronic device including a temperature sensor and an electronic component which is a heat generation source, the temperature is measured while the influence of heat from the electronic component is reduced. The electronic device includes: a base formed of a resin material; a board which is disposed at one side of the base, and includes an electronic component and a temperature sensor; and a heat sink which is disposed at the other side of the base for dissipating heat generated by the electronic component. The heat sink includes an extension part extending from the other side of the base toward a position of the board at which the electronic component is provided. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019984 | CAPACITOR - A capacitor has a capacitor element, an electrolyte, a cylindrical case made of metal and having a bottom, a metal terminal plate, and a sealing rubber. The terminal plate has a body portion and a flange portion projected from an outer peripheral surface of the body portion toward the case. The sealing rubber is abutted onto the flange portion of the terminal plate, and is interposed between the outer peripheral surface of the body portion of the terminal plate and a side surface of the case for sealing the case. The case has a drawn and grooved portion formed by being drawn and thus grooved from an outside of the side surface at a place so that the sealing rubber is compressed between the outer peripheral surface of the body portion of the terminal plate and the case. Then, a ring-like groove is provided on the outer peripheral surface of the body portion of the terminal plate at a portion, which is padded with the sealing rubber, the sealing rubber is projected into the groove. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019939 | LENS BARREL - A lens barrel is provided that includes an optical system, a housing, a cover member, an electronic part, a flexible substrate. The optical system is configured to form an optical image of a subject. The housing supports the optical system in an interior. The cover member supports the housing in a state of covering an opening of the housing. The electronic part is provided in the interior of the housing. The flexible substrate is electrically connected to the electronic part. The flexible substrate has a connection terminal. The cover member has a through-hole formed in a specific direction. The connection terminal is positioned on inside of the through-hole when viewed in the specific direction. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019925 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA - A zoom lens system comprising: a front unit having negative optical power as a whole and including a first lens unit located closest to the object side; and a rear unit having positive optical power as a whole, wherein at least the front unit moves along an optical axis in zooming, the first lens unit is composed of at most three lens elements, the rear unit includes a lens unit having an aperture diaphragm between lens elements, an air space between which is not varied in zooming, a sub lens unit comprising a part of a lens unit constituting the rear unit moves in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis, and the condition: 0.1| 01-26-2012 | |
| 20120019730 | RECEIVER - The receiver diversity-receives radio wave with a plurality of antennas. The receiver includes a conductive case having a receiving section for executing diversity-receiving processing, a first through hole and a second through hole that are disposed on the surface of the same side of the case and penetrate the case from the outside to the inside, a first antenna and a second antenna for supplying a received signal to the receiving section, and a first hinge and a second hinge that are fixed to the inside of the case, pass the first through hole and the second through hole, directly or indirectly support the first antenna and the second antenna, and are movable, respectively. A partition is disposed between the first through hole and the second through hole. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019719 | DIGITAL TELEVISION BROADCASTING REPRODUCTION DEVICE AND REPRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR - A second video encoded buffer stores encoded data of a second channel at time of a single display. A buffer control unit specifies, at time of a switching from the single display to a simultaneous display, a key frame which is a start frame for decoding in the encoded data of the second channel and has a time stamp, which is earlier than a broadcasting time of the encoded data and also is closest to the broadcasting time. Moreover, the buffer control unit generates decoded data by decoding the encoded data of the second channel stored in the second encoded buffer from the specified key frame. A second video decoding unit and a second video output unit start a reproduction of the decoded data when the time stamp is synchronized with the broadcasting time. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019706 | IMAGE PICKUP LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE USING THE SAME - An image pickup lens capable of providing an angle of view of up to 70° or higher is provided. The image pickup lens can also be reduced in size and various aberrations associated with the lens can be corrected favorably, so that the image pickup lens is compatible with a high-pixel image pickup element. The image pickup lens | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019623 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND LENS DRIVING METHOD OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - A three-dimensional image pickup apparatus for capturing right and left images with a first imaging unit and a second imaging unit to generate a stereoscopic image is provided. In this three-dimensional image pickup apparatus, each of the first imaging unit and the second imaging unit includes a lens group including a zooming lens and a focusing lens, and a imaging device for converting an optical image from the lens group into an electrical signal, and the three-dimensional image pickup apparatus includes a driving controller operable to drive the zooming lens and the focusing lens of the first imaging unit and the second imaging unit, along a tracking curve showing a relationship of a position of the zooming lens and a position of the focusing lens, and the driving controller limits a range of moving the zooming lens and the focusing lens in either one of a first range and a second range, the first range ranges from a wide-angle end in the tracking curve to a inflection point at which the moving direction of the focusing lens is inverted, and the second range ranges from a telephoto end to the inflection point. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019571 | METHOD FOR DRIVING PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL AND PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - In the display of an image having a large black area, the luminance of black level of the display image is reduced so as to enhance the contrast. In the display of an image having a small black area, an address discharge is caused stably. Thereby, the image display quality is enhanced. For this purpose, a specified-cell initializing subfield where a forced initializing waveform is applied to predetermined scan electrodes and a non-initializing waveform is applied to the other scan electrodes in the initializing period, and a selective initializing subfield where a selective initializing waveform is applied to all the scan electrodes in the initializing period are set. A specified-cell initializing field having the specified-cell initializing subfield and the plurality of selective initializing subfields is set. The rate of regions where the gradation values of luminance are less than a predetermined value on the image display surface is calculated as a black area. The frequency of forced initializing waveforms generated is changed according to the size of the black area such that the frequency of forced initializing waveforms applied to the scan electrodes is reduced as the black area increases. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019570 | METHOD FOR DRIVNG PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL AND PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - In the display of an image at a low average picture level, the luminance of black level of the display image is reduced so as to enhance the contrast. In the display of an image at a high average picture level, an address discharge is caused stably. Thereby, the image display quality is enhanced. For this purpose, a specified-cell initializing subfield where a forced initializing waveform is applied to predetermined scan electrodes and a non-initializing waveform is applied to the other scan electrodes in the initializing period, and a selective initializing subfield where a selective initializing waveform is applied to all the scan electrodes in the initializing period are set. A specified-cell initializing field having the specified-cell initializing subfield and the plurality of selective initializing subfields is set. The frequency of forced initializing waveforms generated is changed according to the magnitude of average picture level of an input image signal such that the frequency of forced initializing waveforms applied to the scan electrodes is reduced as the average picture level decreases. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019435 | INFORMATION TERMINAL APPARATUS, INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND WIRELESS NETWORK SYSTEM - Provided is a wireless network system operable to exchange information, which is pertinent to a wireless connection, between an information terminal apparatus and an information display apparatus before the wireless connection is established and to present to a user a state of the wireless connection, which proceeds up until the wireless connection has been established. Before the wireless connection to the information terminal apparatus is established, the information display apparatus generates wireless network information, causes an SSID beacon to include the wireless network information, and transmits the SSID beacon. The information terminal apparatus causes an SSID beacon to include information to be displayed on a display device. The information display apparatus obtains the information from the SSID beacon and causes the display device to display the information. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019227 | POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT - An apparatus for selecting either a High VIN path or a Low VIN path from a voltage source to a low voltage circuit is disclosed. The apparatus has a clamped step down circuit operable to select the High VIN path when a voltage level from the voltage source is above or equal to a pre-determined voltage level and, a power supply control circuit operable to select the Low VIN path when the voltage level from the voltage source is below the pre-determined voltage level. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019166 | POWER SOURCE UNIT FOR LED LAMPS, AND LED LAMP SYSTEM - A dedicated power source for LED lamps capable of reliably detecting attachment of an LED lamp is provided. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019119 | ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBE, METHOD FOR FORMING REFLECTIVE FILM OF ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBE, AND LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - A light emitting device includes a glass bulb and a reflective film formed in a region having an angle of at least 230° on an outer peripheral surface of the glass bulb. The light emitting device can obtain the reflective film having a sufficient film thickness in a wide region on an outer peripheral surface of an electric discharge tube and has a uniform light intensity distribution. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120018890 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device of the present invention includes a supporting board, an electrode surface processing layer formed on the supporting board, a semiconductor element, and a solder material containing a first metal composed mainly of bismuth and a second metal having a higher melting point than the first metal and joining the electrode surface processing layer and the semiconductor element, the first metal containing particles of the second metal inside the first metal. The composition ratio of the second metal is higher than the first metal in a region of the solder material corresponding to the center portion of the semiconductor element, and the composition ratio of the second metal is at least 83.8 atomic percent in the region corresponding to the center portion. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120018820 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes a converter that converts an acoustic pressure into an electrical signal and an amplifier element that includes an amplifier circuit that amplifies the electrical signal outputted from the converter. The converter includes a pedestal including a cavity formed from an upper face to a lower face thereof, and a vibration film located so as to cover an opening of the cavity on the side of the upper face. The vibration film vibrates in accordance with the acoustic pressure to thereby convert the acoustic pressure into an electrical signal. The amplifier element is located under the converter so as to cover the cavity. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120018740 | SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - A semiconductor device | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120018311 | CARBON DIOXIDE REDUCTION METHOD, AND CARBON DIOXIDE REDUCTION CATALYST AND CARBON DIOXIDE REDUCTION DEVICE USED FOR THE METHOD - The carbon dioxide reduction method of the present invention is a method including steps of: bringing an electrode (working electrode) containing a carbide of at least one element selected from Group V elements (vanadium, niobium, and tantalum) into contact with an electrolytic solution; and introducing carbon dioxide into the electrolytic solution to reduce the introduced carbon dioxide by the electrode. The material contained in the electrode, that is, the material containing a carbide of at least one element selected from Group V elements (vanadium, niobium, and tantalum) is the carbon dioxide reduction catalyst of the present invention. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120017636 | REFRIGERATION CYCLE APPARATUS - A refrigeration cycle apparatus ( | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120017620 | REFRIGERATION CYCLE APPARATUS - A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes an expander-compressor unit ( | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120017430 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY - In order to enhance charge and discharge efficiency and to improve cycle characteristics by increasing a facing area between a positive electrode active material and a negative electrode active material, in a negative electrode for lithium secondary battery having a current collector and an active material layer carried on the current collector, the active material layer includes a plurality of columnar particles. The columnar particles include an element of silicon, and are tilted toward the normal direction of the current collector. Angle θ formed between the columnar particles and the normal direction of the current collector is preferably 10°≦θ<90°. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120016527 | GAS SHUTOFF DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to make a function of limiting the use time appropriate by appropriately registering flow rates of appliances. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120015522 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD, SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND RESIN-ADHESIVE-LAYER-BACKED SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP MANUFACTURING METHOD - To provide a substrate processing method and a semiconductor chip manufacturing method that enable low-cost formation of a mask for etching using plasma etching. During formation of a mask used in plasma dicing for separating a semiconductor wafer | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120015504 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A semiconductor device includes: a first semiconductor region formed on a substrate and having an upper surface and a side surface; a first impurity region of a first conductivity type formed in an upper portion of the first semiconductor region; a second impurity region of a first conductivity type formed in a side portion of the first semiconductor region; and a gate insulating film formed so as to cover at least a side surface and an upper corner of a predetermined portion of the first semiconductor region. A radius of curvature r′ of an upper corner of a portion of the first semiconductor region located outside the gate insulating film is greater than a radius of curvature r of an upper corner of a portion of the first semiconductor region located under the gate insulating film and is less than or equal to 2r. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120015289 | ALIGNMENT METHOD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING FLAT PANEL DISPLAY - An alignment method is disclosed, in which a distance between a substrate and a photomask is set at a predetermined exposure gap. The photomask is rectangular, and includes a first side, and a second side opposite to the first side. A distance between a midpoint of the first side and the substrate is matched with the exposure gap. The photomask is rotated about, as an axis, a line that connects the midpoint of the first side and a midpoint of the second side to each other, whereby distances between both ends of the first side and the substrate are individually matched with the exposure gap. The photomask is rotated about the first side taken as an axis, whereby a distance between the midpoint of the second side and the substrate is matched with the exposure gap | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014821 | RECIPROCATING COMPRESSOR - According to the present invention, a recess ( | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014789 | AIR BLOWING DEVICE - An air blowing device includes a housing with a suction port and a blow-off port, and a fan placed in the housing. The fan includes a fan case with a tongue section, an impeller, and a motor. The fan case includes an inlet and an outlet, and is shaped such that a space between the impeller and an inner wall of the fan case increases along a rotary direction of the impeller up to a cross section cut along a line between the tongue section and its opposite section. An opening area of the fan case at the tongue section is kept equal or decreases up to the outlet. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014412 | POSITIONING SYSTEM AND POSITIONING METHOD - A positioning system and a positioning method which suppress the occurrence of jitter to improve positioning accuracy. A base station ( | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014373 | WIRELESS TRANSMITTER, WIRELESS RECEIVER, AND PREAMBLE SEQUENCE GENERATION METHOD - Provided is a wireless transmitter capable of accurately specifying the number of multiplexed streams and correctly decoding the data signals when a preamble sequence transmitted from any antenna of a wireless transmitter is detected. In this device, a multiplex count determination unit ( | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014279 | WIRELESS TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND PRECODING METHOD - A wireless transmission apparatus able to reliably increase outage capacity according to the state of a propagation path. This apparatus is a wireless transmission apparatus ( | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014244 | BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION, PILOT TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND CHANNEL ESTIMATION METHOD - Disclosed are a base station, a mobile station, a pilot transmission method, and a channel estimation method, whereby excellent zone interference blocking characteristics can be obtained and high channel estimation precision is ensured even on a propagation path with low frequency correlation similar to when transmitting on an SFN of an MBS. A pilot symbol generating unit ( | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014231 | WRITE-ONCE RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING METHOD, RECORDING APPARATUS, REPRODUCTION METHOD, AND REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - A write-once recording medium is provided, which comprises a management information area for recording management information for managing a recorded state, and a user data area for recording user data. The user data area is configured to contain at least one recording area. At least one session is configured to contain at least one of the at least one recording area. The management information contains range information indicating a recording range of the at least one recording area and identification information for identifying the recording area located at a boundary of the session. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014084 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING METHOD - Disclosed are an electronic component mounting system and an electronic component mounting method capable of ensuring high connection reliability. An electronic component mounting system ( | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014004 | LENS BARREL SUPPORT STRUCTURE AND OPTICAL DEVICE - A lens barrel support structure is provided that includes a base frame and a lens barrel. The base frame includes a first support portion, a second support portion, a third support portion, and a stopper. The lens barrel includes a substantially cylindrical shape body frame configured to accommodate at least part of an optical system, a first attachment portion fixedly coupled to the body frame and to the first support portion, a second attachment portion fixedly coupled to the body frame and to the second support portion, a third attachment portion fixedly coupled to the body frame and to the third support portion, and a receiver fixedly coupled to the body frame. The receiver and the stopper are disposed spaced apart and define a gap that extends along a first direction parallel to an optical axis of the optical system to allow the receiver to contact the stopper. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013993 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, INTERCHANGEABLE LENS APPARATUS AND CAMERA SYSTEM - A zoom lens system comprising: a first lens unit having positive optical power; a second lens unit having positive optical power; and at least one subsequent lens unit, wherein the zoom lens system has an image blur compensating lens unit which moves in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis, at least the first lens unit moves along the optical axis at the time of zooming from a wide-angle limit to a telephoto limit, the second lens unit or a third lens unit which is located closest to the object side in the at least one subsequent lens unit moves along the optical axis at the time of focusing from an infinity in-focus condition to a close-object in-focus condition, and the condition: 0.10<|m|/(f | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013991 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, INTERCHANGEABLE LENS APPARATUS AND CAMERA SYSTEM - A zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising a first lens unit having positive optical power, a second lens unit having positive optical power, a third lens unit having positive optical power, a fourth lens unit having negative optical power, and at least one subsequent lens unit; an interchangeable lens apparatus; and a camera system are provided. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013721 | AUDIO/VIDEO REPRODUCTION SYSTEM, HEARING AID, AND AUDIO/VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE - An audio/video processing device includes a signal processing circuit and a video reproduction circuit. The signal processing circuit supplies an audio signal to a hearing aid, and delays a video signal from the audio signal by a delay time of the hearing aid and supplies the delayed video signal to a video reproduction circuit. The hearing aid performs a hearing aid process on the audio signal supplied from the signal processing circuit to reproduce a sound. The video reproduction circuit reproduces an image from the video signal supplied from the signal processing circuit. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013709 | VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, VIDEO PROCESSING SYSTEM, SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - In a video signal processing circuit, when a 2D video signal is transferred in a 3D transfer format from a video signal source, a one side mute control section provided in an input video control section determines whether the 2D video signal is on the L side or on the R side of the 3D transfer format. During a period of the one side (e.g., the L side) that is not used by the 2D video signal, the one side mute control section replaces data loaded on the one side in the video signal source with fixed data, and sends it through an input video control section, a color space changing section and a packet loading section in this order. This stops these three circuit sections from operating unnecessarily, thereby reducing the power consumption. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013652 | BACKLIGHT DEVICE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided is a backlight device wherein when the drive duty and the drive current are controlled according to a motion, the image quality is improved by preventing flicker caused by the change of the drive waveform. A light-emitting unit ( | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013648 | PLANAR ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A planar illumination device ( | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013555 | TOUCH SCREEN SYSTEM - Provided is a touch screen system that includes a transmitter, a plurality of electronic pens, and a controller. The transmitter applies to transmitting electrodes a pen-synchronization pulse signal for synchronizing transmission and reception of a pen identification signal between the electronic pens and a receiver. The electronic pens transmit, to receiving electrodes, a pen identification signal in accordance with detection of the pen-synchronization pulse signal of the transmitting electrodes at the time of a touch operation. The controller determines the electronic pen that has performed a touch operation based on the pen identification signal that is received by the receiver via the receiving electrodes. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013511 | PORTABLE RADIO - An object of the invention is to provide a portable radio apparatus capable of attaining a higher level of antenna performance in each of a plurality of frequency bands, without making the portable radio apparatus larger. A ground wire, which is set with an electrical length resonating at a second frequency band, which is different from that of an antenna element | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120012893 | SEMICONDUCTOR TRANSISTOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - To provide a semiconductor transistor without variation in threshold voltage of an FET and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor transistor, the semiconductor transistor includes: a substrate; a first compound semiconductor layer formed above the substrate; a second compound semiconductor layer formed on the first compound semiconductor layer and having a bandgap larger than a bandgap of the first compound semiconductor layer; an oxygen-doped region formed by doping at least part of the second compound semiconductor layer with oxygen; a third compound semiconductor layer formed on the second compound semiconductor layer; a source electrode electrically connected to the first compound semiconductor layer; a drain electrode electrically connected to the first compound semiconductor layer; and a gate electrode formed on and in contact with the oxygen-doped region. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120012645 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING METHOD - Disclosed are an electronic component mounting system and an electronic component mounting method capable of reducing the space occupied by equipment and equipment cost and ensuring high connection reliability. An electronic component mounting system ( | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120012371 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR CIRCUIT BOARD, AND CIRCUIT BOARD - A method of manufacturing circuit boards includes the steps of forming an upper board having an opening, and provided with a circuit and an insulating film layer formed on a surface thereof, forming a lower board provided with a circuit and an insulating film layer formed on a surface thereof, forming an inter-board connecting sheet having a through-hole filled with a conductive paste, and layering the lower board, the inter-board connecting sheet and the upper board together, and applying heat and pressure. The step of forming the lower board includes a step of forming the insulating film layer into a shape leaving a clearance provided between an end of the film layer and any of an end of the opening of the upper board and an end of an opening of the inter-board connecting sheet when these three items are layered together, and the step of applying heat and pressure includes a step of inserting a cushion member into the openings of the inter-board connecting sheet and the upper board and into the clearance. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120011388 | POWER LINE COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND POWER LINE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A comparison section determines whether the amount of electric power acquired by a power management section is less than a predetermined threshold. A selection section selects, based on the determination result from the comparison section, at least one modulation/demodulation scheme among a plurality of kinds of modulation/demodulation schemes so that power consumption of modulation/demodulation operation is smaller when the amount of electric power is less than the predetermined threshold than when it is not less than the predetermined threshold. A power line communication function section transmits a control signal indicating the modulation/demodulation scheme selected by the selection section to the power line and performs modulation/demodulation operation under the selected modulation/demodulation scheme. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011272 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An electronic device is connected to a communication network, to which a server and an external device are connected. The electronic device includes an interface which receives an instruction from a user; a processor which determines information to be transmitted and a destination of the transmission based on the user's instruction; and a communication module which transmits the information to the destination. In the case where a content file is selected via the interface, when the selected content file has not been uploaded on the server, the communication module transmits the content file to the server, and after the transmission, transmits location information indicating a location where the content file is stored in the communication network to the external device. When the selected content file has been uploaded on the server, the communication module transmits the location information indicating the location where the content file is stored to the external device. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120010811 | ROUTE INFORMATION GENERATION DEVICE AND ROUTE INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD - Provided is a moving path information generating apparatus that acquires the position necessary for generating moving path information at low power consumption. The moving path information generating apparatus includes an azimuth information acquisition section ( | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120010530 | BLOOD TEST APPARATUS HAVING BLOOD SENSOR - A blood test apparatus has a housing, a blood sensor, and a plurality of connectors. The blood sensor has a plurality of connection terminals that are electrically connected with each electrode of the electrode system; and a reference terminal that serves as a reference. The plurality of connectors are configured to connect to the plurality of connection terminals and the reference terminal of the blood sensor attached at a predetermined position in the blood test apparatus, respectively. And also, relations between the reference terminal and each of the plurality of connection terminals are measured to identify the reference terminal automatically. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120009795 | CHEMICALLY AMPLIFIED RESIST MATERIAL AND PATTERN FORMATION METHOD USING THE SAME - A resist film ( | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120009471 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY AND CATHODE OF THE LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY - To provide a lithium secondary battery which has high capacity while maintaining excellent cycle characteristic. The lithium secondary battery cathode of the present invention includes a cathode collector formed of a conductive substance, and a cathode active material layer formed of a sintered lithium composite oxide sheet. The cathode active material layer is bonded to the cathode collector by the mediation of a conductive bonding layer. A characteristic feature of the present invention resides in that the cathode active material layer has a thickness of 30 μm or more, a voidage of 3 to 30%, and an open pore ratio of 70% or higher. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120009470 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY AND CATHODE OF THE LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY - To provide a lithium secondary battery which has high capacity while maintaining excellent cycle characteristic. The lithium secondary battery cathode of the present invention includes a cathode collector formed of a conductive substance, and a cathode active material layer formed of a sintered lithium composite oxide sheet. The cathode active material layer is bonded to the cathode collector by the mediation of a conductive bonding layer. A characteristic feature of the present invention resides in that the cathode active material layer has a thickness of 30 μm or more, a mean pore size of 0.1 to 5 μm, and a voidage of 3% or more and less than 15%. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120009097 | FLOW PATH DEVICE - A flow path device includes a substrate having a trench and columns extending from a bottom of the trench. The trench is configured to have a fluid flowing therein. Each of columns has a side surface having grooves formed therein. The grooves have an annular shape or an arcuate shape. This flow path device reduces damage to the columns, and has a high reliability. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008797 | SOUND PROCESSING DEVICE AND SOUND PROCESSING METHOD - A sound processing apparatus ( | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008776 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - Influence on a key used between a user equipment and a base station, which will be imposed by unsecured updating of a key between the base station and a relay node when a relay node is being introduced is diminished. An HO request processing unit ( | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008713 | HYBRID DATA TRANSMISSION CIRCUIT - A data transmitter having a parallel-to-serial conversion function is supplied with a clock by a PLL circuit unit. In the PLL circuit unit, a first multiphase clock supplied to a first parallel-to-serial conversion circuit is generated and output by a multiphase VCO circuit, while a second multiphase clock supplied to a second parallel-to-serial conversion circuit is generated and output by a multiphase clock generator. The multiphase clock generator generates the second multiphase clock based on the clock output from the multiphase VCO circuit. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008685 | IMAGE CODING DEVICE AND IMAGE CODING METHOD - A reference picture selection unit compares a predicted inter-coding amount indicating a predicted amount of coding required to perform inter prediction on a coding-target field and a predicted intra-coding amount indicating a predicted amount of coding required to perform intra prediction on the coding-target field. Upon determining that the predicted inter-coding amount is relatively larger than the predicted intra-coding amount, the reference picture selection unit switches the reference picture from a field having the same parity as the coding-target field to a field which is referable and temporally closest to the coding-target field. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008674 | MULTITHREAD PROCESSOR AND DIGITAL TELEVISION SYSTEM - A multithread processor including: an execution unit including a physical processor; and a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) which converts, to a physical address, a logical address output from the execution unit, and logical processors are implemented on the physical processor, a first logical processor that is a part of the logical processors constitutes a first subsystem having a first virtual space, a second logical processor that is a part of the logical processors and different from the first logical processor constitutes a second subsystem having a second virtual space, each of the first and the second subsystems has processes to be assigned to the logical processors, and the logical address includes: a first TLB access virtual identifier for identifying one of the first and the second subsystems; and a process identifier for identifying a corresponding one of the processes in each of the first and the second subsystems. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008589 | WIRELESS BASE STATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS TERMINAL APPARATUS, FREQUENCY RESOURCE ALLOCATION METHOD, AND METHOD OF FORMING TRANSMISSION SIGNAL - A wireless base station apparatus and wireless terminal apparatus with a configuration which can prevent reductions in the accuracy of channel estimation when non-contiguous band transmission and SRS transmission are employed in an uplink line. In the base station apparatus ( | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008532 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING SUB-PACKETS - A wireless communication apparatus enabling improved system throughput while limiting the amount of signaling for feedback information. In this apparatus, a setting unit ( | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008517 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - Provided is a multicarrier communication apparatus by which information quantity of CQI reporting can be reduced. In the apparatus, each CQI is recorded in a CQI table section ( | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008481 | OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS - The present invention provides an electronic equipment which includes an optical member including a first adhesive application portion, wherein a support member is provided in which a second adhesive application portion is provided on a support surface of the optical member, a cross-sectional surface of the first adhesive application portion is opposite to a cross-sectional surface of the second adhesive application portion, a separation portion is provided between the first cross-sectional surface and the second cross-sectional surface, and a approximately spherical adhesive is fixed around an approximately center of the separation portion to include a part of the first and second adhesive application portions. Thus, an object is to provide electronic equipment that reduces deviation in the relative position between the optical member and the support member generated after the curing of the ultraviolet-curable adhesive. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008474 | RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING METHOD, REPRODUCTION METHOD, RECORDING APPARATUS AND REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - A recording medium comprising a recording area, the recording area includes a first area and a second area, the first area includes a frame area, the frame area includes an area in which a second synchronization code sequence and at least a portion of data are to be recorded, and the second area includes an area of linking frames in which a third synchronization code sequence and a fourth synchronization code sequence are to be recorded. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008365 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A NONVOLATILE SWITCHING DEVICE - A method of flowing a current selectively with a nonvolatile switching device according to the present disclosure includes a step of configuring, in the nonvolatile switching device, any one of a first state in which a current does not flow between the electrode group, a second state in which a current flows selectively between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a third state in which a current flows selectively between the first electrode and the third electrode. When any one of the first state, the second state and the third state is configured, voltages V | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008241 | ESD PROTECTION CIRCUIT AND METHOD - An ESD protection circuit for reducing the regulator output capacitance includes a ground isolation circuit or a VCC isolation circuit to isolate regulator output from ground terminal or VCC terminal whenever ESD occurs, causing dropping of the differential voltage between regulator output and ground. The isolation circuits function to minimize the leakage current. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008210 | DIFFRACTIVE LENS AND IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE USING THE SAME - The present invention reduces the angle dependence of diffraction efficiency by taking the diffraction pitch and diffraction step of an optical element with a diffraction grating such as a lens into account. Specifically, for that purpose, an optical element that has a first group of diffraction grating portions | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008046 | HORIZONTAL SYNCHRONIZATION GENERATION CIRCUIT, VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING LSI, AND VIDEO SYSTEM - A horizontal synchronization generation circuit, which generates a horizontal synchronizing signal from a given reference clock, enables accurate reproduction of a preferable frame frequency with a simple configuration. A clock counter counts the reference clock. A comparator generates the horizontal synchronizing signal at a time when a count value output from the clock counter becomes equal to a synchronization counter value. A synchronization counter value output section generates the synchronization counter value by performing addition/subtraction in each of scanning lines based on a basic counter value. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008043 | IMAGING APPARATUS - The imaging apparatus includes a lens mount to which a lens unit is mountable, an imaging unit operable to generate an image signal, and a shutter unit that is arranged between the lens mount and the imaging unit, and is capable of limiting the light incident on the imaging unit, opening and closing at least at recording and being kept in an opened state during a recording preparation operation, and a main frame to which the lens mount, the shutter unit and the imaging unit are fixed. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008036 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, INTERCHANGEABLE LENS APPARATUS AND CAMERA SYSTEM - A zoom lens system comprising: a first lens unit having negative optical power; a second lens unit; and at least one subsequent lens unit, wherein in zooming, the first lens unit moves along an optical axis, and at least an interval between the second lens unit and a lens unit which is one of the at least one subsequent lens unit varies, in focusing, an interval between the first lens unit and the second lens unit varies, at least one aspheric surface is included in the at least one subsequent lens unit, and the condition: 0.1| 01-12-2012 | |
| 20120008007 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, IMAGING SYSTEM, AND SIGNAL CONVERSION METHOD - An adjacent color difference data generator calculates a differential between adjacent data in a data row having different color information per pixel of the digital signal to thereby generate a first color difference data having a first code format. A code converter converts the first color difference data into a second color difference data having a second code format. The second code format is a code format where only a small number of bits change before and after the code conversion from the first code format. The number of changing bits in the switching between codes when, for example, an image monochromatic but having gradation change is imaged to reduce any noise generated when digital image data is outputted. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007952 | RECORDING CONTROL APPARATUS, SEMICONDUCTOR RECORDING APPARATUS, RECORDING SYSTEM, AND NONVOLATILE STORAGE MEDIUM - A recording control apparatus includes an input unit operable to input plural kinds of image data composing a stereoscopic image or a high-definition image, and a recording controller operable to control recording of the plural kinds of image data input by the input unit, to a nonvolatile storage medium. The recording controller controls the recording so that the plural kinds of image data input by the input unit are recorded to different erase blocks of the nonvolatile storage medium in such a manner that different kinds of image data are not mixed in one erase block of the nonvolatile storage medium. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007844 | BACKLIGHT DEVICE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided is a backlight device, wherein when the drive duty and drive current are controlled in each of predetermined light-emitting areas of a light-emitting unit, the color unevenness and moving image resolution difference between image display areas corresponding thereto are improved. A light-emitting unit ( | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007680 | VARIABLE GAIN AMPLIFIER - A variable gain amplifier includes a direct current (DC) blocking capacitor which receives an input signal at a first terminal, a variable amplifier unit, having a variable transistor size, which amplifies an output of a second terminal of the DC blocking capacitor, a load impedance unit coupled to an output of the variable amplifier unit, a bias resistor having a first terminal coupled to the second terminal of the DC blocking capacitor, a variable bias voltage generator which applies a variable bias voltage to a second terminal of the bias resistor, and a gain controller which provides control to decrease the variable bias voltage when an effective transistor size of the variable amplifier unit is controlled so as to increase, and provides control to increase the variable bias voltage when the effective transistor size of the variable amplifier unit control is controlled so as to decrease. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007668 | FILTER CIRCUIT, TRANSMISSION FILTER CIRCUIT, SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND TIMING ADJUSTMENT METHOD FOR FILTER CIRCUIT - A filter circuit includes two parallel digital filters, a DAC, and an LPF. The DAC includes two parallel decoders, a parallel-to-serial converter, a switch driver, and a switch. A PLL circuit supplies a reference clock to the DAC. A frequency divider provided in the DAC divides the frequency of the reference clock by two, and supplies the half frequency clock to a parallel processing section (the two decoders and the parallel-to-serial converter) of the DAC and the two digital filters. This makes it easy to secure a timing margin, permitting use in high-speed communication on the order of several GHz. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007641 | ELECTRONIC PART AND METHOD OF DETECTING FAULTS THEREIN - An electronic component includes an oscillator element, a driving circuit outputting a driving signal to the oscillator element, a clock frequency generator outputting a clock signal to the driving circuit, a clock frequency controller controlling a frequency of the clock signal, a consumption-current detection unit detecting a consumption current of the driving circuit, and a fault detection unit electrically connected to the consumption-current detection unit and the clock frequency controller. When the clock frequency controller changes the frequency of the clock signal, the detected consumption current changes, and allows the consumption-current detection unit to detect the change of the consumption current. The fault detection unit detects a fault based on the change of the frequency of the clock signal and the change of the consumption current. This electronic component can have a fault detection function and a small size. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007580 | HIGH FREQUENCY POWER DETECTOR CIRCUIT AND RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A first envelope detector circuit and a second envelope detector circuit are the same in circuit configuration, where the former detects an input high frequency signal, and the latter generates a reference voltage for power level detection. A detector detects an output voltage of a selector configured to select an output of the first envelope detector circuit with reference to an output voltage of a selector configured to select an output of the second envelope detector circuit. A controller controls an input selector to determine and store control values for the two selectors during input of a high frequency reference signal generated by a high frequency reference signal generating unit, and controls the two selectors by using the stored control values when an actual high frequency signal is input. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007435 | POWER GENERATOR AND POWER GENERATION SYSTEM - A power generator according to the present invention includes: a power generating section ( | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007257 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A semiconductor device includes: a first insulating film formed on a substrate and having a first interconnect; a second insulating film as a liner film formed on the first insulating film and the first interconnect so as to contact the first insulating film; and a third insulating film formed on the second insulating film so as to contact the second insulating film. The second insulating film includes pores. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007178 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A semiconductor device having trench gates in element regions R | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007148 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A solid-state image pickup device includes: a light-transmitting substrate including a terminal electrode for external connection, an inside electrode for bonding a solid-state image pickup element, and a trace that connects the terminal electrode to the corresponding inside electrode; and the solid-state image pickup element which is placed such that a light receiving area opposes the light-transmitting substrate and which is connected to the inside electrode. The trace is made of a light-transmitting conductive film at least in a region opposing the light receiving area of the solid-state image pickup element. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007131 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE USING THE SAME - A semiconductor light-emitting device according to the present invention is a semiconductor light-emitting device | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007013 | COMPOSITE MAGNETIC MATERIAL - A composite magnetic material is made by performing pressure compacting on metal magnetic powder to which a binding material is added, and the binding material contains an acrylic resin having a silyl group as a functional group. In addition, the composite magnetic material is subjected to a heat treatment at a temperature between 700 and 1,000° C. in a non-oxidizing atmosphere after the pressure compacting. The composite magnetic material has magnetic characteristics useful for electromagnetic components such as an inductor, a choke coil, and a transformer with a small size and at a high frequency. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120006811 | INDUCTION HEATING COOKER - An object of the present invention is to provide an induction heating cooker with improved assemblability, and with which a reduction in the temperature sensing precision of an infrared sensor can be suppressed and a reduction in the thickness of the induction heating cooker can be achieved. To this end, the induction heating cooker of the present invention includes a duct | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120006798 | LASER OSCILLATOR AND LASER MACHINING APPARATUS - A laser oscillator includes a blower for blowing laser gas to discharge tubes; a gas circulation path for connecting discharge tubes and a blower; a gear chamber pressure detector for detecting the pressure of the gear chamber disposed in the blower; and an alarm part for issuing an alarm when the pressure detected in the gear chamber pressure detector is higher than a predetermined pressure. The predetermined pressure is set based on the average value of the pressure on the laser gas inlet side and the pressure on the laser gas outlet side of the blower. This configuration can prevent the entry of the oil mist generated from the blower into the gas circulation path and an increase in the gas consumption, while maintaining stable laser output for an extended period of time without increasing the running cost. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120006585 | TOUCH PANEL - A touch panel includes first and second substrates, and first insulating layer disposed therebetween. The first substrate has, on its bottom surface, a first conductive layer having opposing first and second sides; a first electrode along the first side; and a second electrode along the second side. The second substrate has, on its top surface, a second conductive layer facing the first conductive layer with a predetermined space and having third and fourth sides orthogonal to the first and second sides: a third electrode along the third side; and a fourth electrode along the fourth side. The first insulating layer is frame-like and coats at least part of the first and second electrodes. The first and second electrodes and the first insulating layer together form a decoration part having a color tone to prevent the third and fourth electrodes from being visible when viewed from the first substrate side. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120006195 | FABRICATION METHOD FOR GAS-ADSORBING DEVICE, GAS-ADSORBING DEVICE, AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME - A gas-adsorbing member is charged in low gas-permeable container ( | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120006083 | ELECTRONIC LOCK - Provided is an electronic lock which achieves improved productivity while maintaining the performance of waterproofness for an internal electronic circuit of an insertion portion for a mechanical lock. Specifically provided is an electronic lock provided with a portable machine ( | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120005687 | SYSTEM ACTIVATION METHOD IN MULTI-TASK SYSTEM - When a multi-task system is powered on, the following steps are respectively executed: a first step in which hardware components are initialized; a second step in which sections are initialized; and a third step in which an operating system is initialized. In the third step, a task/object is statically generated when an initial access time of the task/object is at most a predefined threshold value but the task/object is dynamically generated after activation of the multi-task system is completed when the initial access time of the task/object is larger than the predefined threshold value. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005562 | ENCODED STREAM DECODING DEVICE - In an encoded stream decoding device, a storage amount checking circuit confirms that a sufficient amount of stream has been stored in a buffer circuit. Thereafter, a control circuit starts repeatedly outputting a control signal to a decoding circuit to instruct the decoding circuit to perform a variable-length decoding process. If, by iterating the decoding process, the total amount of a consumed stream in the buffer circuit | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005481 | AUTHENTICATED PROGRAM EXECUTION METHOD - According to a conventional technique, in the case where a program is stored into a non-volatile memory once and then activated, authentication of the program is performed immediately before such activation. However, calculations such as decryption of encrypted values are required before the activation of the program starts, which causes the problem that responsiveness is decreased in proportion to the time required for calculations. In order to solve this problem, authentication of a program is performed immediately before such program is stored, so that no authentication is performed or only a part of the authentication is performed to verify the validity of certificates at program activation time. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005354 | WIRELESS POINT THAT PROVIDES FUNCTIONS FOR A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK TO BE SEPARATED BETWEEN THE WIRELESS POINT AND ONE OR MORE CONTROL NODES, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SERVICE IN A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK HAVING FUNCTIONS SEPARATED BETWEEN A WIRELESS POINT AND ONE OR MORE CONTROL NODES - A method for negotiations between various entities of a wireless local area network (WLAN) including negotiations between controlling nodes (CNs) and wireless access points (WAPs) and negotiations between WAPs is disclosed. These negotiations are used for the purpose of establishing the capabilities of the various entities, determining how such capabilities may be optimally divided among the negotiating entities and then dividing the capabilities among the entities based on this determination. The capabilities include those required for the operation, control and management of the WLAN entities and the encompassing WLAN. The disclosed method introduces means for flexibly accommodating the varying degrees of differences in capabilities among the WLAN entities between the WLAN entities including dynamic changes in WLAN topologies. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005141 | NEURAL NETWORK SYSTEM - A neural network system that can minimize circuit resources for constituting a self-learning mechanism and be reconfigured into network configurations suitable for various purposes includes a neural network engine that operates in a first and a second operation mode and performs an operation representing a characteristic determined by setting network configuration information and weight information with respect to the network configuration, and a von Neumann-type microprocessor that is connected to the neural network engine and performs a cooperative operation in accordance with the first or the second operation mode together with the neural network engine. The von Neumann-type microprocessor recalculates the weight information or remakes the configuration information as a cooperative operation according to the first operation mode, and sets or updates the configuration information or the weight information set in the neural network engine, as a cooperative operation according to the second operation mode. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120004887 | ACTION ANALYSIS DEVICE AND ACTION ANALYSIS METHOD - A motion analysis apparatus is provided that enables an analysis result presentation quantity to be easily adjusted. A motion analysis apparatus ( | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120004759 | COMPONENT MOUNTING LINE AND COMPONENT MOUNTING METHOD - Disclosed are a component mounting line and a component mounting method where it is not necessary for an operator to perform an input operation in an inspection device when substitute components are used in a component mounting device. When substitute components are mounted in place of one type of components at the mounting positions on the substrate PB, a component mounting device 4 creates substitute component related data including information specifying the substrate PB on which substitute components are mounted and the mounting positions at which the substitute components on the substrate PB are mounted and information indicating the types of substitute components and transmits the substitute component related data to the post-mounting inspection device. The post-mounting inspection device | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120004010 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TERMINAL APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - When detecting occurrence of an event for transmitting a measurement report of a radio condition of a cell at a frequency set for a base station apparatus, to the base station apparatus ( | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120004002 | TERMINAL DEVICE AND BASE STATION DEVICE - A terminal device free of interference between an RACH and a PUSCH or the like even when a base station device with a large coverage is installed. In the device, a configuration number extraction unit ( | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120003946 | ADAPTIVE ARRAY ANTENNA AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS INCLUDING ADAPTIVE ARRAY ANTENNA - To provide an adaptive array antenna capable of increasing resolution of a variable beam direction of the antenna without increasing a calculation amount in arithmetic processing unit for optimally controlling a variable phase shifter. A parasitic element-equipped adaptive array antenna ( | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120003554 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM - A fuel cell system is disclosed in which the oxidative degradation of an anode of a fuel cell during an operation stop period is restrained. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002975 | WIRELESS MICROPHONE - A wireless microphone transmits audio signals using infrared rays. A plurality of infrared light emitting devices are attached to a board in the wireless microphone, and at least one of the plurality of infrared light emitting devices is disposed on each side of the board. A plurality of infrared light emitting devices may be provided on each side of the board, and the infrared light emitting devices may be disposed radially. Without providing a different dedicated board for the light emitting devices than the board, infrared rays can be radiated to an area around the mic. In this manner, a wireless microphone is provided that can radiate infrared rays to an area around the mic and that has a simple structure and a small number of components and thus can improve productivity. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002943 | RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCING DEVICE, RECORDING METHOD, AND REPRODUCING METHOD - On a BD-ROM, PlayList information is recorded. The PlayList information includes MainPath information and SubPath information. The MainPath information and SubPath information include connection_condition information and sp_connection_condition information, respectively. The connection_condition information and sp_connection_condition information indicate that, when the connection state between two MainClips referred to with the MainPath information is seamless connection (CC=5), the connection state between two SubClips referred to with the SubPath information is also seamless connection (SP_CC=5). In the case of CC=5 and sp_CC=5, IN_time of PlayItem is equal to IN_time(SubPlayItem_IN_time) of SubPlayItem. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002885 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - In an image processing device, a lowpass filter extracts a low-frequency component of 8-bit input image data VI | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002829 | HEARING AID AND HEARING AID SYSTEM - A hearing aid includes: a first microphone configured to generate a first input signal from an input sound; a second microphone configured to generate a second input signal from the input sound; a signal processing unit configured to generate an output signal from the first input signal and the second input signal; and a receiver configured to play an output sound from the output signal. The signal processing unit determines time responses of the first input signal and the second input signal based on a contact sound generated when the hearing aid is contacted in a predetermined time period, and distinguishes a plurality of settings of the hearing aid and changes the setting based on the time responses. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002817 | KEY MANAGEMENT METHOD AND KEY MANAGEMENT DEVICE - A validity information processing section determines a valid MKB and a valid intermediate key by referring to validity information in a recording medium, and, when an MKB and an intermediate key that are not valid have been rewritten, rewrites the validity information in the recording medium. An MKB processing section reads the valid MKB from the recording medium and performs updating processing on an MKB stored in the key management device, and rewrites the non-valid MKB in the recording medium. An intermediate key processing section reads the valid intermediate key from the recording medium and decrypts and re-encrypts the read intermediate key with an authentication key, and rewrites the non-valid intermediate key into the re-encrypted intermediate key. | 01-05-2012 |
