| PIONEER CORPORATION Patent applications |
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| 20120036228 | IMAGE SHARING SYSTEM - A personal terminal of an image sharing system transmits distribution request information to a server each time a start of an image sharing process is recognized and downloads shared terminal information of a shared terminal as a destination and personal-terminal image sharing software from the server. Then, the personal terminal runs the personal-terminal image sharing software without installation thereof and transmits/receives an image to/from the shared terminal as a destination corresponding to the shared terminal information not through the server to perform the image sharing process. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033821 | ACTIVE VIBRATION NOISE CONTROL DEVICE - An active vibration noise control device having a pair of speakers, including: a basic signal generating unit generating a basic signal based on a vibration noise frequency; an adaptive notch filter generating a first control signal provided to one speaker using a first filter coefficient and generating a second control signal provided to the other speaker using a second filter coefficient to cancel the generated vibration noise; a microphone detecting cancellation error between the vibration noise and the control sounds and outputting an error signal; a reference signal generating unit generating a reference signal based on a transfer function from the speakers to the microphone; a filter coefficient updating unit updating first and second filter coefficients, minimize the error signal; and a phase difference limiting unit limiting a phase difference between control sounds generated by different speakers. Therefore, it becomes possible to appropriately ensure a uniform and wide noise-cancelled area. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120029803 | FUEL-CONSUMPTION PROJECTING APPARATUS, FUEL-CONSUMPTION PROJECTING METHOD, FUEL-CONSUMPTION PROJECTING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A fuel-consumption projecting apparatus estimates fuel consumption by a vehicle for a given interval. A projecting unit uses a first equation to project the fuel consumption before the vehicle begins travel along the given interval. An estimating unit uses a second equation that sets acceleration during travel as a variable, to estimate fuel consumption occurring during travel. A correcting unit corrects the first equation, based on the fuel consumption projected by the projecting unit and the fuel consumption estimated by the estimating unit. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120027220 | ACOUSTIC DEVICE, NOISE CONTROL METHOD, NOISE CONTROL PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - When the signal level of a signal AOD, to which a cancellation signal CND of ACD is added, is larger than the signal level of ACD, a rate of change calculation part 173 calculates the maximum value (=1) as a rate of change parameter for showing that the degree of noise cancellation should be made highest. When the signal level of AOD, to which CND of ACD is added, is smaller than the signal level of ACD, the rate of change calculation part | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120023106 | MAP INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, MAP INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, MAP INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There are provided a map information processing apparatus, a map information processing method, a map information processing program and a recording medium, which provide house-contour data with valuable information such as address information and the like in an effective manner and with a high degree of accuracy, while remarkably minimizing time and cost as required. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020197 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - An optical pickup device, which can effectively prevent occurrence of trouble in recording and reproducing of information due to the fact that an objective lens for each optical beam is contaminated while not adding unnecessary parts and while reducing a cost, is provided. An optical pickup device (P | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120010737 | AUDIO ADJUSTING DEVICE - The audio adjusting device is preferable applied to an audio system, and includes an audio analyzing unit, a control unit and an adjusting unit. The audio analyzing unit analyzes audio based on the inputted audio signals on the real time basis. The control unit generates the control signal for adjusting the audio signals based on the analysis information of the audio analyzed by the analyzing unit and the volume level instructed by the user. The adjusting unit adjusts and outputs the audio signals based on the control signal in terms of at least one of spreading feeling, speech clearness and bass volume feeling. The control unit varies the adjusting amount by the adjusting unit based on the signal level of the audio signals and the volume level. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007500 | Electroluminescent Panel - [Problem to be solved] An object is to provide an EL display panel which can make a non-display area on the outermost circumference of the panel area unobtrusive without causing any deterioration of the material of EL devices. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120001936 | MAP INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, MAP INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, MAP INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided are a map information processing device, a map information processing method, a map information processing program, and a recording medium by which useful information such as address information can be given to an architectural structural shape efficiently with high accuracy while the time and cost are drastically reduced. First map data configured to include address information indicating the address of a building or a lot and dot coordinate information indicating dot coordinates for representing the position of the building or the lot as a dot and second map data configured to include shape coordinate information indicating a coordinate group for representing the planar outer shape of the building or the lot are read, it is judged from the dot coordinate information included in the first map data and the shape coordinate information included in the second map data whether or not the address information corresponding to the dot coordinate information and the shape coordinate information are associated with each other, and when it is judged by an association judging means that both are associated with each other, association information for associating the address information corresponding to the dot coordinate information and the shape coordinate information with each other is generated. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120001891 | ACTIVE MATRIX TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes a capacitor which is provided on each of the pixels and stores the data signal while a first terminal of the capacitor is connected to a control electrode of the driving transistor, an application voltage generating unit which generates an application voltage to a second terminal of the capacitor, and a capacitor voltage adjusting unit which adjusts an application voltage to the second terminal of the capacitor. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20110320021 | PLAYLIST GENERATING APPARATUS, PLAYLIST GENERATING METHOD, PLAYLIST GENERATING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A playlist generating apparatus that generates a playlist of content items to be played on a content playing apparatus and includes an acquiring unit that acquires information related to a content item portion listened to/viewed by a user, where the content item includes multiple given portions; a determining unit that using the acquired information, determines what proportion of the given portions has been listened to/viewed by the user; and a generating unit that generates the playlist, based on a determination result obtained by the determining unit. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317851 | AUDIO SIGNAL MIXING DEVICE - An audio signal mixer can be applied to a DJ device and the like, for example. The audio signal mixer acquires a plurality of audio signals and acquires mixing rate information being information on a mixing rate of a plurality of the audio signals. The audio signal mixer decides an adjusting amount of balance between levels at every band when a plurality of the audio signals are mixed based on the mixing rate. A plurality of the audio signals are mixed at every band, adjusts the levels of the mixed signals of the respective bands based on the adjusting amount, adds the adjusted signals of the respective bands and outputs it as a mixed audio signal. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110312334 | SATELLITE POSITIONING DEVICE AND ACQUISITION METHOD - A signal generating unit generates a signal in which the satellite signal from each satellite is squared. A time-frequency transforming unit performs time-frequency transformation on the signal thus generated. An acquisition unit identifies an outstanding type of frequency in the frequency characteristics acquired by the time-frequency transformation and acquires each of the satellite signals on the basis of the identified usual frequency in the frequency characteristics. This allows the acquisition unit to hit the vital spot of the frequency at which each of the satellite signals is likely to exist. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110307576 | CONTENT TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, CONTENT OUTPUT SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION CONTROL METHOD, TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A content output system ( | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110305355 | VIBRATION DIRECTION CONVERTER PART FOR SPEAKER DEVICE AND SPEAKER DEVICE - A vibration direction converter part for speaker device direction converting a vibration of a voice coil supporting part supporting a voice coil, and vibrating a diaphragm in the direction different from the direction of the vibration of the voice coil supporting part, has a rigid link part angle-variably and obliquely disposed between the voice coil supporting part and the diaphragm, and hinge parts formed at both end parts of the link part. The hinge part is formed with a bendable continuous member continuing between both side parts across the hinge part. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110299691 | SPEAKER POLARITY DETERMINATION DEVICE - A speaker determination device determines a polarity of a speaker connected to output terminals. Test sound is outputted to an acoustic space via the connected speaker and is collected by a microphone. A reference signal is generated based on the test signal. A polarity determining unit compares predetermined frequency range components of the microphone signal obtained by the microphone and the reference signal, and determines the polarity of the speaker, i.e., whether the speaker is connected in positive phase or in negative phase. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110291098 | ORGANIC EL DISPLAY DEVICE, MOTHER SUBSTRATE OF ORGANIC EL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD OF TESTING ORGANIC EL DISPLAY DEVICE - A first resistance element (R | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110289568 | ACCESS MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, ACCESS MANAGEMENT METHOD ACCESS METHOD, ACCESS MANAGEMENT PROGAM, ACCESS PROGAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An access management apparatus manages access to a local network via a wide area network and includes an access information acquiring unit that acquires access information that is used in accessing the local network; an authenticating unit that performs an authentication process for a portable storage device; and a recording unit that stores the access information acquired by the access information acquiring unit to a storage device authenticated by the authenticating unit. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110288766 | NAVIGATION DEVICE, NAVIGATION METHOD, NAVIGATION PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A navigation apparatus that provides guidance along a route to a destination using a guidance image on which a plurality of guidance signs, respectively indicative of a guidance direction at a guidance point, are arranged in order of proximity to a current point, includes a setting unit that preliminarily sets a first given distance from the current point; an extracting unit that extracts a given guidance point on the route; a calculating unit that calculates a distance from the current point to the given guidance point extracted by the extracting unit; and a display control unit that when the distance to the given guidance point calculated by the calculating unit becomes equal to or less than the first given distance, changes a color of a guidance sign at the guidance point to a color different from an current display color. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110285888 | IMAGE SENSING DEVICE - An image device is provided. The image device includes a photoelectric conversion film current detector, an offset current source, an integrator, and a sampling unit. The photoelectric conversion film current detector is coupled to the photoelectric conversion film through a capacitor and detects photoelectric conversion film current that flows as holes generated in the photoelectric conversion film combine with electrons supplied from the electron supply source array to the photoelectric conversion film. The offset current source generates an offset current and superimposes the offset current on the photoelectric conversion film current. The integrator performs time-integration of the photoelectric conversion film current on which the offset current has been superimposed to generate an integration signal. The sampling unit samples the integration signal in each of respective pixel periods of the pixel regions, in which electrons are supplied to the pixel regions, to generate an image signal. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110284889 | ORGANIC EL PANEL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An organic EL panel forming light-emitting elements on a substrate includes lower electrode lines stripe-formed on the substrate, upper electrode lines stripe-formed so as to cross the lower electrode lines, an organic EL element laminating an organic layer including a light-emitting layer between the lower electrode lines and the upper electrode lines in the crossing part of the lower electrode lines and the upper electrode lines, extracting terminals electrically connected to the respective upper electrode lines and formed outside the light-emitting element forming area, a common organic layer formed so as to cover at least the overall side edges of the lower electrode lines within the light-emitting element forming area, and a cathode separator stripe-formed on the common organic layer within the light-emitting element forming area so as to insulate-segment the upper electrode lines with the end part extending to the extracting terminals. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110278435 | IMAGE SENSOR APPARATUS - An image sensor comprises a photoelectric-conversion-film current detector which detects a photoelectric conversion film current produced by combination of holes generated in a photoelectric conversion film with electrons supplied from an electron supplying source array to the photoelectric conversion film; a plurality of integrators which sequentially perform temporal integration on the photoelectric conversion film current during respective corresponding pixel periods during which electrons are supplied to said pixel areas, so as to generate integral signals; and sampling means which samples the integral signals of the plurality of integrators in each of the pixel periods to generate an image signal. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110272850 | MOLD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A mold is provided, at an outer circumferential region thereof, with portions to be gripped, to allow a transfer apparatus to perform transferring to an object. The portions to be gripped are formed in a different shape from the remaining portion of the outer circumferential region. For a mold set including two molds, each of the molds is provided, at an outer circumferential region thereof, with portions to be gripped, to allow the transfer apparatus to perform transferring to the object. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110270935 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION OF COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - A communication (on-board) device | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110268298 | SOUND FIELD CORRECTING DEVICE - At least two speakers are arranged in the left-right direction, and the measurement signal generating unit generates the measurement signal from the two speakers. The measurement signal outputting unit outputs the measurement signal. The measurement signal collecting unit collects the measurement signal for the left-right direction from at least two positions along the left-right direction axis in the acoustic space. The delay correcting unit performs the delay adjustment for any one of the speakers in the acoustic space, based on information that the measurement signal collecting unit obtains by collecting the measurement signal for the left-right direction, until the level difference in the left-right direction becomes equal to or smaller than the predetermined value. The sound field correcting device collects the measurement signal from two positions along the left-right direction axis, and reduces the level difference in the left-right direction based on the information obtained by collecting the sound. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110268285 | SOUND IMAGE LOCALIZATION ESTIMATING DEVICE, SOUND IMAGE LOCALIZATION CONTROL SYSTEM, SOUND IMAGE LOCALIZATION ESTIMATION METHOD, AND SOUND IMAGE LOCALIZATION CONTROL METHOD - Sound pressure acquisition element integrate by time and convert into logarithms a plurality of inputted sound signals to acquire each sound pressure corresponding to the plurality of sound signals. Normalizing element normalizes each sound pressure acquired by the sound pressure acquisition element. Linear sum calculating element calculates a linear sum of each sound pressure normalized by the normalizing element using a plurality of parameters which differ for each frequency range of the sound signals. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110261255 | VIDEO DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING VIDEO DISPLAY PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON - A video display device includes: a valid area judging unit; a scene change detector; a video conversion processor; and a video display unit. The valid area judging unit recognizes an input video signal and judges an aspect ratio of a valid area of the input video signal. The scene change detector detects a moment when a series of highly related videos in terms of time are switched. The video conversion processor converts the input video signal based on the aspect ratio of the valid area judged by the valid area judging unit relative to the input video signal and scene change information detected by the scene change detector, and outputs the converted video signal to the video display unit. The video display unit conducts a control for displaying an output video signal outputted from the video conversion processor on a display area. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110260176 | LIGHT-EMITTING SENSOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A light-emitting sensor device is provided with: a substrate ( | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110260062 | INFRARED SENSOR AND INFRARED SENSOR MANUFACTURING METHOD - An infrared ray sensor and a method of fabricating the same is provided to increase detection sensitivity and to be easily fabricated with high yield rate. Provided herein is an infrared ray sensor having a frame-shaped substrate section formed in a square frame shape, a projecting base material section formed inside the frame-shaped substrate section and elongating to an incident direction of an infrared ray, and an infrared ray detection section provided on at least an upper lateral surface of the projecting base material section. The projecting base material section is made up of a plurality of rib-like element base material sections having a plurality of vertical base material sections and horizontal base material sections combined in a lattice shape. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110258267 | VEHICLE-MOUNTED DEVICE, INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE-MOUNTED DEVICE AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - A vehicle-mounted device or the like is provided by which a content of an electronic mail can be notified by a driver without disturbing safety driving. A vehicle-mounted device | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110258228 | INFORMATION OUTPUT SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, INFORMATION OUTPUT METHOD AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - An information providing system ( | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110255470 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA PROCESSING, RECORDING MEDIUM WITH PROGRAM RECORDED THEREIN, DATA TRANSFER DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA TRANSFER, AND RECORDING MEDIUM WITH PROGRAM RECORDED THEREIN - When the first radio unit receives CEC frame data from the PDP and recognizes that a second BDP (destination) is connected to a second radio unit and the CEC frame data does not include a Give command, the first radio unit substitutes for the second BDP to give an ACK response for reporting the reception of the CEC frame data by the second BDP, and sends the CEC frame data to the second BDP. When the first radio unit recognizes that the second BDP is connected and the CEC frame data contains a Give command, the first radio unit sends the CEC frame data to the second BDP without giving an ACK response; when the first radio unit recognizes that the second BDP has received the CEC frame data, the first radio unit gives an ACK response to the same Give command that is re-sent by the PDP and prompts the PDP to start a timer at that timing. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110253991 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE - [Problem to be Solved] To provide an organic electroluminescence device with heat resistance capable of being driven by a low voltage. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110251753 | CAR-MOUNTED INFORMATION APPARATUS AND INFORMATION TRANSFER SYSTEM FOR ELECTRIC CAR - To securely prevent from battery depletion and enable transfer data without troubling a user, a communication address data storage unit stores a communication address datum such as an IP address, a telephone number of the predetermined information management apparatus arranged outside an electric car. When an accessory switch of the electric car is in OFF state, it is judged by a charge state judge unit whether or not the battery is in charging. When it is judged by the charge state judge unit that the battery is in charging, a control unit controls a radio communication unit to execute at least one action of transmitting updatable data and receiving update data for updating the updatable data between the information management apparatus. As a result, the car-mounted information apparatus can communicate by radio with the information management apparatus outside the electric car while the battery is in charging. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110249030 | MAP DISPLAY DEVICE, MAP DISPLAY METHOD, MAP DISPLAY PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A map display apparatus includes a display that displays a map viewed at a given angle for bird's eye view with respect to the ground; a touch panel that is disposed on the display; a determining unit that determines strength of touch of an object on the touch panel; a display controller that controls a display format of the map displayed on the display, based on a result of determination by the determining unit, where the display controller scrolls the map when the strength of touch is at most a given strength, and changes the angle for bird's eye view when the strength of touch exceeds the given strength. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110246675 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, SYSTEM THEREOF, METHOD THEREOF, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH THAT PROGRAM HAS BEEN RECORDED - Upon receipt of CEC frame data from a PDP, a first radio unit of an HDMI system refers to the content of a reception-side logical address area and recognizes that the destination of this CEC frame data is a second BDP among a plurality of devices connected to a second radio unit. When the first radio unit recognizes that the second BDP is connected to the second radio unit based on second logical address information of a shared device list, the first radio unit substitutes for the second BDP to give an ACK response for reporting the reception of the CEC frame data by the second BDP, and also sends the CEC frame data to the second BDP. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110242324 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image display apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires traffic information concerning a specified region; a displaying unit that displays a photographic image of the specified region; and a display controlling unit that, when a congestion state depicted in a road part of the photographic image of the specified region and a congestion state indicated by the traffic information acquired by the acquiring unit differ, processes the road part into an image depicting an actual congestion state according to the traffic information and causes the image to be displayed on the display unit. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110237184 | ON-BOARD DEVICE, INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION OF ON-BOARD DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM THEREFOR - An on-board device | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110232990 | VIBRATING BODY FOR SPEAKER AND SPEAKER DEVICE - A speaker vibrating body vibrated by a driving part includes a plurality of diaphragms vibratably supported by a static part supporting said driving part and a diaphragm connecting part, provided between a first diaphragm and a second diaphragm among said plurality of diaphragms, coupling said first diaphragm and said second diaphragm and synchronously moving said first diaphragm and said second diaphragm toward or away from each other. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110231762 | PLAY LIST GENERATING APPARATUS, PLAYLIST GENERATING METHOD, PLAYLIST GENERATING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A playlist generation apparatus extracts given content items from a content group, generates a playlist, and includes an application information acquiring unit that acquires information related to an application running on an information processing terminal possessed by a user viewing/listening to the content items; a setting unit that receives setup-input for setting a priority level, for each application running on the information processing terminal; and a generating unit that based on the set priority levels and the information related to an application running, extracts from the content group, the content items to constitute the playlist and generates the playlist. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229110 | MOTION PICTURE EDITING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A moving image editing device ( | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229051 | IMAGE PROCESSING CIRCUIT, INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing circuit ( | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110228949 | SPEAKER DEVICE, AND AUTOMOBILE - A speaker device prevents “squeaking” based on the difference between propagation speed of a vibration propagated through a center cap and propagation speed of a vibration propagated through a diaphragm. The speaker device includes a vibrating body (VB), a driving part (magnetic circuit) driving the VB, and a frame supporting the VB and the driving part (magnetic circuit). The VB includes a voice coil (VC), a VC supporting part supporting the VC, a diaphragm group, and a driving member whose inner circumference portion is supported by the VC supporting part and which transmits VC vibration to the diaphragm group. The driving member includes a supporting part supporting the diaphragm group. A first connecting part is provided between the diaphragm group and the driving member and on the inner side with respect to the supporting part. The diaphragm group is connected to the driving member via the first connecting part. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110222721 | CONNECTING MEMBER FOR SPEAKER AND SPEAKER - A connecting member for speaker purpose, which is prevented from peeling easily from both a voice coil support and a vibrating body, and a speaker having the connecting member are provided. The speaker | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110216382 | HOLOGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM, HOLOGRAM RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A hologram recording apparatus ( | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110215504 | TRANSFER METHOD AND TRANSFER APPARATUS - A first mold having an uneven pattern formed thereon and a second mold having an uneven pattern formed thereon are fixed in a state in which reference positions of the first mold and the second mold are aligned with the center axis of support means. An object to which transfer is to be performed is made supported by the support means, and the first mold is made move toward the second mold in a state in which a reference position of the object is aligned with the center axis of the support means so that the first mold is pressed to a first surface of the object and, at the same time, the second mold is pressed to a second surface of the object. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110214135 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE - There is provided a data processing device able to surely eject a recording medium out of a main body of the device even when the recording medium is received in a case while a locking member having adherence and elasticity of the case is locked with a center hole of the recording medium. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110213551 | ON-BOARD DEVICE, ROUTE GUIDANCE SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION OF ON-BOARD DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM THEREFOR - An on-board device | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110206889 | OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM - A multilayer optical recording medium in which, as a recording layer is located farther from a surface of incidence of a light beam for reading, the amount of light that reaches the surface of incidence after being reflected off the recording layer is smaller. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110205153 | DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE, DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A mobile phone ( | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110200204 | SPEAKER DEVICE - To provide a thin speaker device capable of emitting a loud reproduced sound with a comparatively simple structure, and to input the audio signal to the voice coil not to have an adverse effect on the vibration of the voice coil is executed. A speaker device includes a vibration direction converter part transmitting the vibration of the voice coil to the diaphragm, and a holding part holding the voice coil at the static part such that the voice coil vibrates linearly, and the audio signal inputted to an audio signal input terminal provided at the static part is inputted to the voice coil via the holding part. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110200201 | MEASUREMENT SIGNAL GENERATING DEVICE, MEASUREMENT SIGNAL GENERATING METHOD, MEASUREMENT SIGNAL GENERATING PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A measurement signal generating device is suitably applied to an AV system capable of generating measurement signals used for a sound field correction. Concretely, based on an average value and a standard deviation of a correlation value between two channels in plural channels, a measurement signal generating unit determines an amount for mixing the two signals between the two channels. Then, the measurement signal generating unit generates the measurement signal by mixing the two signals based on the determined amount for mixing the two signals, so as to generate the measurement signals for the plural channels. Thereby, it is possible to generate the measurement signals having the correlation between the channels which is close to a real content. Therefore, by performing the sound field correction by using the measurement signals, it becomes possible to reduce a gap with an evaluation at the time of reproducing the real content. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110199356 | PIXEL CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY PANEL - A pixel circuit includes a first power line that supplies a first power, a single control line, an emission control variable resistance element having one end connected to the first power line and the other end connected to the control line, a second power line that supplies a second power, a light-emitting element that has one end connected to the control line and the other end connected to the second power line and emits light in accordance with data written to the emission control variable resistance element, and a parallel connection variable resistance element having one end connected to the control line and the other end connected to the second power line so that it is parallel with the light-emitting element. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110194724 | VIBRATING BODY FOR ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER AND SPEAKER DEVICE - A vibrating body for an acoustic transducer is provided, in which the high resonance frequency associated with inverse resonance can be outside the audible range and which can improve the acoustic characteristic of a speaker device. The vibrating body | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110188361 | RECORDING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A recording apparatus includes: a recording device for recording data onto a recording medium by applying a laser beam whose power can be adjusted; a first controlling device controlling the recording device to record calibration data while adjusting power; a first detecting device detecting calibration data recording quality; a second detecting device detecting push-pull signal amplitude by reading the calibration data; a first calculating device calculating a power by which the recording quality is desired quality, as a first optimum power; a second calculating device calculating a power by which the amplitude of the recorded push-pull signal satisfies a first condition and by which the recording quality satisfies a second condition, as a second optimum power, if the push-pull amplitude fails the first condition; and a second controlling device controlling the recording device to start recording record data by applying the laser beam with the first or second optimum power. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110188358 | OPTICAL DISK DRIVE DEVICE AND ADDITIONAL RECORDING METHOD - Disclosed herein are an optical recording medium driving device and an additional recording method, which performs tracking servo control for moving an objective lens in a direction orthogonal to a tangential direction of a guide track so that a guide tracking error signal is decreased with respect to a guide track of a guide layer separation type recording medium, detects an additional recording start position subsequent to a recorded track if the recorded track is present in a recording layer of the optical recording medium, generates a tracking correction signal according to the reproduction tracking error signal upon tracking servo control of the recorded track just before the additional recording start position, and corrects tracking servo control according to the tracking correction signal upon additional recording start. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110185829 | ROTATIONAL VIBRATION GYRO - A rotational vibration type gyro | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110183627 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, INFORMATION PRESENTATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - It is possible to present identification information of a sender in such a manner that the identification information is easily understood by a user. Included are: a wireless communication section ( | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110181949 | FLOATING IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A floating image display device includes an object, and a light reflecting optical member for reflecting displayed light from the object to a viewer. The light reflecting optical member comprises a structure in which micro mirror units each having first and second light reflecting sides are arranged in matrix. The light reflecting optical member reflects the displayed light by the first and second light reflecting sides at two times to form a mirror image. The light reflecting optical member comprises a first assembly and a second assembly. Each of the first and second assemblies is constructed by arranging a plurality of longitudinal members each having one light reflecting side such that all of the light reflecting sides are oriented in a same direction. The first assembly and the second assembly are laminated onto each other with the light reflecting sides of the first assembly and the light reflecting surfaces of the second assembly intersecting with each other. The light reflecting sides of the first assembly constitute the first light reflecting sides of the respective micro mirror units, and the light reflecting sides of the second assembly constitute the second light reflecting sides of the respective micro mirror units. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110181732 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE, INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD, INFORMATION DISPLAY PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information display apparatus having a display unit that displays first information based on a signal corresponding to one channel in a broadcast wave received by a receiving unit, further includes a detecting unit that detects a reception state of the signal while the first information is displayed on the display unit; a judging unit that judges whether information displayed on the display unit has been changed from the first information to second information, if the reception state of the signal has deteriorated; a monitoring unit that monitors whether the reception state has returned to a favorable state, if the displayed information has been judged to have been changed to the second information; and a display control unit that continues display of the second information and redisplays the first information on a portion of the display unit, if the reception state of the signal has returned to a favorable state. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110176703 | SPEAKER DEVICE - A speaker device includes a speaker unit and a cabinet on or in which the speaker unit is mounted. The speaker unit includes a diaphragm, a static part supporting the diaphragm vibratably in a vibration direction, and a driving part provided at the static part to vibrate the diaphragm in response to an audio signal. The driving part includes a magnetic circuit forming a magnetic gap, a voice coil vibrating in a direction different from the vibration direction of the diaphragm upon the inputted audio signal, and a rigid vibration direction converter part configured to convert the vibration direction of the voice coil and transmit the vibration to the diaphragm. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110176402 | FOCUS CONTROL APPARATUS, FOCUS CONTROL METHOD, OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS, DRIVE APPARATUS, AND OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM - [PROBLEMS] To perform highly accurate focus control in an optical recording medium of multilayer structure having an interface of each layer with a reflectance reduced as much as possible. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110175797 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110173266 | IMAGE SHARING CONTROLLER, IMAGE SHARING SYSTEM, IMAGE SHARING CONTROLLING METHOD, ITS PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDED WITH THE PROGRAM - An image-sharing server of an image-sharing system acquires candidate storage data including an update image currently displayed on an image-providing terminal. When, for instance, a predetermined reception band of a second image-receiving terminal is narrower than an optimum transmission band of the image-providing terminal, the image-sharing server specifies the last update data in an order for the update data to be stored in a second transmission buffer as comparison data. Further, when determining that an update region of the comparison data is included in an update region of the candidate storage data, the image-sharing server deletes the comparison data and stores the candidate storage data in the second transmission buffer. Subsequently, the image-sharing server transmits the update data of the second transmission buffer to a second receiving terminal in the order for the update data to be stored to update the image currently displayed on the second image-receiving terminal to update data. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110172880 | AIR CONDITIONING CONTROL DEVICE AND AIR CONDITIONING CONTROL METHOD - A prediction element predicts a predicted arrival time at a destination based on a travel route found by a search element. In normal control mode, the first learning element learns the time period from the time point at which a vehicle is stopped, until an air-based on the predicted arrival time and the result of the learning, a control element estimates a linger period from the present moment until the passenger leaves the passenger compartment after arrival, and, based on the temperatures inside the passenger compartment and the outside as detected by first and second temperature detection element and temperature transition time information, specifies a divergence period from stopping the air-conditioning device until the temperature inside the passenger compartment leaves a comfortable temperature range. The control element stops the air-conditioning device automatically when it is decided that the linger period has become not lager than the divergence period. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110169730 | SIGHT LINE INPUT USER INTERFACE UNIT, USER INTERFACE METHOD, USER INTERFACE PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM WITH USER INTERFACE PROGRAM RECORDED - A sight line input user interface unit, a sight line input user interface method, a sight line input user interface program, and a recording medium with the program recorded in which the user's intention can be properly recognized to prevent a false judgment are provided. The sight line input user interface unit includes information display elements ( | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110167065 | DATA GENERATING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA GENERATING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, DATA GENERATING PROGRAM INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A data generating apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires text data (name data) related to a name associated with position information; a classifying unit that using the acquired position data, classifies the name data according to given regions; an integrating unit that integrates neighboring regions such that the total data size of the name data included in regions to be integrated does not exceed a predetermined given data size; a storage unit that groups the name data according to integrated regions and stores the grouped name data as a name dictionary to be used in both a facility search process and a map display process; and an extracting unit that from the classified name data, extracts the name data common to regions of a given number or more, where the storage unit groups and stores the common name data as a common name dictionary different from the name dictionary. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110164786 | CLOSE-UP SHOT DETECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A close-up shot detection device includes motion detection element that calculates the amount of motion between at least two frames or fields constituting a video image every predetermined unit which is composed of one pixel or a plurality of adjacent pixels constituting the frame or field; binarization element that binarizes the calculated amount of motion; large-area specifying element that specifies, as a large area, a connected area in which the number of units is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold, among connected areas which are obtained by connecting a predetermined number of units having the same binarized amount of motion; and close-up shot specifying element that, when at least one of preset criteria for the specified large area satisfies a predetermined condition, specifies a frame or field having the specified large area as a close-up shot. Consequently, a close-up shot can be easily and rapidly detected. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110164781 | MAGNETIC CIRCUIT FOR SPEAKER DEVICE AND SPEAKER DEVICE - A speaker device includes a diaphragm ( | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110160887 | INFORMATION GENERATING APPARATUS, INFORMATION GENERATING METHOD AND INFORMATION GENERATING PROGRAM - It is possible to further improve an accuracy of detecting a sound producing position in a musical composition and enhancing a rate of detecting a type of a musical instrument than ever before. There is provided a sound producing position detecting part | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110158462 | SPEAKER DEVICE - A speaker device including a diaphragm, a static part vibratably supporting the diaphragm, and a driving part provided at the static part and vibrating the diaphragm upon an audio signal. The driving part includes a voice coil vibrating in a direction different from the diaphragm upon the audio signal inputted, a magnetic circuit including a magnetic gap in which the voice coil is arranged, a rigid vibration direction converter part obliquely disposed with respect to the vibration direction of the voice coil and the diaphragm, and connected with the voice coil and the diaphragm, and a holding part holding the voice coil at the static part. The holding part restricts the vibration of the voice coil in one axis direction. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110158078 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND FOCUS JUMP METHOD - In an optical pickup device and a method of a focus jump, in order to make optimum correction of spherical aberration responsive to the position of a recording layer at one end nearer a target recording layer than a current in-focus recording layer, the recording layer at the one end being one of recording layers at opposite ends of a plurality of recording layers, spherical aberration correcting means is controlled, and then a focus actuator is controlled, thereby causing a focus to jump to the recording layer at the one end. Next, in order to make optimum correction of spherical aberration responsive to the position of a different recording layer shifted by at least one recording layer from the recording layer at the one end toward the target recording layer, the spherical aberration correcting means is controlled, then the focus actuator is controlled, the focus is caused to jump to the different recording layer, and such a focus jump is repeated until the focus reaches the target recording layer. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110150264 | SPEAKER MAGNETIC CIRCUIT, SPEAKER DEVICE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SPEAKER MAGNETIC CIRCUIT - The present invention is to provide a speaker magnetic circuit which, even if small in its thickness, can reduce an occurrence of magnetic flux leakage so as to obtain a sufficient magnetic flux density in a magnetic gap, particularly in a position where a voice coil is supported. The speaker magnetic circuit ( | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110149711 | COMA ABERRATION COMPENSATING DEVICE, COMA ABERRATION COMPENSATING METHOD, AND OPTICAL DISC - A method for compensating the coma aberration in a pickup of a recording and reproducing device that records or reproduces data on or from an optical disc using the pickup is provided. The method includes a first coma aberration compensating step to compensate coma aberration in a body of an optical system including an objective lens for emitting a light beam to an optical disc including a plurality of recording layers and a second coma aberration compensating step to compensate coma aberration caused by relative inclination of the optical system with respect to the optical disc. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110144905 | COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT PREDICTION TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT PREDICTION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT PREDICTION PROGRAM - A signal receiving element of a communication environment prediction terminal receives GPS signals via satellite communication from GPS satellites. A position information detecting element detects position information indicating a position of a vehicle on which the terminal is mounted, based on the GPS signals received by the receiving element. Then, a position measurement information generating element generates position measurement information including the position information detected by the detecting element, that is, the position measurement information indicating a travel position of the vehicle positioned by the GPS signals. A communication information generating element generates communication information indicating a communication environment in an area to which the vehicle has moved, based on the position measurement information by making use of the characteristic that the GPS signal is difficult to receive in a point with an obstacle or the like. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110142244 | DELAY AMOUNT DETERMINATION DEVICE, SOUND IMAGE LOCALIZATION DEVICE, DELAY AMOUNT DETERMINATION METHOD AND DELAY AMOUNT DETERMINATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - A delay amount determination device, sound image localization device, delay amount determination method, and delay amount determination processing program capable of efficiently determining a parameter using fewer test sounds are provided. If the localization direction of the sound image when the test sound is outputted from left and right speakers is specified by the user through an input unit, an operation unit finds the localization angle corresponding to the localization direction. The operation unit, if finding localization angles with two different delay values, compares the difference of the two localization angles with a threshold value. The operation unit, if judging that the difference is larger than the threshold value, changes one of the delay values, finds the localization angle corresponding to the changed delay value, and further compares the difference of the two localization angles with the threshold value. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110141866 | TRACKING SIGNAL GENERATION DEVICE AND METHOD, REPRODUCTION DEVICE AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A tracking signal generating apparatus is provided with: a reading device for reading reflected light of a laser beam applied onto a recording medium, thereby obtaining a resulting read signal; an amplitude-limiting device for limiting an amplitude level of the read signal by a predetermined amplitude value, thereby obtaining an amplitude limit signal; a filtering device for performing a high-frequency emphasis filtering process on the amplitude limit signal, thereby obtaining an equalization-corrected signal; and a generating device for performing a phase comparison process on the equalization-corrected signal, thereby generating the tracking signal. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110135111 | SPEAKER DEVICE AND AUTOMOBILE - A speaker device is provided, in which the rolling of a voice coil and the contact of the voice coil with a magnetic circuit are reduced. The speaker device includes a vibrating body | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110130953 | NAVIGATION EQUIPMENT AND NAVIGATION SYSTEM - The server apparatus has a life log database storing life log data indicating user behavior history. The server apparatus receives the related information request from the navigation apparatus, and searches the life log database based on the related information request to obtain the related information including the place information. Then, the server apparatus transmits the related information to the navigation apparatus. On the other hand, the navigation apparatus sets the guiding route based on the user's input, and generates the route information. The navigation apparatus obtains the ID information from the user's mobile terminal, and transmits the related information request including the ID information and the route information to the server apparatus. Further, when receiving the related information from the server apparatus, the navigation apparatus determines the candidate of the stop-by place based on the place information included in the related information, and displays the candidate on the display device. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110128830 | RECORDING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A recording apparatus includes: a recording device for recording content data onto a recordable recording medium with a first recording layer including a first data area and a second recording layer including a second data area; a first reading device reading the address of the position corresponding to the maximum capacity of the first data area; a second reading device reading an address of a layer jump position of the content data; a calculating device for calculating a position to start the recording of the content data such that the layer jump position of the content data is recorded at the position corresponding to the maximum capacity of the first data area; and a first controlling device for controlling the recording device to record first padding data into an area from a start position of the first data area to the position to start the recording of the content data. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110122141 | MAP DATA RECORDING DEVICE, MAP DISPLAY, MAP DATA RECORDING METHOD, MAP DISPLAY METHOD, MAP DATA RECORDING PROGRAM, MAP DISPLAY PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - In a map data recording device ( | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110117319 | NANOFIBER SHEET AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A nanofiber sheet that has a high degree of transparency, a high modulus of elasticity, a low coefficient of linear thermal expansion as well as high degrees of flatness and smoothness, in particular, a nanofiber sheet produced as a uniform and flat sheet having a high optical transmittance with cellulose as the only component. This sheet has the following characteristics: Calculated for a thickness of 60 μm, the transmittance for parallel rays of light having a wavelength of 600 nm is equal to or higher than 70%; The Young's modulus measured in accordance with the JIS K7161 method is equal to or greater than 10 GPa; The coefficient of linear thermal expansion measured in accordance with the ASTM D606 method is equal to or smaller than 10 ppm/K. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110116674 | HEADPHONE - A headphone capable of preventing inadvertent damage is disclosed. The headphone includes a C-shaped headband, a strip-shaped arm portion, a sound emitting portion supported by the arm portion, a first connecting section, and a torsion-coil spring | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110116662 | SPEAKER DEVICE - A speaker device includes a vibrating body including a diaphragm and a voice coil supported by a part of the diaphragm and a magnetic circuit including a first magnetic pole part having a magnet and a second magnetic pole part different from the first magnetic pole part and arranged spaced apart from the first magnetic pole part. The voice coil is arranged between the first magnetic pole part and the second magnetic pole part, the vibrating body includes a conducting part formed at a part or whole of the diaphragm, in the proximity of the voice coil, and the conducting part is arranged between the first magnetic pole part and the second magnetic pole part. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110116650 | SPEAKER DEVICE - A speaker device includes a diaphragm, a frame supporting the diaphragm vibratably along a vibration direction, and a driving part disposed in proximity of the frame and vibrating the diaphragm corresponding to an audio signal. The driving part includes a magnetic circuit having a magnetic gap formed along a direction different from the vibration direction of the diaphragm, a voice coil supporting part having a voice coil and vibrating along the magnetic gap, and a vibration-direction-conversion part direction-converting the vibration of the voice coil supporting part and transmitting the vibration to the diaphragm. The vibration-direction-conversion part includes a link body angle-converting a link part formed between the voice coil supporting part and the diaphragm. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110116640 | CONTENT REPRODUCTION SYSTEM AND CONTENT REPRODUCTION METHOD - The contents reproducing system includes a plurality of contents reproducing units, and the delay amount calculating unit calculates the delay amount with which each of the contents reproducing units reproduces the contents data. The delay amount is the time to delay the reproduction of the contents data, for example. The contents reproducing unit reproduces the contents data, by each of the contents reproducing units, with the delay based on the delay amount calculated by the delay amount calculating unit. By automatically controlling the delay amount of the contents data in this manner, the contents reproducing system can create a sound space with wrapped feeling and spreading feeling. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110115467 | FILM-THICKNESS MEASURING DEVICE USING PLL CIRCUIT - A phase comparator ( | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110114853 | ELECTRON BEAM APPARATUS - An electron beam lithography apparatus includes a beam current detector which detects, during drawing of the drawing data, fluctuation of an irradiation position of the electron beam at non-irradiation on the substrate; a beam position error detector which detects a beam position error of the electron beam based on the fluctuation of the irradiation position; a drive position error detector which detects a drive position error of the stage due to rotation and translation drive during drawing of the drawing data; and a corrector which corrects the irradiation position of the electron beam during the drawing based on the beam position error and the drive position error. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110112658 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD, NETWORK SYSTEM, PROGRAM FOR CONTROL APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention provides a control apparatus and the like capable of performing exclusive control in a network without adding a new configuration to an existing apparatus to be controlled and, even in the case where the apparatus to be controlled or the like drops from the network, capable of maintaining and continuing the original exclusive control state. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110110208 | COMA ABERRATION COMPENSATING DEVICE, COMA ABERRATION COMPENSATING METHOD, AND OPTICAL DISC - A method for compensating the coma aberration in a pickup of a recording and reproducing device that records or reproduces data on or from an optical disc using the pickup is provided. The method includes a first coma aberration compensating step to compensate coma aberration in a body of an optical system including an objective lens for emitting a light beam to an optical disc including a plurality of recording layers and a second coma aberration compensating step to compensate coma aberration caused by relative inclination of the optical system with respect to the optical disc. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110109589 | RESISTIVE FILM TYPE TOUCH PANEL DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND METHOD FOR DETECTING CONTACT IN RESISTIVE FILM TYPE TOUCH PANEL DEVICE - The resistive film type touch panel device includes two resistive films ( | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110103635 | HEADPHONE - There are provided headphone which can provide a relatively small storage space when being carried around and which can prevent an unexpected breakage of the headphone. A headphone | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110103203 | Actuator for pickup, pickup device, recording medium drive device, and method of manufacturing actuator for pickup - Provided is an actuator for a pickup, in which end parts of a plurality of suspensions ( | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110102680 | Picture Quality Control Apparatus, Method Therefor, Picture Quality Processing Apparatus, Programs For Them, and Recording Medium Recording That Program Therein - A request recognition section ( | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110095677 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DISPLAY PANEL AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - To attain not only reforming of a film moistureproof substrate but also inhibiting of penetration of moisture or water transportation from edge portions thereof. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] Film moistureproof substrate ( | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110092832 | SELF-LUMINOUS SENSOR DEVICE - A light-emitting sensor device is provided with: a substrate ( | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110087108 | SELF-LUMINOUS SENSOR DEVICE - A light-emitting sensor device includes: a substrate ( | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110084992 | ACTIVE MATRIX DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus comprises an average luminance calculating unit that calculates average luminance of a display screen based on a video signal; and a drive voltage adjuster that adjusts a drive voltage of drive transistors each driving a light-emitting element provided in a pixel unit according to the calculated average luminance. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110069859 | SPEAKER DEVICE - A flat speaker device capable of emitting loud reproduced sound with a relatively simple configuration is provided. The speaker device includes a diaphragm, a frame supporting the diaphragm vibratably in the vibration direction, a magnetic circuit disposed in the frame, and a driving member for driving the diaphragm. The driving member includes a voice coil movably disposed in a magnetic gap of the magnetic circuit, a driving part formed movably in a direction different from the vibration direction of the diaphragm, and an angle conversion and transmission part, one end of which is angle-variably joined to the driving part and another end of which is angle-variably joined to the diaphragm. The angle conversion and transmission part has rigidity and is obliquely disposed with respect to each of the vibration direction of the diaphragm and the moving direction of the driving part. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110067555 | TEMPO DETECTING DEVICE AND TEMPO DETECTING PROGRAM - A tempo detecting device | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110063970 | MOVING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110062481 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE - An organic light-emitting device cutting off ambient light while keeping emission intensity includes a pair of first and second electrodes opposed to each other; and a plurality of organic semiconductor layers layered and disposed between the first and second electrodes, wherein the organic semiconductor layers include an organic light-emitting layer, the organic semiconductor device further comprising a light-scattering layer layered and disposed between the organic light-emitting layer and at least one of the first and second electrodes. The light-scattering layer includes: organic materials having carrier injection and transport characteristics of transporting electrons and/or holes; and plural particles dispersed among the organic materials so that light emitted from the organic light-emitting layer is passed therethrough. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110058684 | AUDIO REPRODUCTION DEVICE - An audio reproduction device reproduces a one-channel signal from two speakers arranged in a sound field. The one-channel input signal is delayed by a delay element. The delay element performs a delay with different delay amount for a plurality of frequency bands. The signal delayed by the delay element is outputted to one of the two speakers and the input signal is directly outputted to the other one of the two speakers. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110051988 | SPEAKER DEVICE - A speaker device includes a pair of diaphragms disposed opposite each other, a frame configured to vibratably support an outer periphery of the diaphragms in the vibration direction, and a plurality of driving parts configured to support a rear surface of each of the diaphragms and vibrate the diaphragms in response to an audio signal. The driving parts include a pair of magnetic circuits in which a magnetic gap is formed in a direction different from the vibration direction of the diaphragms, a pair of voice coils vibratably arranged in the magnetic gap in one axis direction, vibrating so as to move toward or away from each other in response to the audio signal, and a rigid vibration direction converter part configured to convert the direction of the vibration of the voice coils and transmit the vibration to the diaphragms. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110044335 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, RECEIVER, TRANSMITTER, CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL PROGRAM - In an information processing apparatus, the pre-reproduction connection information retaining element retains the information relating to the transmitting apparatus and the receiving apparatus of a connection existing before a reproduction of an interruption signal, when the connection is switched to the connection for transmitting the interruption signal in order to reproduce the interruption signal. Then, the recovering element recovers the connection existed before the reproduction of the interruption signal, based on the pre-reproduction connection information retained, after the reproduction of the interruption signal ends. The information processing apparatus is a transmitting apparatus and/or a receiving apparatus forming the car AV system. By this, in case that only one logical input plug can be prepared due to the restriction of hardware resource, the information processing apparatus can recover the connection, after the interruption signal reproduction ends, with keeping the user unconscious. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110043707 | CONTENT TRANSMITTING DEVICE - A content transmitting device | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110043128 | CIRCUIT DEVICE DRIVING METHOD AND CIRCUIT DEVICE - A drive method for a circuit apparatus includes: a cold cathode electron-emission element; a MOS transistor in which one of a source region and a drain region is electrically connected to one electrode of the cold cathode electron-emission element; a first voltage source electrically connected to another electrode of the cold cathode electron-emission element; and a second voltage source which is electrically connected to a semiconductor well region in which the MOS transistor is formed. The drive method is provided with: an electron-emission part forming process in which a first potential signal is outputted from the first voltage source and a second potential signal, which is different from the second potential signal, is outputted from the second voltage source so that a forward current flows in a p-n junction between the semiconductor well region and the one region when an electron-emission part is formed in the cold cathode electron-emission element. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110042695 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY PANEL - Organic semiconductor layers include between a first electrode and a photoelectric converting layer a light extraction improving layer that contains at least silver or gold in part as a component, partially reflects light, and has transparency. The light extraction improving layer is in contact with or is inserted into a functional layer containing, for example, an organic semiconductor material, an oxide, a fluoride, or an inorganic compound having strong acceptor properties or strong donor properties with an ionization potential of 5.5 eV or higher, within the organic semiconductor layers. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110042694 | LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT AND DISPLAY PANEL - Light extraction efficiency is improved as a whole light emitting element. A light emitting element ( | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110037682 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device main roughly includes a floating image display unit | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110037621 | INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS, POSITION CALCULATION APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, POSITION CALCULATION METHOD, DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM, POSITION CALCULATION PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A data display device includes: a position obtaining unit obtaining current position data of a mobile object; a direction obtaining unit obtaining traveling direction data of the mobile object; a display control unit causing a display unit to display a current position and a traveling direction of the mobile object based on the current position data and the traveling direction data of the mobile object; and a determining unit determining that the mobile object has entered or exited a parking lot based on the current position data of the mobile object. The display control unit causes the display unit to display the mobile object so the current position of the mobile object is not changed and only the traveling direction of the mobile object is changed, from a determination that the mobile object has entered the parking lot until a determination that the mobile object has exited the parking lot. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110035761 | DISK APPARATUS - The tray of the disc device includes the ground member including the base cover that substantially covers the electronic component and the ground extension portion, and the front projection located forward in the tray-out direction relative to the ground extension portion. The casing includes the casing-side ground contacting portion that contacts the ground extension portion in a tray-in state. In the tray-in state, the ground extension portion and the casing-side ground contacting portion are contacted so that static electricity is flowed to the casing via the ground member, thereby preventing the static electricity from flowing and damaging the electronic component. Even when the ground extension portion is deformed in the tray-out direction, the contact between the ground extension portion and the front projection prevents excessive deformation of the ground extension portion. Thus, the disc device can be easily handled without fearing damage to the ground extension portion. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110035036 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, CONTROL PROGRAM AND NETWORK SYSTEM - A control device applies an exclusive control to all controlled devices associated with a control sequence in executing the control sequence requiring a plurality of relevant control requests. More specifically, the control device eliminates the intervention of other control devices to the controlled devices during the period of the execution of the control sequence. This makes it possible to prevent the mismatching after the processing of the relevant control requests. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110033070 | SOUND IMAGE LOCALIZATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND OTHERS - A sound image localization processing apparatus is provided, in which a surround system is realized by a front speaker with a simple signal process, and the same side localization effect can be given to a plurality of listeners. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110032433 | CONNECTION STATE DISPLAY CONTROLLER, CONTENT PROCESSOR, CONTENT PROCESSING SYSTEM, CONNECTION STATE DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, ITS PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING THE PROGRAM - In a display device of an AV system, when first to seventh video sound output devices are connected to first to fourth input terminals via the AV receiver and an HDDVD recorder, the display device instructs a display section to display connection information including to-be-displayed device information for the first to seventh video sound output devices including a stored content transmitting function and the HDDVD recorder and not including to-be-displayed device information for the AV receiver having no stored content transmitting function. Accordingly, even when a number of devices only having a repeater function are connected between the display device and a device having a stored content transmitting function, to-be-displayed device information only for a device having a stored content transmitting function can be displayed and a user can easily specify the device having the stored content transmitting function. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110032359 | SERVER DEVICE, MOBILE TERMINAL, ROAD JUNCTION GUIDANCE SYSTEM, AND ROAD JUNCTION GUIDANCE METHOD - In a server device, each time a photographed image and information related to time of photography are received from one of multiple mobile terminals, a generation processes for generating standard image information based on that image and information related to the time of photography. When generating this standard image information, the generation element generates the standard image information photographed when the moving body passes through that predetermined road junction to satisfy a predetermined speed variation condition. In a mobile terminal, an acquisition element acquires image information from the server device that designates any desired road junction, and, when the moving body passes through that predetermined road junction, a display control element refers to the manner in which the moving body passed through that road junction, and controls a display element to display an image on the basis of that image information. Storage resources are utilized efficiently, enhancing user convenience. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110032274 | SCREEN DISPLAY SYSTEM AND SCREEN DISPLAY PROGRAM - A small screen displays system | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110026757 | ACOUSTIC CONVERTER DIAPHRAGM, AND ACOUSTIC CONVERTER - A diaphragm for acoustic converter includes a base and a damping layer formed on one surface or both surfaces of the base. The damping layer includes a particle having a heat dissipating function, and has detachability with respect to the base. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110026720 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A surround effect in low-tone range can be improved when speakers to be positioned in front of a listener are used to realize a surround sound. A left surround signal extracting part | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110019102 | OUTPUT DATA SWITCHING APPARATUS, OUTPUT DATA SWITCHING METHOD, OUTPUT DATA SWITCHING SYSTEM AND PROGRAM FOR OUTPUT DATA SWITCHING APPARATUS - There is provided an output data switching apparatus for remarkably alleviating user's uncomfortable feeling caused by an output data switching. The output data switching apparatus, as an output data switching apparatus | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110018796 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - In a car stereo system, when an object such as a hand comes close to a sensing range of a proximity sensor provided near an illumination button while a display section and lights of an operation section that are provided on a front face of the car stereo system are in a state of complete non-lighting, only the light of the illumination button is turned on; if the illumination button is operated within the predetermined period of time, then the display section and the lights of the operation section are turned on; and if the illumination button is not operated within the predetermined period of time, then the light of the illumination button is turned off so that the state of complete non-lighting is entered again. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110013798 | SPEAKER FRAME AND SPEAKER HAVING THE SAME - A speaker frame, including: a vibration support portion supporting a vibrating body of a speaker; a magnet support portion arranged inside of said vibration support portion and supporting a magnetic circuit portion of said speaker; and a plurality of connection beams connecting said vibration support portion and said magnet support portion, wherein in a cross-section passing through a central axis of said speaker, an inclination angle of one connection beam of said connection beams to said central axis is different from an inclination angle of other connection beam to said central axis. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110013783 | OVERTONE PRODUCTION DEVICE, ACOUSTIC DEVICE, AND OVERTONE PRODUCTION METHOD - When boosting treble, first a signal X(T) of a fundamental tone component which is to be a subject of overtone production is extracted by a fundamental tone extraction filter section | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110013499 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A recording apparatus ( | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110012517 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE - The present invention provides a display device which includes photoelectric elements (E | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110011247 | MUSICAL COMPOSITION DISCRIMINATION APPARATUS, MUSICAL COMPOSITION DISCRIMINATION METHOD, MUSICAL COMPOSITION DISCRIMINATION PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A musical composition discrimination apparatus, a musical composition discrimination method, a musical composition discrimination program and a recording medium, provide a musical composition and information thereon as desired by a user. In the musical composition discrimination apparatus, a system control unit | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110007905 | ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - In a processing control unit | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110007904 | ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A corrective measurement part of a processing control part | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110007614 | RECORDING DEVICE AND METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A recording apparatus is provided with: a recording device for recording a data pattern onto a recording medium provided with a user data area; a first controlling device for controlling the recording device to record the data pattern for adjusting the recording condition into an area portion which is outer than an end on an outer side of a recording-scheduled area portion and in which the data pattern is scheduled to be recorded; a reading device for reading the data pattern recorded by the control of the first controlling device, thereby obtaining a read signal; a measuring device for measuring jitter of the read signal; an adjusting device for adjusting a recording condition such that the jitter satisfies a desired condition, and a second controlling device for controlling the recording device to start the recording into the recording-scheduled area portion by using the recording condition adjusted by the adjusting device. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110000359 | MUSIC COMPOSITION DATA ANALYZING DEVICE, MUSICAL INSTRUMENT TYPE DETECTION DEVICE, MUSIC COMPOSITION DATA ANALYZING METHOD, MUSICAL INSTRUMENT TYPE DETECTION DEVICE, MUSIC COMPOSITION DATA ANALYZING PROGRAM, AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENT TYPE DETECTION PROGRAM - There is provided a musical instrument kind detection apparatus, etc., permitting improvement of detection rate of musical instrument based on the instrument sound in comparison with the conventional prior art. A musical composition analysis section AN | 01-06-2011 |
| 20100332619 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVER, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - An information management server includes an information provision request receiving means which receives an information provision request together with request information, a probe information provision requesting unit which performs the probe information provision request to the probe information providing apparatus, a probe information obtaining unit which obtains the probe information from the probe information providing apparatus, a message information provision requesting means which performs the message information provision request to the message information providing apparatus, a message information obtaining unit which obtains the message information from the message information providing apparatus, a response-to-request information generating unit which generates response-to-request information corresponding to the request information by using the probe information and the message information, and a response-to-request information providing unit which provides the response-to-request information to the information provision requesting apparatus. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100327275 | ORGANIC EL PANEL AND ITS MANUFACTURING METHOD - An organic EL panel includes a light-emitting part including one or a plurality of organic EL elements on a substrate and having a sealing structure sealing the light-emitting part. The organic EL element includes a light-emitting layer, an organic layer formed on a first electrode formed directly, or via another layer, on the substrate, and a second electrode formed on the organic layer. The organic EL panel includes a coating film formed on the substrate, directly at least on the second electrode, so as to coat the light-emitting part. The coating film is made of an amorphous organic material and has a thickness absorbing a surface irregularity of the contact object contacted by the surface of the coating film. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100325145 | SEARCH WORD CANDIDATE OUTPUTTING APPARATUS, SEARCH APPARATUS, SEARCH WORD CANDIDATE OUTPUTTING METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH SEARCH WORD CANDIDATE OUTPUTTING PROGRAM IS RECORDED, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH DATA STRUCTURE IS RECORDED - A search word candidate outputting apparatus includes: a keyword database storing a pair of word/phrase-attribute information composed of a word/phrase inputted as a keyword, and attribute information indicating an attribute of a word/phrase as a keyword, a next word predictive candidate database configured to store a pair of attribute information-sentence composed of the attribute information, and a sentence expected to be inputted together with the word/phrase for which the attribute is indicated by the attribute information, a next word predictive candidate extraction device that, based on a pair of word/phrase-attribute information, extracts attribute information corresponding to a word/phrase from the keyword type database, and based on a pair of attribute information-sentence, extracts a sentence which constitutes a pair of attribute information-sentence together with the attribute information, from the next word predictive candidate database, and a display configured to display the inputted word/phrase and the extracted sentence, as a candidate. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100310895 | POLYCRYSTALLINE ALUMINUM THIN FILM AND OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM - A polycrystalline aluminum thin film is made of polycrystals of an alloy of aluminum. The polycrystalline aluminum thin film includes a first additive which is distributed with even concentration over an inside of each crystal grain and an interface of the crystal grain and a second additive which is distributed with higher concentration in the interface of the crystal grain than in the inside of the crystal grain. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100310109 | SUPPORT MEMBER FOR SPEAKER VIBRATING BODY AND SPEAKER DEVICE - A speaker device where the dip in the middle sound range is reduced, which provides reproduced sound of comparatively high quality, and provides reproduced sound of comparatively high sound pressure. In the speaker device, a support member for a speaker vibrator is adopted for an edge. The speaker device has a movable part ( | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100309763 | OPTICAL DISC RECORDING DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information recording apparatus ( | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100309762 | OPTICAL DISC RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information recording apparatus ( | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100309759 | RECORDING AND REPRODUCING METHOD, RECORDING AND REPRODUCING DEVICE AND RECORD CARRIER - A recording and reproducing method for recording and/or reproducing information from a record carrier that comprises a plurality of recording layers layered in its film thickness direction and a guide layer having a plurality of tracks carrying tracking servo information, wherein a record mark is formed on each recording layer of the record carrier. The method comprises: a focusing step of converging a servo light beam onto the guide layer as well as selectively converging a main light beam group onto one of the recording layers through a common objective lens, wherein the main light beam group comprises a plurality of main light beams neighboring each other; a tracking step of performing a positioning control of the objective lens so that the servo light beam is tracking on one of the tracks; and a recording and/or reproducing step of performing recording and/or reproducing information with the main light beam group while performing the focusing step and the tracking step. When the servo light beam traces on one of the tracks neighboring each other, one trace group is composed of the main light beam group on the one of the recording layers, wherein, when the servo light beam traces on the other of the tracks neighboring each other, the other trace group is composed of the main light beam group on the one of the recording layers, wherein an interval between the one trace group and the other trace group is larger than an average trace pitch within the trace group. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100302922 | INFORMATION RECORDING DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information recording device ( | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100299690 | INFORMATION DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD, INFORMATION DELIVERY DEVICE, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - An information delivery system in which in a display device ( | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100293186 | SEARCH DEVICE, SEARCH METHOD, SEARCH PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A search apparatus includes an input unit that receives an input of search-object information indicative of facilities to be searched for; a designating unit that designates, among combinations of facilities indicated by the search-object information, a combination of the facilities that are located on the same premises; a generating unit that, using location information concerning the facilities constituting the combination designated by the designating unit, generates search result information; and an output unit that outputs the search result information generated by the generating unit. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100290325 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A recording apparatus ( | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100284263 | Data recording / reproducing apparatus and method using needle-shaped member - The data to be recorded onto a recording medium is directly spread and then recorded onto the recording medium through a needle-shaped member, such as a probe. Upon reproducing the data, the data read from the recording medium is de-spread and reproduced. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100284106 | NAVIGATION APPARATUS, OPERATION CONTROL APPARATUS, OPERATION CONTROL METHOD, OPERATION CONTROL PROGRAM - For an apparatus determining whether or not an HDD is started by barometric pressure information or the like, there are provided a navigation apparatus, an operation control device, an operation control method, and an operation control program, that enable shortening of a time from a power-on to starting-up of the HDD. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100283838 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device capable of detecting an object in a space where a 3D visualized image is formed without feeling the existence of a mechanism for position detection. The image display device includes: display unit ( | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100279685 | WIRELESS TERMINAL MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, WIRELESS TERMINAL MANAGEMENT METHOD, WIRELESS TERMINAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A wireless terminal management apparatus includes a communication unit performing short-distance wireless communication with wireless terminals; a registering unit that registers information indicating a wireless terminal connectable to the communication unit; a determining unit that determines whether the number of registrations of information indicating a wireless terminal registered in the registering unit has reached a given number of wireless terminals allowed to connect to the communication unit; an updating unit that when a non-registered wireless terminal is nearby and if the number of registrations has reached the given number, updates the number of registrations such that information indicating the non-registered wireless terminal becomes registered; and a searching unit that searches for a wireless terminal nearby, where if a search result indicates no registered wireless terminals and a non-registered wireless terminal nearby, the updating unit updates to enable information indicating the non-registered wireless terminal to be registered by the registering unit. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100272269 | CENTER CHANNEL POSITIONING APPARATUS - A center channel positioning apparatus is provided, which does not cause strange feeling in sound quality even at a position apart from an original listener position. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100271290 | FLOATING-IMAGE DISPLAY MODULE AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A floating-image display module includes a display unit having an image screen for displaying a two-dimensional image, and an image transfer unit that is located far from the image screen of the display unit and that transfers light left from the image screen to image the light in a space to thereby display a floating image. The space is located at one side opposite to the image screen. The floating-image display module includes a supporting wall that is airtightly joined to the image display unit and the image transfer unit and that supports the display unit and the image transfer unit. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100263727 | ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, ORGANIC SOLAR CELL, AND DISPLAY PANEL - An organic semiconductor device includes, between a pair of electrodes of a first metal electrode and a second electrode, at least, a light-emitting layer, a hole injection layer which removes holes from the first metal electrode, a hole transporting layer formed on the light-emitting layer on a side of the first metal electrode for transporting the holes removed by the hole injection layer to the light-emitting layer, and an electron transporting layer formed on the light-emitting layer on a side of the second electrode for removing electrons from the second electrode and transporting the electrons to the light-emitting layer, wherein the organic semiconductor device further includes a crystallinity controlling member which is a series of discontinuous clusters along the top surface of the hole injection layer that is in contact with the first metal electrode, for controlling an orientation of crystalline molecules. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100262622 | INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH INFORMATION PROVIDING PROGRAM IS RECORDED - In an information providing apparatus, a keyword attribute file KF which brings a keyword which can be inputted by a user, a keyword attribute corresponding to the keyword, and a judgment value in correspondence with each other is referred to, and based on a comparison of a judgment value corresponding to an input keyword with a judgment reference value, a keyword attribute is extracted, and based on the extracted keyword attribute and an input keyword, information to be searched is searched, and provided to a user. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100255263 | GAS BARRIER FILM AND PROCESS FOR PREPARATION OF THE SAME - Disclosed is a gas barrier film for preventing penetration of gas or moisture or the like. Such a gas barrier film includes a substrate and a gas barrier layer, which is formed on at least one main face of the substrate and has a recess part, wherein an embedment part is formed by charging a filler into the recess part. The embedment part is completed by forming the embedment layer made of the filler on the gas barrier layer having the recess part, and depositing the filler in the recess part of the gas barrier layer while contacting the embedment layer with a cleaning device to expand and remove the embedment layer. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100250674 | CONTENT DELIVERY APPARATUS, CONTENT DELIVERY METHOD, AND CONTENT DELIVERY PROGRAM - In a content delivery method in a P2P network, a node managing a content causes a downstream node to manage a volume of a divided content; this volume is according to a situation of the downstream node (for example, a line speed to which a node is connected). A node managing a content holds, as management information, partial information of the divided content managed by its own node, and location information indicative of a location at which a content itself is presented. Next, when a content transfer request is sent to a node managing a content, the node accesses a content holding node in accordance with the held location information, downloads a volume of a divided content indicated by the partial information, and uploads the volume of the divided content to a node that sends the content transfer request. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100250110 | SELECTION ITEM DISPLAY DEVICE, SELECTION ITEM DISPLAY METHOD, SELECTION ITEM DISPLAY PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH SELECTION ITEM DISPLAY PROGRAM IS RECORDED - A selection item display device allows the user to select a desired selection item in the case where a surrounding situation changes, with improved operability. The device includes: storage element for storing a selection item; retrieval element for retrieving a selection item to be displayed based on a surrounding situation from the storage element; generation element for generating an image of the retrieved selection item; display element for displaying the generated image of the selection item on a display screen; designation element for designating a selection item to be maintained from the displayed selection item; and holding element for holding the designated selection item. Even if the surrounding situation changes, and the retrieval element changes the selection item to be displayed, the generation element leaves the image of the selection item to be maintained on the basis of an instruction from the holding element on the display screen. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100245345 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100243992 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE - [Problem to be Solved by the Invention] An organic electroluminescence device having a longer drive life is provided. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100239232 | INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information reproducing apparatus ( | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100238775 | RECORDING MEDIUM REPRODUCING DEVICE, A METHOD FOR REPRODUCING A RECORDING MEDIUM, A PROGRAM FOR REPRODUCING A RECORDING MEDIUM, AND A RECORDING MEDIUM - Problems In a recording medium such as DVD, for example, when groups having the same title or the same song and different numbers of channels are recorded, all the groups are reproduced, further, when a DVD author mistakes, contents which are not needed to be reproduced are reproduced. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100238142 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DISPLAY PANEL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - An active matrix drive organic EL display panel comprising an organic TFT with a configuration that prevents the occurrence of current leak, and a manufacturing method thereof are proposed. The organic EL display panel comprises: a substrate; an organic EL element comprising in order from the substrate, a first display electrode, an organic functional layer and a second display electrode; and an organic TFT for driving and controlling the organic EL element comprising in order from the substrate a gate electrode, a gate insulation film, source/drain electrodes, and an organic semiconductor layer. The organic EL display panel further comprises: a first bank having a first window section for demarcating a light emitting region on which the organic functional layer is provided on the first display electrode and a second window section demarcating a transistor region on which the organic semiconductor layer is provided between the source/drain electrodes; and a second bank located in the perimeter of the second window section and protruding in a direction that intersects with the main surface of the substrate. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100235427 | CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM, SERVER DEVICE, CONTENT DELIVERY METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A system of the invention is configured to communicably connect a server device that holds content data and a client apparatus that requests to reproduce the content data. The server device transmits a list of the reproducing identifier to the client apparatus, receives the reproducing identifier included in the list from the client apparatus, and acquires the content identifier and the reproducing mode information stored in the content information storage unit corresponding to the reproducing identifier received by the request receiving unit. The server device acquires the content data stored in the content storage unit corresponding to the content identifier, and transmits the content data to the client apparatus in the reproducing mode designated by the reproducing mode information. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100233965 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Upon controlling a directivity based on antenna elements of antennas, a communication coverage spread is calculated at step, a communication coverage limitation value is settled based on positional information at step, and the calculated communication coverage spread and the settled communication coverage limitation value are compared with each other at step. When the calculated communication coverage spread is larger than the communication coverage limitation value, the former is controlled to become equal to or less than the latter, and when the calculated communication coverage spread is smaller than the communication coverage limitation value, the former is controlled to reach the latter or a value at least near it. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100232598 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information recording medium ( | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100232278 | RECORDING AND REPRODUCING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS - A recording method which optically records two-dimensional data including a positioning mark and data area in a recording medium. In this method, the state of the positioning mark is changed from a first state to at least one second state different from the first state every given number of recording times of such two-dimensional data. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100232271 | OPTICAL RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - An optical recording/reproducing system | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100231234 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING DIRECTION OF POLARIZATION OF FERROELECTRIC MATERIAL - A device for detecting polarization direction of a ferroelectric is provided. From a measurement signal provided through a probe disposed in contact with or near the surface of a ferroelectric, a demodulation means generates a detection signal having a signal level corresponding to a capacitance change of the ferroelectric due to application of an alternating electric field to a capacitor component formed in the ferroelectric directly below the probe. A synchronous detection means performs synchronous detection of the detection signal based on a synchronous signal and generates a polarization direction detection signal corresponding to the polarization direction of the ferroelectric. A pseudo-noise signal generation means generates a pseudo-noise signal with the same frequency as that of the electric field signal and a different phase and amplitude therefrom. The demodulation means includes a noise component removal means that removes noise components in the measurement signal through signal arithmetic processing with the pseudo-noise signal. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100228863 | CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND ITS CONTROL METHOD - A content distribution system in which, when it is detected that an incommunicable area is present in a moving direction of a client terminal, the client terminal transmits a change request signal, requesting an increase of the confirmation interval of a keep-alive signal, to the content distribution server before the client terminal enters the incommunicable area. When the change request signal is received during distribution of content data, the content distribution server increases the confirmation interval of the keep-alive signal, thereby allowing the session of content distribution to be maintained while the client terminal is in motion within the incommunicable area. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100226230 | RECORDING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A recording apparatus includes: a first strategy calculating device (SCD) for calculating a first optimum strategy allowing jitter recorded at a first speed to satisfy a desired condition by adjusting a first standard strategy; a second SCD for calculating a second standard strategy at a second speed by performing clock cycle conversion according to a difference between the first and second speeds on the first standard strategy; a second power calculating device for calculating a second optimum power used at the second speed; a third SCD for calculating a second optimum strategy allowing jitter recorded at the second speed to satisfy a desired condition, by adjusting the second standard strategy; and a fourth SCD for calculating a third optimum strategy at a third speed, based on each of a difference between the first standard and optimum strategies and a difference between the second standard and optimum strategies. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100225564 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device includes plural display elements with display screens on which two-dimensional images are displayed. Optical paths of display light for forming the two-dimensional images are disposed to overlap each other. An image transmission panel is provided on the optical paths for transmitting the display light to display the two-dimensional images in a space on a side opposite to the display screens. An image pickup element is integrated with the display screens of the display element or provided in the vicinity of the display screens for picking up images of objects entering the space through the display panel. The image display device has a position specifying element for specifying positions of the picked-up objects in accordance with results of the images picked up by the image pickup element, and an image control element for controlling the display element to switch the two-dimensional images based on the specified positions. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100220871 | SPEAKER DEVICE - A speaker device comprises a first speaker (SP | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100220579 | INFORMATION RECORDING DEVICE AND INFORMATION RECORDING PROGRAM - It is an object to provide an information recording device capable of recording recording information with good recording property without wasting a recording region on an optical disk and capable of clearly forming visible portion. In a case where the visible portion is formed by using a recording pit supporting recording information Sr, the information recording device comprises an output unit | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100220576 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCTION DEVICE - The present invention makes possible a compact optical pickup device that eliminates effects due to the position where a sub beam is projected during tracking compensation, and provides for stable tracking compensation. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100220569 | FINAL AREA RETRIEVING APPARATUS, INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS, FINAL AREA RETRIEVING METHOD, AND FINAL AREA RETRIEVING PROGRAM - A final area retrieving apparatus, an information reproducing apparatus, a final area retrieving method, and a final area retrieving program are provided, which are capable of decreasing a period of time necessary for acquiring information necessary for reproduction of optical disc. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100214951 | NETWORK CONFIGURATION INVESTIGATING DEVICE, NETWORK CONFIGURATION INVESTIGATING PROGRAM, NETWORK CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND NETWORK CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A network configuration management method has a step of sequentially propagating a network ticket that a network configuration monitoring node has issued to each of a predetermined number of nodes (predetermined number of nodes| 08-26-2010 | |
| 20100211857 | ERROR CORRECTION DECODING DEVICE AND REPRODUCTION DEVICE - A decoding device which performs error correction decoding of encoded data formed from a combination of an outer code for first error correction and an inner code for second error correction is disclosed. The decoding device has: a demodulator for creating a data series of likelihood information values; a second error correction decoder for creating a hard decision value series by executing repetitive decoding for the second error correction based on the likelihood information values; and a first error correction decoder for detecting a lost bit in the hard decision value series and creating an erasure flag indicating the position of the detected lost bit. The second error correction decoder, according to the erasure flag, executes the repetitive decoding based on a likelihood information value not corresponding to the position of the lost bit among the data series of the likelihood information values and a predetermined value that invalidates the likelihood information value corresponding to the position of the lost bit. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100208934 | SPEAKER DEVICE - Objects are to make a speaker device smaller than heretofore in size, in profile, and in weight, and to reproduce sound in high quality. The speaker device includes: a diaphragm which has an inner rim connected to a voice coil bobbin and an outer rim connected to a frame through an edge, and is shaped so that a peak portion is formed between the inner rim and the outer rim, which are positioned at an acoustic radiation side in comparison with the peak portion; and an inner magnet type magnetic circuit for driving a voice coil which is arranged on the voice coil bobbin connected to the inner rim of the diaphragm. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100208835 | DIVERSITY RECEIVER AND DIVERSITY RECEPTION METHOD - An orthogonal signal from a modulated signal of the digital terrestrial broadcast is produced. Then, an adder carrier-combines the orthogonal signal and an interpolated signal into an interpolated orthogonal signal, which is in turn demodulated by a DQPSK demodulation section. A demodulated signal is produced from a modulated signal of the digital satellite broadcast. A transmission path coding section produces transport stream data. A DQPSK mapping section re-demodulates the transport stream data to produce an orthogonal signal. A sync detection section asynchronously detects a demodulated signal demodulated by the DQPSK demodulation section and a demodulated signal produced by a time deinterleave section in the transmission path coding section. The detected time difference is set as a delay time of a delay circuit so as to delay the orthogonal signal, thereby producing the interpolated signal to be carrier-combined by the adder in order to provide improved reception quality. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100203918 | SPEAKER DEVICE - A speaker apparatus that even when being relatively thin and compact, realizes reduction of generation of abnormal noise by contact between a lead wire and another member, reduction of breakage of lead wire and reduction of deterioration of sound quality. The speaker apparatus is one comprising magnetic circuit ( | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100202266 | RECORDING DEVICE AND METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A recording apparatus ( | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100202257 | REPRODUCTION OUTPUT CONTROL APPARATUS, REPRODUCTION OUTPUT CONTROL METHOD, OR THE LIKE - There are provided a reproduction output control apparatus, a reproduction output control method, a reproduction output control processing program and so on which can quickly (in a short time) search a desirable program information out of program information such as a plurality of song data which are continuously recorded on a recording means. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100201880 | SHOT SIZE IDENTIFYING APPARATUS AND METHOD, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A shot size identifying device ( | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100197253 | BROADCASTING RECEIVER, BROADCASTING IDENTIFICATION METHOD, BROADCASTING IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREFOR - While sequentially changing the selected channel, a digital broadcast judgment part collects level value V | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100195863 | SPEAKER - A speaker having a drive cone and a diaphragm which can deal with higher output. The speaker comprises a frame, a magnetic circuit section, and a vibrating section. The magnetic circuit section is fixed to the frame. The vibrating section is housed in the frame and includes a drive cone ( | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100191452 | ROUTE SEARCHING APPARATUS, ROUTE SEARCHING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A route searching device performs route searching according to a search condition such as, for example, a user specification and calculates candidate routes. For the obtained candidate routes, a facility learning effect index is calculated on a per-route basis, and the candidate routes are presented according to the facility learning effect indices. The facility learning effect index here indicates, for each of the candidate routes, the degree of learning effect of learning the facilities existing on the route. Accordingly, a route can be obtained that has a high learning effect of learning the facilities on the route. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100189417 | RECORDING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A recording device ( | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100189415 | RECORDING MEDIUM REPRODUCING DEVICE AND REPRODUCING METHOD - [Problems] An object of the present invention is to perform switching of audio and subtitle and so on automatically or by simple operation when a recording medium such as a DVD, on which a plurality of streams of audio and subtitle are recorded, is reproduced. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100188950 | INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A disc-shaped information recording medium includes a first recording layer (L0 layer) having (I) a first trial write area ( | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100188393 | PIXEL DRIVING APPARATUS AND PIXEL DRIVING METHOD - In a pixel driving apparatus and a pixel driving method in which one frame period is time divided to a plurality of subframe periods, and gradation expression is performed by the sum of the turned-on periods of one or a plurality of subframe periods, occurrence of noise caused by the gradation expression is suppressed without increasing the number of subframes. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100187516 | ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - An organic semiconductor device of preventing invasion of hydrogen or hydrogen ion into the device and having a long-term reliability, and a method of manufacturing thereof are provided by giving a hydrogen absorbing layer which absorbs hydrogen or hydrogen ion, and which does not release the absorbed hydrogen or hydrogen ion. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100182219 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100180197 | TEXT DISPLAY CONTROLLER AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - The control device ( | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100177925 | Speaker Device - A speaker device includes a diaphragm having an inner rim connected to a voice coil bobbin and an outer rim connected to a frame through an edge, wherein the diaphragm is shaped so that a peak portion is formed with an acute angle folded back between the inner rim and the outer rim which are positioned at an acoustic radiation side in comparison with the peak portion. The cross-sectional shape of the diaphragm extending from the peak portion to the inner rim is formed with a convex shape toward an acoustic radiation side, and also that of the diaphragm extending from the peak portion to the outer rim is formed with substantially straight shape or convex shape toward the acoustic radiation side. The speaker device lower in profile allows high-quality sound to be reproduced, in particular, the high range of frequency characteristic of the sound pressure to be improved. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100177619 | PICKUP DEVICE - A pickup device which, focusing a ray bundle on a track of a recording surface of an optical recording medium to form a light spot, comprises a detection optical system including a photo detector to receive return light reflected from the light spot via an objective lens and perform photoelectric conversion. The photo detector has at least two photoreceptor sections positioned axis-symmetrical with respect to a detection-side division line extending through an optical axis of the return light and parallel to the track. A dividing element placed in an optical path between the photo detector and the objective lens includes at least two inner divided areas positioned axis-symmetrical with respect to a deflection-side division line extending through the optical axis of the return light and parallel to the track, and at least two outer divided areas positioned sandwiching the inner divided areas and axis-symmetrical with respect to the deflection-side division line. The inner divided areas are formed such that parts of a light beam from the other region than overlap regions, divided axis-symmetrically along the deflection-side division line, are exchanged in position across the detection-side division line and directed to the photoreceptor sections of the photo detector so as to be axis-symmetrical with respect to the detection-side division line. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100177612 | INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS AND COPY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - An information recording apparatus mutually communicates with a number-of-copying-times management server via a communication network, the server performing management by correlating medium identification information that enables unique identification of an information recording medium, with information related to number of allowable copying times of digital contents recorded on the information recording medium. The apparatus acquires the medium identification information of the inserted information recording medium, and acquires information related to the number of allowable copying times correlated with the acquired medium identification information, from the number-of-copying-times management server, for recordation in a storage unit. When a user's request is received to display the information related to the number of allowable copying times, the information related to the number of allowable copying times recorded in the storage unit is correlated with the medium identification information and outputted to and displayed on a display unit. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100176384 | Organic luminescence transistor device and manufacturing method thereof - The invention is an organic luminescence transistor device including: a substrate; an assistance electrode layer provided on a side of an upper surface of the substrate; an insulation film provided on a side of an upper surface of the assistance electrode layer; a first electrode provided locally on a side of an upper surface of the insulation film, the first electrode covering an area of a predetermined size; an electric-charge-injection inhibiting layer provided on an upper surface of the first electrode, the electric-charge-injection inhibiting layer having a shape larger than that of the first electrode in a plan view; an electric-charge injection layer provided on the side of an upper surface of the insulation film at an area not provided with the first electrode or the electric-charge-injection inhibiting layer and on an upper surface of the electric-charge-injection inhibiting layer; a luminescent layer provided on an upper surface of the electric-charge injection layer; and a second electrode layer provided on a side of an upper surface of the luminescent layer. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100174917 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND CUMPUTER PROGRAM - An information recording medium ( | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100174705 | STAY LOCATION CONNECTION INFORMATION REGISTER DEVICE, STAY LOCATION CONNECTION INFORMATION REGISTER METHOD, STAY LOCATION CONNECTION INFORMATION REGISTER PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A stay location connection information register device retains history information including user information and stay location information. A history information searching unit searches history information coincident with a predetermined condition. A stay location connection information generating unit generates link information of the stay location by the unit of the user information with using the history information searched by the history information searching unit. Then, the stay location connection information register unit registers the stay location connection information. In this manner, since the stay location connection information register device generates the link information of the stay location with using the history information, the stay location connection information register device can define a correspondent relation between the stay locations. Therefore, the stay location connection information register device can supply the search result based on the association between the stay locations with using the above link information. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100172222 | INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS, SERVO ADJUSTING METHOD, AND THE LIKE - The present invention provides an information processing apparatus, a servo adjustment method, and the like realizing reduced time required for servo adjustment. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100172003 | HOLOGRAM APPARATUS AND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING METHOD OF THE SAME - A hologram apparatus which comprises a light generating unit that generates coherent reference light and coherent signal light modulated according to information to be recorded; an interference optical system that irradiates the signal light and the reference light toward the record medium to intersect therein, thus forming a diffraction grating inside the record medium by an optical interference pattern; and a photodetector that detects reproduced light. The hologram apparatus further comprises a second interference optical system that irradiates second signal light and second reference light to intersect inside the record medium, wherein the second signal light and the second reference light are placed in the plane of incidence including the signal light and the reference light of the interference optical system so as to be opposite to the signal light and the reference light with the record medium sandwiched in between; and a second photodetector that detects reproduced light. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100170950 | INFORMATION CODE READING DEVICE AND READING METHOD, AND INFORMATION CODE DISPLAY READING SYSTEM - It is an object to provide a reading apparatus of an information code, a reading method, and a display reading system of the information code, in which even if symbol areas serving as references when sampling a photograph image signal obtained by photographing a display screen are not provided in the information code, information code data representing the information code can be obtained from the photograph image signal. When reading the information code displayed on a display apparatus, first, an image signal obtained when all pixel cells of the display apparatus have emitted light is extracted as a first image signal from the photograph image signal obtained by photographing the display screen of the display apparatus. Further, an image signal obtained for a period of time during which the information code is displayed is extracted as a second image signal from the photograph image signal. By detecting a point of a center of gravity of the light emission of each of the pixel cells based on the first photograph image signal and sampling the second photograph image signal at the point of the center of gravity of the light emission, the information code data representing the information code is obtained. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100166906 | INPRINT EQUIPMENT - An imprinting apparatus which includes a mold having a recess/protrusion pattern formed on a surface thereof and a pressure-applying piston that makes the mold and a transfer substrate having a transfer layer thereon come into close contact and that applies pressure to transfer shapes of the recess/protrusion pattern to the transfer layer. The imprinting apparatus comprises a mold holding unit having a mold holding surface to hold the mold; a substrate holding unit having a substrate holding surface opposed to the mold holding surface to hold the transfer substrate; and a support unit supporting the mold holding unit and the substrate holding unit in such a way as to be able to get closer to and farther from each other. The pressure-applying piston is movable along a direction intersecting with the mold holding surface and the substrate holding surface and has a pressure-applying surface that can come into contact with one of the mold holding unit and the substrate holding unit when applying pressure, and a plurality of engaging units that can engage with one of the mold holding unit and the substrate holding unit when moving back. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100165810 | NOISE REMOVING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND OPTICAL PICKUP - An optical pickup includes: light collecting element for selectively collecting main and sub beams emitted toward an optical disc formed by layering at least first and second recording layers, onto one of first and second recording layers; main and sub light reception elements receiving the main and sub light from the main and sub beams collected from the optical disc and outputting main and sub light signals; tracking error signal generator for generating a tracking error signal according to the sub light signal; noise component calculator for calculating a noise component generated by interference between the sub light and an invalid light attributed to at least one of the applied main and sub beams and received together with the sub light and the sub light from the other of the first and the second recording layer; and noise remover for removing the calculated noise component from the tracking error signal. | 07-01-2010 |
