| SONY CORPORATION Patent applications |
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| 20120036475 | MENU DISPLAY APPARATUS, MENU DISPLAY METHOD AND PROGRAM - Provided is a menu display apparatus that displays a menu of a plurality of applications, including an acquisition unit that acquires display data of content information representing content to be displayed in the menu of the content managed by each application from each application and a display controller that controls a display of the content information in each area according to setting conditions for the area provided for each of the applications in the menu and the display information of the content information acquired from each application. Accordingly, the display of the content information to be displayed in the menu in each area is controlled according to setting conditions for the area provided for each application in the menu and display data of the content information acquired from each application. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120036436 | CONTEXTUAL WEB PAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for controlling a media generation system where a media event may be selected via a stateless software module, the system receiving a media event protocol file corresponding to the selected media event. The media generation system generates the media event based on the received media event protocol file. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120036431 | SERVER APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC BOOK PROVIDING SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC BOOK PROVIDING METHOD, ELECTRONIC BOOK DISPLAYING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - [Object] To lead a user to various types of information easily with an electronic book as a starting point. [Solving Means] A server apparatus includes a storage, a communication section, and a controller. The storage stores an electronic book obtained by digitizing a book having at least one page in which at least one information item is represented, and associated information that is associated with the information item. The communication section communicates with an external electronic apparatus. The controller generates, when the electronic book is displayed by the external electronic apparatus and the information item of the electronic book is designated, an electronic book unit by adding first metadata to the information item so that display processing of the associated information is executed on the external electronic apparatus, and controls the communication section to transmit the generated electronic book unit to the external electronic apparatus. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120036381 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, POWER CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device including a memory, an OS that acquires location information of data stored in the memory, and a BIOS that performs power control to cause the memory to transition to a power saving state with reference to the location information acquired by the OS. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120036350 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a data processing unit which generates content to be distributed to a client; and a communication unit which sends the content generated by the data processing unit, wherein the data processing unit combines a plurality of watermarking record blocks, each of which is obtained by embedding watermarking data into a block as section data of the content, generates content in which different watermarking data sequences are set in units of distribution processing with respect to the clients, and sends the generated content to the clients through the communication unit. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120036284 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND DIGITAL INTERFACE DETERMINING METHOD OF CONNECTED EXTERNAL DEVICE - [Object] To determine the digital interface of a connected external device at a circuit, whereby the operation of a data transmission unit can be switched in accordance with the digital interface of the connected external device. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120036168 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A configuration is provided wherein the URI of a file to be obtained is recorded in a playlist, thereby enabling a file to be obtained using the URI. An arrangement is made wherein a playback data storage file such as a stream file or the like, or a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) that is file identification information of a clip information file is recorded in a playlist that is the playback control information of recorded data as to a medium. With playback processing, a URI is read out from the playlist, and a file to be subjected to the playback processing can be obtained based on the URI. Regardless of the same device, the specification information of a file in an arbitrary place can be set in the playlist, whereby playback processing can be performed by obtaining a file from various places. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120036047 | SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a service providing system, an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program. An information processing apparatus (base unit) | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120034723 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A method of forming a display device including source/drain electrodes on a substrate, a pixel electrode, an insulating partition wall layer, a channel-region semiconductor layer. The source/drain electrodes and the pixel electrode are formed on the substrate and in contact with each other. The insulating partition wall layer is formed on the substrate and provided with a first opening extending to between the source electrode and the drain electrode and a second opening formed on the pixel electrode and extending to the pixel electrode. The channel-region semiconductor layer is formed on the bottom of the first opening. The insulating film is formed on the partition wall layer so as to cover the first opening including the channel-region semiconductor layer. The oriented film covers the first opening from above the insulating film and the second opening from the pixel electrode. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120034720 | Vertical cavity surface emitting laser and method of manufacturing the same - A Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser capable of decreasing the lowering of the yield due to displacement and separation of a pedestal without enormous increase of the threshold value and more difficult manufacturing process is provided. A base of a mesa spreads over the top face of a lower DBR layer. The base is a non-flat face in which end faces of a plurality of layers are exposed. The non-flat face is generated due to etching unevenness in forming the mesa, and is in a state of a step in which end faces of a low-refractive index layer and a high-refractive index layer included in the lower DBR layer are alternatively exposed. At least one of the layers exposed in the non-flat face in the plurality of low-refractive index layers included in the lower DBR layer is an oxidation inhibition layer. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120034641 | BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD - A biological information acquisition method includes: measuring an amount of nicotinamide metabolite in a sample collectable from a living organism in a minimally invasive manner; and acquiring information concerning the living organism based on the measured amount of nicotinamide metabolite. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120034531 | ELECTROLYTE AND SECONDARY BATTERY - A secondary battery capable of safely improving a battery performance is provided. An electrolyte with which a separator | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120034510 | BATTERY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A method for producing a battery includes forming a space by expanding a liquid housing portion, the liquid housing portion being present at one end of an outer package that houses a battery element, through supply of gas from an opening portion formed at the other end of the outer package; injecting an electrolytic solution from the opening portion to store the electrolytic solution in the space of the liquid housing portion; degassing the outer package through the opening portion in a vacuum state; sealing the opening portion; and impregnating the electrolytic solution into the battery element. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033944 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed is an information processing device including: a communication section that performs data communication; and a data processing section that performs a process of transmitting reproduction data and reproduction control information to a client via the communication section and reproducing the reproduction data based on the reproduction control information in the client, wherein the data processing section performs a process of converting the reproduction control information into a data format analyzable by the client and transmitting the converted reproduction control information to the client. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033938 | DIGITAL RECORDING APPARATUS AND COPYRIGHT PROTECTION METHOD THEREOF - The CGMS unacceptable recorder accepts transmission frames only when the copyright protection information in a transmission header transmitted to the IEEE1394 serial bus indicates copy free. The CGMS acceptable recorder accepts transmission frames when the copyright protection information in the transmission header indicates copy free. When the copyright protection information in the transmission header indicates compliance with the copyright information contained in the content of the transmission frame, the copyright information in the content is fetched based on the signal format type information of the transmission header. As described herein above, a copy management information changeable apparatus such as a computer cannot accept data other than copy free signals from the digital interface. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033827 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A signal processing device includes a noise analysis unit for analyzing a frequency component of a noise signal obtained by converting a collected sound into an electrical signal, a plurality of filtering units for carrying out predetermined filtering operations on the noise signal on the basis of an analysis result, and an output control unit for temporally varying a synthesis rate of outputs of the plurality of filtering units according to a change in the analysis result of the noise analysis unit. When the analysis result of the noise analysis unit changes, one filtering unit starts a predetermined filtering operation by characteristics different from those of other filtering units that carry out predetermined filtering operations on the noise signal according to the change in the analysis result of the noise analysis unit. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033774 | CDR circuit, reception apparatus, and communication system - Disclosed herein is a CDR circuit including delay elements, including: a divider having a delay element and configured to extract a clock by using, as a trigger, a data input with a signal transition regularly inserted; and a latch configured to latch an input data signal in synchronization with the clock extracted by the divider. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033749 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - There is provided a wireless communication device that includes a first communication portion that performs non-contact communication with an other wireless communication device and receives unit specific data indicating the other wireless communication device's communication function; a second communication portion that can communicate wirelessly faster than the first communication portion; a determination portion that determines, based on the unit specific data, whether the other wireless communication device's communication function is compatible with the second communication portion; and a format conversion portion that converts a format of transmission data that is transmitted to the other wireless communication device to a format that reduces the volume of the transmission data. If the determination portion determines that the other wireless communication device's communication function is not compatible with the second communication portion, the first communication portion transmits the transmission data to the other wireless communication device in the converted data format. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033748 | Transmission circuit and communication system - A transmission circuit includes: a plurality of lane blocks arranged in parallel to each other configured to convert parallel data supplied from a corresponding lane into serial data and output the serial data; and a clock enabler block including at least one clock enabler for outputting a drive clock phase-locked with a reference clock to the plurality of lane blocks after a plurality of cycles of the drive clock in response to an enable signal. Each of the plurality of lane blocks has a divider for dividing the drive clock supplied from the clock enabler block to generate a divide clock and a load signal, and a parallel-to-serial converter for converting parallel data supplied from the corresponding lane into serial data in synchronization with the divide clock and the load signal generated by the divider and the drive clock generated by the clock enabler block. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033596 | COMMUNICATION UNIT, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAVING POWER THEREIN - A communication unit comprises a receiver for receiving a message sent on an allocation channel, packet identifying logic, capable of identifying a data type of the received message, operably coupled to buffer logic for buffering data packets to be sent to the second communication unit. In an active mode of operation, the receiver of the communication unit is capable of intermittently receiving the message sent on the allocation channel and transition to continuously receive the message sent on the allocation channel in response to either: the buffer logic identifying that data packets are to be transferred to the second communication unit; or the packet identifying logic receiving a communication resource allocation message and identifying resource allocation data therein. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033447 | BACKLIGHT UNIT - Provided is a device including a backlight unit including a LED-mounted board having LEDs as a backlight source, a light guide plate to which the LEDs are disposed to face, and which has a light receiving surface to which light from the LEDs incidents and an emission surface from which the incident light is output, and a frame which holds the light guide plate. The frame | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033302 | OPTICAL ELEMENT, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL ELEMENT, ILLUMINATION DEVICE, WINDOW MEMBER, AND FITTING - An optical element includes a first surface, a second surface positioned to face the first surface, and a plurality of reflecting surfaces arrayed in a first region defined by the first surface and the second surface, wherein the reflecting surfaces have a first length in a first direction vertical to the first surface and are arrayed at a pitch in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, light incident on one of the first surface and the second surface is reflected by the reflecting surfaces toward the other surface, and predetermined parameters satisfy predetermined relational formulae representing conditions for ensuring total reflection at the reflecting surfaces and for avoiding total reflection at a light emergent surface. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033129 | TRANSMISSION AND RECEIVING APPARATUS AND TRANSMISSION AND RECEIVING METHOD - A transmission and receiving apparatus includes: a receiving section receiving a content signal conforming to a predetermined transmission standard, and restoring a video signal included in the content signal to output the video signal; a video-signal processing section performing predetermined processing on the video signal output from the receiving section; a selection section selecting either a signal path allowing the video signal to go through the video-signal processing section or a signal path not allowing the video signal to go through the video-signal processing section; and a transmission section converting the video signal having gone through the signal path selected by the selection section into a content signal conforming to the predetermined transmission standard, and transmitting the content signal. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033119 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging device having a backside illuminated structure, includes: a pixel region in which pixels each having a photoelectric conversion portion and a plurality of pixel transistors are arranged in a two-dimensional matrix; an element isolation region isolating the pixels which is provided in the pixel region and which includes a semiconductor layer provided in a trench by an epitaxial growth; and a light receiving surface at a rear surface side of a semiconductor substrate which is opposite to a multilayer wiring layer. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033115 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE, IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an image-capturing apparatus including: an image-capturing device where pixels covered with first filters blocking light other than light in a first wavelength range among wavelength ranges obtained by two-dividing a specific wavelength range and second filters blocking light other than light in a second wavelength range are disposed based on a predetermined rule; a light-blocking filter being detachably disposed in an optical path of subject light toward the image-capturing device and blocking the light in the first wavelength range; a focus-alignment determination unit performing focus-alignment determination through phase-difference detection based on a signal generated by the image-capturing device when the light-blocking filter is inserted into the optical path; an image-generation unit generating an image based on a signal generated by the image-capturing device; and a controller controlling insertion/detachment of the light-blocking filter with respect to the optical path based on necessity of the focus-alignment determination. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033046 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an image processing apparatus including: an acquisition unit which acquires stereoscopic image information used for displaying a stereoscopic image on a display unit; a controller which performs one of a first control of allowing the stereoscopic image to be displayed as a planar image on the display unit and a second control of performing an image process on the stereoscopic image so that a parallax direction of the stereoscopic image and a parallax direction of the display unit are coincident with each other and allowing the stereoscopic image, which is subject to the image process, to be displayed on the display unit in the case where a parallax direction of the stereoscopic image displayed on the display unit and a parallax direction of the display unit are not coincident with each other based on the stereoscopic image information. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033042 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY OBSERVING SYSTEM, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an image display device including a high frame rate signal generating unit that increases a frame rate of an input video signal, a frame rate adjusting unit that adjusts a frame rate by synthesizing a black image at intervals of a predetermined frame on a high frame rate signal output from the high frame rate signal generating unit, and a display panel that displays a video based on a video signal output from the frame rate adjusting unit. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032916 | CAPACITIVE TOUCH MEMBER, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, AND CAPACITIVE TOUCH DETECTION APPARATUS - [Object] To provide a capacitive touch member having a flexible shape or a stereoscopic shape and includes a light transmissive detection electrode, a manufacturing method therefor, and a capacitive touch detection apparatus including the capacitive touch member. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032905 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus includes a display unit located on a front surface of a case. The information processing apparatus also includes a sensing unit located on a side surface of the case facing away from the display unit. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032903 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display section, a contact detection section which is provided on a surface at an opposite side of the display section, and an operation control section which decides, when a predetermined operation input is performed based on a detection result obtained by the contact detection section, not to execute predetermined operation processing corresponding to at least a part of the operation input to the contact detection section. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032874 | DISPLAY APPARATUS ASSEMBLY - A display apparatus assembly includes: a display apparatus; and a speed measuring device that measures a movement speed of the display apparatus, wherein the display apparatus includes a glass-type frame that is mounted on a head of an observer and two image displaying devices for left and right eyes that are mounted in the frame, each of the image displaying devices includes an image forming device, an optical system that forms light output from the image forming device to be parallel light, and an optical device to which light output from the optical system is incident and in which the light is guided so as to be output, and a convergence angle is changed based on the movement speed of the display apparatus that is measured by the speed measuring device. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032789 | MOBILE TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A mobile terminal includes a contactless communication unit configured to conduct contactless communication with an external communication apparatus, a plurality of memory units configured to store information to be transmitted to the communication apparatus, and a controller configured to control communication with the communication apparatus and set a priority order for the plurality of memory units when transmitting information from the plurality of memory units to the communication apparatus. The controller sets the priority order depending on the current time. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032778 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A communication system includes a transmission device configured to transmit a signal on which given biological information is superposed to a human body, and a reception device that receives the signal through the human body, and acquires the given biological information and measures biological information of the human body simultaneously from the signal that is received, so as to perform personal authentication with respect to the human body based on the given biological information that is acquired and the biological information that is measured. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032290 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A solid-state imaging device including: a semiconductor layer; a charge accumulation region configured to be formed inside the semiconductor layer and serve as part of a photodiode; and a reflective surface configured to be disposed inside or under the charge accumulation region and be so formed as to reflect light that has passed through the charge accumulation region and direct the light toward a center part of the charge accumulation region. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032289 | MAGNETIC MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A magnetic memory device including a memory layer having a vertical magnetization on the layer surface, of which the direction of magnetization is changed according to information; and a reference layer provided against the memory layer, and being a basis of information while having a vertical magnetization on the layer surface, wherein the memory device memorizes the information by reversing the magnetization of the memory layer by a spin torque generated when a current flows between layers made from the memory layer, the nonmagnetization layer and the reference layer, and a coercive force of the memory layer at a memorization temperature is 0.7 times or less than a coercive force at room temperature, and a heat conductivity of a center portion of an electrode formed on one side of the memory layer in the direction of the layer surface is lower than a heat conductivity of surroundings thereof. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032240 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A semiconductor device includes a field effect transistor including: a semiconductor substrate including a channel forming region; a gate insulating film formed at the channel forming region on the semiconductor substrate; a gate electrode formed over the gate insulating film; a first stress application layer formed over the gate electrode and applying stress to the channel forming region; a source/drain region formed on a surface layer portion of the semiconductor substrate at both sides of the gate electrode and the first stress application layer; and a second stress application layer formed over the source/drain region in a region other than at least a region of the first stress application layer and applying stress different from the first stress application layer to the channel forming region. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032174 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Disclosed herein is a semiconductor device including: a gate electrode on a substrate; a gate insulating film covering said gate electrode; an organic semiconductor layer disposed so as to be superposed above said gate electrode with said gate insulating film interposed between the organic semiconductor layer and the gate electrode within a width of said gate electrode; and a source electrode and a drain electrode having respective end parts disposed so as to be opposed to each other on said organic semiconductor layer in a state of said gate electrode being interposed between the source electrode and the drain electrode in a direction of the width of said gate electrode. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032154 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - Disclosed herein is a semiconductor device including: a gate electrode; a gate insulating film; an organic semiconductor layer; and source and drain electrodes. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120031660 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CIRCUIT BOARD AND CIRCUIT BOARD - A circuit board having a plurality of first holes formed in a semiconductor substrate to extend therethrough; insulating layers formed on a back surface of the semiconductor substrate in the plurality of first holes, the insulating layers between the back surface and the first holes being differed in thickness; second holes formed in the insulating layers to communicate with the first holes; and an electro-conductive layer formed inside of the first holes and the second holes to extend through the semiconductor substrate | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120031483 | DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF - A photoelectric conversion element including a dye-sensitized solar cell is provided. The photoelectric conversion element may include an electrode having a titanium oxide layer containing spindle-shaped particles of titanium oxide of anatase type. A process for manufacturing the photoelectric conversion device is also provided. The process may include steps of providing a transparent conductive layer, forming a titanium oxide layer containing particles of peroxo-modified titanium oxide of anatase type adjacent to the transparent conductive layer, and baking the titanium oxide layer. Forming the titanium oxide layer may include forming a porous titanium oxide layer and dipping the porous titanium oxide layer in a dispersion containing particles of peroxo-modified titanium oxide of anatase type to the porous titanium oxide layer. Alternatively, forming the titanium oxide layer may include applying a titanium oxide paste containing particles of peroxo-modified titanium oxide of anatase type to the transparent conductive layer. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120030773 | MANAGING DEVICE CONNECTIVITY AND NETWORK BASED SERVICES - Methods and apparatus are provided for interoperating a device with network based services. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting registration with a service account, providing a graphical display for user selection during output associated with content stored by the device, the graphical display identifying a network based service based on the service account, and detecting user selection of the graphical display, wherein the network based service relates to a network accessible third party service associated with the device based on the service account. The method may further include transmitting the content by the device based on the user selection to the network based service. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120030479 | STORAGE APPARATUS, HOST APPARATUS, AND STORAGE SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a storage apparatus including: a first storage block configured to record and hold encrypted content data and output the encrypted content data on an on-demand basis; a second storage block configured to record and hold a confidential title key; a title stream key generation block configured to generate a title stream key corresponding to a subject of encryption of the content data by use of the held confidential title key; and a communication block configured to transmit the generated title stream key with confidentiality thereof held. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120030254 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device including a search condition display controller configured to visually display search conditions that are adapted to be linked together based on an operation of a user, and to control display positions of the search conditions in response to an operation of the user, and a search processing section configured to change a logical expression of the search conditions in accordance with display states of the search conditions displayed by the search condition display controller, and to execute a search. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120030253 | DATA GENERATING DEVICE AND DATA GENERATING METHOD, AND DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - Disclosed herein is a data generating device including: a coding section coding a plurality of kinds of data, and generating coded data; an information generating section generating a plurality of pieces of group information indicating combinations of a plurality of kinds of the data; and a file generating section generating a coded data storage file including the coded data of the plurality of kinds of the data and the plurality of pieces of the group information. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120028796 | NICOTINE ADSORBENT, QUINOLINE ADSORBENT, BENZOPYRENE ADSORBENT, TOLUIDINE ADSORBENT, AND CARCINOGEN ADSORBENT - A nicotine adsorbent includes a porous carbon material having a specific surface area of 10 m | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120028588 | Communication Apparatus and Communication Method, Computer Program, and Communication System - To appropriately effect a coordination with a plurality of communication parties that perform a millimeter wave communication. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120028129 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SOLID ELECTROLYTE BATTERY AND SOLID ELECTROLYTE BATTERY - There are provided a method for manufacturing a solid electrolyte battery and a solid electrolyte battery, each of which can reduce the number of films and can obtain excellent performance. This method for manufacturing a solid electrolyte battery has a laminate formation step of forming a laminate in which a lower collector layer | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120027980 | OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM - An optical recording medium includes a support substrate and a semi-transmissive recording layer. The semi-transmissive recording layer includes a first dielectric layer, a semi-transmissive semi-reflective layer, a second dielectric layer, a phase change recording material layer, and a third dielectric layer that are sequentially stacked in that order on the support substrate. The semi-transmissive semi-reflective layer contains silver. The second dielectric layer has a stack structure including a lower layer disposed at the interface on the semi-transmissive semi-reflective layer side and an upper layer disposed on the phase change recording material layer side of the lower layer. The lower layer is composed of indium oxide or a composite oxide of indium oxide and tin oxide. The upper layer is composed of tantalum oxide, gallium oxide, zirconium oxide, or niobium oxide. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120027979 | OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM - An optical recording medium includes a support substrate, and a semi-transmissive recording layer including a first dielectric layer, a semi-transmissive semi-reflective layer, a second dielectric layer, a phase-change recording material layer, and a third dielectric layer which are laminated in that order from the support substrate side. The semi-transmissive semi-reflective layer is composed of silver, and the first dielectric layer includes a composite oxide layer using niobium oxide. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120027398 | LENS MODULE AND CAMERA - A lens module includes: a lens forming an image of an object; a lens holder to hold an outer peripheral side of the lens to allow reciprocal movement in an optical axis direction of the lens; a housing at least one end side of which is opened, which includes a cylindrical receiving part having an inner surface, one surface of which, at a lateral side, contacts one surface of the lens holder at the lateral side perpendicular to the optical axis direction, and which receives the lens holder in the receiving part to allow reciprocal movement in the optical axis direction of the lens and in a sliding state; and an actuator part including a movable part which is displaced by a displacement amount corresponding to a level of an applied drive voltage and reciprocates the lens holder received in the housing between a first position and a second position in the optical axis direction. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120027396 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, CONNECTION DETECTION METHOD AND CONNECTION DETECTION SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is an electronic device connected to a camera main body and having an actuator, the electronic device including: a detection terminal adapted to come into contact with a terminal used by the camera main body to detect the connection to the electronic device when the electronic device is connected to the camera main body; a detection section adapted to detect the voltage of the detection terminal; a connection detection section adapted to detect the connection status to the camera main body based on the change in the voltage detected by the detection section; and a control section adapted to control the operation of the actuator based on the connection or disconnection to or from the camera main body detected by the connection detection section. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120027377 | PLAYBACK APPARATUS AND PROGRAM CONTENT TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SYSTEM - Program content is easily selected on a playback apparatus having a plurality of program content recording locations. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120027376 | REPRODUCING APPARATUS, REPRODUCING METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - A reproducing apparatus includes a reproducing section that reproduces 3D contents stored on a content-recording medium; and a display controller that displays a 3D content in 2D images during a predetermined time period after the completion of a jumping operation in the case where the jumping operation has been performed on the 3D images of the 3D content during the reproduction performed on the 3D images of the 3D content by the reproducing section. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120027263 | HAND GESTURE DETECTION - A method for detecting presence of a hand gesture in video frames includes receiving video frames having an original resolution, downscaling the received video frames into video frames having a lower resolution, and detecting a motion corresponding to the predefined hand gesture in the downscaled video frames based on temporal motion information in the downscaled video frames. The method also includes detecting a hand shape corresponding to the predefined hand gesture in a candidate search window within one of the downscaled video frames using a binary classifier. The candidate search window corresponds to a motion region containing the detected motion. The method further includes determining whether the received video frames contain the predefined hand gesture based on the hand shape detection. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026822 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A semiconductor device has an electrical fuse element including: a first filament; a second filament connected to the first filament; and a series readout section connected to an end of the first filament opposite to another end of the first filament connected to the second filament, the series readout section reading series resistance of the first filament and the second filament. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026811 | Integrated semiconductor device - Disclosed herein is an integrated semiconductor device including: a first semiconductor device having a clock generation section, first data storage sections storing input data as transfer data, data output terminals provided, one for each of the first data storage sections, and a clock output terminal adapted to output a transfer clock; and a second semiconductor device having data input terminals which receive the transfer data, a clock input terminal adapted to receive the transfer clock, second data storage sections associated with the data input terminals respectively to store input data, and selection sections associated with the second data storage sections respectively to select either the transfer data or data shifted and output to the associated second data storage section in a first series circuit which is formed by connecting the second data storage sections in series, the selection sections supplying the selected data to the associated second data storage section. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026777 | Variable-resistance memory device - Disclosed herein is a variable-resistance memory device including: a memory-cell array employing a plurality of memory cells each including a storage element having a resistance varying in accordance with the direction of a voltage applied to the storage element and including an access transistor connected in series to the storage element between a bit line and a source line; and a voltage supplying circuit for setting a read voltage used for reading out the resistance of the storage element on a selected bit line connected to the memory cell serving as a read object in an operation to supply the read voltage to the selected bit line. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026662 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - Provided is an information processing apparatus includes an exterior plate and a sheet-like member. The exterior plate is formed of a plate-like member. The exterior plate has one of a transparent first area and a semi-transparent first area. The sheet-like member is arranged on a rear surface of the exterior plate. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026658 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: a front plate having a transparent board and a mounting frame, the mounting frame having a bottom attached to a back face of the transparent board and a side perpendicular to the bottom, the front plate having a long hole in the side; a display panel disposed on a back face side of the front plate; and a mounting member having a fixed section fixed to a back face of the display panel and a locking section extending from the fixed section and loosely inserted into the long hole of the mounting frame. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026595 | LENS FORMING METHOD, LENS, AND CAMERA MODULE - A lens forming method comprising the steps of: interposing an uncured resin between a lens molding plate and a flat-shaped transparent substrate that are disposed to face each other so as to keep an externally-opening distance; and performing light irradiation on the resin interposed between the lens molding plate and the transparent substrate so that curing of the resin advances from lens curved-surface parts on the lens molding plate toward a periphery thereof. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026591 | OPTICAL ELEMENT, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ANTI-REFLECTIVE OPTICAL COMPONENT, AND MASTER - In one example embodiment, an optical element includes a base and a large number of structures arranged on a surface of the base. In one example embodiment, the structures are depressions or projections with a conical form. In one example embodiment, the structures are arranged at a pitch shorter than or equal to a wavelength range of light in a use environment and lower portions of the structures adjacent to one another are connected to one another. In one example embodiment, an effective refractive index in a depth direction of the structures gradually increases toward the base and draws an S-shaped curved line. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026583 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image display apparatus includes: a transmissive display panel; a planar illumination device that illuminates the transmissive display panel from a rear side; and a parallax barrier that is provided between the transmissive display panel and the planar illumination device and separates an image displayed on the transmissive display panel into images for plural viewpoints, wherein the parallax barrier and the transmissive display panel are provided to be opposed at a predetermined distance, and an antireflection coating is provided on at least one of a surface of the transmissive display panel opposed to the parallax barrier and a surface of the parallax barrier opposed to the transmissive display panel. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026568 | LIQUID DEVICE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A liquid device includes: first and second substrates oppositely provided to each other at a distance; first and second partition walls provided between the first substrate and the second substrate to extend in a first and second directions, respectively; first and second electrodes respectively provided on both side surfaces of the second partition walls; liquids filling liquid chambers formed by the first and the second partition walls and having interfaces varying in response to voltages applied by the first and second electrodes; and first and second extraction electrodes wired on the first substrate along contact lines between the first substrate and the side surfaces of the second partition walls and externally extracted from joint parts between the first partition walls and the first substrate, wherein the first electrodes are connected to the first extraction electrodes, and the second electrodes are connected to the second extraction electrodes. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026440 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display device including an array of pixels each including first and second substrates, first and second electrodes formed on opposing surfaces of the first and second substrates, which surfaces are positioned opposite to the second and first substrates, first and second alignment restricting portions provided in the first and second electrodes, first and second alignment films covering respectively the first and second electrodes, the first and second alignment restricting portions, and the opposing surfaces of the first and second substrates, and a liquid crystal layer formed between the first and second alignment films and containing liquid crystal molecules, wherein, in each pixel, major axes of a group of liquid crystal molecules are positioned substantially in the same imaginary plane in a predetermined overlapped region between the first and second electrodes, and a pre-tilt is given to the liquid crystal molecules by at least the first alignment film. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026417 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device that can obtain natural parallax images with reduced limitation of polarization is provided. An imaging device | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026370 | Solid-state imaging device, method for driving solid-state imaging device, and electronic apparatus - Disclosed herein is a solid-state imaging device, including: a pixel array unit configured to be formed by two-dimensionally arranging unit pixels each having a photoelectric converter, a charge-voltage converter, a reset transistor to set the charge-voltage converter to a predetermined potential, and an amplification transistor to read out a signal converted by the charge-voltage converter; a signal processor configured to process a signal output from the unit pixel by using a reference voltage; and a setter configured to set a reset level obtained from a second unit pixel from which a signal level has been already read out as the reference voltage of the signal processor before readout of a signal level based on a signal charge accumulated or retained in the charge-voltage converter from a first unit pixel. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026345 | MECHANICAL NOISE SUPPRESSION APPARATUS, MECHANICAL NOISE SUPPRESSION METHOD, PROGRAM AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A mechanical noise suppression apparatus includes: a framing section adapted to divide an input signal into frames of a predetermined time length; a Fourier transform section adapted to transform framed signals obtained by the framing section into a frequency spectrum of a frequency domain; a mechanical noise reduction section adapted to correct the frequency spectrum of the input signal obtained by the Fourier transform section based on frequency spectrum information of mechanical noise to suppress the mechanical noise; an inverse Fourier transform section adapted to return the frequency spectrum corrected by the mechanical noise reduction section into framed signals of a time domain; and a frame synthesis section adapted to carry out frame synthesis of the framed signals of frames obtained by the inverse Fourier transform section to obtain an output signal in which the mechanical noise is suppressed. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026334 | IMAGE-CAPTURING APPARATUS AND IMAGE-CAPTURING METHOD - An image-capturing apparatus includes an image-capturing unit configured to capture image data of a subject and to store the captured image data in an image-capturing operation; a speed detector configured to detect speed information; and a controller configured to control the image-capturing unit so that, in an automatic image-capturing process that is not based on a shutter operation of a user, a distance moved by the image-capturing apparatus is computed on the basis of information from the speed detector, and the image-capturing operation is performed in response to the fact that a computation result indicating that the image-capturing apparatus has moved a predetermined distance is obtained. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026287 | RECEIVER, TRANSMITTER, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND DATA STRUCTURE - A transmitter according to the present invention includes a decoder that decodes a video signal received from outside and acquires identification information including a format concerning 2D or 3D of video from a layer corresponding to each frame of the video signal and a backend processor that performs spatial or temporal scaling of video data by the video data based on the identification information and, when the format of the video is switched, switches parameters for the scaling adjusting to switching timing. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026211 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - A LCD display includes a light source section, a LCD panel including a plurality of pixels each having sub-pixels of R, G, B, and Z, and a display control section including an output signal generation section. The display control section performs a display drive on the sub-pixels with use of the respective output video signals, and performs a lighting drive on the light source section with use of the lighting signal. The output signal generation section generates output video signals corresponding to the respective four colors, based on the input video signals, and generates a lighting signal of the light source section, based on the input video signals, to perform a predetermined dimming processing, based on both the input video signals and the generated lighting signal, and finally generates the output video signals through performing a predetermined color conversion processing, based on a resultant video signal from the dimming processing. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026210 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display includes: a light source section; a liquid crystal display panel including pixels each configured of sub-pixels of three colors red (R), green (G) and blue (B) and a sub-pixel of a color (Z) with higher luminance than the three colors; and a display control section including an output signal generation section performing a display drive on the sub-pixels of R, G, B and Z with use of the output picture signals. A chromaticity point of the emission light from the light source section is set to a position deviated from a white chromaticity point. In the case where the input picture signals are picture signals indicating white (W), the output signal generation section performs a chromaticity point adjustment to adjust, to the white chromaticity point, a chromaticity point of display light emitted from the liquid crystal display panel based on the emission light. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026201 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing device including a user interface that displays content and receives an input. The information processing apparatus controls the user interface to reduce a size of the displayed content based on a received input, and controls the user interface to display an operation corresponding to the content based on the size reduction. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026129 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication device includes an electrode, a communication unit configured to process a communication signal that is transmitted from/received by the electrode, and a control unit configured to control a communication operation in the electrode and the communication unit depending on a communication state. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026110 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An electronic apparatus includes a casing, a movement detection sensor that detects a movement of the casing, an input unit having an input operation surface, a pressing force detection sensor that detects a pressing force applied to the input unit through the input operation surface, and a control unit. The input unit is provided to the casing and capable of detecting an input operation position within the input operation surface. The control unit judges whether one of the pressing force detected and an amount of a change based on the change in the pressing force exceeds a first threshold value, performs a process of an input determination in a case where the one of the pressing force and the amount of the change in the pressing force exceeds the first threshold value, and changes the first threshold value in accordance with a degree of the movement of the casing detected. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026095 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus includes a display panel unit and a top plate. The display panel unit has a first surface with a display screen and a second surface opposed to the first surface. The top plate has a third surface in contact with the second surface, a fourth surface opposed to the third surface, and a fifth surface connecting an end portion of the third surface and an end portion of the fourth surface, the top plate containing a fluorescent dye to collect light toward the fifth surface. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025803 | GEOMETRY SENSOR AND INFORMATION INPUT DEVICE - A geometry sensor includes: a detection surface including a plurality of polymer sensor elements and configured to detect an external object, the polymer sensor elements being arranged side-by-side along one or more directions and each generating a voltage according to a deformation; and a detecting section detecting a surface geometry of a region in the external object that is in contact with the detection surface, based on the voltage obtained from each of the polymer sensor elements in the detection surface. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025760 | FEED SYSTEM, FEED APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A feed system includes a plurality of electronic devices; and a feed apparatus having a power transmission section performing electric power transmission using a magnetic field to the plurality of electronic devices. Each of the electronic devices includes a power receiving section receiving electric power transmitted from the power transmission section, and a switching section switching whether or not to carry out charging operation based on the electric power received by the power receiving section, according to time sharing control by a system control section. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025626 | WIRELESS FEEDING SYSTEM - The present disclosure provides a wireless feeding system including: a feeding device; and a power receiving device receiving power transmitted from the feeding device; wherein the feeding device includes a power generating section generating the power to be fed, and a resonant element fed with the power generated by the power generating section, the power receiving device includes a power receiving element receiving the power transmitted from the feeding device, and supplies power according to the received power to a load, and at least one of a power propagation path to the resonant element in the feeding device and a received power propagation path in the power receiving device has a frequency characteristic correcting circuit achieving a wider band by expanding a frequency characteristic while maintaining a Q-value as high sharpness of resonance of the power. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025391 | Semiconductor device and multilayer semiconductor device - Disclosed herein is a semiconductor device including: an input terminal receiving, if a preceding-stage semiconductor device is layered on a predetermined one of an upper layer and a lower layer, a bit train outputted from the preceding-stage semiconductor device; a semiconductor device identifier hold block holding a semiconductor device identifier for uniquely identifying the semiconductor device; a semiconductor device identifier computation block executing computation by using the semiconductor device identifier to update the semiconductor device identifier held in the semiconductor device identifier hold block according to a result of the computation; a control block once holding data of a bit train entered from the input terminal to control updating of the semiconductor device identifier executed by the semiconductor device identifier computation block based on the held data; and an output terminal outputting the bit train held in the control block to a succeeding-stage semiconductor device layered on another layer. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025175 | DIODE BASED ON ORGANIC MATERIAL - Semiconductor device, comprising a substrate with a first electrode and having a layer of organic material deposited over the substrate and the first electrode; and a second electrode deposited over the layer of organic material, wherein the second electrode comprises a dielectric layer that is separated from the layer of organic material by the material of the second electrode. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025173 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF FORMING MULTILAYER SEMICONDUCTOR THIN FILM - A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device including a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer, source/drain electrodes, and a channel-forming region that are disposed on a base is provided. The method includes the steps of forming a thin film by application of a mixed solution including a polymeric insulating material and a dioxaanthanthrene compound represented by structural formula (1) below; and subsequently drying the thin film to induce phase separation of the polymeric insulating material and the dioxaanthanthrene compound, thereby forming the gate insulating layer from the polymeric insulating material and the channel-forming region from the dioxaanthanthrene compound: | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025061 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD THEREOF AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate including a light receiving surface which is divided according to pixels arranged in a matrix shape and is formed with a photoelectric converting section; an electrochromic film which is formed on the semiconductor substrate on a light incident path corresponding to the photoelectric converting section, in a portion of pixels selected from the pixels, and has light transmittance changing from a first transmittance to a second transmittance according to voltage applied thereto; a lower electrode which is formed below the electrochromic film; and an upper electrode which is formed above the electrochromic film. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025059 | Solid-state imaging device and method of manufacturing the same, and imaging apparatus - A solid-state imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate provided with an effective pixel region including a light receiving section that photoelectrically converts incident light; an interconnection layer that is provided at a plane side opposite to the light receiving plane of the semiconductor substrate; a first groove portion that is provided between adjacent light receiving sections and is formed at a predetermined depth from the light receiving plane side of the semiconductor substrate; and an insulating material that is embedded in at least a part of the first groove portion. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120024587 | RADIATION AMOUNT REDUCING DEVICE - There is provided a radiation amount reducing device including a plurality of slit formed to a band-shape in a cover region, which is set in a plane of a metal plate capable of entirely covering at least one surface of an electromagnetic wave generation source, and spaced apart from each other, each of the plurality of slits including a drawing slit formed extending from a ferromagnetic field position towards a central part of the cover region and a coupling slit formed extending in parallel with another slit from an end in a central part direction of the cover region in the drawing slit. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120023450 | USER INTERFACE DEVICE AND USER INTERFACE METHOD - A user interface device includes: a display unit on which plural buttons are displayed; a touch panel integrally formed with the display unit and detecting input in plural input areas corresponding to respective display areas of the plural buttons; a pressure detection means for detecting water pressure; and a layout control means for changing a layout of the buttons and the input areas so as to reduce the number of the buttons and the input areas corresponding to the buttons in accordance with detected magnitude of water pressure when the water pressure detected by the pressure detection means is equal to or higher than a previously set threshold value. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023333 | INFORMATION TERMINAL APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - When transmitting position/time information calculated by means of a GPS function to a server apparatus, authentication is carried out with the server apparatus. The position/time information may be certified as legitimate measured by a portable apparatus with a GPS reception function employed by a user. When transmitting information related to the position and the time acquired from a portable phone terminal having the GPS function and a network function by means of the GPS function to the server apparatus, authentication is carried out between the portable phone terminal and the server apparatus. The position/time information is transmitted to the server apparatus, only if the server apparatus is authenticated as a legitimate counterpart for connection. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023267 | REPEATER DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD - A repeater device connected to source and sink devices includes: an input terminal receiving transmission data supplied from the source device; relay means for relaying the transmission data; an output terminal outputting the transmission data relayed by the relay means to the sink device; control means for setting an operating mode of a limited state where a dynamic function of causing a superficial dynamic change and allowing a user to visually confirm the superficial dynamic change is deactivated and only a static function of not causing the superficial dynamic change is activated in response to a user's predetermined operation even when the source and sink device are connected to each other in a controllable state; and switch means for switching activated and deactivated states of a connecting line to the sink device by controlling the ON and OFF states. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023204 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a communication apparatus, a communication method, and a communication system able to share content on the basis of metadata. A storage unit | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023159 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a communication control device comprising: a receiving unit that receives identification information for using a service, which has been read and transmitted by a wireless communication terminal, and user information transmitted from the wireless communication terminal; an identification unit that identifies a user of the wireless communication terminal who requests use of the service, a position of the user, the service the user desires to use, and functions necessary for providing the service to the user, based on the identification information and the user information received by the receiving unit; a selection unit that selects devices to be used for providing the service to the user, based on a result of identification by the identification unit; and a setting unit that sets a communication environment for each of the devices to be used which have been selected by the selection unit. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120021296 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE BATTERY AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE - A nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes: a positive electrode; a negative electrode; and a nonaqueous electrolyte, wherein the nonaqueous electrolyte contains a solvent, an electrolyte salt, and a polyacid and/or a polyacid compound, and the solvent contains a chain carboxylate with a total carbon number of 4 or more. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120021280 | COMPOSITE ELECTRODE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A composite electrode includes a plate-shaped conductor; a plurality of auxiliary electrodes disposed such that ends of the plurality of auxiliary electrodes are connected to a surface of the plate-shaped conductor and the plurality of auxiliary electrodes extend from the surface of the plate-shaped conductor; and an active material layer formed between the plurality of auxiliary electrodes so as to be in contact with the plate-shaped conductor. When the height of the plurality of auxiliary electrodes is defined as h, the center-to-center spacing of auxiliary electrodes facing each other in the plurality of auxiliary electrodes or the spacing of auxiliary electrodes facing each other in the plurality of auxiliary electrodes is h or more and 2h or less. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020646 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A data recording/playback configuration whereby data compatible with a standard such as the BD standard, AVCHD standard, or the like, and data incompatible with a standard are usable is realized. In the event that recorded data is data compatible with a standard such as the BD standard, AVCHD standard, or the like at the time of data recording processing as to a medium, the management information of the data is recorded in a first management information file only for data compatible with a standard, and in the event that the recorded data is data incompatible with a standard, the management information of the data is recorded in a second management information file. Also, management information updating processing for recording all of management information recorded in the first management information file in the second management information file is performed. An existing device which executes only processing as to data compatible with a standard performs processing by applying first management information, and a new-type device which can perform processing as to data incompatible with a standard can play all of data by processing to which second management information has been applied. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020645 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A data recording/playback configuration whereby data compatible with a standard such as the BD standard, AVCHD standard, or the like, and data incompatible with a standard are usable together is realized. In the event that recorded data is data compatible with a standard such as the BD standard, AVCHD standard, or the like at the time of data recording processing as to a medium, the management information of the recorded data is recorded in a management information file only for data compatible with a standard, and in the event that the recorded data is data incompatible with a standard, a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) that is file identification information to be applied to playback of recorded data is recorded in a file list. Playback processing is performed by using the management information file only for data compatible with a standard at the time of playback of data compatible with a standard, and by applying the file list at the time of playback of data incompatible with a standard. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020640 | DATA STRUCTURE, RECORDING MEDIUM, PLAYING DEVICE AND PLAYING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a data structure, a recording medium, a playing device and a playing method, and a program, which enable providing of a video format for 3D display, suitable for 3D display of subtitles and menu buttons.
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| 20120020550 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present disclosure provides an image processing apparatus, including: a recognition section adapted to recognize, based on a learning result obtained by learning of a learning image regarding a predetermined object, the object in a predetermined frame of an input image formed from a plurality of frames which are continuous in time; and a setting section adapted to set a parameter to be used for a process to be carried out for a later frame which is later in time than the predetermined frame of the input image in response to a difference in image information between an object image, which is an image in a region of the object recognized in the predetermined frame, and the learning image; the recognition section recognizing the object in the later frame for which the process is carried out based on the parameter set by the setting section. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020495 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present disclosure provides a audio signal processing apparatus including, an amplitude detector configured to detect a noise start point of an audio signal including a noise signal by comparing an amplitude value of the audio signal with a threshold value, a frequency feature calculator configured to calculate a frequency feature representing at least a frequency characteristic of the audio signal after the noise start point, and a noise determiner configured to determine a leg continuously including high-frequency components equal to or higher than a reference frequency in the audio signal after the noise start point as a noise leg based on the frequency feature. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020420 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Suitable beam pattern control is performed while performing access control based on physical carrier sense. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020388 | Reception apparatus, reception method, program, and reception system - Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus including: a reception section configured to receive a signal at a frequency being changed; and a control section configured such that before changing the frequency to receive the signal, the control section stores control information about the reception section receiving the signal at the current frequency as last control information and that upon receiving again the signal at the frequency in effect before the change, the control section sets the last control information to the reception section as an initial value. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020141 | Variable-resistance memory device and its driving method - A variable-resistance memory device includes: a memory cell including a memory element being variable in resistance in accordance with a polarity of an application voltage applied to the memory element in a set or reset operation and an access transistor connected to the memory element in series between first and second common lines; and a driving circuit including a first path transistor connected between a first supply line for supplying a first voltage and the first common line as well as a second path transistor connected between a second supply line for supplying a second voltage and the first common line. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020118 | SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS - A switching power supply apparatus including: a switching DC-DC converter for receiving an input voltage; a current detecting unit for detecting a current from the DC-DC converter; an input voltage detecting unit for detecting the decrease or cutoff of the input voltage; an overcurrent limiting circuit for stopping the operation of the DC-DC converter when the current detected by the current detecting unit exceeds a threshold; and a threshold control unit for changing the threshold of the overcurrent limiting circuit such that, if the decrease or cutoff of the input voltage is detected by the input voltage detecting unit, the period between the time when the decrease or cutoff of the input voltage is detected and the time when the operation of the DC-DC converter is stopped is prolonged. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020046 | COUPLING MEMBER AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - A coupling member for stably and easily performing coupling of an object to be supported and a stand and movement after the coupling, and an electronic device having the same are provided The coupling member coupling a plate-shaped object to be supported and a stand having a base and a supporting pillar, includes: a first fixing part which is fixed to a rear face of the object to be supported; a holding part attached to the first fixing part with a gap therebetween; a second fixing part which is fixed to the supporting pillar of the stand; and a cavity housing the supporting pillar of the stand, which is provided between the first and second fixing parts. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019824 | FINE PARTICLE DETECTOR AND LIGHT EMITTING APPARATUS - A fine particle detector includes a light emitting system letting light from a light source pass through a phase difference element and focusing the light on a sample flow through which fine particles flow. When the direction of the sample flow is an X-axis direction, the light is emitted to the sample flow in a Z-direction, and a ZX-plane is orthogonal to a Y-direction, then the phase difference element has a plurality of regions divided in the Y-axis direction and causes a phase difference between wavefronts of the light passing through the plurality of regions. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019736 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device capable of obtaining desired visual point images without the attitude at a time of photographing being limited to one direction is provided. The imaging device | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019731 | TUNER MODULE AND RECEIVING DEVICE - A tuner module includes a tuner module substrate having a tuner function part formed thereon, a case body having a shielding function of holding and incorporating at least the tuner module substrate, a circuit board on which the tuner module substrate is mounted, and at least one antenna connector to be fixed to the case body and having a core wire connected to the tuner module substrate incorporated in the case body. A part of the circuit board is contained inside the case body. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019698 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND CAMERA SYSTEM - Provided is a solid-state image pickup device including a pixel section arranged with multiple pixel circuits in matrix having functions for converting an optical signal to an electrical signal and for accumulating the electrical signal depending on an exposure time, and a pixel driving section capable of driving through a control line to reset, accumulate, transfer, and output signal electric charge of the pixel section. The pixel section may have a pixel shared structure arranged with one selection control line, one reset control line, and multiple transfer control lines, including a readout-pixel section and an unread-pixel section in its entirety. The pixel driving section includes a pixel control section where an unread-pixel is normally fixed in a reset state. When reading a readout-pixel in a shared relationship, if its address is selected or a selection signal becomes active, the unread-pixel reset-state is cancelled to turn into an unread state. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019697 | Solid-state imaging device and camera system - A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel section in which pixels performing photoelectric conversion are arranged in a matrix shape; and a pixel signal reading section that has an AD conversion section which reads pixel signals through pixel units from the pixel section and performs analog digital (AD) conversion. The pixel signal reading section includes comparators each of which compares a reference signal, which is a ramp wave, with read analog signal potentials of pixels in a corresponding column, counter latches each of which is disposed to correspond to each of the comparators, is able to count a comparison time of the corresponding comparator, stops the count when an output of the corresponding comparator is inverted, and retains a corresponding count value, and an adjustment section that performs offset adjustment on the reference signal for each row on which the AD conversion is performed. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019690 | ACTIVE IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SPECKLE NOISE REDUCTION - The present invention relates to an active imaging device and a corresponding device for imaging a scene, in particular for effectively reducing speckle noise. The proposed device comprises an illuminator that illuminates said scene with radiation, a radiation detector that detects radiation received from said scene in response to said illumination and that generates detection data from said detected radiation, an image constructor that constructs an image of said scene or one or more parts of said scene from the detection data, a noise reduction unit that processes said image by applying a one- or multi-dimensional transform to the complete image, to one or more parts of the image or to selected features in said image, and a transform selector that selects for the complete image, for one or more parts of the image or for selected features in said image a selected transform for application by said noise reduction unit resulting in the minimum speckle noise in the image, the respective part or the respective feature of the image. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019680 | IMAGING DEVICE, CONTROLLING DEVICE AND IMAGING DEVICE CONTROLLING METHOD - An imaging device includes an image capturing element which photoelectrically converts a subject image into electrical charge information, a driving device which drives a driving part related to image capturing, and a controlling unit which changes a driving frequency of the driving device at a timing to read the electrical charge information from the image capturing element. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019667 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ADAPTIVE NOISE MEASUREMENT OF A VIDEO SIGNAL - The present invention relates to method of adaptive noise measurement of a video signal comprising a sequence of images. The proposed method comprises the steps of searching one or more spatially uniform areas within a current image, determining a spatial uniformity value of said one or more spatially uniform areas and combining said spatial uniformity values to obtain a spatial noise value representing a first measure for the amount of noise in said current image, detecting motion by comparing the current image with one or more preceding images and/or one or more succeeding images of said sequence of images by use of a motion threshold to obtain one or more motion maps indicating the amount of motion between the current image and the respective preceding or succeeding image, searching one or more static areas within said one or more motion maps, determining a temporal uniformity value for said one or more static areas by comparing image values at positions in said one or more preceding images and/or said one or more succeeding images, at which a low amount or no motion is indicated in the respective one or more motion maps, said temporal uniformity value representing a measure for the amount of noise at said positions in said current image, and combining said obtained temporal uniformity values to obtain a combined noise value representing a second measure for the amount of noise in said current image. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019632 | DISPLAY DEVICE, SHUTTER DEVICE, SHUTTER CONTROL CIRCUIT, METHOD OF CONTROLLING SHUTTERS, AND DISPLAY SYSTEM - A display system using a shutter device which is capable of reducing power consumed by a transmission section transmitting a shutter control signal, and achieving increased degree of freedom in setting of open/close timings of shutters is obtained. The display system includes a display section | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019629 | IMAGE RECEIVER - An image receiver according to the present invention includes a receiving unit that receives an integrated image in which a first image and a second image are arranged in one frame and an reception unit that receives region information indicating a region of the first image transmitted along with the integrated image is provided, wherein a non-stereoscopic video display mode in which only the first image is displayed based on the region information and/or a stereoscopic video display mode in which the first image and the second image are displayed as stereoscopic video are included. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019406 | RADAR TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS AND METHOD - The present invention relates to a radar tomography apparatus and method for determining one or more material properties of an object at a first number of positions distributed within a region of interest of said object. To reduce the acquisition and processing time of data radar tomography apparatus is proposed comprising:
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| 20120018724 | Semiconductor device and stacked semiconductor apparatus - A semiconductor device includes: a through-electrode formed in a perpendicular direction so as to extend therethrough; a series circuit section formed from a plurality of test-ready switches successively connected in series and driven by a driving voltage transmitted to the through-electrode through a predetermined different layer through-electrode of a different semiconductor device stacked on an upper layer side or a lower layer side; and a pair of test terminals connected to end portions of the series circuit section and adapted to be used for measurement of conduction of the series circuit section. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120018650 | FINE PARTICLE MEASURING DEVICE - A fine particle measuring device includes an optical filter that is divided into a plurality of areas and is disposed on an optical path on which light emitted from a fine particle, which is irradiated with light, is guided to an optical detector. In the fine particle measuring device, the optical filter includes a first area having wavelength selectivity by which the first area blocks reflected light from the fine particle and an unnecessary scattered light component and transmits fluorescence, and a second area that is disposed around at least the first area and has no wavelength selectivity so as to transmit a necessary scattered light component. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120018637 | SWITCHING APPARATUS, SWITCHING METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The present invention relates to a switching apparatus, a switching method, and an electronic device with which it is possible to detect whether or not a proximal object is a human skin. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120018617 | Semiconductor device, solid-state imaging device, method for manufacturing semiconductor device, method for manufacturing solid-state imaging device, and electronic apparatus - Disclosed herein is a semiconductor device including an element isolation region configured to be formed on a semiconductor substrate, wherein the element isolation region is formed of a multistep trench in which trenches having different diameters are stacked and diameter of an opening part of the lower trench is smaller than diameter of a bottom of the upper trench. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120017788 | PLATE CYLINDER, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF FORMING PLATE CYLINDER - A plate cylinder includes a cylindrical member, and a pattern forming plate configured by forming a predetermined pattern for printing on a flat plate-shaped substrate using microfabrication. The pattern forming plate is bent, and wound around and joined to an outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical member. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120017702 | CONTACT-PRESSURE DETECTING APPARATUS AND INPUT APPARATUS - There is provided a contact-pressure detecting apparatus including a base, at least three pressure-sensitive sensors, and a plurality of plates. The base has an arbitrary shape. The at least three pressure-sensitive sensors are provided on different vertex positions of a polygon having at least three corners, respectively, the polygon being set on each of a plurality of areas partitioning at least part of an area on a surface of the base. The plurality of plates are arranged corresponding to the areas of the base, respectively, the plurality of plates covering the surface of the base by sandwiching the at least three pressure-sensitive sensors with the base. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120017283 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information processing device, for executing content reproduction processing from an information recording medium, includes a security information processing unit for determining output messages based on security check information in a content reproduction sequence, and outputting a message output command accompanied by selection information of the output message to a user interface processing unit; and a user information processing unit for obtaining message information based on the selection information input from said security information processing unit and outputting to a display unit. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120017162 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A data processing apparatus executes one or more computer program applications. The data programming, apparatus is operable to display at least one resizable graphical element from a plurality of resizable graphical elements on a display and resize the at least one displayed graphical element in response to a resize control input from a user control. The data processing device is operable to switch between which of the plurality of graphical elements is displayed if the displayed graphical element is resized to be greater in size or to be less in size than one of a plurality of predetermined threshold sizes. Each of the plurality of graphical elements includes at least one graphical object or interface control different from the other graphical elements of the plurality of graphical elements and a greater a size of one of the plurality of predetermined threshold sizes, a greater a number of controls and/or graphical objects included in the graphical element that is displayed when the displayed graphical element is resized to exceed that predetermined threshold size. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120017137 | DISC RECORDING MEDIUM, DISK DRIVE APPARATUS, REPRODUCTION METHOD, AND DISK MANUFACTURING METHOD - A recording and reproducing area and a reproduction-only area are formed by wobbling a groove formed in a spiral fashion to form a track to be tracked on a disk. The recording and reproducing area has address information recorded by wobbling of the groove and information recorded and reproduced by phase change marks on the track formed by the groove where the address information is recorded. The reproduction-only area has prerecorded information recorded by wobbling of the groove. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120017064 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus is disclosed which is connected to a network and which includes: an address translation section configured such that when a virtual address assigned to a virtual storage area is held in an address translation module and associated therein with network node information designating the location of a storage portion connected to the network and with a physical address in the storage portion, the address translation section translates the virtual address into the network node information and the physical address based on the address translation module; and an access communication section configured such that based on the network node information and the physical address acquired by the address translation section, the access communication section accesses one of a plurality of storage areas held by the storage portion connected to the network, the accessed storage area being designated by the physical address. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120016958 | Streaming System and Streaming Method - A streaming system includes an authoring unit ( | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120016616 | FLUORESCENCE INTENSITY CORRECTING METHOD, FLUORESCENCE INTENSITY CALCULATING METHOD, AND FLUORESCENCE INTENSITY CALCULATING APPARATUS - A fluorescence intensity calculating apparatus, includes: a measuring section configured to receive fluorescences generated from plural fluorescent dyes excited by radiating a light to a microparticle multiply-labeled with the plural fluorescent dyes having fluorescence wavelength bands overlapping one another by photodetectors which correspond to different received light wavelength bands, respectively, and whose number is larger than the number of fluorescent dyes, and obtain measured spectra by collecting detected values from the photodetectors; and a calculating section configured to approximate the measured spectra based on a linear sum of single-dyeing spectra obtained from the microparticle individually labeled with the fluorescent dyes, thereby calculating intensities of the fluorescences generated from the fluorescent dyes, respectively. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120016230 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING SYSTEM, SURGICAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM, AND IMAGING METHOD - An imaging apparatus includes: a first illumination unit to apply visible light to a subject having a fluorescent substance; a second illumination unit to apply excitation light to the subject so that fluorescence is generated from the fluorescent substance; an optical filter unit to cause the visible light and the fluorescence to pass therethrough, and shield the excitation light; an imaging unit including imaging elements to generate image signals, and an output unit to read the image signals from the imaging elements and output image information; an optical element to divide the visible light into component light beams, cause the divided light beams to be incident on the imaging elements, and cause the fluorescence to be incident on at least one imaging element; and a control means for alternately applying the visible light and the excitation light and alternately outputting image information of the visible light and the fluorescence. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120015232 | SEPARATOR AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE BATTERY - A separator is provided and includes a functional resin layer containing a resin material and an inorganic oxide filler, having a porous interconnected structure in which many pores are mutually interconnected and having a contact angle against an electrolytic solution of not more than 11 degrees. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120015133 | OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM - An optical recording medium includes an inorganic recording layer, a first protective layer provided on at least one surface of the inorganic recording layer and containing indium oxide, and a second protective layer provided so as to be adjacent to the first protective layer and containing titanium oxide, zirconium oxide, or tin oxide. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014677 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus, as a recording apparatus, formulates a Clip Information file of a still picture file (TS file), made up by plural still pictures, and a PlayList, composed of plural PlayItems, indicating the replay path of a slide show, and records the information on a DVD along with the TS file. The Clip Information file has an EP_map, as a table indicating the relationship of correspondence between the value of the presentation time stamp PTS of the transport stream TS and the source packet number SPN in the TS the PTS value indicates. The information processing apparatus, as a reproducing apparatus, reads out and reproduces the data address of the TS, represented by the replay start time IN_time and the replay end time OUT_time of the PlayItem. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014676 | Informatiion Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method and Recording Medium - An information processing apparatus, as a recording apparatus, formulates a Clip Information file of a still picture file (TS file), made up by plural still pictures, and a PlayList, composed of plural PlayItems, indicating the replay path of a slide show, and records the information on a DVD along with the TS file. The Clip Information file has an EP_map, as a table indicating the relationship of correspondence between the value of the presentation time stamp PTS of the transport stream TS and the source packet number SPN in the TS the PTS value indicates. The information processing apparatus, as a reproducing apparatus, reads out and reproduces the data address of the TS, represented by the replay start time IN_time and the replay end time OUT_time of the PlayItem. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014660 | PLAYBACK APPARATUS, PLAYBACK METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A playback apparatus includes the following elements. A playback unit play backs 3D content recorded on a content recording medium. An OSD screen generator generates an OSD screen which is displayed by being superposed on a 3D image of the 3D content. An image processor generates a 3D image by changing an amount of parallax of the 3D image and combines the generated 3D image with the OSD screen. When the OSD screen is to be displayed while the 3D content is being played back, the image processor generates a 3D image by gradually decreasing a pop-out amount of the 3D image and combines the generated 3D image with the OSD screen. When the displayed OSD screen is to be erased, the image processor generates a 3D image by gradually increasing the decreased pop-out amount to the original pop-out amount, and combines the generated 3D image with the OSD screen. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014614 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a quantizer configured to quantize orthogonal transform coefficients of the difference in block units between a coding target picture and a prediction image, a predictor configured to conduct parallax prediction utilizing correlations between the coding target picture and a picture whose view differs from the coding target picture, and a quantization controller configured to determine a protected area that protects image quality from the parallax prediction results, and reduce the quantization step size of the quantizer for quantization of the protected area. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014608 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING - An image processing apparatus includes: a reducing section reducing an image for which a feature analysis is to be perform at a predetermined reduction ratio; an ROI mask generating section analyzing a feature of a reduced image as the image reduced at the predetermined reduction ratio, and generating an ROI mask as mask information indicating a region of interest as a region to be interested in the reduced image; an ROI mask enlarging section enlarging a size of the ROI mask to a size of the image before being reduced by the reducing section; and an ROI mask updating section analyzing a feature of a region, set as a blank region as a region not to be interested in the ROI mask, of the image before being reduced by the reducing section, and updating the ROI mask by using an analysis result. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014587 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes the following elements. A specifying unit specifies a blank region of an image of image data by using coefficient data which is decoded from encoded data, the encoded data being obtained by encoding coefficient data generated from the image data. A dividing unit divides the decoded coefficient data into first components and second components. An eliminating unit eliminates the blank region specified by the specifying unit from the first components divided from the decoded coefficient data by the dividing unit. A synthesizing unit combines the first components from which the blank region has been eliminated by the eliminating unit with the second components divided from the decoded coefficient data by the dividing unit. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014452 | MULTI-PARAMETER MOTION FOR EFFICIENT PREDICTION IN VIDEO COMPRESSION - Motion Compensated Prediction (MCP) has been a key factor in most advanced video compression schemes. For further reduction in the residual signal energy in B-frames, bidirectional prediction where two motion-compensated signals are superimposed has also been utilized in most prior video coding standards such as MPEG-2 or MPEG-4/AVC. Syntax changes and appropriate motion vector prediction that allows efficient use of multi-parameter MCP is described. The prediction signal is constructed by linearly combining the motion-compensated signals from each parameter (or motion vector). | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014443 | DIFFERENTIAL CODING OF INTRA DIRECTIONS (DCIC) - Spatial domain directional intra prediction has been shown to be very effective to remove the correlation between the pixels in the current block and reconstructed neighbors. In AVC, 8 directional prediction modes (plus the DC prediction mode) are defined. The prediction mode number is signaled to the decoder using a simple predictive coding method. The previous intra prediction methods have two major disadvantages: lack of precision for arbitrary directional patterns and accuracy lack of accuracy to exploit geometric dependency between blocks. To address these issues, a new method accurately predicts the intra directions from reconstructed neighboring pixels and differentially encode the intra directions. This allows a more precise directional prediction without the significant increase in the cost for transmitting the side information. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014442 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present disclosure provides an image processing device including, a feature quantity generating section configured to generate a feature quantity used as a determination criterion for determining which of a temporal prediction using correlation between images in a temporal direction and a parallactic prediction using correlation between images of different visual points is dominant in image coding, and a reference index assigning section configured to assign reference indices to reference pictures used in the predictions on a basis of the feature quantity generated by the feature quantity generating section. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013649 | Driving method of image display device - An image display device includes an image display panel configured of pixels made up of first, second, third, and fourth sub-pixels being arrayed in a two-dimensional matrix shape, and a signal processing unit into which an input signal is input and from which an output signal based on an extension coefficient is output, and causes the signal processing unit to obtain a maximum value of luminosity with saturation S in the HSV color space enlarged by adding a fourth color, as a variable, and to obtain a reference extension coefficient based on the maximum value, and further to determine an extension coefficient at each pixel from the reference extension coefficient, an input signal correction coefficient based on the sub-pixel input signal values at each pixel, and an external light intensity correction coefficient based on external light intensity. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013641 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus that compares content to stored information identifying a plurality of words, identifies words from the content that match words included in the stored information, retrieves information based on the identifying, and generates an image to be displayed based on the retrieved information. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013637 | AUTOMATIC COLOR ADJUSTMENT OF A TEMPLATE DESIGN - The present invention generates a color template design to format a presentation. According to one aspect, a plurality of template designs are provided on a visual display. A selection of one of the plurality of template designs is received from a user. A plurality of source images that are separate from the plurality of template designs are provided on the visual display. A selection of a color from one of the plurality of source images is received from the user. Colors of the selected template design are automatically adjusted to contrast with the selected the color from the source image. The selected template design may include framing, mat, background, and foreground portions, at least one of which is adjusted. After automatically adjusting the colors, the selected template design may be displayed and/or stored for use as a template. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013590 | Organic electroluminescent display device, method of manufacturing organic electroluminescent display device, and electronic apparatus - Disclosed is an organic electroluminescent (EL) display device including a pixel array section in which pixels having organic EL elements are arranged; and a drive circuit section provided in a circumferential portion of the pixel array section on the same substrate as that of the pixel array section, the drive circuit section having a circuit configuration including a capacitive element, wherein the capacitive element uses, as a dielectric member, an organic layer formed in the circumferential portion of the pixel array section through the same process as that of the organic layer of the organic EL element. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013446 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A communication system includes: an interrogator transmitting an interrogation signal while switching a carrier-wave frequency and receiving a response signal; and a plurality of responders each having a unique resonant frequency and returning the response signal in response to the interrogation signal with the own resonant frequency. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013198 | POWER RELAYING APPARATUS, POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING POWER RELAYING APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a power relaying apparatus provided between: a power supplying apparatus including a power supplying resonance device and a power supplying power supply section for supplying an AC current to the power supplying resonance device; and a power receiving apparatus having a power receiving resonance device for receiving a power from the power supplying apparatus by adoption of a resonance method, the power relaying apparatus including a power relaying resonance device resonating between the power supplying resonance device and the power receiving resonance device, wherein the power relaying resonance device is fixed at a predetermined position by making use of an insulation member. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120012825 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a thin film transistor of a top-contact structure with suppressed deterioration by a process which is easy and suitable for increase in area without damaging an organic semiconductor pattern. The organic semiconductor pattern is formed on a substrate. An electrode material film is formed on the substrate so as to cover the organic semiconductor pattern. A resist pattern is formed on the electrode material film. By wet etching using the resist pattern as a mask, the electrode material film is patterned. By the process, a source electrode and a drain electrode are formed. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120012823 | COLOR IMAGING ELEMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, PHOTOSENSOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, PHOTOELECTRIC TRANSDUCER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A color imaging element, a photosensor and a photoelectric transducer which use a protein and are capable of being stably used for a long time, and methods of manufacturing them are provided. A zinc-substituted cytochrome c552 is immobilized on a gold electrode with a self-assembled monolayer in between to form a blue-light photoelectric transducer. Alternatively, a cytochrome c552 is immobilized on a gold electrode with a self-assembled monolayer in between, and a fluorescent protein absorbing blue light is bonded to the cytochrome c552, thereby forming a blue-light photoelectric transducer. These photoelectric transducers each are used as a color imaging element or a blue-light photoelectric transducer of a photosensor. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120011932 | INPUT APPARATUS - An input apparatus includes: an input apparatus main body that is used to make an input for operating an operation target; a grip detection portion configured to detect that a user has gripped the input apparatus main body with a predetermined force or more; a motion detection portion configured to detect a movement of the input apparatus main body and output a movement detection value corresponding to the movement of the input apparatus main body; a controller configured to execute, while/after the grip of the input apparatus main body is being detected by the grip detection portion, processing for controlling the operation target based on the movement detection value; and a first response portion configured to return, when at least the grip of the input apparatus main body is detected by the grip detection portion, a first response to the user irrespective of the control of the controller. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120011464 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A display control device includes: a display signal output unit configured so as to output a display image signal on a display unit so as to execute normal display, zoom-in display, scroll display, and zoom-out display regarding data to be displayed as display operation for data to be displayed; and a control unit configured to instruct the display signal output unit to perform, regarding data to be displayed, output of a display image signal for sequentially executing zoom-in display in a scroll start position from the normal display, scroll display from the scroll start position, and zoom-out display from a scroll end position to the normal display at a display unit. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011330 | MEMORY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MEMORY MANAGEMENT METHOD, PROGRAM THEREFOR - Provided is a memory management apparatus including a determiner configured to determine whether or not a pattern of writing data being data to be a target of an instruction of writing in a memory is a frequently-appearing pattern, and a setting unit configured to set a shared reference with respect to the writing data having the frequently-appearing pattern in a case where it is determined by the determiner that the pattern of the writing data is the frequently-appearing pattern and data of the frequently-appearing pattern has already been held in the memory. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011197 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Some embodiments of the invention provide a server apparatus, comprising: a control block comprising at least one processor; at least one data reception unit operable to receive a request to share a picture; at least one storage facility, storing programmed instructions for execution by the control block, the programmed instructions defining an image analysis engine operable to determine that the picture comprises an image of a person; and at least one data transmission unit operable to issue a request to the person, or someone associated with the person, to consent to sharing the image. Other embodiments provide a method, performed by at least one computer. The method comprises: (A) receiving a request to share a picture; (B) determining that the picture comprises an image of a person; and (C) requesting that the person, or someone associated with the person, consent to sharing the image. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120010834 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - Disclosed herein is an information processing device including a voltage measuring unit and a determining unit. The voltage measuring unit measures a voltage across the positive and negative terminals of a set of a plurality of dye-sensitized solar cells connected in series. The determining unit determines the number of the dye-sensitized solar cells not generating electricity according to the amount of voltage drop across the positive and negative terminals from the voltage across the positive and negative terminals in the initial state in which all the dye-sensitized solar cells of the set generate electricity at the voltage measured by the voltage measuring unit. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120010822 | FLUORESCENCE INTENSITY COMPENSATION METHOD AND FLUORESCENCE INTENSITY CALCULATION DEVICE - A fluorescence intensity compensation method, includes: receiving, with photodetectors having different input wavelength bands, fluorescence emitted from fluorochromes excited by irradiating light on microparticles multiply-labeled by a plurality of fluorochromes with overlapping fluorescence wavelengths; collecting detected values for the photodetectors; and obtaining a measurement spectrum, by approximating, from the linear sum of single-stain spectrums obtained from microparticles individually labeled with the fluorochromes; wherein approximation of the measurement spectrum by the linear sum of the single-stain spectrums is performed using the restricted least-square method. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120010778 | POSITIONING SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, POSITIONING METHOD - There is provided a positioning system including a communication device which includes a connector configured to engage with a connector provided to a vehicle, a vehicle communication section configured to receive vehicle speed information or travelling distance information of the vehicle from the vehicle via the connector, and an information processing device-communication section configured to transmit, to an information processing device, transmission information based on the vehicle speed information or the travelling distance information acquired by the vehicle communication section, and the information processing device which includes a communication section configured to receive the transmission information from the communication device, and a position calculation section configured to calculate a current position based on the vehicle speed information or the travelling distance information. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120010097 | MICROCHANNEL, AND NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION MICROCHIP, COLUMN, SYSTEM AND METHOD - A microchannel capable of passing therethrough a solution with target nucleic acid strands contained therein includes: an agarose gel carrier having light transmission properties, supporting capture strands having a base sequence complementary to that of the target nucleic acid strands and immobilized on the agarose gel carrier, and packed in the microchannel; and a filter arranged in the microchannel on a downstream side as viewed in a passing direction of the solution and retaining the agarose gel carrier. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120009870 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - There is provided a communication device including: a high frequency coupler; a band-pass filter; a switching mechanism that switches an electrical length a transmission line between the high frequency coupler and the band-pass filter; a communication unit that receives hardware information of other end of communication before establishing a communication connection; and a control unit that controls switching of the electrical length of the transmission line according to the received hardware information of the other end of communication by using the switching mechanism with or after establishing a communication connection. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120009753 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device including a gate electrode disposed on a semiconductor substrate and source/drain regions disposed at both sides of the gate electrode, the source/drain regions being formed by implanting impurities. The source/drain regions include an epitaxial layer formed by epitaxially growing a semiconductor material having a different lattice constant from that of the semiconductor substrate in a recessed position at a side of the gate electrode, and a diffusion layer disposed in a surface layer of the semiconductor substrate. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120009711 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, AND METHOD FOR FORMING UNDERLYING LAYER - A method of making a semiconductor light emitting device including: (A) an underlying layer configured to be formed on a major surface of a substrate having a {100} plane as the major surface; (B) a light emitting part; and (C) a current block layer, wherein the underlying layer is composed of a III-V compound semiconductor and is formed on the major surface of the substrate by epitaxial growth, the underlying layer extends in parallel to a <110> direction of the substrate, a sectional shape of the underlying layer obtained when the underlying layer is cut along a virtual plane perpendicular to the <110> direction of the substrate is a trapezoid, and oblique surfaces of the underlying layer corresponding to two oblique sides of the trapezoid are {111}B planes, and the top surface of the underlying layer corresponding to an upper side of the trapezoid is a {100} plane. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120009704 | Vertical cavity surface emitting laser and method of manufacturing thereof - A vertical cavity surface emitting laser capable of reducing parasitic capacitance while suppressing power consumption, and a method of manufacturing thereof are provided. The vertical cavity surface emitting laser includes a columnar mesa including, on a substrate, a first multilayer reflector, an active layer, and a second multilayer reflector in order from the substrate side, and also including a current narrowing layer. The columnar portion of the mesa including the active layer and the current narrowing layer is formed within a region opposed to the first multilayer reflector and a region opposed to the second multilayer reflector, and a cross section area of the columnar portion is smaller than a cross section area of the second multilayer reflector. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120009486 | ELECTROLYTE AND SECONDARY BATTERY - A secondary battery capable of improving cycle characteristics is provided. The secondary battery includes a cathode | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120009474 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL, NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE BATTERY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL - A positive electrode active material includes: a secondary particle obtained upon aggregation of a primary particle that is a lithium complex oxide particle in which at least nickel (Ni) and cobalt (Co) are solid-solved as transition metals, wherein an average composition of the whole of the secondary particle is represented by the following formula (1): | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008921 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a data processing unit which executes control of a copy process in which data recorded on a first medium is recorded on a second medium, and a data conversion unit which executes data conversion in the copy process, the data processing unit determines whether or not data to be copied recorded on the first medium is multi-angle content for which an angle change process is permitted, and when the data to be copied is determined to be multi-angle content, angle change point information is acquired and provided to the data conversion unit, and the data conversion unit creates converted data for which decoding is possible without referring to at least a preceding picture when the picture on an angle change point location is reproduced as a reproduction start point. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008920 | RECORDING APPARATUS, RECORDING METHOD, REPRODUCING APPARATUS, REPRODUCING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING/PRODUCING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes: a parallax detecting unit detecting a parallax between L and R images included in 3D contents to be recorded; and a recording control unit recording both of the L and R images at a first section at which the parallax between the L and R images is greater than a threshold value and recording one of the L and R images at a second section at which the parallax between the L and R images is less than the threshold value. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008910 | REPRODUCTION UNIT, REPRODUCTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The reproduction unit includes a reproducing unit that reproduces three-dimensional (3D) content recorded on a content recording medium, and a display control unit that displays a two-dimensional (2D) image of the 3D content on a parent screen having a predetermined size within a display screen when an interlace operation is executed with respect to a 3D image of the 3D content during reproduction by the reproducing unit, and displays the 3D image of the 3D content on a child screen having a size smaller than the predetermined size within the display screen. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008870 | IMAGE COMPRESSION UTILIZING RING-TREE ENTROPY CODING AND DIRECTIONAL TRANSFORMS - Image encoding for changing representation of zero coefficient clustering and for utilizing a novel directional transform for exploiting the directional properties of image energy. The apparatus and methods can be applied to numerous applications, such as within image codecs. A ring-tree method is taught for representing the grouping of zero transform coefficients as ring-trees into a new symbol for more efficiently coding images. Directional transforms are taught which provide enhanced energy compactness of coefficients, and which capture directional energy resulting in generating enhanced visual quality. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008822 | MULTI-VIEWPOINT IMAGE RECORDING MEDIUM AND AUTHENTICITY JUDGMENT METHOD - A multi-viewpoint image recording medium includes at least one main image recorded on the multi-viewpoint image recording medium and a plurality of sub-images, each having a display area smaller than a display area of the main image, recorded on the multi-viewpoint image recording medium. The main image and the plurality of sub-images are simultaneously displayed when the main image and the plurality of sub-images are reproduced. At least one of the plurality of sub-images changes in accordance with movement of a viewpoint. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008818 | SPEAKER DEVICE - A speaker device includes: an acoustic diaphragm having a given shape and made of a material having physical anisotropy; and an excitation means attached to the acoustic diaphragm for exciting vibration components in consideration of a direction corresponding to the physical anisotropy. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008712 | MIDAMBLE ALLOCATIONS FOR MIMO TRANSMISSIONS - Allocation of multiple training sequences transmitted in a MIMO timeslot from multiple transmit antenna elements is provided. For example, a method of generating signals in a MIMO timeslot, the method comprising: selecting a first training sequence; preparing a first data payload; generating a first signal including the prepared first data payload and the first training sequence; transmitting the first signal in a MIMO timeslot from a first antenna of a network element; selecting a second training sequence, wherein the second training sequence is different from first training sequence; preparing a second data payload; generating a second signal including the prepared second data payload and the second training sequence; and transmitting the second signal in the MIMO timeslot from a second antenna of the network element. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008657 | Laser diode - A laser diode with an improved kink level in the L-I characteristic and capable of obtaining a stable high output in a horizontal transverse mode is provided. The laser diode includes an active layer made of nitride III-V compound semiconductor containing at least gallium (Ga) in 3B-group elements and at least nitrogen (N) in 5B-group elements, an n-type compound semiconductor layer provided on one of faces of the active layer, and a p-type compound semiconductor layer provided on the other face of the active layer. A region closest to the active layer, in the n-type compound semiconductor layer is a high-concentration region whose impurity concentration is higher than that of the other n-type regions. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008655 | HEAT SINK, METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME, AND SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DEVICE - A heat sink enabled to prevent structural deterioration of an inner wall of a flow channel caused by corrosion a semiconductor laser device are provided. The heat sink includes a main body, a flow channel which is provided in the main body, and inside which a cooling medium passes through, and a passivation film covering an inner-wall surface of the flow channel. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008562 | WIRELESS INTELLIGENT SWITCH ENGINE - A wireless intelligent switch engine (WISE) is described. The wireless intelligent switch engine provides for automatic switching between different physical wireless interfaces in mobile devices while roaming to maintain a wireless network connection. WISE functions as a bridge between a mobile device and multiple wireless network interfaces to provide automatic and seamless switching among networks while roaming. The mobile device sees WISE as a LAN interface and communicates with WISE using the TCP/IP protocol stack, thus providing a PPP-less configuration that uses the TCP/IP protocol stack regardless of the wireless interface. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008487 | OPTICAL RECORDING DEVICE AND RECORDING METHOD - A recording device includes a plurality of channels configured to record data to an optical recording medium, a reception unit configured to receive data transmitted from an external device, a storage unit configured to temporarily store the data that is received by the reception unit, and a distribution control unit configured to read the data that is stored in the storage unit and distribute the data by a block unit to the plurality of channels based on transfer time of the data and recording time to the optical recording medium so that record processing of the plurality of channels are simultaneously ended. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008486 | RECORDING DEVICE AND APC CORRECTION METHOD - A recording device includes a light irradiation portion which irradiates an optical recording medium with laser light emitted from a light source via a field lens, a light emission drive portion which drives and causes the light source to emit light, a front monitor which receives the laser light emitted from the light source, a light receiving portion which receives reflected light which is obtained from the optical recording medium in response to the laser light irradiation, a focus servo control portion which controls a focus servo of the field lens on the basis of a light receiving signal by the light receiving portion, a surface jump controller which controls the focus servo control portion so as to perform a focus jump operation to a surface of the optical recording medium, and a surface APC corrector which performs a process as an auto power control (APC) correction process. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008484 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING REPRODUCTION METHOD - An optical information recording reproduction apparatus includes: a first light beam source; a second light beam source emitting a beam with a wavelength shorter than that of the first light beam source; and an object lens condensing the beams from the first and second light beam sources to an optical information recording medium. When information is recorded in the optical information recording medium, a recording beam is emitted from the first light beam source and a beam used to generate a signal for controlling a position of the object lens is emitted from the second light beam source. When the information of the optical information recording medium is reproduced, a reproduction beam is emitted from the second light beam source. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008480 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device including a data processing section which executes control of a copying process where recording data on a first medium is recorded onto a second medium, and a data conversion section which executes data conversion in the copying process, where the data processing section acquires position information of a packet, which corresponds to an angle change point, based on conversion data generated by the data conversion section and executes an updating process on a reproduction control information file where angle change point position information of data before conversion which is recorded in the reproduction control information file included in copy target data is changed to angle change point position information of data after conversion. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008479 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a data processing unit which executes a copy process for recording data recorded on a first medium onto a second medium, and the data processing unit executes a questionable data discrimination process for discriminating questionable data which is highly likely to be not normally reproduced in a reproduction process in which a reproduction program different from a dedicated reproduction program to the data recorded on the first medium is applied, and executes at least any of processes, which include a questionable data deletion process for deleting the questionable data from a copy target or a warning notification process for notifying a user of a possibility that copied data will not be normally reproduced, according to the discrimination result in the questionable data discrimination process. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008473 | PLAYBACK METHOD FOR OPTICAL DISC, PLAYBACK APPARATUS FOR OPTICAL DISC, NON-TRANSISTORY COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - Address information that has been error correction encoded is recorded on a second version of a recording medium after being transformed such that such that the address decoding cannot be performed by a playback device that is not compatible with the second version of the recording medium. The address decoding for the second version of the recording medium cannot be performed by the incompatible playback device (for example, a playback device that was manufactured to be compatible only with a first version of the recording medium). In other words, in the playback device that is not compatible with the second version of the recording medium, a state is created in which address errors cannot be corrected, so access is impossible (recording and playback are impossible). | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008471 | RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING APPARATUS, REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, RECORDING METHOD AND REPRODUCTION METHOD - The present invention allows the usability of a write-once recording medium to be enhanced. The write-once recording medium is provided with an ordinary recording/reproduction area, an alternate area, a first alternate-address management information area (DMA) and a second alternate-address management information area (TDMA). In addition, written/unwritten state indication information (a space bitmap) is also recorded. The second alternate-address management information area is an area allowing alternate-address management information recorded therein to be renewed by adding alternate-address management information thereto. In addition, the written/unwritten state indication information indicates whether or not data has been recorded in each data unit (cluster) on the recording medium. Thus, it is possible to correctly execute management of defects and properly implement renewal of data in the write-once recording medium. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008370 | MEMORY ELEMENT AND MEMORY DEVICE - A memory element and a memory device with improved controllability over resistance change by applied voltage are provided. The memory element includes a first electrode, a memory layer, and a second electrode in this order. The memory layer includes a resistance change layer provided on the first electrode side, and an ion source layer provided on the second electrode side and is higher in resistance value than the resistance change layer. A resistance value of the resistance change layer is changeable in response to a composition change by applied voltage to the first and second electrodes | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008369 | MEMORY ELEMENT AND DRIVE METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND MEMORY DEVICE - A memory element capable of increasing capacity with an improvement of distribution of resistance in the high-resistance state, a drive method therefor, and a memory device are provided. The memory element includes first and second electrodes, and a plurality of resistance change elements electrically connected in series between the first and second electrodes, whose resistance values are reversibly changeable in response to application of a voltage to the first and second electrodes, and changeable to the same resistance state relative to the voltage application. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008328 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A light emitting device includes: a light emitting chip arranged on a substrate; and a resin lens formed to cover the light emitting chip, wherein the center of the light emitting chip and the center of the resin lens are offset so that the centers do not match each other. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008317 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes: a plurality of displays in which a plurality of light emitting devices which emit irradiation light of one of an R component, a G component, and a B component are arrayed, wherein with reference to arbitrary 3×3 light emitting devices among the arrayed light emitting devices, the color components of the light emitting devices arrayed in the longitudinal direction are different from each other and the color components of the light emitting devices arrayed in the transverse direction are the same. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008263 | ELECTRONIC APPLIANCE - There is provided an electronic appliance including a hinge portion including a first rotating hinge including a first electrode for transmitting a direct current and a first coil for transmitting/receiving a data signal by using electromagnetic induction, and a second rotating hinge including a second electrode for receiving the direct current by contacting the first electrode and a second coil for transmitting/receiving the data signal to/from the first coil. The hinge portion connects the first rotating hinge and the second rotating hinge in a rotatable manner while maintaining a state where the first electrode and the second electrode are in contact with each other and a centre axis of the first coil and a centre axis of the second coil are substantially same. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008262 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes: a cylindrical casing which is rotatably driven; and a plurality of curve-arranged displays which are installed inside the casing and have the same number as a plurality of slits formed in the casing, wherein each curve-arranged display has an L-shaped or inverted L-shaped cross-section, and short sides of a plurality of display device substrates in which a display device is installed on the short side of the L shape or the inverted L shape are arranged in the form of an arc. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008206 | OPTICAL FILM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, ANTIGLARE FILM, POLARIZER WITH OPTICAL LAYER, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - An antiglare film includes a base member and an optical layer provided on the base member, and the optical layer has an irregular shape on a surface thereof. The irregular shape is obtained by applying a coating material containing fine particles and a resin onto the base member, distributing the fine particles densely in some portions and sparsely in other portions by convection that occurs in the coating material, and curing the coating material. The resin contains 3% by weight or more and 20% by weight or less of a polymer, the average particle diameter of the fine particles is 2 μm or more and 8 μm or less, and the average film thickness of the optical layer is 8 μm or more and 18 μm or less. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008204 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes: a cylindrical casing which is rotatably driven; and a plurality of curve-arranged displays which are installed inside the casing and have the same number as a plurality of slits formed in the casing, wherein the curve-arranged displays include a light housing which is an approximately semi-cylindrical column having a hollow structure, and a plurality of display device substrates installed on an arc-shaped side surface of the approximately semi-cylindrical column of the light housing. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008073 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL - A liquid crystal display panel includes: first and second substrates facing each other. The first substrate includes a plurality of scanning lines and signal lines intersecting each other, an upper electrode having a plurality of slit-shaped openings formed for each sub-pixel, and a lower electrode. The second substrate includes a light-shielding layer formed so as to overlap the scanning line and a signal line in a plan view, and a color filter layer formed in each of the sub-pixels defined by the scanning lines and the signal lines. A single pixel is formed by the plurality of sub-pixels including the color filter layers of different colors, respectively. The length of the slit-shaped opening in a longitudinal direction in the sub-pixel corresponding to at least one color is shorter than the length of the slit-shaped opening in the longitudinal direction in the sub-pixel corresponding to the other colors. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008057 | Lens array unit and image display device - A lens array unit includes: first and second substrates disposed to be opposite to each other with a distance interposed therebetween; first and second electrode groups respectively formed on the surfaces of the first and second substrates facing the second and first substrates and having a configuration in which electrodes extending in first and second directions are arranged in parallel in the width direction at intervals; first and second switch groups respectively connecting first and second voltage generators applying a voltage to the first and second electrode groups to the electrodes of the first and second electrode groups; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, containing liquid crystal molecules having refractive anisotropy, and causing a lens effect by changing the alignment direction of the liquid crystal molecules depending on the voltages applied to the first and second electrode groups. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008050 | VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD - A video processing apparatus includes a property change acquisition unit for acquiring a change of a property of an input video, a video processing unit for performing video processing on the input video, a gain adjustment unit for adjusting a gain for the video processing, and a control unit for performing control to change a setting for the video processing in the video processing unit according to the property change of the input video and decrease a gain of the gain adjustment unit at a timing of changing the setting for the video processing. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008033 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND CAMERA SYSTEM - A solid-state image pickup device and a camera system in which: (1) counters are organized into a counter group and a memory group on a column-by-column basis; (2) in each column, the individual counters are cascade-connected between individual bits; (3) switches are provided at bit output portions of the individual counters; (4) connecting sides of the individual switches are commonly connected to a column-signal transfer line, and output sides of the switches are shared with the other individual bits; (5) inputs of memories (latch circuits), which store digital data for horizontal transfer, share the column-signal transfer line; and (6) outputs of the memories corresponding to the individual bits are connected via switches to data transfer signal lines wired so as to be orthogonal to the column-signal transfer line. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008032 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a comparison section comparing a pixel signal from a pixel with a ramp signal and outputting a comparison signal. A measurement section starts counting in synchronism with the ramp signal and continues the counting until a signal supplied thereto reverses to measure comparison time. A comparator output controlling section interposed between the output of the comparison section and the input of the measurement section stops, if a pixel signal value exceeds a predetermined value determined based on a tanning phenomenon when the counting is started, the counting when the comparison signal is supplied to the measurement section to reverse the comparison signal, but supplies, if the pixel signal value does not exceed the predetermined value, a signal which is not reversed within a measurement period to the measurement section to continue the counting during the measurement period. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008027 | Solid-state imaging device and camera system - A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel section wherein pixels including photoelectric conversion devices are arranged in a matrix; and a pixel driving section including a row selection circuit which controls the pixels to perform an electronic shutter operation and readout of the pixel section. The row selection circuit has a function of selecting a readout row from which a signal is read out and a shutter row on which reset is performed by discharging charge accumulated in the photoelectric conversion devices, in accordance with address and control signals. The row selection circuit can set, in accordance with the address and control signals, in the pixels of the selected row, at least a readout state, a discharge state where a smaller amount of the charge accumulated in the photoelectric conversion devices than the reset is discharged, an electronic shutter state, and a charge state where the charge is accumulated in the photoelectric conversion devices. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008026 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME, AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging device includes the following elements. A photoelectric conversion section is arranged in a semiconductor layer having a first surface through which light enters the photoelectric conversion section. A signal circuit section is arranged in a second surface of the semiconductor layer opposite to the first surface. The signal circuit section processes signal charge obtained by photoelectric conversion by the photoelectric conversion section. A reflective layer is arranged on the second surface of the semiconductor layer opposite to the first surface. The reflective layer reflects light transmitted through the photoelectric conversion section back thereto. The reflective layer is composed of a single tungsten layer or a laminate containing a tungsten layer. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008025 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging device includes an image sensor chip and a signal processing chip, which are electrically connected. A low thermal conductivity region is positioned between the image sensor chip and the signal processing chip. The low thermal conductivity region is configured to insulate the image sensor chip from heat, which may be generated by the signal processing chip. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008024 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate that has a light sensing portion which photoelectrically converts incident light; an infrared cut filter layer or a light shielding layer that is provided on a surface side opposite to a light receiving surface of the semiconductor substrate and is formed on substantially the entire surface of an area corresponding to an area in which the light sensing portion of the semiconductor substrate is formed; and a wiring layer that is provided on an upper layer of the infrared cut filter layer or the light shielding layer. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008022 | Solid-state imaging device and camera system - A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel section in which a plurality of pixels converting optical signals into electric signals and accumulating the electric signals in accordance with an exposure period are arranged in a matrix shape; and a pixel driving section that is able to drive the pixel section to perform reset thereof and accumulate and output the electric signals, wherein the pixel driving section includes a vertical reading function of alternately reading pixel columns for which addition is vertically performed and pixel columns for which the addition is not performed, and a column reading function of changing the addition and normal reading whenever reading each single row in response to scanning of the vertical reading circuit, and the pixel driving section performs pseudo thinning-out reading addition equivalent to thinning-out by reading all pixels without thinning out pixels in a reading target row. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008013 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD THEREOF, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes an image file creation unit, a storage control unit, an extracting unit, and a display controller. The image file creation unit is configured to create a file including a plurality of images, first management information indicating a specified Exif version, and second management information including an image size and a total number of the images in the file. The storage control unit is configured to store the image file in a storage. The extraction unit is configured to extract the image from the image file in the storage based on the second management information. The display controller is configured to display the image on a display. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008008 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGING METHOD, IMAGING PROGRAM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing device includes: an image generating unit that generates third image data on the basis of first image data and second image data different in exposure condition from the first image data; a subject recognizer that recognizes a predetermined subject on the basis of the first image data; and a brightness value condition detector that detects a brightness value condition of an area around the predetermined subject recognized by the subject recognizer in the first image data, wherein the image generating unit generates the third image data on the basis of the detection result in the brightness value condition detector. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007989 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes: a solid-state imaging device provided with a plurality of arranged light-sensitive devices each having sensitivity to light in a range from a visible region to an infrared region; a first filter for transmitting light in the visible region to a first part light-sensitive device out of the plurality of light-sensitive devices; a second filter for transmitting light in the infrared region to a second part light-sensitive device out of the plurality of light-sensitive devices; and a signal processing section for changing a ratio between an electrical signal converted by the first part light-sensitive device and an electrical signal converted by the second part light-sensitive device used as an electrical signal used for deciding exposure in accordance with intensity of the electrical signal converted by the first part light-sensitive device. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007988 | IMAGING DEVICE, DISPLAY-IMAGING DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - Disclosed herein is an imaging device including: a plurality of photodetecting elements arranged on a substrate, each having a first semiconductor layer for the channel region; and a plurality of driving elements arranged on the substrate, each having a second semiconductor layer for the channel region, wherein the first and second semiconductor layers each are a crystallized semiconductor layer, the first and second semiconductor layers each are approximately equal in thickness and impurity concentration, and the first and second semiconductor layers each have an average trap level density no higher than 2.0×10 | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007977 | MICROSCOPE CONTROL DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE MANAGEMENT SERVER, IN-FOCUS POSITION INFORMATION GENERATING METHOD, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, IMAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND MICROSCOPE IMAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - In one example embodiment, a microscope control device a controller configured to store a plurality of images having different depth positions. In one example embodiment, the microscope control device divides the plurality of images into a plurality of sub-regions. In one example embodiment, the microscope control device, for each sub-region, generates in-focus position information which corresponds to a depth position. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007973 | IMAGING DEVICE AND TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION SYSTEM - There are provided an inexpensive imaging device that may perform data transmission promptly and easily, and a transmission/reception system using the imaging device. The imaging device includes, an imaging section, a recording section storing data of images shot by the imaging section, a transmission section transmitting the data stored in the recording section to the outside by radio, and a controller controlling the transmission section to start data transmission after the imaging section finishes image-shooting. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007962 | IMAGE DATA TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, IMAGE DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, IMAGE DATA RECEPTION APPARATUS, IMAGE DATA RECEPTION METHOD, AND IMAGE DATA TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION SYSTEM - An apparatus may include a control unit to determine whether a display state notification indicating a dimensional display process exists. The control unit may set an output form of display data to be displayed on image data to an output form corresponding to a display state indicated by the display state notification. | 01-12-2012 |
