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20090027187 | MONITORING SYSTEM AND TEMPERATURE CONTROLLER - The present invention provides A monitoring system comprising a display device, an abnormality detection means for monitoring an object and when detecting an abnormality of the monitored object, outputting an abnormality signal, and a display control means for causing the display device to present an abnormality display, further comprising a latch means for retaining the output state resulting from receipt of an abnormality signal, thereby continuing to output a latch signal until reset, and a reset device for resetting the latch device, wherein the display control device determines in what manner the display device presents an abnormality display, depending on whether an abnormality signal and a latch signal are each transmitted or not. | 01-29-2009 |
20090248215 | CONTROL DEVICE AND ELECTRIC POWER ESTIMATING METHOD - To estimate the instantaneous electric power consumption of an actuator, such as a heater, with excellent accuracy, while using an existing structure. A control device comprises a PID control calculating unit for calculating, and for outputting to the actuator, an manipulated variable MV based on a produced variable PV of an object to be controlled; and an electric power estimating unit for estimating the electric power consumption of the actuator using an electric power estimating function equation that has been set in advance, using, as input variables, the manipulated variable MV, the produced variable PV, and an electric current value CT of the electric current that flows through the actuator in response to the output of the manipulated variable MV. The electric power estimating function equation is derived in advance through multivariate analysis from actual measured data from the input variables and actual measured data for the electric power consumption of the actuator. | 10-01-2009 |
20120112727 | ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASURING DEVICE, ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASURING METHOD, AND ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASURING PROGRAM - A current measurement device has a rectification unit rectifying an alternating-current signal, an A/D conversion unit converting an analog signal corresponding to a signal obtained by the rectification into a digital signal, an addition unit for adding digital signals corresponding to alternating-current signals during a sampling period among the digital signals obtained by the conversion, and a current value conversion unit for converting an additional value obtained by the addition by the addition unit into a current value using a current value conversion function. The sampling period is a common multiple of the periods of alternating-current signals of 50 Hz and 60 Hz, the current values of which are to be measured. | 05-10-2012 |
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20100220239 | INTERPOLATION FRAME GENERATION APPARATUS, INTERPOLATION FRAME GENERATION METHOD, AND BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an interpolation frame generation apparatus according to one embodiment, which generates an interpolation frame image to be inserted between continuous frame images, includes a block specific detector configured to execute block matching processing in one of blocks included in the continuous frame images and determine a block specific motion vector, a pixel specific detector configured to, for each pixel of a block of interest of the blocks, define, as a candidate vector, a motion vector most frequently applied among pixel specific motion vectors already determined in a block adjacent to the block of interest and execute matching processing between the candidate vector and each pixel of the block of interest, thereby detecting a pixel specific motion vector, and a generator configured to generate an interpolation frame image based on the block specific motion vector and the pixel specific motion vector. | 09-02-2010 |
20100245674 | INTERPOLATION FRAME GENERATION APPARATUS, INTERPOLATION FRAME GENERATION METHOD, AND BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an interpolation frame generation apparatus generates an interpolation frame image to be inserted between continuous frame images. The interpolation frame generation apparatus includes a motion vector detection module and a generation module. The motion vector detection module is configured to execute block matching processing in each of a plurality of blocks included in the continuous frame images and specify one motion vector on an interpolation frame. The generation module is configured to, for an interpolation block in which the motion vector detection module specifies one motion vector, generate an interpolation frame image based on the motion vector, and for an interpolation block in which the motion vector detection module does not specify one motion vector, generate an interpolation frame image based on the frame image containing no motion vector component. | 09-30-2010 |
20100328529 | STILL SUBTITLE DETECTION APPARATUS, VISUAL DISPLAY EQUIPMENT, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, to detect a still subtitle part included as a part of an image in a video signal, the still subtitle detection apparatus detects in pixel units a subtitle part from a video frame formed of pixels. The apparatus includes a subtitle part determination module and a still subtitle detection module. The subtitle part determination module determines, as the subtitle part, a pixel or pixel group on the high-luminance region side (white peak) that neighbors the detection position of an image edge where a luminance level changes or on the low-luminance region side (black bottom) that neighbors the detection position of the image edge where the luminance level changes. When it is detected that the subtitle part remains unchanged by comparing two continuous video frames along the time axis, the still subtitle detection module detects the subtitle part as a still subtitle. | 12-30-2010 |
20110032431 | FRAME INTERPOLATING DEVICE AND FRAME INTERPOLATING METHOD - A frame interpolating device includes: a motion vector matching module configured to perform block matching processing to output a plurality of block matching result for respective blocks in an interpolation frame generated by frame interpolating processing using a past frame and a current frame of an input video signal; a detection vector determining module configured to detect a combination of most similar image blocks in the past frame and the current frame from the block matching results and to employ the motion vector as a detection vector; a referenceability determining module configured to determine referenceability of the detection vector of a reference area; a final vector determining module configured to employ the detection vector as a motion vector of the screen edge area; and a frame interpolating module configured to perform frame interpolation processing using the employed detection vector of the reference area. | 02-10-2011 |
20120002105 | Video Signal Interpolation Device, Video Display Device, and Video Signal Interpolation Method - According to one embodiment, a video signal interpolation device includes a motion vector detector, an interpolation frame generator, an analyzer, and an enhancer. The motion vector detector detects a motion vector from two consecutive image frames. The interpolation frame generator generates an interpolation frame from the image frames based on the motion vector detected by the motion vector detector. The analyzer detects uniform motion in a predetermined direction from the motion vector detected by the motion vector detector. The enhancer performs an enhancement process on the interpolation frame from the same direction as the direction of the uniform motion detected by the analyzer. | 01-05-2012 |
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20140253301 | COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, communications device includes receiver, transmitter, and display. The receiver receives, when first information indicating a setting on a target control device is displayed in a first color in a first display area of a display device, an operation for changing information displayed in the first display area from the first information to second information. The transmitter transmits to the target control device, after a first time has elapsed from when the receiver receives the operation, an instruction for changing the setting according to the second information. The display displays, when the receiver receives the operation for changing the information displayed in the first display area and before the transmitter transmits the instruction, the second information in a second color on the first display area, and displays, upon transmission of the instruction, the second information in a third color in the first display area. | 09-11-2014 |
20150036822 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - According to at least one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes: a content acquiring module configured to receive or store a content according to a first copyright protection method; a filter configured to acquire PIDs from first packets of the content; an analyzing module configured to acquire a PAT/PMT from each of the PIDs; a generating module configured to generate a PMT based on the PAT/PMT according to a second copyright protection method; encrypters configured to encrypt PES payloads by managing independent sets of an encryption key and an initial vector for the respective PIDs; and a packet generating module configured to generate second packets based on encryption results. | 02-05-2015 |
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20120200892 | METHOD OF PLACING AN ORDER FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTING - In an image network system used for network print service which receives an order for printing or the like by using a communication network such as the Internet, there are provided a center server capable of providing service which is different depending upon points given to a customer according to an order track record, at a time of using the system, capable of suitably setting a storage capacity and a storage period of an image for a user without placing a burden on the user while importance is placed on an operational efficiency of the system, capable of allowing a user to upload images as many as possible in an album, and useful for prompting an order, and an image network system including the center server. | 08-09-2012 |
20130022294 | METHOD OF PLACING AN ORDER FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTING - In an image network system used for network print service which receives an order for printing or the like by using a communication network such as the Internet, there are provided a center server capable of providing service which is different depending upon points given to a customer according to an order track record, at a time of using the system, capable of suitably setting a storage capacity and a storage period of an image for a user without placing a burden on the user while importance is placed on an operational efficiency of the system, capable of allowing a user to upload images as many as possible in an album, and useful for prompting an order, and an image network system including the center server. | 01-24-2013 |
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20090195924 | Perpendicular magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus using the same - Embodiments of the present invention help allow accurate control of the magnetization reversal in a magnetic recording layer in small reversal units, whereby high-density recording can be achieved. According to one embodiment, by forming an intermediate layer having a granular structure similar to that of the magnetic recording layer below the magnetic recording layer, a continuous crystal grain boundary is formed at the interface between the magnetic recording layer and the intermediate layer, thereby preventing incomplete formation of the crystal grain boundary found in the initial growth layer of the magnetic recording layer. The intermediate layer comprises a non-magnetic alloy comprising Co and Cr as its main components and an oxide such as Al, Cr, Hf. Mg, Nb, Si, Ta, Ti and Zr. Further, the average content of the oxygen element in the intermediate layer is in the range from 6 at % to 20 at %. | 08-06-2009 |
20130155543 | PATTERNED MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIA AND METHODS OF PRODUCTION THEREOF UTILIZING CRYSTAL ORIENTATION CONTROL TECHNOLOGY - In one embodiment, a patterned magnetic recording medium includes an interlayer positioned above a nonmagnetic substrate, wherein portions of the interlayer have good crystal orientation separated by portions of the interlayer which have poor crystal orientation, and a magnetic recording layer positioned above the interlayer. The magnetic recording layer is defined by a pattern which includes magnetic portions having good crystal orientation above the portions of the interlayer having good crystal orientation separated by magnetic portions having poor crystal orientation above the portions of the interlayer having poor crystal orientation. In another embodiment, a method is proposed for producing the patterned magnetic recording medium as described above which includes forming an interlayer and a recording layer above the interlayer, and imparting a template pattern to the interlayer using an organic resist during or after formation of the interlayer. The interlayer is adapted for controlling crystal orientation of the recording layer. | 06-20-2013 |
20140104724 | PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND MAGNETIC STORAGE DEVICE - Provided are a magnetic recording medium suitable for use with a microwave assisted magnetic recording head and suitable for such recording and a method for manufacturing the same. A perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes a recording layer including a plurality of magnetic layers. A magnetic layer as an uppermost layer of the recording layer includes three or more of sub-layers each having thickness of more than 0 and 1 nm or less, the sub-layers including a first sub-layer and a second sub-layer to make up a lamination unit layer, the first sub-layer including, as a major element, 50% or more of at least one type of element selected from the group consisting of Co, Fe and Ni, the second sub-layer including, as a major element, an element different from the major element of the first sub-layer. The magnetic layer as the uppermost layer includes a plurality of lamination unit layers having different composition of sub-layers at least one sub-layer among the lamination unit layers and/or a different film thickness of sub-layers at least one sub-layer among the lamination unit layers. | 04-17-2014 |
20150294691 | SEALED DISK MEDIA ENCLOSURE - A sealed disk media enclosure is provided. The sealed disk media enclosure in one example includes a media enclosure structure formed of a porous material and including a disk media chamber and a chamber aperture on one side of the media enclosure structure, one or more disk media located in the disk media chamber, a Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) coating on at least a portion of the media enclosure structure, with the DLC coating preventing passage of gas molecules through the media enclosure structure, and a cover affixed to the media enclosure structure and substantially sealing the chamber aperture, wherein a predetermined gas or gas mixture is sealed within the disk media chamber. | 10-15-2015 |
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20130052529 | PARTICULATE MIXTURE, ACTIVE MATERIAL AGGREGATE, CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIAL, CATHODE, SECONDARY BATTERY AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A particulate mixture etc., which can be used as a precursor of lithium transition metal silicate-type compound of small particle size and low crystallinity, is provided. Further, a cathode active material that can undergo charge-and-discharge reaction in room temperature, and comprises lithium
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20130052544 | CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIAL, CATHODE, SECONDARY BATTERY AND MANUFACTURING METHODS FOR THE SAME - An object of the present invention is to provide a cathode active material which contains small-particle sized and low-crystalline lithium transition metal silicate and which undergoes charge-discharge reaction at room temperature. | 02-28-2013 |
20130316233 | PARTICULATE MIXTURE, CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIAL, CATHODE, SECONDARY BATTERY, AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - The object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing lithium transition metal phosphate with a small particle size and uniform element spatial distribution, which enables continuous and large-scale synthesis. Its solution is as follows: A particulate mixture is synthesized by the spray-combustion method, wherein a mixed solution containing a lithium source, a transition metal source, and a phosphorus source is supplied into a flame along with a combustion-supporting gas and a flammable gas, as a mist-like droplet. It is a method for producing lithium transition metal phosphate-type cathode active material, which further comprises a process of mixing the synthesized particulate mixture with a carbon source, a process of calcining the particulate mixture under inert gas atmosphere to produce an active material aggregate, and a process of pulverizing the active material aggregate. | 11-28-2013 |
20140038043 | CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIAL, NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIAL - The object of the present invention is to provide a lithium transition metal silicate-type cathode active material that shows superior cycle characteristics, and shows little deterioration of discharge capacity even after repeated charge-and-discharge. In the present invention, a cathode active material that is expressed by the general formula Li | 02-06-2014 |
20140166928 | PARTICULATE MIXTURE, ACTIVE MATERIAL AGGREGATE, CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIAL, CATHODE, SECONDARY BATTERY, AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A particulate mixture etc., which can be used as a precursor of lithium transition metal silicate-type compound of small particle size and low crystallinity, is provided. Further, a cathode active material that can undergo charge-and-discharge reaction in room temperature, and comprises lithium transition metal silicate-type compound, is provided. | 06-19-2014 |
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20100074384 | RECEIVING DEVICE, RECEIVING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A receiving device includes: a noise detecting means for detecting a noise, which is contained in a received signal, using the received signal which has undergone clock synchronization processing: a phase error detecting means for detecting a phase error of the received signal using the received signal which has undergone clock synchronization processing; and a calculation means for calculating a phase correction value on the basis of the phase error detected by the phase error detecting means, wherein, when the noise is detected by the noise detecting means, the calculation means modifies a parameter to be employed in the calculation of the phase correction value so as to decrease the phase correction value. | 03-25-2010 |
20100303186 | Synchronization circuit, synchronization method, and reception system - Disclosed herein is a synchronization circuit including: a first phase-locked loop circuit; a second phase-locked loop circuit; a first output circuit; a second output circuit; a first detection circuit; a second detection circuit; and a control circuit. | 12-02-2010 |
20100304700 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD AND RECEPTION SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a signal processing device including an adjustment section configured to adjust the power of each of subinterval signals by multiplying the subinterval signals by a gain adapted to bring the power to a given level, the subinterval signals being input signals each having a frequency component of one of a plurality of subintervals into which the frequency band over which the power spectrum is to be measured is divided, and a correction section configured to correct the power of each of the subinterval signals, whose power has been adjusted by the adjustment section, by multiplying the power spectrum by the reciprocal of the gain used for adjustment of the power by the adjustment section. | 12-02-2010 |