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20080215810 | RAID CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A RAID control apparatus and control method. The RAID control apparatus includes disk devices and disk control devices including a cache memory that stores cache data of a logical unit, and control unit, upon the logical units present in different disk devices being concatenated to each other, switching in-charge disk control devices such that a disk control device is in charge of access to the concatenated logical units without writing back the cache data stored in a cache memory of a source disk control device to the disk device. | 09-04-2008 |
20090063766 | STORAGE CONTROLLER AND FIRMWARE UPDATING METHOD - A storage controller and method are provided. The storage controller includes control sections including storage sections into which data transmitted from a host unit is cached, one of the control sections being a main control section which controls firmware update in the control sections. The main control section includes an instruction updater sending an update instruction to a sub control section in the control sections in which firmware is to be updated, and an area instructor requesting the sub control section to transmit area information, the sub control section including an area information obtainer obtaining, according to the instruction from the area instructor and an area information transmitter transmitting to the area instructor; and an area setter setting the location of the cache area in the storage section on the basis of the instruction. | 03-05-2009 |
20100217932 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS - A storage apparatus includes a copy control unit for managing a copy session for copying an copy source data area in at least one of the first to the Mth copy source disk groups to an copy destination data area in a corresponding copy destination disk group, setting a first to an Mth copy session groups, each of the copy session groups including one or more copy sessions from the ith copy source disk group to the ith copy destination disk group as the copy session, and performing repeatedly a selection operation for cyclically selecting a copy session from each of the first to the Mth copy session groups in a predetermined sequence and a control operation for cyclically executing copy processing on a predetermined copy processing unit basis for the M copy sessions selected by the selection operation in a predetermined sequence for a prescribed number of times. | 08-26-2010 |
20120239882 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND STORAGE APPARATUS - In a storage apparatus, in the case where a data block to be written to a storage medium is a zero data block containing only zero data, a zero data information memory stores zero data identification information indicating that the data block is a zero data block. A control apparatus receives a data block from an access requesting apparatus in association with a write request issued by the access requesting apparatus for writing the data block a specified number of times to a predetermined storage area of the storage medium, and when determining that the data block is a zero data block containing only zero data, sets zero data identification information in the zero data information memory, and when completing the setting of the zero data identification information, sends the access requesting apparatus a completion notice of the writing to the storage medium. | 09-20-2012 |
20130205111 | VIRTUAL STORAGE DEVICE, CONTROLLER, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN A CONTROL PROGRAM - A virtual storage device including a releasable region decider that decides whether each of a plurality of management unit regions is a releasable region, being allocated a physical region and being a release candidate region, by referring to management data that associates allocation data representing a state of allocating a physical region to the management unit region and release candidate region data representing whether the management unit region is a release candidate region with each other; a determinator that determines whether the management unit region decided to be the releasable region by the releasable region decider is an all-zero region all data in which are zero; and a releaser that releases allocation of a physical region allocated to the management unit region determined to be the all-zero region by the determinator. This configuration makes it possible to efficiently use the storage region. | 08-08-2013 |
20140297988 | STORAGE DEVICE, ALLOCATION RELEASE CONTROL METHOD - A storage device that allocates an unused physical storage area to logical storage areas to which write has been requested by an upper device, the storage device including a pattern test unit that tests whether a data pattern written to each of the logical storage areas is a data pattern indicating that allocation of the physical storage area is needed, a skip control unit that determines a skip object for which the pattern test unit does not perform the test among the logical storage areas being test objects of the pattern test unit, and excludes the skip object from the test objects, and a release control unit that releases allocation of a physical storage area to a logical storage area, tested by the pattern test unit, to which the data pattern indicating that allocation of the physical storage area is not needed. | 10-02-2014 |
20140372720 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND OPERATION MANAGEMENT METHOD OF STORAGE SYSTEM - A policy determining unit determines an allocation method for blocks on the basis of information on a hierarchical policy stored in a policy management table and information on a volume stored in a volume management table. Then, on the basis of the determination result performed by the policy determining unit, a first allocating unit performs allocation on the basis of the specified capacity and a second allocating unit performs allocation on the basis of the specified percentage for each volume. | 12-18-2014 |
20150161043 | STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD - A storage control apparatus is communicatively connected to a storage device. The storage device includes a plurality of SSDs. The storage control apparatus includes a processing request controller and a device load detector. The device load detector detects an overload of an SSD by detecting a processing delay of the SSD. When the device load detector has detected an overload of an SSD, the processing request controller suppresses issuance of a request to process write-back with respect to a group by delaying issuance of the write-back. | 06-11-2015 |
20150278114 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - A control unit stores data used in a process to a shared cache memory. The control unit provides a shared queue in a memory space of the shared cache memory and performs LRU control with the use of the shared queue. The control unit also provides a local queue in the memory space of the shared cache memory. The control unit enqueues a CBE (management information) for a cache page used by a core in a process to the local queue. The control unit dequeues a plurality of CBEs from the local queue upon satisfaction of a predetermined condition, and enqueues the dequeued CBEs to the shared queue. | 10-01-2015 |
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20090264166 | Mobile terminal device - To provide a mobile terminal device that can eliminate influence of static electricity upon signal lines of a signal-line flexible board that is placed through a connecting unit that connects two casings to be able to overlie one another. In the mobile terminal device, one of the casings and the other casing are connected through a connecting unit to be able to overlie one another, and a signal-line flexible board that connects circuit boards housed in one of the casings and the other casing, respectively, is placed through the connecting unit. The mobile terminal device includes a pair of frame-grounded flexible boards that are formed wider than the signal-line flexible board to have a conductor pattern frame grounded, and sandwich both outer surfaces of the signal-line flexible board therebetween. | 10-22-2009 |
20100113108 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes an outer case having a sound hole, an acoustic unit included in the outer case in a position corresponding to a position of the sound hole, a sheet member provided between the acoustic unit and the outer case in a position corresponding to the position of the sound hole, and placed over the acoustic unit to cover an outside of an outer edge of the acoustic unit, a mounting portion circumferentially provided on an outer peripheral portion of the sheet member and mounted to the outer case, and an extension portion that extends the mounting portion toward an inner periphery thereof on a side of the sheet member facing the acoustic unit and to which the acoustic unit is mounted. | 05-06-2010 |
20100134963 | DEVICE HOUSING AND MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE - There is provided a device housing for a mobile terminal device that includes a metallic plate, an external wall formed of resin and disposed at outer peripheral edges of the metallic plate, an electronic component holder formed of the resin at the nearly same time when the external wall is formed. Furthermore, the electronic component holder disposed on an inner area of the metallic plate surrounded by the external wall the metallic plate and disposed apart from the external wall. | 06-03-2010 |
20100134968 | MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE - A mobile terminal device includes a display section; a housing including a frame member forming an opening for accommodating the display section; a transparent plate member disposed over the display section; a metal panel member disposed over the frame member so as to expose the transparent plate member; and an adhesive member having an adhesive obverse surface and an adhesive reverse surface placed between the frame member and each of the transparent plate member and the metal panel member, the adhesive reverse surface being adhesively fixed to the frame member, the adhesive obverse surface being adhesively fixed to the transparent plate member and the metal panel member. | 06-03-2010 |
20100154516 | WATERPROOF TEST METHOD AND WATERPROOF TEST TANK - A method for testing waterproof property of an object designed to prevent water from penetrating into the inside of the object and having a hole, the hole allowing air communication between the inside and the outside of the object, the method includes: attaching closely to the object a tank having an opening hermetically surrounding the hole to form an air communication path between the inside of the object and the tank to form a single air tight space; placing the object to which the tank is attached in an air tight container; either or both of injecting gas into and extracting the air from the air tight container containing the object so as to change the gaseous pressure of the air tight container; and measuring an internal gaseous pressure of the air tight container to determine whether the waterproof property of the object is effective or not. | 06-24-2010 |
20110057053 | AROMA DIFFUSER - An aroma diffuser includes a housing to include an accommodating part that accommodates at least an aromatic chip, and a lid to be attached to the housing detachably and to close the accommodating part. The aromatic chip is provided for the lid. | 03-10-2011 |
20110228554 | ILLUMINATION UNIT, DEVICE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD - An illumination unit including: a light source; a light guide-diffuser that guides and diffuses source light from the light source; a selective translucent unit that reflects external light or reduces the transmission of external light, while also transmitting light guided from the light guide-diffuser; and a presentation surface that presents the source light that has been guided from the light guide-diffuser and transmitted through the selective translucent unit. | 09-22-2011 |
20120055838 | WATER-RESISTANT COVER AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A water-resistant cover placed on an electronic device in an attachable/removable manner, and for the water-resistant cover and the circumference of a water-resistant area of the electronic device, a sealing member is provided on the whole circumference in the circumference direction of the water-resistant area on one side, and a contact plane facing the sealing member is formed on the same plane on another side, and the water-resistant cover slides and put on the electronic device in the state in which the sealing member contacts the contact plane and pressed. | 03-08-2012 |
20120129582 | MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS - The mobile terminal apparatus of the present invention includes a housing having an opening section in which an accommodated object is fitted; a lid covering the opening section, the lid having a protrusion which surrounds the opening section and shields the accommodated object from water, on a surface facing the accommodated object; and a cover covering the lid, the cover being attached to the housing to press the lid onto the housing. When the cover is attached to the housing, the protrusion of the lid surrounds the opening section and is pressed onto the housing by the cover, so that the accommodated object can be reliably shielded from water. | 05-24-2012 |
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20080209041 | VOLUME ALLOCATION METHOD - A management device selects a storage device having a plenty of unallocated storage regions, selects a target using a port having a small allocation quantity from the storage device targets, and allocates the target, an initiator, and a storage region. When the number of targets and the allocated storage regions prepared by the storage device is within a predetermined number, the storage device manages the storage device as an allocation candidate. When the predetermined number is exceeded, the exceeding one is excluded from the allocation candidate. When the number of storage devices excluded from the allocation candidate has reached a certain number, the management device manages a new storage device and a new storage region as an allocation candidate. | 08-28-2008 |
20080215767 | Storage usage exclusive method - In an environment where there is a possibility that the user connects from a plurality of blade PCs to the storage, the present invention prevents the data destruction by realizing the exclusive control of the storage device. The storage connection from a blade PC which was possible to connect until now is made to be impossible by that the management server newly generates and sets to the storage device the connection information between the storage device which the blade PC keeps. Further, by sending the newly generated connection information to the other blade PC the connection from that blade PC becomes possible. | 09-04-2008 |
20080307084 | STORAGE UNIT INFORMATION CONTROL SYSTEM FOR USER TERMINAL - The invention enables the control of the information in a storage unit in a user terminal, prevents data from leaking to unauthorized users and protects information in the user terminal. A management OS manages the input/output to/from a user work OS in the user terminal, identifies a control-triggering condition set by a management server, controls the information in the storage unit storing the user work OS-related information so that information leakage can be prevented, and it also backs up the user work OS-related information to the storage apparatus using the user work OS input/output information. | 12-11-2008 |
20090089880 | Computer system and virus-scan method - An object of the present invention is to provide a computer system and virus-scan method that are capable of full-scanning the logical volume of a SUTOSEN PC with high frequency while limiting the number of virus-scan devices. | 04-02-2009 |
20090248979 | Storage apparatus and control method for same - The storage apparatus includes an external logical unit as a target of a plurality of host apparatuses, and an internal logical unit assigned to the external logical unit. The internal logical unit includes a common logical unit having common files commonly used by the plurality of host apparatuses, and an individual logical unit having individual files used by each of the plurality of host apparatuses. Upon receipt of a write request from the host apparatus, the storage apparatus performs data matching by comparing write data depending on the write request with data stored in the common logical unit at a management block unit. The storage apparatus stores matching data block in the common logical unit, and stores a non-matching data block in an individual logical block. | 10-01-2009 |
20100100678 | Volume management system - The work load imposed on an administrator increases because the administrator has heretofore performed the work of allocating volumes to applications of PC server devices and the work of taking over volumes for applications in accordance with change in PC server devices. To solve this problem, there is provided a volume management system in a computer system having storage devices each of which has a unit which manages volume configuration information in accordance with each application, a unit which manages volume usage information in accordance with each of volumes for the applications, and a unit which manages allocatable areas of the storage devices while partitioning the allocatable areas of the storage devices in accordance with performance and reliability, wherein the volume management system has: a unit which selects suitable allocation regions in accordance with the volume usages of the applications; a unit which selects a suitable allocation region in accordance with change of host performance and migrates a volume to the suitable allocation region when host configuration of an application is changed; and a unit which changes configuration information to perform change of setting on each host. | 04-22-2010 |
20110061049 | Storage system, and remote copy control method therefor - A storage system includes an information apparatus in which a virtualization mechanism is implemented to build a virtual machine, a storage apparatus which is coupled to the information apparatus, which includes a first logical volume proving a storage area to be used by the virtual machine, and which includes a virtual disk area and a virtual disk management area on the first logical volume, the virtual disk area used by the virtual machine to store data, the virtual disk management area storing management data for managing the virtual disk area; and a management computer which is coupled to the information apparatus and the storage apparatus, and which includes a remote copy controller configured to copy the virtual disk area and the virtual disk management area on the first logical volume of the storage apparatus to a storage area on a second logical volume included in a second storage device coupled to the storage apparatus. The remote copy controller determines whether, on the second logical volume, there is the virtual disk management area used by the virtual machine. When determining that there is not, the remote copy controller transmits, to the storage apparatus, an instruction to copy the virtual disk management area and the virtual disk area to the second logical volume. | 03-10-2011 |
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20140135026 | BASE STATION AND ANTENNA TILT ANGLE CONTROL METHOD - A base station includes an antenna, a sending unit, a monitoring unit, and a controlling unit. The antenna is configured to be operated corresponding to a communication area of the base station, the antenna being capable of controlling a tilt angle, the tilt angle being an angle made by a vertical direction and a direction of a main beam of the antenna. The sending unit is configured to send a command corresponding to adjustment of timing of sending a signal sent from a mobile station. The monitoring unit is configured to monitor the number of mobile stations present in the communication area by using the command. The controlling unit is configured to reduce the tilt angle when the number of mobile stations exceeds an upper limit allowed to be contained in the communication area. | 05-15-2014 |
20140348138 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING A REFERENCE TIMING - In a communication system including first and second base stations, an apparatus operates as the first base station. The apparatus determines a first reference timing that is used as a reference timing for transmitting a downlink signal, and adjusts the determined first reference timing to a second reference timing being used in the second base station. The apparatus corrects a deviation of the first reference timing from the second reference timing, which has occurred after adjustment of the first reference timing, in accordance with a receiving timing of a preamble signal transmitted from a mobile station device to the second base station. | 11-27-2014 |
20150131606 | RADIO BASE STATION AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An allocation of radio resources in one of first and second radio areas in which a fading frequency estimated value with a relatively low estimation accuracy is obtained is controlled based on a fading frequency estimated value with a relatively high estimation accuracy among the fading frequency estimated values obtained from a radio signal sent by the radio terminal and received in the first and second radio areas. | 05-14-2015 |
20150230233 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION CONTROLLING METHOD - A processor performs a process that includes decoding, from among a radio signal received by the radio signal receiving apparatus, control data that includes information indicating frequency bands that a mobile station apparatus is capable of dealing with, component carriers and scenarios for carrier aggregation, receiving the decoded control data, calculating, in accordance with the received control data, a transmission-bandwidth adjacency level value indicating a policy on component-carrier allocation to the mobile station apparatus, determining, in accordance with the calculated transmission-bandwidth adjacency level value, a component carrier to be allocated to the mobile station apparatus from among the component carriers and the frequency bands that the mobile station apparatus is capable of dealing with; and generating a transmission signal that includes information indicating the determined component carrier. | 08-13-2015 |
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20100040056 | DATA GENERATING DEVICE - A data generating device is installed more upstream than a switching device for switching based on data of a first layer. The data generating device reads forward management information relating to a forwarding process of forward data from data of a second layer higher than the first layer, determines one or more clients corresponding to destinations of the forward data on the basis of the forward management information, and generates the same number of pieces of transmission data as the number of identified clients, and forwards each of the pieces of transmission data to the switching device in order to transmit the transmission data to each of the clients. | 02-18-2010 |
20100254384 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL UNIT AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD APPLIED FOR MULTI-CAST SUPPORTING LAN - A multicast processing section constructs, when it is determined that a received packet is a packet on a multicast packet and multicast group management protocol, a table showing a correlation between a host device and a multicast group in a port number-multicast physical address correlation storing section as well as in a multicast router-connected port storing section according to the received packet, and controls to transfer a packet for each multicast group between a multicast router and host devices according to the table. | 10-07-2010 |
20130315240 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL UNIT AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD APPLIED FOR MULTI-CAST-SUPPORTING LAN - A multicast processing section constructs, when it is determined that a received packet is a packet on a multicast packet and multicast group management protocol, a table showing a correlation between a host device and a multicast group in a port number-multicast physical address correlation storing section as well as in a multicast router-connected port storing section according to the received packet, and controls to transfer a packet for each multicast group between a multicast router and host devices according to the table. | 11-28-2013 |
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20110293148 | CONTENT DETERMINATION PROGRAM AND CONTENT DETERMINATION DEVICE - A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a content determination program causes a computer to perform processes of detecting persons appearing in chronologically photographed images, detecting a position of each of the persons, calculating a moving velocity of each of the persons, setting a group including a part of the persons on the basis of the moving velocities and the positions, acquiring attribute information of the group on the basis of a person image corresponding to the each of the part of the persons included in the group, and determining, on the basis of a correspondence relationship between the attribute information of the group and attribute information of content images stored in a storage unit, one of the content images to be projected to a position which each of the part of the persons of the group recognizes. | 12-01-2011 |
20120101748 | RECORDING MEDIUM FOR ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS PROGRAM, ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS METHOD, AND ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS DEVICE - According to an embodiment, a computer-readable, non-transitory medium storing an acoustic analysis program causing a computer to execute a process, the process including: analyzing propagation of a sound generated within a device in an internal analysis space of the device as a first analysis; converting a radiated sound that indicates a result of analysis executed and has been radiated from the inside to the outside of the device to sound energy; and setting a plurality of virtual sound sources to be used as input of a second analysis which is different from the first analysis method on the basis of the sound energy which has been converted from the radiated sound by executing the converting process. | 04-26-2012 |
20120239355 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH THERMAL HYDRAULIC SIMULATION PROGRAM IS STORED, THERMAL HYDRAULIC SIMULATING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR THERMAL HYDRAULIC SIMULATION - In the event of modifying analysis condition, after the simulation of a first time step carried out when the analysis condition is modified finishes and before the simulation of a second time step next after the first step starts, the modified analysis condition is referred and the simulation based on the modified analysis condition is carried out in the next time step. | 09-20-2012 |
20120253757 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECODING MEDIUM IN WHICH THERMAL HYDRAULIC SIMULATION PROGRAM IS STORED, THERMAL HYDRAULIC SIMULATING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR THERMAL HYDRAULIC SIMULATION - A prior simulation of a velocity field and a temperature field is carried out, and snapshot data of the velocity field and that of the temperature field are collected during the prior simulation. Then principal component analysis on the collected snapshot data obtains velocity-field and temperature field dimension transformation matrixes, on the based on which the analysis models of the velocity field and temperature field having respective first degrees of freedom are converted into reduced degree-of-freedom models. Consequently, a simulation of the velocity field and the temperature field is carried out using models having respective reduced degrees of freedom (i.e., second degrees of freedom). | 10-04-2012 |
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20100006231 | ULTRASONIC BONDING APPARATUS - An ultrasonic bonding apparatus includes a head that includes a tool surface configured to mount an electronic component, an ultrasonic bonding unit configured to ultrasonically bond the electronic component with a substrate, and a wiping unit configured to wipe out pre-cured underfill that has adhered to the tool surface of the head, by using a wiping member on a wiping table. The wiping unit includes a solvent supply unit configured to supply a solvent configured to powder the underfill, to the wiping member on the wiping table, a sealed cartridge configured to house the wiping table and a feed mechanism configured to supply the wiping member to the wiping table and to roll up the wiping member from the wiping table, and a cartridge support member that includes a motor configured to drive the feed mechanism, and is detachably attached to the cartridge. | 01-14-2010 |
20100006621 | ULTRASONIC BONDING APPARATUS - An ultrasonic bonding apparatus for manufacturing an electronic device that includes a substrate, an electronic component, and an underfill filled between the electronic component and the substrate includes a head that includes a tool surface configured to mount the electronic component, a wiping unit configured to wipe out pre-cured underfill that has adhered to the tool surface of the head, by using a wiping member on a wiping table, an ultrasonic bonding unit configured to ultrasonically bond the electronic component with the substrate and to press the head against the wiping member on the wiping table, a detector configured to detect a first pressure applied between the wiping member on the wiping table and the tool surface when the wiping unit provides wiping, and a controller configured to control a second pressure applied by the ultrasonic bonding unit, based on a detection result by the detector. | 01-14-2010 |
20100038406 | ULTRASONIC BONDING APPARATUS - An ultrasonic bonding apparatus includes an ultrasonic bonding unit, and a wiping unit configured to wipe out pre-cured underfill that has adhered to a tool surface of a head, by using a wiping member. The ultrasonic bonding unit includes a first driver configured to drive the head to press an electronic component upon a substrate, and an ultrasonic generator. The wiping unit includes a wiping table used to wipe out the tool surface, a feed mechanism configured to supply a wiping member to the wiping table and to roll up the wiping member, a cartridge configured to house the wiping table and the feed mechanism, and a second driver configured to drive the cartridge in the plane. The first driver is configured to press the head upon the wiping member on the wiping table. | 02-18-2010 |
20100174398 | POSITION MEASURING APPARATUS AND COATING APPARATUS - A position measuring apparatus includes a distance measuring part which obtains at least three pieces of distance information between at least three measurement points on a measured plane of an object and a displacement sensor, an imaging part which images a projection image on the measured plane of the object, and a calculating part which obtains tilt information of the measured plane based on the at least three distance information pieces and obtains position information of the object based on the tilt information and the projection image. | 07-08-2010 |
20130271773 | DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT DEVICE, DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT METHOD, AND DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT PROGRAM - A displacement measurement device includes a plurality of light receiving elements each of which outputs a signal corresponding to illuminance of interference fringe, the elements being arranged in a range of two periods of the interference fringe and arranged with an interval based on the period of the interference fringe in a movement direction of the interference fringe, a differential processing unit configured to perform differential processing on predetermined combinations of the signals output from the elements to generate four signals, a phase calculation unit configured to calculate a phase of the interference fringe on the basis of the signals output from the elements; and an output signal selection unit configured to select two signals from among the four signals on the basis of the phase of the interference fringe and select a signal of which absolute value is larger from among the two selected signals. | 10-17-2013 |
20140042308 | OPTICAL ROTARY ENCODER AND CORRECTION METHOD THEREFOR - An optical rotary encoder includes a light source, a rotation body including a reflecting diffraction grating, a light receiving unit including a plurality of light receiving elements, a synthetic unit that combines output signals output from the plurality of light receiving elements to obtain a signal, which represents a fringe pattern component at a certain cycle, included in a light reflected by the reflecting diffraction grating and, and a detection unit that detects a direction based on a first signal and a second signal, the direction being a direction in which a distance between the rotation body and the light receiving unit varies, the first signal and the second signal being obtained by the synthetic unit, the first signal indicating a fringe pattern component having a cycle shorter than the certain cycle, the second signal indicating a fringe pattern component having a cycle longer than the certain cycle. | 02-13-2014 |
20140175269 | OPTICAL FIBER ORIENTATION DETECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method is provided for detecting an orientation of an optical fiber including a flat surface as a part of a surface of the maintaining member. The method includes directing collimated light to the optical fiber through the flat surface of the maintaining member, receiving reflected light of the collimated light by using an optical sensor device, generating a brightness distribution image according to an output signal from the optical sensor device, identifying a reference point on a brightness distribution line appearing on the generated brightness distribution image, according to a position of the brightness distribution line in relation to a target orientation for the optical fiber, the brightness distribution line detectable on the brightness distribution image in correspondence to the reflected light received by the optical sensor device, and detecting the orientation of the optical fiber according to a coordinate of the reference point on the brightness distribution image. | 06-26-2014 |
20140198970 | EDGE DETECTION DEVICE AND EDGE DETECTION METHOD - An edge detection device includes: an image capturing mechanism configured to image-capture an edge of an optical joining block; and a control unit configured to control the image capturing mechanism, wherein the control unit: determines, based on image data of the edge, whether a plurality of regions included in the edge have a defective region including a defect or a non-defective region including no defect; determines whether or not first regions which are included in the plurality of regions and is determined to be the non-defective region satisfy a first condition; calculates a first straight line based on the first regions; and determines the first straight line as a position of the edge when the first regions has satisfied a first condition. | 07-17-2014 |
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20100035641 | Communication Device, Base Station, Method Of Communication, And Communication System - The MS detects a difference in timing or frequency between a reference signal being any one of the received signals from a plurality of BSs and each of the other received signals, notifies the results of detection to BSs other than the source BS of the reference signal, and the BSs other than the source BS of the reference signal control the timing or frequency of transmission of the signal to be received by other MSs other than the MS on the basis of the results of the detection. | 02-11-2010 |
20110124346 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, BASE STATION MOBILE STATION, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A wireless communication method includes, at each base station, respectively forming first and second communication regions at the edges of a cell of the each base station by changing the direction of a directional antenna in synchronization with other surrounding base stations at a given cycle period, where each first communication region is configured so that a first level is reached in the antenna gain between the sectors contained in the cell of the each base station and the sectors included in the cells of the other base stations, and where each second communication region is configured so that a second level lower than the first level is reached in the antenna gain, and, at each mobile station, combining signals from a given number of base stations during a time period in which the sum of incoming signal levels from the given number of base stations satisfies given conditions. | 05-26-2011 |
20110136531 | MOBILE TERMINAL, BASE STATION, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A terminal includes a data receiver that receives data transmitted by a base station to another mobile terminal, a response receiver that receives from the other mobile terminal a negative acknowledgement response indicating that the other mobile terminal has failed to receive the data normally, and a data transmitter that transmits to the other terminal the data, received by the data receiver, in response to the negative acknowledgement response received by the response receiver. | 06-09-2011 |
20110171944 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, REMOTE ACCESS DEVICE, AND BASE STATION DEVICE - A wireless communication system includes a base station including a determining section that determines control information indicating signal processing for each of wireless resources used for wireless communication with terminal equipment units, and remote access sections each including a first signal processing section that performs first signal processing on a first downlink signal received from the base station so as to generate a second downlink signal to be transmitted to the units via the wireless communication, and a second signal processing section that performs second signal processing on a second uplink signal received from the units via the wireless communication so as to generate a first uplink signal to be transmitted to the base station, and at least one of the first signal processing and the second signal processing being performed for each of the wireless resources based on the control information. | 07-14-2011 |
20110230135 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION STATION, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, AND METHOD OF COMMUNICATION - Upon receipt of a request for retransmission issued from a first terminal, the base station generates a synthesized data by combining retransmission data destined for the first terminal and data destined for a second terminal and transmits the synthesized data, using a single communication resource. | 09-22-2011 |
20120129528 | BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A base station includes a receiver which receives a piece of state information indicating whether or not a mobile station passes through a location on a fixed route, and a processor which performs processing which determines that the mobile station is moving on the fixed route when the received state information of the mobile station performing a handover to a cell formed by the base station indicates that the mobile station passes through a location on the fixed route. | 05-24-2012 |
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20110078298 | DATA COLLECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A data collection apparatus includes an information storing unit which stores application information collected from a server providing a service by running an application and includes detail information indicating a detail of the application, an information collecting unit which collects the application information from the server, an information identifying unit which identifies application information in which an abnormality has occurred and application information, affected by the abnormality, a first comparing unit which compares, as to the application information identified by the information identifying unit, all application information including the detail information and all application information including the detail information collected in the previous point, and extracts application information different from the application information collected in a previous point, and an information sending unit which sends the application information, extracted by the first comparing unit, to a data management apparatus which manages the application information. | 03-31-2011 |
20110099273 | MONITORING APPARATUS, MONITORING METHOD, AND A COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING A MONITORING PROGRAM - A monitoring apparatus configured to monitor applications running on one or more monitored apparatuses; the monitoring apparatus includes: an enquiry packet generator and transmitter that generates multiple types of enquiry packets, and successively transmits the multiple types of enquiry packets to respective communication ports on the one or more monitored servers; an enquiry packet response receiver that receives enquiry packet responses, which are transmitted in response to the multiple types of enquiry packets from communication ports on the one or more monitored apparatuses; and an application analyzer that analyzes the content of the enquiry packet responses transmitted in response to the multiple types of enquiry packets, and analyzes applications running on the one or more monitored servers as applications to be monitored. | 04-28-2011 |
20110246541 | DATA MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD - The present invention, an apparatus includes a data management apparatus comprising, a determination unit configured to determine whether an analyzing apparatus is in a communicable state when a configuration information data indicating a status of a server apparatus is received from a data collection apparatus, the data analyzing apparatus analyzing the configuration information data, an unprocessed information storage unit configured to store the received configuration information data once it is determined that data analyzing apparatus is in an incommunicable state, an integrating unit configured to integrate a plurality of configuration information data stored in the storage unit in accordance with a predetermined condition; and a notifying unit configured to send, to the analyzing apparatus, a message indicating that the data management apparatus is storing the configuration information data integrated by the integrating unit once it is determined that the data analyzing apparatus is in a communicable state. | 10-06-2011 |
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20110047332 | STORAGE SYSTEM, CACHE CONTROL DEVICE, AND CACHE CONTROL METHOD - A storage system includes a storage device that stores data, a cache memory that caches the data, an information storage unit that stores data configuration information indicating a configuration of the data and state information indicating a cache state of the data in the cache memory, a candidate data selection unit, a first determining unit and a data-to-be-written unit. The candidate data selection unit selects, according to the state information candidate data from the data cached in the cache memory. The first determination unit determines, according to the data configuration information, whether data relating to the candidate data is cached in the cache memory. The data-to-be-written selection unit selects, according to the determination made by the first determination unit, data to be written into the storage device, from the data cached in the cache memory. | 02-24-2011 |
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20090324095 | ANALYSIS-MODEL-PRODUCING APPARATUS AND ANALYSIS-MODEL-PRODUCING METHOD - An analysis-model-producing apparatus for producing an analysis model from a shape model, comprising means for specifying a deletion method for deleting, from geometric shape data constituting the shape model, geometric shape data that is unnecessary to production of an analysis model, and means for deleting unnecessary data, using the specified deletion method. | 12-31-2009 |
20090325401 | CONNECTOR, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A connector includes a contact pin in which a free end projecting from a supporting member comes into contact with an electrode of a first object and a second object, and a bending part is provided onto a base end such that the connector has an inclination against the first object and the second object. The rigidity of the bending parts is selectively set to be high by selectively increasing a thickness of the bending part. | 12-31-2009 |
20140239488 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT UNIT AND FIXING STRUCTURE - An electronic component unit includes a semiconductor package mounted on a front surface of a substrate, a heat sink including a pushing plate installed on the semiconductor package, a reinforcing plate disposed on a back surface of the substrate, and a plurality of fasteners that connect corner portions of the pushing plate and the reinforcing plate to each other, wherein the semiconductor package is pressed and fixed on the substrate by fastening the plurality of fasteners, and the reinforcing plate includes a base plate portion including a connection portion to which each of the plurality of fasteners is connected, and a pressing plate portion which is disposed at a planar central side of the base plate portion, and separably laminated on the base plate portion to press the back surface of the substrate. | 08-28-2014 |