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20080305771 | MOBILE TERMINAL, AND PROGRAM AND METHOD FOR PREVENTING UNAUTHORIZED USE OF MOBILE TERMINAL - In a mobile terminal having a security function, both convenience and security protection are realized so as to prevent a user from feeling bothersome. A mobile phone has an operation control unit which sets the operation of various functions of the mobile terminal to be unusable at any timing. When a used state determination unit determines that the mobile phone is not in an abnormal state and not left, the operation control unit controls operation of the various functions to maintain usable states. | 12-11-2008 |
20100131760 | CONTENT USING SYSTEM AND CONTENT USING METHOD - For an audio-visual terminal that reproduces content, anonymity of a user is ensured while enabling reproduction of the content. A content using system of the present invention includes a communication terminal, an audio-visual terminal and a license server. The communication terminal generates an electronic ticket by providing a group sign to license information obtained from the license server. The audio-visual terminal, after verifying the group sign of the electronic ticket obtained from the communication terminal, transmits the electronic ticket to the license server. The license server judges whether or not the electronic ticket is usable, which is transmitted from the audio-visual terminal and assigns a license of the content to the audio-visual terminal when the electronic ticket is judged to be usable. The audio-visual terminal decrypts the content which is encrypted, by using a decryption key obtained based on the license, and reproduces the content. | 05-27-2010 |
20100217710 | ELECTRONIC MONEY SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC MONEY TRANSACTION METHOD - An electronic money system is directed to avoid unauthorized use of certificate-type electronic money. The electronic money system is provided with a management server, a verification sever, a remittance terminal, and a receptor terminal. In response to a request from the remittance terminal, the management server issues an inactive electronic certificate including a certificate ID and notifies the verification server of the certificate ID. The remittance terminal gives a group signature to the inactive electronic certificate to generate an active electronic certificate. The reception terminal verifies the active electronic certificate obtained from the remittance terminal on the basis of the group signature. The verification server matches the certificate ID notified from the management server with the certificate ID included in the active electronic certificate verified by the reception terminal to verify availability of the active electronic certificate. | 08-26-2010 |
20100223187 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC PAYMENT, AND SERVER, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - A secure, inexpensive, convenient payment system which allows an existing communication to be used to make an expensive payment terminal unnecessary, makes local communication unnecessary to make it possible to use the system by a seller and a buyer, uses closed-loop type electronic money to make it possible to make payment on delivery is obtained. An account database | 09-02-2010 |
20100223463 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, KEY MANAGING/DISTRIBUTING SERVER, TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND DATA COMMUNICATION METHOD USED THEREFOR, AND PROGRAM - To provide a mobile communication system that can prevent unauthorized use of an encryption key otherwise caused by loss thereof and that can securely perform a direct communication between terminals using the encryption key. A portable terminal apparatus | 09-02-2010 |
20130019087 | SYSTEM STRUCTURE MANAGEMENT DEVICE, SYSTEM STRUCTURE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAMAANM Osaki; TakaoAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Osaki; Takao Tokyo JPAANM Fujita; NaotakeAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Fujita; Naotake Tokyo JP - Physical configuration information stored in the physical configuration storage unit ( | 01-17-2013 |
20130104131 | LOAD CONTROL DEVICE - A load control device | 04-25-2013 |
20130314601 | INTER-VIDEO CORRESPONDING RELATIONSHIP DISPLAY SYSTEM AND INTER-VIDEO CORRESPONDING RELATIONSHIP DISPLAY METHOD - To enable a presence/absence of a modification of a source video to be readily assessed in a derived video created by utilizing the source video. Relationship information including information indicating a segment corresponding relationship between at least one source video and a derived video created by utilizing at least a part of segments of the at least one source video and information indicating a presence/absence of a modification of the source video in a segment of the derived video in which the corresponding relationship exists is stored in a relationship information storing unit, and based on the relationship information stored in the relationship information storing unit, the segment corresponding relationship between the derived video and the at least one source video is displayed in a display mode in accordance with the presence/absence of a modification of the source video in the segment of the derived video in which the corresponding relationship exists. | 11-28-2013 |
20130322696 | DIFFERING REGION DETECTION SYSTEM AND DIFFERING REGION DETECTION METHOD - The present invention enables detection of a local differing region between images. Inter-image difference information indicating a difference in feature amounts for each subregion between first and second images is generated based on a first feature amount vector that is a set of feature amounts respectively corresponding to a plurality of subregions in the first image and a second feature amount vector that is a set of feature amounts respectively corresponding to a plurality of subregions in the second image, a differing region that is an image region that differs between the first and second images is detected based on differences in the respective subregions indicated by the inter-image difference information, and detection information that indicates a result of the detection is outputted. | 12-05-2013 |
20140019594 | VIDEO PROCESSING SYSTEM, VIDEO CONTENT MONITORING METHOD, VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF THE APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM OF THE APPARATUS - A system of this invention is a video processing system for determining details of a browsable video content. This video processing system includes a video fragment download unit that downloads data of a video fragments in a determination target video content via a network, and a first video content determination unit that determines the details of the video content based on the downloaded data of the video fragments. With this arrangement, it is possible to determine the details of a browsable video content while reducing the amount of data to be downloaded. | 01-16-2014 |
20140023343 | VIDEO PROCESSING SYSTEM AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD, VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF THE APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM OF THE APPARATUS - A system of this invention is a video processing system for detecting a change of a capturing target based on a video whose capturing range changes. This video processing system includes a capturing unit that captures the video whose capturing range changes, a feature extractor that extracts a frame feature of each frame from the captured video, a feature storage that stores, for each frame, the frame feature extracted by the feature extractor, a frame searcher that searches for a frame, a frame feature of which is stored in the feature storage, having a capturing range matching that of the newly captured frame by comparing a frame feature of a newly captured frame with the frame features stored in the feature storage, and a change detector that detects a change of the capturing target based on a difference between the frame feature of the newly captured frame and the frame feature of the frame found by the frame searcher. With this arrangement, it is possible to detect a change of a capturing target even if the capturing range of a capturing apparatus changes every moment. | 01-23-2014 |
20140092313 | VIDEO PROCESSING SYSTEM, VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD, DATABASE FOR VIDEO PROCESSING AND GENERATING METHOD THEREOF, VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND CONTROL PROGRAM THEREOF - A video processing apparatus includes a storage unit, an input unit, and a determining unit. The storage unit stores a plurality of scenes included in a scene group and characteristic amounts which are extracted from a series of plural frames included in the respective scenes in the scene group, in association with each other, defining one scene out of the plurality of scenes included in the scene group as a typical scene and the other scenes as a derived scene, the scene group being a group of a plurality of scenes derived from a common scene. The input unit inputs a characteristic amount which is extracted from each of the frames of a new scene. The determining unit determines whether the new scene represented by the inputted characteristic amount is the derived scene of the scene group or not by verifying the inputted characteristic amount with the characteristic amount of the typical scene of the scene group stored in the storage unit. | 04-03-2014 |
20140115618 | VIDEO PROCESSING SYSTEM, ADVERTISEMENT ACQUISITION METHOD, VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME - A variety of advertisement information is associated with a scene being played back and the advertisement information is provided. | 04-24-2014 |
20140139739 | SOUND PROCESSING METHOD, SOUND PROCESSING SYSTEM, VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD, VIDEO PROCESSING SYSTEM, SOUND PROCESSING DEVICE, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING SAME - To provide a device which accomplishes real-time sound identification and matching, by solving both of the problem of reducing time length of a frame and improving temporal accuracy and the problem of being robust against mixing with other sounds. | 05-22-2014 |
20140169679 | VIDEO PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD OF DETERMINING VIEWER PREFERENCE, VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD - A video processing apparatus includes a first storage means unit which stores, in correspondence to a viewer, frame feature values to characterize each frame of scenes constituted by a series of frames in a video content viewed by the viewer; a second storage means unit which stores, as scene groups classified by attributes of the scenes, the frame feature values of scenes constituted by the series of frames; an interest level accumulation means unit which compares the frame feature values stored in the first storage means unit with the frame feature values stored in the second storage means unit, and in case the compared frame feature values match, increases a score about the viewer which represents the interest level with respect to the scene group of which the frame feature values match; and a viewer preference determination means unit which determines that the scene groups of the which the scores are higher are the scene groups preferred by the viewer. | 06-19-2014 |
20150199658 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC PAYMENT, AND SERVER, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - A secure, inexpensive, convenient payment system which allows an existing communication to be used to make an expensive payment terminal unnecessary, makes local communication unnecessary to make it possible to use the system by a seller and a buyer, uses closed-loop type electronic money to make it possible to make payment on delivery is obtained. An account database | 07-16-2015 |
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20100303520 | RESIN COMPOSITION, LAMINATION FILM CONTAINING THE SAME, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT USES LAMINATION FILM AS COMPONENT - An object of the present invention is to provide a porous material (resin composition) having high heat insulation properties, mechanical properties, and electrical properties by controlling function of a porous film by setting a porosity size, distribution of the porosity size, and a porosity ratio of the porous film in predetermined ranges. The resin composition according to the present invention is comprised of an engineering plastic having porous structure in which not less than 80% of a total porosity is comprised of independent porosities, a mean porosity size is not less than 0.01 μm and not more than 0.9 μm, and not less than 80% of the total porosity has a porosity size within ±30% of the mean porosity size. | 12-02-2010 |
20120065284 | METHOD OF PRODUCING POROUS POLYMER FILM AND POROUS POLYMER FILM PRODUCED BY THE METHOD - A porosity is freely controlled in preparation of a porous polymer film by a phase separation method. A solvent absorption sheet is used for a solvent in a polymer solution so that the coating film of the polymer solution may be covered with the sheet. After that, the solvent in the film is selectively removed. Then, the resultant is immersed in a poor solvent. Thus, a porous polymer film can be produced. | 03-15-2012 |
20130209933 | RELEASE AGENT FOR TONER, AND TONER CONTAINING THE RELEASE AGENT - An object of the present invention is to provide a toner release agent adaptable to making the fixing temperature of the toner low. The above object can be solved by using a release agent for a toner including a hydrophobic organic substance which is liquid at normal temperature and normal pressure and has a relative dielectric constant of 20 or lower and an SP value of lower than 10, and a gelling agent. | 08-15-2013 |
20150192875 | ULTRAVIOLET-CURABLE LIQUID DEVELOPER - An ultraviolet-curable liquid developer contains a cationically polymerizable liquid monomer, a photoinitiator, and a toner particle insoluble in the cationically polymerizable liquid monomer. The cationically polymerizable liquid monomer is a vinyl ether compound, and the photoinitiator is a compound having a particular structure. | 07-09-2015 |
20150197616 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A RESIN COMPOSITION HAVING A POROUS STRUCTURE WITH INDEPENDENT POROSITIES - An object of the present invention is to provide a porous material (resin composition) having high heat insulation properties, mechanical properties, and electrical properties by controlling function of a porous film by setting a porosity size, distribution of the porosity size, and a porosity ratio of the porous film in predetermined ranges. The resin composition according to the present invention is comprised of an engineering plastic having porous structure in which not less than 80% of a total porosity is comprised of independent porosities, a mean porosity size is not less than 0.01 μm and not more than 0.9 μm, and not less than 80% of the total porosity has a porosity size within ±30% of the mean porosity size. | 07-16-2015 |
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20140117526 | SEMICONDUCTOR POWER CONVERTER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a semiconductor power converter includes first and second electrical conductors opposed to each other, first and second semiconductor elements joined to a first joint surface of the first electrical conductor, first and second convex electrical conductors joined to the first and second semiconductor elements, a junction joined to the first and second convex electrical conductors and a second joint surface of the second electrical conductor, power terminals, signal terminals, and an envelope sealing the constituent members. The envelope includes a flat bottom surface which extends perpendicular to the semiconductor elements and in which first and second bottom surfaces of the electrical conductors are exposed. | 05-01-2014 |
20140124909 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first electrical conductor, a second electrical conductor, first and second semiconductors between the first and second electrical conductors, a first power terminal, a second power terminal, a signal terminal, and an insulator which covers the components. The insulator includes a flat bottom surface in which the first and second electrical conductors are exposed, a ceiling surface, a first end surface, and a second end surface. The power terminals and the signal terminal extend outwardly from the first and second end surfaces, and the ceiling surface, respectively. The first end surface, the ceiling surface, and the second end surface are formed with a parting line. | 05-08-2014 |
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20100183087 | RECEPTION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND ADAPTIVE TRANSMISSION RATE CONTROL METHOD - In a receiver | 07-22-2010 |
20110086661 | BASE STATION AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A base station includes: an estimation section estimating transmission condition of each of frequency channels used for communication; a reception section receiving a data signal from each communication terminal through any of the frequency channels; a measurement section measuring received signal power of the received data signal for each frequency channel; a determination section determining, for each frequency channel, whether the received data signal is demodulated errorlessly; and a control section assigning frequency channels estimated as being in good transmission condition by the estimation section, to communication terminals the data signals of which are determined as not being errorlessly demodulated by the determination section, such that a frequency channel in a better transmission condition is assigned preferentially to a communication terminal having larger received signal power detected by the detection section, and transmitting retransmission request signals requesting the communication terminals to retransmit the data signals using the assigned frequency channels. | 04-14-2011 |
20120038537 | ANTENNA AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Provided is an antenna including a planar conductor to be grounded, and a three-dimensional linear conductor having at least a linear conductor, another linear conductor, and still another linear conductor that are integrally formed. The linear conductor is provided perpendicularly to the major surface of the planar conductor. The another linear conductor is parallel to the major surface. Still another linear conductor is parallel to the major surface, and is provided perpendicularly to the another linear conductor. | 02-16-2012 |
20130188674 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication device includes: an antenna unit through which electric waves are transmitted and received; a scatterer which reflects the electric waves; a communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with a first communication partner device via the antenna unit; and a scatterer control unit configured to change a state of the scatterer when communication fails between the communication unit and the first communication partner device. | 07-25-2013 |
20140179252 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication device includes: a first antenna and a second antenna; a switch unit selecting the first antenna in a first term and the second antenna in a second term; a reception determination unit determining whether or not communication data contained in wireless signals received by the first antenna and the second antenna; and a storage unit storing association between each of communication terminals and one of the first antenna and the second antenna, in which the switch unit sets lengths of the first and second terms so that a ratio of the respective lengths of the first and second terms is equal to a ratio of the number of times the communication data from the communication terminals respectively associated with the first and second antennas and is determined to be successfully obtained. | 06-26-2014 |
20150016564 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication apparatus which communicates data with plural other communication apparatuses by performing wireless communication includes: plural antennas; a communication level obtainment unit which obtains communication levels for the antennas obtained when the communication apparatus performed the wireless communication with the other communication apparatuses; a count unit which counts, for each of the antennas, the number of established communications that is the number of one or more of the other communication apparatuses which successfully established communication through the antenna; an antenna selection unit which selects, when the total number of antennas whose numbers of established communications are greatest is more than one, one of the antennas corresponding to a communication level that is highest among communication levels of plural antennas of the other communication apparatus corresponding to the lowest communication level; and a transmission unit which broadcasts predetermined data to the other communication apparatuses through the selected antenna. | 01-15-2015 |
20150124635 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RECEIVER, TRANSMITTER, AND TRANSMISSION RATE CONTROL METHOD - A receiver includes a first detector that detects a Received Signal Strength Indicator of a desiring signal wave transmitted from a transmitter, a second detector that detects a power of interfering wave generated by an external device, a transmission rate selection processor that selects a transmission rate, which is used to transmit a signal from the transmitter to the receiver, from among a plurality of transmission rates based on the detected Received Signal Strength Indicator of the desiring signal wave and a detected power of the interfering wave, when the second detector detects generation of the interfering wave, and a transmission rate notificator that notifies the transmitter of the transmission rate selected by the transmission rate selection processor. | 05-07-2015 |