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20100317352 | RADIO NETWORK CONTROLLER, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR AVOIDING A REDUCTION IN A CALL CONNECTION COMPLETION RATIO FOR USE THEREIN - A radio network controller ( | 12-16-2010 |
20110319079 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION DEVICE, RADIO COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, GATEWAY DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A radio communication system according to the present invention includes a base station device and a radio communication terminal. The radio communication terminal selects a cell of the base station device or a cell group to which the cell belongs and transmits information, that denotes that the cell or the cell group has been selected, to the base station device. The base station device receives the information. | 12-29-2011 |
20120021797 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Base station | 01-26-2012 |
20120034919 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM IN WHICH NodeB BROADCASTS IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION ON RELAY APPARATUS - A wireless communication system includes a first NodeB that forms a cell; and a relay apparatus to which the first NodeB connects and which relays data transmitted and received between the first NodeB and a core network. The first NodeB broadcasts identification information on the relay apparatus to which the first NodeB connects. | 02-09-2012 |
20120083269 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - Provided is a radio communication system which enables optimal cell switching. A broker femtocell base station is installed in an entrance of the buildings, and sub-femtocell base stations are installed in the buildings. An adjacent cell list and broker femtocell priority selection setting information are set as system information notified from a macro cell, the adjacent cell list including a broker PSC of the broker femtocell base station and PSCs of adjacent macro cells, the broker femtocell priority selection setting information being the information for preferentially selecting the broker femtocell base station. An adjacent cell list and sub-femtocell priority selection setting information are set as system information of the broker femtocell, the adjacent cell list including a PSC of a macro cell, and a sub PSC, of an adjacent femtocell, the sub-femtocell priority selection setting information being the information for preferentially selecting the sub-femtocell base station. | 04-05-2012 |
20120142346 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication system according to the present invention includes a wireless communication terminal and a base station apparatus. The base station apparatus transmits to the wireless communication terminal, cell information relating to a cell of the base station apparatus, and selectability information indicating whether the cell information is manually selectable. The wireless communication terminal receives from the base station apparatus the cell information and the selectability information of the base station apparatus. | 06-07-2012 |
20130171984 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CONTROL SYSTEM, RADIO BASE STATION, METHOD FOR DETERMINING FREQUENCY USED BY RADIO BASE STATION, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A location judgment unit ( | 07-04-2013 |
20130189999 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO BASE STATION, RADIO COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND A NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM EMBODYING INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTROLLING A DEVICE TO IMPLEMENT A CONTROL METHOD - When one base station forms a plurality of cells that use different frequency bands, a handover caused by movement between cells can be successfully performed with a high probability. A radio base station adapted to communicate with a radio communication terminal, comprising: a communication unit which performs a first communication with the radio communication terminal by using a first frequency, wherein the communication unit performs a second communication with the communication terminal by using a second frequency that is different from the first frequency; and a controller which performs a control, of at least one of a first power of the first communication and a second power of the second communication, based on a first power-related quality of the first communication and a second power-related quality of the second communication. | 07-25-2013 |
20130244639 | WIRELESS BASE STATION, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING DEVICE - A wireless communication system includes a wireless base station FAP | 09-19-2013 |
20150038145 | BASE STATION GATEWAY APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A disclosed base station gateway apparatus has a C-plane processing unit and a U-plane processing unit. When a mobile station performs handover from a subordinate source base station to a subordinate target base station, the C-plane processing unit terminates S1AP signaling received from the source base station and the target base station without relaying the S1AP signaling to a mobility management apparatus. The U-plane processing unit inserts, into U-plane data that is received from a serving gateway apparatus and that is to be transferred to the source base station, an end marker indicating that the U-plane data is the last data at a predetermined timing, and switches the transfer destination of the U-plane data, received from the serving gateway apparatus, from the source base station to the target base station at a timing immediately after the end marker is inserted. | 02-05-2015 |
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20090085774 | ONBOARD VEHICLE INFORMATION NOTIFYING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION NOTIFYING METHOD - An onboard vehicle information notifying apparatus is proved with a moving body position acquiring section, an information acquiring section, an information providing zone setting section and an information notifying section. The moving body position acquiring section acquires a moving body position for at least one moving body existing in a vicinity of a host vehicle. The information acquiring section acquires an advancement speed and an advancement direction of the host vehicle, and a prescribed movement speed of the moving body. The information providing zone setting section sets an information providing zone within which existence of the moving body should be reported, based on information acquired by the information acquiring section. The information notifying section reports the existence of the moving body when the position of the moving body acquired by the moving body position acquiring section exists within the information providing zone set by the information providing zone setting section. | 04-02-2009 |
20090088184 | MOVING BODY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MOVING BODY TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD - A moving body terminal is basically provided with a position information acquiring section, a receiving section and a control section. The position information acquiring section is configured to acquire position information indicating a current position of the moving body terminal. The receiving section is configured to receive from an information providing apparatus simple map information which includes information transmission determining information indicating an information transmission unnecessary region of the simple map information where the position information of the moving body terminal is not required to be transmitted from the moving body terminal to the information providing apparatus. The control section is configured to prohibit a transmission of the position information to the information providing apparatus when the position information acquired by the position information acquiring section is inside the information transmission unnecessary region contained in the simple map information that was received. | 04-02-2009 |
20090088977 | CURRENT POSITION INFORMATION REPORTING SYSTEM, INFORMATION CENTER APPARATUS, AND METHOD THEREOF - An information center apparatus has a communication section, a motion information calculating section, a communication delay time calculating section, a communication cycle waiting time calculating section, an error estimating section and a correcting section. The communication section acquires reported current position information of a first moving body apparatus and reports a corrected current position information to a second moving body apparatus. The error estimating section estimate an error in the reported current position information with respect to an actual current position of the first moving body apparatus based on motion information calculated by the motion information calculating section, communication delay times calculated by the communication delay time calculating section, and a communication cycle waiting time calculated by the communication cycle waiting time calculating section. The correcting section corrects the reported current position information using the error estimated by the error estimating section to obtain the corrected current position information. | 04-02-2009 |
20120007728 | ONBOARD VEHICLE INFORMATION NOTIFYING APPARATUS - An onboard vehicle information notifying apparatus has a moving body position acquiring section that acquires a moving body position for at least one moving body existing in a vicinity of a host vehicle and that acquires map information of the vicinity of the host vehicle. The map information is divided into a plurality of unit regions, with each of the unit regions being a notification necessary region when the moving body exists in the unit region. An information acquiring section acquires an advancement speed and an advancement direction of the host vehicle, and a prescribed movement speed of the moving body. An information providing zone setting section sets an information providing zone within which existence of the moving body should be reported. The information notifying section reports the existence of the moving body when the information providing zone overlaps with the notification necessary region. | 01-12-2012 |
20120178475 | MOVING BODY TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD - A moving body terminal is basically provided with a position information acquiring section, a receiving section and a control section. The position information acquiring section is configured to acquire position information indicating a current position of the moving body terminal. The receiving section is configured to receive from an information providing apparatus simple map information which includes information transmission determining information indicating an information transmission unnecessary region of the simple map information where the position information of the moving body terminal is not required to be transmitted from the moving body terminal to the information providing apparatus. The control section is configured to prohibit a transmission of the position information to the information providing apparatus when the position information acquired by the position information acquiring section is inside the information transmission unnecessary region contained in the simple map information that was received. | 07-12-2012 |
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20110033855 | METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING TARGET NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES AND KIT FOR QUANTIFYING TARGET NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES - The present invention is to provide a method for highly sensitively and precisely quantifying nucleic acid molecules in a sample. The method for quantifying target nucleic acid molecules in a nucleic acid-containing sample comprises: (a) preparing a sample solution comprising a nucleic acid-containing sample, a first nucleic acid molecule probe comprising a sequence complementary to the target nucleic acid molecule and conjugated with a first marker, and a second nucleic acid molecule probe comprising a sequence complementary to the first nucleic acid molecule probe and conjugated with a second marker; (b) denaturing nucleic acid molecules in this sample solution; (c) hybridizing them; (d) forming a covalent bond between two nucleic acid strands in the hybrid under a same condition, regarding the temperature and the salt concentration, as that of the hybrid formation; and (e) quantifying the target nucleic acid molecules by detecting a time course change in an optical characteristic of the first marker or the second marker in the sample solution, wherein an optical characteristic of at least either one of the first marker and the second marker is changed depending on whether or not the first nucleic acid molecule probe and the second nucleic acid molecule probe are hybridized. | 02-10-2011 |
20130230874 | OPTICAL ANALYSIS METHOD USING MEASUREMENT OF LIGHT OF TWO OR MORE WAVELENGTH BANDS - There is provided an optical analysis technique enabling identification of a kind of light-emitting particle corresponding to a signal on a time series light intensity data or identification of a signal corresponding to light-emitting particles other than a particle to be observed in an optical measurement using a confocal microscope or a multiphoton microscope. The inventive optical analysis technique measures simultaneously and separately intensities of lights of two or more wavelength bands from a light detection region in a sample solution containing light-emitting particles of two or more kinds to generate time series light intensity data of the respective wavelength bands; detects signals simultaneously generated on the time series light intensity data of at least two wavelength bands; and identifies the simultaneously generated signals as signals of a light-emitting particle of at least one specific kind. | 09-05-2013 |
20140004518 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING POLYMORPHISM OF NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES | 01-02-2014 |
20140004519 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING POLYMORPHISM OF NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES | 01-02-2014 |
20140099630 | QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION METHOD FOR TARGET PARTICLES, PHOTOMETRIC ANALYSIS DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PHOTOMETRIC ANALYSIS - The method of the present invention includes: preparing a sample solution containing the target particles and luminescent probes to be bound to the target particles, and binding these in the sample solution; moving a position of a light detection region of the optical system in the sample solution using a confocal microscope or a multiphoton microscope, and detecting light signal emitted from the luminescent probe in the light detection region while moving the position of the light detection region, and individually detecting the target particles directly or indirectly; and counting the number of the detected target particles, and calculating the concentration of the target particles in the sample solution from the number of the counted target particles on the basis of a calibration curve that approximates the correlation between the concentration or quantity of the target particles in the sample solution and the number of the target particles. | 04-10-2014 |
20140131593 | METHOD FOR DETECTING FLUORESCENT PARTICLES - A method for detecting a fluorescent particle comprises the preparation of a sample solution containing fluorescent particles and a substance that promotes transition of the fluorescent particles from a triplet excited state to a singlet ground state, and calculation of the number of molecules of fluorescent particles present in the prepared sample solution. Calculation of the number of molecules of the fluorescent particles comprises moving the location of a photodetection region of an optical system in the sample solution using the optical system of a confocal microscope or multi-photon microscope, individually detecting fluorescent particles by detecting a light signal from the fluorescent particles present in the photodetection region while moving the location of the photodetection region in the sample solution, and counting the number of fluorescent particles detected during movement of the location of the photodetection region by counting the number of individually detected fluorescent particles. | 05-15-2014 |
20140329709 | METHOD FOR DETECTING A TARGET PARTICLE - The present invention provides a method for indirectly and with high sensitivity detecting a particle dispersed and moving randomly in a solution using a luminescent probe. In the present invention, (a) a solution is prepared that contains a target particle and one or more types of a luminescent probe that directly or indirectly binds to the target particle, (b) a complex is formed that contains the target particle and the luminescent probe in the solution, (c) the complex is recovered by separating luminescent probe not bound to the target particle from the solution containing the complex, followed by (d) dissociating the luminescent probe from the recovered complex and mutually separating and separately recovering the free luminescent probe and target particle, (e) again binding a luminescent probe to the recovered target particle followed by dissociating the luminescent probe and mutually separating and recovering free luminescent probe and the target particle are repeated, followed by preparing a single measurement sample solution containing the total amount of the recovered free luminescent probe, and (f) the number of molecules of the luminescent probes in the measurement sample solution is calculated. | 11-06-2014 |
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20110126944 | THICK-WALLED HIGH-STRENGTH HOT ROLLED STEEL SHEET WITH EXCELLENT LOW-TEMPERATURE TOUGHNESS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - A thick-walled high-strength hot rolled steel sheet has a high tensile strength TS of 521 MPa or more and excellent low-temperature toughness. The steel material forming the sheet contains 0.02%-0.08% C, 0.01%-0.10% Nb, and 0.001%-0.05% Ti and is heated; C, Ti, and Nb satisfies (Ti+(Nb/2))/C<4. | 06-02-2011 |
20120180925 | PNEUMATIC TIRE AND METHOD OF FORMING CIRCUMFERENTIAL BELT LAYER OF THE SAME - The present invention relates to a method of forming at least one circumferential belt layer of a pneumatic tire comprising: winding the strip for a half length of an outer circumferential length of the crown portion of the carcass along the tire equatorial plane from a widthwise inner side of the belt end region; winding the strip for the remaining half length while shifting the strip for the width of the strip from a widthwise inner to outer side; winding the strip for the outer circumferential length of the crown portion of the carcass along the tire equatorial plane; winding the strip for the half length of the outer circumferential length of the crown portion of the carcass while shifting the strip for the width of the strip from the widthwise outer to inner side; and winding the strip for the remaining half length along the tire equatorial plane. | 07-19-2012 |
20140053964 | PNEUMATIC TIRE AND METHOD OF FORMING CIRCUMFERENTIAL BELT LAYER OF THE SAME - The present invention relates to a method of forming at least one circumferential belt layer of a pneumatic tire comprising: winding the strip for a half length of an outer circumferential length of the crown portion of the carcass along the tire equatorial plane from a widthwise inner side of the belt end region; winding the strip for the remaining half length while shifting the strip for the width of the strip from a widthwise inner to outer side; winding the strip for the outer circumferential length of the crown portion of the carcass along the tire equatorial plane; winding the strip for the half length of the outer circumferential length of the crown portion of the carcass while shifting the strip for the width of the strip from the widthwise outer to inner side; and winding the strip for the remaining half length along the tire equatorial plane. | 02-27-2014 |
20140352852 | HOT ROLLED HIGH TENSILE STRENGTH STEEL SHEET AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - The steel sheet has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.04-0.08%, Si: 0.50% or less, Mn: 0.8-2.2%, P: 0.02% or less, S: 0.006% or less, Al: 0.1% or less, N: 0.008% or less, and Cr: 0.05-0.8%, and further Nb: 0.01-0.08%, V: 0.001-0.12%, and Ti: 0.005-0.04% in adjusted amounts, with the balance including Fe and incidental impurities. The steel sheet has a surface layer having a microstructure containing bainite as a main phase, martensite as a second phase in a volume fraction of 0.5-4%, and at lease one of ferrite phase, pearlite, and cementite as a third phase in a total volume fraction of 10% or less. | 12-04-2014 |
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20100112970 | RADIO RECEIVING APPARATUS AND NOISE ELIMINATION METHOD IN THE SAME APPARATUS - A control section | 05-06-2010 |
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20110076971 | RECEIVING APPARATUS - A receiving apparatus discriminates RDS data containing traffic information corresponding to the vehicle's own position from RDS data of broadcasting stations searched for by frequency sweeping by a sub tuner front end | 03-31-2011 |
20110122934 | RECEIVING APPARATUS - A receiving apparatus has counters | 05-26-2011 |
20110158296 | BROADCAST RECEIVER - When switching from a digital broadcast to a analog broadcast, a broadcast receiver switches to the analog broadcast after adjusting the reproduced frequency band and the degree of left-right separation of the digital broadcast to be equal to the values of the analog broadcast specified from the receiving state of the analog broadcast respectively, and, when switching from the analog broadcast to the digital broadcast, after adjusting the reproduced frequency band and the degree of left-right separation of the digital broadcast to be equal to the specified values of the analog broadcast respectively and then switching to the digital broadcast, adjusts the reproduced frequency band and the degree of left-right separation of the digital broadcast to be equal to values set for the digital broadcast respectively. | 06-30-2011 |
20120028593 | MOBILE RECEIVER APPARATUS - A mobile receiver apparatus includes first tuner | 02-02-2012 |
20120058740 | RADIO BROADCAST RECEIVER - A radio broadcast receiver includes a front end unit for tuning by changing a local oscillation frequency; and a control unit for managing by dividing the receiving band into a third frequency domain including a third frequency obtained by subtracting the intermediate frequency from an upper end frequency of the receiving band, a first frequency domain including a first frequency obtained by adding the intermediate frequency to a lower end frequency of the receiving band, and a second frequency domain where the first frequency domain and third frequency domain overlap, and for switching, when tuning is made across the frequency domains, the local oscillation frequency to an upper local oscillation frequency when the tuning frequency is higher than the third frequency by controlling the front end unit, and to a lower local oscillation frequency when it is lower than the first frequency by controlling the front end unit. | 03-08-2012 |
20130029621 | RADIO RECEIVER APPARATUS - A radio receiver apparatus calculates all frequencies to be estimated as spurious frequencies in the reception frequency band by performing addition and subtraction operations on frequencies of repeated combinations formed from frequencies of a plurality of intensive electric field station, and controls the spurious frequency not to be preset to the radio receiver apparatus even though signal intensity of a received signal having the spurious frequency exceeds a predetermined threshold. | 01-31-2013 |
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20110089487 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes a base layer that has a first conductivity type, a source layer that is formed on the base layer and has a second conductivity type, and an insulating film that is formed on the source layer. The semiconductor device further includes a plurality of gate structures that penetrate the base layer, and a plurality of conductive parts that penetrate the insulating film and the source layer and electrically connect the source layer and the base layer to each other. The gate structures are formed in a strip shape in plan view. Parts in which the conductive portion is connected to the base layer are formed in a stripe shape in plan view, and are formed between the gate structures. Further, a dimension of the part in which the source layer and the base layer are in contact with each other between the gate structure and the conductive portion is 0.36 μm or more. | 04-21-2011 |
20110294233 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Provided is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, which includes the steps of: (a) preparing a processing target including a wafer ( | 12-01-2011 |
20110309436 | POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A gate electrode is provided for controlling a current flowing through a semiconductor layer. A gate insulating film electrically insulates the semiconductor layer and the gate electrode from each other. A conductor portion is provided on the semiconductor layer, and electrically connected with the semiconductor layer. An interlayer insulating film is provided on the gate electrode such that the conductor portion is electrically insulated from the gate electrode. A buffer insulating film covers a partial region on the conductor portion and the interlayer insulating film, and is made of an insulator. An electrode layer has a wiring portion located on a region from which the conductor portion is exposed, and a pad portion located on the buffer insulating film. Thereby, damage to an IGBT caused when a wire is connected to the pad portion can be suppressed. Further, larger electric power can be handled, while preventing occurrence of breakage due to current concentration. | 12-22-2011 |
20120214278 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device comprises the steps of (a) applying a resin member onto a front surface of a semiconductor wafer having an uneven structure on the front surface thereof, and (b) flattening a surface of the resin member by heating the resin member, and in the method, the resin member is formed also on a side surface of the semiconductor wafer. The method further comprises the steps of (c) performing a thinning process for the semiconductor wafer on a back surface thereof after the step (b), and (d) removing the resin member from the semiconductor wafer after the step (c). By the method, it is possible to uniformize the thickness of a semiconductor wafer which is thinned and reduce the number of foreign matters remaining on a surface of the semiconductor wafer. | 08-23-2012 |
20130052812 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, includes a wafer grinding step of, by means of a revolving grinding stone, forming a thinned portion in a wafer while at the same time forming a slope surrounding said thinned portion, wherein during said formation of said slope, said grinding stone is positioned so that there is always a space between said slope and the facing side of said grinding stone, wherein said thinned portion is thinner than a peripheral portion of said wafer, and wherein said slope extends along and defines an inner circumferential side of said peripheral portion and forms an angle of 75° or more but less than 90° with respect to a main surface of said wafer. The method of manufacturing a semiconductor device further includes a step of forming a semiconductor device in said thinned portion. | 02-28-2013 |
20130203241 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes the steps of preparing a semiconductor wafer having a thick portion in an outer circumferential end portion and a thin portion in a central portion, attaching a support material to one surface of the semiconductor wafer, dividing the semiconductor wafer into the thick portion and the thin portion, and cutting the thin portion, after the division, while supporting the thin portion by the support material. | 08-08-2013 |
20130267065 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A wafer is mounted to a dicing frame using a holding tape. A plurality of semiconductor devices are provided on a center portion of a major surface of the wafer. A ring-like reinforcing section is provided on a periphery of the major surface. The holding tape is adhered to the major surface The holding tape is heated to at least 0.6 times of melting temperature of the holding tape so as to adhere the holding tape along a step of the ring-like reinforcing section. | 10-10-2013 |
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20130080156 | VOICE RECOGNITION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - In an embodiment, a voice recognition apparatus includes: a program information storage unit; a dictionary storage unit; a calculating unit; an updating unit; a receiving unit; a recognizing unit; and an operation control unit. The program information storage unit stores metadata of a broadcast program with a user's viewing state. The dictionary storage unit stores a recognition dictionary including a recognition word and a priority of the recognition word. The calculating unit calculates a first score of a degree of the user's preference on a feature word based on the metadata and the viewing state. The updating unit updates the priority of the recognition word including the feature word according to the first score. The recognizing unit recognizes a voice using the recognition dictionary. The operation control unit controls an operation on the broadcast program based on a recognition result. | 03-28-2013 |
20140046666 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a dividing unit, an assigning unit, and a generating unit. The dividing unit is configured to divide speech data into pieces of utterance data. The assigning unit is configured to assign speaker identification information to each piece of utterance data based on an acoustic feature of the each piece of utterance data. The generating unit is configured to generate a candidate list that indicates candidate speaker names so as to enable a user to determine a speaker name to be given to the piece of utterance data identified by instruction information, based on operation history information in which at least pieces of utterance identification information, pieces of the speaker identification information, and speaker names given by the user to the respective pieces of utterance data are associated with one another. | 02-13-2014 |
20140303974 | TEXT GENERATOR, TEXT GENERATING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a text generator includes a recognizer, a selector, and a generation unit. The recognizer is configured to recognize an acquired sound and obtain recognized character strings in recognition units and confidence levels of the recognized character strings. The selector is configured to select at least one of the recognized character strings used for a transcribed sentence on the basis of at least one of a parameter about transcription accuracy and a parameter about a workload needed for transcription. The generation unit is configured to generate the transcribed sentence using the selected recognized character strings. | 10-09-2014 |
20140372117 | TRANSCRIPTION SUPPORT DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a transcription support device includes a first voice acquisition unit, a second voice acquisition unit, a recognizer, a text acquisition unit, an information acquisition unit, a determination unit, and a controller. The first voice acquisition unit acquires a first voice to be transcribed. The second voice acquisition unit acquires a second voice uttered by a user. The recognizer recognizes the second voice to generate a first text. The text acquisition unit acquires a second text obtained by correcting the first text by the user. The information acquisition unit acquires reproduction information representing a reproduction section of the first voice. The determination unit determines a reproduction speed of the first voice on the basis of the first voice, the second voice, the second text, and the reproduction information. The controller reproduces the first voice at the determined reproduction speed. | 12-18-2014 |
20150025877 | CHARACTER INPUT DEVICE, CHARACTER INPUT METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a character input device includes a first obtainer, a determiner, a first generator, and an outputter. The first obtainer receives an input of characters from a user and obtains an input character string. The determiner infers, from the input character string, word notations intended by the user and relations of connection between the word notations and to determine routes each of which represents the relation of connection having a high likelihood of serving as a notation candidate intended by the user. The first generator extracts, from a group of word notations included in the routes, the word notations to be output and generate layout information used in outputting the extracted word notations as the notation candidates. The outputter outputs the layout information. | 01-22-2015 |
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20110010106 | APPARATUS STATE DETECTOR, METHOD FOR DETECTING APPARATUS STATE, APPARATUS STATE DETECTION SERVER AND APPARATUS STATE DETECTION SYSTEM; LIVING PERSONS' ANOMALY DETECTOR, LIVING PERSONS' ANOMALY DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING LIVING PERSONS' ANOMALY, AND APPARATUS-STATE DATABASE MAINTENANCE SERVER - An apparatus state detector and its associates are provided to save time and effort for learning combinations of operation states of all apparatuses at home and commit fewer estimation errors even when an unknown apparatus starts operating. The apparatus state detector includes measuring means | 01-13-2011 |
20110051789 | COMMUNICATION ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION ANALYSIS METHOD - To obtain a communication analysis apparatus and a communication analysis method that are allowed to analyze a communication message and a waveform signal in such a manner that the communication message and waveform signal are associated with each other. | 03-03-2011 |
20110102317 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE, FACILITY APPLIANCE CONTROL DEVICE, AND APPLIANCE STATE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An application program changes a property value of a graphic object arranged in an object database. An object manager reads out the property value from the object database and then issues a drawing command. A graphics engine executes the drawing command to configure a memory image of the graphic object on a VRAM to display the image on a liquid crystal display via an LCDC. | 05-05-2011 |
20110141909 | WIRELESS TERMINAL POSITIONING SYSTEM, METHOD OF POSITIONING WIRELESS TERMINAL, ENVIRONMENT MEASURMENT SYSTEM, FACILITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, METHOD OF MEASURING ENVIRONMENT, AND METHOD OF DECIDING DESTINATION OF WIRELESS MOBILE TERMINAL - To obtain a method of positioning a wireless terminal capable of obtaining the position of each communication terminal by measuring distances with installed communication terminals each other without fixedly installing a base station. | 06-16-2011 |
20110234607 | OPERATION TERMINAL AND SCREEN IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD FOR OPERATION TERMINAL - An operation terminal for remotely operating an electronic apparatus includes a processing unit for remotely communicating with the electronic apparatus in accordance with a program, a memory on which the processing unit performs writing or reading of data, a nonvolatile memory for storing a basic screen image drawing command for drawing a basic screen image that is displayed before the operation terminal is operated, a drawing processor for creating a bitmapped image of the basic screen image in accordance with the basic screen image drawing command, and a display unit for displaying the bitmapped image on a screen. | 09-29-2011 |
20110249009 | STATE DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD OF STATE DISPLAY DEVICE - A state display device capable of reducing a processing load applied to a microcomputer by performing part of a GUI process by hardware and a display method of the state display device are obtained. A rendering processing device starts a process in response to a rendering request stored in a rendering request region when a starting command is stored in a start/end instruction register. When a rendering request specified by an instruction address is a rendering termination request, the rendering processing means terminates the process performed in response to the rendering request, stores a termination factor in an interruption factor register, and issues an interruption to a central processing device. | 10-13-2011 |
20110273461 | STATUS DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided is a development environment which makes it easy to verify the performance, processing load, and display status in an actual built-in device, enabling a reduced work cycle time during development and high work efficiency. Display means, central processing means, drawing processing means, and storage means are provided. The central processing means, at every predetermined operation unit clock, interprets content stored in the storage means at an instruction address and performs various computation processing. The drawing processing means shares the storage means with the central processing means and performs drawing processing. The display means shares with the drawing means a predetermined memory space starting at a display address in the storage means and makes a display device perform display in accordance with the memory state of the predetermined memory space starting at the display address. The storage means and/or central processing means is allowed to be provided outside of the status display apparatus. | 11-10-2011 |
20120029874 | AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - An air conditioning system diagnosis apparatus is obtained in which a refrigerating cycle is automatically analyzed and waveform data in messages flowing in a general-purpose network is acquired and automatically analyzed according to the analysis result of the refrigerating cycle, thereby achieving, with a single apparatus, diagnosis and monitoring of errors in the refrigerating cycle and in the general-purpose network. A trigger output means creates a trigger on the basis of a waveform analysis condition and the analysis result of a packet received from a message analyzing means; when receiving the trigger, a waveform input means reads out waveform data stored in a buffer; waveform analyzing means notifies a synchronization determining means of the analysis result of the waveform data; the synchronization determining means searches for the analysis result of a packet synchronized with the received analysis result of the waveform data. | 02-02-2012 |
20120101778 | AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS AND AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM DIAGNOSIS RESULT DISPLAY APPARATUS - An air conditioning system diagnosis apparatus and an air conditioning system diagnosis result display apparatus capable of representing various kinds of failures with high visibility by generating a system structure diagram that illustrates an air conditioning system in a different form depending on a detected failure and illustrating the failure using this system structure diagram are obtainable. Diagnosis result superimposed diagram generating means for generating a system structure diagram that includes icons, such as an icon of an outdoor unit and an icon of an indoor unit, and a line that links them on the basis of system structure information derived by system structure analyzing means and for superimposing a refrigeration cycle diagnosis result derived by refrigeration cycle analyzing means in the vicinity of an icon of a concerned device in the system structure diagram is included. | 04-26-2012 |
20120120092 | FACILITY OPERATION DISPLAY DEVICE, AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - The display color of, for example, a button image responsive to a command input into a facility operation display device is controlled by a palette value having a smaller number of bits than an RGB value. When the display color of the button image is changed, the palette value of a drawing object associated with the button image is changed to an RGB value. This eliminates the necessity of incorporating, for example, a high-performance CPU as a central arithmetic unit. In addition, it is not necessary to pre-store images corresponding to several kinds of display colors specified by RGB values, to thereby eliminates the necessity of incorporating, for example, a high-capacity storage medium in the facility operation display device. Accordingly, the device cost can be reduced. | 05-17-2012 |
20130197699 | AIR CONDITIONER CONTROL DEVICE, EQUIPMENT SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - By efficiently holding only information necessary for a desired control from among information that can be obtained from equipment such as air conditioners, lighting devices and other devices, the control of the air conditioners and other devices according to the situation is obtained with small-capacity memory resources. This facilitates uploading to an air conditioner control device having a relatively small memory capacity and makes it possible to efficiently customize the installed control program. | 08-01-2013 |
20130232467 | PROGRAM GENERATING DEVICE, PROGRAM GENERATING PROGRAM, AND PROGRAM GENERATING METHOD - A terminal device that is this program generating device generates program area specifying information that specifies the placement area of an operating program executed by a remote control device. Also, on the basis of the program area specifying information and a program counter value of the remote control device, the terminal device appends a program specifying process that specifies the operating program executed by the remote control device to a measuring program that measures the execution state of the operating program. As a result, there is generated a measuring program that measures changes in the operating state of software in real time while reducing the effect on the operation of the software. | 09-05-2013 |
20130293560 | RENDERING DEVICE AND RENDERING METHOD - A DMA controller operates independently from a CPU, reads image data stored on an ROM sequentially in given units from the first reading start position of the image data and writes the image data into a buffer. A DMA controller operates independently from the CPU, writes the data read into the buffer to a VRAM one byte at a time from the writing start position. The controller of a companion chip updates the writing start position in the VRAM to the position of the same column in the next row each time writing the data string in each row is completed. | 11-07-2013 |
20130307862 | REMOTE CONTROL DEVICE AND AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEM - An image indicating a space to be air-conditioned in an office building is formed by rectangular pattern images having fill patterns which differ according to an air-conditioning status, and a frame image overlapping the pattern images. In this case, when an air-conditioning status such as the temperature or humidity of each area as a space to be air-conditioned changes, the rectangular pattern images have only to be redrawn with their display colors being changed, regardless of the shape of each area. Accordingly, the amount of information to be handled when updating the image according to a change in the air-conditioning status is reduced, and the image can be updated accurately in a short period of time. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311716 | MEMORY CONTROLLER - A microcomputer retains a group definition table associating the sector sections created by dividing all sectors into multiple sections under a given condition with different memory regions on a flash memory, respectively. A memory control section makes reference to the group definition table to identify a memory region corresponding to a specified sector, and searches the identified memory region range for a physical address corresponding to the specified sector. Furthermore, the memory control section moves a specified sector within the identified memory region range for rewriting data corresponding to the specified sector. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311744 | MEMORY CONTROLLER - A data storage temporarily stores an address conversion table associating the sector numbers with the physical addresses for each file. A conversion table memory allocator allocates a memory region for the address conversion table corresponding to a file when a request is made to open the file. A file system manager releases the allocated memory region at a given time. The file system manager stores sector numbers of one or multiple sectors constituting a file in each record of the address conversion table for which the memory region is allocated in sequence. Then, a memory control section searches the flash memory to acquire a physical address corresponding to a sector number in the each record of the address conversion table, and stores each acquired physical address in the corresponding record. | 11-21-2013 |
20130328899 | RENDERING DEVICE, RENDERING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A DMA controller reads image information recorded on a ROM by address unit from a front reading start position. A shift operator shifts a first data sequence of one row of the reading by only a designated number of bits, and generates a second data sequence. A DMA controller reads a third data sequence already stored in a VRAM writing start position. A controller performs a prescribed operation on the second data sequence and the third data sequence, and generates a fourth data sequence. The controller writes the generated fourth data sequence successively in a horizontal direction by address unit from the VRAM writing start position. | 12-12-2013 |
20130329568 | COMMUNICATION ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION ANALYSIS METHOD - To obtain a communication analysis apparatus and a communication analysis method that are allowed to analyze a communication message and a waveform signal in such a manner that the communication message and waveform signal are associated with each other. A communication analysis apparatus includes division organization information addition means for adding, to a plurality of division data obtained by dividing data into predetermined lengths, division organization information | 12-12-2013 |
20140039646 | SYSTEM CONTROLLER AND PROGRAM - Upon receiving an update registration request for operating state data from a user I/F controller (a device controller), an arbitrator determines whether to permit the update registration request. Upon permission, the arbitrator retains the update registration request for operating state data. If the update registration request is sent by the user I/F controller (the device controller) and the request is permitted by the arbitrator, the user I/F controller (the device controller) generates FIFO registration data, stores the data in a first FIFO buffer (a second FIFO buffer), and saves the data in a display data storage (a device control data storage). If the arbitrator is retaining an update registration request by the other controller, the user I/F controller (the device controller) retrieves the FIFO registration data from the second FIFO buffer (the first FIFO buffer) and saves the data in the display data storage (the device control data storage). | 02-06-2014 |
20140047112 | NETWORK ANALYSIS ASSISTANCE DEVICE, NETWORK ASSESSMENT DEVICE, NETWORK ANALYSIS ASSISTANCE METHOD, NETWORK ASSESSMENT METHOD, NETWORK ANALYSIS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AND NETWORK ASSESSMENT PROGRAM - A first electronic message collector collects electronic messages travelling on a first network and stores the electronic messages in a first storage. A second electronic message collector collects electronic messages travelling on a second network and stores the electronic messages in a second storage. An electronic message associator retains a mapping table in which the correlation, or similar, between electronic messages travelling from the first network to a gateway device and electronic messages travelling from the gateway device the second network are defined. The electronic message associator references the mapping table and associates the electronic messages stored in the second storage with the electronic messages stored in the first storage. From the result of the above-mentioned association, a status analyzer determines whether or not receipt of electronic message between the first network and the second network is accomplished normally. | 02-13-2014 |
20140306887 | CONTROL DEVICE AND REMOTE CONTROL DEVICE - A control device includes a storage device for prestoring rendering command data, a central processing device, and a rendering processing device. The rendering command data is data for generating a rendering command executed in order to generate display data indicating a display image to be displayed on a display device. The central processing device refers to a screen management table when a predetermined rendering condition is satisfied, and specifies and outputs rendering command specifying data corresponding to the satisfied rendering condition. The rendering processing device acquires the rendering command data specified by the outputted rendering command specifying data from storage device, generates display data based on the acquired rendering command data, and outputs the display data to the display device. | 10-16-2014 |
20150088441 | ENERGY USAGE ESTIMATION DEVICE AND ENERGY USAGE ESTIMATION METHOD - A power measure calculates, based on a current and a voltage measured at a predetermined location in a power supply line, active power and apparent power for each predetermined time period based on utilization of plural kinds of electric facilities connected to the power supply line. A data memory accumulates and stores data regarding the active power and the apparent power calculated by the power measure in a time-series manner. A variation detector analyzes data regarding the active power by what corresponds to a predetermined time period and stored in the data memory to detect a time slot at which there is an operation change in any one of the electric facilities. A distribution estimator calculates, when the variation detector detects the time slot, a power factor in the time slot, and estimates power consumption for each kind of the electric facilities in the time slot. | 03-26-2015 |
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20100019175 | SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING DEVICE AND BEAM-SHAPING MASK - A manufacturing method of a semiconductor thin film decreases the number of and controls the direction of crystal grain boundaries. A first beam irradiated onto amorphous silicon produces a radial temperature gradient centered on a tip of a concave. This forms a crystal grain in the concave tip, which grows in both the beam width and length direction. After the second beam and on, growth is repeated using the crystal grain formed in the tip of the concave as the seed. This forms a band-form crystal grain with a wider than that of the conventional narrow-line beam, with the tip of the concave being the start point. Further, by setting the periphery of the concave pattern to be equal or less than the crystal grain diameter in the direction vertical to the beam scanning direction, it is possible to form the band-form crystal grain being lined continuously. | 01-28-2010 |
20100123132 | THIN FILM DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - To form an oxide semiconductor TFT having a fine property, which can be utilized for driving elements of a display, on a cheap glass substrate or a resin substrate such as PET that is light and flexible with fine regenerability and yield. Through radiating pulse light to an oxide semiconductor, a fine-quality oxide semiconductor film can be formed on a glass substrate or a resin substrate such as PET. This makes it possible to manufacture thin film devices having a fine property with fine regenerability and yield. | 05-20-2010 |
20100176398 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE IMPROVED IN HEAT RADIATION PERFORMANCE FOR HEAT GENERATED FROM ACTIVE ELEMENT - An electronic device of the present invention includes a first substrate provided with a thin film active element, having a thickness of 200 μm or lower, and a second substrate formed with a high thermal conductivity portion. The second substrate is applied to one surface of the two surfaces of the first substrate, i.e., the surface being the side other than the side that formed with the thin film active element. The thin film active element has a maximum power consumption of 0.01 to 1 mW. The high thermal conductivity portion is a region that corresponds to the position of the thin film active element and whose thermal conductivity falls within the range from 0.1 to 4 W/cm·deg. | 07-15-2010 |
20100190276 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IRRADIATING LASER - A laser irradiation process includes: scanning a substrate with laser having a predetermined lasing frequency at different irradiation intensities to form a plurality of first irradiation areas corresponding to the irradiation intensities; illuminating the first irradiation areas to reflected light receive from the first irradiation areas; determining microcrystallization intensity based on the received reflected light; and determining irradiation intensity based on the thus determined microcrystallization intensity. The laser irradiation process uses the irradiation intensity for irradiating a polycrystalline film in a product semiconductor device. | 07-29-2010 |
20120286265 | AMORPHOUS OXIDE THIN FILM, THIN FILM TRANSISTOR USING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A thin film transistor using an amorphous oxide thin film for an active layer, wherein: the amorphous oxide thin film includes, as main components, indium (In), oxygen (O), and a metal element (M) selected from the group consisting of silicon (Si), aluminum (Al), germanium (Ge), tantalum (Ta), magnesium (Mg) and titanium (Ti); an atomic ratio of M to In in this amorphous oxide thin film is 0.1 or more and 0.4 or less; and carrier density in the amorphous oxide thin film is 1×10 | 11-15-2012 |
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20110012133 | SILICON CARBIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A silicon carbide MOSFET that exhibits a high source-to-drain withstand voltage and that involves a smaller difference between gate-to-drain capacitance achieved in an activated state and gate-to-drain capacitance achieved in a deactivated state. A silicon carbide drift layer of a first conductivity type is provided on a silicon carbide substrate of a first conductivity type; a pair of base regions are provided in a surface layer portion of the silicon carbide drift layer and exhibit a second conductivity type; a pair of source regions are provided in interiors of surface layer portions of the pair of base regions and exhibit a first conductivity type; and semi-insulating regions are provided between the silicon carbide substrate and the pair of base regions. | 01-20-2011 |
20110062491 | POWER SEMICONDUCTOR MODULE - A power semiconductor module ( | 03-17-2011 |
20110210392 | POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A structure of a power semiconductor device, in which a P-well region having a large area and a gate electrode are opposed to each other through a field oxide film having a larger thickness than that of a gate insulating film such that the P-well region having a large area and the gate electrode are not opposed to each other through the gate insulating film, or the gate electrode is not provided above the gate insulating film that includes the P-well region having a large area therebelow. | 09-01-2011 |
20110278599 | SILICON CARBIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A SiC semiconductor device capable of increasing a switching speed without destroying a gate insulating film. In addition, in a SiC-MOSFET including an n-type semiconductor substrate formed of SiC, a p-type semiconductor layer is entirely or partially provided on an upper surface of a p-type well layer that has a largest area of the transverse plane among a plurality of p-type well layers provided in an n-type drift layer and is arranged on an outermost periphery immediately below a gate electrode pad. It is preferable that a concentration of an impurity contained in the p-type semiconductor layer be larger than that of the p-type well layer. | 11-17-2011 |
20110284874 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - In a cell region of a first major surface of a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, a first well of a second conductivity type is in an upper surface. A diffusion region of a first conductivity type is in the upper surface in the first well. A first gate insulating film is on the first well, and a first gate electrode on the first gate insulating film. A second well of a second conductivity type is in the upper surface of the first major surface on a peripheral portion of the cell region. A second gate insulating film is on the second well, and a thick field oxide film is on the peripheral side than the second gate insulating film. A second gate electrode is sequentially on the second gate insulating film and the field oxide film and electrically connected to the first gate electrode. A first electrode is connected to the first, second well and the diffusion region. A second electrode is connected on a second major surface of the semiconductor substrate. A gate wiring is on the field oxide film, going around a periphery of the cell region, and electrically connected to the second gate electrode. The gate wiring is a silicide of a constituting substance of the second gate electrode. | 11-24-2011 |
20120061688 | POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - In a power semiconductor device that switches at a high speed, a displacement current flows at a time of switching, so that a high voltage occurs which may cause breakdown of a thin insulating film such as a gate insulating film. A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type; a drift layer of the first conductivity type formed on a first main surface of the semiconductor substrate; a first well region of a second conductivity type formed in a part of a surface layer of the drift layer; a second well region of the second conductivity type formed in a part of the surface layer of the drift layer at a distance from the first well region, the second well region having a smaller area than that of the first well region when seen above an upper surface thereof; a low-resistance region of the first conductivity type formed in a surface layer of the first well region, the low-resistance region having a higher impurity concentration than that of the first well region; a gate insulating film formed on and in contact with a surface of the first well region; and a gate electrode formed on and in contact with a surface of the gate insulating film. | 03-15-2012 |
20120205669 | POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - In a semiconductor device according to the present invention, a p-type well region disposed in an outer peripheral portion of the power semiconductor device is divided into two parts, that is, an inside and an outside, and a field oxide film having a greater film thickness than the gate insulating film is provided on a well region at the outside to an inside of an inner periphery of the well region. Therefore, it is possible to prevent, in the gate insulating film, a dielectric breakdown due to the voltage generated by the flow of the displacement current in switching. | 08-16-2012 |
20130020586 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device having a low feedback capacitance and a low switching loss. The semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a drift layer formed on a surface of the semiconductor substrate; a plurality of first well regions formed on a surface of the drift layer; a source region which is an area formed on a surface of each of the first well regions and defining, as a channel region, the surface of each of the first well regions interposed between the area and the drift layer; a gate electrode formed over the channel region and the drift layer thereacross through a gate insulating film; and second well regions buried inside the drift layer below the gate electrode and formed to be individually connected to each of the first well regions adjacent to one another. | 01-24-2013 |
20130020587 | POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, a drift layer of the first conductivity type which is formed on a first main surface of the semiconductor substrate, a second well region of a second conductivity type which is formed to surround a cell region of the drift layer, and a source pad for electrically connecting the second well regions and a source region of the cell region through a first well contact hole provided to penetrate a gate insulating film on the second well region, a second well contact hole provided to penetrate a field insulating film on the second well region and a source contact hole. | 01-24-2013 |
20130288467 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device capable of suppressing generation of a high electric field and preventing a dielectric breakdown from occurring, and a method of manufacturing the same. The method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes (a) preparing an n+ substrate to be a ground constituted by a silicon carbide semiconductor of a first conductivity type, (b) forming a recess structure surrounding an element region on the n+ substrate by using a resist pattern, and (c) forming a guard ring injection layer to be an impurity layer of a second conductivity type in a recess bottom surface and a recess side surface in the recess structure by impurity injection through the resist pattern, and a corner portion of the recess structure is covered with the impurity layer. | 10-31-2013 |
20140203393 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device having high breakdown voltage and high reliability without forming an embedded injection layer with high position accuracy. The semiconductor device includes a base as an active area of a second conductivity type formed on a surface layer of a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type to constitute a semiconductor element; guard rings as a plurality of first impurity regions of the second conductivity type formed on the surface layer of the semiconductor layer spaced apart from each other to respectively surround the base in plan view; and an embedded injection layer as a second impurity region of the second conductivity type embedded in the surface layer of the semiconductor layer to connect at least two bottom portions of the plurality of guard rings. | 07-24-2014 |
20140299888 | SILICON CARBIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A SiC semiconductor device capable of increasing a switching speed without destroying a gate insulating film. In addition, in a SiC-MOSFET including an n-type semiconductor substrate formed of SiC, a p-type semiconductor layer is entirely or partially provided on an upper surface of a p-type well layer that has a largest area of the transverse plane among a plurality of p-type well layers provided in an n-type drift layer and is arranged on an outermost periphery immediately below a gate electrode pad. It is preferable that a concentration of an impurity contained in the p-type semiconductor layer be larger than that of the p-type well layer. | 10-09-2014 |
20140353686 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device having a low feedback capacitance and a low switching loss. The semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a drift layer formed on a surface of the semiconductor substrate; a plurality of first well regions formed on a surface of the drift layer; a source region which is an area formed on a surface of each of the first well regions and defining, as a channel region, the surface of each of the first well regions interposed between the area and the drift layer; a gate electrode formed over the channel region and the drift layer thereacross through a gate insulating film; and second well regions buried inside the drift layer below the gate electrode and formed to be individually connected to each of the first well regions adjacent to one another. | 12-04-2014 |
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20090039453 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT RECEIVING DEVICE - The present invention provides a semiconductor light receiving device that prevents local heat generation, has high-speed, high-sensitivity characteristics even at the time of an intensive light input, and exhibits high resistance to light inputs. The semiconductor light receiving device includes light absorption layers ( | 02-12-2009 |
20090050933 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT-RECEIVING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Disclosed is a semiconductor light-receiving device having high reproducibility and reliability. Also disclosed is a method for manufacturing a semiconductor light-receiving device. Specifically disclosed is a semiconductor light-receiving device | 02-26-2009 |
20090160033 | SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL ELEMENT - A light receiving element | 06-25-2009 |
20100019275 | SEMICONDUCTOR PHOTO DETECTOR - A semiconductor photo detector of the present invention includes a layer structure, having a selective etching layer of a first-type conductivity, a field-relaxing layer of the first-type conductivity, a multiplier layer, a field-relaxing layer of a second-type conductivity, a light absorption layer of the second-type conductivity, a selective etching layer of the second-type conductivity, a buffer layer of the second-type conductivity, a contact layer of the second-type conductivity, and an electrode in the side of the second-type conductivity, which are sequentially deposited over a semiconductor substrate, and having a second mesa formed on the semiconductor substrate and a first mesa formed on the second mesa, wherein the first mesa includes the buffer layer of the second-type conductivity, the contact layer of the second-type conductivity, and the electrode in the side of the second-type conductivity, wherein the second mesa includes the layer of the first-type conductivity, the multiplier layer, the light absorption layer of the second-type conductivity, and the selective etching layer of the second-type conductivity, wherein an outer periphery of the second mesa is located outside of the outer periphery of the first mesa in two-dimensional view, and wherein surfaces of the first mesa and the second mesa is covered by a passivation film. | 01-28-2010 |
20100279457 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT-RECEIVING DEVICE - Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a semiconductor light-receiving device having high reproducibility and reliability. Specifically disclosed is a semiconductor light-receiving device | 11-04-2010 |
20120057151 | SIGNAL LIGHT MONITORING APPARATUS AND SIGNAL LIGHT MONITORING METHOD - An optical filter performs filtering on input monitor light in a transmission range having a carrier frequency of each channel being measured as a center frequency. Photoelectric convertors convert the monitor light filtered by the optical filter into an electrical monitor signal, and the signal detection unit judges whether signal light is present or absent based on the electrical monitor signal. Since the optical filter performs filtering, an S/N ratio of the monitor light becomes great and the signal detection unit can more accurately judge whether signal light is present or absent even in an optically noisy environment. | 03-08-2012 |
20130077969 | OPTICAL COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND PATH CONTROL METHOD - An optical communication apparatus of a wavelength division multiplexing transmission system has a transponder having a double-wavelength tunable transceiver and a transceiver including a switching controller, and a ROADM device having a device that copes with a colorless function and a directionless function and can operate in cooperation with the transponder. | 03-28-2013 |
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20080203965 | LIGHT TRANSMISSIBLE SOLAR CELL MODULE, PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, AND SOLAR CELL PANEL THEREOF - A light transmissible solar cell module including: solar cell units, which include a transparent substrate, a mirror electrode layer provided on a part of a surface of the transparent substrate, and a solar cell section provided on the mirror electrode layer, arranged in multi-levels; a first connecting wire electrically connected to an electrode provided on a surface side of the solar cell section; and a second connecting wire electrically connected to the mirror electrode layer, wherein the solar cell units are arranged so that a light entering from one side hits the solar cell section of an arbitrary solar cell unit and is reflected, and the reflected light reaches another side by being reflected by the mirror electrode layer of a solar cell unit arranged adjacent to the arbitrary solar cell unit. | 08-28-2008 |
20100101629 | Light Transmissible Solar Cell Module, Process for Manufacturing Same, and Solar Cell Panel Thereof - A light transmissible solar cell module including: solar cell units, which include a transparent substrate, a minor electrode layer provided on a part of a surface of the transparent substrate, and a solar cell section provided on the minor electrode layer, arranged in multi-levels; a first connecting wire electrically connected to an electrode provided on a surface side of the solar cell section; and a second connecting wire electrically connected to the mirror electrode layer, wherein the solar cell units are arranged so that a light entering from one side hits the solar cell section of an arbitrary solar cell unit and is reflected, and the reflected light reaches another side by being reflected by the minor electrode layer of a solar cell unit arranged adjacent to the arbitrary solar cell unit. | 04-29-2010 |
20130277665 | ORGANIC EL ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - An organic EL element comprises: a substrate; a first electrode formed at one surface side of the substrate; a second electrode opposing the first electrode; and an organic EL layer located between the first and second electrodes. In the organic EL element, the second electrode is a transparent electrode, and the first electrode is a reflecting electrode. The organic EL element is a top-emission type. The first electrode comprises a plurality of nanometer-size (nanometer-order) columnar structures formed on the above-mentioned one surface of the substrate, and each of the plurality of columnar structures has a metallic surface as the outermost surface. | 10-24-2013 |
20130328038 | PHOSPHORESCENT MATERIAL, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING PHOSPHORESCENT MATERIAL, AND PHOSPHORESCENT ELEMENT - Provided are a phosphorescent material which is excellent in horizontal orientation and the like when a thin film is formed, a process for efficiently producing the phosphorescent material, and a light emitting element using the phosphorescent material. | 12-12-2013 |