Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080262967 | Information processing method and device thereby - An information processing method, includes steps of detecting a use range set for one of digital money expressed in digital data and a use right of the digital money, and a use status of one of the digital money and the digital money right when one of the digital money and the digital money use right is used, determining whether the use status falls within the use range, and permitting the use of one of the digital money and the digital money use right if the use status falls within the use range or not permitting the use of one of the digital money and the digital money use right if the use status falls out of the use range. | 10-23-2008 |
20090020712 | PLATING PROCESSING METHOD, LIGHT TRANSMITTING CONDUCTIVE FILM AND ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SHIELDING FILM - A plating processing method comprises performing a continuous electrolytic plating of the surface of a film having a surface resistivity in the range of 1 Ωf/Sq to 1000 Ω/Sq, wherein a distance between the lowest contacting part of a negative electrode with the film and a plating liquid is in the range of 0.5 cm to 15 cm. | 01-22-2009 |
20090050689 | Electronic wallet device and method of using electronic value - There is provided an electronic wallet device using electronic value concerning a prescribed service by means of a non-contact type IC card capable of non-contact communication with an external unit, including a holding section to hold the non-contact type IC card, an external communication antenna to perform non-contact communication with the external unit, a card communication antenna to perform non-contact communication with the non-contact type IC card held in the holding section, a value storing section capable of storing electronic value, a charge section to charge the value storing section with electronic value, and a value transfer section to transfer electronic value stored in the value storing section to the non-contact type IC card on condition of success of authentication of an owner of the electronic wallet device by an authentication section when using electronic value by means of the non-contact type IC card. | 02-26-2009 |
20090089052 | Signal Recording and Reproducing Apparatus and Method - A signal recording and reproducing apparatus includes an encoder encoding an input signal to produce a first group of encoded data, and a second group of encoded data used for reproducing a signal of higher quality than a signal resulting from decoding of the first group of encoded data, a recording unit recording record-data, including the first group and the second group of encoded data, into a recording medium, a reproducing unit reproducing the record-data from the recording medium, a decoder decoding at least the first group of encoded data out of the record-data from the reproducing unit, and a controller controlling an operation of each part of the recording and reproducing apparatus, and the controller performs control so as to cause the recording unit to erase the second group of encoded data according to a command to increase the amount of free storage capacity of the recording medium. | 04-02-2009 |
20090208653 | Ink set for inkjet recording and image recording method - The present invention provides an ink set for inkjet recording which has excellent resistance to light and can prevent image blurring and image deformation due to cracks or the like, wherein the ink set includes: a first liquid including a water soluble organic solvent, water and a pigment dispersed therein, in which an average particle diameter of the pigment is from 5 nm to 50 nm and a monodispersity of the pigment is 1.5 or less; and a second liquid which includes a component that can reduce a pH of the first liquid to less than 7 when contacted with the first liquid and can transform the first liquid from a region in which the dispersion of the pigment particles is stable to a region in which the dispersion of the pigment particles is unstable. The invention also provides a method of image recording using the ink set for inkjet recording. | 08-20-2009 |
20100153121 | INFORMATION CODING APPARATUS - An information coding apparatus includes a predictive signal generator that generates a predictive signal; a predictive residual signal generator that generates a predictive residual signal; a quantizer that quantizes a quantization input signal generated based on the predictive residual signal; a quantization error signal generator that generates a quantization error signal; a feedback signal generator that generates a feedback signal for controlling the frequency characteristic of the quantization noise after decoding based on the quantization error signal; and a quantization input signal generator that generates the quantization input signal. The feedback signal generator is configured by a pole-zero filter that includes a filter coefficient of an all-pole filter which is based on spectral envelope information estimated by the input audio signal, a parameter for adjusting a peak level in the frequency characteristic of the quantization noise caused by the all-pole filter, and the predictive filter coefficient. | 06-17-2010 |
20100163617 | IC-CARD HOLDING APPARATUS, DISPLAY METHOD,DATA PROVIDING SYSTEM, SERVER APPARATUS,AND DATA PROVIDING METHOD - An IC-card holding apparatus improving the availability, the convenience, and the usefulness of a non-contact IC card. The IC-card holding apparatus may communicate with a non-contact IC card held therein to read out information from the non-contact IC card and obtain the type of the non-contact IC card held therein and usage history information. The IC-card holding apparatus may display an image corresponding to the type of the non-contact IC card. The usage history may also be read out and displayed. For example, information (e.g., place name or shop name) about a position where the non-contact IC card has been used may be displayed and/or the use position may be presented on a map image. | 07-01-2010 |
20100166225 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A signal processing apparatus includes a first audio adjustment information generator generating a first audio adjustment information in accordance with an audio signal in a content item, a sound input unit, a sound output unit, an audio separator separating the audio signal from noise signals which are both output from the sound output unit and are detected by the sound input unit, a second audio adjustment information generator generating a second audio adjustment information in accordance with the noise signals separated by the audio separator, and an audio adjustment unit adjusting a volume of the audio signal output in the sound output unit in accordance with the first and second audio adjustment information. | 07-01-2010 |
20100170710 | CONDUCTIVE FILM AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND TRANSPARENT ELECTROMAGNETIC SHIELDING FILM - An electromagnetic shielding film for plasma display which is excellent in electromagnetic shielding characteristics for effectively shielding electromagnetic waves, near infrared rays, stray light, external light, and the like and even when stored under a wet heat condition, is small in change of color tint and good in adhesion, with a blackening layer hardly peeled away, is provided by a transparent electromagnetic shielding film including a transparent support having thereon a conductive metal layer in a pattern-like state having an electromagnetic shielding ability and having a surface covered by a blackening layer, with the blackening layer made of an alloy of nickel and zinc in a nickel/zinc mass ratio of from 0.5 to 50. | 07-08-2010 |
20110015933 | SIGNAL ENCODING APPARATUS, SIGNAL DECODING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM, SIGNAL ENCODING PROCESS METHOD, SIGNAL DECODING PROCESS METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a signal encoding apparatus including: an encoding unit which encodes a quantization value of a frequency spectrum in an input signal through a plurality of encoding algorithms; an amplitude change amount calculation unit which calculates an amplitude change amount with respect to the frequency spectrum based on a spectrum envelope of the frequency spectrum; and an encoding selection unit which selects the encoding algorithm according to a degree of deflection of an occurrence probability distribution of the quantization value in the amplitude change amount among the plurality of the encoding algorithms. | 01-20-2011 |
20110057986 | INK COMPOSITION, INK SET, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - The invention provides an ink composition including water, a colorant, a water-soluble organic solvent, a surfactant and a water-soluble silicate, the water-soluble silicate being comprised in an amount of from 0.0001% by mass to 0.5% by mass with respect to a total mass of the ink composition, and the water-soluble organic solvent including a water-soluble organic solvent having a value of solubility parameter (SP) of 27.5 or less in an amount of 40% by mass or more with respect to a total mass of the water-soluble organic solvent; an ink composition including a water-soluble alkali metal silicate and a pigment coated with a water-insoluble resin, the water-insoluble resin including a structural unit having an acidic group; and an ink composition including a water-soluble alkali metal silicate, self-dispersing polymer particles, and a pigment. | 03-10-2011 |
20110069110 | INK COMPOSITION, INK SET AND INKJET IMAGE FORMING METHOD - The present invention provides an inkjet ink composition including: self-dispersing polymer particles, each of the self-dispersing polymer particles including a structural unit derived from a hydrophilic monomer and a structural unit derived from a hydrophobic monomer; colloidal silica; and colorant particles, the inkjet ink composition having excellent dischargeability and suppressing the deterioration of the liquid repellency of an inkjet head member. | 03-24-2011 |
20110069111 | INK COMPOSITION, INK SET AND INKJET IMAGE FORMING METHOD - The present invention provides an inkjet ink composition including at least one water-soluble organic solvent, water, at least one colorant, and at least one colloidal silica, wherein 40% or more by mass of a total content of the water-soluble organic solvent has an SP value of 27.5 or less, and the inkjet ink composition having excellent discharge reliability, and suppressing curling of prints formed with the ink and deterioration of liquid repellency of an inkjet head member. | 03-24-2011 |
20110069112 | INK COMPOSITION, INK SET AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - The invention provides an inkjet ink composition including a pigment and colloidal silica, the pigment being covered with a water-insoluble resin including a constituent unit having an acidic group, with which rub resistance of images formed and ink discharge reliability are excellent and deterioration of liquid repellency of an inkjet head member is suppressed. | 03-24-2011 |
20110069116 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND INK COMPOSITION - The present invention provides an image forming method and an ink composition used in the method by which deterioration of a head plate which is formed of silicon is suppressed and more precise images are stably formed, where ink containing an inorganic silicate compound is ejected to form an image from an inkjet head having a nozzle plate where SiO | 03-24-2011 |
20110069117 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND INK COMPOSITION - The present invention provides an image forming method and an ink composition whereby deterioration of a head plate, which is formed of silicon, is suppressed, and an image with higher precision is formed stably, the ink composition including an inorganic silicate compound and being ejected to form an image from an ink-jet head having a nozzle plate where a C | 03-24-2011 |
20110069118 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD - The present invention provides an image forming method including ejecting an ink containing a silicic acid compound from an inkjet head, whereby deterioration of the head members is suppressed and a high precision image is formable stably over a long-term, the inkjet head being equipped with plural liquid droplet ejecting elements | 03-24-2011 |
20110211013 | INK COMPOSITION, INK SET AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD USING THE SAME - An ink composition includes a colorant particle, a water-soluble polymerizable compound having an acrylamide structure in a molecule thereof, colloidal silica, and water. | 09-01-2011 |
20110227992 | INK COMPOSITION, INK SET AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - The present invention provides an inkjet ink composition including color material particles, a water soluble polymerizable compound, a water soluble silicate salt and water, which is excellent in ejection stability even in a case in which the ink composition is stopped from ejecting in the inkjet recording device and left alone for a certain period of time, and ejection of the ink composition is resumed thereafter, which has a good maintenance property, and in which abrasion resistance of images formed with the ink composition is excellent; an ink set including the inkjet ink composition; and an image forming method using the ink set. | 09-22-2011 |
20110227995 | INK COMPOSITION, INK SET AND INKJET IMAGE FORMING METHOD - The present invention provides an ink composition for inkjet recording, containing colloidal silica, urea, a coloring material, and water. | 09-22-2011 |
20110234684 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD - Provided is an image forming method including applying an ink that forms an image by inkjetting an ink composition containing coloring particles, a water-soluble polymerizable compound, a polymerization initiator and water onto a recording medium in which a base paper, a first layer containing a binder, and a second layer containing a white pigment are layered in this order, and a Cobb water absorption degree on a surface of the first layer placed on the base paper is 5.0 g/m | 09-29-2011 |
20110242192 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD - The present invention provides an image forming method including ejecting an ink composition, using an ink jet apparatus, onto a recording medium thereby forming an image, the ink composition comprising a pigment, a water-soluble polymerizable monomer which is polymerized by actinic energy rays, and water, and the recording medium being composed of a base paper, a first layer including a binder, and a second layer including a white pigment and an acidic substance, which are disposed in this order, wherein a surface of the first layer is disposed on the base paper and has a Cobb water absorption capacity of 2.0 g/m | 10-06-2011 |
20120026861 | DECODING DEVICE, DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A decoding device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a first frequency signal including a narrowband signal and a wideband signal, a direct inverse orthogonal transform unit configured to perform a direct matrix operation with respect to the narrowband signal of the first frequency signal so as to perform inverse orthogonal transform, and a high-speed inverse orthogonal transform unit configured to perform inverse orthogonal transform employing a high-speed operation method with respect to the wideband signal of the first frequency signal. | 02-02-2012 |
20120137191 | DECODING DEVICE, DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A decoding device including a decoding unit which decodes encoded data, an inverse orthogonal transformation unit which performs inverse orthogonal transformation for the encoded data and obtains a time series waveform element in a unit of blocks, a correlation calculation unit which obtains a correlation between a time series waveform element of a block arranged immediately before an error block which is a block in which an error has occurred during decoding by the decoding unit and a time series waveform element of a block arranged a predetermined number of blocks before the block, a cycle calculation unit which obtains a basic cycle of a block unit of the error block based on the correlation obtained by the correlation calculation unit, and a generation unit which generates a substitute signal of the time series waveform element of the error block. | 05-31-2012 |
20120143614 | ENCODING APPARATUS, ENCODING METHOD, DECODING APPARATUS, DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An encoding apparatus includes a time-frequency transform unit that performs a time-frequency transform on an audio signal, a normalization unit that normalizes a frequency spectral coefficient obtained by the time-frequency transform in order to generate encoded data of the audio signal, a level calculation unit that calculates a level of the audio signal, a scale factor changing unit that changes a concealment scale factor included in encoded concealment data obtained by performing, on the basis of the level of the audio signal, a time-frequency transform and normalization on a minute noise signal, the concealment scale factor being a scale factor relating to a coefficient used for the normalization, and an output unit that outputs the encoded data of the audio signal generated by the normalization unit or outputs, as encoded data of the audio signal, the encoded concealment data whose concealment scale factor has been changed. | 06-07-2012 |
20120163580 | SOUND PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A sound processing apparatus includes: a sound output unit which outputs sound based on a first sound signal as first sound processing when execution of the first sound processing is instructed; a sound collecting unit which generates an echo signal by collecting surrounding sound; a filtering unit which performs filtering process with an adaptive digital filter on the first sound signal and generates a pseudo echo signal; a subtracting unit which removes a sound component, which is output from the sound output unit and reaches the sound collecting unit, from the echo signal by subtracting the pseudo echo signal from the echo signal to generate a residual signal; an updating unit which updates the adaptive digital filter based on the residual signal and the first sound signal; and an update resolution control unit which controls the resolution at which the adaptive digital filter is updated by the updating unit. | 06-28-2012 |
20120249701 | BLACK INK COMPOSITION, INK SET, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A black ink composition includes a resin-coated carbon black containing a water-soluble resin and carbon black, a water-soluble polymerizable compound, a polymerization initiator, and water, wherein an average primary particle diameter of the carbon black is 20 nm or more, and an absorbance ratio of absorbance at a wavelength of 350 nm with respect to absorbance at a wavelength of 600 nm (absorbance at a wavelength of 350 nm/absorbance at a wavelength of 600 nm), when the black ink composition is diluted 5,000-fold with water, is 1.9 or lower. | 10-04-2012 |
20120250995 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present technology relates to an image processing device including: a reducing section configured to generate a plurality of reduced images by reducing an input image at a plurality of reduction ratios; a noise removal processing section configured to generate noise-removed images by performing noise removal processing on each of the reduced images; an enlarging section configured to generate enlarged images equal to each other in size by enlarging each of the noise-removed images; and a mixing section configured to generate an output image by mixing two or more different enlarged images of the enlarged images with each other. | 10-04-2012 |
20120275614 | NOISE CANCELLATION UNIT - A noise cancellation unit includes: a duct connected to an outlet of an electronic apparatus and configured to pass an exhaust flow discharged from the outlet therethrough; a first microphone provided to the duct; a speaker provided to the duct downstream of the first microphone; a second microphone provided to the duct downstream of the speaker; a first windscreen wall configured to prevent the exhaust flow from colliding with the first microphone; a second windscreen wall configured to prevent the exhaust flow from colliding with the second microphone; and a signal processing circuit configured to generate, based on outputs of the first microphone and the second microphone, a sound signal for removing a noise included in the exhaust flow and supply the sound signal to the speaker. | 11-01-2012 |
20130003980 | AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO ENCODING METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided an audio encoder comprising a determination part determining, based on frequency spectra of audio signals of a plurality of channels, a mixing ratio as a ratio, relative to a frequency spectrum after mixing for each channel of the plurality of channels, of the frequency spectrum for another channel, a mixing part mixing the frequency spectra of the plurality of channels for each channel based on the mixing ratio determined by the determination part, and an encoding part encoding the frequency spectra of the plurality of channels after mixing by the mixing part. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006618 | SPEECH PROCESSING APPARATUS, SPEECH PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a speech processing apparatus, a speech processing method and a program which, when multichannel audio signals are downmixed and coded, prevent delay and an increase in the computation amount upon decoding of the audio signals. An inverse multiplexing unit ( | 01-03-2013 |
20130013325 | DECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD, ENCODING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a decoding apparatus, a decoding method, an encoding apparatus, an encoding method, and programs that can shorten the delay time caused by the band extension at the time of decoding, and restrain increases in resources on the decoding side. | 01-10-2013 |
20130050366 | BLACK INK COMPOSITION, INK SET, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A black ink composition is provided which suppresses change in hue and can form an image with superior blocking resistance and scratch resistance. | 02-28-2013 |
20130096927 | AUDIO CODING DEVICE AND AUDIO CODING METHOD, AUDIO DECODING DEVICE AND AUDIO DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an audio coding device including a first windowing part that multiplies an audio signal by a first window function, a second windowing part that multiplies the audio signal by a second window function having a characteristic different from a characteristic of the first window function, a window selecting part that selects the first window function or the second window function as an optimum window function based on the audio signal multiplied by the first windowing part and the audio signal multiplied by the second windowing part, a coding part that codes a frequency spectrum of the audio signal multiplied by the optimum window function, and a transmitting part that transmits the frequency spectrum coded by the coding part and window function information representing the optimum window function. | 04-18-2013 |
20130114896 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes: a color discrimination section configured to discriminate a color of each pixel of an input image; a boundary region setting section configured to set a boundary region of a predetermined color based on a result of the color discrimination in the color discrimination section; and a noise removing section configured to control a noise removing characteristic based on a result of the boundary region setting in the boundary region setting section to remove noise from the input image. | 05-09-2013 |
20140219587 | Linear Guide Apparatus - A linear guide apparatus is provided in which an excellent sealing performance is achieved. The linear guide apparatus includes a retainer for retaining plural cylindrical rollers rotatably in a rolling element rolling passage. The retainer includes an opening portion and accommodates for retention of the plural cylindrical rollers in the opening portion. The retainer also includes an endless seal unit surrounding the opening portion. The seal unit includes an inward facing lip inclining toward the inner side of the opening portion and extending toward the guide rail to be in sliding contact with the guide rail. The inward facing lip is formed continuously all around the seal unit. The seal unit includes an outward facing lip inclining toward the outer side of the opening portion and extending toward the guide rail to be in sliding contact with the guide rail, in addition to the inward facing lip. | 08-07-2014 |
20140334540 | ENCODER AND ENCODING METHOD, DECODER AND DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technology relates to an encoder and an encoding method, a decoder and a decoding method, and a program by which encoding efficiency is able to be improved by constraining an appearance probability of a predetermined quantization value of an encoding target to 0 when encoding with a combination of Huffman encoding and multidimensional encoding is performed. | 11-13-2014 |
20150088528 | DECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technique relates to a decoding apparatus and method, an audio signal processing apparatus and method, and a program that enable generation of an interpolation signal with less incongruity through a smaller amount of calculation. | 03-26-2015 |