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20080294858 | Storage system and data management method - Provided are a storage system and a data management method capable of simplifying the operation of pair configuration by storing information concerning the pair configuration as pair definition information in a storage apparatus. This storage system includes one or more storage controllers for storing data sent from a host system, and a management terminal for managing the input and output of data stored in the one or more storage controllers. In this storage system, the one or more storage controllers include a storage unit for forming two or more logical volumes to be pair-configured in a storage area of a plurality of hard disk drives, and storing as pair definition information the status of not executing initial copy of data to be stored in a pair-configured copy source logical volume to a copy destination logical volume based on a command from the management terminal. | 11-27-2008 |
20080301385 | STORAGE CONTROLLER AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME - An object of the invention is to provide a storage controller and control method that can efficiently and easily prevent reduced data I/O processing performance due to an imbalance between loads on controllers. In the storage controller and control method for providing, to a host computer, logical volumes created in a storage area provided by a storage device and controlling data I/O to/from the logical volumes, the state of loads on the control units for controlling data I/O to/from the logical volumes is monitored, and a control unit allocated to a logical volume is changed to another control unit to equalize loads on the control units. | 12-04-2008 |
20090006794 | Asynchronous remote copy system and control method for the same - Provided is a control method for an asynchronous remote copy system, the method including: fixing data in a secondary volume; determining a certain area in the secondary volume that contains data required to be copied to a primary volume from the secondary volume in which the data is fixed; copying the data in the certain area to the primary volume; and swapping the primary volume and the secondary volume for restarting the asynchronous remote copy. | 01-01-2009 |
20090231750 | DISK ARRAY UNIT - A disk array unit connected to a host unit to give information thereto and receive information therefrom. The disk unit includes a plurality of disk units for storing information transmitted from the host unit and a management information recording device, formed by utilizing information storage areas in the disk units, for causing information relating to a logical unit for storing information from the host unit to correspond to information relating to the units. The invention further includes a control unit, when there is no access from the host unit to the logical unit for a predetermined time, for determining the disk units corresponding to the logical unit based on information recorded in the management information recording device and performing power saving of power supply for the disk units. | 09-17-2009 |
20100235553 | STORAGE SYSTEM COMPRISING POWER SAVING FUNCTION - A storage system constituted such that power saving to an administrator-desired storage device can be performed from a management device. That is, the storage system comprises a power-saving indication receiving section for receiving from a management console a power-saving indication specifying at least one storage device of a plurality of RAID groups, a plurality of logical units, and a plurality of physical storage devices; and a power-saving controller for saving on power to one or more physical storage devices corresponding to the storage device specified in this power-saving indication. | 09-16-2010 |
20110072228 | STORAGE CONTROLLER AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME - An object of the invention is to provide a storage controller and control method that can efficiently and easily prevent reduced data I/O processing performance due to an imbalance between loads on controllers. In the storage controller and control method for providing, to a host computer, logical volumes created in a storage area provided by a storage device and controlling data I/O to/from the logical volumes, the state of loads on the control units for controlling data I/O to/from the logical volumes is monitored, and a control unit allocated to a logical volume is changed to another control unit to equalize loads on the control units. | 03-24-2011 |
20110197083 | STORAGE SYSTEM COMPRISING POWER SAVING FUNCTION - A storage system constituted such that power saving to an administrator-desired storage device can be performed from a management device. That is, the storage system comprises a power-saving indication receiving section for receiving from a management console a power-saving indication specifying at least one storage device of a plurality of RAID groups, a plurality of logical units, and a plurality of physical storage devices; and a power-saving controller for saving on power to one or more physical storage devices corresponding to the storage device specified in this power-saving indication. | 08-11-2011 |
20120203966 | STORAGE SYSTEM COMPRISING POWER SAVING FUNCTION - A storage system constituted such that power saving to an administrator-desired storage device can be performed from a management device. That is, the storage system comprises a power-saving indication receiving section for receiving from a management console a power-saving indication specifying at least one storage device of a plurality of RAID groups, a plurality of logical units, and a plurality of physical storage devices; and a power-saving controller for saving on power to one or more physical storage devices corresponding to the storage device specified in this power-saving indication. | 08-09-2012 |
20120233400 | DISK ARRAY UNIT - A disk array unit connected to a host unit to give information thereto and receive information therefrom. The disk unit includes a plurality of disk units for storing information transmitted from the host unit and a management information recording device, formed by utilizing information storage areas in the disk units, for causing information relating to a logical unit for storing information from the host unit to correspond to information relating to the units. The invention further includes a control unit, when there is no access from the host unit to the logical unit for a predetermined time, for determining the disk units corresponding to the logical unit based on information recorded in the management information recording device and performing power saving of power supply for the disk units. | 09-13-2012 |
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20090092223 | X-RAY IMAGING APPARATUS - An X-ray imaging apparatus includes an X-ray imaging unit, rotating unit configured to rotate a subject about an axis of rotation relative to the X-ray imaging unit, supporting unit configured to support the subject, and a limiting unit configured to limit the range in which the X-ray imaging unit is moveable along the axis of rotation depending on the position of the supporting means relative to the axis of rotation. | 04-09-2009 |
20100054422 | X-RAY IMAGING APPARATUS - An X-ray imaging apparatus includes an X-ray tube, an X-ray generation control unit configured to control the X-ray tube with a controller and a power supply, and a holding unit configured to hold the X-ray tube. The holding unit includes two support legs to be spread at an arbitrary angle, and a connecting portion configured to turnably connect upper ends of the support legs. The holding unit holds the X-ray tube near the connecting portion. | 03-04-2010 |
20110049371 | RADIATION IMAGING APPARATUS - A radiation imaging apparatus comprises a housing having an upper panel on the incident side of radiation, a bottom panel opposite to the upper panel, a side panel connecting the upper panel with the bottom panel. The housing accommodates a radiation detection panel, a light source and a chassis providing rigidity to the housing. The chassis has a transmissible part which transmit the calibration light from the light source, the radiation detection panel is fixed on the side of the upper panel, and the light source is fixed on the side of the bottom part of the chassis. Further, a detachable lid is formed in at least a part of the bottom panel, and the opening portion is formed so as to expose the light source. | 03-03-2011 |
20120039441 | X-RAY IMAGING APPARATUS - An X-ray imaging apparatus includes an X-ray irradiation unit which irradiates X-rays, a detection unit which detects the X-rays transmitted through an object, and a housing which contains the detection unit. The housing includes a first housing in which an X-ray transmission member which transmits the X-rays is placed in an incident range of the X-rays irradiated from the X-ray irradiation unit; a second housing which supports the detection unit while being spaced apart from the X-ray transmission member on an opposite side to an incident side on which the X-rays strike the X-ray transmission member; and a plurality of connecting members which connect the first housing to the second housing. | 02-16-2012 |
20120138798 | RADIATION IMAGING APPARATUS - Provided is a radiation imaging apparatus capable of housing a radiation detection unit configured to detect radiation. The radiation imaging apparatus includes a first cooling unit configured to cool a first heat generation portion of the radiation detection unit housed in the radiation imaging apparatus by a cooling medium in the radiation imaging apparatus, a second cooling unit configured to cool a second heat generation portion of the radiation detection unit housed in the radiation imaging unit, which is larger in amount of generated heat than the first heat generation portion, by the cooling medium, and a discharge port formed in a position nearer to the second heat generation portion than to the first heat generation portion and configured to discharge the cooling medium. | 06-07-2012 |
20120217395 | RADIATION IMAGING APPARATUS - A radiological image imaging apparatus includes: a radiation detection unit configured to detect radiation; a housing configured to contain the radiation detection unit; and a photo timer fixing member configured to fix a photo timer light receiving unit for measuring the radiation dose to the housing; wherein the photo timer fixing member is positioned such that the photo timer light receiving unit can be detached by separating cover members that form the surface of the housing. | 08-30-2012 |
20130028499 | RADIOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A control portion ( | 01-31-2013 |
20130140460 | PORTABLE RADIATION DETECTION UNIT - A portable radiation detection unit comprises a radiation detection panel that detects radiation and a housing that contains the radiation detection panel, wherein the housing comprises a first housing portion, which includes at least one sidewall, and a second housing portion, which is independent from the first housing portion, and by using a configuration in which the first housing portion is movable with respect to the second housing portion, a distance between the sidewall of the first housing portion and an end portion of the radiation detection panel provided in the second housing portion is variable. | 06-06-2013 |
20140231662 | RADIATION IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING RADIATION IMAGING APPARATUS - A radiation imaging apparatus includes: a radiation imaging unit configured to include a housing and a detection unit having a rectangular imaging region, the detecting unit being placed at a position in the housing at which a distance from one side surface of the housing to the imaging region is shorter than a distance from another side surface to the imaging region; a rotating unit configured to rotate the radiation imaging unit about a rotation axis in a direction intersecting with the imaging region; and a control unit configured to control rotation of the rotating unit so as to orientate one side surface of the housing, a distance from which to the imaging region is short, to a direction corresponding to an imaging condition. | 08-21-2014 |
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20090252473 | REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND REPRODUCING METHOD - A reproducing apparatus to reproduce a captured moving image includes a filter circuit that obtains a capturing condition (shutter speed information “s”) of frames constituting the moving image. The filter circuit smoothes pixel information of the frames by using a parameter (directional smoothing filter kernel) according to the obtained shutter speed. | 10-08-2009 |
20110024308 | IMMUNOASSAY - Provided is an immunoassay for detecting a test substance with high sensitivity. The immunoassay is a method of detecting or measuring a test substance contained in a sample liquid, and includes: reacting, with the test substance, a first specifically binding substance which is immobilized on a support and is capable of binding specifically to the test substance and a second specifically binding substance which is labeled with a labeling substance and is capable of binding specifically to the test substance; separating, from the support, the second specifically binding substance which is unreactive with the test substance; eluting the labeling substance retained on the support; depositing the eluted labeling substance on a test element; and measuring electrochemically a catalyst reaction amount of the labeling substance deposited on the test element. | 02-03-2011 |
20110164049 | IMAGE SIGNAL DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM - A distribution ratio required to distribute the luminance signal indicating the luminance value of the input image signal to the two display apparatuses is decided. In this decision, from current luminance values of projected images generated by the two display apparatuses based on a previous frame image held in a frame buffer memory, which holds the image signal for respective frames, and the luminance value of the input image signal, the distribution ratio which minimizes response times required to change the current luminance values of the projected images generated by the two display apparatuses to the luminance value of the input image signal is decided. | 07-07-2011 |
20110235707 | ENCODING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR ENCODING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - A control method for an encoding apparatus which performs bit rate control includes an acquiring step of acquiring a first quantization parameter as a quantization parameter to be used for quantizing a rate control unit, a first calculating step of calculating an evaluation value from a preset rate and a rate of an actually encoded rate control unit, a first setting step of, if the evaluation value is within a predetermined range, setting the first quantization parameter acquired by the acquiring step as a quantization parameter to be used for quantizing a rate control unit, and a second setting step of, if the evaluation value is not within the predetermined range, setting a second quantization parameter on the basis of the calculated evaluation value as a quantization parameter to be used for quantizing a rate control unit. | 09-29-2011 |
20110274412 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - This invention provides a technique for displaying a suitable image even when displaying, as a movie display image or still image display image, a frame image which forms a movie. When it is represented to display a frame image as a movie display image, a multiple outline removal unit updates the frame image by blurring an outline in the frame image. An image output unit outputs the updated frame image as a movie display image. When it is represented to display a frame image as a still image display image, a motion blur removal unit updates the frame image by removing a motion blur from the frame image. The image output unit outputs the updated frame image as a still image display image. | 11-10-2011 |
20110292289 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - A spatial maximum value filter generates a low frequency video signal in an intermittent frame by removing high frequency components from a video signal in the intermittent frame. A division signal extraction unit calculates a ratio of a signal value of a video signal in an acquired frame to a signal value of a low frequency video signal in an intermittent frame closest to the acquired frame, and generates a high frequency video signal having the calculated ratio as a signal value. A signal adjustment unit calculates a ratio of a signal value of the video signal in the intermittent frame to a signal value of a high frequency video signal in the intermittent frame, and generates an adjusted low frequency video signal having the calculated ratio as a signal value. | 12-01-2011 |
20120003666 | METHOD OF DETECTING TARGET SUBSTANCE - Provided is a method of measuring a being state of a target substance at unknown concentration contained in a sample. The method includes identifying a kind of a target substance when one kind of target substance is contained in a sample and determining a concentration ratio when plural kinds of target substances are contained in the sample: by obtaining, with respect to each of plural kinds of known substances having the same recognition site, a relationship between Parameter A of the known substance and Parameter B of the known substance; and measuring Parameter A of the target substance contained in the sample and Parameter B of the target substance contained in the sample, wherein Parameter A of X is a value derived from a number of molecules of X and Parameter B of X is a value derived from the number and a molecular weight of X. | 01-05-2012 |
20120238037 | IMMUNOLOGICAL ASSAY AND IMMUNOLOGICAL ASSAY KIT - An antibody enabling a rapid measurement of HMGB1, for example a combination of antibodies to HMGB1, is elucidated and an immunological assay and an immunological assay kit are provided. It is intended to provide an immunological assay kit for determining the presence or absence, or the concentration, or both of HMGB1, including a first antibody and a second antibody, wherein the first antibody is immobilized on a carrier and the second antibody is modified with a labeling substance, and the first antibody and the second antibody are any of the following antibody (A), antibody (B), antibody (C), and antibody (D), and a permutation combination of the first antibody and the second antibody is any one of antibody (A) and antibody (B), antibody (A) and antibody (C), antibody (B) and antibody (A), antibody (B) and antibody (C), antibody (B) and antibody (D), and antibody (C) and antibody (B). | 09-20-2012 |
20130114740 | IMAGE CODING METHOD, IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image coding apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine, from a progressive image and format information indicating characteristics of the progressive image, whether an input progressive image is an image that is deinterlaced from an interlace image, a deinterlace information extraction unit configured to extract information indicating a deinterlace method from the format information when the input progressive image is a deinterlaced image, a first coding unit configured to encode a result of the determination unit, a second coding unit configured to encode a result of the deinterlace information extraction unit, an image coding unit configured to encode an input progressive image, and an output unit configured to integrate and output a result of the first coding unit, a result of the second coding unit, and a result of the image coding unit. | 05-09-2013 |
20130329068 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - In the case of a conventional image apparatus that generates refocus image on the occasion of image display, there is a waiting time because the image apparatus generates the refocus image in response to an operation of a user and requires the time to generate the refocus image. To address this situation, an image apparatus determines ranks of targets to be in focus based on history information indicating operation history, and generates sequentially combined image data from multi-viewpoint image data obtained by capturing images from multiple viewpoints, by focusing on the targets in accordance with the determined ranks. | 12-12-2013 |
20130343664 | IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CODING IMAGE, PROGRAM THEREFOR, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR DECODING IMAGE, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - An image coding method for dividing an input image into a plurality of divisional blocks having different sizes, and coding the image for each of the divisional blocks includes acquiring attribute information of a target block, setting a control parameter for controlling an image quality of the target block, determining a prediction control parameter based on the attribute information, calculating a difference value between the control parameter and the prediction control parameter, and coding the calculated difference value. | 12-26-2013 |
20140119455 | IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, IMAGE CODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM, AND IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image coding method for an image coding apparatus configured to divide an image into divisional blocks of a plurality of sizes and to perform coding on the image while controlling image quality according to a parameter value in units of divisional blocks includes acquiring a block size of a target block to be coded, acquiring a minimum block size used to control the parameter value, acquiring a state of division of the target block, acquiring the parameter value, determining whether the target block is divided according to the state of division of the target block, determining whether the block size of the target block is greater than or equal to the minimum block size;
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20140347513 | DETECTION APPARATUS, METHOD FOR DETECTING FEATURE POINT AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A feature point detection apparatus sets, in accordance with a shooting mode or a designation from a user, a detection parameter for each region of an image to detect a feature point, and detects the feature point based on the detection parameter. | 11-27-2014 |
20140348704 | ANALYZING APPARATUS FOR LABORATORY TEST - Provided is an analyzing program for a laboratory test, which stores a measurement program for concurrently processing inspection cartridges regarding all the combinations of prepared reaction and measurement patterns, the analyzing program causing an analyzing apparatus to execute the processes of reading the reaction and measurement patterns of the inspection cartridges in each of which one of the reaction and measurement patterns prepared in advance is provided, invoking a measurement program corresponding to a combination of the read reaction and measurement patterns, and performing reaction and measurement in accordance with the invoked measurement program. | 11-27-2014 |
20140349317 | IMMUNOASSAY METHOD AND IMMUNOASSAY KIT - An object of the present invention is to provide an immunoassay method and an immunoassay kit which have the excellent effect of producing enhanced measurement sensitivity and yet reduced non-specific reaction. An immunoassay method including performing immune reaction in the presence of 0.67 to 2.67% (W/V) of chondroitin sulfate and 3.5% (W/V) or more of sodium chloride is provided. | 11-27-2014 |
20140376810 | DETECTION APPARATUS, DETECTION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A detection apparatus that detects a feature point of an image, comprising: a conversion unit configured to convert a first image into a second image; a setting unit configured to set a first target number indicating the number of feature points to be detected from the first image and to set a second target number indicating the number of feature points to be detected from the second image based on the first target number and the number of feature points that are detected from the first image; and a processing unit configured to perform processing for detecting a feature point from the first image based on the first target number and processing for detecting a feature point from the second image based on the second target number. | 12-25-2014 |
20150070517 | SELECTION APPARATUS, SELECTION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A selection apparatus generates comparison information based on comparison between the pixel values of input pixels and a reference pixel value. The selection apparatus selects the output pixels from the input pixels based on the comparison information and feature amounts representing the features of the input pixels. | 03-12-2015 |