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20100052743 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND CIRCUIT OPERATION METHOD - The power consumption of a data sampling unit that selects a phase of a clock signal appropriate for sampling payload data is reduced at an input interface. A semiconductor integrated circuit includes an input interface and internal core circuits. The input interface includes a hysteresis circuit and a data sampling unit. The hysteresis circuit detects an input signal between first and second input thresholds as a sleep command. The data sampling unit selects an appropriate phase of a sampling clock signal in accordance with a synchronizing signal and samples payload data. When a sleep command is detected, a sleep signal is also supplied to the internal core circuits and the data sampling unit and they are controlled into a low-power consumption state. | 03-04-2010 |
20110059704 | TRANSMITTER AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AVAILABLE FOR IT - The transmitter synthesizes amplitude and phase components and calibrates a delay mismatch between amplitude and phase components with high accuracy at high speed. The transmitter has: a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and a low-pass filter (LPF) in its amplitude-signal path; and a phase modulator operable to convert up a phase component into an RF component in its phase-signal path. In an operation of delay calibration, a test input signal is supplied to a delay-calibrating unit in the amplitude-signal path, and the delay-calibrating unit provides a test input signal to DAC. Then, LPF generates a test output signal. The delay-calibrating unit detects a delay of the test output signal relative to the test input signal, calibrates an amplitude signal delay in a range from the input of the delay-calibrating unit to the output of LPF, reduces the difference between amplitude and phase signal delays of the phase modulator in the phase-signal path. | 03-10-2011 |
20110128992 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED COMMUNICATION CIRCUIT AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - The semiconductor integrated communication circuit includes: | 06-02-2011 |
20150089265 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND CIRCUIT OPERATION METHOD - The power consumption of a data sampling unit that selects a phase of a clock signal appropriate for sampling payload data is reduced at an input interface. A semiconductor integrated circuit includes an input interface and internal core circuits. The input interface includes a hysteresis circuit and a data sampling unit. The hysteresis circuit detects an input signal between first and second input thresholds as a sleep command. The data sampling unit selects an appropriate phase of a sampling clock signal in accordance with a synchronizing signal and samples payload data. When a sleep command is detected, a sleep signal is also supplied to the internal core circuits and the data sampling unit and they are controlled into a low-power consumption state. | 03-26-2015 |
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20100135433 | SIGNAL GENERATION DEVICE AND SIGNAL GENERATION METHOD - A signal generation device that employs a transmission method that uses inverse Fourier transform includes: a modulation unit configured to modulate transmission data to obtain modulation data; a serial-parallel conversion unit configured to convert the modulation data input in series to parallel data of a prescribed size smaller than the size of inverse Fourier transform; a duplication unit configured to select and duplicate all or a portion of the parallel data, to obtain duplication data; a phase rotation unit configured to rotate the phase of a signal point at a prescribed rate for the duplication data, to obtain phase rotation data; and an inverse Fourier transform unit configured to carry out inverse Fourier transform on the parallel data obtained from the serial-parallel conversion unit and the phase rotation data obtained from the phase rotation unit. | 06-03-2010 |
20100233963 | CONTROLLER AND METHOD FOR USE IN RADIO STATION IN RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - One aspect of the present invention relates to a controller for a radio station. The controller includes an information acquisition unit acquiring radio communication state information on another radio station different from the radio station via a connected backbone network, the radio communication state information including frequency information and waveform feature information, a waveform information extraction unit calculating a waveform feature based on the waveform feature information, the waveform feature indicating whether a received radio signal includes the radio signal transmitted from the other radio station, and a radio resource parameter determination unit determining whether signal transmission from the radio station is available and specify a radio resource to be used for the signal transmission based on the frequency information, the waveform feature information and/or the calculated waveform feature. | 09-16-2010 |
20100248638 | RADIO COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND RADIO COMMUNICATIONS METHOD - A radio communications system including a network connecting radio station and a counterparty radio station is disclosed, the network connecting radio station being a radio station connected to a network and the counterparty radio station being in radio communications with the network connecting radio station. In the system, the network connecting radio station includes an information obtaining unit; an information reporting unit; and a radio resource parameter determining unit. The counterparty radio station includes a waveform information extracting unit which calculates a measured value, for each of one or more waveform feature amounts reported from the network connecting radio station; and a received status reporting unit which reports, to the network connecting radio station, the measured value of the waveform feature amount calculated at the waveform information extracting unit. | 09-30-2010 |
20100248761 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A radio communication apparatus includes a characteristic data extraction unit receiving a radio signal from one or more radio stations and calculating characteristic data representing a waveform characteristic indicating statistical properties of the received signal; a characteristic data determination unit determining at least one characteristic data based on one or more calculated characteristic data; a signal generation unit converting a signal for a radio transmission into a signal having a format corresponding to the determined characteristic data, and generating a transmission signal having a characteristic waveform based on the characteristic data; and a transmission unit transmitting the transmission signal. | 09-30-2010 |
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20090242348 | Starting device - A starting device includes a housing; an output side member; a clutch mechanism; a working oil passage that supplies working oil to a hydraulic chamber of the clutch mechanism from an oil pressure source side; and a lubricating oil passage including a supply oil passage that supplies lubricating oil to the housing from the oil pressure source side and a return oil passage for returning the lubricating oil to the oil pressure source side from the housing, wherein the working oil passage and the lubricating oil passage are formed to overlap at least partially in an axial direction. | 10-01-2009 |
20110135484 | Fluidic torque transfer device - A fluidic torque transfer device configured with a pump impeller that includes a pump shell, a pump blade attached to the pump shell, and a pump core attached to the pump blade; a turbine runner that includes a turbine shell, a turbine blade attached to the turbine shell, and a turbine core attached to the turbine blade; and a stator that includes a stator blade, and rectifies a flow of a hydraulic fluid from the turbine runner to the pump impeller. The outer contour line of the turbine blade extends outward in an extending direction of a rotation center axis of the pump impeller and the turbine runner on the fluid outlet side of the turbine runner more than an outer contour line of the pump blade on the pump shell side. | 06-09-2011 |
20110268592 | Fluidic torque transfer device - A fluidic torque transfer device is configured such that the attachment angle of a turbine blade at a fluid outlet of a turbine runner is smaller than the attachment angle of the turbine blade at a fluid inlet of the turbine runner. Furthermore, the turbine runner is structured so that a cross-sectional area St of a turbine flow path defined by the turbine shell, adjacent turbine blades, and the turbine core, which is perpendicular to a centerline of the turbine flow path, satisfies |St−Sref|/Sref≦0.2, where a reference area Sref is an average of maximum and minimum values of a cross-sectional area of a pump flow path defined by the pump shell, adjacent pump blades, and the pump core of the pump impeller, which is perpendicular to a centerline of the pump flow path. | 11-03-2011 |
20130288808 | DAMPER DEVICE - A damper device configured with an input element, an intermediate element to which power is transferred from the input element through a first elastic body, and an output element to which power is transferred from the intermediate element through a second elastic body. One of the output element and the intermediate element has a protruding portion projecting in an axial direction. The other one of the output element and the intermediate element has a cutout portion corresponding to the protruding portion. The protruding portion has a restricting portion that is engaged with the cutout portion in a rotation direction so as to restrict rotation of the intermediate element relative to the output element, and a support portion that is engaged with the cutout portion so that the intermediate element is supported by the output element in a radial direction. | 10-31-2013 |
20130306426 | STARTING APPARATUS - In a hydraulic transmission apparatus, a lockup piston of a lockup clutch mechanism is placed on the opposite side of first and second friction plates from a sidewall portion of a front cover. A damper device is placed on the opposite side of the lockup piston from the first and second friction plates. An outer peripheral portion of the lockup piston is located closer to the outer periphery than an outer peripheral portion of a flange member. A part of the lockup piston is placed in a region located between first and second springs and a third spring of the damper device in a radial direction and in the range of an axial width of the third spring located closer to the lockup piston. | 11-21-2013 |
20140027231 | STARTING DEVICE - A lockup clutch mechanism of a hydraulic transmission device includes a lockup piston that is capable of moving toward a front cover to press first and second friction plates, and a flange member that together with the lockup piston defines an engagement-side oil chamber. The front cover and the lockup piston define a first lubricant passage that supplies hydraulic oil to the first and second friction plates. A second lubricant passage communicating with the first lubricant passage is formed in a centerpiece of the front cover. A first shaft oil passage communicating with the engagement-side oil chamber and a second shaft oil passage communicating with the second lubricant passage are formed in an input shaft. | 01-30-2014 |
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20080311860 | TRANSCEIVER - The transmitter of the transceiver includes: a transmitter-side mixers of a transmitter-side modulator; a transmitter-side voltage-controlled oscillator; and a transmitter-side divider. The divider having a dividing factor of a non-integral number is supplied with an oscillating output of the oscillator. A pair of non-quadrature local signals having a phase difference of 90° plus a predetermined offset angle is produced by the divider and supplied to the mixers. The transmitter includes a phase-shift unit which converts a pair of quadrature transmit signals having a phase difference of about 90° on an analog basis into a pair of non-quadrature shifted transmit signals. Consequently, quadrature modulation is performed by the mixers. Use of a similar configuration enables the reduction in interference of an RF signal with local signals supplied to receiver-side mixers of the receiver. | 12-18-2008 |
20090156135 | TRANSCEIVER - A transceiver includes an oscillator and a plurality of communication blocks. Each of the communication blocks includes frequency dividers and mixers. Frequency dividing number of the frequency divider included in one communication block is set to an even-numbered integer, and transmission local signals supplied from the frequency dividers to the mixer become quadrature signals having a phase difference of 90 degrees. The frequency dividing number of another frequency divider in the another communication block is set to a non-integer, and communication local signals supplied from the frequency divider to the mixers become non-quadrature signals having a phase difference at a predetermined offset angle from 90 degrees. The transceiver further includes a converting unit for giving a compensation offset amount having almost the same absolute value and having a polarity opposite to that of the offset angle to communication analog signals related to the mixer of the another communication block. Increase in the number of voltage-controlled oscillators for multiband communication, broadening of the band, and increase in phase noise can be reduced. | 06-18-2009 |
20120064840 | TRANSCEIVER - The transmitter of the transceiver includes: a transmitter-side mixers of a transmitter-side modulator; a transmitter-side voltage-controlled oscillator; and a transmitter-side divider. The divider having a dividing factor of a non-integral number is supplied with an oscillating output of the oscillator. A pair of non-quadrature local signals having a phase difference of 90° plus a predetermined offset angle is produced by the divider and supplied to the mixers. The transmitter includes a phase-shift unit which converts a pair of quadrature transmit signals having a phase difference of about 90° on an analog basis into a pair of non-quadrature shifted transmit signals. Consequently, quadrature modulation is performed by the mixers. Use of a similar configuration enables the reduction in interference of an RF signal with local signals supplied to receiver-side mixers of the receiver. | 03-15-2012 |
20120069876 | TRANSCEIVER - A transceiver includes an oscillator and a plurality of communication blocks. Each of the communication blocks includes frequency dividers and mixers. Frequency dividing number of the frequency divider included in one communication block is set to an even-numbered integer, and transmission local signals supplied from the frequency dividers to the mixer become quadrature signals having a phase difference of 90 degrees. The frequency dividing number of another frequency divider in the another communication block is set to a non-integer, and communication local signals supplied from the frequency divider to the mixers become non-quadrature signals having a phase difference at a predetermined offset angle from 90 degrees. The transceiver further includes a converting unit for giving a compensation offset amount having almost the same absolute value and having a polarity opposite to that of the offset angle to communication analog signals related to the mixer of the another communication block. | 03-22-2012 |
20120320957 | TRANSCEIVER - The transmitter of the transceiver includes: a transmitter-side mixers of a transmitter-side modulator; a transmitter-side voltage-controlled oscillator; and a transmitter-side divider. The divider having a dividing factor of a non-integral number is supplied with an oscillating output of the oscillator. A pair of non-quadrature local signals having a phase difference of 90° plus a predetermined offset angle is produced by the divider and supplied to the mixers. The transmitter includes a phase-shift unit which converts a pair of quadrature transmit signals having a phase difference of about 90° on an analog basis into a pair of non-quadrature shifted transmit signals. Consequently, quadrature modulation is performed by the mixers. Use of a similar configuration enables the reduction in interference of an RF signal with local signals supplied to receiver-side mixers of the receiver. | 12-20-2012 |
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20080204573 | IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - It is an object of this invention to reduce image sensing errors due to wrong white balance control using wrong color temperature information in an image sensing device capable of performing white balance control using a color image signal from an image sensing device. In order to attain the above object, when the color in the vicinity of the locus of a blackbody cannot be extracted in detection of a color temperature in a color image signal, color temperature information is corrected on the basis of a piece of color temperature information output from a calorimetric sensor, thereby controlling the white balance of a color image signal output from an image sensing element. The number of achromatic data extracted from the color image signal is counted. The color temperature is calculated by weighting a color temperature obtained from the color image signal and that obtained from the calorimetric sensor in accordance with the count, thereby performing white balance control. | 08-28-2008 |
20140193134 | CONTENT DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND CONTENT DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD - [Problem] In a system that transmits content data from a content replay device to a content output device, to prevent a deterioration in audio quality or video data picture quality while being able to increase the simplicity of a setting-altering operation without requiring complicated signal processing. [Solution] The present invention is provided with: the content replay device, which receives an operation clock signal transmitted from the content output device via an operation clock transmission cable, operates on the basis of the operation clock signal, and transmits content data replayed by a replay unit to the content output device via a multimedia transmission cable; and the content output device, which generates the operation clock signal transmitted to the content replay device on the basis of an output device operation clock signal, transmits the operation clock signal to the content replay device via the operation clock transmission cable, and receives, performs signal processing on, and outputs to an external device the content data transmitted from the content replay device via the multimedia transmission cable. | 07-10-2014 |
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20080200223 | GAME PROGRAM, GAME DEVICE, AND GAME METHOD - A control unit mainly includes game condition judging means, moving period determining means for determining a moving period T | 08-21-2008 |
20110235107 | OPERATION APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - To provide an operation apparatus and image forming apparatus which can adequately notify users of status information of other apparatuses connected to the operation apparatus. The operation apparatus has: status information acquiring means | 09-29-2011 |
20130326390 | OPERATION APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - To provide an operation apparatus and image forming apparatus which can adequately notify users of status information of other apparatuses connected to the operation apparatus. The operation apparatus has: status information acquiring means | 12-05-2013 |
20140092430 | OPERATION DEVICE, OPERATION METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING AN OPERATION DEVICE - An operation device that displays a predetermined number of item keys among plural item keys on a predetermined screen so as to be enabled to be pressed down, includes: a determining unit configured to determine whether or not pressing down a display switching key to switch currently displayed item keys on the screen and display item keys that have not been displayed on the screen is successive pushes when the display switching key is pressed down; and a displaying-receiving unit configured to display a list of a larger number of item keys that have not been displayed on the screen than a number that has been set to the screen so as to be enabled to be pressed down if the determining unit determines that pressing down the display switching key is successive pushes. | 04-03-2014 |
20150145827 | Operation Display Device That Ensures Operation without Touching Display Unit - An operation display device includes a display unit, a display control unit, a coordinate measuring unit, an overlap determining unit, and a first operation accepting unit. The coordinate measuring unit measures a coordinate of a first direction, a coordinate of a second direction, and a coordinate of a third direction indicative of a position of an object. The overlap determining unit determines whether the object within the predetermined distance from a first screen overlaps a software key or not. The first operation accepting unit accepts an operation of the software key when the first operation accepting unit determines that the coordinate of the third direction has changed. When the first operation accepting unit accepts the operation of the software key, the display control unit switches the screen displayed by the display unit from the first screen to a second screen. | 05-28-2015 |
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20140116466 | SUBSTRATE CLEANING APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE CLEANING METHOD - A substrate cleaning apparatus performs scrub cleaning of a surface of a substrate with an elongated cylindrical roll cleaning member. The substrate cleaning apparatus includes a roll holder for supporting the cleaning member and rotate the roll cleaning member, a vertical movement mechanism for vertically moving the roll holder so that the roll cleaning member applies a roll load to the substrate at the time of cleaning the substrate by actuation of an actuator having a regulating device, a load cell for measuring the roll load, and a controller for performing feedback control of the roll load through the regulating device based on the measured value of the load cell. The substrate cleaning apparatus further includes a monitor unit for monitoring whether an operation amount of the regulating device falls outside an allowable range of a preset reference value of an operation amount corresponding to a preset roll load. | 05-01-2014 |
20140190530 | SUBSTRATE CLEANING APPARATUS AND POLISHING APPARATUS - A substrate cleaning apparatus capable of preventing a cleaning vessel from being corroded by a chemical liquid while constituting the cleaning vessel with a low-price material is provided. The substrate cleaning apparatus includes: a cleaning vessel for holding a substrate therein; a substrate holder arranged in the cleaning vessel; a chemical liquid nozzle for supplying a chemical liquid onto the substrate held by the substrate holder; and a plurality of cleaning liquid nozzles for supplying a cleaning liquid onto an inner surface of the cleaning vessel. The inner surface of the cleaning vessel has been subjected to a hydrophilization treatment. | 07-10-2014 |
20140190633 | SUBSTRATE CLEANING APPARATUS AND POLISHING APPARATUS - A substrate cleaning apparatus capable of efficiently cleaning a substrate, such as a wafer, is provided. The substrate cleaning apparatus includes: a substrate holder for holding and rotating a substrate; a chemical liquid nozzle for supplying a chemical liquid onto the substrate; a two-fluid nozzle for supplying a two-fluid jet onto the substrate; and a moving mechanism for moving the chemical liquid nozzle and the two-fluid nozzle together from a center to a periphery of the substrate. The chemical liquid nozzle and the two-fluid nozzle are adjacent to each other with a predetermined distance therebetween, and the chemical liquid nozzle is located forward of the two-fluid nozzle with respect to a movement direction of the chemical liquid nozzle and the two-fluid nozzle. | 07-10-2014 |
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20150055232 | MAGNIFIER FOR SEWING MACHINE - The invention provides a magnifier for a sewing machine that is mounted on a sewing machine main body and magnifies a view of a front end of a needle which is mounted on a needle bar front end that moves vertically and a vicinity of a cloth presser. | 02-26-2015 |