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20090009755 | METHOD FOR DETECTING POSITION OF DEFECT ON SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER - A method of this invention involves: detecting a shape of an outer periphery of a semiconductor wafer with a first detecting device; determining a center position of the semiconductor wafer based on a detected result by the first detecting device; receiving a light beam reflected from a surface of the semiconductor wafer with a second detecting device; detecting an alignment part based on a detected result by the second detecting device to determine a position of the alignment part; and detecting a defect based on the detected result by the second detecting device to determine a position of the defect. | 01-08-2009 |
20090218046 | ADHESIVE FILM POSITION DETECTOR AND ADHESIVE FILM JOINING APPARATUS - An illuminator emits light obliquely to an end of an adhesive film. A CCD camera is provided in a direction perpendicular to the adhesive film to capture an image of the light reflected irregularly from the end of the adhesive film. A black plate is provided on a back side of the adhesive film. In the image obtained by the CCD camera, therefore, only the end of the adhesive film is displayed whitely in a line shape. A position of the adhesive film is determined based on a line corresponding to the end of the adhesive film. Since the light reflected from the end of the adhesive film is utilized, the position of the adhesive film can be determined accurately irrespective of a color of the adhesive film, a color of a base film to which the adhesive film is joined, and a depth of each color. | 09-03-2009 |
20100171823 | ALIGNMENT APPARATUS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER - A wafer has an annular ridge formed along an outer periphery thereof to serve as a reinforcing portion, and a circuit pattern surrounded with the reinforcing portion. The wafer is placed on a wafer placement plane of a holding stage in a state that the circuit pattern is directed downward. The wafer placement plane is larger in size than the wafer. On the holding stage, a center of the wafer is aligned with a center of the holding stage in such a manner that a plurality of guide pins are engaged with relevant cutout portions formed on the reinforcing portion. Then, the holding stage rotates while suction-holding the reinforcing portion of the wafer, and simultaneously a photosensor detects a portion for alignment formed on the outer periphery of the wafer. | 07-08-2010 |
20100171966 | ALIGNMENT APPARATUS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER - An alignment apparatus of this invention includes a holding stage that is larger in size than a semiconductor wafer, and an optical sensor that optically detects a position of a peripheral edge of the semiconductor wafer placed on and suction-held by the holding stage. The holding stage has a slits formed thereon vertically in a circumferential direction, and an outer periphery of the semiconductor wafer lies on the slits. The optical sensor is of a transparent type and includes a projector and a photodetector opposed vertically to each other with the slit interposed therebetween. The optical sensor measures the peripheral edge of the semiconductor wafer on the slits of the holding stage. | 07-08-2010 |
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20090058310 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL DRIVE CIRCUIT AND PLASMA DISPLAY APPARATUS - A drive circuit for driving a plasma display panel (PDP) includes a pulse voltage generation circuit ( | 03-05-2009 |
20090219272 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL DRIVE CIRCUIT AND PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - A PDP driving circuit and a plasma display apparatus with high image quality are realized. The PDP driving circuit of the present invention has a function of lowering the voltage of a recovery capacitor by connecting a step-up circuit including at least an inductor, a switch element, and a diode to the recovery capacitor, and regenerating the excessive voltage of the recovery capacitor to a sustain voltage power supply. Since the luminance can be lowered even in time of light load with low lighting rate by lowering the voltage of the recovery capacitor in time of low lighting rate, a high tone image display is realized, and the PDP driving circuit and the plasma display apparatus with high image quality are realized. In the data electrode driving circuit with slower write timing, the write operation is stabilized by raising the voltage of the recovery capacitor, whereby the PDP driving circuit and the plasma display apparatus with high image quality are realized. | 09-03-2009 |
20140091750 | POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS AND CHARGING APPARATUS FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE - A power supply apparatus for an electric vehicle includes a main battery, a sub-battery of lower voltage, a first output circuit unit including a first output sub-unit and a second output sub-unit, a control circuit unit, and a second output circuit unit including a third output sub-unit. The first output sub-unit receives electrical power from an external power supply and outputs first electrical power for main battery charging. The second output sub-unit receives electrical power from the power supply and outputs second electrical power for sub-battery charging. The control circuit unit individually controls charging of the main battery and the sub-battery by the first electrical power and the second electrical power respectively. The third output sub-unit receives electrical power from the power supply, via a different pathway compared to the first and second output sub-units, and outputs third electrical power for driving the control circuit unit. | 04-03-2014 |
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20090030728 | MEDICAL SAFETY SYSTEM - An action storage unit stores medical action information including at least information about the instructor of a medical action, an instruction from the instructor, an executor who has executed an action in accordance with the instruction, and the action executed by the executor. A singular point extraction unit extracts information singular to a predetermined analysis target by statistically analyzing the predetermined analysis target of the medical action information. A report creation unit creates a report including at least an analysis result on the analysis target on the basis of the extracted singular information. | 01-29-2009 |
20120215884 | MEDICAL-INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MEDICAL-INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD - A medical-information management system, connected via a network to multiple servers including medical-information memories storing medical information, which manages the medical information by distributing the medical information of multiple medical facilities to the multiple servers, comprises operating-time-information memory, operational-status analysis part, and medical-information transmission part. The operating-time-information memory stores respective operating times of each of multiple servers. The management-information memory stores management information indicating servers in which the medical information is stored. The operational-status analysis part provides notification of other servers other than a first server based on information indicating operating times. The medical-information transmission part determines a second server for temporarily saving the medical information from among the notified other servers, and transmits the medical information to the second server. | 08-23-2012 |
20140032238 | HOME MEDICAL CARE SUPPORT APPARATUS AND HOME MEDICAL CARE SUPPORT SYSTEM - A home medical care support apparatus of an embodiment includes: an alarm level determination unit that receives alarm information issued from a home-care patient and home medical equipment and determines an alarm level indicating a degree of urgency; a storage unit that stores a home visit schedule of each of a plurality of medical staffs who perform medical support for the home-care patient; and a medical staff calculation unit that calculates, from among the plurality of medical staffs who perform medical support for the home-care patient, qualified staffs who can perform the support based on route information included in the home visit schedule information and the alarm level. | 01-30-2014 |
20140133632 | MEDICAL IMAGE CONTROL SYSTEM AND MOBILE TERMINAL - A medical image control system includes a medical image diagnostic apparatus and a mobile terminal. The medical image diagnostic apparatus includes a collecting unit, a distributing unit, and a reflecting unit. The collecting unit captures a subject based on predetermined image capturing conditions to collect time-series image data. The distributing unit distributes the time-series image data to the mobile terminal at least when the collecting unit collects the time-series image data. The reflecting unit receives control information and reflects the received control information to a process. The mobile terminal includes a replaying unit and a control information transmitting unit. The replaying unit receives the time-series image data distributed and replay the received time-series image data. The control information transmitting unit receives an operation related to the medical image diagnostic apparatus, and transmits control information indicating the received operation to the medical image diagnostic apparatus. | 05-15-2014 |
20140278558 | MEDICAL OR HEALTH INFORMATION SEARCH SUPPORT APPARATUS AND MEDICAL OR HEALTH INFORMATION SEARCH SUPPORT SYSTEM - An apparatus includes: an input unit to which a search keyword for searching for medical or health information of search target is inputted; a related disease name acquisition unit configured to analyze an administration information database in which administration information of prescriptions-treatments for patients and disease names are stored in association with each other, and thereby to acquire related diseases name related to the disease name; a medical or health information search unit configured to search for medical or health information stored in a medical or health information database on the basis of the search keyword and the related disease names; and a display unit configured to display the medial or health information thus searched out. | 09-18-2014 |
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20120328154 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus for calculating an evaluation value representing quality of a moving image. A second acquisition unit is configured to acquire position information representing a position of a chart image in each frame image of the input moving image. A cutout unit is configured to cut out, from each frame image of the input moving image, a partial image including the chart image based on the position information and generate a converted moving image having the cutout partial image as a frame image. A conversion unit is configured to frequency-convert the converted moving image at least in a temporal direction. A calculation unit is configured to calculate the evaluation value based on a frequency component value obtained by the conversion unit. | 12-27-2012 |
20130155193 | IMAGE QUALITY EVALUATION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - Autocorrelation coefficients for three dimensions defined by the horizontal direction, the vertical direction, and the time direction of evaluation target moving image data are acquired. A plurality of noise amounts are calculated by executing frequency analysis of the acquired autocorrelation coefficients for the three dimensions and multiplying each frequency analysis result by a visual response function representing the visual characteristic of a spatial frequency or a time frequency. The product of the plurality of calculated noise amounts is calculated as the moving image noise evaluation value of the evaluation target moving image data. | 06-20-2013 |
20130314603 | NOISE REDUCTION APPARATUS AND NOISE REDUCTION METHOD - A video image signal that has only noise and does not include an object is acquired by a noise acquisition unit, a video image signal that is an image capture target is acquired by a video image characteristic acquisition unit, and each of the video image signals is multiplied by a frequency response characteristic of vision by a visual characteristic reflection unit to obtain a noise signal and a video image signal that does not include noise in which the frequency response characteristic of vision is reflected. A Wiener filter is generated with a filter designing unit based on the obtained signals, and is applied to a video image signal by a filtering unit. | 11-28-2013 |
20140369342 | NODE AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION CONTROL - A node includes a time difference measurement unit and a time setting unit. The time difference measurement unit measures a time difference between a first time based on latest received time information and a second time based on second-latest received time information. The time setting unit calculates an adjustment time difference when the time difference exceeds an allowable range of error that is smaller than an allowable range of maintainable communication, sets a time obtained by adding the adjustment time difference and the second time to the time of the node when the adjustment time difference is within the allowable range of maintainable communication, and sets a time obtained by adding a time difference corresponding to the allowable range of maintainable communication and the second time to the time of the node when the adjustment time difference exceeds the allowable range of maintainable communication. | 12-18-2014 |
20140369359 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A communication device is included in an ad hoc network in a reactive routing scheme. The communication device includes a receiving unit, a selecting unit, and a transfer control unit. The receiving unit receives a route request frame including overall quality information on routes through which the route request frame has passed. The selecting unit selects a route request frame to be transferred to another communication device based on the quality information, from the route request frames received by the receiving unit through a plurality of routes. The transfer control unit transfers the route request frame selected by the selecting unit to the another communication device, and discards the route request frame when a quality value indicated by the quality information of the route request frame is smaller than a predetermined reference value. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372502 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE SEARCHING METHOD, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND AD HOC NETWORK SYSTEM - A mobile terminal being a searching source that searches for a communication device transmits a searching request addressed to a communication device being a searching destination using a plurality of channels without waiting for a reply to the searching request. A communication device adjacent to the mobile terminal being the searching source, upon receiving a reply to the searching request transmitted by the transmitting from the searching destination, holds the received reply. The mobile terminal being the searching source transmits an inquiry to the adjacent communication device using a plurality of channels about whether a reply to the transmitted searching request has been received from the searching destination. With this configuration, in an ad hoc network with a reactive scheme, the time taken for searching related to a partner device can be shortened. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372626 | TERMINAL, ROUTE GENERATING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A terminal used in a network that constructs a communication route with ad hoc communications is connected to a server via a gateway. The terminal generates downstream route information from the server to a specific terminal based on information relating to occurrence of downstream communication from the server to the specific terminal, the information being included in a header of upstream communication from the specific terminal to the server, and preferentially retains the downstream route information. | 12-18-2014 |
20150057893 | Collision Detection Apparatus and Collision Detection Method - A collision detection apparatus includes: an energy absorption member that possesses conductivity and absorbs impact energy by being crushed in a front-rear direction; two contact members that possess conductivity and are respectively disposed in contact with front and rear end surfaces of the energy absorption member in order to press and crush the energy absorption member in the front-rear direction; a electric resistance detector that is electrically connected to both of the two contact members in order to detect variation in an electric resistance value accompanying crushing of the energy absorption member; and a displacement calculator that calculates a displacement amount of the energy absorption member in the front-rear direction on the basis of the variation in the electric resistance value detected by the electric resistance detector. | 02-26-2015 |
20150069773 | IMPACT ABSORBER - An impact absorber includes a an energy absorbing member that is formed of a composite material and absorbs impact energy by being crushed in a predetermined crush direction, an outer tube member disposed so as to surround the periphery of the energy absorbing member over the energy absorbing member along the crush direction, and a pressing member disposed so as to be in contact with the front end of the energy absorbing member and the front end of the outer tube member and presses the energy absorbing member and the outer tube member simultaneously in the crush direction to thereby crush them. The outer tube member is formed in a shape in which tubular portions are coupled in the crush direction, and is crushed in the crush direction while the tubular portions are regularly folded when the outer tube member is pressed by the pressing member in the crush direction. | 03-12-2015 |
20150069774 | IMPACT ABSORBER - An impact absorber includes a energy absorbing member that is formed of a composite material obtained by reinforcing a resin with a fiber and absorbs impact energy by being crushed in a predetermined crush direction, and a pressing member that is disposed on the front side of the energy absorbing member and presses it in the crush direction to thereby crush the energy absorbing member. The energy absorbing member is configured by stacking, along a radial direction orthogonal to the crush direction, fiber layers having different elastic moduli to a load along the crush direction, and the front end portion of the energy absorbing member is inclined relative to a pressing surface of the pressing member such that the fiber layers are gradually brought into contact with the pressing member sequentially in ascending order of the elastic modulus as the energy absorbing member is pressed by the pressing member. | 03-12-2015 |
20150116549 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus acquires an evaluation value concerning noise for each region of an image frame corresponding to the image data, and controls image processing of each region of the image frame corresponding to image data in accordance with the evaluation value. | 04-30-2015 |
20150215742 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MOVEMENT PREDICTION DEVICE AND PAGING AREA DETERMINATION METHOD - In related technologies, when a paging request is made immediately after location registration, a larger paging area than necessary is determined. The technologies have also a problem in that a location registration area and a paging area are not determined in an appropriate manner to sufficiently deal with change in the moving characteristic of a mobile station. A mobile communication system ( | 07-30-2015 |