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20120304773 | ESTIMATION OF PRESENCE OF VOID IN THROUGH SILICON VIA (TSV) BASED ON ULTRASOUND SCANNING - A method and apparatus to detect a defect in a three-dimensional integrated structure by ultrasound scanning and to non-destructively detect the presence of a void that can occur in a process in a through silicon via (TSV) arranged in a board, such as a silicon wafer. To avoid measurement by ultrasound scanning over a board surface from being impeded by an object, such as a (solder) bump, scattering ultrasound, one or more TSVs belonging to a test element group (TEG) are selected from among a plurality of TSVs such that physical obstruction in the vicinity of the TEG. | 12-06-2012 |
20130105969 | SOLDER BONDING PROCESS FORMING A SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP IN MULTIPLE STAGES ON A 3-DIMENSIONAL STACKED ASSEMBLY | 05-02-2013 |
20150249064 | PREVENTION OF WARPING DURING HANDLING OF CHIP-ON-WAFER - To reduce the risk of reduction in yield due to breakage of a thin wafer or a thin chip having through silicon vias (TSVs) formed therein in a chip bonding process, and to prevent warping during handling of a chip-on-wafer (CoW). Chips are bonded to a wafer having TSVs formed therein and sealed before the wafer is thinned. Subsequently, the CoW is subjected to a process of thinning the TSV wafer, a back-surface treatment, and a process of cutting the wafer into small pieces by dicing. Although thin wafers and thin chips having TSVs formed therein are difficult to handle since the chips are bonded to the wafer before thinning and the wafer is thinned and cut into small pieces while mechanical strength thereof is increased by fixing a support to the wafer, the yield of three-dimensional stacked devices can be increased. | 09-03-2015 |
20150279790 | PREVENTION OF WARPING DURING HANDLING OF CHIP-ON-WAFER - To reduce the risk of reduction in yield due to breakage of a thin wafer or a thin chip having through silicon vias (TSVs) formed therein in a chip bonding process, and to prevent warping during handling of a chip-on-wafer (CoW). Chips are bonded to a wafer having TSVs formed therein and sealed before the wafer is thinned. Subsequently, the CoW is subjected to a process of thinning the TSV wafer, a back-surface treatment, and a process of cutting the wafer into small pieces by dicing. Although thin wafers and thin chips having TSVs formed therein are difficult to handle since the chips are bonded to the wafer before thinning and the wafer is thinned and cut into small pieces while mechanical strength thereof is increased by fixing a support to the wafer, the yield of three-dimensional stacked devices can be increased. | 10-01-2015 |
20150279812 | PREVENTION OF WARPING DURING HANDLING OF CHIP-ON-WAFER - To reduce the risk of reduction in yield due to breakage of a thin wafer or a thin chip having through silicon vias (TSVs) formed therein in a chip bonding process, and to prevent warping during handling of a chip-on-wafer (CoW). Chips are bonded to a wafer having TSVs formed therein and sealed before the wafer is thinned. Subsequently, the CoW is subjected to a process of thinning the TSV wafer, a back-surface treatment, and a process of cutting the wafer into small pieces by dicing. Although thin wafers and thin chips having TSVs formed therein are difficult to handle since the chips are bonded to the wafer before thinning and the wafer is thinned and cut into small pieces while mechanical strength thereof is increased by fixing a support to the wafer, the yield of three-dimensional stacked devices can be increased. | 10-01-2015 |
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20110312313 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO NETWORK CONTROLLER AND METHOD - A radio network controller connected to multiple exchanges in a mobile communication system includes an exchange side interface configured to communicate with the multiple exchanges, a mobile station side interface configured to receive a call connection signal from a mobile station via a radio base station, a management unit configured to manage congestion levels indicative of congestion states of the respective exchanges and a control unit. The exchange side interface acquires the congestion levels from the respective exchanges, and the control unit determines to transfer a predefined ratio of call connection signals destined for an exchange having a higher congestion level to an exchange having a lower congestion level, the ratio being predefined corresponding to the congestion level. | 12-22-2011 |
20120099528 | RADIO NETWORK CONTROL DEVICE, PACKET SWITCHING DEVICE, CIRCUIT SWITCHING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION REPORTING METHOD - A radio network control device in a mobile communication network includes a first communication unit communicating with a packet switching device in a packet switched domain; a second communication unit communicating with a circuit switching device in a circuit switched domain; and a management unit transmitting information to the packet switching device, the information indicating whether the radio network control device can correctly communicate with the circuit switching device. The management unit transmits the information when transmitting a signal to the packet switching device via the first communication unit, the signal indicating whether the radio network control device can correctly communicate with the packet switching device, or when transmitting an attach request signal to the packet switching device via the first communication unit, the attach request signal being transmitted from a mobile station. | 04-26-2012 |
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20120286427 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND A MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - There is provided a technology capable of suppressing the damage applied to a pad. When the divergence angle of an inner chamfer part is smaller than 90 degrees, the ultrasonic conversion load in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the pad is very small in magnitude. In other words, the ultrasonic conversion load in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the pad is sufficiently smaller in magnitude than the ultrasonic conversion load in a direction in parallel with the surface of the pad. Consequently, when the divergence angle of the inner chamfer part is smaller than 90 degrees, the ultrasonic conversion load in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the pad can be sufficiently reduced in magnitude, which can prevent pad peeling. | 11-15-2012 |
20130234309 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Technique capable of achieving reliability improvement of a semiconductor device even if temperature rising of an operation guarantee temperature of the semiconductor device is performed is provided. Gap portions are provided among a plurality of pads, and a glass coat composed of, for example, a silicon oxide film or a silicon nitride film is embedded in the gap portions. The glass coat is provided in order to secure electrical insulation among the pads, and coats outer edge portions of the pads. Trenches are formed so as to be adjacent to regions, which are coated with the glass coat, of the outer edge portions of the pads. | 09-12-2013 |
20140183734 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Technique capable of achieving reliability improvement of a semiconductor device even if temperature rising of an operation guarantee temperature of the semiconductor device is performed is provided. Gap portions are provided among a plurality of pads, and a glass coat composed of, for example, a silicon oxide film or a silicon nitride film is embedded in the gap portions. The glass coat is provided in order to secure electrical insulation among the pads, and coats outer edge portions of the pads. Trenches are formed so as to be adjacent to regions, which are coated with the glass coat, of the outer edge portions of the pads. | 07-03-2014 |
20150228609 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Technique capable of achieving reliability improvement of a semiconductor device even if temperature rising of an operation guarantee temperature of the semiconductor device is performed is provided. Gap portions are provided among a plurality of pads, and a glass coat composed of, for example, a silicon oxide film or a silicon nitride film is embedded in the gap portions. The glass coat is provided in order to secure electrical insulation among the pads, and coats outer edge portions of the pads. Trenches are formed so as to be adjacent to regions, which are coated with the glass coat, of the outer edge portions of the pads. | 08-13-2015 |
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20120217729 | AUTOMOBILE AIRBAG DOOR - An automobile airbag door is formed by a door base member, a door cover member, and a tear line. The door base member and the door cover member form a part of a base member and a part of a cover member of an instrument panel, respectively. When pressed by an airbag being deployed and inflated, the door base member is torn from the tear line. The first zone is defined as the bonded part between the outer surface of the door base member and the door cover member which extends along the tear line and includes a part on which the tear line is projected. The second zones are on both sides of the first zone and extend along the tear line. The automobile airbag door has a mechanism that makes the bond strength in the first zone weaker than the bond strength in each second zone. | 08-30-2012 |
20140093665 | DECORATIVE MEMBER FOR VEHICLE - A decorative member for vehicle includes a transparent substrate, a decorative layer, and a resinous adhesion layer. The transparent substrate has a front face and a rear face, and includes a transparent material. The decorative layer is formed on the rear face of the transparent substrate, and is visible through the transparent substrate when the decorative member is viewed on the front face of the transparent substrate. The resinous adhesion layer covers the rear face of the transparent substrate on which the decorative layer is formed, and includes a hot-melt adhesive. | 04-03-2014 |
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20090259866 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND POWER SUPPLY UNIT - An electronic device has: an operation unit; a power supply unit; an input changeover switch; and a controller. The power supply unit is supplied commercial power and supplies the operating power to the operation unit. The input changeover switch switches between supplying or not supplying the commercial power to the power supply unit. The controller controls the input changeover switch. The controller includes: a power input portion; a control signal input portion; and a switching signal output portion. When the device power is being supplied from a master electronic device to the power input portion and the control signal from the master electronic device is received by the control signal input portion, the switching signal output portion outputs to the input changeover switch a signal instructing to switch and supply the commercial power to the power supply unit. | 10-15-2009 |
20090287851 | CONTROL OF AN EXTERNAL STORAGE DEVICE WITH A PLURALITY OF STORAGE UNITS - A control device controls an external storage device with a plurality of storage units which can be driven and stopped independently. The control device comprises: a display control unit; a setting unit; and a control signal output unit. The display control unit displays on a display a selection screen that allows a user to select which storage unit from among the plurality of storage units to operate. The setting unit sets a storage unit selected by the user as an operating storage unit to be operated. The control signal output unit outputs to the external storage device a control signal for having the operating storage unit be operated. | 11-19-2009 |
20090287897 | CONTROL OF ACCESS TO AN EXTERNAL STORAGE DEVICE - The control device has a fetching unit, a virtual drive creation unit, and an access control unit. The fetching unit fetches, from the external storage device, attribute information relating to data stored in the external storage device. The virtual drive creation unit creates, in the control device, a virtual drive for storing the fetched attribute information. The access control unit controls access to the virtual drive and the external storage device. When an instruction relating to the attribute information is input, the access control unit accesses the virtual drive to fetch the attribute information. When an instruction to read the data from the external storage device is input, the access control unit accesses the external storage device to reads the data. When an instruction to write new data to the external storage device is input, the access control unit accesses the external storage device to write the new data. | 11-19-2009 |
20110060877 | EXTERNAL STORAGE DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD FOR COMPUTER SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD FOR EXTERNAL STORAGE DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - When a hard disk drive | 03-10-2011 |
20120137063 | AUXILIARY STORAGE DEVICE AND PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - A storage device that receives writing data with a first data size from a host, and writes data with a second data size that is greater than the first data size. The storage device includes a storage area unit formatted and managed by a file format including user data and specific management data, the user data and specific management data having a size smaller than the second data size, a cache memory having a capacity of not less than the second data size and that stores the specific management data, and a controller that controls reading and writing data from and into the storage area unit and the cache memory, when receiving an instruction from the host. | 05-31-2012 |
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20150075198 | ENGINE DRIVEN HEAT PUMP - An engine driven heat pump is such that when a self-sustaining switch is turned on during power failure, and a self-sustaining signal is received, it switches to a self-sustaining mode and start an engine and a generator, and when output power from an inverter is received, it supplies the output power to a power supply circuit and a battery charging circuit by means of an independent power supply relay, and it supplies the output power to the outside via an independent output unit, and during the supply of the output power, it maintains cutoff with respect to connection between a system, and the power supply circuit and the battery charging circuit by means of a system cutoff relay and maintain the output of the output power until the self-sustaining signal is interrupted, and it recovers the connection when power is restored and the output power is interrupted. | 03-19-2015 |
20150184913 | ENGINE DRIVEN HEAT PUMP - An engine driven heat pump includes a temperature switch that opens and closes in accordance with the peripheral temperature of an inverter and a control device that includes a signal reception unit, and a temperature open contact point that opens at a predetermined temperature or higher is provided in the temperature switch, and an abnormal-time open contact point that opens when abnormality occurs in a battery charging circuit is provided in the battery charging circuit, and a signal generation contact point that generates a state signal indicating a state of the inverter is provided in the inverter, and the temperature open contact of point the temperature switch, the abnormal-time open contact point of the battery charging circuit, and the signal generation contact point of the inverter are connected in series with respect to the signal reception unit of the control device. | 07-02-2015 |
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20130280637 | FUEL CELL ELECTRODE AND MEMBRANE ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY - Provided are a fuel cell electrode and a membrane electrode assembly in which catalyst particles are prevented from dissolving and the function of added catalyst can be sufficiently exerted when the fuel cell is operating at high current density. The fuel cell electrode includes an electrode material containing: an electrocatalyst having catalyst particles supported on a conductive support; a first ion conductor having anion conductivity; and a second ion conductor having a cation conductivity, the first and second ion conductors covering the electrocatalyst. The first ion conductor is provided to cover the catalyst particles, and the second ion conductor is provided to cover the first ion conductor and exposed part of the conductive support. The membrane electrode assembly includes the fuel cell electrode as at least one of the anode and cathode. | 10-24-2013 |
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20150188151 | MEMBRANE ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY - A membrane electrode assembly includes an electrolyte membrane, and frame-shaped first and second gaskets disposed on both surfaces of the electrolyte membrane. The first and second gaskets have overlapping portions which are positioned at a peripheral edge of the electrolyte membrane and face to the electrolyte membrane, and bonding portions which are positioned outside of the peripheral edge and bonded to each other. The overlapping portions and the bonding portions have through holes which extend in a thickness direction of the electrolyte membrane. An aperture ratio of the through holes of the overlapping portions is greater than an aperture ratio of the through holes of the bonding. | 07-02-2015 |
20150200406 | HOLDING APPARATUS FOR FUEL CELL GASKET - A holding apparatus for a fuel cell gasket has a support having a flat surface part which attracts the gasket and serves to stack a frame-shaped gasket on an outer circumference of an electrolyte membrane or a gas diffusion layer constituting a membrane electrode assembly on which a catalyst layer is disposed. The flat surface part has a frame-shaped recess corresponding to a shape of the gasket, and the recess is connected to an air-sucking section, with the gasket attracted by sucking air in the recess. | 07-16-2015 |
20150214559 | BONDED SHEET AND SHEET-MEMBER BONDING METHOD - A bonded sheet to be applied to a membrane electrode assembly includes gaskets serving as a first sheet member and an electrolyte membrane serving as a second sheet member stacked on the gaskets. The gaskets each include a first bonded portion where grooves provided in a sheet surface direction at least partly face sheet end portions, and a second bonded portion having no groove. The electrolyte membrane is stacked on the gaskets in the first bonded portion and the second bonded portion. | 07-30-2015 |
20150217308 | COATING APPARATUS - [Object] To provide a coating apparatus that can prevent distortion of the shape of a coating area on a sheet member. | 08-06-2015 |
20150263361 | FILM MEMBER STACKING DEVICE AND METHOD OF THE SAME - [Problem] Provided is a film member stacking device which is capable of correcting deformation of the film member. | 09-17-2015 |
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20080247586 | Microphone unit, close-talking voice input device, information processing system, and method of manufacturing microphone unit - A microphone unit includes: a housing which has an inner space; a partition member which is provided in the housing and divides the inner space into a first space and a second space, the partition member being at least partially formed of a diaphragm; and an electrical signal output circuit which outputs an electrical signal based on vibrations of the diaphragm. In the housing, a first through-hole through which the first space communicates with an outer space of the housing and a second through-hole through which the second space communicates with the outer space are formed. | 10-09-2008 |
20080318640 | Voice Input-Output Device and Communication Device - A voice input-output device includes a voice input section and a voice output section. The voice input section includes a microphone unit, the microphone unit including a housing that has an inner space, a partition member that is provided in the housing and divides the inner space into a first space and a second space, the partition member being at least partially formed of a diaphragm, and an electrical signal output circuit that outputs an electrical signal that is the first voice signal based on vibrations of the diaphragm, a first through-hole through which the first space communicates with an outer space of the housing and a second through-hole through which the second space communicates with the outer space being formed in the housing. The voice output section includes: an ambient noise detection section that detects ambient noise during a call based on the first voice signal; and a volume control section that controls volume of the speaker based on a degree of the detected ambient noise. | 12-25-2008 |
20120201410 | MICROPHONE UNIT, CLOSE-TALKING VOICE INPUT DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MICROPHONE UNIT - A microphone unit includes: a housing which has an inner space; a partition member which is provided in the housing and divides the inner space into a first space and a second space, the partition member being at least partially formed of a diaphragm; and an electrical signal output circuit which outputs an electrical signal based on vibrations of the diaphragm. In the housing, a first through-hole through which the first space communicates with an outer space of the housing and a second through-hole through which the second space communicates with the outer space are formed. | 08-09-2012 |
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20100189300 | Microphone Unit - A microphone unit comprises a microphone, leg members and a base. The microphone comprises a diaphragm for detecting sound and a housing for containing the diaphragm. The leg members project outwardly from a rear wall of the housing, and are provided near a second through-hole which connects a second inner space to outer space. The base is connected to the leg members to form a gap between the housing and the base. When the microphone unit thus formed in a simple structure and reduced thickness is mounted in a product, the gap allows the outer space to be connected to the second inner space through the second through-hole, making it possible to efficiently guide sound to the second inner space and obtain good differential characteristics. | 07-29-2010 |
20100226507 | Microphone Unit - A microphone unit comprises first and second microphones and a delay element. When sound is input to the first and second microphones, the delay element delays an output signal of the first microphone so as to detect the sound by a difference signal between the output signal of the first microphone and an output signal of the second microphone. The delay element delays the output signal of the first microphone so as to satisfy relation 0.76≦D/Δr≦2.0 where D is amount of delay for the output signal of the first microphone while Δr is distance between the first and second microphones. The relation D/Δr≦2.0 can reduce far-field noise, while the relation 0.76≦D/Δr can increase the detection sensitivity to sound emitted from a null point. | 09-09-2010 |
20100226522 | Microphone Unit - A microphone unit comprises a vibratory diaphragm for detecting sound input through its first and second openings. The sound input through the first opening is guided to a front surface of the vibratory diaphragm while the sound input through the second opening is guided to a rear surface of the vibratory diaphragm so as to detect the sound by the vibration of the vibratory diaphragm. The microphone unit satisfies relation 0.76≦D/Δr≦2.0 where D is difference in time between the sound propagation time from the first opening to the front surface of the vibratory diaphragm and that from the second opening to the rear surface of the vibratory diaphragm, while Δr is distance between the first and second openings. The relation D/Δr≦2.0 can reduce far-field noise, while the relation 0.76≦D/Δr can increase the detection sensitivity to sound emitted from a null point. | 09-09-2010 |
20110172996 | VOICE INPUT DEVICE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A voice input device, a method for manufacturing the same, and an information processing system are provided. The voice input device has a function of removing a noise component and includes a first microphone | 07-14-2011 |
20120300969 | MICROPHONE UNIT AND VOICE INPUT DEVICE COMPRISING SAME - A microphone unit ( | 11-29-2012 |
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20090049500 | RECEIVING DEVICE - A receiving device is one capable of processing a first application received from a broadcast station and a previously built-in second application, including: a first application management unit operable to control the first application; a second application management unit operable to control the second application; an operation management unit operable to hold operating states of the first application and the second application; and a duplicate function management unit operable to hold exclusion/sharing information showing priorities of the first application and the second application, and operable to make the first application management unit or the second application management unit perform an exclusion control based upon the exclusion/sharing information or the operating state managed by the operation management unit, in which the duplicate function management unit terminates the second application in activation, upon activation of the first application. | 02-19-2009 |
20090055870 | Digital Broadcast Receiving Apparatus - A digital broadcast receiving apparatus that utilizes an unused tuner effectively to shorten channel selection time is disclosed. The apparatus is equipped with plural tuners that receive digital broadcast waves; a TS processing unit capable of processing at least two TSes demodulated by the tuner; a service information acquiring unit that extracts service information from the TS processing unit; a data contents acquiring unit that caches data contents; an audio and visual output control unit capable of processing plural audio and visual data simultaneously or alternately by switching; and a channel selection control unit that predicts a channel that the user is likely to select next time and preliminarily performs predicted channel selection process using a tuner currently not selected. | 02-26-2009 |
20090055881 | DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVER - There is provided a cable broadcast receiver for solving problems arising in the switching between execution of a download application and reproduction of video audio information from an external device. The receiver has operating modes including a first mode and a second mode. Under the first mode, the receiver is operated based on a download application acquired through a network. Under the second mode, the receiver is operated based on a receiver application. The receiver is operated under the second mode when information inputted from an external device is to be displayed. A key delivery unit delivers, upon receiving a key code instructing a channel change during the operation under the second mode, the key code indicating the channel change to a download application management unit which controls the key delivery to the download application, and a receiver application management unit which controls the key delivery to the receiver application. | 02-26-2009 |
20090282434 | Digital broadcast receiver - There is provided a digital broadcast receiver for solving various problems regarding a display which arise due to the switching of a mode. For example, there is provided a digital broadcast receiver capable of displaying an emergency alert broadcast by an EAS even when a mode is switched from an OCAP mode to an external input mode. The receiver has a plane management unit for managing a receiver only plane and a download application plane. The receiver prohibits the emergency alert broadcast from being displayed in the receiver only plane when, under an OCAP mode, a download application takes away an EAS function of the receiver, and then permits the emergency alert broadcast to be displayed in the receiver only plane when the mode is switched from the OCAP mode to an external input mode. | 11-12-2009 |
20100287596 | RECEIVING DEVICE - In a power-on operation of a receiving device that receives digital broadcasting, when PIN information for setting a parental control function of a download application obtained via a network is set, a video output is turned to an off state during a time period before a download application is received from the power-on until a predetermined time elapses, a download application is executed when the download application is received during the time period from the power-on until the predetermined time elapses, and the setting of the PIN information is cancelled when a download application is not received during the time period from the power-on until the predetermined time elapses. | 11-11-2010 |
20110142423 | TELEVISION RECEIVER AND PROGRAM DATA RECEPTION METHOD - Using a remote control, a viewer specifies the channel and the date and time of a program that he/she wants to watch. A reception method selection unit determines, based on the date and time, whether the program is currently being broadcast or was broadcast in the past, and then selects a reception method. An SI information storage unit stores URL information of program distribution servers having past programs. The URL information is contained in the SDT in SI information transmitted together with a program. When the viewer chooses a past program, an IP data reception unit connects to the corresponding program distribution server based on its URL so as to transmit the date and time thereto, and receives the past program that the viewer wants to watch via IP network. | 06-16-2011 |
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20120093225 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD - To interpolate a frame between the current frame and a first delayed frame preceding the current frame, an image processing device generates test interpolation data for the first delayed frame from data in point-symmetric positions in the current frame and in a second delayed frame preceding the first delayed frame. Motion vectors pointing from the first delayed frame to the current frame are found by evaluating different test interpolation data against the actual data of the first delayed frame. These motion vectors are converted to pairs of motion vectors pointing from the first delayed frame and the current frame to the interpolated frame, and these pairs of motion vectors are used to detect occlusion and generate accurate data for the interpolated frame from the data of the first delayed frame and the current frame, excluding occluded data. | 04-19-2012 |
20120099018 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image processing apparatus, in which an interpolation frame is inserted between a current frame and a first delayed frame preceding the current frame by one frame, includes a motion vector detector, a motion vector converter, and an interpolation frame generator; wherein the motion vector detector includes a test interpolator outputting test interpolation data, an interpolation data evaluator evaluating a correlation of each of the test interpolation data with reference to the first-delayed-frame block data, thereby outputting evaluation data indicating results of the evaluating, and a motion vector determiner outputting a motion vector of an item of the evaluation data having highest correlation in the plurality of items of the evaluation data; and the first to third test interpolation data are obtained as the test interpolation data from a plurality of items of the second-delayed-frame block data and a plurality of items of the current-frame block data. | 04-26-2012 |
20120154675 | FRAME INTERPOLATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - To interpolate a frame between a first frame and a second frame in a video signal, a motion-compensated interpolated frame is generated and then corrected responsive to detection of a motion vector boundary. Positions at which an absolute value of a first or second derivative of the motion vectors is not less than a predetermined amount are found to be at a motion vector boundary, and the pixel values of the pixels in an area where boundary pixels are concentrated are corrected. Blocks with at least a predetermined proportion of boundary pixels are found to be in an area where boundary pixels are concentrated. | 06-21-2012 |
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20090170108 | Screening method, a composition comprising substances chosen in the method thereof, and a binding substance - (Problems) The main object of the present invention is to provide a screening method for selecting a substance affecting a bond between thioredoxin and MIF. | 07-02-2009 |
20110319336 | SELECTIVE ANTICANCER CHIMERIC PEPTIDE - It is an object of the present invention to provide a substance usable as an anticancer agent or DDS, which has intracellular stability, which is capable of evading side effects from functional disorder with respect to normal cells, or which has instantaneous effect. The inventors developed a novel chimeric peptide targeting cancer cells which overexpress EGFR or the like using a binding peptide such as a peptide sequence binding to EGFR, and a lytic peptide sequence, thereby solving such an object. Particularly, by using a chimeric peptide including an EGF receptor-binding peptide or the like and a cytotoxic peptide, this object was solved. | 12-29-2011 |
20120003299 | NOVEL HSP90-TARGETED ANTI-CANCER CHIMERIC PEPTIDE - Disclosed is a substance which is not accumulated stably in cells, does not cause the dysfunction of normal cells, and so on, and therefore can be used as an anti-cancer agent or in a DDS without having any adverse side effects. It is found that Hsp90 alone cannot exhibit its function as a chaperone in assisting the refolding of a protein such as survivin, but can exhibit this function when Hop (which is one of the partner proteins of Hsp90) binds to Hsp90. Thus, specifically disclosed herein is a chimeric peptide comprising of an Hsp90 TPR domain binding peptide and a cell-penetrating peptide. | 01-05-2012 |
20130274200 | SELECTIVE ANTICANCER CHIMERIC PEPTIDE - It is an object of the present invention to provide a substance usable as an anticancer agent or DDS, which has intracellular stability, which is capable of evading side effects from functional disorder with respect to normal cells, or which has instantaneous effect. The inventors developed a novel chimeric peptide targeting cancer cells which overexpress EGFR or the like using a binding peptide such as a peptide sequence binding to EGFR, and a lytic peptide sequence, thereby solving such an object. Particularly, by using a chimeric peptide including an EGF receptor-binding peptide or the like and a cytotoxic peptide, this object was solved. | 10-17-2013 |
20130274201 | SELECTIVE ANTICANCER CHIMERIC PEPTIDE - It is an object of the present invention to provide a substance usable as an anticancer agent or DDS, which has intracellular stability, which is capable of evading side effects from functional disorder with respect to normal cells, or which has instantaneous effect. The inventors developed a novel chimeric peptide targeting cancer cells which overexpress EGFR or the like using a binding peptide such as a peptide sequence binding to EGFR, and a lytic peptide sequence, thereby solving such an object. Particularly, by using a chimeric peptide including an EGF receptor-binding peptide or the like and a cytotoxic peptide, this object was solved. | 10-17-2013 |