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20110258367 | MEMORY SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - According to the embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory that includes a plurality of banks capable of operating in parallel, a command analyzing unit that, upon receiving a power management command from a host, analyzes the received power management command, and a recording control unit that dynamically and variably controls an upper limit of the number of banks to be operated in parallel at a time of writing in accordance with an analysis result by the command analyzing unit are included, thereby suppressing the upper limit of a power consumption in accordance with an instruction from the host. | 10-20-2011 |
20110314204 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - According to the embodiments, a first storing unit as a cache, second and third storing units included in a nonvolatile semiconductor memories, and a controller are included, in which the controller includes an organizing unit that increases a resource by organizing data in the nonvolatile semiconductor memories, and an organizing-state notifying unit that, when an organizing-state notification request is input from a host, outputs an organizing state by the organizing unit to the host as an organizing-state notification, thereby improving a command response speed and the writing efficiency. | 12-22-2011 |
20120159016 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND DATA TRANSFER METHOD - According to the embodiment, a memory system includes a first memory which includes a memory cell array and a read buffer, a second memory, a command queue, a command sorting unit, and a data transfer unit. The command sorting unit dequeues commands excluding a later-arrived command whose access range overlaps with an access range of an earlier-arrived command from the command queue. The data transfer unit performs a data preparing process of transferring data that is specified by dequeued read command and is read out from the memory cell array to the read buffer, a first data transfer of outputting the data stored in the read buffer, and a second data transfer of storing data that is specified by dequeued write command in the second memory. The data transfer unit is capable of performing the data preparing process and the second data transfer in parallel. | 06-21-2012 |
20130173852 | MEMORY SYSTEM - According to the embodiments, a memory system includes a plurality of memory chips, I/O signal lines, CE signal lines, and a control unit. The plurality of memory chips is divided to a plurality of first groups. The first plurality of memory chips for each first group is divided to a plurality of second groups. Each of the I/O signal lines is commonly connected to the memory chips for each first group. Each of the CE lines is commonly connected to the memory chips for each second group. The control unit specifies one of the second groups using the CE signal line, and transmits a reset command to one of the I/O signal lines which is connected to the specified second group, at activation. Each of the memory chips belonging to the specified second group executes reset processing at respective timings after receiving the reset command. | 07-04-2013 |
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20120002252 | IMAGE READ DEVICE AND COPIER - An image read device is provided, which conveys an original while performing reading of an image of the original at a read position on a transparent member by a read unit fixed, the image read device including: a moving unit that moves the transparent member back and forth in an original conveying direction; a control unit that conveys the original and moves the transparent member by using the moving unit while causing the reading of the image to be performed at the read position; and a determining unit that, when an event causing interruption of original conveyance occurs, stops the transparent member and determines whether a control of returning the transparent member to a home position is to be performed or not in accordance with a stopped position of the original in an original conveying path. | 01-05-2012 |
20120057212 | Sheet conveying device, original conveying device, sheet scanning device, and image forming apparatus - A sheet conveying device includes: a sheet loading unit; a pick-up roller that draws a sheet from a stack of sheets set on the sheet loading unit; a moving unit that causes the pick-up roller to separate from or press against a top-surface of the sheet; a feeding member; a prevention member that prevents an original from being conveyed by the feeding member; a separation unit that separates and conveys each sheet, which is fed by the pick-up roller, to downstream in a conveying direction; and a detection unit that detects whether the original moves, the detection unit being arranged in a position near the separation unit or in upstream of the separation unit in the conveying direction. At least when the stack of sheets is being set on the sheet loading unit, the detection unit is not in contact with the sheet. | 03-08-2012 |
20120119432 | Sheet conveying apparatus, image reading apparatus, and image forming apparatus - A sheet conveying apparatus includes: a sheet housing unit that houses sheets in a stacked manner; a sheet conveying unit that conveys a sheet to a predetermined conveyance target position; a sheet pick-up unit that picks up outermost one of the sheets housed in the sheet housing unit for conveying to a sheet conveying unit side; a separating and conveying unit that separates the next sheet from the outermost sheet, and conveys only the outermost sheet to the sheet conveying unit; and a sheet-conveyance-movement detecting unit that detects presence or absence of movement of a sheet in the conveying direction. The sheet-conveyance-movement detecting unit is arranged at a position at which the outermost sheet and the next sheet may overlap each other, and a separation portion is located downstream of the pick-up position and is an area where a separation action of the separating and conveying unit works. | 05-17-2012 |
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20090132546 | CONTENT SERVER, CONTENT PROVIDING SYSTEM, CONTENT PROVIDING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - There is provided a content server which stores a content and provides the stored content to a terminal including: a content information storage portion which stores information relating to the content to be provided to the terminal; a terminal history storage portion which stores the history of each of the terminal; a terminal control information generating portion which generates control information to the terminal to which the content is to be provided based on information stored in the content information storage portion and the terminal history storage portion; and a terminal control portion which controls the content to be provided to the terminal based on the information generated by the terminal control information generating portion. | 05-21-2009 |
20090216537 | SPEECH SYNTHESIS APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A speech synthesis apparatus includes a text obtaining device that obtains text data for speech synthesis from the outside, a language processor that carries out morphological analysis/parsing to the text data, a prosodic processor that outputs, to a speech synthesizer, a synthesis unit string based on the prosodic and language related attributes of the text data such as accents and word classes, the speech synthesizer that generates synthesized speech from the synthesis unit string, and a speech waveform output device that reproduces a prescribed amount of output synthesized speech after it is accumulated or sequentially as it is output. | 08-27-2009 |
20110131529 | Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method, Computer Program, and Information Processing Server - An information processing apparatus includes: an output unit outputting at least one of content information suitable for designated input and output and processed content information related to the content information in association therewith from a storage unit storing application IDs uniquely specifying applications, the content information, and the processed content information obtained by processing the content information by the applications in association therewith; and a selection unit selecting the content information or the processed content information output by the output unit and selecting the application ID based on the selected content information or the selected processed content information. | 06-02-2011 |
20120101889 | COUPON SELECTION SUPPORT APPARATUS, COUPON SELECTION SUPPORT SYSTEM, COUPON SELECTION SUPPORT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is a coupon selection support apparatus including: a commercial product information acquisition block configured to acquire commercial product information associated with a commercial product subject to a coupon; a commercial product analysis block configured to analyze a commercial product subject to a coupon; a usage log acquisition block configured to acquire a coupon usage log of each user; a log analysis block configured to analyze a purchase timing of a commercial product purchased by each user in the past; and a selection support block configured to predict a next purchase timing of the commercial product to preferentially present, at the next purchase timing, a coupon for the commercial product and coupons related with the coupon by the commercial product analysis block. | 04-26-2012 |
20120185244 | SPEECH PROCESSING DEVICE, SPEECH PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to one embodiment, in a speech processing device, an extractor windows a part of the speech signal and extracts a partial waveform. A calculator performs frequency analysis of the partial waveform to calculate a frequency spectrum. An estimator generates an artificial waveform that is a waveform according to an interval between the pitch marks for each harmonic component having a frequency that is a predetermined multiple of a fundamental frequency of the speech signal and estimates harmonic spectral features representing characteristics of the frequency spectrum of the harmonic component from each of the artificial waveforms. A separator separates the partial waveform into a periodic component produced from periodic vocal-fold vibration as an acoustic source and an aperiodic component produced from aperiodic acoustic sources other than the vocal-fold vibration by using the respective harmonic spectral features and the frequency spectrum of the partial waveform. | 07-19-2012 |
20120296931 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a setting unit that sets a search character string, a searching unit that searches information including the set search character string, and a determining unit that extracts a co-occurrence character string candidate group other than partial character strings appearing as only a part of other partial character strings, among all partial character strings appearing in a plurality of pieces of the information obtained as a search result, and determines a co-occurrence character string from the co-occurrence character string candidate group, on the basis of the extracted co-occurrence character string candidate group and kinds of characters used in characters before and after the co-occurrence character string candidate group. | 11-22-2012 |
20120330986 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including an evaluation value calculating unit that acquires time-series data of a discrete system including sampling values x | 12-27-2012 |
20130218568 | SPEECH SYNTHESIS DEVICE, SPEECH SYNTHESIS METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a speech synthesis device includes a first storage, a second storage, a first generator, a second generator, a third generator, and a fourth generator. The first storage is configured to store therein first information obtained from a target uttered voice. The second storage is configured to store therein second information obtained from an arbitrary uttered voice. The first generator is configured to generate third information by converting the second information so as to be close to a target voice quality or prosody. The second generator is configured to generate an information set including the first information and the third information. The third generator is configured to generate fourth information used to generate a synthesized speech, based on the information set. The fourth generator configured to generate the synthesized speech corresponding to input text using the fourth information. | 08-22-2013 |
20150046170 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device including a processor configured to achieve a function of registering implicit preference information about a user on the basis of an activity of the user, a function of outputting a question to the user by voice on the basis of the implicit preference information, a function of acquiring an answer to the question from a voice spoken by the user, and a function of registering explicit preference information about the user depending on the answer. | 02-12-2015 |
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20090024665 | Method and apparatus for processing data - A function control unit controls a function of processing data. An output unit outputs status information indicating a status of data processing by the function. A storing unit stores therein function information and next function information. A determining unit determines whether to execute a next function indicated by the next function information corresponding to the function information indicating the function that caused the status of data processing, based on the status of data processing. A requesting unit requests, when it is determined to execute the next function, a function control unit that controls the next function to execute the next function. | 01-22-2009 |
20130038892 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device analyzes a drawing command read from a memory and performs a halftone processing function to image data. In the image processing device, a drawing command analysis unit analyzes a drawing command, a full set of drawing commands is registered in a drawing command table, and an error processing command is stored in an error processing command storing unit. When the drawing command analysis unit detects a command error indicating that a drawing command read from the memory is not registered in the drawing command table, an error processing executing unit executes the error processing command stored in the error processing command storing unit and performs an error processing function. | 02-14-2013 |
20130247049 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD OF STARTING CONTROL APPARATUS - A control apparatus may include a processor configured to execute one or more programs in order to control a control target, and an accepting unit configured to accept a user input. The processor may start a first program to cause the accepting unit to function at a time of starting the control apparatus, and thereafter start a second program for executing a function selected by the user input accepted by the accepting unit, amongst a plurality of functions executable by the control target, with preference over programs for executing other functions. | 09-19-2013 |
20140075176 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus includes a processor that executes an instruction stored in a fixed address area in a storage part; the storage part that stores a first startup program and a second startup program, contents of the second startup program being different at least partially from those of the first startup program; and an address conversion part that, when the processor carries out a predetermined startup different from an ordinary startup that is carried out at a time of starting power supply to the information processing apparatus, converts an address included in a read instruction issued by the processor indicating a storage area that stores the first startup program into an address indicating an other storage area that stores the second startup program, and sends the converted address to the storage part. | 03-13-2014 |
20150058011 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION UPDATING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus recognizes input data as character information formed by character strings each being in a predetermined unit based on information relating to a character string as a recognition target, and performs processing based on the recognized character information. The apparatus includes an input information receiver that receives input information capable of being processed as characters; an input information dividing unit that divides the received input information into character strings each being in a predetermined processing unit; a popularity level calculating unit that calculates a popularity level based on history of an appearance timing of each of the divided character strings, the popularity level indicating information relating to a usage frequency for a predetermined period of time up to a current time for each of the divided character strings; and an updating processor that updates the information relating to the character string based on the calculated popularity level. | 02-26-2015 |
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20120243916 | TUBULAR MEMBER, TUBULAR MEMBER UNIT, INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER MEMBER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A tubular member formed of a polyamide resin layer includes carbon black and a semi-aromatic polyamide resin having at least a repeating unit structure derived from an aromatic dicarboxylic compound and an aliphatic diamine compound with the alkyl carbon number in the range of from 9 to 13. | 09-27-2012 |
20130249139 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING TUBULAR BODY - Provided is a tubular body manufacturing method including preparing a resin composition containing a crystalline thermoplastic resin and molding the tubular body, using an extrusion molding machine that includes a cylindrical portion and a transport member which has a shaft member and a protrusion and is divided into a supply portion, a compressing portion and a measuring portion, by melting, kneading and transporting the resin composition through heating of the heat source and rotation of the transport member, and then extruding the molten resin composition, in which, when ΔTm (° C.) is a difference between a crystalline melt finish temperature and a crystalline melt start temperature of the crystalline thermoplastic resin, D (mm) is a diameter of the transport member, and Lc (mm) is a length of the compressing portion of the transport member, a relationship of following Expression (1) is satisfied: | 09-26-2013 |
20130249148 | SHAPE ADJUSTING MECHANISM FOR EXTRUSION MOLDING MACHINE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CYLINDRICAL MEMBER - A shape adjusting mechanism for an extrusion molding machine includes a shape adjusting member, a blow-in mechanism, and a discharge mechanism. The shape adjusting member comes into contact with an inner circumferential surface of a molten substantially cylindrical resin extruded and transported from a ferrule provided to an extrusion molding machine, and adjusts the shape of the substantially cylindrical resin. The blow-in mechanism blows a gas into the substantially cylindrical resin transported between the ferrule and the shape adjusting member. The discharge mechanism discharges to the outside the gas in the substantially cylindrical resin transported between the ferrule and the shape adjusting member. | 09-26-2013 |
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20100311375 | SAMPLING MIXER, QUADRATURE DEMODULATOR, AND WIRELESS DEVICE - There are provided a sampling mixer, quadrature demodulator, and a wireless device capable of suppressing receiving sensitivity degradation caused by alias components or second-order distortion components. In the sampling mixer ( | 12-09-2010 |
20120001782 | Delta Sigma ADC - A ΔΣADC is provided that is capable of suppressing increase of a circuit scale without losing noise shaping function even when a switching speed of a switch for performing time-division process is lower than a sampling rate of the ΔΣADC. For a code values provided by a comparator ( | 01-05-2012 |
20120002768 | DISTORTION-CORRECTING RECEIVER AND DISTORTION CORRECTION METHOD - Disclosed are a distortion-correcting receiver and a distortion correction method capable of precisely cancelling inter-modulation secondary distortion even when an input signal is markedly band-limited in a reception processing unit. In the distortion-correcting receiver ( | 01-05-2012 |
20120002770 | SECOND-ORDER DISTORTION CORRECTING RECEIVER AND SECOND-ORDER DISTORTION CORRECTING METHOD - A second-order distortion correcting receiver and a second-order distortion correcting method, wherein second-order inter-modulation distortion can be cancelled with high precision and with a simple circuit configuration, without requiring a complicated adjustment step. A non-linear active element unit ( | 01-05-2012 |
20120086504 | NONLINEAR DISTORTION COMPENSATING RECEIVER AND NONLINEAR DISTORTION COMPENSATION METHOD - Disclosed are a nonlinear distortion compensating receiver and nonlinear distortion compensation method, wherein nonlinear distortion is reduced with a simple circuit configuration. A correction (opposite characteristics) filter ( | 04-12-2012 |
20120230452 | WIRELESS RECEIVING APPARATUS - Disclosed is a wireless receiving apparatus, whereby inter-antenna interference can be reduced without inducing an increase of a mounting area due to an increase of the number of antennas, and the number of RFIC input terminals, circuit scale and power consumption can be reduced. In the wireless receiving apparatus ( | 09-13-2012 |
20130099828 | DIRECT SAMPLING CIRCUIT - Provided is a direct sampling circuit in which signal mixing between systems is avoided, even when signal systems in which time sharing is integrated are used together by time sharing. History capacitors ( | 04-25-2013 |
20130127529 | AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL DEVICE - A first frequency converter generates an I-system baseband signal based on a high-frequency received signal and a first local signal with a predetermined frequency band. A second frequency converter generates a Q-system baseband signal based on a high-frequency received signal and a second local signal 90° out of phase with the first local signal. First and second AD converters convert respective amplified I-system and Q-system baseband signals to digital data. First and second over-range detecters detect the over-range of the first and the second CAD converters. An automatic gain controller selects the gain based on the detection information of the over-range and the respective I-system and Q-system baseband signals. An offset setter gives a predetermined offset to the selected gain, and sets a gain after the offset with respect to the first or the second variable amplifier. | 05-23-2013 |
20130136118 | TIME DIVISION RECEIVER AND TIME DIVISION RECEIVING METHOD - Provided are a time division receiver and a time division receiving method capable of mitigating leaks between branches for a time division multiplexed signal for which a plurality of branches have been time-division multiplexed even when processing using a single high-frequency circuit. In a time division receiver ( | 05-30-2013 |
20130142294 | WIRELESS DEVICE AND RECEIVING METHOD - The purpose of the present invention is to shorten a time required to perform Auto Gain Control (AGC) processing in a wireless device that can be applied to a plurality of wireless systems. On the basis of a first gain adjusted by means of a gain control unit ( | 06-06-2013 |
20130157589 | TRANSMISSION-RECEPTION DEVICE - A transmission-reception device includes a radio frequency section that performs a frequency conversion on a signal which is modulated using a single carrier transmission system, a correction coefficient multiplier that multiplies a frequency domain signal by a distortion correction coefficient in the frequency conversion of the radio frequency section to correct a distortion, a first transformer that converts a time domain signal into a frequency domain signal at a time of reception, and converts the frequency domain signal which is distortion-corrected by the correction coefficient multiplier into a time domain signal at a time of transmission, and a second transformer that converts a time domain signal into a frequency domain signal at a time of transmission, and converts the frequency domain signal which is distortion-corrected by the correction coefficient multiplier into a time domain signal at a time of reception. | 06-20-2013 |
20130288398 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING TUNNELING MAGNETORESISTIVE ELEMENT - [Object] To provide a method of manufacturing a perpendicular magnetization-type magnetic element, which does not need a step of depositing MgO. | 10-31-2013 |
20130329832 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A transmission RF section ( | 12-12-2013 |
20140064264 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A WiGig wireless device partially performs a masking processing on a preamble of a transmission signal frame and generates a repetition pattern of the same pulse capable of being used in a correlation detection of a sensor. That is, a repetition pattern of a Golay code is output by intermittently performing the masking processing on the Golay code sequence. The sensor performs the correlation detection using a pulse compression technology, thereby detecting the antenna radiation pattern even in an environment where a reflected wave is generated, by separating the direct wave and the reflected wave. | 03-06-2014 |
20140085127 | RADAR DEVICE - A radar transmitting unit Tx transmits a radio-frequency radar transmission signal from a transmission antenna which is inclined in the direction of a depression angle φ. A radar receiving unit Rx estimates the height and speed of a vehicle which travels on a road surface using a reflected wave signal from the vehicle. A template generating unit generates a variation in a phase component of the reflected wave signal corresponding to N heights and speeds of the vehicle as N templates. N vehicle height/speed template correlation calculation units # | 03-27-2014 |
20140111367 | RADAR APPARATUS - A pulse transmission controller generates transmission timing signals for a high-frequency radar transmission signal in every transmission cycle. A transmission phase shifter gives a transmission signal generated by a modulator phase shifts each corresponding to a transmission cycle on the basis of the transmission timing signals generated at intervals that are equal to the transmission cycle. A reception phase shifter gives a reception signal that is output from an A/D converter reception phase shifts that are opposite in direction to the respective transmission phase shifts given by the transmission phase shifter on the basis of the transmission timing signals generated at intervals that are equal to the transmission cycle. | 04-24-2014 |
20140192923 | PHASED ARRAY TRANSMISSION DEVICE - Transmission outputs of a plurality of transmission branches ( | 07-10-2014 |
20150048967 | RADAR SYSTEM - Respective sector radars generate first and second transmission signals by multiplying any one Spano code sequence and any one orthogonal code sequence, selected among 2 | 02-19-2015 |
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20110008723 | TONER COLORANT, ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC TONER, TWO-COMPONENT DEVELOPER, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - An electrophotographic toner which is produced by a pulverization method or generated in an aqueous medium, and which includes at least a colorant and a binder reasin, wherein the colorant includes at least a pigment represented by General Formula (1) described below and a fatty acid amide compound, | 01-13-2011 |
20110177447 | TONER, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND DEVELOPER - The present invention provides a toner containing base particles formed by emulsifying or dispersing, in an aqueous medium, a toner composition liquid which is obtained by dissolving or dispersing, in an organic solvent, at least a binder resin soluble in the organic solvent and a colorant masterbatch containing a colorant and a colorant dispersion resin, wherein the colorant dispersion resin is a resin having sparing solubility defined below: where the “sparing solubility” means that when 4 parts by mass of the colorant dispersion resin are added to and mixed with 10 parts by mass of the organic solvent, the mixture becomes white turbid at 25° C. or becomes a transparent solution once at 25° C. and then becomes white turbid within 12 hours. | 07-21-2011 |
20120082926 | TONER, TONER SET, DEVELOPER, DEVELOPER SET, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - A toner comprising an amorphous polyester, a crystalline polyester that is forming domains in the toner, and a colorant that is being dispersed at least in the domains of the crystalline polyester. The toner may be obtained by dispersing an oil phase including the amorphous polyester or a precursor capable of producing the amorphous polyester, the crystalline polyester, the colorant, and an organic solvent, in an aqueous medium to prepare an O/W dispersion, the oil phase; and removing the organic solvent from the O/W dispersion. | 04-05-2012 |
20120202147 | ANISOTROPIC MAGNETIC MATERIAL-DISPERSED RESIN CARRIER, ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC DEVELOPER, AND DEVELOPING DEVICE - An anisotropic magnetic material-dispersed resin carrier including: fine magnetic particles; and a binder resin in which at least the fine magnetic particles are dispersed, wherein the anisotropic magnetic material-dispersed resin carrier has a magnetic anisotropy where magnetic fields of the fine magnetic particles are orientated in the same direction, and wherein the anisotropic magnetic material-dispersed resin carrier has a saturation magnetization of 16 emu/g to 30 emu/g, a coercive force of 15 kA/m to 40 kA/m, and a number average particle diameter of 15 μm or more but less than 100 μm. | 08-09-2012 |
20120288791 | TONER, DEVELOPER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - In accordance with some embodiments, a toner including a first binder resin, a release agent, a release agent dispersing resin, and a colorant is provided. The first binder resin includes an amorphous polyester resin (a) having a polyhydroxycarboxylic acid skeleton in its main chain. The polyhydroxycarboxylic acid skeleton comprises optically-active monomers having an optical purity X of 80% by mole or less. The optical purity X is represented by the following formula: | 11-15-2012 |
20130017480 | TONER SET FOR ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND APPARATUSAANM SUZUKI; KazumiAACI ShizuokaAACO JPAAGP SUZUKI; Kazumi Shizuoka JPAANM MORITA; TatsuyaAACI KanagawaAACO JPAAGP MORITA; Tatsuya Kanagawa JPAANM SAKASHITA; ShingoAACI ShizuokaAACO JPAAGP SAKASHITA; Shingo Shizuoka JP - A toner set for electrophotography, including a black toner; a yellow toner; a magenta toner; a cyan toner; and a bright yellow toner, wherein the magenta toner includes a magenta colorant mainly including C.I. Pigment Red 122, the yellow toner has a hue angle of from 93 to 100° and the bright yellow toner has a hue angle of from 60 to 85° in L*a*b* color system. | 01-17-2013 |
20130157183 | DEVELOPER FOR ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - A developer, including a toner including a binder resin comprising a crystalline resin; and a colorant, and a resin carrier comprising a resin; a magnetic particulate material having a magnetic anisotropy, dispersed in the resin, and having a saturated magnetization of from 16 to 30 emu/g, a coercive force of from 15 to 40 kA/m and an average particle diameter not less than 15 μm and less than 100 μm. | 06-20-2013 |
20130236826 | TONER FOR ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY, DEVELOPER AND METHOD OF PREPARING THE TONER - A toner for electrophotography, which is prepared by a method including dissolving or dispersing a toner composition including at least a binder resin, or binder resin and a binder resin precursor as a resin component; and a colorant in an organic solvent to form an oil phase; emulsifying or dispersing the oil phase in an aqueous medium to form an emulsion dispersion comprising emulsified particles; converging the emulsified particles to granulate mother toner particles, including controlling a temperature of the emulsion dispersion to control a circularity of the mother toner particles; and removing the organic solvent, wherein the resin component includes a crystalline resin in an amount not less than 50% by weight, and the mother toner particles have an average circularity of from 0.940 to 0.980. | 09-12-2013 |
20130330522 | WHITE TONER, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND DEVELOPMENT AGENT, RECORDING MEDIUM, PRINTED MATTER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - White toner contains a binder resin, a white pigment, and a releasing agent, wherein the white pigment is coated with the releasing agent and dispersed in the binder resin. | 12-12-2013 |
20140051019 | TONER, DEVELOPMENT AGENT, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - Toner contains a binder resin containing a crystalline resin having a urethane and/or urea bonding; and a colorant, wherein in a diffraction spectrum of the toner as measured by an X-ray diffraction instrument, a ratio {C/(C+A)} of an integral intensity C of the spectrum derived from the crystalline structure to an integral intensity A of the spectrum derived from the non-crystalline structure is 0.12 or greater, wherein the toner satisfies the following relation 1: T1−T2≦30° C. (Relation 1), where T1 represents the maximum endothermic peak in the first temperature rising from 0° C. to 100° C. at the temperature rising rate of 10° C./min and T2 represents the maximum exothermic peak in the first temperature falling from 100° C. to 0° C. at the temperature falling rate of 10° C./min as T1 and T2 are measured by diffraction scanning calorimetry (DSC). | 02-20-2014 |
20140080047 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC TONER, TWO-COMPONENT DEVELOPER CONTAINING TONER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - To provide an electrophotographic toner, which contains a crystalline resin, a non-crystalline resin, a colorant, and a releasing agent, wherein the toner has a storage elastic modulus of 5.0×10 | 03-20-2014 |
20140080051 | TONER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING TONER - To provide a toner (X), which contains toner particles, each toner particle contains: a core phase (Q) containing a crystalline resin (A); and a shell phase (S) provided on a surface of the core phase (Q), where the shell phase (S) contains a crystalline polyurethane resin (B), wherein maximum peak temperature (Ta) of heat of melting of the crystalline resin (A) is 40° C. to 70° C., and maximum peak temperature (Tu) of heat of melting of the crystalline polyurethane resin (B) is 50° C. to 90° C. | 03-20-2014 |
20140213754 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING POLYMER, AND POLYMER PRODUCT - To provide a method for producing a polymer, which contains: bringing an intermediate polymer, which has been obtained through ring-opening polymerization of a ring-opening polymerizable monomer, into contact with, and melting the intermediate polymer in a compressive fluid having a density of 230 kg/m | 07-31-2014 |
20150037718 | TONER, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE TONER, TWO-COMPONENT DEVELOPER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner, including: a crystalline resin; a non-crystalline resin; and a colorant, wherein the toner has a sea-island structure which includes a sea containing the crystalline resin and an island containing the non-crystalline resin and the colorant, wherein the island is 1.0 μm or less in domain diameter, and wherein the toner is 1.7×10 | 02-05-2015 |
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20090172579 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, CONTENT TRANSFER SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information processing device is provided that performs content transfer with a content recording device on which is stored content that has content identification information identifying the content. The information processing device includes: an identification information acquisition portion that acquires, from the content recording device, the content identification information for the content recorded in the content recording device; a display control portion that groups a list of the content identification information acquired by the identification information acquisition portion for each of a content type acquired from the content identification information and displays the list; and a sort control portion that sorts, for each of the content types, the list of the content identification information displayed by the display control portion, based on the content attribute information acquired from the content identification information. | 07-02-2009 |
20090187578 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information processing device is provided that performs content transfer with a content storage device on which is stored content that has content identification information, the information processing device including: a storage portion that stores content that has content identification information and records at least one of a first attribute and a second attribute that correspond to the content identification information for each of the content; a content extractor that extracts, from among the content stored in the storage portion, the content for transfer to the content storage device; and a transmission portion that transmits the content extracted by the content extractor to the content storage device in an order that is based on the first attribute and the second attribute, while giving priority to the first attribute. | 07-23-2009 |
20100088275 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program, information providing apparatus, information providing method, information providing program and information processing system - An information processing apparatus acquires and transmits content identification information stored in the storage unit to the other apparatus, determines whether the information processing apparatus has received the content analysis results from the other apparatus and if it is determined that the content analysis result acquisition unit has received the content analysis results from the other apparatus, causes the storage unit to store the content analysis results and if it is determined that the information processing apparatus has not received the content analysis results from the other apparatus, perform processing to obtain content analysis results by analyzing the content data stored in the storage unit to cause the storage unit to store the content analysis results by associating with the content data stored in the storage unit and also perform processing to transmit the content analysis results to the other apparatus. | 04-08-2010 |
20100272415 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - In an information processor having a function to check out a content to a portable device such as a portable disc player, a content is recorded to a content data base under the control of a content management program, and it is set under the control of a display/operation instruction program whether the recorded content has to be checked out to the portable device. If a content is recorded in case it has been set that the content has to be checked out, the content having been recorded in the content data base is checked out to the portable device. | 10-28-2010 |
20100275127 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHOD OF CONTENT EXCHANGE - An information processor such as a personal computer is provided. A terminal is operably linked to the information processor to check out or to check in content to/from the terminal. A device driver detects that a portable device is connected to the information processor and when the device driver detects that the portable device is connected to the information processor, a start-up program reads contents-related data from the portable device and starts up a display/operation instruction program to provide a display corresponding to the data accessed from the terminal. | 10-28-2010 |
20110072057 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - In an information processor which records many contents or has many contents already recorded therein, and can generate an arbitrary combination of the contents, a weight is computed for each of the contents based on either data stored in a history data file ( | 03-24-2011 |
20130144982 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHOD OF CONTENT EXCHANGE - A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium is provided for storing computer program instructions that cause a computer to implement a method of exchanging content. The method includes connecting to an information processing apparatus, and transferring a ID of the computer to the information processing apparatus when a connection to the information processing apparatus is detected. The method further includes storing content and data related to the content transmitted from the information processing apparatus, transferring the data corresponding to the content stored in the computer, and reproducing the stored content. The content is automatically transferred to the computer when the computer is judged to be a predetermined device. | 06-06-2013 |
20140012946 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An apparatus and method allowing for high-quality data acquisition and playback processing based on content information transmitted from a server to a client are provided. Property information constituting meta-information corresponding to content-associated attribute information stores data-scheme information on original content held by the server, such as file format information, codec information representing an encoded-data scheme, and reformation information. In response to a content information acquisition request from the client, content information including the data-scheme information on the original content is generated and is transmitted to the client. This structure allows the client to output a content transmission request in which the optimum data scheme is determined based on the data scheme of the original content. Therefore, high-quality data acquisition and playback can be achieved. | 01-09-2014 |
20140079373 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - In an information processor having a function to check out a content to a portable device such as a portable disc player, a content is recorded to a content data base under the control of a content management program, and it is set under the control of a display/operation instruction program whether the recorded content has to be checked out to the portable device. If a content is recorded in case it has been set that the content has to be checked out, the content having been recorded in the content data base is checked out to the portable device. | 03-20-2014 |
20140149420 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR THE SAME - An information processing device includes: a storage unit; a first display control unit; and a demanding unit. The storage unit that stores attribute data representing specified attribute of contents and category data representing a category of the attribute correlated to each other. The first display control unit that provides controls for displaying information for a selected attribute and for displaying, in a categorized state, information for related attributes correlated to the same category as that of the attribute on a correlation display screen. The demanding unit that demands data search by referring to the correlated attribute selected corresponding to information selected from among those displayed on the correlation display screen to an information provision device. | 05-29-2014 |
20140195522 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, CONTENT TRANSFER SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information processing device is provided that performs content transfer with a content recording device on which is stored content that has content identification information identifying the content. The information processing device includes: an identification information acquisition portion that acquires, from the content recording device, the content identification information for the content recorded in the content recording device; a display control portion that groups a list of the content identification information acquired by the identification information acquisition portion for each of a content type acquired from the content identification information and displays the list; and a sort control portion that sorts, for each of the content types, the list of the content identification information displayed by the display control portion, based on the content attribute information acquired from the content identification information. | 07-10-2014 |
20140214849 | CORRELATING CATEGORIES OF ATTRIBUTES OF CONTENTS WITH CLASSIFICATION ELEMENTS - An information processing apparatus that performs processing for editing information on contents includes: an acquisition means for acquiring attribute data classification information in which a plurality of attribute data indicating predetermined attributes of contents is correlated with category data indicating categories for classifying the plurality of attributes; a selection means for selecting predetermined attribute data from the attribute data included in the attribute data classification information acquired by the acquisition means; and a correlation means for newly correlating the attribute data selected by the selection means with category data other than the category data, which is correlated in the attribute data classification information acquired by the acquisition means, in response to a user's instruction. | 07-31-2014 |
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20100164480 | VOLTAGE DETECTION DEVICE AND VOLTAGE DETECTION METHOD - A voltage detection device that is connected to a DC circuit to which a DC voltage is applied and that detects the DC voltage applied to the DC circuit comprises a voltage conversion means for outputting a first voltage that increases as the DC voltage increases and a second voltage that decreases as the DC voltage increases, a voltage calculation means for inputting the first voltage and the second voltage outputted from the voltage conversion means and calculating the DC voltage based upon a difference between the inputted first voltage and the inputted second voltage, and a first failure judgment means for judging that failure has occurred if at least one of the first voltage and the second voltage is not inputted to the voltage calculation means. | 07-01-2010 |
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20120025844 | CONNECTION DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS FOR GROUND FAULT DETECTOR - A connection diagnostic apparatus for a ground fault detector including an oscillator connected via a coupling capacitor to an electric circuit with a first connection line and a second connection line, and a voltage detector for detecting a voltage value between the oscillator and the coupling capacitor is provided with a first relay and a second relay provided in the first connection line and the second connection line, and a programmable controller. The programmable controller determines a connected state of the ground fault detector based on a change amount of a voltage value detected by the voltage detector when the first relay is turned on or off and determines the connected state of the ground fault detector based on a change amount of a voltage value detected by the voltage detector when the second relay is turned on or off. | 02-02-2012 |
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20140140729 | DRIVING FORCE TRANSMISSION UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A driving force transmission unit includes on a driving force transmission path a first driving rotary body with a plurality of first contact portions, a first driven rotary body with a plurality of first contact targets, a second driving rotary body with a plurality of second contact portions, and a second driven rotary body with a plurality of second contact targets. Each of the plurality of the first contact portions and each of the plurality of the first contact targets are disposed such that peaks of periodical shock generated as a first connecting portion defined by one of the first contact portions contacting one of the first contact targets changes from one to another do not overlap with peaks of periodical shock generated as a second connecting portion defined by one of the second contact portions contacting one of the second contact targets changes from one to another. | 05-22-2014 |
20150043928 | ABNORMALITY MONITORING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An abnormality monitoring system includes: an electronic component that outputs a lock signal of “High” when the electronic component stops functioning and outputs a lock signal of “Low” when the electronic component functions; a signal device that supplies power to the electronic component and outputs an ON operation signal instructing the electronic component to function and an OFF operation signal instructing the electronic component to stop functioning; a harness member that connects the electronic component and the signal device and transmits and receives a signal; and a monitor device that determines abnormality of the electronic component when the operation signal is ON and the lock signal is “Low”, and determines abnormality of the harness member when the operation signal is OFF and the lock signal is “Low”. | 02-12-2015 |
20150050080 | DRIVING FORCE TRANSMISSION UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A driving force transmission unit includes a first coupling, a second coupling, and a first rotary shaft. The first coupling includes a first contact portion and a hole, the inner circumferential surface of which has a rounded rectangular shape in cross section including a circular arc portion. The second coupling includes a second contact portion disposed at a position facing the first contact portion to contact the first contact portion along a direction of rotation of the second coupling. The first rotary shaft is connected to the first coupling and includes a shaft portion, an outer circumferential surface which has a rounded rectangular shape in cross section including a circular arc portion inserted into the hole of the first coupling. | 02-19-2015 |