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20090186623 | Base Station Device And Cell Forming Method - A base station device includes a plurality of directional antennas, a power control unit and a frequency management unit. The cell is formed with layers of a base cell having a cell border with a cell formed by a neighboring base station device and including a plurality of sector cells and a small-cell having a cell radius smaller than a cell radius of the base cell and including at least four sector cells by the plurality of directional antennas and the power control unit. The frequency management unit manages frequency bands so that different frequency bands are allocated to the sector cells of the base cell, and a frequency band, which is different from the frequency bands allocated to the base cell and different between neighboring sector cells but the same between at least two sector cells, is allocated to each of the sector cells of the small-cell. | 07-23-2009 |
20100027489 | FREQUENCY ALLOCATION METHOD IN WIRELESS BASE STATION APPARATUS AND WIRELESS BASE STATION APPARATUS - A frequency allocation method in a base station communicating wirelessly with a terminal, for dividing a cell into six areas in a clockwise direction, and allocating a frequency to each of the divided sectors, including: dividing the cell into an outer circle and an inner circle; allocating to a first terminal positioned in the outer circle of the sector, a frequency different from a frequency allocated to a second terminal positioned in an adjacent sector of the same cell, and the frequency different from a frequency allocated to a third terminal positioned in the outer circle of an adjacent sector of the adjacent cell; and allocating the frequency allocated to the first terminal to fourth and fifth terminal positioned in the inner circle of two sectors respectively arranged two sectors away from the sector in which the first terminal is positioned. | 02-04-2010 |
20100067471 | Base Station And Method Used In Mobile Communications System - A base station belongs to one of plural cells using a same portion of a system bandwidth including a part that determines which of user apparatuses existing in a service area should be assigned one or more resource block units, the resource block unit having predetermined bandwidth and time period and being identified by a shared resource number shared by the cells; a part that grades the user apparatuses based on their wireless transmission statuses and determines ranking numbers corresponding to the user apparatuses; a part that generates assignment information indicating which of the user apparatuses should be assigned to which of the resource block units according to a predetermined corresponding relationship between the shared resource number and the ranking number; and a part that reports the assignment information to the user apparatuses. The predetermined corresponding relationship is determined to be different among the cells using the same frequency bandwidth. | 03-18-2010 |
20100135260 | Resource Allocation Method In Wireless Base Station Device, And Wireless Base Station Device - A wireless resource allocation method, including classifying a plurality of wireless terminal devices into a first group and a second group according to wireless communication quality; and performing allocation, such that transmission time period allocated to wireless terminal device having the best wireless communication quality from among the wireless terminal devices belonging to the first group, and transmission time period allocated to the wireless terminal device having the best wireless communication quality from among the wireless terminal devices belonging to the second group, are temporally in closest proximity or overlap. | 06-03-2010 |
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20080263222 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, ROOT NODE, AND LOG MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR ACCESS PATH CONVERSION - A computer system including a storage system, a host computer system, a path configuration unit that associates a local path with a global path, an access path conversion unit that converts a global path into a local path associated, by the path configuration unit, with the global path used in the file access, and forwards the converted file access to the storage system, an access log reception unit that receives an access log from the storage system, an access log conversion unit that converts the local path used in the access log received by the access log reception unit, into a global path associated, by the path configuration unit, with the local path used in the received access log, and an access log display unit that displays the converted access log. | 10-23-2008 |
20090150628 | Backup apparatus, backup method, and file reading apparatus - Proposed are a backup apparatus and a backup method capable of improving the backup performance, as well as a file reading apparatus capable of improving the file reading performance. As a result of determining a read sequence upon reading the respective files from a disk device based on a physical address of the respective storage areas storing data of each of the files in the disk device, and sequentially reading data of each of the files from the disk device according to the determined read sequence, overhead such as the head seek and rotational delay in the disk device upon reading a plurality of files from such disk device can be dramatically reduced. | 06-11-2009 |
20090193272 | Storage system and power consumption reduction method for the same - In a storage system that includes two or more file servers each including an arbitrary number of operating virtual file servers, a management server: holds a load information table regarding a load on each virtual file server for each time period and redundancy information table for the storage system; judges, with reference to the load information table and redundancy information table, whether or not the loads on the virtual file servers can be handled by a smaller number of file servers than the number of currently-operating file servers; selects, if the judgment result is positive, a power-off target file server and makes another file server fail over a virtual file server in the power-off target file server; and turns off the power-off target file server. | 07-30-2009 |
20100030825 | File Management System and Method - A proposal is made of a file management system and method capable of reliably deleting unnecessary data. In a file management console and method for reading or writing data of a file from or in a first volume, which is provided by a storage device, in response to a request sent from a host computer, one snapshot or multiple snapshots that relate to the first volume and can be updated are created. In response to an externally issued designated file deletion command, a designated file is deleted from all of the first volume and snapshots or part thereof specified in the deletion command. At this time, the data items of the designated file in the first volume and/or snapshots from which the designated file should be deleted are overwritten with invalid data. Moreover, pieces of management information on the designated file are changed to a reference-disabled state. | 02-04-2010 |
20100211620 | Storage system, volume management method, and management computer - A storage system for optimizing volume capacity among file management computers of sharing a storage apparatus is provided. A capacity management computer acquires statistical information such as access history information from the file management computers and the storage apparatus. The capacity management computer executes a capacity optimizing process for the storage apparatus in association with a specified date. The capacity management computer calculates optimized capacity for the respective file systems based on the statistical information by redistributing available capacity of volumes according to a predetermined standard such as a capacity consuming speed. Further, the capacity management computer instructs the file management computers and the storage apparatus to optimize a size of the file systems and the capacity of the volumes, respectively. | 08-19-2010 |
20110307729 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND POWER CONSUMPTION REDUCTION METHOD FOR THE SAME - In a storage system that includes two or more file servers each including an arbitrary number of operating virtual file servers, a management server: holds a load information table regarding a load on each virtual file server for each time period and redundancy information table for the storage system; judges, with reference to the load information table and redundancy information table, whether or not the loads on the virtual file servers can be handled by a smaller number of file servers than the number of currently-operating file servers; selects, if the judgment result is positive, a power-off target file server and makes another file server fail over a virtual file server in the power-off target file server; and turns off the power-off target file server. | 12-15-2011 |
20130091562 | COMPUTER - It is an object of the present invention to provide a technique for managing, in a file system that stores past images of a data file, access right to the past images. | 04-11-2013 |
20130124674 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND DATA MIGRATION METHOD - Proposed are a computer system and a data migration method which enable an improved response performance to a data access request from the user. | 05-16-2013 |
20130290248 | FILE STORAGE SYSTEM AND FILE CLONING METHOD - A file storage performs control to create a virtual parent file having an identifier capable of uniquely identifying a parent file among storage systems and volumes, and to acquire block layout information of the parent file using said identifier. The file storage creates a virtual parent file in the volume in which the clone file is created, and sets the file as a virtual parent file of the clone file so as to enable creation of a clone file of a parent file that exists in a different volume or a different storage system. Moreover, by combining creating the virtual parent file and switching the identifier of the parent file which is pointed by the virtual parent file, migration of clone files and parent files astride storage systems and volumes is enabled. | 10-31-2013 |
20130346688 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING I/O WITH RESPECT TO STORAGE APPARATUS - An aspect of this invention is a computer system, including: a storage apparatus for allocating real storage areas of a plurality of tiers of a tiered real storage area pool to a volume, and migrating and relocating data within the volume between the plurality of tiers; and a host apparatus that accesses the volume provided by the storage apparatus. The host apparatus is configured to refer to tier information including information on a corresponding one of the plurality of tiers to which an access destination address within the volume belongs to identify the corresponding one of the plurality of tiers to which the access destination address belongs and refer to settings predetermined for the plurality of tiers to perform I/O control for the access destination address based on settings of the identified corresponding one of the plurality of tiers. | 12-26-2013 |
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20090309424 | LOAD DRIVING CIRCUIT AND LOAD DRIVING METHOD - A load driving circuit that generates a desired voltage waveform to drive a load includes a target voltage waveform output section that outputs a target voltage waveform to be applied to the load. Power supply sections generate electrical power with voltage values different from each other. Negative feedback control sections between the power supply sections and the load supply electrical power from the corresponding power supply sections to the load and execute negative feedback control of a value of a voltage applied to the load for matching the voltage value and the target voltage waveform. A power supply connection section selects one of the power supply sections based on the value of the voltage applied to the load or the voltage value of the target voltage waveform and connects the selected power supply section to the load and disconnects the rest of the power supply sections from the load. | 12-17-2009 |
20100082053 | FLUID EJECTION DEVICE, FLUID EJECTION METHOD AND FLUID EJECTION SURGICAL INSTRUMENT - A fluid ejection device includes: a fluid chamber into which fluid flows; a volume varying unit that varies the volume of the fluid chamber; an inlet fluid channel and an outlet fluid channel intercommunicating with the fluid chamber; a fluid ejection port that ejects fluid flowing out from the outlet fluid channel; a fluid supply unit that supplies fluid into the inlet fluid channel; a controller that controls the variation of the volume of the fluid chamber by the volume varying unit; and a color detector that detects color of a fluid ejection target area facing the fluid ejection port, wherein the controller controls the variation of the volume of the fluid chamber by the volume varying unit in accordance with the color detected by the color detecting unit. | 04-01-2010 |
20110298291 | LOAD DRIVING CIRCUIT AND LOAD DRIVING METHOD - A load driving circuit that generates a desired voltage waveform to drive a load includes a target voltage waveform output section that outputs a target voltage waveform to be applied to the load. Power supply sections generate electrical power with voltage values different from each other. Negative feedback control sections between the power supply sections and the load supply electrical power from the corresponding power supply sections to the load and execute negative feedback control of a value of a voltage applied to the load for matching the voltage value and the target voltage waveform. A power supply connection section selects one of the power supply sections based on the value of the voltage applied to the load or the voltage value of the target voltage waveform and connects the selected power supply section to the load and disconnects the rest of the power supply sections from the load. | 12-08-2011 |
20140161291 | DRIVE CONTROL METHOD OF ELECTROSTATIC-TYPE ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER, ELECTROSTATIC-TYPE ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER, ULTRASONIC SPEAKER USING ELECTROSTATIC-TYPE ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER, AUDIO SIGNAL REPRODUCING METHOD, SUPERDIRECTIONAL ACOUSTIC SYSTEM, AND DISPLAY - A push-pull-type electrostatic-type ultrasonic transducer includes a first electrode having through holes, a second electrode having through holes each of which is paired with the corresponding through hole of the first electrode, and an oscillation film sandwiched between a pair of the first and second electrodes and having a conductive layer to which direct current bias voltage is applied. When a wavelength obtained from a resonance frequency at a mechanical oscillation resonance point of the oscillation film is λ, a thickness t of the respective fixed electrodes is (λ/4)·n or substantially (λ/4)·n (where λ: wavelength of ultrasonic wave, n: positive odd number). AC signals as modulation waves produced by modulating carrier waves in an ultrasonic frequency band by signal waves in an audio frequency band are applied between a pair of the electrodes. | 06-12-2014 |
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20100099646 | W/O/W EMULSION COMPOSITION - A W/O/W emulsion composition having high emulsion stability, which can be prepared extremely easily and for which the production efficiency of the W/O/W emulsion product is favorable, and a method of producing such a W/O/W emulsion composition. The W/O/W emulsion composition of the present invention includes 0.001 to 60% by mass of a component (A) described below and 0.001 to 10% by mass of a component (B) described below; wherein, a mass ratio between the component (A) and the component (B) is within a range from 1:0.01 to 1:1.4. Component (A): a sugar fatty acid ester composition obtained by esterifying a sugar and a fatty acid of 8 to 28 carbon atoms, in which a hydroxyl value of said sugar fatty acid ester composition is within a range from 20 to 220. Component (B): a nonionic surfactant having an HLB value of not less than 7. | 04-22-2010 |
20120156271 | COMPOSITION FOR COSMETICS, COSMETIC, METHOD FOR PRODUCING OIL-IN-WATER EMULSION COSMETIC, AND TWO SEPARATE LAYER-TYPE COSMETIC - The present invention relates to a composition for cosmetics including a polyglycerol fatty acid ester, which is an ester of polyglycerol having an average degree of polymerization of 4 to 100 with a fatty acid having 2 to 18 carbon atoms, has a hydroxyl value equal to or less than 15 mgKOH/g, and has a specific gravity at 20° C. of 0.96 to 1.15; a cosmetic which includes the composition for cosmetics; a method for producing an oil-in-water emulsion cosmetic which includes mixing the composition for cosmetics with a hydrophilic solvent and emulsifying; and a two-separate-layer-type cosmetic, which comprises the composition for cosmetics with water, packaged in a transparent or translucent container. The present invention relates to the composition for cosmetics which can be appropriately used in producing a cosmetic giving a highly excellent feel in using and having a very good texture, a cosmetic showing a very high stability over time as an emulsion even though having a low viscosity, and a two-separate-layer-type cosmetic which can be easily dispersed uniformly by lightly shaking before using and, after using, easily separated into the original two layers, including an oily layer and an aqueous layer, and remain stable. | 06-21-2012 |
20130005808 | VASELINE-LIKE COMPOSITION AND COSMETIC - The present invention relates to a vaseline-like composition, comprising one type or two or more types of components selected from the following components (C), (D) and (E) at 5% by weight to 20% by weight, the following component (A) at 40% by weight to 90% by weight, and the following component (B) at 5% by weight to 50% by weight, and to a cosmetic containing the vaseline-like composition: component (A): one or more types of ester compounds selected from diisostearyl malate and diglyceryl triisostearate; component (B): a hydrocarbon wax having a melting point of 70° C. to 130° C.; component (C): a poly(12-hydroxystearic acid) having an average degree of polymerization of 3 to 20; component (D): a poly(12-hydroxystearic acid) derivative obtained by esterifying a poly(12-hydroxystearic acid) having an average degree of polymerization of 3 to 20 and a polyvalent alcohol having a valence of 5 or more; and, component (E): a dimer dilinoleic acid derivative. | 01-03-2013 |
20130029932 | COMPOSITION FOR EXTERNAL USE ON SKIN, COSMETIC, AND CLEANING AGENT - A composition for external use on skin that can be spread evenly on the skin, does not produce a liquid residue as a result of temperature change, and can suppress a feeling of sliminess of xanthan gum is provided. There are provided a composition for external use on skin containing 0.1% by mass to 10% by mass of a component (A) (a water-soluble polymer obtained by mixing agar with xanthan gum) and 30% by mass or more of a component (D) (water); the composition for external use on skin containing 0.5% by mass to 40% by mass of a divalent polyol as a component (B); the composition for external use on skin according to any one of the above compositions, which contains moisturizers as a component (C); and the composition for external use on skin according to any one of the above compositions, which contains oil as a component (E). | 01-31-2013 |
20130303634 | COMPOSITION FOR COSMETICS, COSMETIC, METHOD FOR PRODUCING OIL-IN-WATER EMULSION COSMETIC, AND TWO SEPARATE LAYER-TYPE COSMETIC - The present invention relates to a composition for cosmetics including a polyglycerol fatty acid ester, which is an ester of polyglycerol having an average degree of polymerization of 4 to 100 with a fatty acid having 2 to 18 carbon atoms, has a hydroxyl value equal to or less than 15 mgKOH/g, and has a specific gravity at 20° C. of 0.96 to 1.15; a cosmetic which includes the composition for cosmetics; a method for producing an oil-in-water emulsion cosmetic which includes mixing the composition for cosmetics; and a two-separate-layer-type cosmetic, which comprises the composition for cosmetics. The present invention relates to the composition for cosmetics which can be appropriately used in producing a cosmetic giving a highly excellent feel in using and having a very good texture, a cosmetic showing a very high stability over time as an emulsion, and a two-separate-layer-type cosmetic. | 11-14-2013 |
20140323386 | COMPOSITION FOR CLEANSING AGENT AND CLEANSING AGENT - The present invention relates to a composition for a cleansing agent comprising a component (A) in the form of an ionic surfactant and a component (B) in the form of one or more types of compounds selected from the group consisting of a hydroxystearic acid polymer and an esterification reaction product of a hydroxystearic acid polymer. According to the present invention, a composition for a cleansing agent can be provided that has favorable foaming power and foam quality, is easily rinsed during cleansing, is free of stickiness after cleansing and allows the obtaining of a moist feeling. | 10-30-2014 |
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20100206872 | MICROWAVE HEATING DEVICE AND HEATING METHOD - In a heating device having a microwave generator for generating microwaves, a waveguide for propagating the microwaves, a matching element for adjusting the impedance inside the waveguide and a flow pipe for passing a substance to be heated, an outer pipe of low dielectric constant is arranged to circulate a heat transfer medium for heat exchange around the flow pipe adapted to pass the heated substance and a circulation constant temperature bath is provided for adjusting the temperature of the heat transfer medium for heat exchange and for circulating it, so that microwaves are irradiated while adjusting the temperature of the heat transfer medium for heat exchange to a desired value by means of the circulation constant bath and circulating the heat transfer medium around the flow pipe. | 08-19-2010 |
20110290789 | MICROWAVE HEATING APPARATUS - A microwave heating apparatus in which microwaves from a single microwave generator is branched to a plurality of reaction tubes, a heating target material is irradiated with the microwaves while being continuously supplied into respective reaction fields, the reaction fields is heated and controlled simultaneously, parallelly and independently while eliminating the influence of reflected waves generated in the other reaction fields, and a very high throughput is obtained. In the apparatus, branch waveguides for branching microwaves generated from a microwave generator into N branch waves, N being an natural number, are provided, isolators for absorbing reflected waves generated in the reaction fields are provided between the branch waveguides and applicators, power monitors for measuring magnitudes of incident and reflected waves are provided between the isolators and the applicators, and tuners for adjusting impedances in waveguides are provided between the power monitors and the applicators. | 12-01-2011 |
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20090006422 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM HAVING DOCUMENT TRANSMISSION DEVICE, DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SERVER, AND DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT CLIENT - In a control method for a document management system in which a document transmission device capable of transmitting image data, a document management server of associating image data with a folder as a document and storing and managing the associated image data and folder, and a document management client of browsing the image data of the stored document are connected through a network the server receives and stores registration control information for controlling a document registration process, from the client, transmits the stored registration control information to the device, based on a registration control information acquisition request transmitted from the device, and receives, from the device, the transmitted and designated registration control information and the image data, and stores the received image data as the document on the basis of the received registration control information. Thus, it is possible to easily manage the registration control information. | 01-01-2009 |
20090116052 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAVING AND RESTORING A SETTING FROM AN INTERRUPTED PROCESS - In one version of a system according to the present invention, an MFP device and a storage server are connected to each other via a network. A user authentication is performed to acquire user information. Job information associated with the user information is acquired from the storage server. When scanning or printing is interrupted, scan or print setting information set before the interruption, and optionally the image data scanned before the interruption, are acquired. The MFP device performs the scanning or printing based on the setting information acquired from the storage server at the time of restart. | 05-07-2009 |
20090204607 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD, DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - When registering a document, pieces of index candidate information to be assigned to the document to be registered are created and output based on user characteristic information acquired from login information of a user and document information acquired from the document to be registered. Index information selected by the user from the pieces of output index candidate information is received. The received index information is registered in association with the document acquired by a document information acquiring unit. When browsing a document, the user characteristic information acquired from the login information of the user is compared with user characteristic information set for the registered document in association with the index information. A document having user characteristic information whose predetermined items match items of the set user characteristic information is extracted as a document associated with the user. | 08-13-2009 |
20100040286 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - Information on at least one object specified by a user is obtained from an external apparatus. In accordance with attribute information included in the object information, at least one object is retrieved from among objects registered in an object storage unit. Then, an order of display of at least one retrieved template is determined. Thereafter, the retrieved template is transmitted to the external apparatus in the determined display order. | 02-18-2010 |
20100202016 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND A METHOD FOR PROCESSING IN AN INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus is provided, to which a printer is connected via a network. The device receives print setting information for a document from said client device, a component configured to preserve the received print setting information and a flag which is set for each user in order to show whether a user connected via said printer printed said document or not, transmits print setting information of a document to said printer according to said flag, wherein the document is not printed by a user connected via said printer, and when a user instructed said printer to print the document which was not printed according to the transmitted information and printing according to the instruction resulted in success, updates said flag to show that the user has printed the document and transmits information for changing a display form of the setting information for the document. | 08-12-2010 |
20100259783 | PRINTING SYSTEM, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR THE DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A printing system stores image data obtained by scanning a document with scanning setting information set up at the time of the scan of the document, generates print settings for printing the stored image data by changing the default printing setting information set up for every user stored in the user information storing unit with the stored scanning setting information and transmits stored information for specifying the image data and the generated print settings to a browser device | 10-14-2010 |
20110032563 | JOB HISTORY INFORMATION AUDITING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A job history information auditing system includes an image forming apparatus which generates job history information including a log and image data or a link log upon execution of a job, and a data server which saves the job history information in a searchable state. | 02-10-2011 |
20110286026 | JOB HISTORY INFORMATION AUDIT SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND AUDIT METHOD - An apparatus comprises a unit configured to acquire identification information for identifying a document management server from a cooperation server; a data reception unit configured to receive data including information concerning a job from a printing apparatus, a unit configured to determine; based on the received data and the identification information, whether document data of the received data is document data; a unit configured to store the received data when the determination unit determines that the document data is document data managed by a first document management server; a unit configured to transmit the received data to the cooperation server when the determination unit determines that the document data is carry-in document data which is not managed by the first document management server; a unit configured to receive the instruction associated with permission/inhibition of printing; and a unit configured to transmit the instruction associated with permission/inhibition of printing. | 11-24-2011 |
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20090096376 | EXCIMER LAMPS - An excimer lamp, including a discharge vessel made of silica glass and having a discharge space; a pair of electrodes disposed on the discharge vessel, wherein the discharge space is filled with xenon gas; and an ultraviolet reflection film made from ultraviolet scattering particles, including silica particles and alumina particles, formed on a surface of the discharge vessel exposed to the discharge space. A thickness Y of the ultraviolet reflection film satisfies the expression Y>4X+5, given that a mean particle diameter of the ultraviolet scattering particles making up the ultraviolet reflection film is X (μm). | 04-16-2009 |
20090096377 | EXCIMER LAMP - An excimer lamp which can emit UV radiation with a high degree of efficiency and high degree of uniformity, has a UV-reflecting film that does not peel. The excimer lamp is fitted with a silica glass discharge vessel that encloses a discharge gas which forms excimer molecules by dielectric barrier discharge in an internal space enclosed by a top wall panel, a bottom wall panel, side wall panels and end panels and with an electrode on both the outer surface of the top wall panel and another electrode on the outer surface of the bottom wall panel. On the inner surface of the discharge vessel, a UV-reflecting film comprised of silica and alumina particles is formed, at least, on the inner surface area of the side wall panels with the silica particles composing at least 30 weight % of the UV-reflecting film. | 04-16-2009 |
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20120243119 | MAGNETIC DISK DRIVE HAVING MICROACTUATOR - According to one embodiment, a servo controller of a magnetic disk drive includes a microactuator (MA) estimator, VCM actuator (VCMA) controller, a filter and an adder. The MA estimator estimates a first displacement of an MA from a control input to be provided to the MA. The VCMA controller controls a VCMA based on a positioning error between a target track and a first position of the VCMA. The first position is estimated from a position of a head and the first displacement. The filter estimates a second position of the VCMA corresponding to a delay in a displacement of the MA caused by hysteresis of the MA, from a state of the VCMA in a seek operation, and estimates a second displacement that is the delayed displacement of the MA, from the second position. The adder adds the second displacement to an input to the MA controller. | 09-27-2012 |
20130258520 | MAGNETIC DISK DRIVE HAVING DUAL-STAGE ACTUATOR AND HEAD POSITION ESTIMATION METHOD FOR THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk drive includes a storage unit, a head position detector and a head position estimator. The head position detector detects a position of a first head if the first head is switched to a second head. The head position estimator estimates a position of the second head based on the position of the first head, first and second voltages, polarities of first and second microactuators, gains of the first and second microactuators, and a first inter-head offset. The first and second voltages are applied to the first and second microactuators, respectively. The first inter-head offset is stored in the storage unit. | 10-03-2013 |
20140153127 | DISK STORAGE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SERVO CONTROLLING - According to one embodiment, a disk storage apparatus includes an interrupt controller and a servo controller. The interrupt controller determines whether or not to carry out servo interrupt processing and holds a number of negative results of the determination. The servo controller includes an internal model configured to calculate an estimated current position of the head. The servo controller corrects a state of the internal model based on the number of negative results of the determination and performs head positioning control based on a result of a calculation of the internal model, if the result of the determination by the interrupt controller is affirmative. | 06-05-2014 |
20140153131 | DISK STORAGE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SERVO CONTROLLING - According to one embodiment, a disk storage apparatus includes a servo system. The servo system includes a state observer and performs a seek operation up to a target position with a current position of a head undetermined. The servo system performs the seek operation based on initial values including a temporary position, while allowing the state observer to operate based on the initial values, until the current position is determined. The servo system determines the current position based on the servo data read from the plurality of servo areas by the read module and a result of estimation by the state observer. | 06-05-2014 |
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20080297648 | FOCUS DETECTION APPARATUS - A blurring parameter operating section calculates a blurring parameter corresponding to a distance from an optical system to a subject, based on two luminance information items which have different blurring degrees and are acquired by changing an arrangement setting of the optical system. A distance estimating section estimates distance information corresponding to the distance from the optical system to the subject, based on the blurring parameter. A focus detection section acquires luminance information after changing arrangement setting of the optical system based on the distance information, acquires luminance information items having different blurring degrees by further changing arrangement setting of the optical system, calculates an evaluation value indicating a degree of focus from each of the luminance information items having the different blurring degrees, and determines the focal position based on the evaluation value. | 12-04-2008 |
20100194972 | FOCUSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - A focusing device includes a distance information acquisition section acquiring information on a distance to a subject based on a plurality of image data acquired by taking images of the subject at a plurality of different viewpoint positions. A subject detection section detects a first area and a second area based on the distance information and threshold information for the distance range within which a subject of interest that obstructs a main subject in the subject is present. In the first area, the subject of interest is present in each of the plurality of image data. In the second area, the subject of interest is not present. A focusing estimation section estimates the focusing of the main subject based on the distance information on the second area in each of the plurality of image data. | 08-05-2010 |
20110066815 | MEMORY ACCESS CONTROL DEVICE AND MEMORY ACCESS CONTROL METHOD - A memory access control device includes an input data control unit, a processing unit, and an output data control unit. The input data control unit inputs image data from a memory. The processing unit subjects the input image data to a preset process. The output data control unit outputs the processed image data to the memory. | 03-17-2011 |
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20100321643 | PROJECTION TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY - A projection type image display apparatus for projecting optical fluxes from a light source onto a projection plane so as to display an image, provided with a reflection mirror arranged in such a manner that the reflection mirror interrupts an optical path of the projection light in the direct projection mode when the reflection mode is set and reflects the projection light to the backside of the projection type image display apparatus, and when the reflection mode is set, the projection type image display apparatus is tilted to the backside. The projection type image display apparatus is further provided with an adjustment leg arranged in a front portion of a bottom plane of the projection type image display apparatus and extended by a predetermined leg length, and thereby the projection type image display apparatus is tilted to the backside. | 12-23-2010 |
20110298993 | REAR-SURFACE PROJECTION-TYPE VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS - A rear-type projection board apparatus (rear-surface projection-type video display apparatus), of new structure, having no necessity of a housing, being superior in portability, cheaply producible, comprises a transmission-type screen | 12-08-2011 |
20120249489 | ELECTRONIC PEN AND PROJECTOR SYSTEM USING THE SAME - There is provided an electronic pen that reduces reflected waves of supersonic waves from a screen, with a simple structure and there is realized a projector system that improves the position detection precision of the electronic pen. The electronic pen comprises a longitudinal axis-shaped housing body having a pen tip at a tip end portion thereof, a supersonic wave transmitting portion provided inside the housing body relative to the pen tip for generating supersonic waves, an infrared ray transmitting portion arranged adjacent to the supersonic wave transmitting portion for generating an infrared ray, and a supersonic wave guide for reflecting components, toward a pen tip side, among the supersonic waves generated from the supersonic wave transmitting portion. | 10-04-2012 |
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20100064748 | ROLLING MILL APPARATUS AND METHOD OF SHAPE CONTROL OF ROLLED STRIP AND PLATE - This invention relates to a rolling mill apparatus and a method of shape control of a rolled strip which enables satisfactory shape control even in extremely thin rolling. A rolling mill apparatus of this invention has a rolling mill, which rolls a rolled strip P between upper and lower work rolls; a shape detecting portion, which detects the degree of flatness of the rolled strip in the width direction of rolled strip which has been rolled by the rolling mill; a spray portion, having a plurality of spray nozzles arranged along the length direction of the upper and lower work rolls, which sprays the upper and lower work rolls with coolant C; and, a shape control portion, which adjusts the spray amount and/or temperature of the coolant C sprayed from the spray portion based on detected information from the shape detecting portion, to control the shape of the rolled strip P. The shape control portion has two control modes, in which the relationship of the detected information of the shape detecting portion and the spray amount and/or temperature of the coolant C sprayed from the spray portion are inversely proportional, and switches between these two control modes based on the strip thickness of the rolled strip P. | 03-18-2010 |
20110005285 | ROLLING MILL AND ROLLING METHOD - The present invention relates to the providing of a rolling mill that makes it possible to more accurately control the shape of a plate material than has hitherto been possible, and to a rolling method, and is a rolling mill that rolls a plate material using vertical work rolls, and that includes: a coolant jet spray unit that has a plurality of nozzles that are arranged at predetermined intervals in the direction of the rotation axis of the work rolls, and that sprays jets of coolant from the respective nozzles onto the work rolls; a roll temperature estimation unit that estimates a mean temperature of the work rolls; a coolant temperature detection unit that detects a temperature of the coolant; a shape detection unit that detects the shape in the width direction of the rolled plate material; a shape deviation calculation unit that calculates an amount of deviation between a plate material shape detected by the shape detection unit and a target shape; and a shape control unit that controls the shape of the plate material by controlling the spray quantity and/or temperature of the coolant which is sprayed from the coolant jet spray unit based on a difference between the mean temperature of the work rolls and the temperature of the coolant, and on the amount of deviation between the plate material shape and the target shape. | 01-13-2011 |
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20090154647 | MEDICAL IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE - In a medical image diagnostic device, wherein X-Ray CT devices and PET devices are longitudinally disposed, and which has a tubular imaging part for positioning a subject who is placed on the top surface of a bed and collecting image data, an illumination part is provided for producing a suitable level of brightness to the display part, which is for providing information to the subject without having to adopt every imaging position within the tubular imaging part, and to the imaging part. | 06-18-2009 |
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20140119503 | GANTRY OF X-RAY CT SYSTEM - A gantry of X-ray CT system according to an embodiment includes: a main frame; a disk-shaped base plate rotatably supported by main frame, and having an opening formed at a central portion thereof, the opening allowing a subject to enter and exit therethrough, and multiple mounting holes formed at portions outside the opening in a radial direction; and multiple rotator units inserted into the mounting holes and fixed to the base plate. | 05-01-2014 |
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20110122253 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit, a field angle change unit, and a movement detection unit. The imaging unit includes a lens that forms an image of a subject and acquires a picture image by taking the image formed by the lens. The field angle change unit changes a field angle of the picture image acquired by the imaging unit. The movement detection unit detects a movement of the imaging apparatus. The field angle change unit changes the field angle of the picture image in accordance with a moving direction of the imaging apparatus when the movement detection unit detects the movement of the imaging apparatus. | 05-26-2011 |
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20120327290 | OPTICAL INSTRUMENT, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR OPTICAL INSTRUMENT - An optical instrument of the present invention comprises a ring member which is arranged to be rotatable with respect to a lens barrel, and also to slide in an optical axis direction to a first position and a second position, a rotation position detection section for outputting a preset distance that has been set by a rotation operation, when the ring member is at the second position, and a control section for, when the ring member has been subjected to a slide operation between the first position and the second position, moving a photographing lens at a first speed or a second speed up to a distance corresponding to an operation position. | 12-27-2012 |
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20130083222 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit that generates image data of a subject image obtained via a lens unit, a display unit that displays an image corresponding to the image data generated by the imaging unit, an input unit that receives input for specifying an area of a portion of the image displayed by the display unit, and a display controller that controls a display mode for confirming a specified image corresponding to the area of which input is received by the input unit. | 04-04-2013 |
20140111679 | IMAGING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AREA CHANGE - An imaging device includes an imaging unit that receives light coming from a subject and thus generates electronic image data; a display unit that displays an image corresponding to the image data; an angle-of-view setting unit that an angle of view to be changed for the image displayed by the display unit according to a first signal input from the outside; and a control unit that starts control of change to a predetermined angle of view set by the angle-of-view setting unit according to a second signal different from the first signal. | 04-24-2014 |
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20090203608 | Novel Proteins and Use Thereof - The present invention provides a novel secretory/membrane protein associated with adipocyte differentiation and/or metabolism function, specifically, an adipocyte-derived secretory/membrane protein containing amino acid sequence which is the same or substantially the same as an amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NOS: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 or 22, a nucleic acid encoding it, an antibody therefor, a method of screening prophylactic and/or therapeutic agents for diseases involving abnormality of adipocyte differentiation/metabolism function using it and/or a kit for the screening, a prophylactic and/or therapeutic agent for the diseases or a diagnostic agent containing the membrane protein. | 08-13-2009 |
20110118350 | COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING CARDIOVASCULAR EVENT IN HIGH-RISK PATIENT - Provided is a pharmaceutical composition for reducing the risk in a patient at high risk for occurrence and/or recurrence of a cardiovascular event by administering the composition to the patient with a high ratio of oleic acid to stearic acid in plasma. The pharmaceutical composition contains ethyl icosapentate as its effective component. The composition is expected to reduce the risk in the patient at high risk for occurrence and/or recurrence of a cardiovascular event, and particularly to have a preventive effect on occurrence and/or recurrence of a cardiovascular event in the patient with a high ratio of oleic acid to stearic acid in plasma. | 05-19-2011 |
20130065956 | COMPOSITION AND/OR METHOD FOR PREVENTING ONSET AND/OR RECURRENCE OF CARDIOVASCULAR EVENTS - Provided are composition and/or methods useful in preventing onset and/or recurrence of cardiovascular events, especially in patients who have escaped the unstable period after cardiovascular angioplasty or in hyperlipidemia patients who have been treated with HMG-CoA RI. | 03-14-2013 |
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20090105340 | COMPOSITION AND/OR METHOD FOR PREVENTING RECURRENCE OF STROKE - By using a composition for preventing onset and/or recurrence of stroke which contains ethyl icosapentate as its effective component, onset and/or recurrence of stroke is prevented, or in particular, the onset and/or recurrence of stroke in a hyperlipidemia patient who has been treated with HMG-CoA RI, or in particular the recurrence of stroke in a patient who is beyond six months after the onset of stroke, is prevented. | 04-23-2009 |
20090156675 | COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING THE OCCURRENCE OF CARDIOVASCULAR EVENT IN MULTIPLE RISK PATIENT - Disclosed is a composition which is useful for preventing the occurrence of a cardiovascular event, particularly a composition which is expected to show a prophylactic effect on a cardiovascular event occurring in a hypercholesterolemia patient despite providing the patient with a treatment with HMG-CoA RI or a cardiovascular event occurring in a multiple risk patient. | 06-18-2009 |
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20120295976 | COMPOSITION AND/OR METHOD FOR PREVENTING RECURRENCE OF STROKE - By using a composition for preventing onset and/or recurrence of stroke which contains ethyl icosapentate as its effective component, onset and/or recurrence of stroke is prevented, or in particular, the onset and/or recurrence of stroke in a hyperlipidemia patient who has been treated with HMG-CoA RI, or in particular the recurrence of stroke in a patient who is beyond six months after the onset of stroke, is prevented. | 11-22-2012 |
20120329852 | COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING THE OCCURRENCE OF CARDIOVASCULAR EVENT IN MULTIPLE RISK PATIENT - Disclosed is a composition which is useful for preventing the occurrence of a cardiovascular event, particularly a composition which is expected to show a prophylactic effect on a cardiovascular event occurring in a hypercholesterolemia patient despite providing the patient with a treatment with HMG-CoA RI or a cardiovascular event occurring in a multiple risk patient. | 12-27-2012 |
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20090166813 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a first semiconductor layer on a semiconductor substrate, forming a second semiconductor layer on the first semiconductor layer, etching the second semiconductor layer and the first semiconductor layer to form a first groove passing through the second semiconductor layer and the first semiconductor layer, forming a first support having tensile stress in the first groove, etching the second semiconductor layer to form a second groove that exposes the first semiconductor layer, forming a cavity between the second semiconductor layer and the semiconductor substrate by etching the first semiconductor layer through the second groove, forming an insulating film in the cavity, and forming a buried film having tensile stress in the second groove. | 07-02-2009 |
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20140157892 | MEMS ELEMENT, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, ALTIMETER, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND MOVING OBJECT - A MEMS element includes a substrate and a plurality of resonators which are formed above a first surface of the substrate, the substrate includes at least one flexible portion and at least one non-flexible portion, and resonators corresponding to the flexible portion and the non-flexible portion are disposed. | 06-12-2014 |
20140157893 | MEMS ELEMENT, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, ALTIMETER, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND MOVING OBJECT - A MEMS element includes a substrate which includes a flexible portion, a fixation electrode which is provided on a principal surface of the substrate, and a movable electrode which includes a movable portion which is separated from the fixation electrode, overlaps with at least a portion of the fixation electrode in a plan view of the principal surface, and is driven in a direction intersecting the principal surface, and a fixation end connected to the principal surface. The fixation electrode and the movable electrode is disposed to correspond to the flexible portion. | 06-12-2014 |