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20090161155 | IMAGE OUTPUT APPARATUS AND IMAGE OUTPUT METHOD - An image output apparatus including a first storage unit and a second storage unit having a slower data access speed than the first storage unit, an input unit configured to input image data, a setting unit configured to set a threshold of remaining amount of the first storage unit, a detection unit configured to detect the remaining amount of the first storage unit in which the image data is stored, a determination unit configured to determine whether the remaining amount is smaller than the threshold, a control unit configured to control the storage units so that, when the determination unit determines the remaining amount is smaller than the threshold, image data which is smaller than the image data input by the input unit among the image data stored in the first storage unit is transferred to the second storage unit. | 06-25-2009 |
20100271668 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - This invention provides an image processing apparatus which includes a plurality of circuit configuration units each of which can be reconfigured into one of a plurality of types of circuit configurations, and reduces an overhead incurred in the switching time period by fixing a circuit configuration of an optimal type in accordance with the frequency of appearance of pixel data having a certain attribute in a plurality of pixel data and the number of times of switching of the attribute of the pixel data from one to another. | 10-28-2010 |
20110276859 | STORAGE DEVICE ARRAY SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, STORAGE DEVICE ARRAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A disk array apparatus, if a rebuild error occurs, stores information indicating an error occurrence place in a sector holding unit, and then stops rebuild processing. A host computer, if a rebuild error occurs in the disk array apparatus, acquires the information indicating the error occurrence place from the disk array apparatus. The host computer determines whether the rebuild error does not obstruct continuation of the rebuild processing based on the acquired information indicating the error occurrence place. If it is determined that the rebuild error does not obstruct continuation of the rebuild processing, the host computer instructs the disk array apparatus to resume the rebuild processing while skipping the error occurrence place. In response to the instruction from the host computer, the disk array apparatus resumes the rebuild processing while skipping the error occurrence place. | 11-10-2011 |
20140340698 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A communication apparatus (image forming apparatus) according to an aspect of the present invention is capable of communication with an external apparatus via short-range wireless communication (NFC) and while in a powered-on state (first state), registers a piece of data being held by the communication apparatus as NFC transmission data that is to be transmitted by the communication apparatus in a powered-off state (second state). Furthermore, when shifting from the powered-on state to the powered-off state, the communication apparatus sets the registered NFC transmission data in an NFC controller as data that is to be transmitted to an external apparatus such as a mobile terminal via NFC communication. | 11-20-2014 |
20140376050 | INFORMATION TERMINAL APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING INFORMATION TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information terminal apparatus that is wirelessly communicable with an information processing apparatus enables a user to position an antenna of the information processing apparatus with which the information terminal apparatus communicates and an antenna of the information terminal apparatus with ease by watching a screen of the information terminal apparatus. | 12-25-2014 |
20150055174 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an information processing apparatus and a control method thereof. The information processing apparatus and a control method acquires user information from an external apparatus by using near field wireless communication, determines how to handle the acquired user information according to a type of a screen displayed by a display unit. For example, when the displayed screen is an authentication screen, authentication processing is executed by using the acquired user information. | 02-26-2015 |
20150268903 | MOBILE TERMINAL, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MOBILE TERMINAL, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A mechanism that enables a device to autonomously control disconnection of communication is needed in situations where document data or photos of variable data size are transmitted and received wirelessly. In a wireless communication system, an image forming apparatus and a mobile terminal wirelessly communicate with each other. The image forming apparatus determines whether or not a predetermined condition is met, in a state where the wireless communication with the mobile terminal has been established. In the case of determining that the predetermined condition is met, the image forming apparatus breaks the wireless connection with the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal, upon detecting that the wireless communication has been disconnected, breaks the wireless connection with the image forming apparatus. | 09-24-2015 |
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20100306245 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM - A navigation system is provided with setting screen displaying means for displaying a setting screen for setting information related to a plurality of search condition parameters; parameter obtaining means for collectively obtaining the information related to the plurality of search condition parameters based on a single input operation that is made via an input portion; and information searching means for searching for preferred information based on the information related to the plurality of search condition parameters obtained by the parameter obtaining means. | 12-02-2010 |
20140081566 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING VEHICLE RUNNING IN BLIND SPOT, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GIVING WARNING IN CHANGING CRUISING LANE - An apparatus for detecting a vehicle running in a blind spot detects, with a predetermined accuracy, a first target position of a target which is present in a first detection area that extends obliquely rearward of the vehicle, detects, with an accuracy lower than the predetermined accuracy, a second target position related to a target which is present in a second detection area adjacent to the first detection area; calculates a first estimated position that corresponds to a subsequent position of the target that has been detected by the detection section as the first target position; and adopts the first estimated position as a position of the target when the first estimated position is included in a predetermined range centering on the second target position, adopts the second target position as a position of the target when the first estimated position is outside the predetermined range. | 03-20-2014 |
20140136095 | RELATIVE POSITION DETECTION DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - A relative position detection device is used for a traveling system that allows a first and second vehicles to travel such that the first vehicle precedes and the second vehicle follows the first vehicle. The detecting device includes a sensor pair of a first and second sensors and an arithmetic unit. The first and second sensors are located at the same height on the right and left end portions of the front surface of the second vehicle. The first and second sensors emits transmission waves from their located positions in their front directions and receives their reflected waves. The arithmetic unit detects a direction of deviation between the first and second vehicles in the right and left direction on the basis of a difference between a first intensity of the reflected wave received by the first sensor and a second intensity of the reflected waves received by the second sensor. | 05-15-2014 |
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20080222474 | Pseudorandom number generator, semiconductor integrated circuit, pseudorandom number generator control apparatus, pseudorandom number generator control method, and computer product - In a linear feedback shift register (LFSR), a four-bit shift register mainly using F/Fs is formed and an XOR circuit that feeds back an exclusive OR of a first bit and a last bit to the first bit is also provided, thereby outputting a test pattern having a maximum cycle of 15. A phase change circuit that can perform arbitrary phase change of a test pattern based on input of a control signal having a maximum clock number 4 and an average clock number log | 09-11-2008 |
20120239337 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, TEST METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a plurality of shift registers to which test patterns are supplied, a pseudorandom number generator configured to generate, based on the test patterns supplied to the shift registers, pseudorandom numbers utilized as masking information corresponding to output responses of the shift registers, a masking information inverter configured to invert, on receiving a first control signal, the masking information corresponding to the output responses of the shift registers indicated by the first control signal, and an initial value storage configured to store initial values of the pseudorandom numbers. In the semiconductor integrated circuit, the pseudorandom numbers generated by the pseudorandom number generator are, on receiving a second control signal, initialized with the initial values of the pseudorandom numbers stored in the initial value storage. | 09-20-2012 |
20130051158 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, TESTING APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND METHOD OF TESTING INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - Provided are a redundant memory; a generator that generates a test pattern, and an expected value of data expected to be output from the redundant memory, in response to the test pattern being supplied to the redundant memory; a comparator that compares the expected value generated by the generator, against data output from the redundant memory in response to the test pattern being supplied to the redundant memory; a storage that stores a result of the comparison by the comparator; and a write controller that writes the comparison result to the storage while relating the comparison result to location information in the redundant memory where the comparison result is produced, if the comparison result by the comparator indicates a mismatch, while suppressing the comparison result from being written to the storage, if the comparison result by the comparator indicates a match. | 02-28-2013 |
20130148451 | MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING REDUNDANT MEMORY CELL BLOCK - A clock signal is supplied to a first repair flag flip-flop, a second repair flag flip-flop, a first repair data flip-flop group, and a second repair data flip-flop group to serially transfer a second repair flag and a first repair flag stored in a non-volatile memory to the second repair flag flip-flop and the first repair flag flip-flop. Subsequently, repair data stored in the non-volatile memory is serially output to the first repair data flip-flop group, and repair data of the first repair data flip-flop group and the second repair data flip-flop group is serially transferred. | 06-13-2013 |
20150279482 | DATA TRANSFER CIRCUIT - A data transfer circuit has a first data transmission unit and two or more second shift registers. The first data transmission unit has a first shift register which has a plurality of first flip flop circuits which store data, shifts the data of the plurality of first flip flop circuits, and transmits data of two or more output terminals out of output terminals of the plurality of first flip flop circuits to the two or more second shift registers. The two or more second shift registers each shift data inputted from the two or more output terminals out of the output terminals of the plurality of first flip flop circuits. | 10-01-2015 |
20160027484 | DATA TRANSFER CIRCUIT AND DATA TRANSFER METHOD - A data transfer circuit includes: a first power domain; a nonvolatile memory configured to store first data; a holding circuit; a readout circuit configured to read the first data from the nonvolatile memory and write the first data into the holding circuit at a time of chip reset; and a first controller configured to transfer the first data written into the holding circuit to the first power domain and make the holding circuit keep the first data at the time of chip reset, wherein the readout circuit, at a time of reset of the first power domain after the chip reset, does not read the first data from the nonvolatile memory, and the first controller transfers the first data held in the holding circuit to the first power domain. | 01-28-2016 |
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20120280052 | HOT-WATER HEAT PUMP AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A hot-water heat pump that is capable of reducing installation costs and installation space and also reducing the heating time of a hot-water route, and a method of controlling the same are provided. The hot-water heat pump ( | 11-08-2012 |
20130025306 | TURBO REFRIGERATION UNIT, CONTROL DEVICE THEREFOR, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An object is to provide a turbo-refrigeration-unit control device capable of achieving stable operation and reducing the amount of refrigerant. Provided is a control device for controlling a turbo refrigeration unit that includes a centrifugal compressor, a first-non-refrigerant pump for supplying a first non-refrigerant, a condenser that performs heat exchange between the first non-refrigerant and a refrigerant, an expansion valve that expands the refrigerant, a second-non-refrigerant pump for supplying a second non-refrigerant, an evaporator that performs heat exchange between the second non-refrigerant and the refrigerant, a bypass circuit that is used to inject part of the refrigerant from a discharge port of the centrifugal compressor into a suction port of the centrifugal compressor, and a bypass-circuit control valve that controls the flow rate of the refrigerant. | 01-31-2013 |
20130026092 | OIL SEPARATION MEANS AND REFRIGERATION DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME - An object is to provide centrifugal-separation oil separation means capable of improved cyclone efficiency and a refrigeration device equipped with the same. The oil separation means includes an outer cylinder ( | 01-31-2013 |