Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120087525 | SPEAKER, HEARING AID, INNER-EAR HEADPHONE, PORTABLE INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND AV DEVICE - A speaker including: a chassis internally including a magnet; a plate attached to a top face of the magnet; a voice coil disposed in a magnetic air gap formed in an outer perimeter of the plate so as to be vibratable in a vertical direction; a diaphragm having a periphery that is connected to an upper end of the voice coil; and a suspension connecting the diaphragm and the chassis. The suspension includes a first fixing part fixed to the diaphragm and a second fixing part fixed to the chassis. The second fixing part is positioned above the first fixing part, and at least one of the first fixing part and the second fixing part is disposed in an inner region which is a region located inward of the periphery of the diaphragm as seen from above. | 04-12-2012 |
20120325598 | BRAKE LINING FOR RAILROAD CAR - A brake lining for a railroad car has a frictional surface on a brake disc that is pressed by a brake caliper. Friction bodies are pressed against the frictional surface of the brake disc and a back plate is mounted to the caliper to support the friction bodies. Each of the friction bodies is formed with a friction material which contacts the brake disc frictional surface, and has a base plate attached on the back plate side of the friction material. The base plate has a protrusion formed on its back side. On the friction body side of the back plate there is formed a groove which contacts the protrusion formed on the base plate. A disc spring or a spherical-seated structure is disposed between the base plate of each friction body and the back plate. Friction bodies are prevented from rotating at their attached places, without adding new components. | 12-27-2012 |
20130148830 | EARPHONE - Included are a loudspeaker unit for generating sound waves, a sound conduit tube connected to the loudspeaker unit, and an ear tip connected to the sound conduit tube and having a shape having at least one opening. The sound conduit tube has a shape having: a sound hole having a first opening through which the sound waves generated by the loudspeaker unit enter, and a second opening from which the sound waves are released and to which the ear tip is connected; and a vent hole formed independently of the sound hole, and having a third opening through which a portion of the sound waves released from the second opening enters and a fourth opening from which the portion of the sound waves is released. The second opening of the sound hole and the third opening of the vent hole are connected to an identical opening of the ear tip. | 06-13-2013 |
20140056455 | EARPHONE - An earphone includes: a loudspeaker unit; a sound conductive tube which is connected to a front surface having a diaphragm included in the loudspeaker unit, and has a hole through which a sound generated from the loudspeaker unit is emitted; a housing which is connected to a back surface of the loudspeaker unit so that a space is formed between the housing and the back surface of the loudspeaker unit, and has a first air hole connecting the space to external air; a first braking part which closes a sound hole of the loudspeaker unit; and a second braking part which closes the first air hole. | 02-27-2014 |
20140079258 | LOUDSPEAKER, INNER-EAR HEADPHONE INCLUDING LOUDSPEAKER, AND HEARING AID INCLUDING LOUDSPEAKER - A loudspeaker includes: a frame; a yoke fixed to the frame; a magnet fixed to the yoke; a plate fixed to an upper surface of the magnet which is opposite to a surface of the magnet which is fixed to the yoke; a vibratable voice coil arranged in a first magnetic gap formed between the yoke and the plate; a diaphragm having an outer-edge portion joined to the voice coil; and a support member supporting the diaphragm in a vibratable manner, and composed of edges, one end of each edge being fixed to the frame. The plate is composed of: a flat-plate part fixed to the upper surface of the magnet, and having, at an upper surface thereof, a planar portion extending from the outer-edge portion up to a predetermined distance; and a protruding part disposed on the flat-plate part excluding the planar portion, and protruding toward the diaphragm. | 03-20-2014 |
20140205135 | LOUDSPEAKER AND EQUIPMENT INCLUDING THE SAME - A loudspeaker is provided which includes: a magnetic circuit including a magnet having at least one hole, a plate fixed to one of a pair of polar surfaces of the magnet, and a box-shaped yoke having an inner bottom surface fixed to the other polar surface of the magnet; a voice coil vertically vibratably provided in a magnetic gap formed by the plate and the yoke; a diaphragm having a peripheral edge connected to an upper end of the voice coil; and a magnetic fluid filled in at least one of a gap between the voice coil and the plate and a gap between the voice coil and the yoke. The loudspeaker includes at least one means for uniformly distributing the magnetic fluid. | 07-24-2014 |
20140316552 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A MACHINING MEANS IN HYBRID ULTRAPRECISION MACHINING DEVICE, AND HYBRID ULTRAPRECISION MACHINING DEVICE - There is provided a method for determining a machining means in a hybrid ultraprecision machining device for manufacturing a micro-machined product from a workpiece, the machining device comprising: an electromagnetic-wave-machining means for roughly machining the workpiece; a precision-machining means for precisely machining the roughly machined workpiece; and a shape-measurement means for measuring a shape of the workpiece upon use of the electromagnetic-wave machining means and the precision-machining means, wherein a choice is made between the electromagnetic-wave-machining means and the precision-machining means in the determination of the machining means, on the basis of: information on a stereoscopic model of the micro-machined product; information on a removal volume to be removed from a volume of the workpiece in the manufacturing of the micro-machined product; and data on a removal process time of the electromagnetic-wave-machining means and data on a removal process time of the precision-machining means. | 10-23-2014 |
20150025667 | METHOD FOR CREATING MACHINING DATA FOR USE IN HYBRID ULTRAPRECISION MACHINING DEVICE, AND HYBRID ULTRAPRECISION MACHINING DEVICE - There is provided a method for creating machining data for a hybrid ultraprecision machining device for manufacturing a micro-machined product from a workpiece, the machining device comprising: an electromagnetic-wave-machining means for roughly machining the workpiece; a precision-machining means for precisely machining the roughly machined workpiece; and a shape-measurement means, wherein the creation of the machining data makes use of: information on original shape corresponding to shape of the workpiece; information on roughly-machining shape to be removed from the workpiece by the electromagnetic-wave-machining means; and stereoscopic model of after-electromagnetic-wave-machining shape which is obtained by subtracting the roughly-machining shape from the original shape, wherein the machining data is created for electromagnetic-wave machining on the basis of information on a plurality of sliced portions obtained by partially slice-cutting from the stereoscopic model of the after-electromagnetic-wave-machining shape. | 01-22-2015 |
20150189428 | SPEAKER AND AUDIO-VISUAL SYSTEM - A speaker includes a diaphragm and a magnetic circuit, a plurality of acoustic paths that provide connection between a space formed on a side including the magnetic circuit with respect to the diaphragm and a space exterior to the speaker are formed in the magnetic circuit, and the plurality of acoustic paths include a first acoustic path and a second acoustic path that differs in acoustic impedance from the first acoustic path. | 07-02-2015 |
20150312419 | CONFIGURATION METHOD FOR SOUND COLLECTION SYSTEM FOR MEETING USING TERMINALS AND SERVER APPARATUS - A configuration method for a sound collection system for a meeting using a plurality of terminals, the system obtaining speech from the terminals. The method includes: receiving external sounds from the respective terminals as collected-sound data, the external sounds being collected by the respective terminals; and determining a meeting to which each of the terminals belongs, in accordance with a degree of similarity between the collected-sound data. At least one of the receiving the collected-sound data and the determining the meeting is performed by a processor. | 10-29-2015 |
Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110222025 | ILLUMINATION OPTICAL DEVICE AND PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE ILLUMINATION OPTICAL DEVICE - A light guiding section guides, to a light incident surface of a rod integrator, a portion of light beams incident on a first light incident surface, and emits another portion of the light beams from a second light incident surface. The light guiding section guides, to the light incident surface of the rod integrator, a portion of light beams incident on the second light incident surface, and emits another portion of the light beams from the first light incident surface. A first light converging section converges light beams which are emitted from the first light incident surface such that a converged light is incident on the first light incident surface. A second light converging section converges light beams which are emitted from the second light incident surface such that a converged light is incident on the second light incident surface. | 09-15-2011 |
20110261271 | LIGHTING DEVICE AND PROJECTION TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A lighting device configured to efficiently combine light beams emitted from a plurality of light sources, and to emit high output light while minimizing light loss, and a projection type display apparatus including the lighting device. The lighting device includes: a first light source and a second light source; two converging lenses for converging light beams emitted from the first and second light sources; two right-angle prisms for bending the light beams emitted from the first and second light sources; and a composite rod integrator for combining the light beams emitted from the first and second light sources. Between an exit surface of each right-angle prism and an incident surface of the composite rod integrator, a predetermined air gap is provided. The focal point of each converging lens is located on an incident surface of each right-angle prism. | 10-27-2011 |
20130182229 | PROJECTION TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An opening cover of a case is removed. A light source module is held, and the light source module is pulled outside an opening of the case while guide groove parts and guide-rail parts slide along each other approximately parallelly to a case base. At this moment, junction cable connection terminals of the light source module become separated from power-supply connection terminals of a composite optical system. Replacement of a light source is conducted by replacing the light source module as a unit, or by replacing a light source section or a light source section each as a unit. | 07-18-2013 |
20140285779 | PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE - A projector | 09-25-2014 |
Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100013369 | HIGH-PRESSURE DISCHARGE LAMP, LAMP UNIT USING THE SAME, AND PROJECTIVE IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE LAMP UNIT - A long-life high-pressure discharge lamp can (i) suppress damage to sealing portions, especially at an initial stage of the accumulated lighting time, (ii) allow for easy assembly of components such as electrodes and (iii) prevent deformation/ripping of metallic foils. An arc tube is a glass enveloping vessel with electrodes arranged therein, and includes: a light emitting portion in which materials are enclosed and a discharge space is formed; and sealing portions provided at ends of the light emitting portion. Each electrode includes an electrode bar whose first end is in the discharge space, and whose second end is in the corresponding sealing portion and connected to a metallic foil. The second end of each electrode bar is partially wrapped around by a sleeve-like metallic cover foil that has a cut-out section positioned over a joining area where the second end of each electrode bar is joined to the metallic foil. | 01-21-2010 |
20100097069 | EVALUATION SYSTEM, LIGHTING DEVICE, AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device accurately evaluates the possibility of problems occurring due to the state of impure gas inside a discharge envelope in a high pressure discharge lamp. The image display device includes the high voltage discharge lamp and an evaluation unit ( | 04-22-2010 |
20100188855 | HIGH-PRESSURE DISCHARGE LAMP, LAMP UNIT USING THE SAME, AND PROJECTION-TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE LAMP UNIT - A short arc high-pressure discharge lamp has an arc tube | 07-29-2010 |
20100231872 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING HIGH-PRESSURE DISCHARGE LAMP, HIGH-PRESSURE DISCHARGE LAMP, LAMP UNIT AND PROJECTION-TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY - The present invention is directed to a method for manufacturing a high-pressure discharge lamp including: a spherical portion forming a light-emitting portion ( | 09-16-2010 |
20120026471 | PROJECTOR, LIGHTING DEVICE FOR HIGH-PRESSURE DISCHARGE LAMP USED IN THE PROJECTOR, AND METHOD FOR LIGHTING HIGH-PRESSURE DISCHARGE LAMP - The projector uses two lamps, which are high-pressure discharge lamps with the same rated power, as light sources. The projector includes: a first alternating-current generator configured to generate a lamp current to be supplied to one of the lamps, based on an input control signal; a second alternating-current generator configured to generate a lamp current to be supplied to the other lamp, based on an input control signal; and a controller configured to control the lamp currents to have a same period and to be out of phase, by inputting a control signal to each of the first and the second alternating-current generators. | 02-02-2012 |
20120033190 | ELECTRODE USED FOR DISCHARGE LAMP, HIGH PRESSURE DISCHARGE LAMP, LAMP UNIT, AND PROJECTION IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - The present invention aims to prevent breakage of a sealing part and an electrode of a high pressure discharge lamp, and provides an electrode | 02-09-2012 |
20120069307 | HIGH-VOLTAGE DISCHARGE LAMP, LAMP UNIT, PROJECTION IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING HIGH-VOLTAGE DISCHARGE LAMP - Disclosed is a high-pressure discharge lamp ( | 03-22-2012 |
20120287409 | HIGH-PRESSURE DISCHARGE LAMP, LAMP UNIT, AND PROJECTOR-TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A high-pressure discharge lamp comprising an arc tube, the arc tube including: a light-emitting part which is substantially ellipsoidal; and sealing parts which extend from either end of the light-emitting part and in which bases of electrodes are sealed, the arc tube enclosing 0.2 mg/mm | 11-15-2012 |
20130335715 | HIGH-PRESSURE DISCHARGE LAMP HAVING AN ARC TUBE IN WHICH A PAIR OF ELECTRODE RODS ARE DISPOSED, LUMP UNIT, AND PROJECTOR-TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A high-pressure discharge lamp having an arc tube with a casing made of glass. The arc tube includes a light-emitting part and sealing parts connected to the light-emitting part. A pair of electrode rods are disposed within the glass casing such that their tips face each other with a gap therebetween and project into the discharge space, and their base ends are embedded in the sealing parts and overlap surfaces of metal foils provided in the sealing parts. Each base end is coated with a coating foil made of metal and having a C-like cross section with a slit formed between edges thereof. An end of the coating foil farthest from the light-emitting part is located closer to the light-emitting part than an end of the metal foil closest to the light-emitting part. | 12-19-2013 |
20140117836 | HIGH-PRESSURE DISCHARGE LAMP AND PROJECTOR HAVING THE HIGH-PRESSURE LAMP - A high-pressure discharge lamp having an electrode including an electrode rod, a melted part and a coil part, and satisfying | 05-01-2014 |
Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120022711 | POWER INFORMATION COLLECTING APPARATUS, POWER MEASURING APPARATUS, POWER INFORMATION COLLECTING SYSTEM, AND POWER INFORMATION COLLECTING METHOD - A power information collecting apparatus efficiently collects power information including a power consumption level of each of a plurality of devices. A power information collecting apparatus ( | 01-26-2012 |
20120022815 | POWER COLLECTION DEVICE, POWER MEASUREMENT DEVICE, AND POWER COLLECTION METHOD - A power collecting device ( | 01-26-2012 |
20120173177 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES - Provided is a measurement unit ( | 07-05-2012 |
20150381733 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication device according to the present invention aims to restart data transmission/reception between communication devices in a short amount of time, without performing key sharing again, even when a communication device of a transmitting side is rebooted. The communication device includes a volatile memory storing a count value, a generator generating data including a count value, a communicator transmitting data to another communication device, a storage instructor, each time the communicator transmits data, updating the volatile memory with a count value, and a nonvolatile memory. A count value is incremented each time the communicator transmits data, the storage instructor causes the nonvolatile memory to store a count value at certain intervals, and the generator, when the communication device is rebooted, includes in data a sum of a certain value and a count value stored in the nonvolatile memory. | 12-31-2015 |
Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110189348 | COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING SUCRALOSE AND APPLICATION THEREOF - Novel utilization of sucralose which is a high intense sweetener. Compositions containing sucralose including: sweetening compositions having excellent sweetness qualities based on the characteristics of sucralose; foods with a masked unpleasant smell and unpleasant taste; performance food compositions (viscous food compositions, gel food compositions, emulsified food compositions); foods with improved flavors; preservatives and foods with improved quality of taste; and flavor compositions with improved flavors. Novel utilization of sucralose as a sweetener improver, a masking agent for unpleasant smell/unpleasant taste, a flavor improver, a function improver (viscosity, gelling properties, emulsification properties), a taste characteristic improver, and a flavor improver/enhancer. | 08-04-2011 |
20120121734 | COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING SUCRALOSE AND APPLICATION THEREOF - Novel utilization of sucralose which is a high intense sweetener. Compositions containing sucralose including: sweetening compositions having excellent sweetness qualities based on the characteristics of sucralose; foods with a masked unpleasant smell and unpleasant taste; performance food compositions (viscous food compositions, gel food compositions, emulsified food compositions); foods with improved flavors; preservatives and foods with improved quality of taste; and flavor compositions with improved flavors. Novel utilization of sucralose as a sweetener improver, a masking agent for unpleasant smell/unpleasant taste, a flavor improver, a function improver (viscosity, gelling properties, emulsification properties), a taste characteristic improver, and a flavor improver/enhancer. | 05-17-2012 |
Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100141783 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device ( | 06-10-2010 |
20110206296 | SUPER-RESOLUTION PROCESSOR AND SUPER-RESOLUTION PROCESSING METHOD - A super-resolution processor according to the present invention includes: an N enlargement unit that generates an N-enlarged image by enlarging the input image by a factor N; an M enlargement unit that generates an M-enlarged image by enlarging the input image by a factor M; a high-pass filter unit that extracts a high-frequency component of the M-enlarged image, as an M-enlarged high-frequency image; a patch extraction unit that extracts an estimated patch of a predetermined size from the M-enlarged high-frequency image, the estimated patch being a part of the M-enlarged high-frequency image; and an addition unit that adds the estimated patch to a processing target block of the predetermined size in the N-enlarged image, to generate the output image, where M is smaller than N. | 08-25-2011 |
20110222783 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSOR, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processor generates an output image of a resolution higher than a resolution of an input image, using the input image. The image processor includes: an obtaining unit configured to obtain an edge strength of one of the input image and an image corresponding to the input image; a calculating unit configured to calculate, based on the edge strength, J that is a count of data items to be used for generating a synthesized image to be used in generating the output image, where J is an integer equal to or larger than 2; and a generating unit configured to generate the synthesized image by synthesizing J data items, and generate the output image using the synthesized image. | 09-15-2011 |
20120269445 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSOR, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND PROGRAM - In the image processing method capable of appropriately increasing a resolution of an input image: an edge direction that is a direction along an edge included in the input image is identified; a shape of an application region that is a region including at least a part of the edge is determined according to the identified edge direction; an image similar to an image within the application region having the determined shape is searched for; and an output image is generated by performing a resolution conversion process on the input image using the similar image so that the input image includes high-frequency components. | 10-25-2012 |
20130034271 | SUPER-RESOLUTION PROCESSOR AND SUPER-RESOLUTION PROCESSING METHOD - A super-resolution processor in one aspect of the present invention first estimates a motion between an input image and a delayed input image which is obtained by delaying the input image by some frames, and determines a motion vector in super-resolution processing of adding a high frequency component using a learning database. Subsequently, the super-resolution processor updates an evaluation value evaluated when a patch is extracted in a target block of the input image, so that a learned high frequency patch is likely to be selected, the learned high frequency patch being the same as the learned high frequency patch used for super-resolution processing performed at the position motion-compensated by the motion vector in the frame at the same time as the time of the delayed input image. | 02-07-2013 |
20130142422 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSOR - Included are (a) performing processes on second training data items stored in a training database to generate third training data items each obtained through a corresponding one of the processes, (b) selecting, from among the third training data items generated in step (a), a selection data item having a highest similarity to a feature data item of the input image, (c) generating a high-frequency data item by: determining (i) the second training data item used in generating the selection data item and (ii) a first process performed on the second training data item to generate the selection data item; and performing the first process on the first training data item that is paired with the determined second training data item; and (d) generating an output image by adding an image indicated by the high-frequency data item to the input image. | 06-06-2013 |
Patent application number | Description | Published |
20150277689 | DISPLAY INPUT APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM WITH DISPLAY INPUT CONTROL PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON - A display input apparatus includes a display, a touch panel, a gesture receiving section, a display control section, and a program receiving section. The display control section allows the display to display a setting item list composed of a plurality of setting items lined up in a first direction and a setting candidate list composed of a plurality of setting candidates listed for one of the plurality of setting items and lined up in a second direction, with the setting item list and the setting candidate list across each other. When the gesture receiving section receives a scroll gesture moving from the intersecting region to a predetermined program entry region on the display, the program receiving section receives, as a setting forming part of the program, the setting candidate presented in the intersecting region. | 10-01-2015 |
20150277750 | DISPLAY INPUT APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM WITH DISPLAY INPUT CONTROL PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON - In a display input apparatus, a display control section allows a display to display a setting item list of setting items lined up in a first direction and a first setting candidate list of setting candidates lined up in a second direction for one of the setting items, one list across the other, and provide, when a gesture receiving section receives a scroll gesture in the first direction via a touch panel, a scrolling display of the setting item list and a display of the first setting candidate list for the setting item presented in an intersecting region thereof with the setting item list, and provide, when the gesture receiving section receives a scroll gesture in the second direction via the touch panel, a scrolling display of the first setting candidate list. A setting receiving section receives as a changed setting the setting candidate presented in the intersecting region. | 10-01-2015 |
20160065506 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM WITH COMMUNICATION CONTROL PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON - A communication device includes an acceptance section, a mail data generating section, and a transmission section. The acceptance section is configured to accept a plurality of destination addresses and a mail text to be sent to the plurality of destination addresses. The mail data generating section is configured to generate, for every one of the plurality of destination addresses, mail data that contains the mail text, destination information indicating the one of the plurality of destination addresses as a destination, and destination address list information which indicates a list of the plurality of destination addresses arranged in order and in which the one destination address is placed higher in order than when accepted by the acceptance section. The transmission section is configured to send the mail data generated by the mail data generating section. | 03-03-2016 |