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20090322344 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TESTING ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device test method incorporating a stress application step that is effective in screening out infant mortality failures of an electronic device. More specifically, a method for testing an electronic device constructed from a single or a plurality of semiconductor components, includes: turning a power supply on and off repeatedly while changing the ON/OFF cycle and/or voltage value of the power supply that is connected to the electronic device; and verifying whether or not the electronic device operates normally after the power supply has been turned on and off repeatedly. | 12-31-2009 |
20100058094 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS - A data processing apparatus includes a CPU including a register, a cache memory, a main memory configured to exchange data with the cache memory, a control part configured to control the exchanging of data between the main memory and the cache memory, and a power supply part configured to supply power to the register, the cache memory, and the main memory. The register, the cache memory, and the main memory are each configured to store data and maintain the stored data therein without being supplied with the power from the power supply part. The control part is configured to stop the CPU from accessing the register, the cache memory, and the main memory where an abnormality occurs in the power supply part. | 03-04-2010 |
20110010508 | Memory system and information processing device - A memory system includes a first memory that is used as a main memory of a target device, a second memory that has an access speed lower than that of the first memory, a securing section that secures a predetermined area of the first memory as a temporary storage area of the second memory, and a memory control section that receives an instruction to write data into the second memory, temporarily stores the data into the first memory and also transfers the stored data from the first memory to the second memory. | 01-13-2011 |
20110314347 | MEMORY ERROR DETECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A memory error detecting apparatus for detecting an error of a subject memory, the memory error detecting apparatus includes a memory bus connected to the subject memory, a mirror memory connected to the memory bus so as to receive the same data as data to be written into and read from the subject memory, the received data being written into the mirror memory, an address acquiring portion configured to acquire an address related to the data written into the subject memory, a mirror memory controller configured to control data writing or reading to or from the mirror memory on the basis of the acquired address, a comparator configured to compare data read from the subject memory and data read from the mirror memory, and an error detector configured to detect a data error on the basis of a result of the comparison. | 12-22-2011 |
20120254663 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A semiconductor memory device is disclosed that includes an ODT circuit configured to be connected to a bus which transmits a data signal or a data strobe signal between a memory block and an input-output terminal; a first switch configured to be inserted into the bus between the memory block and the ODT circuit; a mode controller configured to switch off the first switch during a test of the memory block; and an oscillator configured to be connected to the ODT circuit, wherein a test signal is supplied to the ODT circuit from the oscillator during the test of the memory block. | 10-04-2012 |
20130145233 | MEMORY MODULE AND SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE - A memory module includes a plurality of memory chips stacked on top of one another, each of the plurality of memory chips including a memory cell unit that is divided into a plurality of blocks, and an address scrambling circuit that processes an input address signal and that selects a block to be operated. | 06-06-2013 |
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20150076471 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A display device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, an organic light emitting layer, a first transistor, and a second transistor. The first transistor includes a first semiconductor layer, a first conductive unit, a second conductive unit, a first gate electrode, and a first gate insulating film. The second transistor includes a second semiconductor layer, a third conductive unit, a fourth conductive unit, a second gate electrode, and a second gate insulating film. An amount of hydrogen included in the first gate insulating film is larger than an amount of hydrogen included in the second gate insulating film. | 03-19-2015 |
20150084021 | SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT, DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DISPLAY DEVICE - A semiconductor element includes a semiconductor layer, a first and a second conductive unit, a gate electrode, and a gate insulating film. The semiconductor layer includes a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion provided between the first portion and the second portion. The first conductive unit is electrically connected to the first portion. The second conductive unit is electrically connected to the second portion. The gate electrode is separated from the first conductive unit, the second conductive unit, and the third portion. The gate electrode opposes the third portion. The gate insulating film is provided between the third portion and the gate electrode. A concentration of nitrogen of the first portion is higher than a concentration of nitrogen of the third portion. A concentration of nitrogen of the second portion is higher than the concentration of nitrogen of the third portion. | 03-26-2015 |
20150084040 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND IMAGING DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer including a first semiconductor portion and a second semiconductor portion being continuous with the first semiconductor portion, a first gate electrode, a second gate electrode, an insulating film. The first semiconductor portion includes a first portion, a second portion and a third portion provided between the first portion and the second portion. The second semiconductor portion includes a fourth portion separated from the first portion, a fifth portion separated from the second portion, and a sixth portion provided between the forth portion and the fifth portion. The first gate electrode is separated from the third portion. The second gate electrode is separated from the sixth portion. The insulating film is provided at a first position between the first gate electrode and the semiconductor layer and at a second position between the second gate electrode and the semiconductor layer. | 03-26-2015 |
20150084042 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - According to one embodiment, a thin film transistor includes a first insulating film, a gate electrode, a semiconductor layer, a gate insulator film, a second insulating film, a source electrode, a tunneling insulating portion, and a drain electrode. The semiconductor layer is provided between the gate electrode and the first insulating film, and includes an amorphous oxide. The gate insulator film is provided between the semiconductor layer and the gate electrode. The second insulating film is provided between the semiconductor layer and the first insulating film. The tunneling insulating portion is provided between the semiconductor layer and the source electrode, and between the semiconductor layer and the drain electrode, and between the first insulating film and the second insulating film. The tunneling insulating portion includes oxygen and at least one selected from aluminum and magnesium. A thickness of the tunneling insulating portion is 2 nanometers or less. | 03-26-2015 |
20150087093 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANUFACTURING DISPLAY DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a method is disclosed for manufacturing a display device. The method can include forming a first resin layer on a substrate. The method can include forming a display layer on the first resin layer. The display layer includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a direction perpendicular to a stacking direction of the first resin layer and the display layer. Each of the pixels includes a first electrode provided on the first resin layer, an organic light emitting layer provided on the first electrode, and a second electrode provided on the organic light emitting layer. The method can include bonding a second resin layer onto the display layer via a bonding layer. The method can include removing the substrate. The method can include increasing a density of the bonding layer. | 03-26-2015 |
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20080232715 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - When different images are combined, the corresponding parts are to be aligned accurately. To thus combine images, the feature point of each pixel is calculated from each original image using an operator (filter). The pixels are divided into blocks that the resolution matches that of the reduced image of each original image, and an expectation value map for registering the expectation value of the feature point of each block is drawn. Feature points are expected from the expectation values which the expectation value map holds, and reduced images are superposed one on the other. The feature points of the original images corresponding to the feature points between which the correspondence is derived from the reduced images are extracted, and the original images are superposed one on the other using the extracted feature points. | 09-25-2008 |
20090010342 | DATA TRANSFER DEVICE AND DATA TRANSFER METHOD - The present invention aims at providing an image data transfer device capable of transferring image data in real time with a simple comprisal. The device according to the present invention calculates both the number of lines of the image data to be transferred in one cycle and the volume of data corresponding to the aforementioned number of lines on the basis of the category of the image data, stores data in an amount that is equivalent to the aforementioned number of lines of the image data processed by a variable length coding, calculates the difference between the calculated data volume corresponding to the number of lines and the volume of data stored, adds invalid data to the data stored in an amount that is equivalent to the calculated difference and generates, transmits a packet on the basis of the data to which the invalid data has been added. | 01-08-2009 |
20090150942 | MULTICHANNEL DATA TRANSFER APPARATUS AND ITS METHOD - The multichannel data transfer apparatus is connected to a transmission line in which a plurality of connected nodes have their respective transmission channels and transmit compressed data in a predetermined present embodiment in accordance with bandwidths assigned to the respective channels, and the multichannel data transfer apparatus includes a calculating device that, when there is a request to change the number of transmission channels used to transmit compressed data in the transmission period, calculates a data compression rate and a transmission bandwidth for each of the transmission channels to be used in transmitting the compressed data to the transmission line when the number of the transmission channels is actually changed, and a notifying device that notifies each transmission channel of at least one of the calculated transmission bandwidth and transmission compression rate. | 06-11-2009 |
20110257534 | PHOTOELECTRIC SPHYGMOGRAPH MEASUREMENT DEVICE - A photoelectric sphygmograph measurement device includes a light emitting part emitting light pulses, a light receiving part having a light receiving element that receives the light pulses and producing a corresponding output signal, and a control part driving the light emitting part to emit the light pulses and performing a pulse wave measurement by using the output signal. The control part drives the light emitting part so that a charge accumulated in the light emitting element converges on a predetermined amount in a case where the charge accumulated in the light receiving element decreases to the predetermined amount or less during a time when driving of the light emitting part is stopped and/or in a case where the light receiving element changes to a first state in which the light receiving element is capable of receiving the light pulses from a second state in which the light receiving element is not capable of receiving the light pulses. | 10-20-2011 |
20120197091 | WAKEFUL-STATE DATA GENERATING APPARATUS AND WAKEFULNESS DEGREE DETERMINING APPARATUS - A wakeful-state data generating apparatus includes at least one processor and at least one storage device, the at least one storage device configured to; store a first correlation between value of variation in heartbeat interval and maximum spectral density, and store a second correlation between heartbeat rate and wakeful-state maximum frequency, the at least one processor configured to; calculate a value of variation in heartbeat interval from a heartbeat signal of a subject, estimate a wakeful-state maximum spectral density of the subject, on the basis of the first correlation and the calculated value of variation, calculate a heartbeat rate from the heartbeat signal, estimate a wakeful-state maximum frequency of the subject, on the basis of the second correlation and the calculated heartbeat rate, and generate wakeful-state data including the estimated wakeful-state maximum spectral density and the estimated wakeful-state maximum frequency. | 08-02-2012 |
20130022209 | NOISE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A noise processing apparatus measures a first potential difference signal, between a first electrode and a second electrode that is used as a reference electrode, and measures a second potential difference signal, between the second electrode and a third electrode that is arranged on the steering unit in the apparatus. The apparatus calculates the difference between the intensities of the first potential difference signal and the second potential difference signal calculated at the predetermined intervals. The apparatus corrects the first potential difference signal or the second potential difference signal by using the calculated difference such that the intensities of the first potential difference signal and the second potential difference signal are canceled out. The apparatus calculates a differential signal indicating the difference between the first potential difference signal and the second potential difference signal by using the corrected potential difference signal, and outputs the differential signal. | 01-24-2013 |
20140289208 | DATA COMPRESSION APPARATUS, DATA COMPRESSION METHOD, DATA DECOMPRESSION APPARATUS, AND DATA DECOMPRESSION METHOD - In a data compression apparatus, a search unit examines the sequence of symbols in compression target data, and searches for a second symbol string having the same sequence of symbols as a first symbol string that occurred previously, and a code generation unit encodes the second symbol string into a code containing information that specifies a block to which the beginning of the first symbol string belongs. In a data decompression apparatus, a code acquisition unit sequentially acquires codes from the beginning of the compressed data, and when the code of the second symbol string is acquired, a decompression unit acquires, from a storage device, one or more blocks starting with a block to which the beginning of the decompressed first symbol string belongs, on the basis of the information contained in the acquired code, and decompresses the second symbol string. | 09-25-2014 |
20150154461 | DRIVING SUPPORT APPARATUS, DRIVING SUPPORT METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING DRIVING SUPPORT PROGRAM - A driving support apparatus includes a line-of-data judgment unit configured to judge a type of line-of-sight data indicating a direction of the line of sight of a driver; an estimation unit configured to estimate an attentive watching state of the driver on a target area to be attentively watched by performing based on the target area being set depending on a driving situation based on vehicle state information and a direction of the line of sight indicated by a plurality of pieces of line-of-sight data acquired in a judgment time; and a confidence-level-calculation unit configured to calculate a confidence level of an estimation result of the attentive watching state by performing based on one of setting accuracy of the target area, and a configuration state of line-of-sight data associated with each type of the plurality of pieces of line-of-sight data acquired in the judgment time. | 06-04-2015 |