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20080227403 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION BASE STATION DEVICE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD ALLOWING USE OF PLURALITY OF COMMUNICATION SCHEMES - A wireless communication base station device uses first and second wireless communication schemes. The device includes a command transmitting section and a terminal detecting section. The command transmitting section generates a shift command for a shift from the first wireless communication scheme to the second wireless communication scheme. The command transmitting section transmits the shift command to a wireless communication terminal. The first wireless communication scheme uses a frequency bandwidth different from that used in the second wireless communication scheme. The terminal detecting section, after the transmission of the shift command, searches for a wireless communication terminal having failed to shift from the first wireless communication scheme to the second wireless communication scheme. The terminal detecting section, if the wireless communication terminal having failed in the shift is detected, instructs the command transmitting section to transmit the shift command again. | 09-18-2008 |
20090092110 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD USING VARIABLE TRANSMISSION RATE - A wireless communication apparatus includes a transmission section and a control section. The transmission section transmits data using wireless communication. The control section controls a transmission rate for the transmission section. The control section limits data size of data to be transmitted to at most a prescribed value and requests a transmission acknowledgement, during a period from immediately after a change in the transmission rate until number of times that the transmission section transmits data reaches a prescribed number of times. | 04-09-2009 |
20090232053 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS HAVING ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FUNCTION AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication apparatus includes a reception unit, an information management unit, and a transmission unit. The reception unit receives data including a plurality of data frames. The data frames are transmitted from an identical data source and managed by an identical traffic identifier. The information management unit retains acknowledgement information to perform an acknowledgement. The information management unit discards an already-retaining acknowledgement information when the data is newly received. The transmission unit performs the acknowledgement to the data source of the data using the acknowledgement information. The transmission unit performs the acknowledgement to the data corresponding to the acknowledgement information irrespective of a request of the acknowledgement from the data source when the information management unit discards the acknowledgement information or when a prediction on the discard of the acknowledgement information is made. | 09-17-2009 |
20100085950 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication device includes a physical layer protocol processor which can transmit and receive data by first to Nth communication schemes, where ith communication scheme has compatibility with the first to (i−1)th communication scheme. A first controller generates a first frame for forbidding communication by the first to Nth communication schemes for a first period, and orders the physical layer protocol processor to transmit the first frame by the first communication scheme. A second controller generates a second frame for lifting the forbiddance on communication, and orders the physical layer protocol processor to transmit the second frame by a jth communication scheme. A third controller generates a third frame for forbidding communication by a (j+1)th to Nth communication schemes for a second period, and orders the physical layer protocol processor to transmit the third frame by the (j+1)th communication scheme. | 04-08-2010 |
20100329231 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS WITH PHYSICAL LAYER PROCESSING MODULE AND MAC LAYER PROCESSING MODULE AND ITS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication apparatus includes a first module, a second module, an inhibit module, a calculation module, and a control module. The first module constitutes a first system. The first system transmits and receives first data to and from a first device. The second module constitutes a second system. The second system transmits and receives second data to and from a second device in each interval time-divided with determined transmission timing. The inhibit module generates inhibit periods for preventing the first module from communicating by use of the first data. The calculation module calculates an occupation time required for the transmission and reception of the first data. The control module compares the period between the inhibit periods adjacent to one another with the occupation time and, according to the comparison result, instructs the first device to stop or delay the transmission of the first data. | 12-30-2010 |
20120069828 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD THEREOF - According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes a first transmitting/receiving unit, a first physical processor, and a first MAC processor. The first transmitting/receiving unit transmits one first wireless signal and receives a second wireless signal by a first wireless communication method using a frequency band with a certain bandwidth. The first physical processor decodes the second wireless signal to obtain a frame and encodes a frame of the first wireless signal to be transmitted. The first MAC processor supplies a control frame generated by embedding a first frame to a MAC header of a second frame to the physical processor as the frame. The first frame is recognizable by the first wireless communication method and a second wireless communication method. The second frame is recognizable by the first wireless communication method but is not recognizable by the second wireless communication method. | 03-22-2012 |
20130007393 | MEMORY DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a semiconductor memory, a memory controller which controls the semiconductor memory according to a request from outside the device, a radio section for wireless communication, and a controller. The controller manages storing data in the device according to a procedure for protecting copyright, obtains the latest version of a parameter for protecting copyright which can be updated from outside the device via the radio section, includes a comparator which compares the parameter stored in the device with the latest version of the parameter, and includes an update manager which updates the stored parameter to the latest version of the parameter when they are different. | 01-03-2013 |
20130094492 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS WITH PHYSICAL LAYER PROCESSING MODULE AND MAC LAYER PROCESSING MODULE AND ITS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication apparatus includes a first module, a second module, an inhibit module, a calculation module, and a control module. The first module constitutes a first system. The first system transmits and receives first data to and from a first device. The second module constitutes a second system. The second system transmits and receives second data to and from a second device in each interval time-divided with determined transmission timing. The inhibit module generates inhibit periods for preventing the first module from communicating by use of the first data. The calculation module calculates an occupation time required for the transmission and reception of the first data. The control module compares the period between the inhibit periods adjacent to one another with the occupation time and, according to the comparison result, instructs the first device to stop or delay the transmission of the first data. | 04-18-2013 |
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20120259218 | SUBJECT INFORMATION OBTAINING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR OBTAINING SUBJECT INFORMATION, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A subject information obtaining apparatus includes a plurality of conversion elements configured to receive an elastic wave that has propagated from a subject and convert the elastic wave into a plurality of electrical signals, a frequency-domain interferometry adaptive processing unit configured to execute a frequency-domain interferometry method and adaptive signal processing using the plurality of electrical signals and obtain power intensity distribution by calculating power intensity at each position on a plurality of scan lines, and a correction unit configured to execute a correction process by which variation in power intensity between adjacent scan lines in a direction that intersects with the scan lines is reduced. | 10-11-2012 |
20130338944 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS - Provided is a signal processing apparatus including: an transducer that performs scanning over the interior of an object and acquires received waveform data of a plurality of scanlines; an intensity screening unit that outputs a high intensity position at which signal intensity calculated from the received waveform data is higher than a first predetermined value; a correlation calculation unit that calculates a correlation value in a constant-width division for received waveform data of a first scanline and of a second scanline having a predetermined correlation with the first scanline; a position extraction unit that extracts, as a candidate position of a singular region, a position which corresponds to a high intensity position and for which the correlation value is lower than a second predetermined value; and an image processor that performs signal processing of generating image data of the object on the basis of the received waveform data. | 12-19-2013 |
20140313856 | OBJECT INFORMATION ACQUISITION APPARATUS, OBJECT INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An object information acquisition apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of transducer elements each configured to transmit an acoustic wave to an object, to receive reflected waves reflected from inside the object, and to convert the reflected waves into a time-series reception signal; and a processor configured to perform frequency domain interferometry combined with adaptive signal processing by using the reception signals output from the plurality of transducer elements and a reference signal so as to obtain acoustic characteristics at a plurality of positions located inside the object. The processor is configured to switch the reference signal to another reference signal at least once in accordance with a target position located inside the object while performing the frequency domain interferometry so as to obtain the acoustic characteristics at the plurality of positions located inside the object. | 10-23-2014 |
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20110083511 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, ULTRASONIC APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR ULTRASONIC APPARATUS - A signal processing apparatus scans a beam of elastic waves into an object to be examined, acquires received waveform data of a plurality of scan lines, and performs signal processing to form a tomographic image of said object to be examined from the received waveform data of the plurality of scan lines. The signal processing apparatus includes a scan line correlation calculation part ( | 04-14-2011 |
20110098568 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD USING ULTRASOUND AND ABERRATION CORRECTION METHOD - An ultrasound image forming method comprises a first step of receiving a first signal reflected from the object, a second step of obtaining an aberration correction value based on the first signal thus received, a third step of receiving a second signal reflected from the object when a second ultrasound corrected based on the aberration correction value is transmitted to the object, and a fourth step of forming an image from the aberration correction value and the second signal. The center frequency of the second ultrasound is between 0.5 MHz and 20 MHz, the center frequency of the first ultrasound is between 3/16 and 9/20 of the center frequency of the second ultrasound. By this method, an accurate aberration correction value can be obtained and an ultrasound imaging with high resolution can be achieved even if aberrations are large and difficult to correct. | 04-28-2011 |
20140206998 | OBJECT INFORMATION ACQUIRING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR SAME - Provided is an object information acquiring apparatus including elements with which an acoustic wave is transmitted to and received from an object and converted into a plurality of received signals, a processor that acquires a power intensity signal of the inside of the object, and a corrector that corrects the power intensity signal, the processor being configured to calculate correlation values of frequency components, perform frequency average processing on a correlation matrix that is a set of the plurality of calculated correlation values to acquire a first power intensity signal, and reduce variance of elements in the diagonal direction of the correlation matrix to acquire a second power intensity signal, and the corrector being configured to output a power intensity signal subjected to correction processing. | 07-24-2014 |
20140213902 | SUBJECT INFORMATION OBTAINING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR OBTAINING SUBJECT INFORMATION, AND PROGRAM - A subject information obtaining apparatus includes: a plurality of conversion elements configured to receive an elastic wave and convert the elastic wave into a plurality of received signals, a storage unit configured to store a plurality of reference signals corresponding to shapes of the object inside a subject, and an FDI adaptive processing unit configured to execute the FDI method and the adaptive signal processing using the plurality of received signals and two or more reference signals among the plurality of reference signals, in order to obtain two or more power intensity distributions for the two or more reference signals. | 07-31-2014 |
20140219060 | SUBJECT INFORMATION OBTAINING APPARATUS, SUBJECT INFORMATION OBTAINING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A subject information obtaining apparatus according includes: plurality of conversion elements configured to convert an elastic wave from a subject into a plurality of reception signals, a delay and sum unit configured to perform a delay and sum process by using the plurality of reception signals and output a plurality of scanning line signals, a scanning line synthesis unit configured to add the plurality of scanning line signals between adjacent scanning lines and output a plurality of synthesis scanning line signals, and an FDI adaptive processing unit configured to perform a frequency domain interferometry and an adaptive signal processing by using the plurality of synthesis scanning line signals and obtain a power intensity distribution. | 08-07-2014 |
20140288431 | SUBJECT INFORMATION ACQUISITION APPARATUS, SUBJECT INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A subject information acquisition apparatus of the present invention includes a transmission/reception unit including a plurality conversion elements which transmit an elastic wave to the subject and receive a reflected wave that is reflected at each position in the subject, a scan line signal acquisition unit which acquires a plurality of signals corresponding to the reflected waves from each position in the subject as scan line signals by using a plurality of reception signals outputted from the conversion elements, and a processing unit which acquires moving information of the object by using the plurality of scan line signals. The processing unit acquires the moving information of the object on the basis of a distribution of cross-correlation values on a plane represented by two axes including an axis of time difference and an axis of distance difference by using a plurality of cross-correlation values between scan line signals at different positions. | 09-25-2014 |
20140318253 | OBJECT INFORMATION ACQUIRING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Adopted is an object information acquiring apparatus that includes: a probe including multiple conversion elements that transmit acoustic waves to an object, and convert the reflected waves into time-series received signals; and a processor that performs frequency domain interferometry, through application of adaptive signal processing, by using the multiple received signals output from the multiple conversion elements and a reference signal, and obtains acoustic properties of multiple positions. The probe is configured such that, when a direction in which the multiple conversion elements are arranged is a first direction and a second direction, end portions in the second direction have a lower transmission sound pressure of the acoustic waves than a midportion in the second direction. | 10-30-2014 |
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20120322525 | LIFE AND DEATH JUDGEMENT SYSTEM FOR GO GAME - A life and death judgment system for a go game played with a computer comprising an input reception unit that receives an input by a player, a life and death judgment processing unit that judges whether judgment subject stones or target stones are alive, and an output processing unit that outputs the result of the life and death judgment is provided. The life and death judgment processing unit tentatively determines the priority of a move at each point when implementing the judgment in a judgment realm, judges a point of a move with a high possibility and/or a move with a low possibility of a result of the judgment, changes the priority of the point of the move with a high possibility with respect to each priority of the tentatively determined point, and undertakes the move of each stone based on the priority after such change, thereby out implement the judgment. | 12-20-2012 |
20130273988 | SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING LIFE AND DEATH IN GAMES OF GO - A system is for assessing life and death in go games played on a computer. and includes an input-receiving unit for receiving input from a player, an assessment unit that assesses the life and death of target stones, and an output unit for outputting the results of the assessment in the assessment unit. The assessment unit receives input specifying one or more target stones, specifies the points on the board where a boundary and a board edge are within a prescribed distance from each other, revises the assessment area by expanding the assessment area, assesses an optional stone in the post-revision assessment area to be alive if said stone escapes and was a target stone, and if said stone was not a target stone, performs a life and death assessment after adding the condition that said stone is not captured and a target stone connected to said stone is alive. | 10-17-2013 |
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20090174350 | Control system for multiphase electric rotating machine - A control system controls a multiphase rotating machine by a 120° energization process and a PWM process. In the 120° energization process, respective ones of switching elements of a high side arm and switching elements of a low side arm of a power conversion circuit are turned on. In the PWM process, the switching elements of the power conversion circuit turn on/off so that two phases that are connected to the switching elements that are in the on-state are alternately rendered conductive to the high potential side input terminal and the low potential side input terminal of the power conversion circuit. | 07-09-2009 |
20120306299 | SEMICONDUCTOR MODULE AND DRIVING APPARATUS INCLUDING SEMICONDUCTOR MODULE - In a semiconductor module, a high-potential side conductor includes a wide section on which the high-potential side switching element is mounted, a high-potential side terminal coupled with a high potential source, and a narrow section extending from the wide section to the high-potential side terminal in a first direction. The wide section is wider than the narrow section in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The wide section has a first side and a second side opposite to the first side in the second direction. A distance between the first side of the wide section and a low-potential side conductor is shorter than a distance between the second side of the wide section and the low-potential side conductor. The narrow section extends from a portion of the wide section closer to the first side than the second side. | 12-06-2012 |
20120307476 | CONTROL UNIT AND DRIVING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - Power terminals of power modules are magnetically coupled to power-output terminals and power-input terminals. A heat sink has parallel surfaces, which are in parallel to the power modules and the power terminals. A magnetic field, which is generated by electric current flowing through switching devices and the power terminals, is cancelled by a magnetic field, which is generated by eddy current flowing in the heat sink. | 12-06-2012 |
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20100079876 | LENS ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF DISPOSING OPTICAL MEMBER IN CERAMIC LENS FRAME - A lens assembly has: optical members including lenses and spacing rings; and a ceramic lens frame into which the optical members are inserted. A solid lubricant is applied to at least one of a part of the inner peripheral surface of the ceramic lens frame, which part is to be in contact with at least the outer peripheral surfaces of the optical members, and the outer peripheral surfaces of the optical members. Subsequently, the lenses and spacing rings are alternately inserted into the ceramic lens frame and then pressed by a pressing ring. | 04-01-2010 |
20100079877 | LENS ASSEMBLY AND IMAGE-TAKING APPARATUS - A lens frame is made of ceramic having a linear expansion coefficient that is about the same as the linear expansion coefficient (5 to 10×10 | 04-01-2010 |
20100079879 | LENS ASSEMBLY AND IMAGE-TAKING APPARATUS - A lens assembly includes a barrel having an object-side opening and an image-forming-side opening. The barrel further has a positioning section that positions an image-forming-side surface of a lens by having line contact around an optical axis at a center. The positioning section is disposed at a position that is closer to an object side than the image-forming-side opening of the barrel is. The barrel also has an image-forming section that extends from the positioning section to a center of the optical axis along the image-forming-side surface of the lens and forms an edge of the image-forming-side opening of the barrel. | 04-01-2010 |
20100079880 | METHOD OF PRODUCING MOLDED CERAMIC PRODUCT, MOLDED CERAMIC PRODUCT AND IMAGE-TAKING APPARATUS - Ceramic is molded to produce a molded ceramic product, using a mold that has a portion for forming the trough of a first thread formed on the molded ceramic product. The trough of the first thread is higher than the crest of a second thread formed on a mating component to be engaged with the first thread. Subsequently, the molded ceramic is fired. The trough of the first thread formed on the molded ceramic product thus produced has a depth that allows the trough of the first thread to avoid interference with the crest of the second thread of the mating component. | 04-01-2010 |
20100080552 | LENS FRAME, LENS ASSEMBLY AND IMAGE-TAKING APPARATUS - A lens assembly made of porous ceramic is provided with concave sections into which an adhesive for fixing lenses inserted into a lens frame is injected. Each of the concave sections has an outward opening and a spacing wall provided between a hollow part of the lens frame and the opening. The adhesive injected into the concave sections passes through multiple pores in the lens frame made of porous ceramic, and reaches the periphery of each of the lenses, thereby fixing the lenses to an inner wall of the hollow part of the lens frame. | 04-01-2010 |
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20110127949 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a battery, a detection module, a setting module, and a charging module. The battery is configured to be chargeable by power from an external power supply. The detection module is configured to detect whether the battery is in a first charging state or a second charging state, a capacity of the second charging state is lower than the first charging state. The setting module is configured to set a charging end capacity of the second charging state, after passing of a preset period since the detection module detects that the battery is in the first charging state. The charging module is configured to charge the battery up to a capacity indicated by the charging end capacity. | 06-02-2011 |
20130290764 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, CHARGING CONTROL DEVICE, AND CHARGING CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus performs a communication with a portable device detachably attached to a port of the apparatus. The apparatus supplies bus power to the portable device through the port. The apparatus includes a notification module configured to execute an operation of notifying the portable device whether the port is a first type port configured to supply a first charging current or a second type port configured to supply a second charging current higher than the first charging current. The apparatus controls, when a remaining level of a battery of the apparatus is lower than a threshold, an operation of the notification module such that the portable device recognizes the port as the first type port. | 10-31-2013 |
20140189394 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND POWER-SUPPLY CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, a electronics device includes a setting module, a determination module, a control module. The setting module is configured to set a power consumption reference value for a predetermined period of time. The determination module is configured to determine whether an amount of power consumption of an external power supply exceeds the power consumption reference value in the predetermined period of time. The control module is configured to cause a power reduction process to be performed when the amount of power consumption is determined as exceeding the power consumption reference value, the power reduction process reducing the amount of power consumption of the external power supply. | 07-03-2014 |
20140379951 | SYSTEM AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, an external device includes a switching module configured to switch an external display, which is to be connected to a port of a display control circuit in an information processing device, between first and second external displays connected to the external device. A controller detects a state of a first detection signal representing whether or not a first external display is connected to the external device and a state of a second detection signal representing whether or not a second external display is connected to the external device. The controller controls the switching module based on the detected states of the first and second detection signals and a display priority. | 12-25-2014 |
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20100050961 | ENGINE FOR VEHICLE - A vehicle engine in which a water temperature sensor can be protected against debris or foreign matter such as earth and sand, flying stones, etc., from impacting the temperature sensor without taking any protective measure for exclusive use. A vehicle engine includes a head portion of the cylinder fitted with a water temperature sensor for detecting water temperature in a water jacket. The head portion of the cylinder is provided on one side thereof with a sensor mounting hole opening directly under an upstream end opening portion of an intake port. The water temperature sensor is mounted in the sensor mounting hole. Further, the head portion of the cylinder is formed with a left-right pair of hanger bosses which are opposed to each other, with the water temperature sensor therebetween. Engine hanger brackets extend from the body frame and are firmly attached to the hanger bosses. | 03-04-2010 |
20100050976 | ENGINE FOR VEHICLE - A vehicle engine includes the crankcase for supporting thereon the crankshaft, the input shaft and the output shaft, with the crankcase being composed of a left case half and a right case half which are joined to each other at a plane orthogonal to the axis of the crankshaft. A starter motor together with a speed sensor, for detecting the vehicle speed from the rotation of a gear in a transmission, are mounted to an upper surface of the crankcase. The starter motor is arranged at a portion, just above the input shaft, of the upper surface of the crankcase, while the speed sensor for detecting the rotation of a gear on the output shaft is arranged at a portion, just above the output shaft, of the upper surface of the crankcase. The crankcase is formed with a raised wall for covering one side surface of the speed sensor. | 03-04-2010 |
20110232477 | ENGINE COMPONENT INCLUDING BREATHER APPARATUS, AND ENGINE BODY INCORPORATING SAME - An engine body includes a crankcase with a crank chamber therein, a cylinder block attached to the crankcase, and a breather passage which selectively permits fluid communication between the crank chamber and an area outside of the crank chamber. The engine body includes a one-way valve between the crank chamber and the breather passage, which allows a one-way flow of gases from the crank chamber to the breather passage. The one-way valve is pressure-operated and is operatively attached to a side wall of the engine body proximate a cylinder sleeve. The one-way valve may be mounted in a mounting window in a side wall of the crankcase, and a timing chamber may function as the breather passage. In an illustrative embodiment, the one-way valve includes a base plate having a valve hole formed therein, and a flexible reed valve plate with one end affixed to the base plate. | 09-29-2011 |
20110232592 | IGNITION PLUG COOLING DEVICE OF VEHICLE-USE ENGINE - An ignition plug cooling device of a vehicle engine for efficiently cooling the ignition plugs while increasing the freedom in the arrangement of the ignition plugs. A vehicle engine includes a first ignition plug and a second ignition plug for making respective electrodes thereof face a combustion chamber and are mounted on a cylinder head. An air flow passage through which a flow of air passes and a cooling oil chamber through which lubrication oil for the engine passes are formed in the cylinder head. The first ignition plug is arranged in the air flow passage to enable a cooling of the first ignition plug by the flow of air which passes through the air flow passage. The second ignition plug is arranged adjacent to the cooling oil chamber to enable a cooling of an area around the second ignition plug by oil which passes through the cooling oil chamber. | 09-29-2011 |
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20100233027 | CHEMICAL ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND CHEMICAL ANALYSIS METHOD - A chemical analysis apparatus comprising reaction containers containing therein a substance to be analyzed; an agitating mechanism spaced from the substance to be analyzed and agitating said substance to be analyzed with a liquid in said reaction container; and, a measuring portion for measuring physical properties of the substance to be analyzed, said agitating mechanism having a sound supply portion supplying sound waves to the substance to be analyzed, wherein said sound supply portion comprises a mechanism changing, in time, intensity of ultrasonic waves to be irradiated so as to apply pulsation to a swirl flow in the reaction container. | 09-16-2010 |
20110090247 | PARTICLE IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD AND APPARATUS - A particle image analyzing method is adapted so that while raising image-reviewing efficiency at a cropped image level of particle components in a sample, the entire sample can be observed without significantly changing a related apparatus configuration. Prior to image reviewing of an imaging region, cropped images thereof are reviewed and, with reference to the images arranged for each kind of particle component, if the operator judges any particles to have been falsely identified, the operator uses an operating unit to modify positions of the particles to those of correct component items. An overall image of the imaging region is displayed and if any components to be added (overlooked components) appear, the kinds of these components are identified and quantitative data on each kind of component is registered. Upon completion of the registration, the concentration of the sample is recalculated and a comment is entered in a comment field. | 04-21-2011 |
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20130311243 | ANALYZING DEVICE - An analyzing device requires regular maintenance for maintaining a predetermined analyzing performance thereof. However, the more complex the analyzing device becomes, the more number of maintenance items are provided. For example, if a plurality of types of maintenances to be performed by removing same component, efficiency may be improved by performing the same as a whole. However, when conforming with a manual, if recommended timings to perform the maintenance are shifted delicately, there is a probability of occurrence of a case where the same components are removed several times for maintenance during a short time. At the time when an instruction to perform maintenance is issued, maintenance items to be performed are extracted, the extracted maintenance items are sorted into a recommended performance order in conformity to a preset rule such that the similar maintenance or the maintenance of the same portion or the like are performed continuously. | 11-21-2013 |
20140147348 | CHEMICAL ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND CHEMICAL ANALYSIS METHOD - Chemical analysis apparatus for inserting a sample serving as an analyzable substance and a reagent into a reaction container and agitating by irradiating sound waves to the reaction container, the chemical analysis apparatus including: a piezoelectric element generating sound waves; and a driver for driving the piezoelectric element, and including: a wave form producing device for producing an oscillation waveform having a fundamental frequency of the sound waves to be irradiated; an auxiliary waveform producing device for producing an oscillation wave form having a frequency lower than that of the oscillation waveform; a multiplying circuit creating a multiplied waveform between the waveform and the wave form; and, a power amplifier for power-amplifying the multiplied waveform, wherein it is intermittently irradiated with the sound wave in the reaction container, and further, the wave form producing device has a function capable of frequency-modulation with a prescribed frequency width. | 05-29-2014 |
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20080304517 | IEEE 1394 TRANSMITTER, IEEE 1394 RECEIVER and AUDIO DATA CONTENT TRANSMISSION METHOD - There is provided an IEEE 1394 transmitter for transmitting a plurality of audio data contents, having an audio data generator configured to sample the plurality of audio data contents sequentially to generate format data of an audio data content; and an IEEE 1394 transmission controller configured to add an IEEE 1394 header packet to the format data of the audio data content. | 12-11-2008 |
20090290599 | Method and device for transmitting packets - A method for transmitting a packet including a packet data fragment and packet information with a transmission device, the method includes determining a concatenated quantity of packets based on size of the packet data fragment, generating a concatenated packet including packet data fragments corresponding to a plurality of first packets, wherein a number of the packet data fragments is determined based on the concatenated quantity, and packet information corresponding to the first packets, and transmitting the concatenated packet in any one of a plurality of communication cycles. | 11-26-2009 |
20090300246 | PACKET COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND PACKET COMMUNICATION METHOD - A packet communication device for switching packets to be transferred in packet communication which is time-managed in constant cycles, the packet communication device includes a changing section configured to change a portion of a first packet to be transmitted in each of the constant cycles. | 12-03-2009 |
20110158243 | METHOD OF DATA TRANSMISSION, DATA TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, AND NETWORK SYSTEM - A method of data transmission that includes: transmitting first data to be transferred in a synchronous packet using a second asynchronous packet having priority higher than that of a first asynchronous packet; and requesting transmission of second data following the first data using the second asynchronous packet after a lapse of a certain time from the transmission of the second asynchronous packet. | 06-30-2011 |
20120076142 | PACKET COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND PACKET COMMUNICATION METHOD - A packet communication device for switching packets to be transferred in packet communication which is time-managed in constant cycles, the packet communication device includes a changing section configured to change a portion of a first packet to be transmitted in each of the constant cycles. | 03-29-2012 |
20120151096 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, NETWORK SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication device including a comparison unit that compares a first identification number of which notification is provided by a packet that sequentially assigns identification numbers to a plurality of nodes in a network, and a second identification number, which is assigned to the communication device. A control unit notifies other nodes of the second identification number and that the identification number of the communication device has not been changed when the first identification number and the second identification number are in non-conformance. | 06-14-2012 |
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20090034021 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a scanning device and a printing device. The scanning device and the printing device are configured to be separately arranged when the image forming apparatus is in use. The printing device includes a control unit that transmits and receives signals to and from a plurality of units included in the scanning device, and a power supplying unit that supplies electric power to the units. The scanning device includes a first relay substrate that receives electric power from the power supplying unit and distributes the electric power to the units, and relays signals between each of the units and the control unit. | 02-05-2009 |
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20110063356 | Conveying distance control device, recording apparatus, conveying distance control method, and storage medium - A conveying distance control device includes a conveying roller; a first detecting unit detecting rotational positions of the conveying roller; a line sensor sequentially detecting marks arranged on a test chart; a calculation unit, and a control unit. The calculation unit calculates a skew angle between a line passing through positions of a first mark and a second mark and a conveying direction of the conveying roller. The control unit obtains conveying distance errors indicating differences between corrected conveying distances not including errors caused by the skew angle and theoretical conveying distance of the marks in association with the rotational positions of the conveying roller, calculates a correction value for correcting a conveying distance of the conveying roller based on relationships between the conveying distance errors and the rotational positions of the conveying roller, and controls the conveying distance of the conveying roller based on the correction value. | 03-17-2011 |
20110063696 | Sheet feeding apparatus, image forming apparatus and sheet feeding method - A sheet feeding apparatus is disclosed that includes a plurality of size sensors configured to be arranged in line and to detect a sheet set into a predetermined position; a feeding part configured to feed the sheet set into the predetermined position to a scan position; and a controller configured to control the feeding part to feed the sheet based on two detect signals output from two size sensors among the plurality of the size sensors. | 03-17-2011 |
20110211031 | ROLL PAPER CONVEYING APPARATUS, INKJET PRINTER, AND ROLL PAPER CONVEYING METHOD - A movable member encoder is used to detect the position of a movable member, and a correction value calculator calculates a correction value corresponding to the amount of displacement of the movable member from a reference position and the integration of the amount of displacement. The correction value calculated by the correction value calculator is then used in correcting a voltage instruction value output from a feed motor controller to a feed motor. | 09-01-2011 |
20110228027 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING POSITION DEVIATION - An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductor drum, a first printer head that forms a first pattern on the photoconductor drum and has a first end part, a second printer head that forms second and third patterns on the photoconductor drum and has a second end part that overlaps the first end part in a main scanning direction, a detection sensor that detects the densities of first and second test patterns formed at an area of the photoconductor drum at which the first and second end parts overlap, the first test pattern being formed by combining the first and second patterns, the second test pattern being formed by combining the first and third patterns, and a determination part that determines a deviation direction between the first and second printer heads by comparing the densities detected by the detection sensor. | 09-22-2011 |
20110298854 | Recording apparatus and control method therefor - A recording apparatus includes a carriage having a recording head including nozzles, a moving unit moving the carriage, a platen including plate members connected in a carriage traveling direction to support a recording medium when the nozzles eject ink onto the recording medium, a transferring unit transferring the recording medium in a transferring direction perpendicular to the carriage traveling direction, a recording control unit recording patterns at predetermined positions in the carriage traveling direction while moving the carriage in forward and backward traveling directions to form a carriage traveling direction pattern array, a determination unit determining ink ejecting times at the predetermined positions in the carriage traveling direction, and a time control unit to linearly interpolate between the determined ink ejecting times at the predetermined positions in the carriage traveling direction to control ink ejecting times for intervals between the predetermined positions based on a result of the linear interpolation. | 12-08-2011 |
20120069411 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND RECORDING APPARATUS - An image capturing device includes: a housing; a reference pattern used for color measurement and arranged in the housing; an image capturing element that captures an image of the reference pattern in a first area and an image of an object in a second area of the image capturing area; an image forming element causing the image of the reference pattern and the image of the object to be formed on the image capturing element by being arranged on a first optical path between the image capturing element and the reference pattern and a second optical path between the image capturing element and the object; and an optical member that guides any one of the images of the reference pattern and the object formed by the image forming element so that the images are to be formed on an element surface of the image capturing element. | 03-22-2012 |
20140218754 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND RECORDING APPARATUS - An image capturing device includes: a housing; a reference pattern used for color measurement and arranged in the housing; an image capturing element that captures an image of the reference pattern in a first area and an image of an object in a second area of the image capturing area; an image forming element causing the image of the reference pattern and the image of the object to be formed on the image capturing element by being arranged on a first optical path between the image capturing element and the reference pattern and a second optical path between the image capturing element and the object; and an optical member that guides any one of the images of the reference pattern and the object formed by the image forming element so that the images are to be formed on an element surface of the image capturing element. | 08-07-2014 |
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20080216078 | Request scheduling method, request scheduling apparatus, and request scheduling program in hierarchical storage management system - A request scheduling for scheduling requests to a secondary recording media while minimizing the frequency of recording-medium mounting/removing events in a secondary storage unit of an HSM (hierarchical storage management) system by searching for one or more request(s) processed or to be executed as executable on a drive unit, in units of the drive unit. According to the searching, detecting one or more generated read request(s) to read data from a recording medium mounted on the drive unit, and setting the drive unit as an exclusive drive for the read request(s). And scheduling a drive unit having an elapsed time period for a mounted recording media not exceeding a predetermined time period to execute an executable request by priority. | 09-04-2008 |
20100058090 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND POWER SAVING METHOD THEREOF - A storage system and method are provided. The storage system includes, redundant disk arrays to which the same data is written and a write/read control section which controls writing and reading of data to and from the redundant disk arrays in response to a write request and a read request. The system includes disk rotation control section which continuously rotates disks of one of the disk arrays to perform a read process for written data and stops the rotation of disks of the other disk array when writing of data to the redundant disk arrays is completed, and further stops, when the write/read control section determines that the frequency of read requests from the host apparatus becomes less than a predetermined value after the completion of the writing of data, the rotation of the disks of the one of the disk arrays in accordance with the determination. | 03-04-2010 |
20110191396 | STORAGE DEVICE AND DATA STORAGE CONTROL METHOD - A storage device include: an additional data storing unit storing data in file systems included in a disk array device; a data storing unit for selecting a file system in which the relocation has not been performed from the file systems as a file system in which the relocation is performed and storing data to be stored in the file system in which the relocation has not been performed in the file system in which the relocation is performed in a predetermined order; an area calculator calculating a free space in the file system in which the relocation is performed and data has been stored by the data storing unit; a data extraction unit extracting data that has not been stored in the file systems in which the relocation is completed or the file system in which the relocation is performed; and a data re-storing unit for storing the data. | 08-04-2011 |
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20110176111 | OPHTHALMIC PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS - An ophthalmic photographing apparatus includes: an interference optical system including a splitter that splits light, emitted from a measurement light source, into measurement light and reference light, and synthesizing the measurement light reflected on an eye with the reference light to guide the synthesized light to a detector; a driving part that moves an optical member arranged in the optical path to adjust an optical-path difference between the measurement light and the reference light; an image obtaining part that obtains a tomographic image of a fundus or an anterior segment based on a light receiving signal output from the detector; and a driving control unit that controls driving of the driving part to locate the optical member in a predetermined position corresponding to either a photographing mode for photographing the tomographic image of the fundus or a photographing mode for photographing the tomographic image of the anterior segment. | 07-21-2011 |
20120002164 | FUNDUS PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS - A fundus photographing apparatus for photographing a fundus of an examinee's eye includes: a fundus photographing optical system for obtaining a fundus image, including: an optical scanner that scans the fundus with measurement light including at least part of light emitted from a light source; and a light detector that receives light including reflected light from the fundus; a length information obtaining unit for obtaining length information on an axial direction of the eye; and a controller that adjusts driving information of the fundus photographing optical system in relation to a photographing range based on the length information obtained by the length information obtaining unit and controls the fundus photographing optical system based on the adjusted driving information to obtain a fundus image corresponding to a photographing range. | 01-05-2012 |
20130261612 | OPHTHALMIC LASER TREATMENT APPARATUS - An ophthalmic laser treatment apparatus includes a light interference optical unit, an irradiation unit, a luminance transition information detecting unit, a focused state detecting unit, and a guide unit. The light interference optical unit is configured to acquire a depth profile of a patient's eye tissue. The luminance transition information detecting unit is configured to control a first focus position adjusting unit to shift a focus position of a measurement light to acquire a depth profile in each focus position. The focused state detecting unit is configured to detect a focused state in the patient's eye tissue based on luminance transition information acquired by the luminance transition information detecting unit. The guide unit is configured to guide a focus position of a laser beam to be adjusted based on a result of detection of the focused state detecting unit. | 10-03-2013 |
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20110281819 | LOW-MOLECULAR POLYSULFATED HYALURONIC ACID DERIVATIVE AND MEDICINE CONTAINING SAME - A low-molecular-weight polysulfated hyaluronic acid derivative useful for prevention and/or treatment of an allergic disease. An agent for prevention and/or treatment of an allergic disease selected from pollinosis, allergic rhinitis, allergic conjunctivitis, atopic dermatitis, and asthma, represented by the following general formula (IA) or (IB); | 11-17-2011 |
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20120161103 | ELECTRICALLY PUMPED OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP - An electrically pumped optoelectronic semiconductor chip includes at least two radiation-active quantum wells comprising InGaN or consisting thereof. The optoelectronic semiconductor chip includes at least two cover layers which include AlGaN or consist thereof. Each of the cover layers is assigned to precisely one of the radiation-active quantum wells. The cover layers are each located on a p-side of the associated radiation-active quantum well. The distance between the radiation-active quantum well and the associated cover layer is at most 1.5 nm. | 06-28-2012 |
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20120298964 | Light-Emitting Semiconductor Chip - A semiconductor chip includes a semiconductor body with a semiconductor layer sequence. An active region intended for generating radiation is arranged between an n-conductive multilayer structure and a p-conductive semiconductor layer. A doping profile is formed in the n-conductive multilayer structure which includes at least one doping peak. | 11-29-2012 |
20120313138 | OPTOELECTRONIC SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP AND USE OF AN INTERMEDIATE LAYER BASED ON AlGaN - An optoelectronic semiconductor chip includes an epitaxially grown semiconductor layer sequence based on GaN, InGaN, AlGaN and/or InAlGaN, a p-doped layer sequence, an n-doped layer sequence, an active zone that generates an electromagnetic radiation and is situated between the p-doped layer sequence and the n-doped layer sequence, and at least one AlxGa 1-xN-based intermediate layer where 012-13-2012 | |
20120319126 | Optoelectronic Semiconductor Chip and Method for Fabrication Thereof - An optoelectronic semiconductor chip has a first semiconductor layer sequence which comprises a multiplicity of microdiodes, and a second semiconductor layer sequence which comprises an active region the first semiconductor layer sequence and the second semiconductor layer sequence are based on a nitride compound semiconductor material, the first semiconductor layer sequence is before the first semiconductor layer sequence in the direction of growth, and the microdiodes form an ESD protection for the active region. | 12-20-2012 |
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20090251589 | PHOTOGRAPHIC LENS SYSTEM AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - A photographic lens system including multiple lens units where at least a part of one of the multiple lens units is movable in a direction, which includes a vector component orthogonal to an optical axis, and where the photographic lens system can have a normal and image stabilizing mode. | 10-08-2009 |
20100157445 | IMAGING LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - An imaging lens includes first to fourth lens units in order from the object side to the image side. The first, third, and fourth lens units have a positive refractive power. The second and fifth lens units have a negative refractive power. During focusing from an object at infinity to a close object, the first, third, and fifth lens units do not move, and the second and fourth lens units respectively move toward the image side and the object side. The fifth lens unit includes a fifth-a lens unit having a negative refractive power which moves in a direction having a component perpendicular to an optical axis to shift a image position, and a fifth-b lens unit having a positive refractive power. Focal lengths of the third lens unit, the entire system of the imaging lens, the fifth-a lens unit, and the fifth-b lens unit are adequately set. | 06-24-2010 |
20130120640 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A zoom lens includes a negative lens unit having a negative refractive power and a positive lens unit having a positive refractive power arranged in order from an object side to an image side. For focusing from infinity to a closest distance, the negative lens unit moves towards the image side and the positive lens unit moves towards the object side. Predetermined mathematical conditions are satisfied to obtain high optical performance over the entire focusing range. | 05-16-2013 |