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20130239786 | TOUCH SENSING DEVICE, TOUCH SENSING UNIT, STORAGE MEDIUM AND TOUCH SENSING METHOD - A first contact and a second contact are provided at each of a plurality of keys, and are successively closed in accordance with a key press operation. On the basis of respective closed sense signals from the first contact and the second contact, a duration from when the first contact is closed until the second contact is closed is counted as a first count value and then a duration after this counting has ended is counted as a second count value. An attainment duration value and the second count value are compared, and when a predetermined condition is satisfied, a control signal is outputted. When this control signal is received, sound emission information instructing an emission of a sound by a sound emission controller is sent. The sound emission information includes touch information based on the first count value. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246073 | CODING DEVICE, CODING METHOD, DECODING DEVICE, DECODING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - For respective sampling data of waveform data of sounds to be coded, a prediction residual value is calculated as sampling residual data, and an effective bit length is calculated from this residual waveform data. Then, for the effective bit length data, a maximum effective bit length among processing targets is generated as common effective actual data, and coded data in which this common effective actual data and information indicating the common effective bit length are arranged in a predetermined configuration format are generated. The information included in the coded data is analyzed and each of the plurality of the common effective bit information is extracted. Then, waveform data of the sounds are decoded by performing inverse linear prediction processing from an analysis result on the residual waveform data decompressed by performing bit extension which adds a portion other than the common effective bit length. | 09-19-2013 |
20150059557 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, TOUCH DETECTION APPARATUS, TOUCH DETECTING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In a touch detection apparatus | 03-05-2015 |
20150270848 | D/A CONVERSION APPARATUS, D/A CONVERSION METHOD AND ELECTRIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - In the present embodiment, quantizer output values including variation values corresponding to duty errors of pulse width data (PWM output signals) occurring by the difference of the pull-down/pull-up drive characteristics (drive capabilities) of a buffer are stored in advance in a feedback value memory in a quantizer as feedback values FBV | 09-24-2015 |
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20120036475 | MENU DISPLAY APPARATUS, MENU DISPLAY METHOD AND PROGRAM - Provided is a menu display apparatus that displays a menu of a plurality of applications, including an acquisition unit that acquires display data of content information representing content to be displayed in the menu of the content managed by each application from each application and a display controller that controls a display of the content information in each area according to setting conditions for the area provided for each of the applications in the menu and the display information of the content information acquired from each application. Accordingly, the display of the content information to be displayed in the menu in each area is controlled according to setting conditions for the area provided for each application in the menu and display data of the content information acquired from each application. | 02-09-2012 |
20140344712 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PART GENERATING AND USING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a part generation unit configured to generate a part that is suitable for a predetermined application and that includes at least a portion of any photo and is displayed on a display screen at a time of execution of the application, and an application control unit configured to control the execution of the application and at least display the part on the display screen during the execution of the application. | 11-20-2014 |
20150046874 | MENU DISPLAY APPARATUS, MENU DISPLAY METHOD AND PROGRAM - Provided is a menu display apparatus that displays a menu of a plurality of applications, including an acquisition unit that acquires display data of content information representing content to be displayed in the menu of the content managed by each application from each application and a display controller that controls a display of the content information in each area according to setting conditions for the area provided for each of the applications in the menu and the display information of the content information acquired from each application. Accordingly, the display of the content information to be displayed in the menu in each area is controlled according to setting conditions for the area provided for each application in the menu and display data of the content information acquired from each application. | 02-12-2015 |
20160054845 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM - A display control apparatus includes a display control unit for controlling a display unit for displaying an image, the display control unit being configured to display a plurality of represented images that represent a plurality of image groups classified depending on related information of the images on the display unit in a first display mode, and display related images relating to the represented images between a plurality of the represented images displayed in the first display mode depending on a user input on the display unit in a second display mode. | 02-25-2016 |
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20080292366 | Developing Roller, Charging Roller, Conductive Roller and Method for Producing the Same - This invention relates to a conductive roller such as a developing roller, a charging roller or the like provided with a resin coating calyer on a surface of an elastic layer, and more particularly to a conductive roller having the resin coating layer using an ultraviolet-curing type resin or an electron beam curing type resin and being obtained by contriving a structure of the resin coating layer, rendering the resin coating layer to contain microparticles, controlling the particle size of the microparticles, or forming the resin coating layer after the outer peripheral surface of the elastic layer is subjected to surface treatment. | 11-27-2008 |
20090010690 | CONDUCTIVE ROLLER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS COMPRISING THE SAME - This invention relates to a conductive roller having high adhesion property between an elastic layer and a coating layer, and more particularly to a conductive roller | 01-08-2009 |
20100014891 | CONDUCTIVE ELASTIC ROLLER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS COMPRISING THE SAME - This invention is a conductive elastic roller ( | 01-21-2010 |
20100286301 | ADHERENT RESIN COMPOSITION - This invention relates to a photo-curing or electron beam-curing adherent resin composition being excellent in the adhesiveness to various adherends such as metal oxide, metal, resin and so on, and more particularly to an adherent resin composition of a photo-curing or electron beam-curing type comprising a difunctional urethane (metha)acrylate oligomer (A) and a monomer component (B), characterized in that the urethane (metha)acrylate oligomer includes a urethane prepolymer portion composed of a polyol and a polyisocyanate wherein repetitive number of urethane prepolymer portion (n) is 10-30, and the monomer component (B) is a cyclic monomer having a (metha)acryloyl group. | 11-11-2010 |
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20080230586 | Method of Manufacturing Electric Resistance Welding Pipes Having Excellent Characterization of Welded Seams - A method of efficiently manufacturing electric resistance welding pipes having excellent characterization of welded seams is provided, by which each lateral edge of a rounded strip immediately before electric resistance welding is securely shaped with desired tapering flexibly in response to change in strip thickness, so that welding quality may be kept to be excellent. A method of manufacturing electric resistance welding pipes, in which a strip is subjected to forming, then edges thereof are formed to substantially face each other, and then the edges are subjected to electric resistance welding to form a pipe, wherein an edge and an edge opposed thereto at one of an upper-surface side and a lower-surface side of the strip are shaped with tapering before the forming by means of cutting or shaving, or finpass forming. | 09-25-2008 |
20090202384 | HIGH TENSILE STRENGTH HOT-ROLLED STEEL SHEET HAVING SUPERIOR STRAIN AGING HARDENABILITY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A high tensile strength hot-rolled steel sheet having superior strain aging hardenability, which has high formability and stable quality characteristics, and in which satisfactory strength is obtained when the steel sheet is formed into automotive components, thus enabling the reduction in weight of automobile bodies. Specifically, a method for producing a high tensile strength hot-rolled steel sheet having superior strain aging hardenability with a BH of 80 MPa or more, a ΔTS of 40 MPa or more, and a tensile strength of 440 MPa or more includes the steps of heating a steel slab to 1,000° C. or more, the steel slab containing, in percent by mass, 0.15% or less of C, 0.45% or less of Si, 3.0% or less of Mn, 0.08% or less of P, 0.02% or less of S, 0.02% or less of Al, 0.0050% to 0.0250% of N, and optionally 0.1% or less in total of at least one of more than 0.02% to 0.1% of Nb and more than 0.02% to 0.1% of V, the ratio N (mass %)/Al (mass %) being 0.86 or more; rough-rolling the steel slab to form a sheet bar; finish-rolling the sheet bar at a finishing temperature of 800° C. or more; cooling at a cooling rate of 20° C. to 40° C./s or more within 0.5 second after the finish-rolling; and coiling at a temperature of 650° C. to 450° C. or less. | 08-13-2009 |
20090277544 | HIGH-TENSILE STRENGTH WELDED STEEL TUBE FOR STRUCTURAL PARTS OF AUTOMOBILES AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - A high-tensile strength welded steel tube has excellent formability and torsional fatigue endurance after being formed into cross-sectional shape and then stress-relief annealed. A steel material used has a composition which contains C, Si, Al, 1.01% to 1.99% Mn, 0.041% to 0.150% Ti, 0.017% to 0.150% Nb, P, S, N, and O such that the sum of the content of Ti and that of Nb is 0.08% or more, the content of each of C, Si, and Al being within an appropriate range, the content of each of P, S, N, and O being adjusted to a predetermined value or less. | 11-12-2009 |
20100047609 | ELECTRIC RESISTANCE WELDED STEEL TUBE FOR HEAT TREATMENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An electric resistance welded steel tube for heat treatment can be used as a highly durable material even after quenching treatment by rapid heating for hollow stabilizers or the like and a method for manufacturing such an electric resistance welded steel tube. A steel tube material, which has a composition constituted by, in mass percent, C: 0.15 to 0.40%, Si: 0.05 to 0.50%, Mn: 0.30 to 2.00%, Al: 0.01 to 0.10%, Ti: 0.001 to 0.04%, B: 0.0005 to 0.0050%, and N: 0.0010 to 0.0100% with Ti and N satisfying (N/14)<(Ti/47.9). | 02-25-2010 |
20130098899 | METHOD FOR ELECTRIC RESISTANCE WELDED STEEL TUBE - A method for manufacturing an electric resistance welded steel tube including: forming a steel tube material into an almost cylindrical open pipe, the steel tube material being a steel sheet wherein Ti and N satisfy (N/14)<(Ti/47.9); forming an electric resistance welded steel tube by bonding ends of the open pipe to each other by induction resistance welding with heat input controlled so that the bond width is 30 to 65 μm; heating the electric resistance welded steel tube to a temperature equal to or higher than the Ac | 04-25-2013 |
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20130239033 | LIFESTYLE COLLECTING APPARATUS, USER INTERFACE DEVICE, AND LIFESTYLE COLLECTING METHOD - Provided is a lifestyle collecting apparatus that collects information for determining a lifestyle of a user, and includes: an object information detecting unit configured to detect object information representing an object around the user; a relevance degree calculating unit configured to calculate a relevance degree of the user to the object, using the object information; an appearance information extracting unit configured to extract appearance information from the object information, and add the relevance degree to the extracted appearance information, the appearance information representing an appearance of the object; and a lifestyle database which stores the appearance information to which the relevance degree has been added, as the information for determining the lifestyle of the user. | 09-12-2013 |
20140053105 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - Included are: a plural-push information management unit; a screen attention degree determination unit; a selection operation history collection unit; a selection probability calculation unit calculating a user's selection probability for each category; and a display style determination unit causing pieces of push information in a category having a higher probability to be displayed in a more easily selectable display style. The categories include a relevance category including pieces of push information regarding content displayed on the screen. The selection probability calculation unit calculates a selection probability of the relevance category having a first attention degree as a screen attention degree to be higher than that having the second attention degree lower than the first attention degree; and calculates a selection probability having a first number as the number of selection times to be higher than that having a second number smaller than the first number. | 02-20-2014 |
20140055674 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A display control device according to an aspect of the present disclosure performs processing using (a) a main content item to be displayed by a display unit and (b) display elements arranged in a chain from which the main content item is selected. The display control device includes the following units. An importance calculation unit obtains additional information to be notified to a user and calculates an importance of the additional information. A relevance calculation unit calculates a relevance between the additional information and the main content item. A position determination unit determines a position to which the additional information is to be inserted in the display elements, based on the calculated importance and the calculated relevance. The position determination unit determines the position to receive more attention from the user as the importance and the relevance of the additional information are higher. | 02-27-2014 |
20140324764 | CONTROL METHOD AND NON-TRANSTORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A control method of the present disclosure is a control method of an information processing apparatus which includes a storage unit that stores predetermined resource information related to a resource required for a living activity of a user, the method including: an acquiring step of acquiring device information; an estimating step of estimating a living activity of the user; a competition extracting step of extracting a living activity group including living activities for which the resources are likely to compete among the living activities, based on the resource information; a resource judging step of judging whether a required resource has been secured for each of the living activities, based on the device information and the resource information; and an inhibition extracting step of extracting, as an inhibited living activity, a living activity for which it has been judged that the required resource has not been secured. | 10-30-2014 |
20150142889 | COOKING INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND TERMINAL DEVICE - On the basis of stored recognition result information and current recipe information, there is generated presentation information that includes information indicating a second user who is executing in real-time the same cooking step of the same recipe as a cooking step of a recipe that a first user is actively executing. The generated presentation information is displayed on a display of a terminal device used by the first user via a network. | 05-21-2015 |
20150143394 | CONTENT PRESENTATION METHOD, CONTENT PRESENTATION DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - A content presenting method of the present disclosure includes: a history collecting step of collecting a viewing history of a user; a determining step of analyzing the viewing history to determine an active time segment in which an output section is in a state of being viewed; a data collecting step of collecting meta data assigned to a viewed content; an analyzing step of analyzing the meta data to extract a word representing the content; a profile generating step of generating, for each active time segment, a user profile based on the extracted word; a calculation step of calculating an estimated viewing time; and a playlist generating step of selecting contents based on the user profile generated correspondingly to the active time segment to be compatible with the estimated viewing time, to generate a playlist which defines an order in which the selected contents are played. | 05-21-2015 |
20150161514 | USER MANAGEMENT METHOD, SERVER DEVICE, AND USER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A user management method according to the present disclosure includes: storing appliance use information including: appliance identification information for identifying an appliance; user information for identifying a user of the appliance; and an operating state of the appliance when the appliance was used; analyzing the appliance use information stored in the storing to identify, from among a plurality of functions of the appliance, one or more first functions each having a use frequency less than or equal to a threshold value; and providing the user with a notice which prompts use of the one or more first functions identified in the analyzing. | 06-11-2015 |
20150205771 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, SERVER APPARATUS, METHOD FOR SUPPORTING POSTING OF INFORMATION, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER PROGRAM - A terminal apparatus includes an information receiver that receives, from a server apparatus, first webpage information, which enables a first user to specify an image to be posted on a first website, a storage that stores the received first webpage information, and an information processor that reads the first webpage information from the storage and that displays the first webpage information on a screen. In the screen, among a plurality of images, which are candidates for the image to be posted on the first website, an image selected on the basis of an image used in a second website is displayed at a position closer to the center of the screen than positions of other images are or displayed in a mode different from a mode in which the other images are displayed. | 07-23-2015 |
20150222476 | SERVER DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, MAINTENANCE SERVICE INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD AND PROGRAM - Provided is a server device capable of increasing the availability of a device by urging a user who uses the device to perform actions related to maintenance service. In this server device, an information transceiver receives operation information about a device. A remaining life determination unit determines the remaining life of the device or a component of the device based on the operation information. When the determined remaining life reaches a predetermined remaining life or becomes shorter than the predetermined remaining life, a transmission destination setting unit sets a device that is possessed by a person having a predetermined relationship with the user of the device as a transmission destination for the transmission of maintenance service information based on relationship information indicating the relationship between the user of the device and another person who is not the user. The information transceiver transmits the maintenance service information to the transmission destination. | 08-06-2015 |
20150269534 | INFORMATION PROVISION APPARATUS, SERVER APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROVISION METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROVISION PROGRAM - An information provision apparatus ( | 09-24-2015 |
20150317706 | SERVER DEVICE, INFORMATION DEVICE, POWER OUTLET, CHARGING INFORMATION GENERATING METHOD, AND CHARGING INFORMATION GENERATING PROGRAM - Provided is a server device whereby more customers are gathered at a store, and the spending per customer is increased. In a server device ( | 11-05-2015 |
20160132837 | ACTION ENCOURAGEMENT METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR ENCOURAGING USER TO MOVE TO FACILITY SUITABLE FOR SCHEDULE OR TASK - It is necessary to effectively encourage the user to take an action without making the user feel inconvenience, regardless of the charge state of the device held by the user. A way of improved the inducement of user's conduct can be to retrieve information indicating a schedule or task of the user, to retrieve charge state information indicating a device held by the user, to determine a facility to which the user is to be guided, on the basis of the information indicating the schedule or task of the user and the charge state information, and to output information indicating the determined facility. | 05-12-2016 |
20160133076 | PUBLIC SERVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD, PUBLIC SERVICE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND PUBLIC SERVICE MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS FOR PROPERLY PROVIDING PUBLIC SERVICES - There is a need to effectively determine which users should be given priority for using a public service. A way of improving the public service can be to acquire information on congestion degree in use of the public service, to determine whether the congestion degree is higher than a specified level or not, and to transmit information that urges cease of the use of the public service being used to users who have higher utilization of the public service than other users among a plurality of users if the congestion degree is higher than the specified level. | 05-12-2016 |
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20100215016 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION CONTROL EQUIPMENT, RADIO TERMINAL, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A radio communication system which automatically selects a communication path having a higher speed is provided when a plurality of communication paths having a different speed from each other are available for data transmission between the radio terminal and the base station control equipment. The radio terminal receives a data frame and sends back an ACK signal for the data frame via the communication path through which the data frame has been received. At this time, the radio terminal acquires data of the frame with a sequence number having received at the first time, and if the frame with the same sequence number is received later, the frame is discarded. However, the ACK signal is sent back in respective cases. The base station control equipment transmits a first data frame to the radio terminal via the plurality of communication paths and transmits subsequent data frames to the radio terminal via one communication path through which the ACK signal for the first data frame has arrived the earliest. | 08-26-2010 |
20110014876 | RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - The first communication apparatus transmits existence confirmation request notices to the second communication apparatus, using the first frequency band and the second frequency band that is a frequency band different from the first frequency band. The second communication apparatus returns existence confirmation response notices as a response to the correctly received existence confirmation request notices of the first frequency band and the second frequency band, to the first communication apparatus, using the frequency bands corresponding to the first frequency band and the second frequency band. The first communication apparatus, after having received one or more of the existence confirmation response notices transmitted from the second communication apparatus, exchanges data with the second communication apparatus, using the frequency band that corresponds to the existence confirmation response notice transmitted through the higher frequency band among the first and second frequency bands. | 01-20-2011 |
20120004008 | TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL METHOD, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND TERMINAL APPARATUS - A transmission power control method, a wireless communication system and a terminal apparatus which can reduce radio interference to each terminal apparatus installed into peripheral cars other than the communication counterpart are provided. In wireless communication between at least two movable terminal apparatuses, a terminal apparatus which has received a predetermined wireless signal transmitted with a known electric power from another terminal apparatus measures its received power and sets a numerical value of transmission power when transmitting information to the other terminal apparatus according to the measured value of the received power. | 01-05-2012 |
20130190025 | VEHICLE-MOUNTED DEVICE AND CONGESTION CONTROL METHOD - The invention has the object of avoiding congestion while reducing differences between parameters for communication among vehicles. The vehicle-mounted device performing communication by radio signals with predetermined vehicle-mounted devices respectively equipped in a plurality of vehicles includes: a radio unit detecting radio signals to measure congestion level; a processor receiving, from each of the predetermined vehicle-mounted devices, a value of, among parameters relating to communication of the predetermined vehicle-mounted devices, a predetermined parameter for which the degree of contribution to congestion increases with increase in the value of the predetermined parameter; and a controller decreasing, when the congestion level measured by the radio unit exceeds a predetermined threshold value, the value of the predetermined parameter of its own device if the value of the predetermined parameter of its own device is greater than the average of the values of the predetermined parameter received at the processor. | 07-25-2013 |
20130250824 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A location information notifier ( | 09-26-2013 |
20130301406 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - An object of the present invention is to forward a packet corresponding to trajectories of roads without it being necessary to use road trajectory information. A communication device is mounted on a vehicle. The communication device includes a reception section that receives a packet containing forwarding information that represents a transmission area of the packet that is set up based on a reference direction from a transmission source; an acquisition section that acquires a running direction of its own vehicle; and a processing section that transmits the packet containing the forwarding information to at least the transmission area of the packet that has been set up based on the running direction of its own vehicle. | 11-14-2013 |
20140064056 | NETWORK MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, NETWORK MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A network management apparatus is designed so that when reassigning the existing address, the network management apparatus extracts a link with the largest link cost from among links comprising the network based on the network configuration information and specifies a flow routed though the extracted link based on the statistic information; when receiving a path change request and a via link request to request a via link with respect to the specified flow from an external terminal, the network management apparatus selects either one of addresses of an address pair of the specified flow as a change target address; and when changing the selected change target address, the network management apparatus changes the change target address to a candidate address to be assigned by selecting an address, which is routed through a link included in the via link request and has not been assigned, as the candidate address to be assigned. | 03-06-2014 |
20140211749 | ONBOARD COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An onboard communication apparatus that is installed in a vehicle and that performs communication with a roadside communication apparatus that provides various data and perform communication with other onboard communication apparatuses installed in other vehicles includes: a first communication unit that communicates by way of a channel whose the frequency band is fixed, a second communication unit that communicates by way of a channel that differs from the channel that is used in the first communication unit, and a determination unit that determines whether or not communication with the roadside communication apparatus is direct communication that is not relayed by another onboard communication apparatus, wherein, when direct communication with the roadside communication apparatus is not possible, the second communication unit communicates with the roadside communication apparatus by way of another onboard communication apparatus that is communicating with the roadside communication apparatus. | 07-31-2014 |
20150036487 | VEHICLE-MOUNTED DEVICE AND CONGESTION CONTROL METHOD - A vehicle-mounted device includes a measurement unit that detects the radio signal to measure a congestion level, a reception unit that receives, from each of the predetermined vehicle-mounted devices, the value of a predetermined parameter, in which a degree of contribution to congestion increases as the value of the parameter increases, from among parameters relating to the communication of the predetermined vehicle-mounted device, and a control unit that sets, when the congestion level measured by the measurement unit is outside a set predetermined range, the value of the predetermined parameter of its own device so that the congestion level is within the predetermined range in consideration of the magnitude relationship between the congestion level and a value within the predetermined range and a magnitude relationship between the value of the predetermined parameter received by the reception unit and the value of the predetermined parameter of its own device. | 02-05-2015 |
20150106493 | Communication Device, Communication-Purpose Identification Information Management Server, Communication-Purpose Identification Information Acquisition Method, Communication-Purpose Identification Information Providing Method, and Recording Medium - A communication device that communicates with a communication partner includes: update unit that updates communication identification information of the communication device; registration unit that, upon updating of the communication identification information of the communication device, registers in a server the communication identification information of the communication device that follows updating in association with search identification information of the communication device; and a control unit that uses the search identification information of a communication partner to acquire from the server the communication identification information of the communication partner that is placed in association with the search identification information of the communication partner. | 04-16-2015 |
20150111599 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION INTERVAL CONTROL DEVICE, METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING LOCATION INFORMATION, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TRANSMISSION INTERVAL OF LOCATION INFORMATION, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A communication device, which is to be mounted on a vehicle, includes: identifying means that identifies a location of the communication device; communication means that successively transmits location information that indicates the location of the communication device that is identified by the identifying means; and setting means that sets a transmission interval at which the location information is to be transmitted in accordance with the location of the communication device that is identified by the identifying means. | 04-23-2015 |
20150319713 | VEHICLE-MOUNTED DEVICE AND CONGESTION CONTROL METHOD - The invention has the object of avoiding congestion while reducing differences between parameters for communication among vehicles. The vehicle-mounted device performing communication by radio signals with predetermined vehicle-mounted devices respectively equipped in a plurality of vehicles includes: a radio unit detecting radio signals to measure congestion level; a processor receiving, from each of the predetermined vehicle-mounted devices, a value of, among parameters relating to communication of the predetermined vehicle-mounted devices, a predetermined parameter for which the degree of contribution to congestion increases with increase in the value of the predetermined parameter; and a controller decreasing, when the congestion level measured by the radio unit exceeds a predetermined threshold value, the value of the predetermined parameter of its own device if the value of the predetermined parameter of its own device is greater than the average of the values of the predetermined parameter received at the processor. | 11-05-2015 |
20150319714 | VEHICLE-MOUNTED DEVICE AND CONGESTION CONTROL METHOD - The invention has the object of avoiding congestion while reducing differences between parameters for communication among vehicles. The vehicle-mounted device performing communication by radio signals with predetermined vehicle-mounted devices respectively equipped in a plurality of vehicles includes: a radio unit detecting radio signals to measure congestion level; a processor receiving, from each of the predetermined vehicle-mounted devices, a value of, among parameters relating to communication of the predetermined vehicle-mounted devices, a predetermined parameter for which the degree of contribution to congestion increases with increase in the value of the predetermined parameter; and a controller decreasing, when the congestion level measured by the radio unit exceeds a predetermined threshold value, the value of the predetermined parameter of its own device if the value of the predetermined parameter of its own device is greater than the average of the values of the predetermined parameter received at the processor. | 11-05-2015 |
20150356870 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD AND PROGRAM - A mobile communication apparatus includes an abnormality detecting unit that detects whether or not there is an abnormality on a route; and a communication unit. When second abnormality detection information which differs from first abnormality detection information that indicates the detected abnormality has been received, it is determined that whether or not the abnormalities indicated by both information items coincide with each other. If it is determined that both abnormalities coincide with each other, then whether or not it is necessary to transmit the first abnormality detection information is determined based on a positional relationship between a position of the own apparatus and an occurrence point of the abnormality at the time when the abnormality indicated by the second abnormality detection information was detected. | 12-10-2015 |
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20090016763 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, SHEET FINISHER AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, a sheet finisher and an image forming system; each of them including: a display for displaying a work item for a maintenance in the form of a guidance display; a detection section for detecting whether the work item is executed or not; an energization controller for supplying/blocking power supply to electric components to be maintained; a connection judging section for judging whether the electric components are electrically connected with the power supply or not; and a controller for controlling the display to switch displays of the work item and for controlling the energization controller, in accordance with a detection result of the detection section; wherein the controller causes the display to display an alarm and a guidance display of a corresponding work, according to a judgment of the connection judging section. | 01-15-2009 |
20090052930 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus for forming a visible image on a transfer sheet according to a job, the image forming apparatus including: a plurality of sheet feed trays adapted to load plural kinds of transfer sheets; an image forming section for forming a visible image according to image data on a transfer sheet; a conveying section for conveying a transfer sheet from each of the plurality of sheet feed trays toward the image forming section; a display section for displaying various items; a color detection section for detecting a transfer sheet color of the transfer sheet being conveyed by the conveying section; and a control section for controlling a conveyance of the transfer sheet and the image formation, wherein the control section displays a transfer sheet color designated by the job and the transfer sheet color detected by the color detection section on the display section. | 02-26-2009 |
20110033217 | Image Forming System and Post-Processing Apparatus - There is described an image forming system, which confirms a finished state of an image at any time during the implementation of the image forming job as needed. The system includes: an image forming section to respectively form images on recording materials; a stacking section to stack the recording materials continuously ejected from the image forming section; an instruction inputting section from which an operator inputs instruction information; an ejecting section to stack a part of the recording materials in such a manner that the operator can pick up stacked recording materials by hand; a controlling section to conduct controlling operations in response to the instruction information, inputted from the instruction inputting section during an implementation of an image forming job including an operation for stacking the recording materials ejected from the image forming section, in order to eject the part of the recording materials onto the ejecting section. | 02-10-2011 |
20160037198 | REBROADCASTING SYSTEM - A rebroadcasting system for retransmitting a television broadcast, which was received from a satellite, in a segment broadcasting, such as one-segment broadcasting and three-segment broadcasting, comprises: charging a solar battery during the daytime; recording broadcasts during the retransmission halt time; retransmitting television broadcasts, which are received from the satellite, in real time by use of central (one or three) segments and the charged power during any time when the output of the solar battery is low, for example, during the night, before sunset, after sunrise, or a rainy day; reproducing the recorded broadcasts; and retransmitting the reproduced recorded programs by use of any remaining segments, for example, segments adjacent to the central segments. | 02-04-2016 |
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20100321503 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD - There is provided an image capturing apparatus and method capable of preventing frame-out of a moving object even when a fast-moving object is photographed. The solution comprises: an image capturing unit that obtains image data by capturing an object; a moving object detecting unit that detects a moving object to be tracked based on the image data obtained with the image capturing unit; a tracking frame setting unit that sets an area portion which includes the moving object in the image data as a tracking frame when the moving object is detected by the moving object detecting unit; a display frame setting unit that sets an area which is shifted from the tracking frame in the image data in the direction opposite to the moving direction of the moving object as a display frame; and a display processing unit that displays the image data which is included in the display frame on a display unit. | 12-23-2010 |
20120105577 | PANORAMIC IMAGE GENERATION DEVICE AND PANORAMIC IMAGE GENERATION METHOD - A panoramic image generation device generates a panoramic image by synthesizing a plurality of static images constituting the moving image, determines a size at which a display panoramic image is to be cut out from the panoramic image, and detects a focus photography position from the panoramic image. The panoramic image generation device cuts out the display panoramic image from the panoramic image on the basis of the detected focus photography position and the determined size. | 05-03-2012 |
20120243738 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device comprises: a tracking area setting unit that sets a tracking area in an input moving image obtained by photographing an object; a following feature point setting unit that detects a feature point that exhibits a motion in correlation with the motion of the tracking area and sets the detected feature point as a following feature point; a motion detection unit that detects movement over time of the following feature point within the input image; and a clip area setting unit that sets a clip area of an image to be employed when a partial image including the tracking area is clipped out of the input image for either recording or displaying or both recording and displaying, and that sets a size and a position of the clip area on the basis of a motion detection result obtained by the motion detection unit. | 09-27-2012 |
20140105460 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device, method and program in which a feature point derivation unit derives a plurality of characteristic points in an input moving image. A tracking subject feature point setting unit sets a feature point within a tracking subject, from the characteristic points. A background feature point setting unit sets a group of background feature points from the characteristic points. The background feature points are not located within the tracking subject. A motion detection unit detects movement over time of the background feature points. A clip area setting unit sets a size and a position of a clip area of an image to be employed which includes the feature point within the tracking subject, on the basis of the movement of the feature point within the tracking subject and the movement of the background feature points, when the motion detection unit detects movement of the background feature points. | 04-17-2014 |
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20090165936 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY FOR RECTANGULAR BATTERY - In a method of manufacturing an electrode assembly for a rectangular battery, in which positive electrodes and negative electrodes are alternately laminated so that a separator exists between the respective positive and negative electrodes, the manufacturing method includes the steps of: arranging a plurality of guide members in zigzag form in a perpendicular direction; inserting a continuous member of the separator between one and another one rows of the guide members; folding, into zigzag form, the continuous member by intersecting the rows of the guide members in a horizontal direction; inserting alternately the positive electrodes and the negative electrodes in respective valley grooves of the zigzag-folded continuous member; withdrawing the guide members from the respective valley grooves of the continuous member; and pressing, thereafter, the continuous member in the zigzag direction so as to make flat the continuous member. | 07-02-2009 |
20140101928 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING SECONDARY BATTERY - After a separator is brought into a tension-free state, a plurality of guide members are crossed in a horizontal direction between rows of the guide members to fold the separator or a superposed body zigzag. Positive electrode plates or negative electrode plates are inserted into the resulting furrows to produce a secondary battery. | 04-17-2014 |
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20140170536 | REFLECTIVE MASK AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A reflective mask having a light-shielding frame with high light-shielding performance, and a method for manufacturing thereof. In a reflective mask having a light-shielding frame dug into a multilayered reflective layer, when side etching is performed or processing to obtain a reverse tapered shape is performed only on the multilayered reflective layer, it becomes possible to suppress reflection of EUV light (extreme ultraviolet light) in the vicinity of the edge of the light-shielding frame, provide a reflective mask having high light-shielding ability, and form a transcription pattern with high accuracy. | 06-19-2014 |
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20140212795 | REFLECTIVE MASK BLANK AND REFLECTIVE MASK, AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING REFLECTIVE MASK BLANK AND REFLECTIVE MASK - A reflective mask blank, a reflective mask, and methods for manufacturing those, which suppress reflectance at a light-shielding frame. The reflective mask includes a substrate, a multilayered reflective layer formed on the substrate, an absorption layer formed on the multilayered reflective layer, and a frame-shaped light-shielding frame area at which the absorption layer has a film thickness larger than a film thickness at other areas. The multilayered reflective layer is diffused and mixed at the light-shielding frame area through melting. | 07-31-2014 |
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20100230834 | BUBBLING SUPPLY SYSTEM FOR STABLE PRECURSOR SUPPLY - Embodiments of the invention generally provide apparatus and methods for vaporizing liquid precursors. In one embodiment, a bubbling system for supplying a vapor of liquid precursor is provided including a gas flow conduit having a first end and a second end, a nozzle structure connected to the second end of the gas flow conduit, and comprising one or more perforated conduits fluidly coupled with the second end of the gas flow conduit, and a plate disposed around the gas flow conduit and in a spaced relationship from the nozzle structure, wherein both the one or more perforated conduits and the plate extend radially from an axis of the gas flow conduit. | 09-16-2010 |
20110214689 | CLEANING SOLVENT AND CLEANING METHOD FOR METALLIC COMPOUND - Disclosed are cleaning solvents and cleaning methods for metallic compounds deposited on the equipment that supplies organometallic compounds to the manufacturing tool in the photovoltaic industry or the semiconductor industry. The cleaning solvents and the cleaning methods disclosed not only selectively remove the metallic compound without corroding the equipment, but also improve the ordinary cleaning process. Moreover, the cleaning solvents and the cleaning methods disclosed improve maintenance costs for the supply system because the equipment may be cleaned without being detached from the supply system. | 09-08-2011 |
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20120046209 | CLEANING SOLVENT AND CLEANING METHOD FOR METALLIC COMPOUND - Disclosed are cleaning solvents and cleaning methods for metallic compounds deposited on the equipment that supplies organometallic compounds to the manufacturing tool in the photovoltaic industry or the semiconductor industry. The cleaning solvents and the cleaning methods disclosed not only selectively remove the metallic compound without corroding the equipment, but also improve the ordinary cleaning process. Moreover, the cleaning solvents and the cleaning methods disclosed improve maintenance costs for the supply system because the equipment may be cleaned without being detached from the supply system. | 02-23-2012 |
20140020132 | PLANTS HAVING INCREASED DESICCATION TOLERANCE, INCREASED DROUGHT TOLERANCE OR INCREASED WATER USE EFFICIENCY - A transgenic plant engineered to have increased desiccation tolerance, increased drought tolerance or increased water use efficiency, the plant transformed with an artificial DNA construct comprising a transcribable nucleic acid molecule encoding a polypeptide requiring both ABA and ABI3 to influence desiccation tolerance. Also provided are DNA constructs and methods of producing a transgenic plant engineered to have increased desiccation tolerance, increased drought tolerance or increased water use efficiency. | 01-16-2014 |
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