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| 20080199152 | Sound processing apparatus, sound processing method and program - A sound processing apparatus includes a sound determination portion operable to determine whether an input sound includes a first sound emitted from a particular source based on location information of the source, a sound separation portion operable to separate the input sound into the first sound and a second sound emitted from a source different from the particular source if the sound determination portion determines that the input sound includes the first sound, and a sound mixing portion operable to mix the first sound and the second sound separated by the sound separation portion at a prescribed volume ratio. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080290951 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A current limiting circuit is connected to the gate (input terminal) of an amplifying transistor. The current limiting circuit includes a protecting transistor, a first protecting resistor connecting the drain to the gate of the protecting transistor, and a second protecting resistor connecting the source to the gate of the protecting transistor. The current limiting circuit limits current, so that electric power larger than the maximum electric power allowable for the amplifying transistor does not pass. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20090051448 | SECOND HARMONIC OSCILLATOR - A second harmonic oscillator has a series positive feedback configuration, suppresses output of a fundamental signal, and outputs a second harmonic signal having a frequency in a range from 1 GHz to 200 GHz generated inside of a circuit. The second harmonic oscillator includes: a transistor having a base terminal, a first emitter terminal, a second emitter terminal, and a collector terminal; a resonator circuit connected to the base terminal; a first transmission line short-circuiting stub connected to one of the two emitter terminals; and a second transmission line short-circuiting stub connected to the other of the two emitter terminals and having a line length obtained by adding one-fourth of one wavelength of the fundamental signal to an integer multiple of one-half wavelength of the fundamental signal. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090237166 | HIGH FREQUENCY POWER AMPLIFIER - A high frequency power amplifier comprises: a multi-finger transistor with transistor cells electrically connected in parallel; an input side matching circuit connected to gate electrodes of the transistor cells; and resonant circuits respectively connected between the gate electrode of a transistor cell and the input side matching circuit. The resonant circuit resonates at a second harmonic of the operating frequency of the transistor or within a predetermined range of frequencies having a center at the second harmonic of the operating frequency, and becomes a high-impedance load at the second harmonic, or an open load. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090275814 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING CONSTITUENT CONCENTRATION - A system and method for measuring concentration of a constituent of a specimen are provided. The system includes an oscillator for outputting, towards the specimen, electromagnetic waves having respective different frequencies between 5 GHz and 300 GHz; a detector for detecting the electromagnetic waves that are reflected from the specimen; and a processor measuring at least one of reflection coefficient and complex permittivity of the electromagnetic waves detected and calculating the concentration of the constituent of the specimen based upon at least one of the reflection coefficient measured and the complex permittivity measured. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090309994 | Tone Correcting Method, Tone Correcting Apparatus, Tone Correcting Program, and Image Equipment - A face detecting unit detects presence/non-presence of a face and its position from an input image or its reduced image. A parameter calculation control unit calculates a correction parameter according to the presence/non-presence of the face. When the face is detected, a face area correction parameter calculating unit calculates a correction parameter having characteristics such that as a representative luminance value is larger, the image becomes darker, and as smaller, the image becomes brighter based on a boundary luminance level. When a face is not detected, a standard correction parameter calculating unit | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090310799 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a band spreading unit configured to perform a band spreading process for generating components in a specific frequency band and adding the components to audio data, and a control unit configured to control the band spreading unit to execute the band spreading process using a band spreading method determined among a plurality of different band spreading methods, the band spreading method being defined in advance for a musical class determined using a feature of the audio data. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20100058186 | REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND REPRODUCING METHOD - A reproducing apparatus includes a storage section, a judgment section, an analysis section, a classification section, an input section, and a reproduction section. The storage section stores a plurality of pieces of audio data. The judgment section judges, based on a length of each piece of audio data stored in the storage section, an analysis time interval for each piece of audio data. The analysis section analyzes the audio data in the analysis time interval judged by the judgment section. The classification section classifies the respective pieces of audio data into a plurality of predetermined classification items based on results of the analysis. The input section causes a user to select the classification item of the audio data to be reproduced. The reproduction section reproduces the audio data belonging to the classification item selected by the input section from a reproduction start point within the analysis time interval. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100079210 | POWER AMPLIFICATION DEVICE - Provided is a power amplification device including: a DC power supply that outputs a drain voltage; a Doherty amplifier including a carrier amplifier and a peak amplifier, which are connected in parallel, and amplifies an RF signal; a voltage control circuit that outputs a first instruction to output a low voltage when an output power is equal to or lower than a given value, and outputs a second instruction to output a high voltage when the output power is larger than the given value; and a voltage converter circuit that converts the drain voltage to a voltage lower than the drain voltage and applies the converted voltage to drain terminals of the carrier amplifier and the peak amplifier according to the first instruction, and applies the drain voltage directly to the drain terminals of the carrier amplifier and the peak amplifier according to the second instruction. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100098947 | AQUEOUS BINDER FOR INORGANIC FIBER AND THERMAL AND/OR ACOUSTICAL INSULATION MATERIAL USING THE SAME - Provided is an aqueous binder for inorganic fibers, which is formaldehyde-free, has excellent strength, and is suitable for use under conditions of weakly acidic to weakly basic, and by which a cured product composed of the binder having excellent strength is obtained, and an thermal and/or acoustical insulation material made of inorganic fiber using the same. The thermal and/or acoustical insulation material is molded by using an aqueous hinder for inorganic fibers including: an acrylic resin with an acid value of 350 to 850 mgKOH/g; a crosslinking agent containing at least one dialkanolamine; and a curing accelerator, in which a molar ratio of the total number of the hydroxyl groups and imino groups in the crosslinking agent to the total number of carboxyl groups in the acrylic resin is 0.8:1 to 1.5:1, and in which pH of the hinder is adjusted to 6.0 to 8.0 with a volatile basic compound. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100156541 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A current limiting circuit is connected to the gate (input terminal) of an amplifying transistor. The current limiting circuit includes a protecting transistor, a first protecting resistor connecting the drain to the gate of the protecting transistor, and a second protecting resistor connecting the source to the gate of the protecting transistor. The current limiting circuit limits current, so that electric power larger than the maximum electric power allowable for the amplifying transistor does not pass. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100182188 | Radio Wave Absorber And Producing Method Thereof - In order to provide a radio wave absorber that can be produced easily and has excellent radio wave absorption characteristics, a conductive surface | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100244041 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - An isolation layer for suppressing a leakage current is provided at least between a channel layer and a buffer layer formed under the channel layer in the buffer layer. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100260419 | IMAGE CORRECTION METHOD, IMAGE CORRECTION DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - An image correction device includes a scene belonging rate computation unit that computes, from the feature value of an input image, a plurality of scene belonging rates each of which prescribes a probability with which the input image belongs to each category scene; an unknown scene belonging rate specification unit that specifies an unknown scene belonging rate prescribing a probability with which the input image belongs to an unknown scene; a by-scene correction parameter memory unit that stores by-scene correction parameters; a correction parameter combination unit that computes a combined correction parameter that is the weighted average of the correction parameters using the plurality of scene belonging rates and the unknown scene belonging rate; and an image correction unit that performs image correction processing for the input image using the combined correction parameter. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100295678 | MOBILE APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a notice apparatus including: a plurality of notice signal generation units which generate notice signals; a reference signal output unit which outputs a reference signal used to determine an environmental situation; a reference signal detection unit which detects the reference signal output from the reference signal output unit and generates the detected reference signal as a detection signal; and a notice controller which controls one of the notice signal generation units to generate the notice signal based on the detection signal generated by the reference signal detection unit. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100309522 | PRINTER CONTROL DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING CONCURRENTLY INPUT PRINT DATA, AND PRINTER APPARATUS WITH A PRINTER CONTROL DEVICE - A printer apparatus is provided which receives concurrent input print data from plural input ports without increasing receiving buffer memory. A controller determines whether an image creator is used by other jobs when starting receiving print data through any one of the plural input ports. When not used, print data related to the current job is stored in a receiving buffer memory and at the same time print data stored in the buffer memory is printed via the image creator. On the other hand, when other jobs use the image creator, the print data related to the current job is stored in a hard disk unit and is printed when the image creating device becomes available. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20110002533 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing method and an image processing device which can improve sharpness by producing a binocular rivalry intentionally are provided. An image processing device | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110006846 | HIGH-FREQUENCY AMPLIFIER - A high-frequency amplifier is configured in such a manner that a detecting diode | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110012681 | LOW DISTORTION AMPLIFIER AND DOHERTY AMPLIFIER USING LOW DISTORTION AMPLIFIER - Provided is a low distortion amplifier which can satisfy both securement of a setting space in a vicinity of a transistor and low impedance. The low distortion amplifier includes a short stub having a leading end thereof short-circuited with a high-frequency short-circuit element and a low-frequency short-circuit element, in which the short stub is connected to a vicinity of at least one of a gate terminal and a drain terminal of the transistor, and includes a plurality of branched lines, the plurality of branched lines each having a leading end thereof short-circuited with the high-frequency short-circuit element and the low-frequency short-circuit element. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110012899 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing method, an image processing device and a program which can improve sharpness are provided. An image processing device | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110140776 | VARIABLE FREQUENCY AMPLIFIER - A variable frequency amplifier includes a main amplifier system | 06-16-2011 |
