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Ebata, JP
Atsushi Ebata, Fuchu JP
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| 20080235472 | Snapshot format conversion method and apparatus - A system according to this invention converts a full-copy snapshot into a differential snapshot. The system is composed of a storage subsystem and a server subsystem. The storage subsystem comprises a disk drive and a disk controller. The server subsystem comprises an interface, a processor, and a memory. The disk controller provides storage areas of the disk drive as logical volumes, and stores a differential block bitmap. The processor obtains the differential block bitmap, and identifies a block from the differential block bitmap. The processor obtains, from a full-copy snapshot volume, differential data that is stored in the identified block. The processor stores the obtained differential data in a differential volume. The processor stores, in differential block arrangement information, the location of the differential data stored in the differential volume. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20090198946 | Computer system and garbage collection method of disk space - A processor of a management computer acquires the free disk space amount of a disk pool, acquires the invalid disk space amount from a plurality of host computers, determines a host computer to which the instruction for the physical disk space collection is issued on the basis of the invalid disk space amount, and judges that the free disk space amount is smaller than a predetermined threshold value before transmitting a GC control request to the determined host computer; another processor generates and transmits invalid disk space position information indicating the position of the invalid disk space in a virtual volume in cases where a host investigation request is received; and the other processor collects the physical disk space of a physical disk allocated to the storage disk space of the virtual volume in the disk pool. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090216980 | INFORMATION STORAGE SYSTEM - A storage media and a storage area of a storage apparatus are associated, and the storage media is used to manage the contents of the storage apparatus. A storage media for storing files is detachably mounted on an information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus is connected to a storage apparatus via the Internet, the storage apparatus stores files corresponding to the files stored in the storage media, the storage media and the storage apparatus authenticate each other via the Internet, and the information processing apparatus reads files from or writes files into the storage media or the storage apparatus on the condition that the foregoing authentication is successful. | 08-27-2009 |
Hideaki Ebata, Higashihiroshima JP
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| 20100032655 | Field-effect transistor - Disclosed is a field-effect transistor characterized by using a compound represented by the formula (1) below as a semiconductor material. | 02-11-2010 |
Hidetaka Ebata, Hokkaido JP
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| 20090186193 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING ENTANGLED OBJECT FOR ARTIFICIAL LEATHER - A method of producing an entangled fabric for artificial leathers including a step of uniting a woven/knitted fabric and an entangled nonwoven fabric by entanglement. The method includes (1) a step of superposing the woven/knitted fabric on one surface of the entangled nonwoven fabric; (2) a step of needle-punching the superposed body from a side of the entangled nonwoven fabric so as to allow fibers constituting the entangled nonwoven fabric to enter into the woven/knitted fabric and then penetrate through the woven/knitted fabric, thereby forming a nonwoven fabric layer composed of the penetrated fibers on an outer surface of the woven/knitted fabric; and (3) a step of needle-punching from a side of the nonwoven fabric layer so as to allow a part of the fibers which have penetrated through the woven/knitted fabric and form the nonwoven fabric layer to turn back into the woven/knitted fabric, thereby uniting the woven/knitted fabric and the entangled nonwoven fabric together by entanglement. The method hardly causes wrinkles, etc. and is good in process passing properties. The artificial leathers produced from the entangled fabric for artificial leathers have a good shape stability, a high-quality appearance and a soft, high quality hand. | 07-23-2009 |
Hiroki Ebata, Yokohama-Shi JP
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| 20100204435 | 12-HYDROXSTEARIC ACID COPOLYMER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - Manufacture, at a high yield, a new, biodegradable 12-hydroxy acid copolymer being a non-petroleum material and contributing to prevention of environmental pollution and global warming, from materials that include 12-hydroxystearic acid or derivative thereof obtained by hydrogenating ricinoleic acid which in turn is obtained from castor oil, as well as long-chain hydroxy acid that can be synthesized from plant-based seed oil, by using an immobilized lipase as a catalyst. | 08-12-2010 |
Hiroki Ebata, Ichihara-Shi JP
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| 20090209672 | Copolymer rubber, rubber composition and rubber molding - The present invention provides a copolymer rubber which contains only small amounts of impurities and is excellent in kneading processability, extrusion processability and retention of shape and a rubber composition containing the copolymer rubber, and further provides a rubber molded product which is obtained from the rubber composition, is excellent in surface appearance, strength properties, heat aging resistance and weathering resistance and has a low compression set. The copolymer rubber of the present invention comprises structural units derived from [A]ethylene, [B] an α-olefin of 3 to 20 carbon atoms, [C] a non-conjugated polyene having one double bond between adjacent carbon atoms in one molecule, said double bond being capable of polymerization by a metallocene catalyst, and [D] a non-conjugated polyene having two of the above double bonds in one molecule, and the copolymer rubber satisfies specific requirements (1) to (5). | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090239014 | Rubber composition, crosslinked product and foam thereof, molded product therefrom, and use thereof - The present invention provides a molded product exhibiting excellent various properties by improving compatibility of an ethylene/α-olefin/non-conjugated polyene copolymer with a polyolefin resin and a rubber composition for forming the molded product. The present invention further provides a molded product which comprises a rubber composition, is inhibited from fogging and tackiness and is excellent in mechanical strength and heat aging resistance. The rubber composition of the invention comprises an ethylene/α-olefin/non-conjugated polyene copolymer (A), and a polyolefin resin (B) having Mn of not less than 10,000 and/or an ethylene/α-olefin copolymer (C) having Mn of 2500 to 5000, and satisfies the following requirements: (1) a maximum value and a minimum value of an ethylene distribution parameter P of the component (A) have a relationship of Pmax/Pmin≦1.4, and (2) the B value of the component (C) ([EX]/(2[E]×[X])) ([E] and [X] are molar fractions of ethylene and the α-olefin of 3 to 20 carbon atoms, respectively, and [EX] is a fraction of dyad sequence of ethylene/α-olefin of 3 to 20 carbon atoms) is not more than 1.05. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090270550 | Polyricinoleate composition and process for producing the same - A process is disclosed wherein ricinoleic acid from petroleum alternative vegetable castor oil that has a hydroxyl group at the 12-position or a derivative thereof (an ester or a hydrogenated compound thereof) is polymerized in the presence of a synthetic zeolite and an immobilized lipase at around normal temperature without using any harmful polymerization catalysts or organic solvents which can cause environmental pollution whereby a polyester useful in the industry that has a weight average molecular weight of 20,000 or more is obtained. This high-molecular weight polyester is crosslinked to give a crosslinked elastomer that is comparable to synthetic rubbers. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20110003912 | RUBBER COMPOSITION CONTAINING RICINOLEIC ACID (CO) POLYMER RUBBER, AND USE THEREOF - Rubber compositions of the invention give crosslinked rubber products having excellent flexibility. | 01-06-2011 |
Hiroki Ebata, Kanagawa JP
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| 20110233448 | COPOLYMER, RUBBER COMPOSITION, CROSS-LINKED RUBBER, CROSS-LINKED FOAM, AND USES THEREOF - The present invention provides a rubber composition having adequate foamability, uses thereof, a copolymer contained in the rubber composition, a rubber composition capable of providing a cross-linked foam, which has a low specific gravity and an excellent shape-retaining property even when the usage of a nonconjugated polyene is reduced, and a cross-linked rubber and a cross-linked foam, which are produced from the rubber composition. A copolymer (A) according to the present invention is a copolymer including structural units derived from ethylene [A], an α-olefin [B], a nonconjugated polyene [C-1], in which one carbon-carbon double bond (C═C) polymerizable with a metallocene catalyst is present in one molecule, and a nonconjugated polyene [C-2], in which two bonds of C═C polymerizable with the metallocene catalyst are present in one molecule, and being synthesized with the metallocene catalyst, wherein (1) the units derived from the component [B] constitute 10 to 50 percent by mole, (2) the total of the units derived from the component [C-1] and the units derived from the component [C-2] is 1.0 to 6.0 percent by mole, (3) the molar ratio of the units derived from the component [C-1] to the units derived from the component [C-2] is 75/25 to 99.5/0.5, (4) [ML (1+4) 100° C.] is 10 to 200, and (5) 50>activation energy of fluidization (kJ/mol)>35 is satisfied. | 09-29-2011 |
Hiroshi Ebata, Tochigi JP
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| 20090162512 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR ROLLING FOOD DOUGH AND DISK-SHAPED FOOD DOUGH MANUFACTURED BY THE METHOD - These inventions provide a method and an apparatus for rolling food dough without causing slipping between the food dough and rolling rollers and without causing twisted shrinkages in the food dough, and disk-shaped food dough manufactured by the method. Further, these inventions relate to the disk-shaped food dough manufactured by the method and the apparatus. The apparatus used for the method is comprised of a cradle that can relatively ascend away from and descend toward a table, and conical-shaped rolling rollers rotatably disposed at the cradle, which rollers can swivel. When the food dough is rolled by means of the rolling rollers by pressing the food dough, the rolling rollers rotate so that the speed of the rotation is higher than that when they are passively rotated by the swiveling motion. The relative speed of the descent of the rolling rollers toward the food dough is controlled so that the speed gradually decreases from the initial speed. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20110111100 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CUTTING FOOD DOUGH - While the long and large food dough is being transferred to a downstream conveyor ( | 05-12-2011 |
Keiji Ebata, Osaka-Shi JP
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| 20110235163 | COMPOSITE PHOTONIC STRUCTURE ELEMENT, SURFACE EMITTING LASER USING THE COMPOSITE PHOTONIC STRUCTURE ELEMENT, WAVELENGTH CONVERSION ELEMENT, AND LASER PROCESSING DEVICE USING THE WAVELENGTH CONVERSION ELEMENT - A composite photonic structure element comprises a photonic crystal and multilayer films. The photonic crystal is formed by alternately laminating a plurality of sets of an active layer having a nonlinear effect for converting a fundamental wave into a second harmonic and an inactive layer having no nonlinear effect, and is constructed such that the energy of the fundamental wave coincides with a photonic bandgap end. Each of the multilayer films is formed by laminating a plurality of sets of two kinds of thin films having different refractive indexes and reflects the fundamental wave. The multilayer films are connected to both ends of the photonic crystal. The fundamental wave enters one of end faces and is reciprocally reflected between resonators having the multilayer films, so that the intensity of the fundamental wave is enhanced within the photonic crystal. The fundamental wave is converted into a second harmonic in the active layer, and the second harmonic is taken out from the other end face. | 09-29-2011 |
Keiji Ebata, Osaka JP
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| 20110268145 | OPTICAL COMPONENT - At least one surface of a plate member made of ZnSe has a concave-and-convex structure in which a projecting section and a groove section are formed at a spatial cycle equal to or lower than the wavelength of carbon dioxide laser light to thereby provide a substrate body. On a surface of the concave-and-convex structure, an antireflection film is layered that has a lower refractive index than that of ZnSe to carbon dioxide laser light. By this configuration, the polarization state of transmitted carbon dioxide laser light is converted from a linear polarization to a circular polarization or the like. | 11-03-2011 |
Kenichi Ebata, Chiyoda-Ku JP
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| 20080311359 | GLASS SUBSTRATE HAVING CIRCUIT PATTERN AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - The invention provides a process for producing a glass substrate ( | 12-18-2008 |
Koichi Ebata, Minato-Ku JP
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| 20090282024 | CASE SEARCH SYSTEM, CASE DATABASE, CASE SEARCH APPARATUS, CASE SEARCH METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A case search system for searching for a case that serves as a reference in a design or operation of a wireless network. | 11-12-2009 |
Koji Ebata, Ibaraki JP
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| 20110089919 | HIGH-SIDE DRIVER - A high-side driver has a semiconductor element being connected in series in a power supply path extending from a DC power source to a linear solenoid and turned on/off to control a current of the linear solenoid. The high-side driver includes a current detector of a current of the linear solenoid, a controller of the semiconductor element, a state detector of the high-side driver or the linear solenoid and output a state signal, a first transmit buffer to latch and output the state signal, a second transmit buffer to output the state signal without latching the same, and a transmit shift register to convert the state signal into serial data and transmit the serial data to an external device at predetermined timing. The state detector selects at least one of the first and second transmit buffers and outputs the state signal to the selected one. | 04-21-2011 |
Masaru Ebata, Chita-Shi JP
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| 20100175963 | TORQUE FLUCTUATION ABSORBING APPARATUS - A torque fluctuation absorbing apparatus provided between a driving source and a transmission and transmitting torque from the driving source to the transmission, the apparatus absorbing fluctuations in the torque and limiting a maximum value of the torque, the apparatus includes a flywheel, a supporting member, a first plate having a sliding surface, a second plate having a sliding surface, a disc spring supported by the supporting member and biasing one of the first and second plates towards the other one thereof, a friction material sandwiched tightly between the sliding surface of the first plate and the sliding surface of the second plate, a damper mechanism connected to the friction material and transmitting the torque from the driving source to an input shaft of the transmission, and a cover member demarcating the sliding surfaces of the first and second plates from an exterior of the torque fluctuation absorbing apparatus. | 07-15-2010 |
Masaru Ebata, Aichi JP
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| 20090069098 | DAMPER MECHANISM - A damper mechanism ( | 03-12-2009 |
Masayuki Ebata, Kanagawa JP
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| 20090138542 | Information processing apparatus and information processing method - There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a receiving section that receives function information about one or more functions from an external device connected via a network; a display section that displays a list of the functions of the external device, the functions being included in the function information; a selected-information acquiring section that acquires selected information pertaining to a function selected by a user from the list of the functions displayed by the display section; and a coordinate function executing section that causes the external device to execute the function selected by the user. Such a configuration provides the information processing apparatus designed such that even if the information processing apparatus and the external device do not have information about each other, the function of the external device can be executed by operating the information processing apparatus. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20100040212 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method and information processing system - An information processing apparatus includes: an external device's information obtaining unit for obtaining external device's information containing held function's information on functions held by an external device from the network-connected external device; an application obtaining unit for obtaining an application used for utilizing a function requested to be executed by the external device from a network-connected application providing server, the function being contained in the held function's information; and an external device's function execution request unit for requesting the external device to execute a function held by the external device based on the obtained external device's information and the application. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100121900 | Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and program - There is provided an information processing apparatus including an information acquiring unit for acquiring, from external apparatuses connected via a network, processing information about a processing to be executed by each of the external apparatuses and/or about a result of a processing executed thereby and information about a function that each of the external apparatuses can execute in cooperation with the information processing apparatus; an information display unit for displaying the processing information of each of the external apparatuses and program information about program contents and displaying, on the basis of the information about the function of each of the external apparatuses, functions that can be executed by each of the external apparatuses with respect to the one or more program contents; and a function execution unit for causing the external apparatus to execute a selected function with respect to a selected program content. | 05-13-2010 |
Tetsuo Ebata, Ibaraki JP
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| 20100043768 | Portable Cutter - A portable cutter has a base member, a main body, a cutting blade, a protection member, a dust collection member, and a guide member. The base member moves on a workpiece, the base member having a shaft provided in proximity to one end thereof. The main body is coupled to the base member. A posture of the main body with respect to the base member is changeable. The cutting blade is attached to the main body and driven to cut the workpiece. The cutting blade has an outer periphery. The protection member covers a part of the outer periphery of the cutting blade. The dust collection member has an inlet provided in proximity to the outer periphery of the cutting blade for drawing and collecting dust. The guide member is pivotably supported to the shaft of the base member for guiding the dust to the opening of the dust collection member. | 02-25-2010 |
Tomohiko Ebata, Kanagawa JP
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| 20110124023 | DEVICE, KIT AND METHOD FOR DETECTION OF CHOLINESTERASE-INHIBITING SUBSTANCE - A detection device comprises a basal layer fixed at the bottom of a container therein, and a cholinesterase-containing reaction layer is fixed on the basal layer. A sample is added to the detection device, and the presence of a cholinesterase-inhibiting substance in the sample is visually determined through coloring reaction. For detecting an organophosphate agrichemical, the sample is brought into contact with an oxidizing agent on a column to convert it into the oxon form thereof. | 05-26-2011 |
Tomoichi Ebata, Sagamihara JP
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| 20090052368 | RADIO NETWORK EXPANSION METHOD - One objective of the present invention is to determine a location for a relay terminal in a radio network, without preparatory surveying a radio status and to arrange the relay terminal at the location. Another objective is to provide a method for retrieving the arranged relay terminal. When a relay terminal is to be arranged, the relay terminal transmits a survey packet to examine the quality of communication with a communication terminal or other relay terminal. Where a location is appropriate, the relay terminal gives a notice. The arranged terminal relays communication. Further, when the relay terminal is to be retrieved, the relay terminal carried by a user transmits a retrieval packet to the arranged relay terminal, which notifies the user of its presence by light, sounds, or returning a packet. In this manner, a single relay terminal provides functions of arrangement, relay and retrieval. | 02-26-2009 |
Tomoichi Ebata, Machida JP
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| 20090256742 | Positioning system, position information transmitter, communication terminal, and control method of the positioning system - In a positioning system comprising a position information transmitter that transmits a position information signal containing position information indicative of a position as a signal compatible with a satellite positioning signal transmitted from an artificial satellite and a communication terminal that when receiving the satellite positioning signal, finds a current position of the communication terminal by finding a position of the artificial satellite and that when receiving the position information signal, finds a current position of the communication terminal based on the position information, the position information transmitter transmits the position information signal containing a boundary flag that determines which of the satellite positioning signal or the position information signal each of correlators of the communication terminal is to receive, and the communication terminal sets which of the satellite positioning signal or the position information signal each of the correlators is to receive based on the boundary flag. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20100194636 | GPS SIGNAL TRANSMITTER AND SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD THEREOF - A GPS signal transmitter configured with a reduced number of components and achieving low cost, space saving, and low power is provided. A GPS signal transmitter of the present invention includes: a crystal oscillator; a carrier wave generator that outputs a first carrier wave and a second carrier wave whose phase is inverted to the phase of the first carrier wave, using a clock output by the crystal oscillator; a microcomputer that is driven with the clock output by the crystal oscillator and outputs a control signal based on a C/A code which is a pseudo random code; a switch that switches over between the first carrier wave and the second carrier wave according to the control signal from the microcomputer and generates a modulation wave; and an antenna that transmits the modulation wave by radio. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20110260915 | POSITIONAL INFORMATION TRANSMITTER, POSITIONAL INFORMATION RECEIVER, AND POSITION MEASURING SYSTEM - The present invention provides a positional information transmitter, a positional information receiver and a position measuring system capable of measuring a position under moving circumstances. The positional information transmitter transmits positional information for specifying the current position. The positional information transmitter comprises a memory unit which stores therein a plurality of first positional information indicative of the latitude of the current position and a plurality of second positional information indicative of the longitude of the current position, a transmission unit which generates a first positional information signal corresponding to a wireless signal including the first positional information stored in the memory unit and a second positional information signal corresponding to a wireless signal including the second positional information stored therein, and transmits the generated first and second positional information signals, and a timing controller which controls the transmission unit in such a manner that the transmission unit repeatedly transmits the first positional information signal in different periods and repeatedly transmits the second positional information signal in different periods. | 10-27-2011 |
Toru Ebata, Kawasaki-Shi JP
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| 20100050106 | LEVEL ADJUSTING DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSOR, AV PROCESSOR AND PROGRAM - Provided herein is an AV processing apparatus which displays through a GUI a fader F capable of adjusting an output level by moving an operation element along a predetermined track on a touch panel TP. When an arbitrary position on the track is designated as a point by an operation of a user, the operation element is moved at a constant speed over a predetermined required moving time from a moving start position which is a position of the operation element before the designation to the designated arbitrary position. | 02-25-2010 |
Toru Ebata, Saitama JP
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| 20090303389 | AV PROCESSOR AND PROGRAM - The present invention is directed to provide an AV processing device and the like that allow mixing three or more AV signals through easy operation. According to the invention, an AV processing device | 12-10-2009 |
| 20100103321 | AV PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - Provided herein is an AV processing apparatus which displays a plurality of video signal designating areas which are used to designate an output of each video signal on a touch panel in accordance to a plurality of input video signals, performs a mixing process based on a touch position on the touch panel, and performs a switching process of video signals based on a movement of the touch position. | 04-29-2010 |
Toru Ebata, Hachioji-Shi JP
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| 20100239473 | APPARATUS FOR DECOMPOSING ORGANIC MATTER WITH RADICAL TREATMENT METHOD USING ELECTRIC DISCHARGE - An apparatus performs radical treatment by electric discharge. The radical treatment apparatus includes an electrode unit having a gas flow path that blows gas onto treatment water and an electrode member that generates the electric discharge at a leading edge in order to generate a radical from the gas. | 09-23-2010 |
Toru Ebata, Tokorozawa-Shi JP
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| 20100239232 | INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information reproducing apparatus ( | 09-23-2010 |
Toshiki Ebata, Osaka-Shi JP
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| 20110266274 | QUARTZ ENCAPSULATED HEATER ASSEMBLY - The current invention relates to a semiconductor wafer heater assembly having a frosted clear quartz material for the wafer susceptor ( | 11-03-2011 |
Yuhsuke Ebata, Mie JP
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| 20090074463 | CORONA DISCHARGE DEVICE, PHOTORECEPTOR CHARGER, AND METHOD FOR MAKING DISCHARGE PRODUCT REMOVING MEMBER - A corona discharge device ( | 03-19-2009 |
Yutaro Ebata, Mito JP
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| 20100252924 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor device includes plural electrode pads arranged in an active region of a semiconductor chip, and wiring layers provided below the plural electrode pads wherein occupation rates of wirings arranged within the regions of the electrode pads are, respectively, made uniform for every wiring layer. To this end, in a region where an occupation rate of wiring is smaller than those in other regions, a dummy wiring is provided. On the contrary, when the occupation rate of wiring is larger than in other regions, slits are formed in the wiring to control the wiring occupation rate. In the respective wirings layers, the shapes, sizes and intervals of wirings below the respective electrode pads are made similar or equal to one another. | 10-07-2010 |
Yuya Ebata, Fujisawa-Shi JP
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| 20090304238 | IMAGING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREOF - An imaging apparatus is provided including an imaging unit configured to obtain image data, a display unit, and a communication unit configured to communicate with a plurality of external apparatuses. The imaging apparatus further includes a storing unit configured to store person identification information including at least face image data while associating the person recognition information with information relating to the external apparatuses, a collation unit configured to collate a target in the image data with the person identification information, a detection unit configured to detect an external apparatus that is communicating with the imaging apparatus, and a display control unit configured to display a plurality of pieces of face image data on the display unit each as a candidate of a transmission destination of the image data in an order based on a result of collation by the collation unit and a result of detection by the detection unit. | 12-10-2009 |