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| 20090195754 | IMAGE TRANSMITTING DEVICE, IMAGE TRANSMITTING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image transmitting system includes: an image transmitting unit that receives a projection command to project an annotation image onto an object, and transmits a captured image formed by capturing an image of the object designated by the projection command as an object onto which the annotation image is to be projected, the annotation image representing an annotation about the object; a projector that projects the annotation image in an artificially continuous manner, using an afterimage formed by intermittently projecting light onto the object; and an image capturing unit that captures an image of the object including the portion onto which the light is projected during a period between a time when the projector ends the light projection onto the object and a time when the projector starts the next light projection, and forms the captured image to be transmitted by the image transmitting unit. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090286332 | POLISHING METHOD - A method for polishing a substrate having a metal film thereon is described. The substrate has metal interconnects formed from part of the metal film. The polishing method includes performing a first polishing process of removing the metal film, after the first polishing process, performing a second polishing process of removing the barrier film, after the second polishing process, performing a third polishing process of polishing the insulating film, during the second polishing process and the third polishing process, monitoring a polishing state of the substrate with an eddy current sensor, and terminating the third polishing process when an output signal of the eddy current sensor reaches a predetermined threshold. | 11-19-2009 |
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| 20110024826 | NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a first columnar protrusion and a second columnar protrusion formed to be spaced out on a surface of a semiconductor substrate, and the first and the second columnar protrusions each include a split gate nonvolatile memory cell in which a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region are formed at a surrounding part and an extremity, and in which a first layered structure, in which a charge accumulating film and a memory gate line are layered, and a second layered structure, in which a gate oxide film and a control gate line are layered, are formed on a surface of a sidewall between the surrounding part and the extremity. The first layered structure is also formed between the first and second columnar protrusions, whereby the memory gate line of the first columnar protrusion and the second columnar protrusion is connected each other. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20120058618 | Nonvolatile semiconductor storage device with charge storage layer and its manufacturing method - A method of manufacturing a nonvolatile semiconductor storage device includes sequentially forming a charge storage film, a conductive film, and a mask film on a semiconductor substrate, sequentially removing the mask film, the conductive film, and the charge storage film at a given portion to form a groove, forming a word gate electrode to fill in the groove whose inside is covered with an insulating film, after said forming the word gate electrode, removing the mask film, after said removing the mask film, forming a spacer film to cover the conductive film and the word gate electrode, etching back the spacer film to form a spacer layer on both sides of the word gate electrode through the insulating film, removing the conductive film and the charge storage film to form a control gate electrode, and forming a source drain diffusion layer. | 03-08-2012 |
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| 20110310515 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT INCLUDING INTERNAL CIRCUITS AND ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE PROTECTION CIRCUITS - The disclosed invention reduces an increase in the number of electrostatic discharge protection circuits or the number of electrostatic discharge protection elements due to increases in the number of separations of power voltages and the number of separations of ground voltages. A semiconductor integrated circuit includes first, second, and third operation voltage supply terminals; first, second, and third internal circuits; first, second, and third electrostatic discharge protection circuits; and a coupling midpoint. The first, second, and third internal circuits operate at first, second, and third operation voltages supplied to the first, second, and third operation voltage supply terminals, respectively. The first, second, and third electrostatic discharge protection circuits are coupled between the first, second, and third operation voltage supply terminals and the coupling midpoint, respectively. That is, instead of the past Δ (delta) coupling, the first, second, and third electrostatic discharge protection circuits are Y (star)-coupled with respect to the coupling midpoint. | 12-22-2011 |
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| 20100100684 | SET ASSOCIATIVE CACHE APPARATUS, SET ASSOCIATIVE CACHE METHOD AND PROCESSOR SYSTEM - A set associative cache memory includes a tag memory configured to store tags which are predetermined high-order bits of an address, a tag comparator configured to compare a tag in a request address (RA) with the tag stored in the tag memory and a data memory configured to incorporate way information obtained through a comparison by the tag comparator in part of a column address. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100100685 | EFFECTIVE ADDRESS CACHE MEMORY, PROCESSOR AND EFFECTIVE ADDRESS CACHING METHOD - An effective address cache memory includes a TLB effective page memory configured to retain entry data including an effective page tag of predetermined high-order bits of an effective address of a process, and output a hit signal when the effective page tag matches the effective page tag from a processor; a data memory configured to retain cache data with the effective page tag or a page offset as a cache index; and a cache state memory configured to retain a cache state of the cache data stored in the data memory, in a manner corresponding to the cache index. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20110047349 | PROCESSOR AND PROCESSOR CONTROL METHOD - A processor includes a plurality of subfunctional units provided corresponding to respective slots of one or more pieces of operation result data including a plurality of slots for an SIMD operation; and an enable generating unit configured to, in each of the one or more pieces of the operation result data, compare a value of a predetermined slot with a value of a slot other than the predetermined slot, and disable one or more subfunctional units to which the value equal to the value of the predetermined slot is inputted, and the processor outputs the value of the predetermined slot as the value of the one or more subfunctional units which have been disabled. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110231593 | VIRTUAL ADDRESS CACHE MEMORY, PROCESSOR AND MULTIPROCESSOR - An embodiment provides a virtual address cache memory including: a TLB virtual page memory configured to, when a rewrite to a TLB occurs, rewrite entry data; a data memory configured to hold cache data using a virtual page tag or a page offset as a cache index; a cache state memory configured to hold a cache state for the cache data stored in the data memory, in association with the cache index; a first physical address memory configured to, when the rewrite to the TLB occurs, rewrite a held physical address; and a second physical address memory configured to, when the cache data is written to the data memory after the occurrence of the rewrite to the TLB, rewrite a held physical address. | 09-22-2011 |
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| 20090090954 | NONVOLATILE MEMORY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - Memory elements, switching elements, and peripheral circuits to constitute a nonvolatile memory are integrally formed on a substrate by using TFTs. Since semiconductor active layers of memory element TFTs are thinner than those of other TFTs, impact ionization easily occurs in channel regions of the memory element TFTs. This enables low-voltage write/erase operations to be performed on the memory elements, and hence the memory elements are less prone to deteriorate. Therefore, a nonvolatile memory capable of miniaturization can be provided. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090295704 | Shift Register Circuit, Driving Circuit of Display Device, and Display Device Using the Driving Circuit - There is provided a driving circuit which is simple and has a small occupied area. A shift register circuit of the present invention includes a plurality of register circuits. Each of the register circuits includes a clocked inverter circuit and an inverter circuit. Both are connected in series with each other so that an output signal of the clocked inverter circuit becomes an input signal of the inverter circuit. Further, the register circuit includes a signal line by which an output signal of the inverter circuit is transmitted. Since a number of elements are connected to the signal line and parasitic capacitance is large, it has a high load. The shift register circuit of the present invention uses the fact that since the parasitic capacitance of the signal line is large, it has a high load. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20110298872 | PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR, LIQUID EJECTION HEAD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A piezoelectric actuator includes a piezoelectric member having piezoelectric pillars and grooves alternately arrayed. Each of the grooves has a first width at a bottom side of the piezoelectric pillars and a second width at an upper side of the piezoelectric pillars in a direction in which the piezoelectric pillars are arrayed. The first width is greater than the second width. | 12-08-2011 |
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| 20080259281 | Apparatus and method for displaying three-dimensional image - A three-dimensional-image display apparatus includes a projecting unit having a projection plane and a plurality of projecting elements for projecting images having parallax therebetween through the projection plane; a display for displaying a three-dimensional image by receiving the images projected from the plurality of projecting elements; and a common lens for guiding rays of the images to the display, the common lens being arranged between the projection plane and the display and having a focal length larger than a distance between the projection plane and the display. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20100033649 | SURFACE LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNIT - A surface light source device which illuminates a transmission-type liquid crystal display unit from the back surface includes P×Q surface light source units with individually controlled light sources. Each of the light sources includes a plurality of light-emitting element units. Each of the light-emitting element units includes at least one red light-emitting element that emits red light, at least one green light-emitting element that emits green light, and at least one blue light-emitting element that emits blue light. The center of mass of a luminance profile based on each of a plurality of red light-emitting elements, a plurality of green light-emitting elements, and a plurality of blue light-emitting elements in each surface light source unit substantially coincides with the center of mass of the surface light source unit. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20110293976 | SEPARATOR AND BATTERY - A separator includes a first layer that has a first principal face and a second principal face, and a second layer that is formed on at least one of the first principal face and the second principal face. The first layer is a microporous membrane including a first polymer resin, and the second layer is a microporous membrane including inorganic particles having an electrically insulating property and a second polymer resin. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20120015232 | SEPARATOR AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE BATTERY - A separator is provided and includes a functional resin layer containing a resin material and an inorganic oxide filler, having a porous interconnected structure in which many pores are mutually interconnected and having a contact angle against an electrolytic solution of not more than 11 degrees. | 01-19-2012 |
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| 20080267033 | RECORDING APPARATUS, RECORDING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A recording apparatus that can record a content on a first recording medium, and on a second recording medium taking longer time to record a content than the first recording medium does, the recording apparatus includes: a recording control means for controlling recording of a transferred content such a way that when the transferred content that is a content sent from another device is recorded on the second recording medium, the transferred content is recorded on the first recording medium prior to the second recording medium and the transferred content recorded on the first recording medium is recorded on the second recording medium; and a notifying means for notifying the another device that reception of the transferred content is completed at a time when the recording of the transferred content on the first recording medium is completed before the recording of the transferred content on the second recording medium is completed. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080294693 | Receiving apparatus, recording apparatus, content receiving method, and content recording method - Disclosed herein is a receiving apparatus for receiving, either in broadcast fashion or via an external network, content information made up of contents and meta information about the contents, the receiving apparatus including: a device search section; a device information acquisition section; a device compatibility determination section; a storage destination information acquisition section; a content search section; and a content offering section. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20090235300 | Content transmission device, program, parental level determination method, and content transmission system - A content transmission device that is connected to a plurality of external devices including a reproduction device reproducing content data, including a transmitting section transmitting content data to the reproduction device, a detecting section detecting the state of each of the plurality of external devices, a parental level determining section determining for the reproduction device a boundary between a parental level on content data the viewing of which is restricted and a parental level on content data the viewing of which is allowed according to the state of each of the plurality of external devices detected by the detecting section, and a control section controlling transmission of content data from the transmitting section based on the relation between the boundary determined by the parental level determining section and a parental level set on content data. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20100037269 | Recording system, receiving apparatus, recording apparatus, recording control method, and program - Disclosed herein is a recording system including a receiving apparatus and a recording apparatus, wherein the receiving apparatus includes, a creation section, and a reservation control section, the recording apparatus includes, a recording section, and a recording control section. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100107078 | DISPLAY GENERATION DEVICE, DISPLAY GENERATION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND CONTENT DOWNLOAD SYSTEM - A display generation device, a display generation method, a program, and a content download system are provided. The display generation device for generating a display screen including one or two or more user-selectable playback control items is provided with a download section for downloading content data from a content server storing the content data, a data amount acquisition section for acquiring a data amount already downloaded and a data amount not yet downloaded by the download section among the content data, a rate acquisition section for acquiring a transmission rate of data from the content server to the display generation device, and a display screen generation section for generating the display screen including the playback control item according to the data amount acquired by the data amount acquisition section and the transmission rate acquired by the rate acquisition section. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100293597 | CONTENT TRANSMISSION DEVICE, PROGRAM, TRANSMISSION CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTENT TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - Provided is a content transmission device, including an input section in which a boundary between a parental level on content data restricted to be viewed and a parental level on content data allowed to be viewed for each of the reproducing devices, and a restriction time slot are input, a storage section in which the content data, the boundary and the restriction time slot are recorded, a transmitting section that transmits the content data to the reproduction device, a judgment section that determines whether the parental level on the content data is higher than the boundary of the reproduction device and the current time is within a restriction time slot of the reproduction device, and a control section that controls so that the content data being a determination object is not to be transmitted from the transmitting section to the reproduction device depending on the determination result. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100332817 | CONTENT RECORDING SYSTEM, CONTENT RECORDING METHOD, CONTENT RECORDING DEVICE, AND CONTENT RECEVING DEVICE - Provided is a content receiving device, connected to a content recording device that records content data, including a receiving section that receives the content data, a recording folder specifying section that specifies a dedicated folder as a recording destination of the content data when a parental level is set on the content data and an normal folder as the recording destination of the content data when no parental level is set on the content data, and a transmitting section that transmits the content data so that the content data is recorded in a folder specified by the recording folder specifying section of a storage medium contained in the content recording device. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110129196 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL SYSTEM, AND REMOTE CONTROL APPARATUS - A display-control apparatus includes: an acquisition portion acquiring contents; a display controller displaying the contents on a display-portion; a user-detection portion detecting whether or not a user viewing the contents exist in the surrounding area; a communication controller controlling communication with a different display-control apparatus displaying the contents; and a controller configured so that, in the case where the contents are displayed by the different display-control apparatus, when the user does not exist in a surrounding area of the different display-control apparatus, after absence information indicating that the user does not exist, which is transmitted from the different display-control apparatus, is received by the communication controller, in the case where it is detected by the user-detection portion that the user exists, the controller allows the acquisition-portion to acquire the contents displayed by the different display-control apparatus which transmits the absence information and displays the contents on the display portion. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110307610 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An information processing device includes a communication section performing communication with other devices on a network, an image generation section generating image information for each of contents stored in another device on the network or in the information processing device itself, with use of address information of the contents, network identification information, and process instruction information provided for each of the contents, the image information representing the three kinds of information, and the network identification information being used for authentication which allows a wireless device to participate in a wireless network configured to include an access point on the network, and a display request section requesting a display device to display, on a screen thereof and together with a content list, the image information generated by the image generation section. | 12-15-2011 |
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| 20080250495 | AUTHENTICATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AUTHENTICATION PROCESSING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM STORING AUTHENTICATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An authentication processing apparatus, which includes: an authentication processing section that performs authentication using an authentication method selected from authentication methods provided; a storage section that stores authentication information indicating whether or not the authentication succeeds; a determination section that, when an operation on electronic information associated to one or more authentication methods is performed, determines whether the operation on the electronic information is permitted or not, on the basis of the one or more authentication methods associated to the electronic information and the stored authentication information; and an authentication request section that, when the determination section determines that the operation on the electronic information is not permitted, detects from among the one or more authentication methods associated to the electronic information an authentication methods for which it is not indicated in the authentication information that an authentication succeeds, and requests the authentication using the detected authentication method. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20090263743 | RESIST POLYMER AND RESIST COMPOSITION - The resist polymer of the present invention comprises a specific constitutional unit having a cyano group, a constitutional unit having an acid-dissociable group, and a specific constitutional unit having a lactone skeleton. When the above polymer is used as a resist resin in DUV excimer laser lithography or electron beam lithography, it exhibits high sensitivity and high resolution, and provides a good resist pattern shape, having a small degree of occurrence of line edge roughness or generation of microgels. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20110296192 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, PROGRAM DEVELOPING DEVICE, PROGRAM VERIFYING METHOD, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to one embodiment, an information processing device stores a program list and plural types of security functions each defining therein protection attributes for respective arguments related to input and output of data to be protected, and stores function argument protection attributes and dependency relations each of which is defined by a determinant set and a dependent attribute that satisfy a predetermined condition. The device detects a combination of first and second security functions in which integrity of variables included in a determinant set of one dependency relation in the first security function are verified by the second security function, generates a third security function which adds protection attributes that guarantee integrity to variables included in the dependent attribute of the dependency relation in the first security function when verification of the second security function is successful and which outputs the variables, and updates the function argument protection attribute and the dependency relation concomitantly with an addition of the third security function. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20120034561 | RESIST POLYMER AND RESIST COMPOSITION - The resist polymer of the present invention comprises a specific constitutional unit having a cyano group, a constitutional unit having an acid-dissociable group, and a specific constitutional unit having a lactone skeleton. When the above polymer is used as a resist resin in DUV excimer laser lithography or electron beam lithography, it exhibits high sensitivity and high resolution, and provides a good resist pattern shape, having a small degree of occurrence of line edge roughness or generation of microgels. | 02-09-2012 |
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| 20100258036 | AZO PIGMENT, AND PIGMENT DISPERSION, COLORING COMPOSITION AND INK COMPOSITION FOR INKJET RECORDING CONTAINING THE SAME - A monoazo pigment is represented by the general formula (1), a tautomer of the monoazopigment, and a salt or a hydrate thereof: | 10-14-2010 |
| 20110174367 | TANDEM SOLAR CELL - The present invention provides a tandem solar cell constituted for the purpose of hole blocking or electron blocking so that holes are not injected from a front subcell or electrons are not injected from a rear subcell, into an intermediate layer arranged between these subcells. The tandem solar cell comprises a pair of electrodes, at least two or more subcells, and intermediate layers each arranged between two adjacent subcells, where at least one of the intermediate layers has a hole blocking layer or an electron blocking layer. In particular, holes or electrons can be blocked more completely by adjusting the thickness of the hole blocking layer or electron blocking layer to be equal to or greater than the maximum value of surface irregularity height of the subcell immediately before the hole or electron blocking layer so that the tandem solar cell can exhibit its performances sufficiently. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110179974 | AZO PIGMENT, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING AZO PIGMENT, AND DISPERSION AND COLORING COMPOSITION CONTAINING AZO PIGMENT - An object of the invention is to provide an azo pigment having extremely good dispersibility and dispersion stability and having excellent hue and tinctorial strength and, preferably, having a long axis observed with a transmission microscope of from 0.01 μm to 30 μM. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110245475 | AZO PIGMENT, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING AZO PIGMENT, DISPERSION CONTAINING AZO PIGMENT, AND COLORING COMPOSITION - There is provided an azo pigment having excellently good color reproducibility, dispersibility, and storage stability of pigment dispersions and having excellent hue and tinctorial strength. | 10-06-2011 |
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| 20090278293 | DAMPING MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF - Provided is a vibration damping material comprising: a polyester resin containing dicarboxylic acid constitutional units and diol constitutional units; and mica being dispersed in the polyester resin, wherein: (1) a ratio [(A | 11-12-2009 |
| 20100179267 | VIBRATION-DAMPING MATERIAL - Provided is a vibration damping material, which includes a resin composition obtained by dispersing titanium dioxide (Y) and a mica flake (Z) in a polyester resin (X) containing dicarboxylic acid constitutional units and diol constitutional units, in which: (1) in the polyester resin (X), a ratio of a total of a number of the dicarboxylic acid constitutional units (A | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100234509 | VIBRATION DAMPING MATERIAL - Provided are a resin composition for a vibration damping material, including: a polyester resin mainly formed of a dicarboxylic acid constitutional unit and a diol constitutional unit; and a filler, in which the polyester resin contains: a dicarboxylic acid constitutional unit (A) mainly derived from an aromatic dicarboxylic acid, in particular, isophthalic acid; a diol constitutional unit (B) mainly derived from ethylene glycol; a constitutional unit (C) formed of an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid, an aliphatic diol, and/or an aliphatic hydroxycarboxylic acid each having 5 or more carbon atoms; and a flake-like or plate-like filler (D) and a filler (E) made of a particulate metal oxide as the filler; and a vibration damping material. Thus, there can be provided a vibration damping material exerting high vibration damping performance in a wide temperature region and being excellent in toughness and processability. The vibration damping material is formed or processed into, for example, injection-molded products, sheets, films, fibers, containers, foams, adhesives, coatings, constrained vibration damping sheets, unconstrained vibration damping sheets, is applied to, for example, vehicles, railway cars, aircraft, household appliances, OA apparatuses, precision apparatuses, building machines, constructions/buildings, shoes, sport gears, and is suitably used as vibration isolators, vibration dampers, and sound absorbers/insulators. | 09-16-2010 |
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| 20090135304 | DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a display device equipped with a display unit, the display device including a receiving part for receiving a difference signal of a plurality of channels including an image signal and content identification information inserted in a blanking period and outputting the image signal and the content identification information; a light emission amount regulation part for setting a reference duty according to image information of the image signal; an adjustment part for adjusting so that an actual duty is within a predetermined range based on the reference duty and an adjustment signal and adjusting a gain of the image signal so that a light emission amount defined by the actual duty and the gain of the image signal becomes the same as the light emission amount defined by the reference duty; and an adjustment signal generation part for generating the adjustment signal based on the content identification information. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20100033627 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEPTION APPARATUS AND RECEPTION METHOD | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100132001 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND RECEPTION DEVICE - [Object] To enable an external device to recognize, in the case of including a communication unit configured to execute communication via a communication path made up of a pair of differential transmission paths included in a transmission path, information relating to the communication unit thereof. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20120036284 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND DIGITAL INTERFACE DETERMINING METHOD OF CONNECTED EXTERNAL DEVICE - [Object] To determine the digital interface of a connected external device at a circuit, whereby the operation of a data transmission unit can be switched in accordance with the digital interface of the connected external device. | 02-09-2012 |
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| 20090184386 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREFOR - Disclosed herein is a solid-state image pickup device, including, a light receiving pixel section, a black level reference pixel section, a multi-layer wiring line section, a first light blocking film, a second light blocking film, a third light blocking film, and a fourth light blocking layer. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090189236 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A solid-state imaging device includes: a light-receiving pixel part configured to be formed on a semiconductor substrate; a black-level reference pixel part configured to be formed on the semiconductor substrate; and a multilayer interconnect part configured to be provided over the semiconductor substrate. The multilayer interconnect part includes an insulating layer formed over the semiconductor substrate and metal interconnect layers formed as a plurality of layers in the insulating layer. The multilayer interconnect part has a first light-blocking film formed above an area between first metal interconnects of a first metal interconnect layer as one of the metal interconnect layers above the black-level reference pixel part, and a second light-blocking film that is connected to the first light-blocking film and is formed of a second metal interconnect layer over the first metal interconnect layer. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090303359 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A solid-state imaging device has: an imaging region in which a plurality of pixels each having a photoelectric conversion element are arranged, and a color filter. The color filter includes: filter components of a first color ( | 12-10-2009 |
| 20110024858 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A solid-state imaging device includes a first substrate including a light-sensing portion configured to perform photoelectric conversion of incident light and a wiring portion provided on a light-incident side; an optically transparent second substrate provided on a wiring portion side of the first substrate at a certain distance; a through-hole provided in the first substrate; a through-via provided in the through-hole; a front-surface-side electrode connected to the through-via and provided on a front surface of the first substrate; a back-surface-side electrode connected to the through-via and provided on a back surface of the first substrate; and a stopper electrode provided on the front-surface-side electrode and filling a space between the front-surface-side electrode and the second substrate. | 02-03-2011 |
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| 20110058858 | DEVELOPING DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There is provided a separation member for separating a first conveying path formed by a first conveying member from a second conveying path formed by a second conveying member. There is also provided an opposed member facing a magnetic pole H4 at an upstream side of two magnetic poles H4 and H6 that forms a developer-releasing magnetic pole H5. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110194874 | DEVELOPMENT DEVICE, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME - A development device includes a developer container, a developer carrier, exposed partly from a casing, facing a latent image carrier in a development area, a magnetic field generator inside the developer carrier, having multiple magnetic poles including a conveyance pole to convey the developer downstream from the development area to a developer release portion, a developer agitator, and a developer regulator. A predetermined gap is kept between an outer surface of the developer carrier and an inner wall of the casing downstream from an opening of the casing, upstream from a developer release portion, in a direction in which the developer carrier rotates. Multiple recesses are formed in the outer surface of the developer carrier at a pitch in a circumferential direction shorter than half a width of a magnetic flux density of the developer conveyance pole in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the developer carrier. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110305485 | POWDER CONTAINER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME - A powder container includes a cylindrical container body to contain a powder, having an opening in one end thereof, to convey the powder contained in the container body to the opening with rotation of the container body, and having a container-body projection provided on an outer circumferential surface of the container body; and a cylindrical holder, into which the end of the container body having the opening is inserted, to hold the container body rotatably, having a powder outlet through which the powder is discharged from the holder and a holder projection provided on an inner circumferential surface thereof. The container-body projection repetitively contacts and separates from the holder projection with rotation of the container body to vibrate the container body and the holder. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20120057907 | DEVELOPMENT DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A development device including a developer container, a developer bearer, a magnetic field generator, a developer agitator to supply the developer to the developer bearer, and a developer regulator to adjust a layer thickness of the developer carried on the developer bearer. Multiple oval recesses oblique to the axial direction of the developer bearer are formed in the outer circumferential surface of the developer bearer and arranged in a circumferential direction and the axial direction thereof. An upstream inner wall of the recess in the rotational direction of the developer bearer applies a force to the developer as the developer bearer rotates, and an angle between a long axis of the recess and the axial direction is set so that the force applied by the upstream inner wall of the recess has a component in a direction substantially identical to the developer conveyance direction of the developer agitator. | 03-08-2012 |
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| 20090196371 | MIMO ANTENNA APPARATUS CHANGING ANTENNA ELEMENTS BASED ON TRANSMISSION CAPACITY - A controller of a MIMO antenna apparatus calculates a current transmission capacity based on signal levels detected by a signal level detector circuit. The controller calculates an estimated transmission capacity assuming that at least one of antenna elements currently connected to a MIMO modulator and demodulator circuit is changed to a further antenna element not connected to the MIMO modulator and demodulator circuit, based on the detected signal levels and degrees of electromagnetic coupling stored in a degree-of-coupling memory. The controller controls a switch circuit to connect the further antenna element to the MIMO modulator and demodulator circuit when the current transmission capacity becomes lower than the estimated transmission capacity. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090207787 | RADIO BASE STATION, CONTROL APPARATUS, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A radio base station capable of performing an optimum scheduling suitable for an outside situation. The radio base station, which has a scheduling table ( | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090267842 | PORTABLE WIRELESS APPARATUS - It is an object to relieve deterioration in efficiency due to the influence electromagnetic coupling between antennas and to obtain a high diversity gain, and a high transmission speed and a large communication capacity in an MIMO system. In a portable wireless machine including two types of antennas | 10-29-2009 |
| 20100056234 | MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A housing antenna | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100069017 | MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A housing antenna | 03-18-2010 |
| 20110006963 | ANTENNA ELEMENT - An antenna element includes: a first conductive plate which is approximately rectangular; a second conductive plate which shares one side of the first conductive plate in the width direction, which is placed substantially perpendicularly to the first conductive plate, and which is approximately rectangular; a third conductive plate which shares another side of the second conductive plate in the width direction, the other side being opposed to the one side shared with the first conductive plate, which is placed perpendicularly to be opposed to the first conductive plate, and which is approximately rectangular; a fourth conductive plate which shares one sides of the first conductive plate, the second conductive plate, and the third conductive plate; a sixth conductive plate which extends from one side of the fourth conductive plate that does not share one sides of the first conductive plate, the second conductive plate, and the third conductive plate, and which is placed substantially perpendicularly to the fourth conductive plate; slits which are disposed respectively between the sixth conductive plate, and the first conductive plate and the third conductive plate; a short pin which connects the ground plate to the first conductive plate or the second conductive plate; and a feed pin which is connected to the first conductive plate or the second conductive plate in parallel to the short pin and in adjacent to the short pin. | 01-13-2011 |
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