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20090085857 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CONTROLLER - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display controller device and method which provides for a full and/or partial display with good display quality and/or low power consumption based on the scanning period for an active scan line being dependent upon a number of reference clock pulses. Some embodiments of the present invention include one or more of the following features: keeping the frequency substantially constant for different numbers of active scan lines, allowing change of the frequency due to characteristics of the LCD, displaying gradation with near linear effective voltage characteristics, displaying graduation data with lower power, or displaying a partial or full screen in a mobile device, for example, a cell phone. | 04-02-2009 |
20110148953 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DRIVING DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING - A display driver having a first mode where a number of colors to be displayed is smaller than a predetermined number and a second mode where a number of colors to be displayed is equal to or larger than the predetermined number. A generation circuit generates gray scale voltages having a plurality of levels for positive polarity and negative polarity. In the first mode, the generation circuit decreases a current flowing into an internal circuit which generates a gray scale voltage of an intermediate level other than two gray scale voltages of a lowest and a highest level, in comparison to a current flowing in the second mode. In the first mode, the selection circuit selects a gray scale voltage in accordance with the display data, from the two gray scale voltages of the lowest and the highest level gray scale voltage which are generated from the generation circuit. | 06-23-2011 |
20120154465 | Liquid Crystal Display Controller - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display controller device and method which provides for a full and/or partial display with good display quality and/or low power consumption based on the scanning period for an active scan line being dependent upon a number of reference clock pulses. Some embodiments of the present invention include one or more of the following features: keeping the frequency substantially constant for different numbers of active scan lines, allowing change of the frequency due to characteristics of the LCD, displaying gradation with near linear effective voltage characteristics, displaying graduation data with lower power, or displaying a partial or full screen in a mobile device, for example, a cell phone. | 06-21-2012 |
20130207959 | Liquid Crystal Display Controller - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display controller device and method which provides for a full and/or partial display with good display quality and/or low power consumption based on the scanning period for an active scan line being dependent upon a number of reference clock pulses. Some embodiments of the present invention include one or more of the following features: keeping the frequency substantially constant for different numbers of active scan lines, allowing change of the frequency due to characteristics of the LCD, displaying gradation with near linear effective voltage characteristics, displaying graduation data with lower power, or displaying a partial or full screen in a mobile device, for example, a cell phone. | 08-15-2013 |
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20110090590 | HEAD POSITION CONTROL DEVICE, MAGNETIC RECORDING EVALUATION APPARATUS, AND HEAD POSITION CONTROL METHOD - At time to start learning feed-forward control and under the status that servo-drive is not put in execution, a positioning error of repeatable runout is detected by means of a positioning error of repeatable runout operation section and on the basis of a value of the positioning error of repeatable runout, a drive pattern and drive interval of idling are determined by means of a feed-forward data operation section. The drive pattern is stored in a feed-forward data memory and is outputted as feed-forward data in synchronism with the rotation of a spindle during drive interval, thus performing idling of a fine-movement actuator. After the idling has ended, control initiation sequence is resumed to carry out learning of feed-forward control. | 04-21-2011 |
20110211277 | DETECTING CIRCUIT AND INSPECTING APPARATUS - A detecting circuit, which can detect plural types of servo signals, including a cosine/sine value detector for sampling a servo signal supplied from an inspected object and thereby obtaining a cosine value and a sine value, an amplitude/phase detector for obtaining at least amplitude information and phase information on the basis of the cosine value and the sine value obtained by the cosine/sine value detector, and a servo selector/position detector for selecting a servo scheme of the inspected object and detecting a position of the inspected object on the basis of the amplitude information and the phase information obtained by the amplitude/phase detector. | 09-01-2011 |
20120194939 | PATTERNED MEDIUM INSPECTION METHOD AND INSPECTION APPARATUS - A patterned medium inspection method according to the present invention includes a timing computation process including a read process reading the reproduced signal of a patterned medium under inspection and a computation process computing the signal interval values from the patterned medium reproduced signal read in the read process, and a judgment process judging the quality of the patterned medium using the reproduced signal interval values computed in the computation process. | 08-02-2012 |
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20120057255 | INSPECTION DEVICE OR INSPECTION METHOD FOR MAGNETIC HEAD OR MAGNETIC DISC, AND MAGNETIC DISC RECORDING DEVICE AND MAGNETIC DISC RECORDING METHOD - An inspection device or inspection method for a magnetic head or magnetic disc which can form a servo pattern applicable to a write system, and a magnetic disc recording device or magnetic disc recording method. In inspection or recording of a magnetic disc, which rotates the magnetic disc, a servo pattern is written into a servo pattern region of the magnetic disc by a write-in element of a magnetic head, and is read by a read-in element of the magnetic head. Servo following of a position of the magnetic head on the magnetic disc is performed based on the servo pattern which comprises a plurality of patterns. The patterns are written-in with a first frequency for causing the patterns to be subjected to the servo following and, the patterns are overwritten with a second frequency different from the first frequency, except a servo following width used in the servo following. | 03-08-2012 |
20120075738 | INSPECTION APPARATUS AND INSPECTION METHOD FOR MAGNETIC HEAD OR MAGNETIC DISK AND INSPECTION METHOD FOR MAGNETIC HEAD - An inspection apparatus and method for a magnetic head or a magnetic disk is conducted using a two-carriage method. In particular, the magnetic disk is rotated by a spindle, a test signal is written into the magnetic disk by one magnetic head mounted in one carriage which moves in the radius direction of the magnetic disk, and the test signal of the magnetic disk is read by the other magnetic head mounted in the other carriage which moves in the radius direction of the magnetic disk to inspect the performance of the magnetic head or the magnetic disk using the read signal. The sector pulses to determine servo timing at which servo burst signals preliminarily written into the disk are read are formed on the basis of a clock signal and an index signal generated along with the rotation of the spindle. | 03-29-2012 |
20120250175 | INSPECTION DEVICE AND INSPECTION METHOD FOR INSPECTING MAGNETIC DISK OR MAGNETIC HEAD - The present invention realizes reduction of position information demodulation errors caused by the eccentricity of the magnetic disk and improvement of position signal detection accuracy, as well as enabling quick eccentricity clock correction for arbitrary clock frequencies. An inspection device in accordance with the present invention comprises: a servo demodulation unit which demodulates servo information; a PLL clock generating unit which generates a reference clock and supplies the reference clock to the servo demodulation unit; and a tester control unit. The PLL clock generating unit includes an eccentricity correction circuit for correcting the frequency of the reference clock depending on the eccentricity of the magnetic disk. The tester control unit generates correction data for correcting the frequency of the reference clock, multiplies the correction data by the inverse of a transfer function of the PLL clock generating unit, and supplies the product to the eccentricity correction circuit. | 10-04-2012 |
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20120269203 | SIGNAL DEMULTIPLEXING DEVICE, SIGNAL DEMULTIPLEXING METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING A SIGNAL DEMULTIPLEXING PROGRAM - Provided is a signal demultiplexing system that can minimize losses in demultiplexing performance even if signals unsuited to demultiplexing are inputted. The provided signal demultiplexing device contains: an input signal analysis means for determining whether or not a plurality of input signals are suited to demultiplexing; a data memory means for storing data from frequency-domain input signals which result from transformation of the aforementioned input signals into frequency-domain signals; a selection control means for storing the frequency-domain input signals in the data memory means if the input signal analysis means has determined that the input signals are suited to the generation of a demultiplexing matrix for demultiplexing; and a demultiplexing matrix generation means for generating a demultiplexing matrix using frequency-domain input signals including the most recent and older frequency-domain input signals stored in the data memory means. | 10-25-2012 |
20130016286 | INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM, INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAMAANM Nomura; ToshiyukiAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Nomura; Toshiyuki Tokyo JPAANM Senda; YuzoAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Senda; Yuzo Tokyo JPAANM Higa; KyotaAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Higa; Kyota Tokyo JP - Disclosed is an information display system provided with: a signal analyzing unit which analyzes the audio signals obtained from a predetermined location and which generates ambient sound information regarding the sound generated at the predetermined location; an ambient expression selection unit which selects an ambient expression which expresses the content of what a person is feeling from the sound generated at the predetermined location on the basis of the ambient sound information; and an ambient expression and video superimposing unit which superimposes the ambient expression on the video of a video signal obtained from the predetermined location. | 01-17-2013 |
20130024192 | ATMOSPHERE EXPRESSION WORD SELECTION SYSTEM, ATMOSPHERE EXPRESSION WORD SELECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed is an information display system provided with: a signal analyzing unit which analyzes the audio signals obtained from a predetermined location and which generates ambient sound information regarding the sound generated at the predetermined location; and an ambient expression selection unit which selects an ambient expression which expresses the content of what a person is feeling from the sound generated at the predetermined location on the basis of the ambient sound information. | 01-24-2013 |
20130182907 | FEELING-EXPRESSING-WORD PROCESSING DEVICE, FEELING-EXPRESSING-WORD PROCESSING METHOD, AND FEELING-EXPRESSING-WORD PROCESSING PROGRAM - The present approach enables an impression of the atmosphere of a scene or an object present in the scene at the time of photography to be pictured in a person's mind as though the person were actually at the photographed scene. A feeling-expressing-word processing device has: a feeling information calculating unit | 07-18-2013 |
20150161468 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program, which are capable of accurate collation even when an image contains a number of identical or similar subjects. The image processing apparatus of the present invention has: first feature amount generating means for generating, with respect to a plurality of feature points to be detected from a first image, a first local feature amount group including local feature amounts representing feature amounts of a plurality of local regions containing the respective feature points, and a first coordinate position information group including coordinate position information; region dividing means for clustering the feature points of the first image based on the first coordinate position information group; and collation means for collating, in units of clusters, the first local feature amount group with a second local feature amount group formed from local feature amounts of feature points detected from a second image. | 06-11-2015 |
20150379366 | ARTICLE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An apparatus of this invention is directed to an information processing apparatus that effectively counts, on a type basis, articles of a plurality of types displayed in a depth direction on a display shelf. The information processing apparatus includes a display count acquirer that acquires display count information of articles using article presence/absence sensors provided on the display shelf on which the articles are placed, an article identifier that acquires article identification information capable of identifying the types of articles based on an image acquired by capturing the display shelf, and a display recognizer that recognizes, based on the display count information and the article identification information, display count of each type of the articles. | 12-31-2015 |
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20080225209 | Liquid crystal device and electronic apparatus - According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a liquid crystal device, including: which makes it possible to dispose a spacer for setting a distance between substrates, to prevent deterioration of display quality by eliminating thickness non-uniformity of an alignment layer due to the presence of a retardation layer, to prevent deterioration of display quality by preventing dissolution and flow of an ingredient of the retardation layer to the liquid crystal layer side, and the like in the liquid crystal device having a horizontal electric field system of a transflective type, and to provide an electric apparatus using the same. | 09-18-2008 |
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20140049710 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a liquid crystal device, including: which makes it possible to dispose a spacer for setting a distance between substrates, to prevent deterioration of display quality by eliminating thickness non-uniformity of an alignment layer due to the presence of a retardation layer, to prevent deterioration of display quality by preventing dissolution and flow of an ingredient of the retardation layer to the liquid crystal layer side, and the like in the liquid crystal device having a horizontal electric field system of a transflective type, and to provide an electric apparatus using the same. | 02-20-2014 |
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20100173223 | Graft Copolymer and Process for Producing the Same - A graft copolymer having a side chain graft-polymerized by atom transfer living radical polymerization (ATRP) on a main chain polymerized by organotellurium-mediated living radical polymerization (TERP), wherein the molecular weight distribution is such that Mw/Mn is 1.5 or less. The graft copolymer is also such that a main chain moiety mainly consisting of the main chain and a side chain moiety mainly consisting of the side chain have microphase-separated structures. The graft copolymer has a narrow molecular weight distribution and forms microphase-separated structures through self organization of hydrophobic and hydrophilic moieties. | 07-08-2010 |
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20110011114 | DRAIN PAN - A drain pan is disposed below a cooling unit that cools air, receives water of condensation that falls from the cooling unit, and guides the water of condensation into an outer portion of the vehicle air-conditioning apparatus. The drain pan includes a water receiving region, and receives water of condensation; a drain port disposed at a bottom-center portion of the water receiving region; and a rib disposed upright in the bottom portion on a dividing line that passes through the drain port and divides the water receiving region. | 01-20-2011 |
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20110197615 | VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONING UNIT - A vehicle air conditioning unit includes: a slide door which controls an opening ratio of an opening allowing an air stream to flow therethrough; a deflection suppressing portion which suppresses a deflection of the slide door by pressing the slide door; and a vibration suppressing portion which suppresses the amplitude of a vibration of the slide door generated when the slide door is exposed to the air stream. | 08-18-2011 |
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20110229820 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner pattern for detecting the degree of toner deterioration is created on a photosensitive element and transferred to an intermediate transfer belt by a primary transfer unit under a transfer condition different from that at the time of image formation. A toner adhesion amount detection unit detects the toner adhesion amount of the toner pattern at multiple places. A degree-of-toner-deterioration calculation unit calculates the degree of toner deterioration on the basis of the variation in data of the toner adhesion amount at multiple places detected by the toner adhesion amount detection unit. A background potential determination coefficient in a process control unit is controlled on the basis of the degree of toner deterioration calculated by the degree-of-toner-deterioration calculation unit. | 09-22-2011 |
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20160004192 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus has a system speed of from 400 to 2,000 mm/sec and includes an endless intermediate transfer belt to transfer a sheet-shaped medium bearing an image formed of a toner. The intermediate transfer belt includes a first layer including at least a substrate; a second layer; and an electric resistance controlling material and has a surface resistivity of from 1×10 | 01-07-2016 |
20160026109 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF FORMING IMAGE - An image forming apparatus includes a first electric charging unit having an electric discharge wire to uniformly electrify a surface of the electrostatic latent image bearer, a second electric charging unit having a second electric discharge wire to execute a pre-electric charge removal electric charging process by electrifying the surface of the electrostatic latent image bearer subsequent to a transfer process to transfer a toner image, and a first electric charge removing device to diselectrify the surface of the electrostatic latent image bearer by irradiating it with electric charge removing light subsequent to the pre-electric charge removal electric charging process. The first electric charge removing device is disposed within an electric discharge region of the second electric discharge wire on a downstream side of an extreme upstream edge of the electric discharge region of the second electric discharge wire in a rotational direction of the electrostatic latent image bearer. | 01-28-2016 |