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| 20110163876 | Millimeter Wave Imaging Apparatus - A millimeter wave imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device having a plurality of millimeter wave sensors that are arranged in a planar manner and receive millimeter waves radiated from a subject to detect signal levels thereof; an image data generation device that generates image data of the subject based on an output from each of the millimeter wave sensors constituting the imaging device; and a case that has a placement surface on which the subject can be placed and which permits transmission of the millimeter waves. The imaging device is arranged below the placement surface of the case, so that the millimeter waves, which are radiated from a bottom part of the subject placed on the placement surface of the case, are received by the plurality of millimeter wave sensors. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110234783 | MILLIMETER WAVE IMAGING APPARATUS - A millimeter wave imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device provided with a millimeter wave sensor that receives millimeter waves radiated from a subject; an image data generation device that generates image data of the subject based on an output from the millimeter wave sensor constituting the imaging device; a storage device that stores inspection target object data indicating, with respect to each object to be an inspection target object, a shape of the object and a size of the object relative to the subject; a detection device that compares the inspection target object data stored by the storage device and the image data generated by the image data generation device, thereby to detect an inspection target object hidden in the subject; and an output device that outputs results of detection by the detection device. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110260905 | Millimeter Wave Imaging Apparatus - A millimeter wave imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device including a plurality of millimeter wave sensors that are arranged in a planar manner and receive millimeter waves radiated from a subject to detect signal levels thereof; a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the imaging device; a storage device that stores, with respect to the each of the millimeter wave sensors, temperature characteristics data indicating a relationship between the temperature detected by the temperature sensor and the output from the millimeter wave sensor; and an image data generation device that obtains a deviation of an output from the each of the millimeter wave sensors from reference temperature characteristics based on the temperature detected by the temperature sensor and the temperature characteristics data stored by the storage device, corrects the output from the each of the millimeter wave sensors based on the deviation, and thereby generates the image data. | 10-27-2011 |
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| 20090172092 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SERVICE - A system comprises a service anchor apparatus having a unit configured to hold an original of an application program for providing a service; an end-user accommodation apparatus having a unit configured to connect with a terminal of an end user; and a relay apparatus located on a route between the service anchor apparatus and the end-user accommodation apparatus. The system creates, via the relay apparatus, a copy of the application program in the end-user accommodation apparatus, the original of the application program being held by the service anchor apparatus, and the end-user accommodation apparatus runs the copy of the application program, thereby providing the service to the terminal of the end user. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090260005 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SERVICE - A system includes user accommodation apparatuses at various locations and a central apparatus. A user accommodation apparatus concerned accepts a use request from a user of a terminal, and determines which one of the user accommodation apparatuses the user is currently associated with, based on first information managed by the central apparatus. The user accommodation apparatus concerned uses the determined one of the user accommodation apparatuses, to obtain second information for specifying where in the system the user's copy of an application program is held, and causes the user's copy of an application program designated by the user to move from one of the user accommodation apparatuses specified by the second information to the user accommodation apparatus concerned. Thus, the user's copy of the designated application program in the user accommodation apparatus concerned operates to communicate with the terminal, thereby providing a service to the user. | 10-15-2009 |
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| 20110007840 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND MODULATION METHOD - A transmission device includes an RQAM modulating unit that has an S/P that divides a transmitting signal indicating information to be transmitted into a first signal and a second signal, a mapping unit that maps the first signal into a first in-phase component and a second in-phase component and the second signal into a first orthogonal component and a second orthogonal component by a predetermined mapping system, a P/S that generates a first modulated signal including the first in-phase component and the first orthogonal component and a second modulated signal including the second in-phase component and the second orthogonal component, an IFFT that transmits the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal, a DAC, an LPF, a Mixer, a BPF, and a LOCAL. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110243117 | BASE STATION AND WIRELESS TERMINAL - A combination-information creating unit creates combination information for determining a maximum number of combinations or a maximum frame length according to a usable radio band and a modulation method and combination possibility information for indicating that a combination of frames is possible. A frame combining unit combines a plurality of frames received from an outside access line, based on the combination information, the combination possibility information, and predetermined packet information. A frame dividing unit divides a combined frame included in a received radio signal into individual frames. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110306374 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication system including a master station, and slave stations that execute a predetermined operation based on an operation instruction transmitted by the master station, in which the master station includes a normal frame processor that generates an operation instruction, and a Go/Stop signal processor that generates an execution instruction signal instructing to execute the operation instruction to transmit the signal when a response to the operation instruction is obtained from all the slave stations during a predetermined response waiting time, each of the slave stations include an execution-instruction-signal receiving unit that receives the execution instruction signal, and the execution-instruction-signal receiving unit executes an operation corresponding to the execution instruction signal when receiving the execution instruction signal or waits execution of the corresponding operation until the execution instruction signal corresponding to the operation instruction is received. | 12-15-2011 |
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| 20100062935 | THERMOSENSITIVE RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention presents a thermosensitive recording medium having excellent color development, image quality and preservation properties as well as excellent stamp receptivity, anti-scratching ability, printability and water blocking resistance. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100248959 | THERMOSENSITIVE RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention provides a thermosensitive recording medium, which has a satisfactory color developing sensitivity, an excellent general printability (surface strength) and an excellent anti-sticking property. The thermosensitive recording layer of the thermosensitive recording medium of the present invention contains an alkylketene dimer. Without forming a protecting layer, the thermosensitive recording medium of the present invention is superior in color developing sensitivity, general printability (surface strength) and anti-sticking property. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20110105319 | THERMOSENSITIVE RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention presents a thermosensitive recording medium having an excellent color developing property, water resistance and preservation properties (such as anti-self-color-development) and is harmless to the environment. | 05-05-2011 |
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| 20110078218 | EVENT HISTORY STORAGE DEVICE, EVENT HISTORY TRACKING DEVICE, EVENT HISTORY STORAGE METHOD, EVENT HISTORY STORAGE PROGRAM, AND DATA STRUCTURE - When an instance targeted for tracking is divided or replicated to generate a new instance, ready and continuous tracking of a history of an event related to the original instance and the new instance is allowed. A behavior ID is assigned to an event for each instance, and an occurrence order of the event is managed for each instance. When a new instance has been generated from an instance due to a certain event, a new behavior ID is assigned to the new instance, with respect to that event. Then, the new identifier and an identifier assigned to the instance that is a generation source for the event are associated. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110307488 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A behavior index indicates a development of occurrence of events included in log data by a connection of a plurality of nodes, and includes a branching node connecting to two or more subsequent nodes and an integrating node connected to two or more preceding nodes. When a regular expression converting part inputs a search condition indicating an event appearance order from a client, a search automaton retaining part generates a state transition table in accordance with the search condition. While a node type determining part determines the node types of the respective nodes of the behavior index, a state evaluating part analyzes the respective nodes to determine the states of the respective nodes, and determines whether or not a state transition pattern matches the state transition table. Regarding a branching node, the respective nodes of each of branching routes branching from the branching node are analyzed. Regarding an integrating node, the respective nodes of each of upstream routes merging into the integrating node are analyzed. | 12-15-2011 |
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| 20090244389 | Apparatus, Method, and Computer Program Product for Generating Interpolated Images - An interpolated image generating apparatus calculates a motion vector reliability level indicating reliability of a motion vector used for inserting an interpolated image, the value of the motion vector reliability level being determined in such a manner that the stronger the correlation is between a source image area and a destination image area that are brought into correspondence with each other by the motion vector, the larger is the value. The apparatus also calculates a failure-preventing vector reliability level indicating reliability of a predetermined failure-preventing vector used for preventing image failures. The apparatus obtains a motion compensated image based on the motion vector, obtains a failure-preventing image based on the failure-preventing vector, and blends the motion compensated image and the failure-preventing image according to a weighted average thereof calculated by using a weighting factor based on the motion vector reliability level and the failure-preventing vector reliability level. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20100054606 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An image processing apparatus includes an operating unit that calculates a tangent-line direction of an edge and a normal-line direction of the edge by using a vertical-direction derivative value and a horizontal-direction derivative value of a pixel value of a pixel in an input image; a converting unit that converts local coordinates positioned within a predetermined area with respect to a target pixel in the input image into rotated coordinates, by rotating the local coordinates according to an angle formed by the horizontal direction and the tangent-line direction of the edge; and a fitting unit that performs, at the rotated coordinates, a fitting process that employs a least-squares method by using a curved-plane model expressed with the pixel value of the target pixel in the input image. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100128170 | RESOLUTION INCREASING APPARATUS - A resolution increasing apparatus including: a motion image decoding unit that sets a reference frame and a pixel of attention; a provisional-high-resolution-image generating unit that generates a provisional high-resolution image having the number of pixels larger than that of the reference frame; a determining unit that determines whether correction of a pixel value of a corresponding position of the provisional high-resolution image corresponding to the pixel of attention should be performed; and a high-resolution-image correcting unit that performs, when the determining unit determines that the correction is performed, predetermined correction processing and outputs, when the determining unit determines that the correction is not performed, the pixel value of the corresponding position of the provisional high-resolution image as a high-resolution image. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20110181593 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, 3D DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to an embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a setting unit, a transform unit and a generation unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire a parallax value of each pixel of a plurality of images having a parallax. The setting unit is configured to set at least one reference range within a range of the parallax value. The transform unit is configured to apply transform to the parallax value of each pixel so as not to change a parallax value belonging to the reference range but to change a parallax value that does not belong to the reference range without changing a magnitude relationship between the parallax values of the pixels. The generation unit is configured to generate a parallax image from the image based on the parallax values after applying the transform. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110205235 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes an operating unit configured to calculate a tangent-line direction of an edge and a normal-line direction of the edge by using a vertical-direction derivative value and a horizontal-direction derivative value of a pixel value of a pixel in an input image; a converting unit configured to convert local coordinates positioned within a predetermined area with respect to a target pixel in the input image into rotated coordinates, by rotating the local coordinates according to an angle formed by the horizontal direction and the tangent-line direction of the edge; and a fitting unit configured to perform, at the rotated coordinates, a fitting process that employs a least-squares method by using a curved surface model expressed with the pixel value of the target pixel in the input image. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110221875 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a three-dimensional image display apparatus according to the present embodiments includes an acquisition unit, a selection unit, a generation unit, a display unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire attribute information related to attribute of one or more images to be displayed. The selection unit is configured to set parameter information based on the attribute information to control 3D effect for displaying the images and the parameter information includes at least parallax. The generation unit is configured to generate the images adjusted the 3D effect in accordance with the parameter information. The display unit is configured to display the adjusted images. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110242280 | PARALLAX IMAGE GENERATING APPARATUS AND METHOD - According to one embodiment, a parallax image generating apparatus is for generating, using a first image, a parallax images with a parallax therebetween. The apparatus includes following units. The first estimation unit estimates distribution information items indicating distributions of first depths in the first image by using first methods. The distribution information items falls within a depth range to be reproduced. The first combination unit combines the distribution information items to generate first depth information. The second calculation unit calculates second depth information indicating relative unevenness of an object in the first image. The third combination unit combines the first depth information and the second depth information by using a method different from the first methods, to generate third depth information. The generation unit generates the parallax images based on the third depth information and the first image. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20120002862 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING DEPTH SIGNAL - According to one embodiment, a depth signal generating apparatus includes following units. The calculating unit is configured to calculate a statistic value for pixel values for each of predefined areas in the first image, and calculate, for each of predetermined base depth models, a first evaluation value based on the calculated statistic value. The correcting unit is configured to correct, based on a second evaluation value previously derived for the second image and a first degree of similarity indicating a similarity between the predetermined base depth models, the first evaluation value to derive second evaluation values for the predetermined base depth models. The selecting unit is configured to select a base depth model having the highest second evaluation value from the predetermined base depth models. The generating unit is configured to generate a depth signal based on the selected base depth model. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120008855 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - According to embodiments, a stereoscopic image generation apparatus for generating a disparity image based on at least one image and depth information corresponding to the at least one image is provided. The apparatus includes a calculator, selector and generator. The calculator calculates, based on the depth information, evaluation values that assume larger values with increasing hidden surface regions generated upon generation of disparity images for respective viewpoint sets each including two or more viewpoints. The selector selects one of the viewpoint sets based on the evaluation values calculated for the viewpoint sets. The generator generates, from the at least one image and the depth information, the disparity image at a viewpoint corresponding to the one of the viewpoint sets selected by the selector. | 01-12-2012 |
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| 20080259992 | RESONANCE TAG WITH TEMPERATURE SENSOR - A temperature-history sensor includes a resonance circuit composed of at least a capacitor and a coil. The temperature-history sensor has a display for indicating a predetermined set temperature of the temperature-history sensor. The capacitor has at least a thermofusion material between electrodes of the capacitor, and the melting point of the thermofusion material is in the region of the set temperature. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080297056 | LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT CIRCUIT AND DRIVE METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides a light emitting element circuit that includes a current mirror circuit which includes two thin film transistors, two current input terminals and two output terminals, a capacitor for holding voltage corresponding to an electric current to be input from one of the two current input terminals, and a light emitting element connected to the current mirror circuit, and that supplies an electric current in accordance with the voltage held in the capacitor to the light emitting element through the current mirror circuit, wherein the two output terminals of the current mirror circuit are connected to the light emitting element, and the two current input terminals of the current mirror circuit are connected with each other through a switch in a time period other than a time period during which an electric current is input from the one of the two current input terminals. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20090002281 | ACTIVE MATRIX ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DISPLAY AND ITS GRADATION CONTROL METHOD - An active matrix organic electroluminescence(EL) display comprises plural selection and data lines mutually crossed, and a pixel circuit connected to the selection and data lines and having switching devices, a storage capacitor and an organic EL device. In a part of a period that the pixel circuit connected to the selection line is being selected, an applied first data signal is held as a voltage at the storage capacitor of the selected pixel circuit. After the selection signal applying, a first current according to the held voltage is supplied to the organic EL device, and this emits light at luminance according to the first current. In another part of the period, a second current according to an applied second data signal is supplied to the organic EL device of the selected pixel circuit, and this emits light at luminance according to the second current. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090002356 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DRIVING METHOD OF DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus including a pixel circuit including a light emitting element arranged in a site where a scanning line crosses a signal line; a holding capacitor; a first switch which opens and closes connection between one terminal of the light emitting element and the signal line in accordance with a signal applied to the scanning line; a second switch which opens and closes connection between one terminal of the holding capacitor and the signal line in accordance with a signal applied to the scanning line to control current to be supplied to the light emitting element, wherein in the pixel circuit selected by a signal of the scanning line, the first switch is closed to apply a voltage to one terminal of the light emitting element from a first voltage supply connected to the signal line and the second switch is closed to apply a voltage to one terminal of the holding capacitor from a second voltage supply connected to the signal line. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20100001745 | RESONANCE TAG WITH TEMPERATURE SENSOR - A temperature-history sensor includes a resonance circuit composed of at least a capacitor and a coil. The temperature-history sensor has a display for indicating a predetermined set temperature of the temperature-history sensor. The capacitor has at least a thermofusion material between electrodes of the capacitor, and the melting point of the thermofusion material is in the region of the set temperature. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100073265 | ACTIVE-MATRIX DISPLAY AND DRIVE METHOD THEREOF - An active-matrix display includes a data line, at least one select line, a control unit supplying a voltage signal and a current signal to the data line, and a pixel circuit receiving the voltage signal and the current signal from the data line to drive a light emitting element, the control unit including a voltage or first current source supplying a voltage or current pulse to the data line in order to make the voltage holding unit hold the voltage signal for making the light emitting element emit light having predetermined brightness in a first selection period in which the first switch is closed, a second current source supplying the current signal for making the light emitting element emit light having the predetermined brightness to the data line in a second selection period in which the first switch and the second switch are closed, a detection circuit detecting potential held in the voltage holding unit in the second selection period, and a correction unit correcting the voltage signal based on a relationship between the current signal and the detected potential. | 03-25-2010 |
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| 20080269952 | CONTROLLED SWITCHING DEVICE - A target-closing phase-map generating section generates in advance a target closing phase map in consideration of a pre-arc characteristic and variations of a mechanical action of a breaker, and amplitude fluctuations of the load voltage. A target-closing time calculating section calculates a target closing time string from frequencies and phases of the power source voltage and the load voltage, respectively, of the breaker referring to the target closing phase map. A closing control section, when a close command | 10-30-2008 |
| 20100013470 | RESIDUAL MAGNETIC FLUX DETERMINING APPARATUS - A residual magnetic flux measurement apparatus measures residual magnetic fluxes by using a transformer-voltage measurement means for measuring transformer voltages; a voltage delay means for delaying the measured signals; a DC-voltage-component calculation means for calculating DC voltage components from the latest transformer-voltage signals for a predetermined time period based on calculation-control signals; a voltage integration means for calculating voltage-integration signals by performing voltage integration of signals obtained after separating the DC voltage components from present transformer-voltage signals; a magnetic-flux DC-component calculation means for calculating magnetic-flux DC-components from the latest voltage-integration signals for a predetermined time period based on the calculation-control signals; a magnetic flux calculation means for obtaining magnetic flux signals in which the magnetic-flux DC-components are separated from present voltage-integration signals; and a control means for obtaining residual magnetic fluxes based on contact signals, an interruption mode, the transformer-voltage signals, and the magnetic flux signals. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100238029 | INTRUSION-OBJECT DETECTION SYSTEM, METHOD OF DETECTING INTRUSION-OBJECT AND METHOD OF DETECTING MALFUNCTION - A method determining a malfunction when a reception signal fluctuates at a receiver owing to malfunctions occurring on a leaky cable and its related devices. The method determines, among range bins correlating the reception signal with a distance from a feed end of a radio-wave radiation unit and a radio-wave reception unit, based on a correlation between a time-delay from a transmission time of a transmission signal until a reception time of the reception signal and a transmission path distance of the reception signal in the radio-wave radiation unit and the radio-wave reception unit, when, comparing the reception signal with the transmission signal with respect to the range bin corresponding to a far end, a level of amplitude reduction in the reception signal exceeds a predetermined ratio, that a malfunction is present in either the radio-wave radiation unit or radio-wave reception unit. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20110204870 | TRANSFORMER INRUSH CURRENT SUPPRESSION APPARATUS WITH FUNCTION OF DETERMINING TARGET CLOSING PHASE OF THREE-PHASE TRANSFORMER BASED ON PRE-ARC CHARACTERISTIC AND VARIATION IN CLOSING TIME OF THE THREE-PHASE CIRCUIT BREAKER - A target closing phase determining circuit determines energization flux errors in respective phases and respective closing phases of a first phase, and determines a target closing phase of the first phase so as to minimize an evaluated value related to determined energization flux errors in the respective phases. Each of the energization flux errors is the maximum value of absolute values of center values of transformer fluxes generated in a static state after energization. The target closing phase determining circuit determines the energization flux errors based on residual flux values for the first to third phases of a three-phase power supply, respectively, a pre-arc characteristic and a closing time variation characteristic of a three-phase circuit breaker, a connection condition of windings of a three-phase transformer, to which the three-phase circuit breaker is connected, and voltage phase differences among the phases of the three-phase power supply. | 08-25-2011 |
