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| 20080310297 | ERROR CONTROL APPARATUS - A plurality of system board modules are connected to a crossbar module. An error detection unit detects an error in a packet received from a corresponding system board module. When an error is detected by the error detection unit, a transmission control unit issues a completion data generation request. When receiving the completion data generation request, a packet completion unit generates completion data. When receiving an error packet, a selector circuit outputs a completion packet in which completion data is provided in place of a data unit involving error. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20100011257 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND FAULT PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes: a hardware management unit that is connected with hardware resources assigned to a plurality of partitions and manages the hardware resources, and if occurrence of a fault in any of the plurality of partitions is detected, makes a notification of the occurrence of the fault in a fault-occurring partition which is the partition where the fault occurs; and a partition management unit that is provided in each partition and acquires fault information if in a physically partitioned state, if the occurrence of the fault is recognized based on the notification from the hardware management unit, if its own partition is not the fault-occurring partition, and if it is determined to be necessary to acquire the fault information, the fault information being information on the fault. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100100776 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, FAILURE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH FAILURE PROCESSING PROGRAM IS RECORDED - An information processing apparatus includes partitioning mode information retaining section, hardware resource management information retaining section, failure notifying section, operation mode detecting section, shared hardware resource judging section, common failure report creating section for creating, if operation in the partitioning mode is detected and a hardware resource in which the failure occurrence has been detected is judged to be a shared resource, a common failure report on the basis of the detection of failure occurrence output by the notifying sections of physical partitions that share the shared hardware resource. That can avoid excessive report of a failure occurred even at a shared hardware resource, making it possible to grasp the accurate number of failure occurrence and to manufacture in a low cost. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100223488 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING STORAGE APPARATUS - A storage apparatus includes: a plurality of storage sections each of which corresponds to each of a plurality of addresses; a read pointer register that outputs a read pointer indicating an address of a storage section from which data is read; a write pointer register that outputs a write pointer indicating an address of a storage section to which data is written; a control circuit that receives first clock signals of a first frequency and second clock signals of a second frequency that is different from the first frequency, determines selection signals indicating either the first clock signals or the second clock signals on the basis of the read pointer or the write pointer for each of the plurality of storage sections, and outputs the selection signals; and selection circuits selects signals indicated by the selection signals, and outputs the selected signals. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20110004740 | DATA TRANSFER APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF SETTING DATA TRANSFER RATE - A method of setting transfer rate for information processing apparatus having a plurality of processing apparatus including a processor outputting data and connected by one or a plurality of data transfer apparatuses for transferring the data outputted from the processor, the method includes obtaining a dividing information indicating a manner of dividing the information processing apparatus into a plurality of partitions including at least one of the plurality of processing apparatuses, and setting a transfer rate of each partition for broadcasting data to all of the processors included in the plurality of processing apparatuses in each partition based on the obtained dividing information. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20120011332 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND MEMORY CONTROL APPARATUS - A data processing apparatus includes a first memory that has first storage areas, a capacity of each first storage area being variable, a second memory that has second storage areas, a capacity of each second storage area being variable, and each second storage area is redundant to a first storage area corresponding to a second storage area, a memory controller that stores data stored in each first storage area to the corresponding second storage area, and writes data stored in a second storage area to the corresponding varied first storage area and writes data stored in a first storage area to the corresponding varied second storage area when capacities of the first storage area and the second storage areas are varied. | 01-12-2012 |
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| 20090038897 | Shock absorber - A shock absorber includes a piston coupled to a hollow piston rod fitted in a cylinder and a reservoir disposed at an outer periphery portion of the cylinder. A rod chamber in the piston rod communicates with a piston chamber in the piston via a radial passage. A hollow rod fixed to a partition wall member is inserted into the piston rod and the rod chamber is connected to the reservoir by the hollow rod. An extension-side disk valve generates damping force during an extension stroke of the piston rod and a compression-side disk valve generates damping force during a compression stroke. Because the hollow rod connects the rod chamber to the reservoir at the outer periphery of the cylinder, it is possible to secure sufficient reservoir capacity. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20100240953 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM, ENDOSCOPE VIDEO PROCESSOR AND METHOD OF DRIVING ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - A light source device emits normal illumination light and special illumination light interchangeably at a charge-storage time of an imaging device. A DRP is reconfigurable between a normal image producing circuit and a special image producing circuit. A CPU instructs the reconfiguration of the DRP when detecting that a vertical synchronization signal from a drive circuit falls to zero level. The DRP gains an access to a configuration memory to load circuit information of the normal or special image producing circuit. According to the circuit information loaded, the DRP changes functions and interconnection of processor elements. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20110298908 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - An endoscope system includes an endoscope including an imaging part and a controller separated from the endoscope and connected to the endoscope through a signal line. The imaging part includes a plurality of light receiving portions two-dimensionally arranged and a driving part that reads a charge signal stored in each of the light receiving portions. The driving part conducts read scan in which read of the charge signals from the light receiving portions in a main and sub scanning direction. The driving part changes an order of outputting the lines in the image data by conducting the read scan on all lines included in the captured image so as to scan some lines successively with a prescribed number of lines interlaced along the sub scanning direction and scan the other lines successively from an interlaced line with the prescribed number of lines interlaced. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20120016200 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - The endoscope system includes an endoscope, a control unit, a beam source control unit and a type check unit. The endoscope has a radiation optical system for radiating a beam from a beam source onto a subject and an imaging optical system including an imaging device. The endoscope is removably connected to the control unit. The beam source control unit controls the emission beam intensity of the beam source according to a beam quantity specified value input from the control unit. The type check unit checks a type of the imaging device mounted on the endoscope. The beam source control unit has a plurality of control patterns representing a relationship between the beam quantity specified value and a control output value, switches to any one of the control patterns according to the check results, and controls the emission beam intensity according to the switched control pattern. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120016201 | ENDOSCOPE BEAM SOURCE APPARATUS AND ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - The endoscope beam source apparatus includes a beam source for emitting a radiation beam to be supplied to the endoscope, and a beam source control unit for controlling the emission beam intensity of the beam source according to a beam quantity specified value input therein. The beam source control unit specifies the emission beam intensity corresponding to the beam quantity specified value based on at least three of control amounts. The control amounts include a control amount corresponding to pulse number modulation (PNM) control for changing lighting time of the beam source, a control amount corresponding to pulse width modulation (PWM) control for changing a plus width which indicates the lighting or lighting-out time within a control cycle, a control amount corresponding to pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) control for changing the lighting intensity, and a control amount corresponding to pulse density modulation (PDM) control for changing a lighting interval. | 01-19-2012 |
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| 20090015858 | Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing Method, and Image Processing Program - The image processing apparatus of the present invention includes: a specific pattern detecting unit which detects a background pattern representing additional information from inputted original document image data; an information detecting unit which extracts the additional information represented by the background pattern which is detected by the specific pattern detecting unit; an erase processing unit which erases a prescribed region of the original document image and outputs erase-processed document image data; a re-embedding background pattern generating unit which generates a re-embedding background pattern representing the additional information extracted by the information detecting unit; a background pattern composition processing unit which embeds the re-embedding background pattern into the erase-processed document image data and outputs re-embedded document image data; and a processor which controls the units mentioned above. The apparatus of the present invention is capable of embedding the background pattern again, which has once been lost through the erase function, so as to maintain a background pattern detection rate at a high level. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090292133 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF FATTY ACID ALKYL ESTER, AND PRODUCTION SYSTEM FOR THE PROCESS - Provided is a method of producing fatty acid alkyl esters at high reaction efficiency, wherein the impurities inhibiting the reaction such as water are removed sufficiently. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090310191 | IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS - An image scanning apparatus includes a transport roller transporting an original, a CCD scanning a first side of the original, a CIS scanning unit scanning a second side of the original, and a flap for reversing the original and sending the original to a transport path. A CPU controls the transport roller, the CCD and the CIS scanning unit to scan each side of the original. The CPU determines from the result of scanning whether or not each side of the original includes a predetermined pattern. When the CPU cannot identify from the result of scanning of the second side whether or not the second side includes a predetermined pattern, the CPU controls the flap and a transport unit to reverse the original and cause the CCD to scan the second side. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20110149351 | IMAGE READING DEVICE, METHOD OF READING IMAGE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE READING DEVICE - An image reading device includes a transport unit for transporting a document, a scanner for scanning image data of the document transported by the transport unit, and a controller for controlling the image reading device. The controller extracts a plurality of one-character areas included in the image data, recognizes character data of each of the extracted one-character areas, determines presence or absence of line noise based on a result of recognition of each of the one-character areas, and displays presence of the line noise on an operation panel when it is determined that there is the line noise. | 06-23-2011 |
