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| 20090031741 | Automotive air conditioner and method for controlling automotive air conditioner - An automotive air conditioner comprises: an air-conditioning unit for supplying conditioned air into a passenger compartment of a vehicle; an information acquiring unit for acquiring state information indicating a state relating to the vehicle; an air conditioning state estimating unit for estimating an air conditioning state inside the passenger compartment that would be achieved after a predetermined time if a setting operation for improving fuel economy were performed based on the state information; a recommended operation determining unit for recommending the setting operation if it is determined that the estimated air conditioning state satisfies a comfort condition that would make the passenger compartment comfortable for an occupant; and an air-conditioning control unit for controlling the air-conditioning unit in accordance with the recommended setting operation. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090082967 | Route length calculation apparatus, route length calculation method, route length calculation program, automotive air conditioner, and controller for apparatus mounted in mobile object - A route length calculation apparatus comprises: a location detection unit for acquiring current location of a mobile object; an event detection unit for detecting the occurrence of an applicable event; a route history information storage unit for storing, upon occurrence of a first event, past route information containing at least the point of occurrence of the first event; and a distance calculation unit for calculating, when occurrence of a second event is detected by the event detection unit, the shortest route length between the point of occurrence of the second event acquired by the location detection unit and the point of occurrence of the first event along a route that the mobile object has traveled before. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090150024 | Location range setting apparatus, control method and controller for apparatus mounted in mobile object, and automotive air conditioner and control method for the same - A location range setting apparatus includes: a location information acquiring unit for acquiring location information indicating the location of a mobile object; a road information acquiring unit for acquiring road segment information indicating a specific segment of a road; a segment determining unit for associating the location information with corresponding road segment information; a storage unit for storing a plurality of pieces of location information and road segment information respectively as learned data; a clustering unit for clustering the plurality of pieces of road segment information included in the learned data into at least a first cluster or a second cluster; and a location range setting unit for determining first and second ranges for the location of the mobile object from the road segment information included in the first and second clusters, respectively. | 06-11-2009 |
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| 20090033650 | VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD, VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE AND ITS TIMING CONTROLLER - Video processing method, a video display device and its timing controller can support video signals having different types of resolutions from ones set in advance without a special circuit identifying the resolution. Timing controller of video display device generates a first horizontal reference signal (HRST_start) indicating start of an active period of a data enable signal and a second horizontal reference signal (HRST_end) indicating end of the active period from an input video signal. Next, timing controller generates control signals (HSP, STB, POL, VCK, and VOE) based on the number of clocks from the rise of the first and second horizontal reference signals (HRST_start and HRST_end) and on signal generation timing values (α, A to D) predetermined for each control signal supplied to drivers. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20110147815 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is a semiconductor device wherein device characteristics are improved by applying a strong stress to a channel region. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a gate insulating film formed over a first plane of the semiconductor substrate, a gate electrode formed over the gate insulating film, a gate sidewall insulating film formed over the sidewall of the gate electrode, source/drain diffusion layer regions into which impurities are implanted, the source/drain diffusion layer regions being adjacent to a channel region formed in the semiconductor substrate below the gate electrode, and a stress applying film formed over the source/drain diffusion layer regions except over the upper part of the gate electrode; and recesses or protrusions are formed in the region where the source/drain diffusion layer regions are formed over the first plane of the semiconductor substrate. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110169789 | DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DRIVING METHOD FOR DISPLAY DEVICE - A gate start pulse signal for a next frame is output at (m−n+k+1)-th line from a beginning of display period for a previous frame in a case where m denotes the number of the display lines, n denotes the number of extra outputs from the gate driver at a side from which the scan is performed, k denotes a positive integer, and a scan of a gate driver is performed from a side at which there is an extra output from the gate driver; k pulses of gate driver clock signals are output during a vertical blank period; and input of a gate driver clock signal is restarted from a beginning of a display period for the next frame. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110300859 | WIRELESS TERMINAL APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An object of the present invention is to provide a wireless communication terminal and a method of controlling the same, which can reduce the time taken for activating a second communication system when transitioning from communication via a first communication system to communication via the second communication system. A cellular telephone apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that obtains system time of a CDMA communication system by synchronizing with the CDMA communication system prior to activating an LTE communication system in a case in which communication is performed via the LTE communication system; a calculation unit that calculates a difference between the system time of the LTE communication system and the system time of the CDMA communication system; and a transition unit that calculates the system time of the CDMA communication system based on the system time of the LTE communication system and the calculated difference, and synchronizes with the CDMA communication system based on the calculated system time, in a case of transitioning from communication via the LTE communication system to communication via the CDMA communication system. | 12-08-2011 |
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| 20080199201 | Image Forming Device and Image Input Device - In an image forming device which acquires image information of a document and forms an image on a recording sheet, an image forming device body has a first reading unit and a processing unit, wherein the first reading unit acquires image information of a document and the processing unit forms an image on a recording sheet based on the image information. An image input device has a second reading unit which acquires image information of a document. The image input device is arranged in the image forming device body at a position lower than a position of the first reading unit. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20110228285 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image reading apparatus includes a contact glass having a light control glass part having transmittance changeable by an applied voltage; a scanner part reading an original placed on an original placement surface of the contact glass and outputting image data in a storage part; a projector part projecting image information onto the contact glass from a side opposite to the original placement surface; and a control part controlling the voltage applied to the light controlling glass part. When the scanner part is operated, the control part causes the transmittance of the contact glass to increase and the projector part stops projecting the image information, and when the scanner part is not operated, the control part causes the transmittance of the contact glass to decrease and the projector part projects the image data stored in the storage part onto the contact glass. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110228347 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image reading apparatus includes a scanner part reading an original on a contact glass, and a projector part projecting image information onto the contact glass as first image displaying. The projector part projects thumbnails or an image to have an image processing operation carried out or be printed. The display part carries out second image displaying obtained from reducing the first image displaying in size. At a time of the scanner part being operated, transmittance of the contact glass is increased and the projector part stops projecting the image information, and at a time of the scanner part not being operated, the transmittance of the contact glass is decreased and the projector part carries out the first image displaying. Setting of the image processing operation for the image data is reflected on the first image displaying and the second image displaying. | 09-22-2011 |
