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20090286392 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE - A Cu-CMP step applied to processes for 130 nm, 90 nm, and 65 nm technical nodes or the like mainly employs slurry to which an anticorrosive agent is added for preventing corrosion of Cu wiring. The inventors of the present application have studied and clearly found that in the Cu-CMP step using the slurry with the anticorrosive agent added thereto, the anticorrosive agent often forms complexes with Cu, which remain as foreign matter on a wafer in large quantity, leading to a reduction in yield, and in reliability of TDDB characteristics of the Cu wiring. In the invention of the present application, a post-CMP cleaning process involves applying wet cleaning to a wafer by supplying a cleaning solution, such as a chemical solution or pure water, to a device surface of the wafer substantially in a vertical direction with respect to the horizontal device surface, while rotating the wafer substantially about its center in the horizontal plane. The rotation speed of the wafer is set low such that the thickness of the cleaning solution over the entire device surface becomes substantially uniform. | 11-19-2009 |
20100036839 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR CONTENT RECOMMENDATION AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A base/inversion component extractor calculates an occupancy rate of each component of a vector of user preference information obtained from information stored on a user preference database, and extracts a base component from the user preference information in accordance with the calculated occupancy rate of the base component. The base/inversion component extractor extracts a similar base component from item preference information obtained from information stored on an item metadatabase. A recommendation engine calculates a similarity between a base vector of the user preference information and a base vector of the item preference information, and identifies, as candidate items, items of the predetermined number in the order of from high to low similarity. The recommendation engine further calculates a similarity between an inversion vector of the user preference information and an inversion vector of the item preference information, and identifies an item candidate having a low similarity. | 02-11-2010 |
20100061661 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE PROCESSING, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a managing unit that manages a scale calculated based on descriptions of an operation performed on a predetermined item and a series to which the item belongs in association with each other, a first extracting unit that extracts items belonging to the same series as top N series, obtained by sorting the scales, from among a plurality of items, a taste managing unit that manages taste of a user, a second extracting unit that calculates the degree of similarity between the taste managed by the taste managing unit and each item to extract items with higher degrees of similarity, and a recommending unit that recommends a predetermined number of items among the items extracted by the first extracting unit and the items extracted by the second extracting unit to the user. | 03-11-2010 |
20100070454 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR CONTENT RECOMMENDATION AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An attribute weight adjustment engine adjusts a weight of a user in accordance with a record of an identified member ID out of records of an attribute weight adjustment database. The weight adjustment is performed through the multiple regression analysis based on a target similarity resulting from the record of the attribute weight adjustment database and a similarity of each attribute of the attribute weight adjustment database. The resulting weight is identified as the weight of each attribute of the identified user. To account for the weight of each attribute of the user, an attribute weight database is updated, and an unwanted record is deleted from the attribute weight adjustment database. | 03-18-2010 |
20110105227 | GAME APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USED FOR THE SAME - At a game apparatus | 05-05-2011 |
20110151492 | METHOD OF DETECTING ARTICULAR CARTILAGE DEGENERATION OR DAMAGE - An object of the present invention is to provide a detection method capable of detecting articular cartilage degeneration or damage in which the abnormality cannot be detected in a radiograph in a simple method and with high accuracy, a method of evaluating the rate of progression of articular cartilage degeneration or damage, and the like. | 06-23-2011 |
20110318759 | METHOD FOR ASSAYING KERATAN SULFATE, ASSAY KIT THEREFOR AND METHOD FOR DETECTING JOINT DISEASE BY USING THE SAME - The inventions provides a method for immunologically determining a keratan sulfate level which method includes bringing an anti-keratan sulfate monoclonal antibody into contact with a biological sample, the anti-keratan sulfate monoclonal antibody exhibiting a relative reaction specificity between keratan sulfate-I and keratan sulfate-II represented by IC50 | 12-29-2011 |
20130227600 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE PROCESSING, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a managing unit that manages a scale calculated based on descriptions of an operation performed on a predetermined item and a series to which the item belongs in association with each other, a first extracting unit that extracts items belonging to the same series as top N series, obtained by sorting the scales, from among a plurality of items, a taste managing unit that manages taste of a user, a second extracting unit that calculates the degree of similarity between the taste managed by the taste managing unit and each item to extract items with higher degrees of similarity, and a recommending unit that recommends a predetermined number of items among the items extracted by the first extracting unit and the items extracted by the second extracting unit to the user. | 08-29-2013 |
20150347466 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE PROCESSING, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a managing unit that manages a scale calculated based on descriptions of an operation performed on a predetermined item and a series to which the item belongs in association with each other, a first extracting unit that extracts items belonging to the same series as top N series, obtained by sorting the scales, from among a plurality of items, a taste managing unit that manages taste of a user, a second extracting unit that calculates the degree of similarity between the taste managed by the taste managing unit and each item to extract items with higher degrees of similarity, and a recommending unit that recommends a predetermined number of items among the items extracted by the first extracting unit and the items extracted by the second extracting unit to the user. | 12-03-2015 |
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20100266769 | COMPONENT MOUNTING METHOD - The present invention is a method of mounting a plurality of components on a substrate. This component mounting method comprises the steps of (a) to (f): (a) preparing the substrate; (b) preparing a first liquid; (c) preparing a component-containing liquid containing the components and a second liquid, wherein the first liquid is insoluble in the second liquid and has a higher wettability than the second liquid with respect to the surfaces of the components, first regions, and a line having a shorter width than a minimum length of each of the components; (d) disposing the first liquid in the first regions and the line; (e) moving a squeegee for supplying a component-containing liquid to the substrate, relative to the substrate over the line from one edge to the other edge of the substrate to bring the component-containing liquid into contact with the first liquid disposed in the first regions; and (f) removing the first liquid and the second liquid from the substrate to dispose the components in the first regions. | 10-21-2010 |
20120287026 | DISPLAY PANEL AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - A display panel includes: a first substrate; light-emitting elements on a region of the first substrate; a second substrate facing the first substrate with the light-emitting elements therebetween; a glass frit between the first substrate and the second substrate so as to surround the region of the first substrate in which the light-emitting elements are disposed, the glass frit providing a hermetic seal between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a light-shielding part formed on one of the first substrate and the second substrate so as to extend along the glass frit, the light-shielding part shielding light. The light-shielding part has a lower light-shielding property in a region corresponding to the outer region of the glass frit than in a region corresponding to the inner region of the glass frit. The glass frit has been irradiated with light through the light-shielding part. | 11-15-2012 |
20130026907 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY PANEL MANUFACTURING METHOD - A display panel enabling constraint of void formation between substrates and minimizing the effect of any voids formed, has for at least one pixel, a distance between the element surface and the element opposing surface corresponding to each light-emitting element of the pixel that is smaller than a distance between the inter-pixel surface and the inter-pixel opposing surface in an inter-pixel area between neighbouring pixels, and smaller than a distance between the inter-element surface and the inter-element opposing surface corresponding to the light-emitting elements, and on the element substrate, the distance between neighbouring pixels is greater than a distance between neighbouring light-emitting elements, and a distance between the inter-pixel surface and the inter-pixel opposing surface is greater than a maximum distance between the inter-element surface and the inter-element opposing surface. | 01-31-2013 |
20130306235 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DISPLAY PANEL - A manufacturing method of a display panel comprises applying a paste including a sealing material to a substrate by using a nozzle, the nozzle being moved along a display region on the substrate from a start position located in a vicinity of the display region to an end position, so as to surround the display region. In the applying, the paste is applied such that a center line of the paste in an end region is substantially parallel to and separate from a center line of the paste in a start region, and a distance of separation between the center line of the paste in the end region and the center line of the paste in the start region is less than a width of the paste in a region other than the start region and the end region. | 11-21-2013 |
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20090215526 | GAME APPARATUS, GAMING METHOD, AND GAME PROGRAM - The present invention provides a game apparatus that comprises: an operation instructing unit | 08-27-2009 |
20090221356 | GAME APPARATUS, GAMING METHOD, AND GAME PROGRAM - A game apparatus is provided that determines an operation result based on a player's input operation with respect to an operation instruction and comprises: an operating unit that is divided into a plurality of subregions and that has at least one input region formed from some or all of the subregions; a region display pattern table | 09-03-2009 |
20100197381 | GAMING MACHINE, GAMING METHOD, AND GAMING PROGRAM - A gaming machine is provided which includes: an operation sequence table | 08-05-2010 |
20100197398 | GAMING MACHINE, GAMING METHOD, AND GAMING PROGRAM - A gaming machine is provided which includes: at least one operation means that accepts an input operation performed by a player when pressing down on the at least one operation means; at least one display unit having a display the player is able to see through the surface of the operation means; operation-instruction-mark output means that outputs an operation instruction mark for signaling an input timing the player performs an input operation, to the display unit for each of the operation means; evaluation means that evaluates a game score of the player based on comparison between the input-timing and an operation timing the player performed the input operation, the operation-instruction-mark output means starting to control an output of the operation instruction mark a predetermined period of time ta before the input timing, so as to change a form of the operation instruction mark little by little for the predetermined period of time ta until the input timing. | 08-05-2010 |
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20110262890 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, QUESTIONING TENDENCY SETTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: a user answer evaluation section configured to determine whether a user answer to a question selected from a plurality of questions is correct or wrong; a user answer analysis block configured to compute at least a user wrong-answer percentage by use of the user answer evaluation result; a questioning condition setting block configured to compute a degree of similarity between the plurality of questions on the basis of the user wrong-answer percentage and, at the same time, compute an evaluation value of each of the plurality of questions by use of the degree of similarity; and a question selection section configured to select a question to be set from the plurality of questions on the basis of the evaluation value and a user correct-answer percentage in one of a predetermined period and a predetermined number of questions. | 10-27-2011 |
20110264691 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, TEXT SELECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: a sensor information acquisition section configured to acquire sensor information outputted from a sensor for detecting a user motion and sensor information outputted from a sensor for obtaining a user current location; an action pattern detection block configured to analyze sensor information indicative of a user motion to detect an action pattern corresponding to the acquired sensor information from a plurality of action patterns obtained by classifying user's actions that are executed in a comparatively short time; a keyword conversion block configured to convert, on the basis of the sensor information indicative of a current location, the information into at least one keyword associated with the current location; and a text extraction block configured to extract a text for user presentation from a plurality of texts on the basis of the detected action pattern and the generated at least one keyword. | 10-27-2011 |
20120202344 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - To provide a technology capable of preventing corrosion of a Cu wiring and thereby improving a production yield of a semiconductor device, a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes the steps of: removing a portion of a Cu film other than that in a wiring trench in a semiconductor substrate by CMP using a polishing slurry, removing a portion of a barrier metal film other than that in the, wiring trench by CMP using a polishing slurry containing an anticorrosive, polishing the surface of the Cu film and the surface of the barrier metal film by CMP using pure water, thereafter cleaning the semiconductor substrate with pure water without applying an anticorrosive thereto or without cleaning it with a chemical liquid, and thereafter cleaning the semiconductor substrate with a chemical liquid without applying an anticorrosive thereto. | 08-09-2012 |
20120296931 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a setting unit that sets a search character string, a searching unit that searches information including the set search character string, and a determining unit that extracts a co-occurrence character string candidate group other than partial character strings appearing as only a part of other partial character strings, among all partial character strings appearing in a plurality of pieces of the information obtained as a search result, and determines a co-occurrence character string from the co-occurrence character string candidate group, on the basis of the extracted co-occurrence character string candidate group and kinds of characters used in characters before and after the co-occurrence character string candidate group. | 11-22-2012 |
20120330986 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including an evaluation value calculating unit that acquires time-series data of a discrete system including sampling values x | 12-27-2012 |
20130212105 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a cluster information acquiring unit that acquires information of clusters into which users and items are classified, based on item use logs of the users, an item score calculating unit that calculates scores of the items with respect to the users, based on first scores showing attributions of the users with respect to the clusters and second scores being set for the respective clusters and showing attributions of the items with respect to the clusters, which are included in the information of the clusters, and an item selecting unit that selects at least one item from the items according to the scores of the items. | 08-15-2013 |
20140089984 | CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, RECORDING DEVICE, RECORDING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technique relates to a control device, a control method, a recording device, a recording method, and a program, which enable recording of all episodes of a series program. | 03-27-2014 |
20150113016 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a setting unit that sets a search character string, a searching unit that searches information including the set search character string, and a determining unit that extracts a co-occurrence character string candidate group other than partial character strings appearing as only a part of other partial character strings, among all partial character strings appearing in a plurality of pieces of the information obtained as a search result, and determines a co-occurrence character string from the co-occurrence character string candidate group, on the basis of the extracted co-occurrence character string candidate group and kinds of characters used in characters before and after the co-occurrence character string candidate group. | 04-23-2015 |
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20140127480 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING JOINED BODY, AND JOINED BODY - The present invention provides a joined body manufacturing method with which the resin material is accurately attached to the first base material. The method includes: an attaching step of attaching a sheet material having resin material on one main surface of a sheet base material to a first base material such that a predetermined area is covered; a forming step of forming a slit for ease of separation on the sheet material attached to the first base material in accordance with the predetermined area; and a separating step of separating part of the resin material inside the slit from the sheet base material such that the part of the resin material inside the slit remains on the predetermined area of the first base material and part of the resin material outside the slit does not remain on the first base material. | 05-08-2014 |
20140184059 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY PANEL MANUFACTURING METHOD - A display panel comprises a first substrate, a second substrate arranged opposite the first substrate, electroluminescence elements disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a sealing member provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, sealing the electroluminescence elements. The sealing member includes a rectangular frame formed along a perimeter of the electroluminescence elements and a reinforced portion protruding outward from a corner portion of the rectangular frame, the reinforced portion includes a first side face cut so as to be flush with at least one corner side face of the first substrate, and a second side face cut so as to be flush with a corresponding corner side face of the second substrate. | 07-03-2014 |
20150053952 | PRODUCTION METHOD FOR JOINED BODY, AND JOINED BODY - A method for manufacturing a joined body composed of a first substrate and a second substrate joined together by sealing resin material attached to a predetermined area of the first substrate includes: attaching a sheet material to the first substrate so as to cover the predetermined area, the sheet material including a sheet base material and the resin material provided on one main surface of the sheet base material; forming, after the attaching, in the sheet material, a slit by reducing a thickness of the resin material along an outline of the predetermined area; and separating, after the forming, part of the resin material inside the slit from the sheet base material to keep the part of the resin material inside the slit on the predetermined area of the first substrate and not to keep the rest of the resin material outside the slit on the first substrate. | 02-26-2015 |