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| 20090089493 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY, OPERATING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY, AND SYSTEM - Operation control circuits start a first operation of any of memory cores in response to a first operation command, start a second operation of any of the memory cores in response to a second operation command, and terminate the first operation and continue the second operation in response to a termination command to terminate operations of the plurality of memory cores. For example, the semiconductor memory is mounted on a system together with a controller accessing the semiconductor memory. The termination of the operation in response to the termination command is judged in accordance with an operation state of the memory core. Accordingly, it is possible to terminate the operation of the memory core requiring the termination of operation without specifying the memory core from outside. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090207682 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A word control circuit activates word lines corresponding to a start row address and a next row address overlappingly in the continuous mode. Accordingly, even in the case where the start address indicates an end memory cell connected to a word line, the switching operation of the word line becomes unnecessary. Memory cells connected to different word lines can be thus accessed in a sequential manner. That is, a controller accessing a semiconductor memory device can access the memory without data interruption. This can prevent the data transfer rate from lowering. Furthermore, it is made unnecessary to form a signal and a control circuit for informing a controller of the fact that a word line is being switched so that the construction of a semiconductor memory device and a control circuit of the controller can be simplified. This results in reduction of the system cost. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20100146201 | MEMORY DEVICE, MEMORY CONTROLLER AND MEMORY SYSTEM - Provided is a memory device in which the decrease of the effective bandwidth caused by the refresh operation of the memory device has been solved, a memory controller of the memory device, and a memory system thereof. A memory device that is operated in response to a command from a memory controller has a plurality of banks that respectively have memory cores including memory cell arrays and decoders and are selected by bank addresses; and a control circuit, which, in response to a background refresh command, causes the memory cores within refresh target banks set by the memory controller to successively execute refresh operation a number of times corresponding to refresh burst length that is set by the memory controller, and, in response to a normal operation command, further causes the memory cores within banks other than the refresh target banks and selected by the bank addresses to execute normal memory operation corresponding to the normal operation command, during the refresh operation executed by the memory cores within the refresh target banks. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100172200 | MEMORY DEVICE, MEMORY CONTROLLER AND MEMORY SYSTEM - Provided is a memory device in which the decrease of the effective bandwidth caused by the refresh operation of the memory device has been solved, a memory controller of the memory device, and a memory system thereof. A memory device that is operated in response to a command from a memory controller has a plurality of banks that respectively have memory cores including memory cell arrays and decoders and are selected by bank addresses; and a control circuit, which, in response to a background refresh command, causes the memory cores within refresh target banks set by the memory controller to successively execute refresh operation a number of times corresponding to refresh burst length that is set by the memory controller, and, in response to a normal operation command, further causes the memory cores within banks other than the refresh target banks and selected by the bank addresses to execute normal memory operation corresponding to the normal operation command, during the refresh operation executed by the memory cores within the refresh target banks. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20110040908 | MOBILE TERMINAL, CHARACTER CONVERSION APPARATUS, CHARACTER CONVERSION PROCESS, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER USABLE MEDIUM - A character conversion apparatus makes a predictive search of a conversion database for conversion candidates on the basis of one or more characters inputted by use of a character input key. The apparatus obtains, in reference to a table, the total number of times the character input key is to be pressed down before inputting an unconverted character included in each of the searched conversion candidates and immediately following the one or more characters. The table contains characters assigned to the total numbers of times the character input key is pressed down. The apparatus determines the order of display, on a screen of a display device, of the conversion candidates to align with a descending order of the total number of times the character input key is to be pressed down before inputting the unconverted character. On the screen, the conversion candidates are displayed in the determined order of display. The apparatus receives confirmation of one of the conversion candidates. | 02-17-2011 |
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| 20090040315 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP METHOD - Disclosed is a technique for allowing proper classification information to be provided to an edited image. When it is determined that the editing is cropping, a system controller cuts a decompressed image down to a desired size using an image processor and performs face detection on a crop image. The system controller generates a header for image data of an edited image. When the setting of automatically providing classification information is “ON”, classification information is automatically provided based on the detected face information. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090185744 | IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS, IMAGE EDITING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image editing apparatus includes a subject information extracting unit configured to extract subject information of a subject from an image, and a subject frame setting unit configured to set a subject frame based on the subject information extracted by the subject information extracting unit. The image editing apparatus also includes a region instructions detecting unit configured to detect a user's instructions as to a region of the subject frame set by the subject frame setting unit, and a region instructions frame setting unit configured to set a region instructions frame based on the user's instructions detected by the region instructions detecting unit. The image editing apparatus further includes a storage processing unit configured to store the subject frame set by the subject frame setting unit, and the region instructions frame set by the region instructions frame setting unit, in a correlated manner. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20100067880 | MOVING-IMAGE REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND MOVING-IMAGE REPRODUCING METHOD - A moving-image reproducing apparatus determines whether one frame of a movie has the same image as that of the previous frame on the basis of the analysis of the movie, inputs compressed frame data about a frame that is not determined to have the same image as that of the previous frame into a decompressing unit, causes the image in the frame data decompressed by the decompressing unit to be displayed as at least one frame, and causes the compressed frame data about a frame that is determined to have the same image as that of the previous frame not to be input into the decompressing unit. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100315525 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An apparatus includes a control unit which switches between a first display mode and a second display mode based on whether a zoom state is equal to or greater than a predetermined zoom magnification. The imaging apparatus, in a zoom state where a part of an imaging area is clipped and recorded, switches between the first display mode, which displays on a display unit a clipped recording area, and the second display mode, which displays on the display unit an area which is wider than the clipped recording area. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100315527 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An apparatus that can display an area wider than a recording area as a display area in a zoom mode, in which a portion of an imaging area is clipped and recorded, includes an image processing unit that keeps constant or increases a ratio of a display area to a clipped recording area when the size of clipped recording areas is made gradually smaller relative to the imaging area, and keeps constant or decreases the ratio of the display area to the clipped recording area when the size of clipped recording area is gradually made larger relative to the imaging area. | 12-16-2010 |
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| 20080221788 | Map generation apparatus, map generation method and computer readable medium - A map generation apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a classification unit, a tentative map generation unit and a map generation unit. The acquisition unit acquires information which is a target of an analysis process. The classification unit classifies the acquired information into a plurality of types. The tentative map generation unit selects the types provided by the classifying one by one as a type in question to generate tentative map information of the information belonging to the type in question, based on (i) the information belonging to the type in question and (ii) representative information that represents at least one type other than the type in question. The map generation unit generates a map image based on the tentative map information generated for the respective types. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20090020907 | TENTER CLIP AND SOLUTION CASTING METHOD - A dope is prepared from TAC, solvent and the like. The dope is cast from a casting die ( | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090164461 | RELEVANT ELEMENT SEARCHING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A relevant element searching apparatus includes: an acquiring unit that obtains a plurality of data elements; a first producing unit that produces characteristic amount data of each of the data elements; a first classifying unit that classifies the data elements into one or more clusters on the basis of the characteristic amount data produced by the first producing unit; a selecting unit that selects a cluster from the one or more clusters; a second producing unit that, on the basis of data elements belonging to the selected cluster, produces characteristic amount data of each of the data elements; a second classifying unit that classifies the data elements belonging to the cluster into clusters on the basis of the characteristic amount data; and a searching unit that searches at least one of data elements which are classified into a same cluster as the designated data element. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20100074529 | Image recognition apparatus - An image recognition apparatus includes an objective image data acquisition unit to acquire objective image data containing a face image portion, a feature area detection unit to detect an eye area corresponding to left and right eyes contained in the objective image data, an inclination estimation unit to estimate inclination of the face image portion in a depth direction thereof based on the relative position of the detected eye area, an area-to-be-extracted determination unit to determine a shape of an area to be extracted in response to the inclination estimated by the inclination estimation unit, and an area-to-be-extracted extraction unit to extract the area to be extracted of the shape determined from the objective image data. Preferably, the area to be extracted is subjected to predetermined processing. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100262725 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING UNIT AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing unit includes: a display unit detection unit that detects whether an external display unit is connected to the information processing unit; a transmission unit that transmits, to the other information processing units, a fact that the external display unit is connected when the display unit detection unit detects that the external display unit is connected; and a control unit that performs control so that information transmitted from the other information processing units is displayed on the external display unit. | 10-14-2010 |
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| 20080309334 | IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, POSITION CORRECTING METHOD AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS - A method for generating an image, based on a plurality of magnetic resonance signals received and obtained by a plurality of RF coils by scanning a subject lying within a static magnetic field space by the RF coils in accordance with a parallel imaging method, including: a first step for selecting a reference magnetic resonance signal used as a reference from the magnetic resonance signals, based on profiles of the magnetic resonance signals; a second step for calculating a frequency difference corresponding to a difference between a frequency maximum in signal intensity at the reference magnetic resonance signal selected at the first step, and a frequency at the center of a k space; a third step for setting the frequency difference calculated at the second step as a displacement for displacing all the magnetic resonance signals, and displacing the magnetic resonance signals, based on the displacement; and a fourth step for executing half echo processing on the magnetic resonance signals displaced at the third step. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090002078 | PREAMPLIFIER AND OPTICAL RECEIVING DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A preamplifier includes a single-ended amplifier, a differential amplifier, an operational amplifier, and a clipping circuit. The single-ended amplifier converts an input current signal into a voltage signal, outputs an amplified voltage signal according to a preset amplification gain. The differential amplifier includes first and second differential inputs, and outputs a negative-phase signal and a positive-phase signal. The amplified voltage signal is applied to the first differential input of the differential amplifier. The operational amplifier includes first and second inputs which respectively receive the negative-phase signal and the positive-phase signal, where an output of the operational amplifier is applied to the second differential input of the differential amplifier. The clipping circuit clips an amplitude of the negative-phase signal output by the differential amplifier. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20100120064 | ANTIBODY SPECIFIC TO INTACT HUMAN AUTOTAXIN, METHOD OF SCREENING THE SAME AND METHOD AND REAGENT FOR EXAMINING MALIGNANT LYMPHOMA BY ASSAYING AUTOTAXIN - A screening method is provided for antibody specifically recognizing naturally-occurring form of human autotaxin in a state in which it is present in the body without being denatured, comprising the steps of: binding a binding factor capable of capturing a candidate antibody of the antibody to a solid phase; binding the candidate antibody of the antibody to the binding factor; allowing naturally-occurring form of human autotaxin to react on a system in which the candidate antibody has reacted; and selecting an antibody that specifically recognizes the naturally-occurring form of human autotaxin by using as an indicator thereof the binding strength of the naturally-occurring form of human autotaxin to the antibody. Moreover, a detecting method for malignant lymphoma is provided comprising: measuring the concentration of autotaxin in a human specimen, and judging to be a malignant lymphoma in the case that value exhibits a significantly higher value than normal values comprised of measured values from normal healthy subjects. | 05-13-2010 |
