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Itou, Kawasaki

Daishuke Itou, Kawasaki JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120008670SELF-TESTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PHASE ADJUSTMENT CIRCUIT - A signal inversion unit inverts an adjustment pattern signal input as received data. A clock adjustment control circuit acquires a first TAP value adjusted and obtained when a phase adjusting operation is performed on a clock adjustment circuit in a state in which the adjustment pattern signal is not inverted, a first detection frequency of the adjustment pattern signal in a runtime of the operation, a second TAP value adjusted and obtained when the phase adjusting operation is performed in a state in which the adjustment pattern signal is inverted by the signal inversion unit, and a second detection frequency of the adjustment pattern signal in the runtime of the operation. A controller tests an operating state of the phase adjusting operation based on the first and second TAP values and the first and second detection frequencies of the adjustment pattern obtained by the clock adjustment control circuit.01-12-2012

Daisuke Itou, Kawasaki JP

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20100077262INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND ERROR PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device having two processing units capable of operating in synchronization with each other, includes: a common unit capable of outputting an identical signal to the two processing units; detection units that are respectively provided for the processing units and each detects errors occurred in corresponding processing unit respectively; a comparison unit that compares outputs from the two processing units; and a control unit that controls signals from the processing units to the common unit, based on a detection result of the detection units and a comparison result of the comparison unit, and determines, if errors of an identical type are simultaneously detected by the detection units, that the errors are due to an error of the common unit.03-25-2010
20100191942Information processor and control method - A northbridge, when detecting a synchronization break of a redundant CPU, stops the operation of an abnormal CPU bus where an error has occurred and the firmware in an FWH instructs the northbridge to inhibit an external instruction. In addition, the firmware save the inside information of a normal CPU connected to a normal CPU bus and cache data on a memory and the northbridge issues reset to all CPUs in the home system board. The firmware then restores the inside information of the CPU save on the memory to the all CPUs and instructs the northbridge to cancel the inhibition of the external instruction.07-29-2010
20100275084TRANSMISSION DEVICE, RECEIVING CIRCUIT AND CONTROL METHOD OF TRANSMISSION DEVICE - A transmitting circuit transmits data to which an error detection code is attached to a receiving circuit via a transmission path. When detecting the error of the data received via the transmission path, a receiving circuit transmits a retransmit request for the data in which the error is detected to the transmitting circuit. The receiving circuit enters a termination unit adjustment period using the error detection of the received data as a trigger and updates the resistance values of a receiving side termination unit installed at the termination of the transmission path to an appropriate value within the termination unit adjustment period.10-28-2010
20110309868Data transfer unit, data transmission device, data receiving device, and control method - A transmission LSI calculates a buffer usage rate in accordance with data stored in a buffer in a transmission data processing unit and determines, in accordance with the calculated buffer usage rate, the number of signal lines that perform a phase readjustment and the timing thereof. Then, the transmission LSI and a receiving LSI perform a phase adjustment using some of the signal lines and continues a data transfer using the rest of the signal lines. Accordingly, it is possible to maintain the optimum phase of a clock without delaying the data transfer.12-22-2011

Patent applications by Daisuke Itou, Kawasaki JP

Masanori Itou, Kawasaki JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090292867Storage-apparatus, disk controller, and command issue control method - The storage apparatus of the present invention includes a disk controller (CM) that issues a command to a disk via a fabric device. The CM controls the number of commands to be issued to the disk based on the structure of the storage apparatus and the operation state of the storage apparatus.11-26-2009

Naohiro Itou, Kawasaki JP

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20090292706APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DATA MANAGEMENT - A data management method includes a reference activation step, after generating a first time-series data for causing chronological relationship to be identifiable in a memory device at activation of a reference operation to a first record in a database, of referring to the first record; an update step, in response to an update request for the first record, of generating a second record corresponding to the first record in the database and updating the second record; a commit step of generating a second time-series data in the memory device at a commit operation for the updating; a reference termination step of deleting the first time-series data at completion of the reference operation; and a deletion step, if the first time-series data generated earlier than the second time-series data is not present as a result of the commit step or the reference termination step, of deleting the first record.11-26-2009

Shigeki Itou, Kawasaki JP

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20090240926ARITHMETIC OPERATING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING ARITHMETIC OPERATION - A technique realizes execution of various combinations of arithmetic operations in, for example SIMD floating-point multiply-add arithmetic operation, with less instruction kind codes. An arithmetic operating apparatus includes a setting unit that sets in one or more unused bits of a single instruction extended instruction information to instruct at least one of a register and arithmetic operators to perform an extended process different from an ordinary process.09-24-2009

Sunao Itou, Kawasaki JP

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20090162072Transmission apparatus and method of switching phase lock reference frequency signal thereof - An optical transmission apparatus according to the present invention connects a terminal apparatus side in which a transmission line is formed by, for example, SONET/SDH, and a WDM side in which a transmission line is formed by, for example, OTU3. The optical transmission apparatus according to the present invention includes a selector that, when an input signal is interrupted or switched, controls a PLL unit so as to switch and obtain a clock signal of a predetermined frequency oscillated by an OSC, corresponding to a frequency of a clock signal of the input signal before being divided to input into the PLL unit, as a clock signal to generate a PLL reference frequency.06-25-2009
20090297150Optical transmission apparatus, optical interface device, and optical transmission method - When an XFP is plugged into an optical interface unit by live-line plugging, an external bias voltage higher than an internal bias voltage is kept applied to a CDR incorporated in the optical interface unit until the XFP starts up. This prevents exertion of a negative effect on the CDR.12-03-2009
20090297163Reference-clock selection circuit and reference-clock selection method - A reference-clock selection circuit for a communication interface apparatus in which signals are input via a plurality of channels includes an insertion-stuff-bit-amount monitoring unit that monitors an insertion stuff bit amount to be inserted in the signal; a channel detecting unit that detects a channel where the insertion stuff bit amount inserted in the signal matches an insertion stuff bit amount of a reference signal from a reference clock oscillator; and a reference-clock selecting unit that selects the detected channel as a reference clock for network synchronization of a connected network.12-03-2009
20090297169Optical signal receiving apparatus and optical signal attenuation controlling method - A VOA maximum attenuation control circuit has, in addition to a conventional VOA maximum attenuation control circuit, a first resistor and a second resistor, a transistor which is an emitter follower type PNP transistor, and a capacitor. Since charge of the capacitor is 0 volt at the instant when power of the optical interface unit or each optical interface is shifted from OFF state to ON state, current is supplied to a VOA by the transistor in association with shift to the ON state of the power. As a result, attenuation of the VOA reaches maximum. When the capacitor is gradually charged, base potential of the transistor is finally +5 volts, and current is 0 ampere. Then shifting to maximum attenuation control of the VOA by an operational amplifier is realized.12-03-2009
20100098421Optical interface method and apparatus - An optical interface method includes producing a digital wrapper signal by synchronizing a client signal that is inputted via an optical transmission channel with an oscillating frequency of a fixed oscillator; returning the digital wrapper signal back into the client signal; and outputting the client signal obtained from the digital wrapper signal by the returning onto the optical transmission channel. The oscillating frequency of the fixed oscillator is set higher than a frequency of the client signal in the optical transmission channel.04-22-2010
20110110474TRANSFER APPARATUS, AND JITTER CONTROL METHOD OF TRANSMISSION SIGNAL - A transfer apparatus includes a receiver to receive an input signal and to extract a clock signal from the input signal, an input signal interruption detector to detect whether an input signal is input, an oscillator, and a frequency setter to set an oscillation frequency of the oscillator such that a difference between the oscillation frequency of the oscillator and a frequency of a frequency division signal into which a clock signal extracted from the input signal is frequency-divided falls out of a passband width of a filter when the input signal interruption detector detects the input of the input signal.05-12-2011
20110236031OPTICAL INTERFACE DEVICE, AND ABNORMALITY MONITORING METHOD FOR INPUT FREQUENCY DEVIATION - An optical interface device determines whether frequency deviation of a clock signal corresponding to an optical signal from a client side is abnormal based on a stuff amount when subjecting a data signal corresponding to an optical signal input from the client side to a stuffing process, inserts an alarm indication signal (AIS) indicating that the frequency deviation is abnormal into a predetermined region of a data signal when the deviation is determined to be abnormal, and outputs an optical signal generated corresponding to the data signal to a WDM line side so as to transfer the AIS to another component disposed downstream therefrom, so that locating a site where an abnormal state occurs is made easier.09-29-2011

Patent applications by Sunao Itou, Kawasaki JP

Taisuke Itou, Kawasaki JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100027805Transfer function estimating device, noise suppressing apparatus and transfer function estimating method - A transfer function estimating device for estimating a transfer function of a sound, includes: a sound receiving module receiving a sound from a given sound source and converting the sound into a tone signal; a storage module storing first transfer functions of the sound propagating from the given sound source to the sound receiving module and transformation coefficients for converting the first transfer functions into given second transfer functions so as to associate with each other; a reference tone signal acquiring module acquiring a reference tone signal of the sound source; an acquiring module acquiring a transfer function of the sound received by the sound receiving module on the basis of the tone signal and the reference tone signal; a specifying module acquiring a cross-correlation value between the transfer function acquired by the acquiring module and each of the first transfer functions stored in the storage module.02-04-2010

Patent applications by Taisuke Itou, Kawasaki JP

Toshiyuki Itou, Kawasaki JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100181176ILLUMINATING STRUCTURE OF KEY OPERATING UNIT, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, PORTABLE APPARATUS, AND ILLUMINATING METHOD OF KEY OPERATING UNIT - An illuminating structure of a key operating unit for operating a key switch includes a housing unit to have a window portion formed correspondingly to the key switch, a circuit substrate to be provided inside the housing unit, to be disposed with the key switch, and to be provided with a light-guiding window portion, a keypad unit to include a key top portion inserted in the window portion of the housing unit, the keypad unit including a light-guiding portion at least in the key top portion, a light-emitting element to be arranged on a back surface side of the circuit substrate, and an illuminating plate to have a reflecting portion reflecting outgoing light of the light-emitting element to apply the reflected light from the reflecting portion to the keypad unit through the light-guiding window portion of the circuit substrate.07-22-2010

Tsutomu Itou, Kawasaki JP

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20090131005Wireless terminal and level measurement method - A wireless terminal using switchable first and second reception antennas to perform diversity reception of data transmitted from a base station is proposed. The terminal includes an average value calculation unit that calculates an average value of a reception level measurement result of the first reception antenna and a reception level measurement result of the second reception antenna; and a correction unit that corrects the average value calculated on the basis of a predetermined thermal noise level, a received RSSI value measurement result of the first reception antenna, and a received RSSI value measurement result of the second reception antenna.05-21-2009
20090149145Wireless terminal - A wireless terminal has a diversity function and includes a plurality of receiving branches. Receiving units are provided for the plurality of receiving branches, respectively. The receiving units can receive radio signals of a plurality of frequencies. A controller controls in a gap zone in a compressed mode such that the receiving units are allowed to receive radio signals of different frequencies.06-11-2009
20100316020COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MOBILE TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication system includes a first base station for communicating complying with a first communication protocol, a second base station for communicating by using radio frames complying with a second communication protocol and transmitting synchronization signals complying with the first communication protocol, the synchronization signals synchronizing the transmitted radio frames, and a mobile terminal for communicating according to the process includes: receiving the synchronization signals from the second base station while communicating with the first base station, estimating transmitting timing of the radio frames including symbols on the basis of the received synchronization signals, measuring a receiving signal strength of the symbol on the basis of the estimated timing, and controlling a handover from the first base station to the second base station on the basis of the measurement result by the measurement of the receiving signal strength of the symbol.12-16-2010

Yutaka Itou, Kawasaki JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120033757MONITORING SYSTEM, DEVICE, MONITORING METHOD, AND MONITORING PROGRAM - In a monitoring system, a first device among devices includes a generating unit that generates third data indicating a string of an identical section when strings each indicated in first data and second data acquired through communications with the devices are identical to each other by a predetermined proportion or more, and a first transmitting unit that transmits the third data generated by the generating unit and information for identifying the third data to a second device included in the devices. The second device includes a second transmitting unit that transmits, when a string indicated in fourth data to be transmitted to the first device includes the string indicated in the third data, fifth data indicating a string obtained by excluding the string indicated in the third data from the string indicated in the fourth data, and the information for identifying the third data to the first device.02-09-2012