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20120286097 | METHOD FOR CLEARING SPACE DEBRIS - Disclosed is a method for clearing space debris in geocentric orbit, wherein, in geocentric orbit, a spatial region having a greater resistive force than atmosphere in the geocentric orbit is provided, space debris passing through the spatial region is decelerated by the resistive force, and the decelerated space debris is dropped from the geocentric orbit. | 11-15-2012 |
20130170707 | METHOD OF DETECTING SPACE DEBRIS - A method of detecting space debris includes: generating a virtual space debris in accordance with the law of conservation of mass by applying a debris breakup model to an object of breakup origin; calculating an orbit of each virtual space debris based on a debris orbit propagation model; and generating appearance frequency distribution of a motion vector of each virtual space debris on the celestial sphere based on the orbit calculation. The above operations are executed multiple times. The method further includes setting a search range vector based on a motion vector having a high level of the appearance frequency distribution of the motion vector, and applying a stacking method to regions in images captured at time intervals during the fixed point observation, the regions being shifted along the search range vector sequentially in the order of capture, thereby detecting space debris appearing on the images. | 07-04-2013 |
20140302732 | OCEANOGRAPHIC INFORMATION COLLECTION SYSTEM - An oceanographic information collection system includes an anchor arranged on a sea bottom, an intermediate buoy connected to the anchor and floating in a sea, a mooring cable connected at one end to the intermediate buoy and at another end to an observation buoy. The observation buoy includes a main body whose longitudinal direction is arranged in a flowing direction of an ocean current. A specific gravity adjuster is arranged in the main body and includes an expandable and shrinkable buoyancy bag, an antenna arranged on the main body and transfers data, and an observation unit arranged in the main body and acquires prescribed oceanographic information. The observation buoy floats upward by expanding the buoyancy bag of the specific gravity adjuster, and sinks by shrinking the buoyancy bag in order to stand by in the sea. The buoy can easily float, sink and stand by in the sea. | 10-09-2014 |
20140367523 | SPACE DEBRIS REMOVING DEVICE AND SPACE DEBRIS REMOVING METHOD - Provided are a space debris removing device and a method which enable easy installation of a deceleration device to space debris undergoing a tumbling motion. The space debris removing device includes: a propulsion device ( | 12-18-2014 |
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20080305151 | Dipeptide-Comprising Composition for Oral Administration - The present invention provides a composition for oral administration, which comprises at least one kind of dipeptide represented by the formula: | 12-11-2008 |
20090069403 | COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR REDUCING ALLERGEN - This invention relates to an allergen-reducing composition comprising a hydroxyproline derivative, a polymer thereof, or a salt of such a derivative or polymer, which is capable of reducing the allergenicity of mites, pollens, or other allergens and is capable of imparting functions of reducing allergenicity to fibers or textiles such as a carpet, a tatami mat, a bed cloth, a curtain, clothing, a stuffed animal, a mask, a filter material, or a dust bag for an electric vacuum cleaner without discoloration; and a method for reducing allergens using such composition. | 03-12-2009 |
20140059255 | INPUT DEVICE, INPUT SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND SENSE PRESENTATION METHOD - An input device includes an operation portion configured to receive an input operation made by a user, a vibration portion configured to vibrate the operation portion, a detection portion configured to detect the input operation, and a controller configured to determine a vibration condition of the vibration portion based on the input operation detected by the detection portion and present an elastic sense to the user by driving the vibration portion under the determined vibration condition. | 02-27-2014 |
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20100132849 | HIGH TENSILE-STRENGTH GALVANIZED STEEL SHEET AND PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING HIGH TENSILE-STRENGTH GALVANIZED STEEL SHEET - A high tensile-strength galvanized steel sheet includes C: at least 0.05% but less than 0.12%, Si: at least 0.01% but less than 0.35%, Mn: 2.0% to 3.5%, P: 0.001% to 0.020%, S: 0.0001% to 0.0030%, Al: 0.005% to 0.1%, N: 0.0001% to 0.0060%, Cr: more than 0.5% but not more than 2.0%, Mo: 0.01% to 0.50%, Ti: 0.010% to 0.080%, Nb: 0.010% to 0.080%, and B: 0.0001% to 0.0030%, the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein the high tensile-strength galvanized steel sheet has a microstructure that contains 20% to 70% by volume ferrite having an average grain size of 5 μm or less. The high tensile-strength galvanized steel sheet has a tensile strength of at least 980 MPa, and excellent formability and weldability. | 06-03-2010 |
20130244056 | HIGH STRENGTH GALVANIZED STEEL SHEET HAVING EXCELLENT FORMABILITY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A high strength galvanized steel sheet having excellent formability, includes a steel sheet which is a base sheet and a galvanized layer on a surface of the steel sheet, wherein the steel sheet is a high strength steel sheet which has a composition including, by mass %, 0.08 to 0.15% of C, 0.5 to 1.5% of Si, 0.5 to 1.5% of Mn, 0.1% or less of P, 0.01% or less of S, 0.01 to 0.1% of Al, 0.005% or less of N, and the balance Fe with inevitable impurities, and a microstructure composed of 75 to 90% of a ferrite phase as a main phase and 10 to 25% of a second phase including at least pearlite in terms of an area fraction with respect to the entire microstructure; an average grain size of the pearlite is 5 μm or smaller; and the pearlite has an area fraction of 70% or greater with respect to the total area of the second phase. | 09-19-2013 |
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20120064343 | TOOTH SURFACE REPAIRING MATERIAL - Provided is a tooth surface repairing material which can produce an effect in a short time while preventing fine particles from shedding. The tooth surface repairing material contains fine calcium phosphate particles, and is characterized in that the fine calcium phosphate particles are highly crystalline sintered calcium phosphate and have an average particle diameter in the range of 20-100 nm. | 03-15-2012 |
20130273166 | BREAST ENHANCEMENT ACCELERATOR - A method for enlarging a breast includes the step of administering to a subject in need thereof a composition that includes a fine particle of calcium phosphate. The fine particle of calcium phosphate may be a fine particle of hydroxyapatite. An average particle size of the fine particle of calcium phosphate is 10 to 1,000 nm. The fine particle of calcium phosphate may be a sintered body. The sintered body may be manufactured by a method including: a mixing step in which a primary particle containing calcium phosphate is mixed with a fusion inhibitor, and a sintering step in which the mixed particle obtained by the mixing step defined above is exposed to a sintering temperature. | 10-17-2013 |
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20150352021 | FUNCTIONAL NONWOVEN FABRIC AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - Provided is a functional nonwoven fabric that has good feeling upon use, such as hand feeling (softness) or texture, and is capable of stably exhibiting the characteristics of hydroxyapatite (for example, microbe adsorption property). | 12-10-2015 |
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20110001733 | DISPLAY DEVICE - To reduce the number of sub-frames and perform high resolution display with low power consumption, each of the pixels has a digital emission period Td and an analog emission period Ta, and is driven in a time-divided fashion in a digital manner or in an analog manner. Each of the pixels performs high resolution display when being driven in an analog manner, and performs display with low power consumption when being driven in a digital manner. | 01-06-2011 |
20110084993 | OLED DISPLAY PANEL WITH PWM CONTROL - A display panel which applies a PWM drive to a drive transistor ( | 04-14-2011 |
20110279049 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH COMPENSATION FOR VARIATIONS IN PIXEL TRANSISTORS MOBILITY - In order to efficiently execute threshold value compensation for a driving transistor, a coupling capacitor has one end connected to a data line. Another end of the coupling capacitor is connected to a selection transistor and one end of a reset transistor. A control terminal of a driving transistor is connected to the other end of the selection transistor, and an organic EL element is connected to this driving transistor via a light emission control transistor. A data voltage, corresponding to a gradation signal supplied to the data line, is written to a storage capacitor via the coupling capacitor, and with the selection transistor and the light emission control transistor in an off state and the reset transistor turned on, a compensation voltage corresponding to a degree of mobility of the driving transistor is written to the coupling capacitor. | 11-17-2011 |
20140176006 | DISPLAY PANEL - An EL light-emitting element is driven digitally to reduce power consumption using a pixel having three transistors and two capacitors. A reset transistor for diode connection writes the threshold voltage of the drive transistor onto a coupling capacitor. The data voltage plus threshold voltage is then written onto the gate of the drive transistor. This reduces the amplitude of the data voltage required, further reducing power consumption. | 06-26-2014 |
20140184478 | DISPLAY DEVICE - To reduce the number of sub-frames and perform high resolution display with low power consumption, each of the pixels has a digital emission period Td and an analog emission period Ta, and is driven in a time-divided fashion in a digital manner or in an analog manner. Each of the pixels performs high resolution display when being driven in an analog manner, and performs display with low power consumption when being driven in a digital manner. | 07-03-2014 |
20150161945 | DISPLAY DEVICE - To reduce the number of sub-frames and perform high resolution display with low power consumption, each of the pixels has a digital emission period Td and an analog emission period Ta, and is driven in a time-divided fashion in a digital manner or in an analog manner. Each of the pixels performs high resolution display when being driven in an analog manner, and performs display with low power consumption when being driven in a digital manner. | 06-11-2015 |
20150262533 | PIXEL CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - To construct a data driver which is not easily affected by variations in transistor characteristics, a plurality of coupling capacitances are connected to a data enable line which may be set to at least two voltages. A plurality of bit transistors which are turned on and off in accordance with the display data of a plurality of bits controls the connection between the plurality of coupling capacitances and data enable line to control the total capacitance of the plurality of coupling capacitances. The display element operates in accordance with the voltage accumulated to the total capacitance of the coupling capacitance according to the difference between the two voltages which may be set on the data enable line. By the operations above, a display is controlled by multi-bit display data for each pixel. | 09-17-2015 |
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20140216414 | CONTROL UNIT FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A control unit for an internal combustion engine includes a load detector to detect a load on the engine, an injection volume calculator to calculate a cylinder injection volume indicating a volume of fuel injected from a direct injector, a first controller to perform a first control for increasing the frequency of the injection by the direct injector upon a reduction in the cylinder injection volume, a second controller to perform a second control for increasing a port injection volume indicating a volume of fuel injected from a port injector upon a reduction in the cylinder injection volume, and a switching controller to switch between the first control with the first controller and the second control with the second controller depending on the load. | 08-07-2014 |
20140230792 | CONTROL UNIT FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - Provided is a control unit ( | 08-21-2014 |
20140250869 | FUEL INJECTION APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - Fuel in a fuel tank is supplied by a low-pressure pump to intake passage injectors mounted on an intake manifold via a low-pressure fuel supply pipe and a low-pressure fuel distribution pipe. A high-pressure pump is provided on the low-pressure fuel supply pipe. The pressure of the fuel is boosted by the high-pressure pump, and then is supplied to in-cylinder injectors via a high-pressure fuel distribution pipe. In an intake passage injection (MPI) mode, excitation of a solenoid is stopped and operation of an electromagnetic spill valve is stopped so as reduce vibration and noise caused by the seating of the electromagnetic spill valve in a valve seat. | 09-11-2014 |
20150233317 | ENGINE - An engine includes first nozzles, second nozzles and a control unit. The first nozzles are arranged in cylinders, and inject fuel directly into the cylinders respectively. The second nozzles are arranged in intake ports of the cylinders, and inject fuel into the intake ports respectively. The control unit controls fuel injection of the first nozzles and the second nozzles. When the engine is started, the control unit performs initial fuel injection by one of the first and second nozzles into the cylinders having odd-number of initial ignition order, and performs initial fuel injection by the other one of the first and second nozzles into the cylinders having even-number of initial ignition order. | 08-20-2015 |
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20090257093 | Image Processing Apparatus - Described is an image processing apparatuses, which makes it possible to accurately remove a periodicity from a halftone dot pattern included in an image. The apparatus includes: a periodicity pattern analyzing section to acquire periodicity information indicating the periodicity of the halftone dot pattern; a smoothing area determining section to determine a smoothing area, constituted by either a pair of rectangular areas contacting with each other or a single rectangular area, based on the periodicity information; a spatial filter creating section to create a spatial filter within which the smoothing area is includible, and in which a weighted coefficient of each of pixels is established corresponding to an overlapping area of a concerned pixel overlapping with the smoothing area; and a smoothing calculation section that applies a convolution arithmetic calculation processing to the image data representing the processing objective image with the spatial filter. | 10-15-2009 |
20100008596 | Resolution Conversion Method - Disclosed is a resolution conversion method, which makes it possible not only to acquire a diagonal edge that is smoothed without causing any unevenness all over the image, but also to stably reproduce a thin line having a thickness corresponding to its original thickness, irrespective of an integer multiple or a non-integer multiple of the magnification factor to be employed for enlarging an original image, when the high-resolution conversion processing is applied to a binary image represented in the dot-matrix format. An operation for integrating the interpolation value with respect to the area of the input pixel is implemented after the output pixel area is shifted in a horizontal direction and/or a vertical direction so as to make the output pixel area depart from a center of the interpolation area, when the output pixel area is included in a single interpolation area in the horizontal direction and/or a vertical direction. | 01-14-2010 |
20100008599 | Resolution Converting Method - A resolution converting method for converting a resolution of a binary image to an integral multiple resolution, includes: representing a density of an arbitrary position of the input image as an interpolation value; overlapping the output image on the input image in a setting that a pixel of an edge section of the output image is shifted by a minutely small quantity from a pixel position of the input image in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction; and allotting an area of a pixel to each pixel of an output image which overlaps an area of the input image, integrating interpolation values of the area of the input image, normalizing an value obtained by the integrating the area of the pixel, and determining a binary data. | 01-14-2010 |
20120086960 | COLOR MATERIAL AMOUNT CONTROL METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR LIMITING AN AMOUNT OF THE COLOR MATERIAL TO BE USED FOR IMAGE FORMATION - A color material amount control method having the steps of: setting a weighting factor of each color material to be used for image formation; and for each pixel, obtaining a color material amount summation by product sum of color material amount and the weighting factor of each color material, obtaining a required reduction amount for the color material amount summation from a predetermined target limit value with respect to the color material amount summation, and correcting the color material amount for each color material so as to reduce the required reduction amount from the color material amount summation. | 04-12-2012 |
20130265609 | GRADATION CORRECTION DEVICE FOR GENERATING GRADATION CORRECTION DATA IN ACCORDANCE WITH DENSITY DATA OBTAINED BY READING CONTROL STRIP, AND PRINTING SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME - Disclosed is a gradation correction device in which the control strip has white or light-colored end patches and has at least one reference point at each of both ends of the control strip, which is defined by two straight lines including a fine line drawn on at least a part of a peripheral edge of each end patch except a border between the end patch and an adjacent patch which is adjacent to the end patch, and in which the gradation correction device detects the reference point at each of the both end portions of the control strip in the read image data, and obtains the density data of each patch by specifying a position of each patch in the control strip in the read image data in accordance with the detected reference point. | 10-10-2013 |
20140376013 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - Disclosed is an image forming system, including: a conveying unit configured to convey recording paper; an image forming unit configured to print an image on the recording paper; an image reading unit configured to optically read the recording paper and to obtain a read image; and a correction control unit configured to control an execution of a test operation in which a test pattern including one or more thin lines are printed on the recording paper by the image forming unit and in which the test pattern is read by the image reading unit, to collect information indicting operation state of each unit in the execution of the test operation, to evaluate the thin lines in the read image obtained in the test operation in consideration of the collected information and to carry out a correction relating to printing of a specified thin line. | 12-25-2014 |
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20100239229 | TRANSMISSION SERVER SYSTEM AND MATERIAL TRANSFER METHOD - A transmission server system includes: a material output portion that temporarily stores materials making up a program and transferred from a material server and outputs the materials by successively reading out the materials, wherein the material output portion has a plurality of recording and reproducing portions, the materials making up the program are transferred from the material server commonly to the plurality of recording and reproducing portions and recorded in each, and the respective materials are reproduced by and outputted from a recoding and reproducing portion as a transmission subject among the plurality of recording and reproducing portions. | 09-23-2010 |
20110314015 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: a creating block configured to create relating information for relating each of one or more news gathering materials that are data obtained as a result of news gathering in accordance with predetermined news gathering contents with an On Air material, which is abbreviated to OA material, obtained as a result of editing the one or more news gathering materials. | 12-22-2011 |
20120087640 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a receiving unit which receives event information capable of specifying a type of an event; a template acquiring unit which acquires a template of the event of the type specified by the event information received by the receiving unit as a template which becomes a source of an editing list of a plurality of scenes; an editing list creating unit which creates the editing list of the plurality of scenes based on the template acquired by the template acquiring unit; and a digest creating unit which creates data of the plurality of scenes included in the editing list created by the editing list creating unit from one or more photographed materials acquired from another information processing apparatus and creates a digest by combining the created data of the plurality of scenes. | 04-12-2012 |
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20130243390 | CONTENT REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND CONTENT REPRODUCTION SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a content reproduction apparatus including: a reproduction block configured to reproduce video content; a display block configured to display the reproduced video content; a communication block configured to transmit the video content to a portable reproduction apparatus by wireless communication; a speaker block having at least one first speaker located in proximity and at least one second speaker located in the proximity of the portable reproduction apparatus; and an audio output control block configured to control a reproduction state of the speaker block. In a state where the video content is displayed on the display block, each of the first speaker and the second speaker reproduces audio content related with the video content. In a content non-share state, the audio output control block controls audio output such that the second speaker does not reproduce audio content related with the video content. | 09-19-2013 |
20130244637 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND TERMINAL APPARATUS - The present disclosure provides an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, an information processing program, and a terminal apparatus for offering information in more quantity and in further detail than before by having a plurality of devices linked with one another. The information processing apparatus includes a first device and a second device interconnected with each other. Application information about an application executing on the first device is acquired through a communication block included in the second device. Display on a display block included in the second device is controlled based on the application information. | 09-19-2013 |
20140304431 | INFORMATION-SHARING DEVICE, INFORMATION-SHARING METHOD, INFORMATION-SHARING PROGRAM AND TERMINAL DEVICE - There is provided an information-sharing device including, in a second device connected to a first device, an information obtaining unit which obtains, through a communication unit of the second device, first application information indicating an application possessed by the first device, a shared information generating unit which generates shared information shared by the first device and the second device, based on the first application information obtained by the information obtaining unit, and a transmission control unit which transmits the shared information through the communication unit to the first device. | 10-09-2014 |
20150082175 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND TERMINAL DEVICE - An apparatus includes a receiver, a shared information unit, a transmitter, a voice recognition unit, and an application execution unit. The receiver is configured to receive a voice signal and information from a second apparatus. The shared information unit is configured to create shared information shared by both the apparatus and the second apparatus based on the information received from the second apparatus. The transmitter is configured to transmit the shared information to the second apparatus. The voice recognition unit is configured to analyze the voice signal. The application execution unit is configured to execute an application based on a result generated by the voice recognition unit. | 03-19-2015 |