| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090269028 | REPRODUCTION DEVICE AND PROGRAM - A playback apparatus plays back video data recorded on a recording medium such as a BD-ROM. The playback apparatus includes an interface in which a removable medium such as an SDRAM can be inserted, a detection module that detects that the removable medium is inserted, and a virtual file system. The virtual file system is used if the removable medium is detected to be inserted, if additional content such as subtitles is recorded on the removable medium, and furthermore if the additional content is associated with the video data recorded on the BD-ROM, etc. The virtual file system is used for dynamically combining the video data recorded on the BD-ROM, etc. and the additional content of the removable medium so as to play back a virtual package. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20100034516 | REPRODUCING APPARATUS, REPRODUCING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A playback device that creates a virtual package by combining a structural element recorded on a BD-ROM with an additional content recorded on a removable medium. The middleware in the playback device is provided with a file I/O module | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100061702 | REPRODUCING APPARATUS - A playback device generates a virtual package in response to a construction request made by an application. After the virtual package is thus generated, a virtual file system | 03-11-2010 |
| 20110052153 | REPRODUCTION DEVICE, REPRODUCTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A problem with high resource-consuming managed copy is that simultaneous execution of the managed copy, which is controlled by a playback device, and a BD-J application, which is recorded on a recording medium, leads to a shortage in resources. Provided is a playback device that enables simultaneous execution of the managed copy and the BD-J application while preventing resource contention therebetween, by imposing an access limitation on the disc medium by causing the BD-J application to assume that the disc medium has been virtually ejected. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110299830 | APPLICATION RUNNING DEVICE - To provide an application life cycle management method for use in switching a movie work that is a playback target within a storage medium on which a plurality of movie works are stored, which is equivalent to one for use in replacement of BD-ROM discs. When a playback target is switched within a local storage on which a plurality of movie works are stored, a playback device, which includes an input unit for issuing a movie work switching request, performs processing with use of a user operation performed on the input unit as a trigger, instead of the medium status change between ejection and insertion. This allows application life cycle management equivalent to one in the case of BD-ROM disc replacement. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110305435 | PLAYBACK DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM, PLAYBACK METHOD AND PROGRAM - A bytecode processing unit provided in a playback device is platform unit | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110307448 | REPRODUCTION DEVICE - In conventional managed copy, files are copied to the copy destination, while maintaining the file structure of the copy source. A problem pertaining to the conventional managed copy is that, when a partial copy, which changes the file structure of the copy source, is performed, the created disc does not conform to the standard and thus cannot be played back by the playback device. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20120002520 | PLAYBACK DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM, PLAYBACK METHOD AND PROGRAM - A playback device reads a BD-J application from a BD-ROM and runs the BD-J application. The BD-J application causes, by using a socket connection API, the digital copy module of the playback device to execute copying of a protected content for portable terminals to a removable recording medium and setting of a resume playback point on the copied content. The resume playback point is specified by the BD-J application according to playback time information read from the PSR set. | 01-05-2012 |
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| 20090059190 | MOVABLE BODY APPARATUS, EXPOSURE APPARATUS AND OPTICAL SYSTEM UNIT, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - The upper end of a static gas bearing member of a wafer side seal unit is connected to an edge section on the outgoing side of an exposure beam of a chamber in an air tight state via bellows, and the lower end surface is in a state forming a predetermined clearance with a wafer and a wafer holder. By this arrangement, the inside of the chamber is isolated from the outside. Accordingly, it becomes possible to maintain a vacuum environment in the periphery of the optical path of the exposure beam without arranging a vacuum chamber to house a wafer, a wafer holder, and a wafer stage, which allows the size of the entire exposure apparatus to be reduced, and also makes it easy to have access to the vicinity of the wafer stage. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090218511 | Stage apparatus and exposure apparatus - The present invention provides a stage apparatus wherein an object is disposed in an atmosphere with a gas pressure lower than atmospheric pressure, and the object can be driven with high accuracy. The stage apparatus that drives a reticle comprises: a vacuum chamber, which forms a space and has an opening; an integrated coarse and fine motion table, which has an electrostatic chuck that holds the object, that, when driven, moves the electrostatic chuck inside the space; a counter mass, which is disposed so that it covers the opening, that is capable of moving because of the reaction force produced when the integrated coarse and fine motion table is driven; and a vacuum cover, which forms a space that houses the counter mass; wherein the space and the space are set to prescribed gas pressures. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20100002220 | LIGHT SHIELDING UNIT, VARIABLE SLIT APPARATUS, AND EXPOSURE APPARATUS - A light shielding unit, which shields a part of an exposure light with a light shielding member, includes a sensor which detects displacement of the light shielding member, a driving device which drives the light shielding member based on a detection result obtained by the sensor, a case which accommodates the sensor and the driving device, and a bellows mechanism which gas-seals the case with respect to the light shielding member. When the illumination area of the illumination light is defined, it is possible to mitigate the influence of the foreign matters and/or the heat generated from the driving mechanism. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100141923 | STAGE APPARATUS AND ALIGNER - There is provided a stage apparatus at low cost by constituting a counter mass constituting a movable portion of the stage apparatus at low cost. | 06-10-2010 |
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| 20090184252 | X-RAY ANALYZER - Provided is an X-ray analyzer capable of significantly suppressing an influence of an external magnetic field on a transition edge sensor (TES). The X-ray analyzer includes: a TES ( | 07-23-2009 |
| 20100019152 | Superconducting radiometry apparatus - There is provided a superconducting radiometry apparatus capable of performing, while sample-measuring, an energy correction in regard to a fluctuation of a peak value of an output signal, which is due to a radiation heat and a magnetic field from an outside. The superconducting radiometry apparatus is constituted by comprising a micro-calorie meter detecting an energy of a radiant ray as a temperature change, a signal detection mechanism for detecting a displacement of an electric current flowing to the micro-calorie meter, a shunt resistance which is connected in parallel to the micro-calorie meter and whose resistance value is smaller than the micro-calorie meter, a bias electric source connected to the micro-calorie meter and the shunt resistance and applying a constant voltage, a heat addition device adding a constant and already-known heat quantity to the micro-calorie meter, a peak value monitor measuring a peak value corresponding to an added heat quantity within an output signal from the signal detection mechanism while synchronizing with a heat quantity addition from the heat addition device, and an energy correction device correcting, on the basis of an output from the peak value monitor, so as to become a peak value corresponding to the heat quantity from the heat addition device. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20110226948 | Sample processing and observing method - There is provided a sample processing and observing method including irradiating a focused ion beam to a sample to form an observed surface, irradiating an electron beam to the observed surface to form an observed image, removing the surface opposite to the observed surface of the sample, forming a lamella including the observed surface and obtaining a transmission observed image for the lamella. | 09-22-2011 |
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| 20090114619 | WET ETCHING METHOD AND WET ETCHING APPARATUS - A fine pattern is formed on a surface of a processing object without using photoresist. A wet etching for the processing object in an area to which ultraviolet light is applied is performed by bringing a solution in which nitrous oxide (N | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090317752 | Rinse liquid for lithography and method for forming resist pattern using same - The present invention provide with a rinse solution for lithography and a resist pattern forming method using the same, which can prevent an inclination and peeling-off of a resist pattern and form a resist pattern having a high aspect ratio with high reproducibility. The rinse solution for lithography of the present invention comprises water and a nonionic surfactant having an ethyleneoxy group but not having a fluorine atom. The resist forming method of the present invention comprises the step of rinsing the pattern after development treatment with the rinse solution for lithography. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20110146726 | PROCESS FOR CLEANING SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT - In a wiring formation process for a semiconductor device, the resist residue forming in dry etching with a reactive gas and aching with a plasma gas is removed, not corroding the members of the semiconductor device such as the interlayer insulating material and the wiring material thereof, and the device is protected from after-corrosion to occur after left for a given period of time after the treatment. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110256483 | RESIDUE REMOVING LIQUID COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR CLEANING SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT USING SAME - Provided are a residue removing liquid composition capable of completely removing a resist residue and a titanium (Ti)-derived residue that remains after dry etching and ashing in via hole formation in a production process for a semiconductor substrate having metal wiring of aluminium (Al) or an Al alloy, at a low temperature in a short time, not corroding parts of an interlayer insulating material, a wiring material and others, and a cleaning method for semiconductor devices using it. | 10-20-2011 |