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Masuo, JP

Akira Masuo, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080211556SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A delay clock circuit for delaying an input clock signal includes cascade connection of components each comprising first and second inverters. A delay clock control circuit is operated so that a through current can pass through a connection node between the first and second inverters for causing charge competition for a given period of time in transition of the input to the component. The delay clock control circuit includes a P-type transistor disposed, for example, between a power line and the connection node for receiving the output of the second inverter at the gate thereof.09-04-2008
20090016144SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - In a memory cell having a first and a second load transistor, a first and a second drive transistor, and a first and a second access transistor, a third access transistor provided between a first bit line and a first memory node and having a gate terminal connected to a first column line and a fourth access transistor provided between a second bit line and a second memory node and having a gate terminal connected to a second column line, are additionally provided.01-15-2009
20090108876DECODER CIRCUIT - The decoder circuit includes: a power supply control circuit for supplying a first voltage; first and second transistors connected in series between the power supply control circuit and a first reference node; and third and fourth transistors connected between a connection node between the first and second transistors and a second reference node. The first transistor receives a first signal at its gate, and the second transistor receives a second signal corresponding to the first signal at its gate. The third transistor receives a third signal at its gate, and the fourth transistor receives a fourth signal corresponding to the third signal at its gate. The potential difference between the first voltage and the first reference node is smaller than the potential difference between the first reference node and the second reference node.04-30-2009

Patent applications by Akira Masuo, Osaka JP

Akira Masuo, Hyogo JP

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20100328991SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A memory to which a bit line potential step-down technique is applied is provided. The memory includes an IO block including first transistors which control potentials of first bit lines provided with respect to columns of memory cells, and first logic gates which control the first transistors. The drain or source of each first transistor is connected to an input of the corresponding first logic gate, and the gate of each first transistor is connected to an output of the corresponding first logic gate. The first transistors are driven by pulses.12-30-2010
20110063928SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A dummy cell array is provided in a memory cell array, and an intermediate buffer is provided between input/output circuits, whereby control signals to the input/output circuits can be operated at high speed and with a high frequency while the area increasing effect is reduced even in a memory with a large bit width.03-17-2011
20110205827SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A system LSI (08-25-2011
20110267914SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - Characteristics of both a memory cell and a peripheral circuit are degraded due to random variations, and a defective characteristic occurs in a combination of components having a substantially worst characteristic at a macro level. To solve this problem, a selector is provided between the memory cell and the peripheral circuit so that a positive phase and a negative phase of bit lines are switched at a portion where the defective characteristic occurs. Alternatively, the combination of a bit line and a sense amplifier is switched between adjacent data input/output sections, for example. In other words, the defective characteristic is repaired or corrected by canceling the combination of worst components.11-03-2011

Akira Masuo, Kyoto JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090067265SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE - A precharge circuit steps up a voltage of a bit line connected to a memory cell to a power supply voltage. A plurality of step-down circuits step down the voltage of the bit line to a voltage level lower than the power supply voltage before data is read from the memory cell. The plurality of step-down circuits are connected to the bit line, and the plurality of step-down circuits are controlled by step-down control signals different to each other.03-12-2009

Junichi Masuo, Kyoto JP

Katsuhiro Masuo, Kyoto JP

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20110096899FLUOROSCOPY - When urinary organ contrasting inspection is performed by using a fluoroscopy for digestive organs, a region of interest such as a bladder often comes to a vicinity of a foot side end of a table top. Consequently, it is often the case that an irradiation field cannot be limited to a suitable area with respect to the region of interest and only an oblique photography can be performed. When the urinary organ contrasting inspection is performed, an X-ray tube device (04-28-2011

Katsuhiro Masuo, Kyoto-Shi JP

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20110064187X-RAY DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE - In a precessional operation where an X-ray irradiation means and a two-dimensional radiation detector are moving on a circular or elliptic orbit respectively by rotating either one of holding means, that is a C arm or a holding means at angular rate of a·sin(t) under a steady state condition and by rotating the other holding means at angular rate of b·cos(t), the operation is carried out at angular rate (f(t), g(t)) to ensure that the maximum acceleration is smaller than the steady state acceleration during a running-up period until steady is reached.03-17-2011

Koichi Masuo, Ritto-Shi JP

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20080220922Index table - There is provided a built-in type index table in which a power transmitting means scarcely has backlash and, at the same time, the space and cost can be saved. The index table includes a rotary table for setting a workpiece for a machine tool; a rotary table shaft fixedly provided on the rotary table; a driving motor mechanism, which is a driving source; and a planetary roller speed-reduction mechanism having a sun roller, which is a motor output shaft of the driving motor mechanism, a ring fixed to the speed-reduction mechanism, a plurality of planetary rollers arranged at equal angular intervals between the sun roller and the ring in a pressurized state, and a planetary roller harness that fixedly supports a plurality of planetary roller shafts pivotally supporting the planetary rollers in a rotatable manner and is fixedly provided coaxially with the rotary table shaft.09-11-2008
20100064833BACKLASH ELIMINATOR - A backlash eliminator capable of eliminating backlash with a low loss while decreasing a backlash eliminating force to curtail friction and heat generation is provided. The backlash eliminator comprises an input shaft (03-18-2010

Patent applications by Koichi Masuo, Ritto-Shi JP

Koichi Masuo, Shiga JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110247436GEAR MEASUREMENT METHOD - An object of the present invention is to provide a gear measurement method which makes it possible to reduce the size of a machine by reducing the amount of travel of a probe and thus reducing a moving range of the probe in a measurement. To achieve the object, a gear measurement method for measuring the tooth profile of a workpiece (W) by linearly moving a probe (1610-13-2011

Naohisa Masuo, Saiki-Shi JP

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20110020528YEAST MUTANT AND YEAST EXTRACT - A natural yeast extract which is rich in glutamic acid and therefore has an impact at first taste. Further, provided is a yeast extract which is also rich in 5′-guanylic acid or 5′-inosinic acid and therefore has strong umami. Further, provided is a yeast mutant capable of accumulating a large amount of glutamic acid, glutamine and ribonucleic acid for obtaining such a yeast extract. A yeast mutant to which resistance to organic acids and analogues thereof has been imparted by inducing spontaneous mutation, accumulates a significant amount, i.e., 10% by weight or more of the total of free glutamic acid and glutamine in the cell, and further accumulates 5% by weight or more of a ribonucleic acid. The yeast extract produced by using this strain contains 20% by weight or more of L-glutamic acid, and further contains 3% by weight or more of 5′-IG.01-27-2011

Ritsuki Masuo, Takatsuki JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110306599INDOLE COMPOUNDS AND PHARMACEUTICAL USE THEREOF - Provided is an agent for the treatment or prophylaxis of inflammatory diseases, allergic diseases, autoimmune diseases, transplant rejection or the like.12-15-2011

Shuzo Masuo, Komaki-Shi JP

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20090167214ELECTRICAL ACTUATOR - An electric actuator includes a motion conversion mechanism and a position detector. The motion conversion mechanism converts rotation of a rotary shaft of a motor into linear motion of an output shaft. The position detector detects a permanent magnet M, which moves integrally with the output shaft. A motor control portion controls the motor based on commands from a host command unit. A control program for controlling the motor includes, as control modes, six fluid pressure cylinder modes, according to which the motor is controlled. Specifically, each of the control modes corresponds to one of the cases where the fluid pressure cylinder is controlled by three solenoid valves, or a two-position single solenoid valve, a two-position double solenoid valve, and a three-position double solenoid valve. The motor is controlled according to the selected control mode.07-02-2009

Sumiko Masuo, Komaki-City JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090205193GAS SENSOR ELEMENT TREATMENT METHOD - A gas sensor element is heated at a temperature of 500° C. or higher for 15 minutes or more in a treatment atmosphere containing one or more gases selected from the gas group consisting of nitrogen (N08-20-2009

Tomonori Masuo, Iruma-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110016264METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CACHE CONTROL IN A DATA STORAGE DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a data storage device is provided, which has a cache controller that performs cache control, by using a buffer memory divided into segments, which are managed. The cache controller performs sequential hit judge on each segment, in accordance with the requested access range designated by a read or write command coming from a host system. The cache controller updates the hit upper-limit LBA set for each segment if the result of the hit judge is a mishit.01-20-2011
20110167203METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CACHE CONTROL IN A DATA STORAGE DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a data storage device is provided, which has a cache controller that performs cache control, by using a buffer memory divided into segments, which are managed. The cache controller performs sequential hit judge on each segment, in accordance with the requested access range designated by a read or write command coming from a host system. The cache controller updates the hit upper-limit LBA set for each segment if the result of the hit judge is a mishit.07-07-2011

Yoko Masuo, Iruma-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080239152Sub picture reproducing device, sub picture reproducing method, and sub picture reproducing program - According to one embodiment, a sub picture reproducing device comprises an input unit configured such that a sub picture stream provided with display control information including sub picture pixel data to be displayed and color codes to specify display colors of the pixel data, a setting unit configured to set propriety of displays of the sub video pixel data for each of the color codes by operations to the sub picture stream input to the input unit, and a processing unit configured to apply prescribed decode processing to the sub picture stream input to the input unit and to control display inhibition to sub picture pixel data corresponding to color codes to which display inhibition is set by the setting unit.10-02-2008
20090136211RECORDING APPARATUS, VIDEO CAMERA AND POSITION INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD - According to an embodiment of the invention, position information of a place shooting a video is embedded in an audio signal with a simple configuration. When user reproduces the video, the shooting place is readily acquired from a reproduced sound of the audio signal based on the position information of the shooting place via Internet. Therefore, an apparatus having general purpose is provided. A recording/reproducing apparatus includes a global positioning system module (hereinafter, referred to as GPS module), an orthogonal frequency modulation module (hereinafter, referred to as OFDM module) multiplexing position information from the GPS module to an audio signal from a microphone, and a recording/reproducing module recording an output audio data from the OFDM module and a video data from a camera module to a recording medium.05-28-2009
20090196575INFORMATION PLAYBACK APPARATUS AND PLAYBACK SPEED CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, an information playback apparatus comprises a detector module configured to detect a frame information amount of a content item to be played back, and an adjusting module configured to adjust a playback speed of the content item to be played back based on the frame information amount.08-06-2009
20100178029RECORDING/PLAY BACK APPARATUS, PLAY BACK CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND RECORDING/PLAY BACK PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, it is possible to easily record a master image related to new personal image data on a recording medium, and reproduce the personal image data in synchronization with play back of the master image. In an embodiment of the invention, when a play back module reproduces a master image, an imaging module records a viewer as a personal image. A content management module creates a related information table which relates the personal image to the master image. A synchronous record control module creates synchronizing information which synchronizes play back of the personal image and master image. A recording module records the personal image and synchronizing information on a recording medium.07-15-2010
20100178034VIDEO VIEWING APPARATUS, VIDEO PLAY BACK CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING/PLAY BACK PROGRAM - According to one embodiment of the present invention, an instructor's exercise image data is compared with a user's exercise image data. A personal video of a viewer who is viewing a master video is acquired by an imaging module. An image motion period determination module determines a series of image motion periods of the master video and the personal video. A motion characteristic amount acquisition module acquires motion characteristic amounts from image motion parts. A motion characteristic amount comparison module compares a motion characteristic amount of the maser video with that of the personal video. A storage module stores information corresponding to a frame having a large difference in motion characteristic amount. A disclosure module reproduces the frames of the master video and the personal video based on the stored information at the time of play back and outputs the reproduced frames.07-15-2010
20110206345Playback Apparatus and Playback Method - According to one embodiment, a playback apparatus includes: a sound information input module configured to receive a surrounding environmental sound as sound information; a sound information management module configured to manage feature information of noticeable environmental sounds; a sound information analysis module configured to analyze the received sound information; a notification information creation module configured to create notification information when the received sound information coincides with the feature information of one of the noticeable environmental sounds; and an output control module configured to output video or audio by superposing the created notification information thereon.08-25-2011
20110228081VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS, VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD AND VIDEO IMAGING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a video processing apparatus of a mobile object, includes: a receiver configured to receive video information from at least one of external video imaging apparatuses; a video information analyzer configured to obtain imaging position information and information with respect to an imaging angle and an imaging method from the received video information; a position measure configured to measure a present position and traveling direction of the mobile object; a video mapping determiner configured to determine a mapping format of a video, which is a displaying object of a display screen region in the received video information, based on outputs of the video information analyzer and the position measure; a video converter configured to correct and convert the received video based on the mapping format; and an output controller configured to output the corrected and converted video to a display device.09-22-2011
20110298983Content Processing Apparatus and Content Processing Method - According to one embodiment, a content processing apparatus is provided. The content processing apparatus includes: an output module which outputs a content in a viewable format; a real-time term explanation receiving processor which receives an explanation of a term included in the content being output; and a video and term explanation combining module which combines a video of the content with the term explanation. The term explanation for the video is displayed in real-time on the output module.12-08-2011

Patent applications by Yoko Masuo, Iruma-Shi JP

Yoshihisa Masuo, Otsu-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100204601RESPIRATION TYPE EVALUATION APPARATUS - A respiration type evaluation apparatus includes a bioelectrical impedance determiner for determining a bioelectrical impedance at at least a body region of a human subject that contributes to respiration of the human subject, and a respiration type determiner for determining whether respiration of the human subject is abdominal or costal on the basis of change over time of the bioelectrical impedance determined by the bioelectrical impedance determiner.08-12-2010

Patent applications by Yoshihisa Masuo, Otsu-Shi JP

Yoshiyuki Masuo, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090027060ADAPTER AND INTERFACE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE TEST APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH ADAPTER - An adapter able to reduce the costs of an electronic device test apparatus, the adapter having a frame member interposed, between an opening formed at a handler and a HIFIX attached to a test head and inserted in the opening for adapting the shape of the HIFIX to the shape of the opening.01-29-2009
20090189631MOVEMENT APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE TEST APPARATUS - An air cylinder raising and lowering a pickup head for holding an IC device in an electronic device test apparatus, the air cylinder includes a cylinder tube; a piston; a first hollow chamber formed below the piston; a second hollow chamber formed above the piston and being larger than the first hollow chamber in terms of a pressure receiving area of the piston; and a rod with one end coupled with the piston and the other end coupled with the pickup head. The first hollow chamber is connected to the air feed device via a first feed system in which the air feed is secured even if the electric power supply of the electronic device test apparatus is cut off, and the second hollow chamber is connected to the air feed device via a second feed system having a shutoff valve.07-30-2009