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| 20100207670 | FREQUENCY ERROR DETECTING CIRCUIT, FREQUENCY ERROR DETECTING METHOD, AND FREQUENCY CORRECTING CIRCUIT - A frequency error detecting circuit includes: an oscillator; a frequency converting unit for a received signal on the basis of the oscillation output and output the received signal; a time-to-frequency converting unit configured to convert the output of the frequency converting unit into a frequency domain signal; a frequency shift determining unit configured to determine presence or absence of a frequency shift between an output frequency of the frequency converting unit and a predetermined carrier frequency; and a control unit configured to repeat frequency conversion processing and time-to-frequency conversion processing while controlling an oscillation frequency of the oscillator on the basis of a determination result of the frequency shift determining unit and cause the output frequency of the frequency converting unit to converge on a predetermined value to thereby detect a frequency error between the frequency of the received signal and the predetermined carrier frequency. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20110033012 | CHANNEL ESTIMATOR - A channel estimator includes: a delay time estimation section configured to estimate a delay time of a received signal; an FFT parameter determination section configured to determine an FFT window position and an FFT size according to the estimated delay time; a first and a second FFT sections configured to transform the received signal and a known pattern signal, respectively, to the frequency domain based on the FFT window position and the FFT size that are determined; a channel response calculation section configured to perform division processing to divide the output of the first FFT section by the output of the second FFT section; and an IFFT section configured to apply IFFT to the output of the channel response calculation section based on the determined FFT size, and the delay time estimation section estimates a delay time based on the output of the IFFT section. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110051863 | CHANNEL ESTIMATOR - The channel estimator includes a plurality of correlating sections configured to calculate a plurality of time correlation values between the signal and a plurality of known pattern signals having different code lengths, an analyzing section configured to output a control signal representing a selected period for extracting a preferable correlation output from the output from each of the plurality of correlating sections, and a delay profile generating section configured to output a delay profile obtained by adaptively selecting or combining parts of the outputs from the plurality of correlating sections based on the output from the analyzing section. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110206168 | CHANNEL ESTIMATOR - According to an embodiment, a channel estimator includes a channel response estimation section configured to estimate a channel response by correlation processing between a received signal and a known pattern signal; a path power calculation section configured to measure power of each path within an output of the channel response estimation section; a noise power calculation section configured to measure noise power from the output of the channel response estimation section; a path determination section configured to determine paths to be preserved by using the path power outputted from the path power calculation section and the noise power outputted from the noise power calculation section; and a noise removal section configured to remove values in time domain excepting the paths determined at the path determination section, from the output of the channel response estimation section. | 08-25-2011 |
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| 20080243491 | Modulation Device, Modulation Method, Demodulation Device, and Demodulation Method - A modulation device including: a modulation unit for modulating a carrier in an audible sound range by an encoded transmission signal to generate a modulated signal; a masker sound generation unit for generating a masker signal outputted as a masker sound for making the modulated signal harder to hear when transmitted with the modulated signal; and an acoustic signal generation unit for inserting the masker signal in the modulated signal to generate an acoustic signal. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20090018680 | DATA EMBEDDING DEVICE, DATA EMBEDDING METHOD, DATA EXTRACTION DEVICE, AND DATA EXTRACTION METHOD - A data embedding device has: a phase adjusting unit for adjusting a phase of an acoustic signal in accordance with a frame unit in which arbitrary transmission data is to be embedded; and a combining unit for embedding the transmission data in the phase-adjusted acoustic signal. A data extraction device has: a removing unit for removing a low frequency component from an acoustic signal in which arbitrary transmission data is embedded, to generate a low-frequency-removed acoustic signal; a synchronizing unit for synchronizing the low-frequency-removed acoustic signal generated by the removing unit, in accordance with a frame unit used when the transmission data was embedded in the acoustic data; and an extraction unit for extracting the transmission data from the low-frequency-removed acoustic signal synchronized by the synchronizing unit. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090067292 | ACOUSTIC SIGNAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, MODULATION DEVICE, DEMODULATION DEVICE, AND ACOUSTIC SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD - An acoustic signal transmission system of the present invention is a system for transmitting information via sound waves, and has a modulation device, a plurality of speakers, a microphone and a demodulation device. The modulation device generates transmission acoustic signals by encoding transmission signals based on a transmission diversity method and allocating the encoded transmission signals to a plurality of transmission paths. The plurality of speakers output the transmission acoustic signals as sound waves respectively based on the allocation. The microphone receives the sound waves which are output from the plurality of speakers, and outputs received acoustic signals. The demodulation device decodes the received acoustic signals based on the transmission diversity method by using a transfer function of the each sound wave from the plurality of speakers to the microphone. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20100182876 | MODULATION DEVICE, DEMODULATION DEVICE, AND ACOUSTIC SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD - An object is to provide a modulation device, a demodulation device, and a transmission system and acoustic signal transmission method using them which can carry out a synchronization process for data signals without using a carrier frequency for a synchronization signal. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20110122959 | OFDM MODULATION/DEMODULATION METHOD, OFDM MODULATION DEVICE, OFDM DEMODULATION DEVICE, AND OFDM MODULATION/DEMODULATION SYSTEM - An OFDM modulation/demodulation method in a transmission system that transmits data from a transmission source to a transmitting destination through OFDM modulation/demodulation is provided, which includes an extension step (step S | 05-26-2011 |
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| 20080267681 | IMAGE PRINTING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PRINTING METHOD - An image printing apparatus includes a lottery drawing unit that draws a lottery on the basis of data included in image data to be printed; a maximum-number determining unit that determines whether the number of winners drawn by the lottery drawing unit is less than or equal to a maximum number of winners indicated by data; a storage unit that stores a frame in accordance with a lottery result obtained by the lottery drawing unit; and a printing unit that prints the image data and the frame in a superimposed manner. When the number of winners is determined to be less than or equal to the maximum number of winners, the lottery drawing unit draws a lottery on the basis of data included in image data to be printed. The printing unit prints the image data and the frame in accordance with a lottery result in a superimposed manner. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20120056964 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus includes: a transport unit that transports a recording medium; a thermal transfer sheet that has an ink layer, and a protective material layer thermally transferred onto the recording medium to form a protective layer; a reforming sheet that has a printing opening portion for causing the ink layer and the protective material layer to come into contact with a surface of the recording medium, and a surface property reforming portion for reforming surface properties of the protective layer; and a thermal head that heats and causes the surface property reforming portion to come into pressing contact with the recording medium through the thermally transferred protective material layer, wherein a temperature limitation area is set in an outer peripheral portion of an area where the surface properties are reformed, and heating of the surface property reforming portion in the temperature limitation area is restricted. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120056965 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus includes a conveyance unit conveying a medium to be recorded in a predetermined direction, a thermal transfer sheet including an ink layer thermally transferred onto the medium to form a printing layer, and a protective material layer thermally transferred onto the medium to form a protection layer, a transfer sheet traveling unit causing the thermal transfer sheet to travel, a reforming sheet including a printing opening for bringing the ink layer and the protective material layer into contact with a surface of the medium, and a surface property reforming unit reforming the surface property of the protection layer, a reforming sheet traveling unit causing the reforming sheet to travel, and a thermal head pressing the surface property reforming unit on the medium through the protective material layer having been thermally transferred to thereby heat the pressed surface property reforming unit. | 03-08-2012 |
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| 20090110784 | PACKAGING CONTAINER FOR MICROWAVE OVEN AND PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Provided are a packaging container for a microwave oven that excels in the sealing performance between a container body and lid, and that at heating/cooking by a microwave oven, maintains the internal pressure of the container for a given period of time to thereby enhance the taste of contents through steaming effect, and that thereafter, can spontaneously open with certainty from a steam releasing seal part; and an efficient process for manufacturing the packaging container. In the packaging container for microwave oven having a lid heat-sealed to the periphery of a flange part of container body made of a synthetic resin so as to attain hermetic sealing, at least one steam releasing seal part with a weakened part is disposed inside the peripheral seal part of the flange part at a position separate from the peripheral seal part. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090110785 | PACKAGE FOR COOKING BY MICROWAVE OVEN - Provided is a package for cooking in a microwave oven, in which a synthetic resin container body having a flange part is filled with contents and a lid is heat-sealed to the flange part to seal the package hermetically. Independent concave parts sandwiching a heat-sealed part are provided in a part of the flange part on the inner and outer sides of the heat-sealed part to form, on the heat-sealed part, a projection part directed to the inner direction of the container and serving as a steam releasing part by automatically opening. The package is prevented from being broken or deformed by preventing the heat-sealed part from being peeled immediately after the contents are placed in the container body. When heating cooking is performed in a microwave oven, the package improves the taste of the contents by the steaming effect. The lid is sure to automatically open by the increase of the pressure in the container. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090145895 | PACKAGING CONTAINER FOR COOKING BY ELECTRONIC OVEN - A packaging container for cooking by an electronic oven having high sealability between a container body and a cover member and capable of being automatically and securely opened starting at a steam releasing seal part after taste of contents is improved by a steaming effect by holding a pressure in the packaging container for a specified time when the contents are heated and cooked by the electronic oven. The packaging container comprises a synthetic resin container body having a flange part and the cover member heat-sealed to the flange part of the container body. The cover member comprises (1) an upper member in which inner surfaces of resin films are positioned opposite to each other to form an abutted part, an unsealed part communicating with the inside of the container body is formed by heat-sealing a peripheral edge part of the abutted part excluding one side of the abutted part forming a base part, and the steam releasing seal part is formed at the abutted part and (2) a lower member which covers a lower surface of the upper member and in which a steam guide part communicating with the inside of the container body is formed at or near the base part of the abutted part. | 06-11-2009 |
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| 20110156181 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device is provided which can further suppress the leakage of a magnetic field in a magnetoresistive element, and which can further improve the performance of the semiconductor device. A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a lower electrode, a magnetoresistive element, an upper electrode, and a protective film. The lower electrode is formed over a main surface of the semiconductor substrate. The magnetoresistive element includes a fixed layer, a tunneling insulating film, and a free layer. The upper electrode is disposed over the other main surface opposite to one main surface of the free layer opposed to the tunneling insulating film. The protective film covers the sides intersecting the main surfaces of the lower electrode, the fixed layer, the tunneling insulating film, the free layer, and the upper electrode. The fixed layer included in the magnetoresistive element is a layer which is disposed over one main surface of the lower electrode, and whose magnetization direction is fixed. The tunneling insulating film is disposed over the other main surface opposite to one main surface of the fixed layer opposed to the lower electrode. The free layer is a layer which is disposed over the other main surface opposite to one main surface of the tunneling insulating film opposed to the fixed layer, and whose magnetization direction is variable. The width of the upper electrode is smaller than that of each of the lower electrode and the fixed layer in the direction intersecting the lamination direction of the lower electrode, the fixed layer | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110156182 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - To provide a semiconductor device capable of further suppressing the leakage of magnetic field in a magnetoresistive element and capable of further improving performance. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110198715 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - The semiconductor device of this invention includes a semiconductor substrate having a main surface, and a magnetoresistive element located over the main surface of the semiconductor substrate. Further, it includes a protective layer, a wiring, a first upper electrode, and a second upper electrode. The protective layer is disposed so as to cover the side surface of the magnetoresistive element. The wiring is located over the top of the magnetoresistive element. The first upper electrode substantially the same in dimensions in plan view as the magnetoresistive element is disposed over the magnetoresistive element. The second upper electrode is electrically coupled with the first upper electrode over the first upper electrode, and larger in dimensions in plan view than the first upper electrode. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20120068282 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - To provide a semiconductor device capable of suppressing a short circuit between an upper conductive element and a lower conductive element which constitute an MRAM, and a manufacturing method of the same. | 03-22-2012 |
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| 20120045854 | INSPECTING METHOD, TEMPLATE MANUFACTURING METHOD, SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND INSPECTING SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, a template for manufacturing a memory cell array comprising a relievable area and a redundant area replaceable with the relievable area is to be inspected. First, based on a defect position of a defect-detected template and position information on a relievable area, a decision is made as to whether the detected defect is positioned within the relievable area. A decision is made as to whether the number of defect-detected relievable areas exceeds the preset permissible number. When the detected defect is positioned outside the relievable area or when the number of defect-detected relievable areas exceeds the permissible number, a notification that the template has failed the inspection is output. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120072003 | IMPRINTING METHOD, SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURING METHOD AND DROP RECIPE CREATING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a defect inspection is made on a pattern transferred on substrates to be processed, thereby generating defect image data. When a defect is detected, a defect contour is extracted from the generated image data, the extracted defect contour is reflected on a pattern of the semiconductor integrated circuit and a first drop recipe is generated based on the pattern data on which the defect contour is reflected. A drop recipe used for applying a hardening resin material is updated with the generated first drop recipe. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120129279 | IMPRINTING METHOD, IMPRINTING APPARATUS AND MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, there is provided an imprinting method for applying a first hardening resin material on a substrate to be processed and transferring a pattern of a semiconductor integrated circuit formed on a template onto the substrate to be processed on which the first hardening resin material is applied, wherein a second hardening resin material with higher separability than the first hardening resin material is applied on at least part of the outer periphery of an area in which the pattern is formed by one transferring. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120131056 | DROP RECIPE CREATING METHOD, DATABASE CREATING METHOD AND MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a plurality of test drop recipes are first created based on design data on a semiconductor integrated circuit. Based on a defect inspection result of a pattern of a hardening resin material, which is formed by pressing a template on which patterns of the semiconductor integrated circuit are formed onto the hardening resin material applied to a substrate to be processed by use of the test drop recipes, a drop recipe with least defects is selected per press position on the substrate to be processed from the test drop recipes. The selected drop recipes for respective press positions are collected per functional circuit block configuring the semiconductor integrated circuit, thereby to generate a drop recipe creation assistant database. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120196389 | DEFECT INSPECTION METHOD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - According to one embodiment, electrolytic solution is selectively jetted onto an imprint pattern, the electrolytic solution is jetted onto each shot or part of an area in a shot, an electrode is separated for each shot, and the electrode is switched according to a shot to be an inspection target. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120208327 | IMPRINT APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE - According to one embodiment, an imprint apparatus includes an ejection unit, an ejection command generating unit, a determining unit, a prohibition command generating unit, and an ejection control unit. The ejection unit ejects a resin material. The ejection command generating unit generates an ejection command based on a drop recipe. The determining unit determines the presence or absence of a processing target substrate in an ejection destination of the resin material. The prohibition command generating unit, when the processing target substrate is not present in an ejection destination, generates an ejection prohibition command. The ejection control unit gives priority to the ejection prohibition command over the ejection command. | 08-16-2012 |
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| 20110238093 | LIGATING APPARATUS - A ligating-apparatus includes a clip, an operating wire, an inner sheath member and an outer sheath member. The clip ligates a body tissue with arms. The operating wire pulls the clip. The inner sheath member encloses the operating wire to support a clip holding member. The outer sheath member advances and retreats while covering the inner sheath member. The outer sheath member changes the degree of opening of the arms by causing each arm to abut on an inner peripheral surface thereof. A pair of arms includes first arm portion and a second arm portion connected continuously to the first arm portion via a bending portion. When the bending portion abuts against an inner peripheral surface end portion of the outer sheath member, the second arm portion is arranged at an inner side in a direction of a radius from an inner peripheral surface of the outer sheath member. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110245855 | LIGATING APPARATUS - A ligating apparatus includes a clip, a clip connecting member, a clip holding member, an operating wire, an inner sheath member, an outer sheath member and first and second movement restricting portions. The clip ligates a body tissue with arm portions. The clip connecting member connects to a clip base portion. The clip connecting member is inserted through the clip holding member. The operating wire connects to the clip connecting member. The inner sheath member encloses the operating wire to support the clip holding member. The outer sheath member covers an outer periphery of the inner sheath member and freely advances and retreats. The outer sheath member advances and/or retreats to change the degree of opening of the arm portions. The first movement restricting portion restricts the inward movement of the clip holding member. The second movement restricting portion restricts the outward movement of the clip holding member. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20120046671 | REPETITIVE CLIPPING TREATMENT DEVICE - A repetitive clipping treatment device has a cylindrical sheath loaded with a clip series that has plural clips, a manipulating wire to move the clip series in the longitudinal direction of the sheath inside the sheath, a handle main body connected to the sheath and having the manipulating wire arranged therein, a slider to move the manipulating wire in the axial direction of the handle main body, and a slider displacement regulating member to regulate the displacement of the slider in the axial direction to different displacements required for clipping treatment of each clip of the clip series. The plural different displacements corresponding to the respective clips are determined based on the lengths to protrude and the retraction amounts of the respective clips. | 02-23-2012 |
