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20090094230 | RELATED INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS AND PROVIDING METHOD - Related information of a content is provided quickly. | 04-09-2009 |
20090182869 | VIEWING EFFECT MEASURING SYSTEM, AND MEASURING METHOD AND MEASURING TERMINAL THEREOF - A viewing effect measuring system is provided. A user terminal performs a content output process for receiving content from a content delivery apparatus and outputting the content, a Web site displaying process for accepting a request to access a Web site, while the content are outputted, accessing the Web site via the network, and displaying the Web site in such a manner as available for browsing, and a measurement information sending process for establishing an association between Web site specifying information which identifies the Web site as to which the access is requested, and content specifying information which identifies the content being outputted when the access is performed, and sending information of the association as viewing information to a measuring server. The measuring server receives the viewing information from the user terminal and sends the information to a Web server of the Web site as measurement information. | 07-16-2009 |
20120126953 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, PROGRAM AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - When regulation information set in a communication terminal such as a portable terminal is changed, the changed content can be efficiently acquired and set in the communication terminal. A term of validity is set in the regulation information used for a portable terminal ( | 05-24-2012 |
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20090128423 | ANTENNA AND WIRELESS TERMINAL - To effectively accommodate a low frequency antenna within various apparatuses, such as a mobile phone, an antenna of a wireless apparatus utilizes a conductor pattern formed on at least one surface of a printed circuit board of the wireless apparatus, a chip antenna mounted on one surface of the printed circuit board connected with the conductor pattern, and a metal plate antenna allocated within an enclosure of the wireless apparatus making a contact with one end of the conductor pattern. | 05-21-2009 |
20090233641 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A radio communication device that outputs an alarm when a reception level of a radio wave from a wireless unit is less than a threshold value, includes a reception level measuring section for measuring the reception level of the radio wave transmitted from the wireless unit at certain times. A threshold value setting section for setting a first threshold value or a second threshold value less than the first threshold value based on a difference between the reception level of the radio wave measured a previous time and the reception level of the radio wave measured a subsequent time. An alarm output requesting section for causing an alarm output section to output an alarm if the reception level of the radio wave measured a subsequent time is less than the first threshold value or the second threshold value. | 09-17-2009 |
20110050512 | MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE - A mobile terminal device includes: a first casing having a first antenna element; a second casing having a second antenna element; and a joint for rotatably joining the first casing and the second casing, the joint having third antenna element for electrically connecting the first antenna element and the second antenna element. | 03-03-2011 |
20120001822 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A wireless communication apparatus includes a first housing, a second housing which is openably and closably connected to the first housing through a hinge, a first conductor part which is arranged on the first housing, a second conductor and an antenna element, which are arranged on the second housing and an antenna switching part that makes the first conductor part, the second conductor part, and the antenna element serve as a dipole antenna when the first housing and the second housing are in an open state, and makes the antenna element serve as a monopole antenna when the first conductor and the second conductor are in a closed state. | 01-05-2012 |
20120238326 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electronic apparatus includes a housing, a circuit board housed in the housing and an antenna including a proximal end portion connected to the circuit board and extending beyond an edge of the circuit board. The housing includes a recess depressed in a direction away from the edge of the circuit board, the recess being formed in a part of the housing facing the edge of the circuit board. The antenna is housed in the recess. | 09-20-2012 |
20120238333 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - There is provided an electronic device which includes a first and second casings, a second casing including a recess disposed on a surface, opposite to the first casing, of the second casing, and a joint for connecting the first casing to the second casing so that the first casing and the second casing are movable relative to each other. The joint includes a movable member which is fixed to the first casing and includes two arms, a pair of rails which is fixed to the second casing, each of the pair of rails receiving a corresponding one of the two arms so that the two arms are slidable relative to the pair of the rails, and a protrusion protruding from the movable member. The recess is disposed between the pair of rails and the recess receives the protrusion and regulates movement of the protrusion. | 09-20-2012 |
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20120226885 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - To reduce the number of data copies between volume pools by preventing occurrence of unevenness of resource usage between the pools, provided is a computer system including: storage apparatus; and host computer coupled to the storage apparatus, the storage apparatus including physical storage device, the storage apparatus holding information associating virtual volumes and pools each including real storage areas of the physical storage device, the storage apparatus allocating, to the virtual volume of a write destination designated by the host computer, the real storage areas included in each of the plurality of pools corresponding to the virtual volume of the write destination, and storing the data therein, the computer system being configured to: determine, based on the information held by the storage apparatus, orders of priority of the volumes of the write destination by the host computers; and hold the determined orders of priority. | 09-06-2012 |
20140156927 | COMPUTING DEVICE SYSTEM AND INFORMATION MANAGING METHOD FOR REARRANGEMENT OF DATA BASED ON ACCESS CHARACTERISTIC RELATED TO A TASK - Technique for decision criterion for determining a transfer destination layer in rearrangement processing. A computer configures rearrangement reference information showing whether an access characteristic related to a task executed on a plurality of host computing devices is considered as a decision criterion for transfer destination determination in rearrangement processing of transferring data between actual storage areas of physical storage devices of different response performance. Storage subsystem refers to the rearrangement reference information and, based on an access characteristic of the plurality of computing devices with respect to the actual storage areas assigned to the plurality of computing devices, executes rearrangement processing of transferring data stored in the actual storage areas to different actual storage areas in the physical storage devices of different response performance. | 06-05-2014 |
20140195573 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD FOR STORAGE SYSTEM - An example of the present invention is a storage system comprising a first real storage apparatus including a plurality of real resources. The first real storage apparatus includes: real resource groups allocated to a plurality of virtual storage apparatuses; first management information for associating virtual resource identifiers individually assigned to real resources in a namespace independently defined for each of the plurality of virtual storage apparatuses with real resource identifiers individually assigned to the real resources in a namespace defined for the first real storage apparatus; and a controller for receiving a command including a designation with a virtual resource identifier, converting the virtual resource identifier in the command into a real resource identifier with reference to the first management information, and processing the command with the converted real resource identifier. | 07-10-2014 |
20140201438 | STORAGE SYSTEM, METHOD OF CONTROLLING A STORAGE SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR STORAGE SYSTEM - An example is a method of controlling a storage system for providing a virtual storage apparatus that includes virtual storage resources associated with real storage resources of real storage apparatus. It includes receiving a virtual storage resource control command of a predetermined type specifying a first virtual storage resource in the virtual storage apparatus and a second virtual storage resource associated with the first virtual storage resource; referring to management information for managing association relations between the virtual storage resources and the real storage resources, to identify a first real storage resource associated with the first virtual storage resource and a first real storage apparatus including the first real storage resource; and selecting a second real storage resource associated with the second virtual storage resource from real storage resources within the first real storage apparatus, or creating the second real storage resource within the first real storage apparatus. | 07-17-2014 |
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20080212764 | Communication relay apparatus, communication relay method, and computer product - As a result of a power saving technique for a portable dual terminal equipped with both WLAN unit and PHS unit, a call is usually relayed from an S-P gateway to a call receiver terminal via the PSTN, thereby incurring a call charge to the caller. According to the present invention, the call from the S-P gateway to the call receiver terminal (dual terminal) is terminated before a call charge is incurred, and the call receiver terminal calls back the S-P gateway via the IP network or the PSTN. The SIP server, instead of the call receiver terminal, identifies the caller terminal to call back, thereby connecting the call from the call receiver terminal to the caller terminal. In addition to this “callback method”, the present invention further provides “reconnection method”, “reconnection plus call-again method”, and “call-again method”, thus offering four types of methods. | 09-04-2008 |
20090222269 | SENTENCE READING ALOUD APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND CONTROL PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An apparatus for voice synthesis includes: a word database for storing words and voices; a syllable database for storing syllables and voices; a processor for executing a process including: extracting a word from a document, generating a voice signal based on the extracted voice when the extracted word is included in the word database synthesizing a voice signal based on the extracted voice associated with the one or more syllables corresponding to the extracted word when the extracted word is not found in the word database; a speaker for producing a voice based on either of the generated and the synthesized voice signal; and a display for selectively displaying the extracted word when the voice based on the synthesized voice signal is produced by the speaker. | 09-03-2009 |
20100019937 | OPTICAL RECEIVING APPARATUS, SHIELD PLATE, COMPUTER PRODUCT, TRANSIT SUPPORT METHOD, AND TRANSIT SUPPORT APPARATUS - An optical receiving apparatus is provided on a mobile object and includes a receiving unit that receives an optical signal transmitted from a transmitting unit of a communication device disposed apart from the mobile object; and a blocking unit that blocks the optical signal when an incident angle of the optical signal relative to a disposition surface of the receiving unit becomes equal to or greater than a predetermined incident angle. | 01-28-2010 |
20100076720 | ORIENTATION DETECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND MOVEMENT RECORD COMPUTING APPARATUS - An orientation detection method includes: a standard orientation determination step that detects a direction of an orientation determination element outside of a portable device with a direction detection device under the condition that a position of the portable device is fixed, and that determines the standard orientation of the portable device based on the result of the detection and the position of the portable device; and a relative angle detection step that computes a present orientation of the portable device based on both a result of a re-detection of the direction of the orientation decision element with the direction detection device and the position of the portable device after the determination of the standard orientation, and that detects an angle between the present orientation and the standard orientation. | 03-25-2010 |
20100125414 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING ABSOLUTE MOVEMENT PATH AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An absolute-movement-path calculating apparatus includes a direction acquiring part detecting a movement direction of the terminal at a given timing; a movement-distance calculating part calculating a movement distance of the terminal at the given timing; a relative-movement-path calculating part calculating a relative movement path based on the number of steps and a user's step length and storing the relative movement path; an absolute-position acquiring part acquiring an absolute position of the terminal, and storing the absolute position; and an absolute-movement-path calculating part calculating, each time the absolute positions are stored, a correction value from the relationship between at least two absolute positions and the relative positions corresponding to the absolute positions and calculating an absolute movement path of the terminal indicated by the absolute coordinate from the correction value and the relative movement path. | 05-20-2010 |
20100245174 | POSITIONING DEVICE AND PROGRAM RECORDING STORAGE MEDIUM FOR POSITIONING - A positioning device includes: a device body; a direction change detecting section that detects whether a traveling direction of the device body has been changed based on a detection of an azimuth with respect to reference axes preset in the device body; and an absolute position acquiring section that acquires an absolute position of the device body at a timing based on a change of the moving direction of the device body as detected by the direction change detecting section. | 09-30-2010 |
20110117937 | PUSH DELIVERY SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD, INFORMATION PROVIDING SERVICE SYSTEM, SERVER SYSTEM, AND USER STATION - The present invention relates to a technique of providing a push delivery service. A data center transmits attribute information on positions and radii of areas A through J to a user station. The user station compares the attribute information with a self-predicted position to predict that the user station itself lies in the area A through J. When the user station confirms that the user station lies in the area A through J, and requests the data center for delivery information attached to the area A through J on the basis of a result of confirmation. The data center transmits delivery information to the user station in response to the request. The user station knows itself in one of plural push delivery areas A through J, and decreases the frequency of positioning and pinpoints delivery of information such as shop advertisements is possible. | 05-19-2011 |
20110237275 | PORTABLE MOBILE TERMINAL AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A portable mobile terminal includes: a detection control unit; and a movement trajectory calculation unit configured to calculate a movement trajectory of a terminal body based on a detection result of an absolute position of the terminal body by the absolute position detecting unit and an acquisition result of a line segment indicating a rectilinear distance of the terminal body by a link information generation unit. The detection control unit determines a timing that comes every given time as a tentative detection timing, and in a case where the link information generation unit has not acquired a new line segment till the tentative detection timing after a previous detection timing, the detection control unit determines a timing at which the link information generation unit acquires a new line segment next as a detection timing, and starts up the absolute position detecting unit. | 09-29-2011 |
20120140319 | PROJECTOR SYSTEM AND DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM STORING POSITION DETECTION PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROVIDING METHOD - A projector device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image from an image pickup unit that picks up the image on a projection side of a transmissive type screen to which a display image is projected by a projector; a detection unit configured to detect a position where a luminance is changed on the acquired image; and an output unit configured to output the position on the acquired image where the change in luminance is detected. | 06-07-2012 |
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20090323173 | LIGHT OUTPUT CONTROL APPARATUS - A light output control apparatus, includes: | 12-31-2009 |
20100134875 | Optical amplifier, and optical transmission system including the optical amplifier - An optical amplifier provided in a repeater station of an optical transmission system is proposed. The optical amplifier amplifies an signal light and performs ALC of output power by means of a variable optical attenuator (VOA). The optical amplifier receives a difference between a target output value and measured output value of an upstream optical amplifier as an expected control volume, and updates a target attenuation value for the VOA in accordance with a current target attenuation value set to the VOA for ALC, a difference between its own target output value and measured output value, and the expected control volume. The target attenuation value is updated at intervals of time exceeding output convergence time by ALC. The difference between the target output value and measured output value of the optical amplifier is adopted as the expected control volume for a downstream optical amplifier. As a result, the waiting time taken for ALC to be stabilized at the time of increment or decrement of the number of wavelengths and signal startup in the optical transmission system where each station performs ALC, can be shortened, and the variation in the level of the signal light power during transition from AGC to ALC is suppressed. | 06-03-2010 |
20140146385 | RAMAN AMPLIFIER - Raman amplifier includes: a pump-light generator configured to supply pump light to a transmission fiber; a measurement circuit configured to measure a relationship between power of the pump light and power of noise output from the transmission fiber with respect to a range from first pump-light power to second pump-light power; a signal detector configured to monitor a supervisory signal in output light of the transmission optical; and a decision unit configured to decide a state of the transmission fiber according to the monitoring result. When the supervisory signal is detected without the pump light, the measurement circuit measures the relationship while increasing the power of the pump light from the first pump-light power. When the supervisory signal is not detected without the pump light, the measurement circuit measures the relationship while decreasing the power of the pump light from the second pump-light power. | 05-29-2014 |
20140340739 | OPTICAL AMPLIFICATION DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPTICAL MODULE - An optical amplification device includes: an optical module that outputs an amplified light; and a controller that makes the optical module emit a light when an emission command is input into the controller, wherein the controller cancels an inputting of the emission command until a predetermined time passes, when a protection for forbidding a light emission of the optical module is canceled. | 11-20-2014 |
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20090243654 | LEVEL CONVERTER - A level converter includes a cross-coupled section for holding data and a first switching section connected in series with the cross-coupled section and supplied with a differential input signal. The level converter has a second switching section, a current mirror connection section, a third switching section, and an input/output matching evaluation section. The second switching section is connected in parallel with the cross-coupled section, and the current mirror connection section is connected in a current-mirror configuration with a transistor in the second switching section. The third switching section is connected in series with the current mirror connection section, and the input/output matching evaluation section is used to control a transistor in the third switching section by receiving the input signal and an output node signal. | 10-01-2009 |
20090315628 | VARIANCE CORRECTION METHOD, PLL CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A variance correction method includes generating a reference current depending on a resistance within a lowpass filter and outputting the reference current to a voltage controlled oscillator, and correcting characteristics of the lowpass filter and a gain of the voltage controlled oscillator based on an output clock of the voltage controlled oscillator. | 12-24-2009 |
20100007425 | PLL FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZER - A frequency synthesizer includes a voltage-controlled oscillator, a frequency range tuning circuit which detects a frequency control code that sets a voltage-controlled frequency range of the voltage-controlled oscillator corresponding to the frequency division ratio which is variably-set, and a frequency control code memory which stores the frequency control code detected by the frequency range tuning circuit corresponding to the frequency division ratio. In an initialization interval, the frequency range tuning circuit detects the frequency control code corresponding to the frequency division ratio which is variably-set, and the frequency control code memory stores the frequency control code which is detected. In a normal operation interval, in response to the frequency selection signal, the frequency control code, which is stored in the frequency control code memory and corresponds to the frequency division ratio which is variably-set, is output to the voltage-controlled oscillator. | 01-14-2010 |
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20110093126 | Intra-Area Environmental Control System and Intra-Area Environmental Control Method - An environmental control system according to the present invention is a system for controlling environmental devices by which a work status and a behavior status are monitored and the environmental devices are finely controlled in accordance with the statuses to improve comfort. The environmental control system includes a communication unit, a unit for detecting environments, a unit for detecting a work status, a unit for obtaining power consumption, a unit for determining the control of a device, and a unit for transmitting a control signal, and enables fine control in accordance with a work type. | 04-21-2011 |
20110153379 | STAFF ARRANGEMENT SYSTEM AND SERVER - According to one embodiment of the present invention, a skill level of a staff member is discriminated from an actual job log of the staff member, productivity including the skill level, a salary, and combination efficiency with another staff member is calculated, and a staff arrangement plan maximizing a productive efficiency is outputted. A system of calculating an optimum staff arrangement of staff arrangements for a job operated by a plurality of staff members, includes: a record database for a job amount generated during a certain period; a profile database for staff members; a combination-efficiency database for staff members; a skill-level database for staff members; means of acquiring a staff-profile data; means of acquiring a record of a past-generated job amount; means of calculating combination efficiency between staff members; means of predicting a job demand of the job in a specific period, from the record of the past-generated job amount; means of calculating the required number of staff members from the predicted job demand; means of calculating a working shift satisfying the required number of staff members; means of calculating a working-shift matching degree from data of the combination efficiency with the staff member and the working shift; means of performing an arrangement plan corresponding to the required number of staff members by sequentially arranging staff members in descending order of the high matching degree; and means of calculating productive efficiency of the arrangement plan, so that the arrangement plan having the highest productive efficiency is shown. | 06-23-2011 |
20110314040 | METHOD OF RECOMMENDING INFORMATION, SYSTEM THEREOF, AND SERVER - Provided is an information recommendation system capable of recommending an unexpected item which a user is interested in but cannot assume easily. A server gives one or more times of initial recommendations of recommending information by a means of a user profile and a behavior history, and narrows down second recommended items to recommend next by using not only information relating to items having responses but also information relating to items having no response together. In narrowing down, the items are arranged by means of an item arrangement program by using the results of the initial recommendations, and it is identified depending on similarity by means of a boundary calculation program where the boundary between user's interest and no interest is positioned in all the items. Then, it is identified where items not recommended yet are positioned in user's interest/no interest the areas, and items in the vicinity of the boundary between the interest and no interest are determined as the second recommended items which are not uninterested and maximize unexpectedness. | 12-22-2011 |
20130232102 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PRESENTATION METHOD USING COMPUTER SYSTEM - A computer system includes a processor for executing a program, a computer holding the program executed by the processor, a first database holding relevance between physical amounts measured under conditions different in at least one of time and place, and a second database holding relevance between pieces of information including texts and corresponding to the measured physical amounts. The processor is configured to: calculate, based on the relevance between the physical amounts held in the first database and the relevance between the pieces of information in the second database, relevance between each of the measured physical amounts and each of the pieces of information, and hold the calculated relevance between each of the physical amounts and each of the pieces of information in a third database; and refer to, when the physical amounts are input, the third database to present information highly relevant to the input physical amounts. | 09-05-2013 |