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20100184246 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICK-UP DEVICE - There is provided a method for manufacturing a solid-state image device which includes the steps of: forming a silicon epitaxial growth layer on a silicon substrate; forming photoelectric conversion portions, transfer gates, and a peripheral circuit portion in and/or on the silicon epitaxial growth layer and further forming a wiring layer on the silicon epitaxial growth layer; forming a split layer in the silicon substrate at a side of the silicon epitaxial growth layer; forming a support substrate on the wiring layer; peeling the silicon substrate from the split layer so as to leave a silicon layer formed of a part of the silicon substrate at a side of the support substrate; and planarizing the surface of the silicon layer. | 07-22-2010 |
20100214457 | Solid-state imaging device, manufacturing method thereof, and imaging apparatus - A solid-state imaging device includes: a photoelectric conversion portion that receives an incident light from a back surface side of a silicon layer to perform photoelectric conversion on the incident light; and a pixel transistor portion that outputs signal charges generated in the photoelectric conversion portion towards a front surface side of the silicon layer, wherein a gettering layer having internal stress is provided on the front surface side of the silicon layer at a position to overlap the photoelectric conversion portion on a plan view layout thereof. | 08-26-2010 |
20110136295 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP-DEVICE - A method for manufacturing a solid-state image device which includes the steps of: forming a silicon epitaxial growth layer on a silicon substrate; forming photoelectric conversion portions, transfer gates, and a peripheral circuit portion in and/or on the silicon epitaxial growth layer and further forming a wiring layer on the silicon epitaxial growth layer; forming a split layer in the silicon substrate at a side of the silicon epitaxial growth layer; forming a support substrate on the wiring layer; peeling the silicon substrate from the split layer so as to leave a silicon layer formed of a part of the silicon substrate at a side of the support substrate; and planarizing the surface of the silicon layer. | 06-09-2011 |
20120322193 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - A solid-state imaging device includes: a photoelectric conversion portion that receives an incident light from a back surface side of a silicon layer to perform photoelectric conversion on the incident light; and a pixel transistor portion that outputs signal charges generated in the photoelectric conversion portion towards a front surface side of the silicon layer, wherein a gettering layer having internal stress is provided on the front surface side of the silicon layer at a position to overlap the photoelectric conversion portion on a plan view layout thereof. | 12-20-2012 |
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20090079685 | Liquid crystal display device, method for driving liquid crystal display device, and electronic apparatus - Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device that carries out image displaying through application of a voltage dependent upon an image to a liquid crystal in units of a certain period, wherein in the case of applying an overdrive voltage higher than a voltage for displaying of the image to the liquid crystal before application of the voltage, an application period of the overdrive voltage is set shorter than the certain period. | 03-26-2009 |
20090135167 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a display device including a first light sensor unit configured to include a light-receiving element and detect intensity of ambient light to a display area; a second light sensor unit configured to include a light-receiving element and be provided with an infrared filter disposed on an optical path to the light-receiving element; and a signal processor configured to execute difference processing for a detection signal of the first light sensor unit and a detection signal of the second light sensor unit, wherein the infrared filter is formed by stacking at least two kinds of color filters. | 05-28-2009 |
20090219458 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device having a liquid crystal between a drive substrate and a counter substrate, and a plurality of main pixels disposed so as to compose a display area, wherein either a liquid crystal alignment controlling factor or a spacer for substrate distance setting is provided in each of at least two sub-pixels of a plurality of sub-pixels composing the main pixel; and light shielding members provided in the at least two sub-pixels so as to correspond to either the liquid crystal alignment controlling factors or the spacers, respectively, are different in area in planar view from each other. | 09-03-2009 |
20090310068 | POLARIZING PLATE, DISPLAY, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - The present invention provides a polarizing plate including: a layer of polarizer for polarizing incident light and emitting the polarized light; and a coating type optically anisotropic layer disposed on the side to which the polarized light is emitted from the polarizer layer. | 12-17-2009 |
20120229021 | POLARIZING PLATE, DISPLAY, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - The present invention provides a polarizing plate including: a layer of polarizer for polarizing incident light and emitting the polarized light; and a coating type optically anisotropic layer disposed on the side to which the polarized light is emitted from the polarizer layer. | 09-13-2012 |
20140320467 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: a plurality of drive electrodes extending in a first direction and arranged side-by-side in a second direction with an inter-electrode slit in between; and a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in matrix in the first and second directions. Each of the drive electrodes has one or more inner-electrode slits, and a center of the pixel electrode is located in the inter-electrode slit or in the inner-electrode slit. | 10-30-2014 |
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20080286702 | Silver Halide Color Photosensitive Material and Method of Processing the Same - A silver halide color photosensitive material, having, on a transparent support, at least one each of yellow-, cyan-, and magenta-color-forming photosensitive silver halide emulsion layers, and photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a coupler that forms a dye having its absorption maximum at a wavelength longer than 730 nm upon reaction with an oxidized product of a developing agent, | 11-20-2008 |
20100143838 | SILVER HALIDE PHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOSENSITIVE MATERIAL AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - Silver halide photographic photosensitive materials are disclosed. A silver halide photographic photosensitive material has a support, and on or above the support, a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a first interlayer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a second interlayer, and a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer in this order from the support, wherein the first interlayer includes a chelating agent and another silver halide photographic photosensitive material has, in the following order, a support, and provided on or above the support, a first interlayer containing a chelating agent, a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a second interlayer, a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a third interlayer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and a protective layer. | 06-10-2010 |
20120237872 | BLACK AND WHITE SILVER HALIDE PHOTOSENSITIVE MATERIAL - A black and white silver halide photosensitive material, having: a support; at least one silver halide emulsion layer; and at least one non-photosensitive layer, wherein both of the silver halide emulsion layer and the non-photosensitive layer are positioned at one side of the support, the non-photosensitive layer includes carbon particles of 35 mg/m | 09-20-2012 |
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20100245677 | RECEIVING APPARATUS, RECEIVING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECEIVING SYSTEM - A receiving apparatus includes: a deinterleaving device configured to perform a deinterleaving process on an LDPC-coded data signal having undergone an interleaving process, the LDPC representing Low Density Parity Check, by use of a memory which has columns capable of storing as many as “a” data, the “a” being an integer of at least 1; and a control device configured such that if the data signal is supplied in units of N data, the N being an integer smaller than the “a,” the control device controls the deinterleaving device to write the data signal to a predetermined address of the memory while reading previously written data from the predetermined address in a write period, the control device further controlling the deinterleaving device to stop writing the data signal to the predetermined address of the memory while reading the previously written data from the predetermined address in a write inhibit period. | 09-30-2010 |
20110142176 | RECIEVING APPARATUS AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECIEVING SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a receiving apparatus for receiving an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing signal, namely, OFDM signal having a frame having one frame length of a plurality of patterns, including: an acquiring section configured to acquire information on a preamble signal from the OFDM signal transmitted from a transmitting apparatus in accordance with an OFDM system; a frame determining section configured to determine whether or not the one frame length is short in the frame based on the information on the preamble signal acquired from the acquiring section; and a time interpolating section configured to obtain transmission path characteristics by comparing a pilot contained in the preamble signal and a known pilot corresponding to the pilot in a phase of transmission with each other when the frame determining section determines that the one frame length is short in the frame, and interpolate a data portion in a time direction based on the transmission path characteristics thus obtained. | 06-16-2011 |
20110158354 | RECEIVER, RECEIVING METHOD, PROGRAM AND RECEIVING SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a receiver including a receiving section, a first sorting section, a second sorting section, and a switching section. | 06-30-2011 |
20110317790 | RECEIVING APPARATUS, RECEIVING METHOD, AND RECEIVING SYSTEM - A receiving apparatus includes: a transmission path characteristics estimating section obtaining pre-interpolation transmission path characteristic data as estimate values for transmission path characteristics as characteristics of a transmission path of an OFDM signal for transmission symbols of pilot signals by using the pilot signals contained in the OFDM signal, and filtering the pre-interpolation transmission path characteristic data by using an interpolation filter, thereby obtaining transmission path characteristic data as estimate values for transmission path characteristics for transmission symbols of the OFDM signal; a distortion correcting section performing distortion correction for the OFDM signal by using the transmission path characteristic data; and a filter controlling section controlling a pass band of the interpolation filter. | 12-29-2011 |
20140016728 | RECEPTION APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECEPTION SYSTEM - The present technique relates to a reception apparatus, a reception method, a program, and a reception system capable of starting decoding of data in a short time. A reception apparatus according to an aspect of the present technique includes a demodulation unit configured to demodulate a modulated signal used to transmit transmission control information about data and the data to be transmitted, a first decoding unit configured to decode the transmission control information obtained by demodulation performed with the demodulation unit, a storage unit configured to store the data obtained by demodulation performed with the demodulation unit, and a second decoding unit configured to decode the data stored in the storage unit on the basis of the transmission control information decoded by the first decoding unit. The present technique can be applied to a receiver receiving an OFDM signal of DVB-C2. | 01-16-2014 |
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20110091082 | MEDICAL IMAGE HANDLING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A medical image handling system includes a monitor for displaying a medical image, an input device for inputting an image reading report corresponding to the medical image displayed on the monitor, and a processor. The processor judges the presence or absence of an image reading report corresponding to the medical image displayed on the monitor, and restricts a change of the medical image in a case where the image reading report is judged as being absent. | 04-21-2011 |
20110274329 | PROCESSING OF MEDICAL IMAGE DATA - An anti-aliasing filter comprised by a first filter kernel is applied to the medical image data so as to obtain filtered image data. The filtered image data is downsampled so as to obtain decimated image data, and pixel resolution of the decimated image data is approximately one half of pixel resolution of the image data for the medical image. The decimated image data is upsampled and an interpolation filter is applied so as to obtain interpolated image data. The interpolation filter is comprised by a second filter kernel, and the size of the first kernel is smaller than the size of the second filter kernel. Pixel resolution of the interpolated image data is approximately equal to pixel resolution of the medical image data. Difference image data between the interpolated image data and the medical image data for the medical image is obtained, and the difference image data is displayed. | 11-10-2011 |
20120069048 | MEDICAL IMAGE HANDLING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A medical image handling system includes a monitor for displaying a medical image, an input device for inputting an image reading report corresponding to the medical image displayed on the monitor, and a processor. The processor judges the presence or absence of an image reading report corresponding to the medical image displayed on the monitor, and restricts a change of the medical image in a case where the image reading report is judged as being absent. | 03-22-2012 |
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20100275101 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - The present invention relates to a data processing apparatus and a data processing method which can improve the tolerance to errors of data. A demultiplexer replaces, in accordance with an allocation rule for allocating code bits of an LDPC code to symbol bits representative of symbols, mb bits from among the code bits and sets the code bits after the replacement as symbol bits of b symbols. According to the allocation rule, where groups into which the code bits and the symbol bits are to be grouped in response to an error probability thereof are set as code bit groups and symbol bit groups, respectively, a combination of any of the code bit groups and the symbol bit group of the symbol bits to which the code bits of the code bit group are to be allocated and bit numbers of the code bits and the symbols bits are prescribed. | 10-28-2010 |
20100281329 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a data processing apparatus, a data processing method and a program which can improve the tolerance of code bits of an LDPC code to errors. | 11-04-2010 |
20100306627 | RECEIVING APPARATUS, RECEIVING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECEIVING SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a receiving apparatus including a reception device configured to receive a code sequence coded in LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) and punctured at least partially as a target to be decoded; and an LDPC decoding device configured to perform a punctured matrix transform process including a first and a second process on an original parity check matrix noted to have punctured bits or symbols and used in the LDPC coding. The LDPC decoding device further performs the first process to carry out Galois field addition operations on those rows of the original parity check matrix to set the non-zero elements to zero. The LDPC decoding device further performs the second process to delete the columns rid of the non-zero elements. The LDPC decoding device uses the matrix resulting from the process as the parity check matrix for performing an LDPC decoding process on the code sequence. | 12-02-2010 |
20120320994 | ENCODER AND ENCODING METHOD PROVIDING INCREMENTAL REDUNDANCY - The present invention relates to an encoder for error correction code encoding input data words (D) into codewords (Z | 12-20-2012 |
20130166992 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - The present invention relates to a data processing device and a data processing method capable of improving the resistance to data error. In a case where an LDPC code having a code length of 4,320 bits is mapped into 16 signal points, when a code bit of 4×2 bits and the (#i+1)-th bit from the most significant bit of symbol bits of 4×2 bits of two consecutive symbols are bits b#i and y#i, a demultiplexer performs an interchange process in which b | 06-27-2013 |
20140059268 | MEMORY CONTROL DEVICE, NON-VOLATILE MEMORY, AND MEMORY CONTROL METHOD - Provided is a memory control device, including a write control unit that sequentially designates a memory block, a write processing unit that writes write data in the designated memory block, a verifying unit that reads read data from the memory block and verifies whether or not the read data matches the write data for each of a plurality of memory cells, a retry inhibiting unit that inhibits a retry process from being performed in a memory cell in which the read data matches the write data among the plurality of memory cells, and a retry control unit that designates at least some memory blocks among the plurality of memory blocks and simultaneously executes the retry process when the read data does not match the write data in any one of the plurality of memory cells in which all the write data is written. | 02-27-2014 |
20140129904 | ERROR DETECTION AND CORRECTION APPARATUS, MISMATCH DETECTION APPARATUS, MEMORY SYSTEM AND ERROR DETECTION AND CORRECTION METHOD - An error detection and correction apparatus includes a code word read-out unit to execute read processing to read out a code word including a plurality of code elements by detection of an erasure position as read data from a memory address and to execute re-read processing to read out the code word as re-read data from the memory address after a predetermined time is elapsed from the time to read out the read data; a timing control erasure position detection unit to detect a position of the code element having a value not matched as the erasure position in the code word by determining whether or not the value is matched per the code word in the read data and the re-read data; and an error correction unit to correct an error based on the erasure position in the code word where the erasure position is detected. | 05-08-2014 |
20140208182 | CONTROLLER, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD OF CONTROLLING CONTROLLER, AND PROGRAM - A controller includes: a low-level error correction section configured to execute low-level error correction in which an error in a code word is corrected with use of a predetermined decoding algorithm; and a high-level soft-decision error correction section configured to execute high-level soft-decision error correction in which the error in the code word is corrected with use of a high-level algorithm when the error correction by the low-level error correction section has failed, the high-level algorithm being a soft-decision decoding algorithm having higher error correction capability than error correction capability of the predetermined decoding algorithm. | 07-24-2014 |
20140223256 | ERROR DETECTION AND CORRECTION UNIT, ERROR DETECTION AND CORRECTION METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSOR, AND PROGRAM - An error detection and correction unit includes: a first-code error detection section configured to detect whether or not each of a plurality of first code words in a second code word has an error, the second code word generated by encoding the plurality of first code words in chains and being a code word containing a plurality of partial data; and a second-code error correction section configured to correct the error in one partial data containing the first code word in which the error is detected of the plurality of partial data in the second code word, based on adjacent partial data adjacent to the one partial data. | 08-07-2014 |
20150026538 | STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE, STORAGE DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD - An error detection-correction unit reads system information for operating a system from a first memory and performs error detection-correction processing. A control unit supplies the system information to a host computer in a case where the error detection-correction processing is successful. In addition, the control unit reads a backup of the system information from a second memory that is different from the first memory and supplies the backup of the system information to the host computer in a case where the detection-correction processing fails. | 01-22-2015 |
20150049538 | STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE, STORAGE DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD - Provided is a storage control device including: a detection unit which detects a first timing for performing a first rewriting process of performing only a first operation from among the first operation and a second operation, in a memory cell array in which each bit transitions to a first storage state by the first operation and transitions to a second storage state by the second operation; and a request unit which makes a request for the first rewriting process with respect to the memory cell array, when the first timing is detected. | 02-19-2015 |
20150074314 | MEMORY, MEMORY SYSTEM AND MEMORY CONTROL METHOD - A memory includes a buffer which retains data, a band conversion unit converts a band of an internal data bus that is used for data transfer between the band conversion unit and the buffer which retains data into a band wider than that of an external data bus that is used for data transfer between the band conversion unit and a memory controller, and an access control unit controls access to a memory cell using the buffer, during a wait time occurring in the internal data bus due to a difference between the band of the internal data bus and the band of the external data bus. | 03-12-2015 |
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20080306845 | CHARGE MANAGING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CHARGE MANAGING SERVER, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A charge managing system including an image forming apparatus and a charge managing server is provided. The image forming apparatus includes plural applications each configured for executing a specific process on input data, a counter unit that counts a number of result items output as a result of executing at least one of the applications, a count value storage unit that stores a count value corresponding to the number of result items counted by the counter unit, and a storage area setting unit that secures a plurality of storage areas within the count value storage unit each of which storage areas is configured for storing a corresponding count value obtained for each of the applications. The charge managing server manages charging a fee for using the image forming apparatus based on the corresponding count value stored in each of the storage areas secured for each of the applications. | 12-11-2008 |
20090077231 | DEVICE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, DEVICE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A device information management apparatus for processing a report from a device management client during a failure of a transaction system is disclosed. The device information management apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive the report from the device management client; a determining unit configured to determine whether to process the report based on an importance level of the report and a load (workload) level of the device information management apparatus; a processing unit configured to process the report if the determining unit determines to process the report; and a discarding unit configured to discard the report if the determining unit determines not to process the report. | 03-19-2009 |
20100055325 | INK SET FOR INKJET RECORDING AND INKJET IMAGE RECORDING METHOD - An ink set for inkjet recording includes: an ink composition having a surface tension of from 25 to less than 40 mN/m at 25° C.; and a reaction liquid having a surface tension of 40 mN/m or more at 25° C. and including an organic acid and a water-soluble organic solvent that is present at a content ratio of 0.15 to 0.70 relative to the organic acid. The reaction liquid coagulates the ink composition. | 03-04-2010 |
20100144943 | INK SET FOR INKJET RECORDING - An ink set for inkjet recording includes an ink composition containing a pigment; and a reaction liquid containing: a solvent and an organic acid which has a first acid dissociation constant (at 25° C.) of 1.5 to 4.5. A 10% by mass aqueous solution of the solvent has a surface tension (at 25° C.) of not less than 40 mN/m. | 06-10-2010 |
20100236447 | INK SET FOR INKJET RECORDING - The ink set for inkjet recording of the invention has at least: an aqueous ink composition containing at least a pigment; and a reaction liquid containing at least a reactant that produces an aggregate when contacted with the aqueous ink composition. The static surface tension of the reaction liquid is 40 mN/m or higher. The dynamic surface tension γ0.1 is from 40 mN/m to 50 mN/m and the ratio γ0.1/γ10, that is a ratio of the dynamic surface tension and is sometimes referred to as γ, is from 1.01 to 1.10, in which the dynamic surface tension of the reaction liquid at a surface lifetime of 100 ms and 10000 ms is γ0.1 and γ10, respectively, according to the maximum bubble pressure technique. The aqueous ink composition aggregates by contacting the reaction liquid to form an image. | 09-23-2010 |
20110074868 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming method includes ejecting an ink composition including a volatile organic solvent with a solubility parameter of 20 MPa | 03-31-2011 |
20110193912 | INK COMPOSITION AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An ink composition is disclosed which includes a pigment that is coated with a water-insoluble resin, particles of a water-insoluble polymer having a glass transition temperature of 100° C. or higher, a solid moistening agent, a water-soluble organic solvent, particles of a wax having a melting point of from 40° C. to lower than 100° C., and water. | 08-11-2011 |
20110205290 | INKJET IMAGE FORMING METHOD - The present invention provides an inkjet image forming method including:
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20110242192 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD - The present invention provides an image forming method including ejecting an ink composition, using an ink jet apparatus, onto a recording medium thereby forming an image, the ink composition comprising a pigment, a water-soluble polymerizable monomer which is polymerized by actinic energy rays, and water, and the recording medium being composed of a base paper, a first layer including a binder, and a second layer including a white pigment and an acidic substance, which are disposed in this order, wherein a surface of the first layer is disposed on the base paper and has a Cobb water absorption capacity of 2.0 g/m | 10-06-2011 |
20110242200 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming method including applying an ink composition onto a recording medium by an inkjet method, and applying an liquid including particles onto the recording medium is disclosed. | 10-06-2011 |
20120166361 | CHARGE MANAGING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CHARGE MANAGING SERVER, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A charge managing system including an image forming apparatus and a charge managing server is provided. The image forming apparatus includes plural applications each configured for executing a specific process on input data, a counter unit that counts a number of result items output as a result of executing at least one of the applications, a count value storage unit that stores a count value corresponding to the number of result items counted by the counter unit, and a storage area setting unit that secures a plurality of storage areas within the count value storage unit each of which storage areas is configured for storing a corresponding count value obtained for each of the applications. The charge managing server manages charging a fee for using the image forming apparatus based on the corresponding count value stored in each of the storage areas secured for each of the applications. | 06-28-2012 |
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20100081074 | TONER FOR DEVELOPING ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE, DEVELOPER FOR DEVELOPING ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE, TONER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner for developing an electrostatic image includes a toner particle to which particles of an external additive A having a number average particle diameter of from 7 nm to 200 nm and particles of an external additive B having a number average particle diameter of from 30 nm to 4000 nm have been externally added. The ratio of the number average particle diameter of the particles of the external additive B to the number average particle diameter of the particles of the external additive A is in a range of from 2 to 20. The particles of one of the external additive A or the external additive B are particles having a core material covered with an organic material containing hydrogen and nitrogen. The particles of the other one of the external additive A or the external additive B are SiO | 04-01-2010 |
20100248110 | TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPMENT, TONER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The invention provides a toner for electrostatic image development, containing a toner particle and external additive particles adhered to the surface of the toner particle, each of the external additive particles being constituted of plural irreversibly coalesced primary particles. | 09-30-2010 |
20110229811 | TONER FOR DEVELOPING ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, TONER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The invention provides a toner for developing an electrostatic image including toner particles having a shape factor SF | 09-22-2011 |
20110229812 | TWO-COMPONENT DEVELOPER, DEVELOPER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A two-component developer includes: a toner; a carrier having a surface energy of from about 23 dyne/cm to about 37 dyne/cm; and an external additive having a shape factor SF | 09-22-2011 |
20120156601 | TONER FOR DEVELOPING ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE, DEVELOPER FOR ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE, TONER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner for developing an electrostatic image, including: toner particles containing at least a binder resin, a release agent, and a colorant; and an external additive having a volume average particle diameter (d) of from 70 nm to 400 nm, a ratio (d/σ) of the volume average particle diameter (d) to a standard deviation (σ) of a volumetric basis particle diameter of from 2.0 to 12, and an average circularity of from 0.5 to 0.9. | 06-21-2012 |
20140178100 | ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An electrostatic image developer includes a toner containing an external additive having a volume-average particle size of about 80 to 400 nm and an average circularity of about 0.7 to 0.85. The developer is used in an image forming apparatus including an image-carrying member having a top surface layer containing fluorocarbon resin particles, and a developer-carrying member that faces the image-carrying member and carries an electrostatic image developer, in which a value obtained by dividing the amount of developer on the developer-carrying member [g/m | 06-26-2014 |
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20120113479 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE READING METHOD - An image reading apparatus includes an image reading unit that includes plural photoelectric conversion elements arranged therein and that reads an image using light, the light being reflected by a document transported to a read position and being received by the plural photoelectric conversion elements, a reference plate that is disposed at the read position, a correction data generating unit that generates correction data by modifying second reference data on the basis of a ratio of first reference data to the second reference data, the first reference data being obtained by the image reading unit using light reflected by the reference plate in a clean state, the second reference data being obtained by the image reading unit using light reflected by the reference plate before reading an image, and an image correcting unit that corrects the image on the basis of the correction data generated by the correction data generating unit. | 05-10-2012 |
20120113482 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS - An image reading apparatus includes an apparatus body; a transport device that is openable and closable; an image reading unit disposed in one of the apparatus body and the transport device and reading an image of the document transported by the transport device; a member to be read that is disposed in the other of the apparatus body and the transport device at a position opposite the image reading unit when the transport device is closed, the member to be read being read by the image reading unit; and a control unit that causes the image reading unit to read the member to be read at a predetermined time, and if the transport device is open at the predetermined time, causes the image reading unit to read the member to be read when the document is transported by the transport device. | 05-10-2012 |
20130070309 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image reading apparatus includes a reading unit, an extraction unit and a generation unit. The reading unit outputs reference plate reading information. The extraction unit sets a pixel of the reference plate reading information as a notice pixel and repeatedly extracts one of the notice pixel as a target pixel until the number of the target pixels is more than a predetermined value when a ratio of a pixel value of the notice pixel to an initial value is more than a predetermined range. The generation unit generates correction information by substituting a pixel value of the target pixel with a correction value using the initial value when the extraction unit extracts all pixels of the reference plate reading information, and generates correction information by setting the pixel values of all the pixels as the initial value when the extraction unit does not extract all the pixels. | 03-21-2013 |
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20120113441 | COLOR ADJUSTMENT DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A color adjustment device includes: a conversion unit that converts color values of a second color space stored in a color conversion table, which defines a correspondence relation between color values of a first color space and color values of the second color space, into color values of a third color space independent from a device outputting an image; a storage unit that stores tables that define different input-output characteristics depending on color values of the third color space; and a change unit that selects at least one table from the tables according to a specified adjustment method, and executes a change process that changes color values of the second color space stored in the color conversion table by using the at least one table. | 05-10-2012 |
20130257890 | COLOR ADJUSTMENT DEVICE, COLOR ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM, COLOR ADJUSTMENT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A color adjustment device includes a color-value obtaining unit, a color-property-value deriving unit, a correction-item selection unit, a target-property-value setting unit, a correction-coefficient deriving unit, and a color-adjustment-profile generating unit. The color-value obtaining unit obtains color values when an image is displayed on image display devices. The color-property-value deriving unit derives values of color properties from the color values. The correction-item selection unit selects a color property as a correction item on the basis of the derived values. The target-property-value setting unit sets a target property value for the correction item. The correction-coefficient deriving unit derives a correction coefficient to be used to correct the values of the color property to the target property value. The color-adjustment-profile generating unit generates a color-adjustment profile on the basis of the correction coefficient. | 10-03-2013 |
20130257895 | IMAGE ADJUSTING APPARATUS AND METHOD, IMAGE ADJUSTING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image adjusting apparatus includes the following elements. A set color temperature obtaining unit obtains a set color temperature which is set when a white image is displayed, in an image display apparatus. A maximum tone value calculator calculates a maximum tone value of a reference color when the displayed white image is changed into a white image corresponding to the set color temperature. A tone characteristic setting unit sets a tone characteristic of the reference color on the basis of the calculated maximum tone value. If the calculated maximum tone value is decreased from a maximum tone value before the set color temperature is set, the tone characteristic setting unit corrects, in a region in which a tone value of an input image signal is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value, the tone characteristic so that a tone value of an output image signal is increased. | 10-03-2013 |
20140210848 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a memory, and a preparation unit. The acquisition unit acquires, from a display device that displays an image on a display screen, device information peculiar to the display device. The memory stores reference data used to prepare a reference image to be displayed by the display device. The preparation unit prepares output image data including the reference image using the device information acquired by the acquisition unit and the reference data read from the memory to output the output image data to the display device. | 07-31-2014 |
20140210851 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, COLOR ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes an image information transmission unit, a color information acquisition unit, and a conversion relationship creation unit. The image information transmission unit transmits, to a display device, pieces of color-conversion image information representing images used for performing color conversion for the display device, in ascending order of lightness of the images in a predetermined color space. The color information acquisition unit acquires color information of each image that is displayed on the display device in accordance with a corresponding piece of color-conversion image information among the pieces of color-conversion image information that have been transmitted by the image information transmission unit. The conversion relationship creation unit creates, on the basis of the color information that has been acquired by the color information acquisition unit, a conversion relationship for a color of an image to be displayed on the display device. | 07-31-2014 |
20140362065 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SETTING DISPLAY DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An apparatus for setting a display device includes a target value obtainer, a measured value obtainer, and a determiner. The target value obtainer acquires a target value of a display setting including color temperature and brightness for a display device configured to display an image. The measured value obtainer acquires a measured value of display characteristics including the color temperature and the brightness in each of multiple states specific to the display device, from the display device for which the display setting is sequentially changed to the multiple states. The determiner determines a setting value in the display setting including the color temperature and the brightness from among the multiple states, on the basis of the target value and multiple measured values acquired by the measured value obtainer. | 12-11-2014 |
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20100017144 | Lung cancer evaluating apparatus, method, system, and program and recording medium therefor - According to the method of evaluating lung cancer, amino acid concentration data on the concentration value of amino acid in blood collected from a subject to be evaluated is measured, and a lung cancer state in the subject is evaluated based on the concentration value of at least one of Orn, Lys, ABA, Arg, Glu, His, Tau, Pro, Ala, Cit and Ile contained in the measured amino acid concentration data of the subject. | 01-21-2010 |
20100062413 | METHOD OF EVALUATING IBD, AMINO ACID DATA PROCESSOR, AMINO ACID DATA-PROCESSING METHOD, AMINO ACID DATA-PROCESSING SYSTEM, AMINO-ACID DATA-PROCESSING PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - According to the method of evaluating IBD of the present invention, amino acid concentration data on the concentration value of amino acid in blood collected from a subject to be evaluated is measured, and an inflammatory bowel disease state in the subject is evaluated based on the measured amino acid concentration data of the subject. | 03-11-2010 |
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20090138542 | Information processing apparatus and information processing method - There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a receiving section that receives function information about one or more functions from an external device connected via a network; a display section that displays a list of the functions of the external device, the functions being included in the function information; a selected-information acquiring section that acquires selected information pertaining to a function selected by a user from the list of the functions displayed by the display section; and a coordinate function executing section that causes the external device to execute the function selected by the user. Such a configuration provides the information processing apparatus designed such that even if the information processing apparatus and the external device do not have information about each other, the function of the external device can be executed by operating the information processing apparatus. | 05-28-2009 |
20100040212 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method and information processing system - An information processing apparatus includes: an external device's information obtaining unit for obtaining external device's information containing held function's information on functions held by an external device from the network-connected external device; an application obtaining unit for obtaining an application used for utilizing a function requested to be executed by the external device from a network-connected application providing server, the function being contained in the held function's information; and an external device's function execution request unit for requesting the external device to execute a function held by the external device based on the obtained external device's information and the application. | 02-18-2010 |
20100121900 | Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and program - There is provided an information processing apparatus including an information acquiring unit for acquiring, from external apparatuses connected via a network, processing information about a processing to be executed by each of the external apparatuses and/or about a result of a processing executed thereby and information about a function that each of the external apparatuses can execute in cooperation with the information processing apparatus; an information display unit for displaying the processing information of each of the external apparatuses and program information about program contents and displaying, on the basis of the information about the function of each of the external apparatuses, functions that can be executed by each of the external apparatuses with respect to the one or more program contents; and a function execution unit for causing the external apparatus to execute a selected function with respect to a selected program content. | 05-13-2010 |
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20100205462 | Systems and Methods for Modular Power Management - A modular, adaptive power management system includes a hard disk drive controller, a read channel module, a host interface controller and a power manager system. The hard disk controller includes a processor executing firmware, and the host interface controller provides for host access via a host interface. The system includes a power island register and an oscillation control register. Both registers are writable via the firmware and via the host interface. The hard disk controller, the interface controller, the read channel module and the power manager system are implemented across two or more distinct power islands and use two or more distinct clocks. Power to the two or more distinct power islands is at least in part controlled by the power manager system via the power island register, and the two or more distinct clocks are each controlled by the power manager system via the oscillation control register. | 08-12-2010 |
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20090072224 | FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR - A field effect transistor including a gate isulation portion, an organic semiconductor portion, a source electrode and a drain electrode, wherein when a voltage is applied to the gate at 70° C. for 5.0±0.1 hours so that the field strength in the gate insulation portion would be 100±5 MV/m, the change in the threshold voltage is within 5 V. The organic semiconductor portion has a high driving stability, of which the change in characteristics by driving is thereby small. | 03-19-2009 |
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20110267352 | MICROPARTICLE ANALYZING APPARATUS AND DATA DISPLAYING METHOD - Disclosed herein is a microparticle analyzing apparatus including a detecting portion configured to simultaneously detect a fluorescence generated from a microparticle in plural wavelength regions and a displaying portion configured to display thereon detection results in the plural wavelength regions in a form of a spectrum. | 11-03-2011 |
20120010822 | FLUORESCENCE INTENSITY COMPENSATION METHOD AND FLUORESCENCE INTENSITY CALCULATION DEVICE - A fluorescence intensity compensation method, includes: receiving, with photodetectors having different input wavelength bands, fluorescence emitted from fluorochromes excited by irradiating light on microparticles multiply-labeled by a plurality of fluorochromes with overlapping fluorescence wavelengths; collecting detected values for the photodetectors; and obtaining a measurement spectrum, by approximating, from the linear sum of single-stain spectrums obtained from microparticles individually labeled with the fluorochromes; wherein approximation of the measurement spectrum by the linear sum of the single-stain spectrums is performed using the restricted least-square method. | 01-12-2012 |
20120016616 | FLUORESCENCE INTENSITY CORRECTING METHOD, FLUORESCENCE INTENSITY CALCULATING METHOD, AND FLUORESCENCE INTENSITY CALCULATING APPARATUS - A fluorescence intensity calculating apparatus, includes: a measuring section configured to receive fluorescences generated from plural fluorescent dyes excited by radiating a light to a microparticle multiply-labeled with the plural fluorescent dyes having fluorescence wavelength bands overlapping one another by photodetectors which correspond to different received light wavelength bands, respectively, and whose number is larger than the number of fluorescent dyes, and obtain measured spectra by collecting detected values from the photodetectors; and a calculating section configured to approximate the measured spectra based on a linear sum of single-dyeing spectra obtained from the microparticle individually labeled with the fluorescent dyes, thereby calculating intensities of the fluorescences generated from the fluorescent dyes, respectively. | 01-19-2012 |
20120056103 | FLUORESCENCE INTENSITY COMPENSATION METHOD AND FLUORESCENCE INTENSITY COMPUTING APPARATUS - A fluorescence intensity compensation method includes emitting light onto microparticles multiply labeled with a plurality of fluorochromes having fluorescence wavelength ranges that overlap each other in order to excite the fluorochromes and receiving fluorescence generated by the excited fluorochromes using photodetectors having different reception wavelength ranges, and computing fluorescence intensities of the fluorochromes by compensating detection values of the photodetectors under a predetermined constraint condition imposed on the computed fluorescence intensities. | 03-08-2012 |
20120123722 | FLUORESCENT SPECTRUM CORRECTING METHOD AND FLUORESCENT SPECTRUM MEASURING DEVICE - A fluorescent spectrum correcting method includes comparing fluorescent spectrum obtained from micro-particles labeled with a plurality of fluorescent pigments with reference spectrum to separating the fluorescent spectrum into fluorescent spectrum for each pigment, and previously measured spectrum data is used as the reference spectrum. | 05-17-2012 |
20120139917 | 3D DATA ANALYSIS APPARATUS, 3D DATA ANALYSIS METHOD AND 3D DATA ANALYSIS PROGRAM - A 3D data analysis apparatus includes a data storage unit configured to store measurement data of microparticles, an input unit configured to select four independent variables from the measurement data, a data processing unit configured to calculate a position in a coordinate space using three variables of the selected variables as coordinate axes, calculate a figure from one residual variable of the selected variables, and create a 3D stereoscopic image showing a characteristic distribution of the microparticles, and a display unit configured to display the 3D stereoscopic image. | 06-07-2012 |
20140365159 | FLUORESCENCE INTENSITY CORRECTING METHOD, FLUORESCENCE INTENSITY CALCULATING METHOD, AND FLUORESCENCE INTENSITY CALCULATING APPARATUS - A fluorescence intensity calculating apparatus, includes a measuring section configured to receive fluorescences generated from plural fluorescent dyes excited by radiating a light to a microparticle multiply-labeled with the plural fluorescent dyes having fluorescence wavelength bands overlapping one another by photodetectors which correspond to different received light wavelength bands, respectively, and whose number is larger than the number of fluorescent dyes, and obtain measured spectra by collecting detected values from the photodetectors, and a calculating section configured to approximate the measured spectra based on a linear sum of single-dyeing spectra obtained from the microparticle individually labeled with the fluorescent dyes, thereby calculating intensities of the fluorescences generated from the fluorescent dyes, respectively. | 12-11-2014 |