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Sakurai, Kanagawa

Akinori Sakurai, Kanagawa JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110221488INTERFACE CIRCUIT WITH DAMPING RESISTOR CIRCUIT - A semiconductor integrated circuit is provided with: a variable resistor section, a variable delay section and a data fetch section. The variable resistor section provides damping for a data signal inputted thereto to thereby generate a damped data signal. The damping resistance of the damping is variable. The variable delay section gives a variable delay to a clock signal to thereby generate a delayed clock signal. The data fetch section fetches data from the damped data signal in synchronization with the delayed clock signal.09-15-2011

Hideaki Sakurai, Kanagawa JP

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20100129737DEVELOPMENT METHOD, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PHOTOMASK, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND DEVELOPMENT DEVICE - A development method according to an embodiment includes exposing a photosensitive film formed on a substrate at a predetermined exposure amount, carrying out a first development process that develops the exposed photosensitive film at a predetermined first development condition so as to leave the photosensitive film, obtaining a sensitivity information of the photosensitive film from a film thickness reduction of the photosensitive film developed by the first development process and the exposure amount, predicting pattern dimensions of multiple types of patterns to be formed when a second development process is carried out following the first development process from the sensitivity information, and determining a first acceptable range of a development condition in the second development process, determining a second acceptable range of the development condition in the second development process from the first acceptable range and a variation amount of the pattern dimension after the development process between the multiple types of patterns and determining a second development condition in the second development process so as to satisfy both of the first and second acceptable ranges.05-27-2010
20110207031SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF EUV MASK, AND EUV MASK - According to the substrate processing method in the embodiments, as a mask substrate used for forming an EUV mask, a mask substrate in which a first film having a first hydrophilicity is formed on one main surface and a resist is applied to another main surface is exposed from a side of the resist. Then, a hydrophilic treatment is performed on a surface of the first film to make the surface of the first film have a second hydrophilicity larger than the first hydrophilicity. Then, a development treatment of the resist is performed with respect to the mask substrate in which the hydrophilic treatment is performed on the surface of the first film to have the second hydrophilicity.08-25-2011
20110293305Development method, method of manufacturing photomask, method of manufacturing semiconductor device and development device - A development method according to an embodiment includes exposing a photosensitive film formed on a substrate at a predetermined exposure amount, carrying out a first development process that develops the exposed photosensitive film at a predetermined first development condition so as to leave the photosensitive film, obtaining a sensitivity information of the photosensitive film from a film thickness reduction of the photosensitive film developed by the first development process and the exposure amount, predicting pattern dimensions of multiple types of patterns to be formed when a second development process is carried out following the first development process from the sensitivity information, and determining a first acceptable range of a development condition in the second development process, determining a second acceptable range of the development condition in the second development process from the first acceptable range and a variation amount of the pattern dimension after the development process between the multiple types of patterns and determining a second development condition in the second development process so as to satisfy both of the first and second acceptable ranges.12-01-2011

Hiroyuki Sakurai, Kanagawa JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080284695Display Device and Driving Method of Display Device - A IF inversion driving method writes signal voltage of the same polarity to a signal line over a 1F period, and therefore cannot prevent occurrence of crosstalk caused by coupling. Also, shading is caused. In an active matrix type liquid crystal display device including a pixel array unit 11-20-2008

Junzo Sakurai, Kanagawa JP

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20120127346IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An imaging apparatus according to this invention comprises: an image capturing unit which performs continuous image capturing; a storing unit which stores a plurality of first images captured by the image capturing unit before a shutter button is pushed, and a plurality of second images captured by the image capturing unit after the shutter button is pushed; and a generating unit which generates a background image which is an image of a background of a dynamic body included in the first images and second images based on at least the plurality of first images.05-24-2012
20120133797IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - The present invention provides an imaging apparatus, an imaging method and a computer program which can automatically select an imaging method matching a scene and capture higher quality images. The imaging apparatus analyzes a preview image acquired from the image sensor before a shutter button is operated to classify the scene on which the preview image is obtained and, when the scene classified by the scene classifying unit is a night scene including a night view, controls the image sensor to continuously capture a plurality of images when the shutter button is operated.05-31-2012

Masato Sakurai, Kanagawa JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100109118SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device of the present invention includes a semiconductor layer, a low withstand voltage transistor, and a high withstand voltage transistor. In the low withstand voltage transistor, a first high concentration collector region and a first base region contact with a first low concentration collector region provided in the semiconductor layer. In the high withstand voltage transistor, a second high concentration collector region and a second base region contact a second low concentration collector region provided in the semiconductor layer. Further, the second high concentration collector region and the second base region are configured such that the distance between the second high concentration collector region and the second base region in a parallel direction to a main surface of the semiconductor layer is longer than the distance between the first high concentration collector region and the first base region.05-06-2010

Mika Sakurai, Kanagawa JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110245473Anti-IL-6 Receptor Antibody - The present inventors succeeded in discovering specific amino acid mutations in the variable region, framework region, and constant region of TOCILIZUMAB, and this enables to reduce immunogenicity risk and the heterogeneity originated from disulfide bonds in the hinge region, as well as to improve antigen binding activity, pharmacokinetics, stability under acidic conditions, and stability in high concentration preparations.10-06-2011

Mikiko Sakurai, Kanagawa JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110090168Touch Screen Input Method and Device - A touch panel 04-21-2011
20120038578Touch Screen Input Method and Device - A touch panel is constructed by a display/sensor unit which is slightly larger than a display screen of an LCD and a sensor unit which is projected to the outside from one side, for example, from one side on the right. A finger of the user is touched to a selection item such as desired button, icon, or the like on the display/sensor unit and vertically moved on the sensor unit. A selection display constructed by a plurality of buttons is displayed along the side of the display screen by the LCD. A button beside the finger is highlighted. When the finger is released, the highlighted button is selected. If there are no buttons adjacent to the finger, the button is not highlighted. Even if the finger is released, the state is not changed. When finger is moved to the display/sensor unit, the selection display disappears.02-16-2012

Patent applications by Mikiko Sakurai, Kanagawa JP

Mitsuo Sakurai, Kanagawa JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110056603PNEUMATIC RADIAL TIRE AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING RETREADED TIRE - A pneumatic radial tire includes: at least one carcass layer suspended across left and right bead parts; a belt layer arranged on an outer circumferential side of the carcass layer; and a tread arranged on an outer circumferential side of the belt layer. The tread has a laminated structure in which a thermoplastic film layer of a thermoplastic resin or a thermoplastic elastomer composition is interposed between a tread-side rubber layer and a belt layer-side rubber layer. The thermoplastic elastomer composition is obtained by blending an elastomer in a thermoplastic resin. A process for producing a retreaded tire includes the steps of: forming a base tire from the pneumatic radial tire by softening the thermoplastic film layer through heating so as to separate and remove the tread-side rubber layer, the pneumatic radial tire having the tread worn away; and subsequently bonding a new tread-side rubber layer onto the base tire.03-10-2011

Rakusa Sakurai, Kanagawa JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090035441BEVERAGE CONTAINING FINE PULP, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME AND EDIBLE MATERIAL - A beverage containing fine pulp, produced at least with the use of, as a pulp component, a fine pulp wherein the content of less-than-250 μm fine pulp fraction is 5 vol. % or more while the content of 1000 μm-or-more fine pulp fraction is 60 vol. % or less. In the crushing of raw pulp by means of a homogenizer into fine pulp, it is preferable that the homogenizer pressure be 5 kg/cm02-05-2009

Ryotaro Sakurai, Kanagawa JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120014193CHARGE PUMP CIRCUIT, NONVOLATILE MEMORY, DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND MICROCOMPUTER APPLICATION SYSTEM - Improvement technology of a charge pump circuit is provided for avoiding device destruction due to electrification of an intermediate node of plural capacitors coupled in series to form one step-up capacitor, and avoiding reduction of pump efficiency due to leakage current which flows through a leakage path of the intermediate node concerned. A charge pump circuit includes a step-up capacitor configured by a first capacitance and a second capacitance coupled in series, a capacitance driver, and a protection circuit. The protection circuit is set at a conductive state and discharges a stored charge at the series coupling node of the first capacitance and the second capacitance, when the step-up voltage is not generated, and the protection circuit is maintained in a non-conductive state, when the step-up voltage is generated. Accordingly, relaxation of the withstand voltage of the step-up capacitor is achieved, and reduction of the pump efficiency is avoided.01-19-2012

Satoshi Sakurai, Kanagawa JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120229217HIGH-FREQUENCY POWER AMPLIFIER - There is a need to provide a high-frequency power amplifier capable of reducing a talk current and reducing a phase deviation in output. The high-frequency power amplifier includes differently sized first through fifth power amplification transistors and impedance matching circuits for example. The high-frequency power amplifier changes a signal path to be used in accordance with a power specification signal. The high-frequency power amplifier uses a signal path from the first transistor to the second transistor in high power mode. The high-frequency power amplifier uses a signal path from the first transistor to the third transistor in medium power mode. The high-frequency power amplifier uses a signal path from the fourth transistor to the fifth transistor in low power mode. The high-frequency power amplifier is configured so that each of the signal paths includes the same number of stages of power amplification transistors and impedance matching circuits.09-13-2012

Shigeaki Sakurai, Kanagawa JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090164434DATA SEARCH APPARATUS AND DATA SEARCH METHOD - A data search apparatus includes an obtaining unit that obtains a content and a first metadata corresponding to the content and including at least a search key indicating an object of the content; a feature amount computing unit that computes a feature amount indicating a feature of the content from the obtained content; a learning-data storing unit that stores a learning-data that correspondingly includes the first metadata corresponding to each of the obtained content and the computed feature amount; a learning-data reconstructing unit that reconstructs the learning-data by generating a second metadata from the first metadata included in the learning-data stored in the learning-data storing unit so that the second metadata includes all search keys in the first metadata of all the learning-data, and by replacing the first metadata by the second metadata in learning-data; and a model generating unit that generates a model from the learning-data, the model being a coefficient matrix indicating a relation between the feature amount and the search key in the generated the first metadata.06-25-2009

Shinjirou Sakurai, Kanagawa JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090258784Heat-Sensitive Recording Materials - A heat-sensitive recording material includes a heat-sensitive recording layer on a support which layer produces a color upon heating, and a protective layer on the heat-sensitive recording layer. The protective layer is obtained from a composition (A) based on an emulsion of a copolymer resin (a). The copolymer resin (a) includes a vinyl monomer component having a carboxyl group, and a vinyl monomer component copolymerizable with the vinyl monomer component. The copolymer resin (a) contains 1 to 10 parts by weight of the vinyl monomer component having a carboxyl group. The copolymer resin has a SP value (solubility parameter) of not less than 9.5 (cal/cm10-15-2009

Takanobu Sakurai, Kanagawa JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090324454PURIFICATION CATALYST FOR REFLOW FURNACE GAS, METHOD FOR PREVENTING CONTAMINATION OF REFLOW FURNACE, AND REFLOW FURNACE - A purification catalyst which prevents contamination within a reflow furnace, including flux components, while suppressing the generation of CO is provided.12-31-2009

Takuya Sakurai, Kanagawa JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100092081COLOR GAMUT OUTLINE COMPUTING DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - A device includes a setting section that sets a single-color amount limit and an ink total amount limit, an upper half outline constructing section, a lower half outline constructing section, a restricting outline constructing section, and a color space converter. The upper half outline points are points at which one or more color components are 0% and that satisfy the single-color amount limit and the ink total amount limit. The lower half outline points are points at which one or more color components satisfy the single-color amount limit and that satisfy the ink total amount limit. The restricting outline points satisfy the single-color amount limit and the ink total amount limit, and are connected to the upper or lower half outline points which satisfy the single-color amount limit and the ink total amount limit. The color space converter converts the constructed outline points into another color space.04-15-2010
20120013923COLOR CONVERSION COEFFICIENT GENERATING APPARATUS, COLOR REPRODUCTION CHARACTERISTIC MODIFYING DEVICE, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A color conversion coefficient generating apparatus includes a first color reproduction characteristic obtaining unit that obtains a first color reproduction characteristic that is obtained by correcting a color reproduction characteristic of a first device in accordance with a color of a first medium used for printing in the first device, a second color reproduction characteristic obtaining unit that obtains a second color reproduction characteristic that is obtained by correcting a color reproduction characteristic of a second device in accordance with a color of a second medium used for printing in the second device, a modifying unit that modifies the first color reproduction characteristic and that repeatedly modifies the modified first color reproduction characteristic, and a generating unit that generates a color conversion coefficient for performing simulated printing based on the color reproduction characteristic of the first device on the basis of the first and second color reproduction characteristics.01-19-2012
20120249520COLOR GAMUT BOUNDARY INFORMATION GENERATING DEVICE, COLOR GAMUT BOUNDARY INFORMATION GENERATING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A color gamut boundary information generating device includes a receiving unit, a tetrahedralizing unit, a first generating unit, and a correcting unit. The receiving unit receives pieces of coordinate information indicating points in a color space. The tetrahedralizing unit performs a tetrahedralization process. The first generating unit generates boundary information, which is a set of outermost triangular faces among triangular faces obtained through the tetrahedralization process. The correcting unit selects a target face from among the triangular faces included in the boundary information, regards a tetrahedron including the target face as a target tetrahedron, determines whether or not the target tetrahedron satisfies a condition, and, if the target tetrahedron does not satisfy the condition, selects the triangular faces included in the target tetrahedron except the target face, eliminates the target face from the boundary information, and adds the selected triangular faces to the boundary information, thereby correcting the boundary information.10-04-2012
20120249521COLOR GAMUT BOUNDARY INFORMATION GENERATING DEVICE, COLOR GAMUT BOUNDARY INFORMATION GENERATING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A color gamut boundary information generating device includes a mapping unit, a triangulating unit, and a generating unit. The mapping unit maps boundary points existing at plural coordinates in a color space that is independent of an output device to corresponding points in a two-dimensional region while maintaining respective phases of the boundary points. The triangulating unit performs triangulation on the inside of a convex hull including plural points in the two-dimensional region obtained by the mapping unit, thereby generating triangulation information, which is a result of the triangulation. The generating unit generates color gamut boundary information on the basis of the triangulation information generated by the triangulating unit. The color gamut boundary information is information that specifies a three-dimensional shape in the color space, the three-dimensional shape having a boundary including the boundary points.10-04-2012

Patent applications by Takuya Sakurai, Kanagawa JP

Takwto Sakurai, Kanagawa JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120263400PLASTIC POUCH AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - At least one of an obverse surface film and reverse surface film, which are used to together constitute a plastic pouch, is folded back across the entire width of the plastic pouch, and peripheral edge portions of the pouch are heat-sealed, to thereby form, on at least one position, a folded-back section communicating with the body of the pouch.10-18-2012

Tomohiro Sakurai, Kanagawa JP

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20110258422MICROCOMPUTER - There is a need to provide a microcomputer capable of eliminating an external terminal for endian selection. Flash memory includes a user boot area for storing a program executed in user boot mode and corresponding endian information and a user area for storing a program executed in user mode and corresponding endian information. A data transfer circuit reads endian information stored in the user boot area or the user area in accordance with operation mode and supplies the endian information to a CPU before reset release of the CPU. Accordingly, an external terminal for endian selection can be eliminated.10-20-2011

Toshiaki Sakurai, Kanagawa JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090125282NUMERICAL STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS SYSTEM BASED ON THE LOAD-TRANSFER-PATH METHOD - The purpose of this invention is to reduce the calculation time in the numerical structure analysis system based on load-transfer-path method.05-14-2009
20100100361NUMERICAL STRUCTURE-ANALYSIS CALCULATION SYSTEM - The object is to enable the calculation of load transfer paths in case of distributed load applied to the structure with the numerical structure-analysis calculation system. The value of the parameter U** at each point is calculated according to the ratio of the complementary strain energy U at the application of load without fixing the point in the structure and the complementary strain energy U′ at the application of load with fixing one point in the structure. In the actual calculation, according to the complementary strain energy U, and the flexibility matrix C04-22-2010

Yoichi Sakurai, Kanagawa JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20130011173IMAGE GLOSSING APPARATUS, IMAGE GLOSSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE GLOSSING PROGRAM - An image glossing apparatus including a recording sheet feeder feeding a recording sheet bearing a toner image; a glossing device including a heater heating a glossing portion of the toner image to gloss the portion; a glossiness information obtaining device obtaining position information on the position of the glossing portion; and a position detector including a tip detector detecting tip of the fed recording sheet, and a distance measuring device measuring the moving distance of the recording sheet after the tip of the recording sheet is detected. The position detector detects the position of a portion of the recording sheet facing the heater based on the information on the tip of the recording sheet and the information on the moving distance of the recording sheet. When the portion of the recording sheet facing the heater is the glossing portion, the heater heats the portion to gloss the glossing portion.01-10-2013