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20080235647 | MODULAR DESIGN METHOD AND APPARATUS - Disclosed is a procedure or design approach for functional modules that may be used in connection with a multiprocessor integrated circuit chip. The approach includes keeping the dimensions of each module substantially the same and having the bus, power, clock and I/O connection configured the same on all modules. Further requirements for ease of use are to generalize the capability of each module as much as possible and to decentralize functions such as testing to be primarily performed within each module. The use of such considerations or rules substantially eases the design of a given type of custom chips, and based upon an initial chip design greatly facilitates the design of further custom chips, similar in application, but subsequent to the successful completion of the initial chip. The standardization modules and replication of the modules on a given chip also reduces physical verification time in initial chip design as well as redesign time of the initial chip when requirements for chip capability are redefined or otherwise changed. Any subsequent or further custom chips can include more or less of specific modules based upon already established parameters. | 09-25-2008 |
20100058024 | Data Transfer Apparatus, Data Transfer Method And Processor - A processor includes a CPU core which executes a user program, and a data transfer apparatus. The CPU core stores a transfer request from a user program in a specific area of a main memory, in which the transfer request specifies the virtual addresses of a transfer source and a transfer destination in a memory space allocated to the user program. The data transfer apparatus refers to the specific area of the main memory and acquires a transfer request asynchronously to processing performed by the CPU core. The data transfer apparatus then identifies physical addresses corresponding to virtual addresses specified in the transfer request. After that, the data transfer apparatus transcribes original data stored in a storage area indicated by the physical address of the transfer source, to a storage area in a cache memory related to the virtual address or physical address of the transfer destination. | 03-04-2010 |
20120310873 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus configured to create a schedule to be presented to a user includes an estimation unit and a creation unit. The estimation unit is configured to estimate whether or not the user acts in accordance with a first schedule including a task to do for accomplishing a preset aim. The creation unit is configured to create, when estimated that the user does not act in accordance with the first schedule, a new second schedule for accomplishing the aim from a state of the user who acts without following the first schedule. | 12-06-2012 |
20130035541 | SLEEP AID DEVICE AND METHOD, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed herein is a sleep aid device including: an electrode arranged on the surface of a pillow in such a manner as to come into contact with the scalp of a user; a brain wave signal acquisition section adapted to acquire a brain wave signal of the user via the electrode; an analysis section adapted to analyze the acquired brain wave signal; and a control section adapted to control the execution of a preset process according to the sleep stage representing the depth of sleep of the user identified by the analysis result. | 02-07-2013 |
20130085363 | ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC HEADSET - An electroencephalographic headset includes: a supporter that includes expanding and contracting wires each having expansion and contraction properties and is to be attached to a head of a user by expansion and contraction of each of the expanding and contracting wires; and a plurality of electrodes that are provided to the supporter in defined placement. | 04-04-2013 |
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20090060424 | Optoelectronic combination connector - An optoelectronic combination connector includes a plug unit having an optoelectronic converter and a receptacle unit detachably attached to the plug unit. The plug unit has a fiber securing member with a groove, so that an optical fiber cable connected to the optoelectronic converter is secured to the groove with an adhesive. In the optoelectronic combination connector, the optical fiber cable preferably has an outer cover formed of polyvinylidene fluoride or a fluoro-resin. | 03-05-2009 |
20090153579 | Speckle reduction method - A projection apparatus includes a laser light source for projecting an illumination light to a plurality of spatial light modulators (SLMs) through an illumination optical system. The projection apparatus further comprises an image position change unit for changing a position of an image projected on a projection surface by projecting a modulation light from at least one said plurality of SLMs; and a control unit for controlling the SLMs and the image position change unit. | 06-18-2009 |
20090222610 | BRIDGE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE , AND ACCESS CONTROL METHOD - A downstream port | 09-03-2009 |
20090235048 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND BRIDGE - Introduced is an end-point bridge that relays an end point—formed by an external bus in a device tree managed by a first processor unit and an end point formed by an external bus in a device tree managed by a second processor unit. A conversion unit in the end-point bridge replaces a requestor ID contained in an access request packet, for example, which has reached the end point, to the ID of the end point from the ID of a host bridge. The ID of the host bridge is stored in a memory in a manner that the ID of the host bridge is associated with a tag of the packet, and is used to return the requestor ID when a response packet to the request reaches the end point. | 09-17-2009 |
20090311584 | ELECTRIC STORAGE DEVICE - An electric storage device is provided with a battery cell, a collector foil having a first metal plate and a second metal plate laminated together, and a voltmeter for measuring potential difference between the first metal plate and the second metal plate. The first metal plate and the second metal plate are formed of mutually different metals. The collector foil is arranged to be in contact with the battery cell. | 12-17-2009 |
20100070675 | BRIDGE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND ACCESS CONTROL METHOD - Transparency of resources is provided and ordering in an access is guaranteed between nodes on a computer network. In an information processing system in which a plurality of processor units are connected to each other by a switch, a global address space is introduced into which effective addresses of the processor units are mapped and which is shared by the plurality of processor units. In response to an access request packet issued by a processor unit and designating an effective address of a target node, a bridge for routing an input and output bus of a processor unit to an input and output bus of the switch converts the effective address of the target node into a global address by appending to the packet a node identification number identifying the target node, and outputs the access request packet designating the global address to the switch. After an access request packet for a write operation is output, the bridge confirms whether the write operation is completed in a target node. | 03-18-2010 |
20100208262 | Temperature compensated spectroscope and optical apparatus - A spectroscope includes an emitting portion from where light is output, a dispersive element which is disposed on a side of the light emitting portion, to which the light is output, an incidence portion on which, light dispersed by the dispersive element is incident, and a temperature-compensating element which is disposed between the emitting portion and the incidence portion, and which is such that, an angle of incidence of the light dispersed on the incidence portion becomes almost constant with respect to a change in temperature in an operating temperature range. Moreover, the optical apparatus has such spectroscope in which temperature is compensated. | 08-19-2010 |
20110302591 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA SYNCHRONIZATION FOR A COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE FOR BROADBAND NETWORKS - A computer architecture and programming model for high speed processing over broadband networks are provided. The architecture employs a consistent modular structure, a common computing module and uniform software cells. The common computing module includes a control processor, a plurality of processing units, a plurality of local memories from which the processing units process programs, a direct memory access controller and a shared main memory. A synchronized system and method for the coordinated reading and writing of data to and from the shared main memory by the processing units also are provided. A processing system for processing computer tasks is also provided. A first processor is of a first processor type and a number of second processors are of a second processor type. One of the second processors manages process scheduling of computing tasks by providing tasks to at least one of the first and second processors. | 12-08-2011 |
20130163921 | WAVELENGTH SELECTIVE SWITCH - Provided is a wavelength selective switch, which includes: an input/output unit; a dispersive portion; a condensing optical system; and the deflection portion. The input/output unit has input/output ports. The dispersive portion disperses signal light incident from the input/output ports. The condensing optical system condenses a plurality of signal light beams dispersed by the dispersive portion. The deflection portion has a plurality of deflection elements. The deflection elements deflect, along a second direction, the signal light beams condensed by the condensing optical system. In the condensing optical system, the aberration amount of the meridional component in a sagittal coma aberration remains substantially constant irrespective of an angle formed between the optical axis of the condensing optical system and a signal light beam incident on the condensing optical system from the input/output portion, at an incident position of the incident signal light beam at a certain height in the second direction. | 06-27-2013 |
20130201227 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - The image display apparatus according to the invention is characterized by comprising a light source for emitting out parallel light, a light deflector capable of deflecting the parallel light emitted out from the light source, and a control unit operable to produce a scan signal for deflecting the light deflector periodically and produce a light intensity control signal in sync with the scan signal based on entered image information thereby controlling the light source. | 08-08-2013 |
20130343711 | OPTICAL-ELECTRIC CONVERSION CONNECTOR - An optical-electric conversion connector configured to be connected to a mating connector. The optical-electric conversion connector includes an optical semiconductor element for converting between an optical signal and an electrical signal; a supporting member for supporting the optical semiconductor element; a contact member connected to the optical semiconductor element for contacting with a mating contact member of the mating connector; a first resin member formed of a transparent resin for integrally holding the optical semiconductor element, the supporting member, and the contact member, and a second resin member mounted on an outer surface of the first resin member. The first resin member is arranged to seal at least the optical semiconductor element. A method of producing the optical-electric conversion connector includes an element arrangement step, a conductive member connecting step, a first resin molding step, and a second resin molding step. | 12-26-2013 |
20140037288 | OPTICAL UNIT FOR WAVELENGTH SELECTING SWITCH AND WAVELENGTH SELECTING SWITCH - An optical unit for a wavelength-selecting switch according to the present invention comprises: an input port; a dispersion section that produces wavelength dispersion of input light that is input from the input port; a light-collecting element that collects the light dispersed by the dispersion section; an output port; an optical path correction section that shifts the light that is dispersed by the dispersion section; an adjustment section that changes the amount of shift produced by the optical path correction section; and a casing that hermetically seals the input port, dispersion section, light-collecting element, output port, and optical path correction section. The casing has an optically transparent section in a location onto which the light that is collected by the light-collecting element is directed. The adjustment section is arranged outside the casing. The optical path correction section can be controlled from outside the casing by the adjustment section. | 02-06-2014 |
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20090252232 | IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - This invention enables to generate encoded data without noticeable image quality degradation when reproducing an image at a lower resolution not to mention the original resolution. An image a digital camera can capture takes three sizes L, M, and S. When the size L is designated, stream conversion information SC is set to “2”. When the size M is designated, the stream conversion information SC is set to “1”. When the size S is designated, the stream conversion information SC is set to “0”. When encoding image data in compression processing, block overlap processing of suppressing discontinuity of data at the boundary between adjacent blocks is executed as many times as the count set in the stream conversion information. | 10-08-2009 |
20090252427 | IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - This invention enables to generate encoded data without noticeable image quality degradation when reproducing an image at a lower resolution not to mention the original resolution. To accomplish this, when setting is done to transmit an image captured by a digital camera to a network, code stream forming information CF is set to “2” to arrange the encoded data of each tile in a resolution order. To suppress image quality degradation when reproducing at an intermediate resolution, stream conversion information SC is set to “2”. When encoding image data in compression processing, block overlap processing of suppressing discontinuity of data at the boundary between adjacent blocks is executed as many times as the count set in the stream conversion information. The obtained encoded data is arranged in accordance with the code stream forming information CF and output. | 10-08-2009 |
20100034478 | IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - This invention provides a technique of easily encoding image data to generate encoded data having high image quality within a target code amount using a small memory capacity by image encoding processing of performing frequency transform and quantization of each pixel block. A frequency transform unit separates image data into low frequency band data and high frequency band data. A coefficient quantizing unit, coefficient encoder, and code amount controller operate to encode the high frequency band data within a predetermined amount. When the encoding processing of the high frequency band data has ended, the quantization parameter of the low frequency band data is set based on the generated code amount of the high frequency band data. A coefficient quantizing unit, coefficient encoder, code amount detector, and quantization parameter updating unit operate to encode the low frequency band data into codes within a low frequency band target code amount. | 02-11-2010 |
20100158401 | IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An encoding apparatus encodes an image by tile in a smallest possible size while suppresses segmentation of a specific region in the image into tiles. Vertical lines at left and right ends of n-th face region are defined as boundary candidate vertical lines Lh(n) and Lm(n), and horizontal lines at upper and lower ends of the n-th region, as boundary candidate horizontal lines Lu(n) and Ls(n). A divider determines a horizontal line of another region existing within the range of the horizontal lines Lu(n) and Ls(n) of the n-th region as a line to be deleted. Further, the divider determines a vertical line of another region existing within the range of the vertical lines Lh(n) and Lm(n) as a line to be deleted. This processing is performed to the final region, then image data is divided using horizontal and vertical lines except the lines determined as lines to be deleted. | 06-24-2010 |
20130201160 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - In a case where a plurality of touch points touching on a touch panel is detected, a touch point changed from a previous state among the plurality of touch points is determined to be valid, whether a touch point not changed is valid is determined, and information regarding the touch point determined to be valid is recognized as an input. | 08-08-2013 |
20140002395 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD | 01-02-2014 |
20140184572 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - The present invention provides an information processing apparatus configured to recognize a touch operation. The information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain a plurality of touch positions touched on a display screen; a specifying unit configured to specify an object displayed at a position corresponding to each of the touch positions obtained by the obtaining unit on the display screen when at least one of the touch positions obtained by the obtaining unit is included in a predetermined range on the display screen; and a determination unit configured to determine, among the touch positions obtained by the obtaining unit, a touch position included in the predetermined range as an invalid input for a touch operation to the information processing apparatus when the object specified by the specifying unit is not a plurality of objects associated with each other. | 07-03-2014 |
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20090307288 | BACKUP DEVICE - The backup server in the backup site receives messages multicast from business servers in the primary site, extracts the business data, and stores it in backup databases for each business server. Upon this storing of business data, the sequence numbers in the messages are added to the business data to be stored in the backup databases. Detection of loss in sequence numbers allows the detection of which piece of the business data is lost. The backup server does not request a business server in the primary site to retransmit data even when business data is partially lost, but instead directly requests the database server in the primary site to transmit the lost business data. | 12-10-2009 |
20100014520 | COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR SYSTEM INCLUDING CLIENT DEVICE AND PLURAL SERVER DEVICES - An objective of the present invention is to secure the continuity of the communication between a client device and a standby server device, when a failure occurs and switch to the standby device is performed. A communication processing unit of the client device establishes connection with a plurality of server devices simultaneously by transmitting a UDP packet to the plurality of server devices by multicast. After establishing the connection, data of the application is transmitted by multicast to the plurality of the server devices. In the even of a failure, a standby server device receives the data packet multicast from the client device to continue the inter-application communication. | 01-21-2010 |
20100082822 | TECHNIQUE FOR REALIZING HIGH RELIABILITY IN INTER-APPLICATION COMMUNICATION - A storage medium storing a program, in inter-application communication that is performed between a first application operating on a first node and a second application operating on a second node, for making the first node perform processes by transmitting a same packet simultaneously to all the communication paths, the processes including: a trouble monitoring session establishing process in which, whether or not a trouble monitoring session has already been established between a first communication control unit and a second communication control unit is checked; an inter-application communication session establishing process in which, a request for establishing the inter-application communication session is performed to the second application and the inter-application communication session is established; and a trouble monitoring communication process in which trouble monitoring communication is performed using only necessary information for trouble monitoring in the trouble monitoring session and at a shorter interval than an interval between retransmission processes. | 04-01-2010 |
20110296233 | TASK RELAY SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A computer which takes over a task managed by a server apparatus from another computer which occupies the task, the computer including, a processor to detect an error of the other computer, to transmit, when an error of the another computer is detected, a task relaying request for taking over the task to the server apparatus, and to allow when a permission of the takeover of the task is received from the server apparatus processes of application programs in standby states in the computer to occupy the task. | 12-01-2011 |
20130205017 | COMPUTER FAILURE MONITORING METHOD AND DEVICE - Disclosed is a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program that causes a client device to execute a sequence of processing. The sequence of processing includes generating, by a processor, a processing request message by attaching status information including information indicating a status of a first server device stored in a storage part to a processing request addressed to the first server device, transmitting the generated processing request message to the first server device and a second server device monitoring the first server device, and receiving from the first server device a new status information of the first server device. | 08-08-2013 |
20130205162 | REDUNDANT COMPUTER CONTROL METHOD AND DEVICE - Disclosed is a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program, which causes a computer to execute a sequence of processing. The sequence of processing includes receiving status information by a second server device from a client device, the status information being collected by the client device, and including a status of a first server device and statuses of one or more standby servers configured to operate when the first server device fails, and causing the second server device to operate, when the status information indicates a predetermined first status, as at least one of the first server device and the one or more standby servers in a failure status. | 08-08-2013 |
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20090009579 | Thermal Printer - The thermal printer of the present invention is a thermal printer for printing on a print medium by thermally transferring an ink ribbon by means of a thermal head, wherein the thermal printer comprises a density controller for keeping the print density of the thermal head low in low-temperature control for raising the print density at low temperatures. The density controller comprises a density calculator for calculating a density evaluation value by finding an average gradation value of print data for each of a plurality of dots included in the predetermined region, a comparator for comparing the calculated density evaluation value with a predetermined value, and an adjuster for adjusting, on the basis of this comparison result, the print density in driving and printing with the thermal head to a low value for print data of high gradation exceeding a predetermined gradation value in print data on a printed line when the density evaluation value exceeds a predetermined value. The printing of each dot by the thermal head is controlled on the basis of the adjusted print density. Even if low temperature control is carried out by the thermal head when the ambient temperature is low, the occurrence of ink ribbon wrinkling due to the effect of print density is suppressed. | 01-08-2009 |
20090021766 | PRINT SYSTEM - A print system is provided that has a plurality of printer units for print processing on a print medium basis and that ejects printed materials, printed by the plurality of printer units, according to a pre-set order. Each printer unit includes peak current calculation means that analyzes a load of received print data, calculates a peak current value that will be required for printing the print data based on the load analysis, and sends the calculated peak current value, as well as a print request, to a controller. The controller compares a total current value of the peak current value, which is sent from the peak current calculation means, and a total current consumption value of printer units in print operation with a maximum current setting value stored in the print system and, based on the comparison result, controls whether or not the print request from the printer unit is permitted. | 01-22-2009 |
20090297246 | PRINTER - The present invention provides a printer that prints on a rolled recording paper, cuts the printed recording paper to a predetermined length, and ejects the cut recording paper. The printer includes storage means | 12-03-2009 |
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20130289170 | METHOD FOR FIBRILLATING CELLULOSE, CELLULOSE NANOFIBER, MASTERBATCH, AND RESIN COMPOSITION - The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a cellulose nanofiber, characterized by comprising the step of fibrillating cellulose in a polyester based resin, preferably in a polyester based resin having an ester group concentration of 6.0 mmol/g or more and a cellulose nanofiber produced by the manufacturing method concerned. In addition, the present invention provides a masterbatch composition containing the cellulose nanofibers and the polyester based resin. Furthermore, the present invention provides a resin composition containing the masterbatch composition and a diluent resin and a processed product thereof. | 10-31-2013 |
20150087750 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CELLULOSE NANOFIBER, CELLULOSE NANOFIBER, MASTER BATCH, AND RESIN COMPOSITION - The present invention provides a method for producing cellulose nanofibers, the method including fibrillating cellulose in a modified epoxy resin (A) having a hydroxyl value of 100 mgKOH/g or more. Also, the present invention provides cellulose nanofibers produced by the production method and a master batch containing the cellulose nanofibers and the modified epoxy resin (A). Further, present invention provides a resin composition containing the master batch and a curing agent (D), and provides a molded product produced by molding the resin composition. | 03-26-2015 |