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| 20090094230 | RELATED INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS AND PROVIDING METHOD - Related information of a content is provided quickly. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090182869 | VIEWING EFFECT MEASURING SYSTEM, AND MEASURING METHOD AND MEASURING TERMINAL THEREOF - A viewing effect measuring system is provided. A user terminal performs a content output process for receiving content from a content delivery apparatus and outputting the content, a Web site displaying process for accepting a request to access a Web site, while the content are outputted, accessing the Web site via the network, and displaying the Web site in such a manner as available for browsing, and a measurement information sending process for establishing an association between Web site specifying information which identifies the Web site as to which the access is requested, and content specifying information which identifies the content being outputted when the access is performed, and sending information of the association as viewing information to a measuring server. The measuring server receives the viewing information from the user terminal and sends the information to a Web server of the Web site as measurement information. | 07-16-2009 |
| 20100202465 | NETWORK MANAGEMENT STATION, NETWORK CONTROL SYSTEM, AND NETWORK MANAGEMENT METHOD - The present invention enables dynamic route switching according to link quality, while maintaining the quality of a plurality of routes. According to quality information received from a second network control entity, if the control unit of a network management station has determined that the quality of communication over a particular link has degraded, the control unit assigns a link whose current throughput satisfies a bandwidth required for a service defined in the service contract and whose response time satisfies minimum response time defined in the service contract to each service in descending order of priority. | 08-12-2010 |
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| 20100250884 | STORAGE SYSTEM, STORAGE DEVICE AND INFORMATION STORING METHOD - A storage system includes a primary-side storage device and a secondary-side storage device. The primary-side storage device includes a first storage unit that functions as: a primary-side reserving unit to reserve a primary-side storage area in the first storage unit; a request unit to request the secondary-side storage device to reserve a secondary-side storage area; a checking unit to receive identifying information of the reserved secondary-side storage area; a management storage unit to store the identifying information of the secondary-side storage area in the way of being associated with the primary-side storage area; and a transfer unit to transfer data stored in the primary-side storage area to the secondary-side storage area. The secondary-side storage device includes a second storage unit that functions as: a request accepting unit to accept a request for reserving the secondary-side storage area from the primary-side storage device; a secondary-side reserving unit to reserve the secondary-side storage area in the second storage unit in response to the request; and a report unit to report the identifying information of the reserved secondary-side storage area to the primary-side storage device. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20110202737 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND STORAGE SYSTEM - A storage apparatus includes: an associating unit that associates a first memory area in which data to be copied are stored and a second memory area of a destination storage apparatus to which the data are copied; a detecting unit that detects a start or an end of copying the data from the first memory area to the second memory area associated by the associating unit; and an access control unit that controls access to the first memory area and the second memory area based on a result of detection performed by the detecting unit. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20120089567 | Storage device, data replication method, and storage system - A storage device includes a accepting unit that accepts a replication request that concerns a replication storage area for target data and that is from a requesting server that is among a plurality of servers; a first determining unit that, if a replication request is accepted, determines whether an identifier of the requesting server is included in a first table that stores identifiers of the servers that satisfy a first condition; a second determining unit that, if a replication request is accepted, determines whether the identifier of the requesting server is included in a second table that stores identifiers of the servers that satisfy a second condition; and an executing unit that executes a replication process of replicating the target data to the replication storage area, if the first or the second determining unit determines that the identifier is included. | 04-12-2012 |
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| 20080225883 | Network Device and Network Device Control Method - An object of the present invention is to provide network devices and a network device control method which enable control network devices connected to an IP network, AV devices connected over 1394IF through gateway devices from the IP network, and home devices connected to ECHONET to be controlled without distinction among them. To achieve this object, a network device to serve as a controller comprises a controller application that detects a service of a target network device, using a message complying with an information exchange protocol common to the network, collects information such as an access method for the service, a function name, and parameters, and controls the network device upon request, and an information exchange protocol processing part that exchanges messages according to a protocol common to the network devices. The network device targeted for control comprises service that provides information for the controlling network device to perform control to the controller, and the information exchange protocol processing part. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20090019380 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT - A user interface application for an embedded device has a GUI-component general-purpose-structured-data generation section, a GUI-screen edition section, and a GUI-program generation section. The GUI-screen edition section provides to a user a means for creating a GUI screen by using a GUI component represented by the GUI-component general-purpose structured data generated by the GUI-component general-purpose-data generation section to generate, based on the GUI screen created by the user, GUI-screen general-purpose structured data in which any programming language can be used. The GUI-program generation section uses GUI-screen general-purpose structured data generated by the GUI-screen edition section and a program executable in a target device to generate a GUI application executable in the target device. The thus-configured present invention provides a technique for supporting development of a user interface application for an embedded device more easily than with conventional techniques. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20110013811 | BROADCASTING RECEIVER - In a broadcasting receiver, the receiver is so operated as not to disturb viewing by audiences other than an operator. The broadcasting receiver has an image pickup unit for photographing images of televiewers, a face detection unit for detecting faces of the televiewers from the photographed image, an individual discrimination unit for managing detected faces discriminately, a watching concentration degree calculation unit for calculating degrees of concentration of watching a television in respect of individual discriminated faces and an operation execution decision unit for deciding a television operator and deciding execution of operation in accordance with values of watching concentration degrees of the televiewers other than the operator. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20120139689 | OPERATION CONTROLLING APPARATUS - An operation controlling apparatus executing operation controlling for plural equipment connected therewith, including: an equipment management portion configured to manage a control command for each of plural numbers of control commands, for each of the plural numbers of equipments; a projector portion configured to project an image of each control item, for each of the plural numbers of equipments; a distance detector portion configured to detect distance from said projector portion to a projection surface, on which the projector portion project the image; and a controller portion configured to control the projector portion so as to change the control item to be projected by the projector portion, depending on the distance detected by the distance detector portion, and to bring the equipment of control target to execute the control command, which is managed by the equipment management portion, when execution of the control item projected is determined. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120180095 | TRANSMITTER AND TRANSMISSION METHOD - Ease of use for the user is provided when a client copies or moves a content in a server by considering copying or moving of management information associated with the content. The present invention is so configured to show that it has a chapter information sharing means as extension information of equipment information of the server, and to allow a client to obtain chapter information from the server when the content is copied or moved. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20130024045 | POWER CONTROL UNIT - A weather information database stores weather information acquired from a weather information provider. A power generation unit selection unit selects a power generation unit with a high generating efficiency from a plurality of power generation units having different power generation schemes, in accordance with the current weather condition. A power generation electric energy database stores the power generation electric energy of a power generation unit, while an electric energy consumption database stores the electric energy consumption of a plurality of electrical appliances. A power transmission destination selection unit selects an electrical appliance whose electric energy consumption is lower than the generated energy from the plurality of electrical appliances, when the past generated energy in the current time zone is lower than the past total electric power consumption, and transmits electric power thereto. | 01-24-2013 |
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| 20090114792 | Image Display Apparatus - A large-screen image display apparatus which comprises: a display module; an outer frame shaped so as to fit along the rim of the rear surface of the display module; a hollow, bar-shaped main frame for supporting the display module, which is arranged to extend vertically and fixed to the upper and lower portions of the outer frame and to the rear surface of the display module by a fixing part; and a stand for supporting the display module, which has a leg portion. The leg portion of the stand is inserted into the main frame. The leg portion and the main frame are fastened together by screwing a screw through a screw hole formed through the main frame and a first screw hole formed through the leg portion. In addition, the leg portion and a fixing part of the outer frame are fastened together by screwing a screw through a second screw hole formed through the leg portion and a screw hole formed in the fixing part of the outer frame. The first screw hole and the second screw hole are formed on different faces of the leg portion and at different heights. This can provide a large-screen image display apparatus with a less-wobble, high-safety, high-reliability, and low-cost stand-attaching structure. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090115919 | Flat Panel Display - Space is decreased in the direction of thickness on a side of a substrates mounted on a back of a flat panel display to adapt requirement for increasing and thinning its size, and most flat panel displays forcibly radiate heat with a fan provided thereon. The present invention provides a flat panel display having fewer heat radiating fans to secure a channel for causing a heat radiating air to flow. Portions where electronic circuit device on a back of a display panel are mounted are divided into three: left; center; and right portions; with a main frame as a border, the electronic circuit device are constructed of four module substrates, the substrate which is the greatest in heating value in the four module substrates (hereinafter referred to as a substrate) is arranged in the center portion and the substrates which are the smallest and the second smallest in heating value therein are arranged in the same portion. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20110210024 | PACKAGE STRUCTURE WITH A FLAT DISPLAY UNIT PACKED THEREIN AND PACKAGE STRUCTURE FOR PACKING A FLAT DISPLAY UNIT - There is provided a package structure for packing a flat display unit which improves workability in taking a flat display unit out of a packing box. A lower cushioning material which supports a display portion of the flat display unit from below has a manual insertion portion so that the display portion can be held at a portion close to a lifting person's body when the display portion is taken out of a lower part of the packing box. A reinforcing rib is provided on a front side of the lower cushioning material to prevent damage to the lower cushioning material due to a reduction in strength. To prevent the lower cushioning material from being taken out together with the display portion when the display portion is taken out, a recess is provided in the lower cushioning material so that the recess is caught on a bending portion in the lower part when the display portion is taken out. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20120194499 | FLAT PANEL DISPLAY - A flat panel display apparatus includes a plasma display panel, a power supply substrate, a signal processing substrate, a Y sustaining substrate, and an X sustaining substrate. The power supply substrate, the signal processing substrate, the Y sustaining substrate and the X sustaining substrate are arranged at a back of the plasma display panel. When viewing the plasma display panel from the back, the power supply substrate is arranged at a center portion of the plasma display panel, the Y sustaining substrate is arranged at one of a left and right side of the plasma display panel, the X sustaining substrate is arranged at the other of the left and right side, and the signal processing substrate is arranged under the X sustaining substrate. A circuit substrate other than the power supply substrate, the Y sustaining substrate, and the X sustaining substrate is arranged under the power supply substrate. | 08-02-2012 |
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| 20090003059 | SEGMENTED BIT LINE FOR FLASH MEMORY - A memory device including segmented bit lines with memory cells coupled to a data cache is provided. A segmented bit line includes a bias transistor to selectively connect the bit line to a source line. Further, a physical implementation showing a segmentation pattern of the memory device is also provided. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090168513 | MULTIPLE LEVEL CELL MEMORY DEVICE WITH IMPROVED RELIABILITY - The reliability of multiple level cells in a memory device should be increased by programming the ends of the series strings of memory cells differently than the remaining quantity of memory cells of the series string. The end cells closest to select gate source and select gate drain transistors can be programmed as single level cells while the remaining cells of the string are programmed as multiple level cells. Another embodiment can program only one or more cells at the source end of the series string as single level cells. Still another embodiment can skip programming of the cells at either only the source end or both the source end and the drain end of the series string. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20100195399 | MEMORY SEGMENT ACCESSING IN A MEMORY DEVICE - Methods for programming memory devices, a memory device, and memory systems are provided. According to at least one such method, bit lines a memory segment are read at substantially the same time by coupling a selected memory segment, and at some of the data lines of any intervening segments, to respective data caches. The bit lines of the unselected memory segments that are not used to couple the selected segment to the data caches can be coupled to their respective source lines. Other methods, devices, and systems are also provided. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100309730 | MEMORY ERASE METHODS AND DEVICES - Memory devices and erase methods for memories are disclosed, such as those adapted to discharge an erase voltage from a memory block while protecting low voltage string select gate transistors by maintaining the string select gate transistors in a turned on state during discharge. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20110149654 | NAND Programming Technique - A NAND memory array is programmed applying a programming voltage Vpgm as a double pulse programming pulse if a data pattern associated with memory cells that are to be programmed form a two-sided column-stripe (CS | 06-23-2011 |
| 20120092933 | MEMORY ERASE METHODS AND DEVICES - Memory devices and erase methods for memories are disclosed, such as those adapted to discharge an erase voltage from a memory block while protecting low voltage string select gate transistors by maintaining the string select gate transistors in a turned on state during discharge. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120163076 | SINGLE CHECK MEMORY DEVICES AND METHODS - Memory devices and methods of operating memory devices are shown. Configurations described include circuits to perform a single check between programming pulses to determine a threshold voltage with respect to desired benchmark voltages. In one example, the benchmark voltages are used to change a programming speed of selected memory cells. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120218824 | INDEPENDENT WELL BIAS MANAGEMENT IN A MEMORY DEVICE - Methods for programming a memory device, memory devices configured to perform the disclosed programming methods, and memory systems having a memory device configured to perform the disclosed programming methods, for example, are provided. According to at least one such method, multiple independent semiconductor well regions each having strings of memory cells are independently biased during a programming operation performed on a memory device. Reduced charge leakage may be realized during a programming operation in response to independent well biasing methods. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120294088 | MEMORY SEGMENT ACCESSING IN A MEMORY DEVICE - Bit lines of a memory segment are read at substantially the same time by coupling a selected memory segment and, at some of the data lines of any intervening segments, to respective data caches. The bit lines of the unselected memory segments that are not used to couple the selected segment to the data caches can be coupled to their respective source lines. | 11-22-2012 |
