Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130038802 | MOVING IMAGE OUTPUT APPARATUS AND METHOD - A moving image output device includes a moving image acquisition unit to acquire moving image data which represents a moving image as a collection of a plurality of images, a image generation unit to generate each piece of image data which represents each image of the moving image by processing the moving image data acquired by the moving image acquisition unit, an image output unit to sequentially output each piece of image data generated by the image generation unit according to a set time interval, and an interval setting unit to set to the image output unit a first time interval, and temporarily setting to the image output unit a second time interval which is longer than the first time interval as for image data for which the image generation by the image generation unit fails to occur in time with the sequential image output with the first time interval. | 02-14-2013 |
20130207726 | AMPLIFICATION DEVICE AND AMPLIFICATION METHOD - In an amplification device, an amplification unit has a transistor and amplifies a signal that is input. A control unit applies, when a power source is turned on, a pinch-off voltage to a gate of the transistor before applying a drain bias voltage to a drain of the transistor and then applies a gate bias voltage to the gate of the transistor. | 08-15-2013 |
20130207779 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION - A biometric authentication device includes: a storage unit to store a first enrolled template and first information including a parameter representing an input environment of the first enrolled template; a receiving unit to receive biometric information from the terminal device, a second enrolled template stored in the terminal device, and second information including a parameter representing an input environment of the second enrolled template; an authentication unit to perform authentication by matching the received biometric information and the first enrolled template; a selecting unit to select the first enrolled template or the second enrolled template, based on the first and second information, when the biometric information is accepted; and an updating unit to update the first enrolled template stored in the storage unit to the second enrolled template when the second enrolled template is selected. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208598 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CONTROL DEVICE, AND NODE DEVICE - A wireless communication system is provided. A control device includes: a receiver configured to be able to receive information from radio frequency channels; a processor that judges whether a first channel is congested, and generates switchover instruction information when the first channel is judged to be congested; and a transmitter that transmits the switchover instruction information. Each node device includes: a receiver that receives information through the first channel; a transmitter that transmits information through a transmission channel; and a processor that recognizes whether a hop count from the control device is one, selects a second channel and specifies it as the transmission channel in a first case in which the receiver receives the switchover instruction information from the control device and the hop count is recognized as one, and specifies the first channel as the transmission channel in a second case in which the first case does not hold. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208622 | GATEWAY NODE DEVICE, SENSOR NODE DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ACTIVE TIME PERIOD - A processor of a gateway node device determines whether to divide a first tree included in a tree structure formed by sensor node devices intermittently operating and the gateway node device as a root of the tree structure. The first tree includes a first node device as a root. The processor divides, upon determining to divide the first tree, the first tree into a second tree and a third tree at a second node device different from the first node device. The second node device is a root of the second tree. The second node device is a child node of the third tree. The processor assigns active time periods within an intermittent operation cycle to the respective second and third trees. The assigned active time periods are mutually disjoint. The processor notifies sensor node devices included in the first tree of the assigned active time periods. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208651 | RELAY SYSTEM, RELAY DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM OF RELAY DEVICE - A relay device arranged between a plurality of terminal devices and a file device for relaying data communication, includes: a storage unit configured to store a change history of each piece of data acquired from the file device by a request from the terminal device; a communication unit; and a computation processing unit configured to, in a case where a change history of first data acquired from the file device by a request from a first terminal device is different from a change history of second data having the same file name as the first data acquired from the file device after acquisition of the first data by the first terminal device by a request from a second terminal device, control and cause the communication unit to notify the first terminal device that the first data is changed to the second data. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208685 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK RESPONSE SIGNALS, BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for transmitting uplink response signals, base station, mobile station and communication system, includes judging whether to use a downlink secondary component carrier to transmit data to a mobile station; if the judging result is positive, allocating resources according to the number of transmission blocks for transmitting the downlink data in the secondary component carrier, accordingly the mobile station is able to use the resources corresponding to a preconfigured primary component carrier and the resources allocated to the secondary component carrier to select uplink resources for transmitting response signals. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208686 | MICRO BASE STATION, MICRO BASE STATION INTERFERENCE COORDINATION METHOD, AND USER TERMINAL - Micro base station interference coordination includes: shifting, relative to subframes in a macro base station subframe configuration, subframes in the subframe configuration used in the micro base station by several subframes, wherein the number of the shifted subframes causes subframes in the micro base station subframe configuration, which are corresponding to a specific channel in the macro base station subframe configuration, not to transmit any signal un-allocatable by the micro base station after the shifting; emptying uplink subframes in the micro base station subframe configuration after the shifting, which are corresponding to downlink subframes containing a designated channel in the macro base station subframe configuration; and emptying the subframes in the micro base station subframe configuration after the shifting, which are corresponding to the specific channel in the macro base station subframe configuration, or causing portions of the subframes corresponding to the specific channel not to transmit any signal. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208793 | MOTION VIDEO ENCODING APPARATUS, MOTION VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, AND MOTION VIDEO ENCODING COMPUTER PROGRAM - A motion video encoding apparatus includes: a group determining unit which determines to which of a plurality of groups each block belongs; a group decode time information computing unit which computes a decode time for each of the groups; a group information appending unit which appends group information identifying the group to which each block belongs to data to be output; a code amount control unit which controls an amount of code for each block contained in the group so that data needed for decoding all the blocks contained in the group will arrive at a stream receive buffer provided in a motion video decoding apparatus by the decode time of the group when the data is transmitted to the motion video decoding apparatus at a prescribed transmission rate; and an encode processing unit which encodes each block, based on control information concerning the amount of code. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208801 | MOTION VECTOR ENCODING DEVICE AND DECODING DEVICE - A prediction error generating unit generates a predictive vector from the motion vectors of a plurality of adjacent blocks, and obtains a difference from a target vector. A plurality of variable-length coding units respectively encode the output of the prediction error generating unit with different encoding methods. A determining unit estimates the accuracy of the predictive vector generated by the prediction error generating unit based on the degrees of non-uniformity of the motion vectors of the plurality of adjacent blocks. A selecting unit selects one of the encoding results obtained by the plurality of variable-length coding units. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208802 | MOTION VECTOR ENCODING DEVICE AND DECODING DEVICE - A prediction error generating unit generates a predictive vector from the motion vectors of a plurality of adjacent blocks, and obtains a difference from a target vector. A plurality of variable-length coding units respectively encode the output of the prediction error generating unit with different encoding methods. A determining unit estimates the accuracy of the predictive vector generated by the prediction error generating unit based on the degrees of non-uniformity of the motion vectors of the plurality of adjacent blocks. A selecting unit selects one of the encoding results obtained by the plurality of variable-length coding units. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208803 | MOTION VECTOR ENCODING DEVICE AND DECODING DEVICE - A prediction error generating unit generates a predictive vector from the motion vectors of a plurality of adjacent blocks, and obtains a difference from a target vector. A plurality of variable-length coding units respectively encode the output of the prediction error generating unit with different encoding methods. A determining unit estimates the accuracy of the predictive vector generated by the prediction error generating unit based on the degrees of non-uniformity of the motion vectors of the plurality of adjacent blocks. A selecting unit selects one of the encoding results obtained by the plurality of variable-length coding units. | 08-15-2013 |
20130209087 | ASYMMETRIC OTN NETWORK TRAFFIC SUPPORT - A method of network communications includes determining an access identifier (AID) for an egress signal through a network interface of a network element, an Optical Transport Network (OTN) multiplexing structure identifier (MSI) associated with the egress signal through the network interface, another AID associated with a defined ingress signal through the network interface, another OTN MSI associated with the defined ingress signal through the network interface, and associating the egress signal and the defined ingress signal based on the AIDs and OTN MSIs. The first OTN MSI is not equal to the second OTN MSI. | 08-15-2013 |
20130209093 | OPTICAL PATH ESTABLISHING METHOD AND OPTICAL NODE APPARATUS - An optical node apparatus that establishes an optical path between a first optical node and a second optical node in an optical network include a frequency modulation unit that superimposes a supervisory signal on a main signal by frequency-modulating the main signal, and a frequency demodulation unit that frequency-demodulates the supervisory signal superimposed on the received main signal. | 08-15-2013 |
20130210203 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A compound semiconductor device has a buffer layer formed on a conductive SiC substrate, an AlxGa1-xN layer formed on the buffer layer in which an impurity for reducing carrier concentration from an unintentionally doped donor impurity is added and in which the Al composition x is 008-15-2013 | |
20130211809 | EVALUATION SUPPORT METHOD AND EVALUATION SUPPORT APPARATUS - A computer-readable recording medium stores a program that causes a computer to execute an evaluation support process that includes calculating a response time for a read request based on multiplicity and a maximal number of requests wherein the multiplicity is the number of overlaps of read or write processes for a storage apparatus per unit time, and the maximal number of requests is the number of read requests that the storage apparatus processes per unit time; and creating, based on the response time, the maximal number of requests, and a minimal response time for the read request, a response model that represents a response time that has the number of read requests as exponent and exponentially increases as the number of read requests increases. | 08-15-2013 |
20130212209 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SWITCH, STORAGE SYSTEM, AND STORAGE SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD - In an information processing apparatus, a data controller performs transmission and reception of data with a storage apparatus having a storage region allocated to the information processing apparatus by a physical port or a virtual port set at the physical port. The physical port transmits and receives data by communicating with the storage apparatus. A management controller calculates a use rate based on a storage capacity of the allocated storage region of the storage apparatus and an amount of use of the storage region and determines whether to perform allocation based on the calculated use rate. When determining to perform the allocation, the management controller allocates an unallocated storage region allocated to none of information processing apparatuses to the information processing apparatus, and also sets a virtual port and connects the information processing apparatus to the allocated storage region by the virtual port. | 08-15-2013 |
20130212333 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING MEMORY, AND MEMORY CONTROLLING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus provided with a plurality of nodes each including at least one processor, a system controller, and a main memory, includes a status storage unit that stores statuses of a plurality of cache lines and that is capable of reading statuses of a plurality of cache lines by one reading operation, a recording unit that is provided in a system controller in at least one node and that records all or part of the statuses stored in the status storage unit, wherein the system controller records obtained statuses in the recording unit on a condition that all of the statuses of the plurality of cache lines obtained by reading the status storage unit are invalid statuses or shared statuses in different nodes when the system controller has read the status storage unit in response to a request. | 08-15-2013 |
20130212337 | EVALUATION SUPPORT METHOD AND EVALUATION SUPPORT APPARATUS - An evaluation support method includes acquiring a first number of occurrences of accessing target data stored in a first storage apparatus per unit time, a second number of occurrences of accessing a second storage apparatus per unit time, and a predictive response time for accessing the second storage apparatus after the target data is transferred to the second storage apparatus; calculating, based on the first number of occurrences, the second number of occurrences, and the predictive response time, multiplicity that expresses the extent to which process time periods for accesses overlap when each access to the second storage apparatus after the target data is transferred is processed in parallel; and outputting the multiplicity. | 08-15-2013 |
20130212349 | LOAD THRESHOLD CALCULATING APPARATUS AND LOAD THRESHOLD CALCULATING METHOD - A load threshold calculating apparatus includes a computer that acquires for a second storage device having a lower response performance to access requests than a first storage device, a required maximum response time for response to a read request; substitutes the maximum response time into a model expressing for the second storage device, a response time to the read request, the response time increasing exponentially with an increase in read requests and according to an exponent denoting the number of read requests to the second storage device per unit time, to calculate a value indicative of the number of read requests in a case of the maximum response time; calculates based on the calculated value and the number of the memory areas in the second storage device, an upper limit value of the number of read requests to a memory area per unit time; and outputs the upper limit value. | 08-15-2013 |
20130213705 | METHOD OF FABRICATING PRINTED-WIRING BOARD, AND PRINTED-WIRING BOARD - A method of fabricating a printed-wiring board, includes: forming a through-hole across a thickness of a printed-wiring board, the forming of the through-hole including forming a first opening part having a first diameter, forming a second opening part having a second diameter, and forming a third opening part provided between the first opening part and the second opening part, wherein the second diameter is larger than the first diameter, and the third opening part is formed in a tapered shape whose diameter decreases toward the first opening part from the second opening part. | 08-22-2013 |
20130214287 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A semiconductor device is provided with: a GaN layer; an anode electrode that forms a Schottky junction with a Ga face of the GaN layer; and an InGaN layer positioned between at least a part of the anode electrode and the GaN layer. | 08-22-2013 |
20130214397 | MULTILAYER WIRING BOARD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A ground layer of a multilayer wiring board includes: a first clearance through which a first differential via is inserted without coming into contact with the ground layer; and a second clearance through which a second differential via is inserted without coming into contact with the ground layer. A distance between an outer edge of the first clearance on the side of the second differential via and the first differential via is set shorter than a distance between an outer edge of the first clearance on the side opposite from the second differential via and the first differential via. A distance between an outer edge of the second clearance on the side of the first differential via and the second differential via is set shorter than a distance between an outer edge of the second clearance on the side opposite from the first differential via and the second differential via. | 08-22-2013 |
20130214807 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND TESTING METHOD - An integrated circuit includes a register cell, a control unit and an oscillation detecting unit. The register cell stores a value of a signal input through an input pin. The control unit makes control such that the value of the signal input from the input pin is stored in the register cell, and the value stored in the register cell is output to an outside. The oscillation detecting unit receives a signal output from an oscillator through the input pin, and stores a predetermined value in the register cell when it is detected that the signal oscillates. | 08-22-2013 |
20130214871 | WAVEGUIDE CONVERTER - A waveguide converter includes a waveguide including a hollow section through which a signal is transmitted and a first opening formed on a cross section of the hollow section in a direction orthogonal to a transmission direction of the signal, and a circuit board including on a same surface a signal line, a conductor patch connected to the signal line, and a second opening surrounding the conductor patch. The waveguide is fixed onto the circuit board. The first opening surrounds the second opening. The conductor patch includes a rectangular section which has short sides in parallel with short sides of the first opening, and has a first long side and a second long side connected to the signal line in parallel with long sides of the first opening, and protruding portions which are provided so as to touch the short sides near both ends of the second long side, respectively. | 08-22-2013 |
20130214962 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRAFFIC LANE DETECTION - Two radar devices are installed for adjacent lanes. A memory sequentially stores a received power value at a time when the two radar devices receive the reflected wave from a vehicle at specified time intervals. A calculator calculates, when a vehicle moves in a direction approaching the two radar devices, as a representative value of the received power at a specified time, a weighted average value when weights, which become heavier as an acquisition time of the received power value becomes farther from the specified time, are assigned to a specified number of received power values, whose acquisition time is prior to a specified time, where a priority is given to the received power values whose acquisition time is close to the specified time. A discriminator determines a lane in which the vehicle is traveling according to a result of comparing the sizes of the calculated representative value. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215529 | DRIVE CONTROL APPARATUS, DRIVE CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE APPARATUS - A drive control apparatus includes a management unit, a detection unit, and an information unit. The management unit identifies a data write position on a tape onto which data is written sequentially, and manages correspondences between first addresses including an address larger than an address which is managed by an upper apparatus connected to the drive control apparatus and second addresses for making the upper apparatus identify the data write position on the tape. The detection unit detects that a drive which writes the data onto the tape fails in writing the data. The information unit informs the upper apparatus of a second address of a position on the tape at which write fails on the basis of detection by the detection unit. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215561 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - There is provided an electronic device which includes a housing, an opening formed in the housing, a light receiving unit which is disposed inside the housing and is configured to receive an optical signal which enters through the opening, and an optical path changing unit which changes, to guide to the light receiving unit, a travelling direction of at least one of a first optical signal arriving from a first direction in respect to the housing and a second optical signal arriving from a second direction in respect to the housing, the first and second directions being opposite each other. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215587 | MULTILAYER WIRING BOARD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Provided is a multilayer wiring board including a plurality of signal layers and ground layers. The multilayer wiring board includes: a first differential wiring wired to a third signal layer; and a second differential wiring wired to a ninth signal layer disposed above the third signal layer. The multilayer wiring board includes a first differential signal via and a second differential signal via that are connected to the first differential wiring. The multilayer wiring board includes a third differential signal via which is connected to the second differential wiring and a stub of which is terminated above the third signal layer. The multilayer wiring board includes a fourth differential signal via which is connected to the second differential wiring and a stub of which is terminated above the third signal layer, the first differential wiring wired to pass between the fourth differential signal via and the third differential signal via. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215588 | MULTILAYERED WIRING SUBSTRATE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A multilayered wiring substrate that includes at least one signal layer and at least one ground layer is provided. The multilayered wiring substrate includes a first signal via that extends in a direction substantially perpendicular to the layers of the multilayered wiring substrate, is conductively connected to one of a pair of differential signaling wires provided in the signal layer, and is formed on a first grid point; and a second signal via that extends in a direction substantially perpendicular to the layers of the multilayered wiring substrate, is conductively connected to the other of the pair of differential signaling wires, and is formed on a second grid point that is positioned diagonally adjacent with respect to the first signal via. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215735 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND STATE INFORMATION RECEIVING APPARATUS - A communication system includes a wireless communication apparatus which comprises a wireless communication unit performing wireless communication with a designated wireless apparatus as a communication correspondent; a state storing unit storing state information which indicates a communication state at each point of time in the wireless communication; a failure determination unit using a predetermined determination criterion to determine at each stage of the wireless communication whether or not a communication failure occurs in the wireless communication; a state acquisition unit acquiring from the state storing unit, when it is determined that a communication failure occurs, state information which indicates a communication state at each point of time during a predetermined time period; and a state sending unit sending via wireless communication the state information to a communication correspondent other than the designated wireless apparatus; and a state information receiving apparatus receiving the state information. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215759 | METHOD, UE AND BASE STATION FOR SENDING OR RECEIVING FEEDBACK INFORMATION OF DOWNLINK DATA - A method for sending feedback information of downlink data, which is applied to a user equipment in a multi-carrier wireless communication system, including: receiving downlink data sent on a plurality of downlink component carriers by a base station; detecting whether the downlink data are correctly received on the plurality of downlink component carriers respectively, and generating a plurality of acknowledge signals corresponding to the plurality of component carriers according to detection results; and selecting corresponding Physical Uplink Control CHannel (PUCCH) resources to send the feedback information of the downlink data to the base station according to correspondence relationship between the total number of the plurality of acknowledge signals and the maximum Component Carrier index number that is configured, wherein the feedback information comprises the total number of the plurality of acknowledge signals. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215853 | METHOD, USER EQUIPMENT, BASE STATION AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING COMPONENT CARRIER SCHEDULED IN CROSS-CARRIER SCHEDULING - A method, user equipment, base station and system for determining a component carrier scheduled in cross-carrier scheduling. The method for determining the scheduled component carrier includes: a user equipment (UE) detects scheduling information sent by a base station in a first dedicated searching space corresponding to a scheduling component carrier, the first dedicated searching space includes at least one candidate physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) ( | 08-22-2013 |
20130215890 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND BAND CONTROL METHOD - A communication apparatus includes: an attaching unit configured to attach, to an input frame to be processed in the communication apparatus, a frame identifier of the input frame and a band control correction value corresponding to the frame identifier and the output port; a correction unit configured to correct an amount of data of the frame to be output to a network via the output port, based on the band control correction value; a band control unit configured to control a band of each of the output ports, based on the amount of data of the frame corrected by the correction unit; and an editing unit configured to edit, according to the frame identifier, a frame that the attached frame identifier and correction value thereof has been removed from and that has been band controlled, the edited frame being output to the network via the output port. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215930 | TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT METHOD - To measure the temperature in a temperature-measurement target disposed in a first area, an optical fiber is drawn to the first area from a second area having an adjusted temperature, and the optical fiber is installed in the temperature-measurement target. Furthermore, a reference temperature-measurement unit is provided in the second area. A temperature measurement apparatus detects backscattered light generated in the optical fiber, and detects temperatures at multiple measurement points along an installation path of the optical fiber. When making a correction on a signal outputted from the temperature measurement apparatus, a signal processor replaces temperatures at measurement points located in the second area among the measurement points with a temperature at the reference temperature-measurement unit. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215961 | MOTION VIDEO ENCODING APPARATUS, MOTION VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, MOTION VIDEO ENCODING COMPUTER PROGRAM, MOTION VIDEO DECODING APPARATUS, MOTION VIDEO DECODING METHOD, AND MOTION VIDEO DECODING COMPUTER PROGRAM - A motion video encoding apparatus includes: a prediction error image generating unit which computes a difference between a block being encoded and a predicted image for the block being encoded and thereby generates a prediction error image; a prediction error orthogonal-transforming unit which computes a plurality of first frequency coefficients by orthogonal-transforming the prediction error image; a predicted image orthogonal-transforming unit which computes a plurality of second frequency coefficients by orthogonal-transforming the predicted image; a sign judging unit which judges the positive/negative sign of each one of the plurality of second frequency coefficients; and an adaptive encoding unit which encodes each given one of the plurality of first frequency coefficients by using sign match/mismatch information that indicates a match or mismatch between the sign of the given first frequency coefficient and the sign of a corresponding one of the plurality of second frequency coefficients. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215966 | IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING DEVICE - A method including acquiring decode information of a decoded block in a decode target image from a storage unit; selecting an decoded image such that the decode target image is situated between the decoded image and a reference image of the decoded image; acquiring, from the storage unit, decode information of a predetermined block in the selected decoded image; predicting a reference mode indicating a prediction direction of a decode target block that refers to decoded images in plural directions, by using the acquired decode information of the decoded block and decode information of the predetermined block; decoding reference mode information for determining the reference mode of the decode target block from encode data; and determining the reference mode of the decode target block from the predicted reference mode and the decoded reference mode information. | 08-22-2013 |
20130216219 | OPTICAL RECEIVING DEVICE - An optical receiving device includes: an optical amplifier configured to amplify a wavelength multiplexed optical signal; a demultiplexer configured to demultiplex the amplified wavelength multiplexed signal into optical signals of a plurality of wavelengths; optical receivers configured to regenerate the demultiplexed optical signals; error correction units configured to correct a bit error in the regenerated optical signals; and main control unit. The control unit adjusts RXDTV of the optical receiver for receiving optical signals of a given wavelength to the optimal value in the state where the gain of the optical amplifier is lowered from that of a normal operation such that the occurrence of bit errors in the optical signals of the other wavelengths does not exceed the correction capability of the error correction unit. | 08-22-2013 |
20130216227 | RING NETWORK SETUP METHOD - A network setup method used in a ring network including a plurality of transmission equipments. The method includes: transmitting a frame in the ring network; causing each of the transmission equipments to write an identifier to the frame according to a specified rule; determining whether or not a plurality of identifiers written to the frame by the plurality of transmission equipments satisfy a specified condition; and causing each of the transmission equipments to obtain a corresponding identifier according to the specified rule from among the plurality of identifiers, when the plurality of identifiers satisfy the specified condition. | 08-22-2013 |
20130216230 | NETWORK DESIGN APPARATUS - Based on the demand information etc., an accommodation designing problem and an assignment problem are solved in a conventional method to design a network. It is confirmed whether or not a restriction on the number of wavelengths for each link is observed. When there are links exceeding the restriction of the number of wavelengths, the number of available wavelengths is subtracted from the first link having the largest number of excess wavelengths and the second link farthest from the first link in the links, and the result is set as a wavelength number limited value, thereby performing a network designing process again. | 08-22-2013 |
20130216238 | NONLINEAR COMPENSATING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND TRANSMITTER - The present invention provides a nonlinear compensating apparatus and method and a transmitter. The nonlinear compensating apparatus includes: an information sequence acquiring unit, configured to acquire a symbol information sequence of the pulse signal; a perturbation quantity acquiring unit, configured to calculate, by pre-obtained weighting coefficients to which each item corresponds, the weighted sum of interaction items of pulses on one or more moments relative to the current moment; a perturbation quantity processing unit, configured to combine the items of the perturbation quantity based on the weighting coefficients; and an information compensating unit, configured to calculate a difference between the symbol information sequence and the processed perturbation quantity to obtain a compensated symbol information sequence. With the embodiments of the present invention, the complexity of calculation may be further lowered, and requirements on hardware may also be lowered. | 08-22-2013 |
20130217184 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, includes: placing a semiconductor element on an adhesive layer that is placed on a support body having a first through hole; placing a part in an area that includes a portion corresponding to the first through-hole, the portion being on the adhesive layer placed on the support body; forming a substrate on the adhesive layer by forming a resin layer on the adhesive layer, on which the semiconductor element and the part have been placed, the substrate including the semiconductor element, the part, and the resin layer; and detaching the substrate from the adhesive layer by pressing the part through the first through-hole. | 08-22-2013 |
20130217186 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ELECTRONIC ASSEMBLY - A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, includes: providing an adhesive layer on a support body; providing a semiconductor element on the adhesive layer; providing a resin layer on the adhesive layer, the semiconductor element being provided on the adhesive layer, and forming a substrate on the adhesive layer, the substrate including the semiconductor element and the resin layer; and removing the substrate from the adhesive layer, wherein an adhesive force of the adhesive layer in a direction in which the substrate is removed is less than an adhesive force of the adhesive layer in a planar direction in which the substrate is formed. | 08-22-2013 |
20130217189 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, includes: providing a first adhesive layer on a support member; providing a film on the first adhesive layer; arranging a semiconductor element on the film; providing a resin layer on the film on which the semiconductor element is arranged, and forming a substrate including the semiconductor element and the resin layer on the film; and separating the film and the substrate from the first adhesive layer. | 08-22-2013 |
20130217400 | METHOD AND BASE STATION, USER EQUIPMENT AND SYSTEM FOR ACTIVATING COEXISTENCE WORK MODE - A method for activating coexistence work mode and a base station, user equipment and system using the method. The method for activating coexistence work mode includes: a user equipment in a first communication system transmits an activation mode request, which requests for entering the coexistence work mode, to the base station in the first communication system; in the coexistence work mode, using different transmission resource, the user equipment performs a first communication with the base station and performs a second communication with a device of a second communication system which is different from the first communication system, respectively; the user equipment activates the coexistence work mode based on configuration information of the coexistence work mode, wherein, the configuration information of the coexistence work mode is preset for the user equipment by the base station, and is conserved in the user equipment. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218035 | WAKEFULNESS LEVEL DETERMINATION DEVICE, WAKEFULNESS LEVEL DETERMINATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A wakefulness level determination device includes a processor; and a memory. The processor executes: calculating a first feature value from a heartbeat signal of a subject; estimating, from the first feature value calculated at the calculating, a feature value of the subject when not fully awake on the basis of a correlation between a feature value of a heartbeat signal of a person fully waking and a feature value of a heartbeat signal of a person not fully waking; setting, as an index of a wakefulness level, a range from the first feature value calculated at the calculating to the feature value estimated at the estimating; calculating a second feature value from a heartbeat signal of the subject; and determining a wakefulness level of the subject by comparing the second feature value with the index of the wakefulness level that is set at the setting. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218916 | FILE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, FILE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND FILE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to divide a first file of a first plurality of files stored in a storage device into a second plurality of files, each of the second plurality of files including a different range of values, when each range of values corresponding to each of the first plurality of files includes a specific range and a total size of the first plurality of files exceeds a threshold. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218950 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, SERVER DEVICE, AND CLIENT DEVICE - A method for controlling an information processing system that includes a client device including a plurality of sensors that acquire positional information of the client device and a server device that transmits data to the client device includes causing the server device to specify a positioning requirement corresponding to positional information of the client device based on association information associating a distance between the client device and a location in which the server device transmits the data to the client device located with each of the sensors, and causing the client device to select a sensor based on the positioning requirement specified by the server device among the sensors. | 08-22-2013 |
20130219144 | STORAGE APPARATUS, STORAGE SYSTEM, METHOD OF MANAGING STORAGE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORAGE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM STORED THEREON - A storage apparatus is provided, including a first storage unit; a load information obtaining unit that obtains load information for each of a plurality of portions defined by dividing the first storage unit; a portion identifying unit that identifies a candidate portion that is to be relocated in the first storage unit based on the load information; a determining unit that determines whether or not data in the candidate portion is allowed to be migrated to a second storage unit, the second storage unit having a performance value higher than a performance value of the first storage unit; an adder that adds the second storage unit, when the determining unit determines that the data in the candidate portion is not allowed to be migrated; and a relocation unit that migrates the data in the candidate portion from the first storage unit to the added second storage unit. | 08-22-2013 |
20130219229 | FAULT MONITORING DEVICE, FAULT MONITORING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A fault monitoring device includes: a receiving unit that receives designation information which designates a plurality of monitored objects, an acquisition beginning condition of log data from the monitored objects, and a time interval for acquiring the log data; an acquiring unit that, when the acquisition beginning condition of log data is met, acquires the log data from the monitored objects according to the time interval; and an output unit that outputs the acquired log data in the form of a list according to time order. | 08-22-2013 |
20130219248 | STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD - A storage control apparatus receives a write request for a storage apparatus. When the storage control apparatus receives the write request, the storage control apparatus duplicates into a specific storage area, data stored in a storage area of the storage apparatus and parity data whose generation source is the data. The storage control apparatus determines whether one of the storage apparatuses is started up for which a writing process is executed in response to the write request. When the storage apparatus is re-started, the storage control apparatus writes the data duplicated in the specific storage area into the storage area of the duplication source of the storage apparatus and writes the parity data duplicated in the specific storage area into the storage area of the duplication source of the storage apparatus. | 08-22-2013 |
20130219251 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND ERROR CORRECTION METHOD - In an electronic apparatus, a soft decision likelihood value is generated and subject to a decoding process supporting a convolutional code; and a data series is interleaved, subjected to an error correction process, and decoded data is generated. A detecting unit, based on information concerning the position of a symbol for which an error has been corrected successfully by the error correction process, estimates whether an error occurs in a symbol for which the error correction process failed and detects the position of a symbol estimated to have an error. A setting unit sets based on the decoded data and information concerning the position of the symbol estimated to have an error, a correction value of the soft decision likelihood value. The electronic device interleaves the order of a correction value series of the soft decision likelihood value and feeds the resulting correction value series back to the decoding process. | 08-22-2013 |
20130219513 | BLADE, COMPUTER PRODUCT, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - A determining unit determines whether housing specific information decrypted from a license key is identical to housing specific information acquired from the housing to confirm legitimacy of license, thereby ensuring security. The determining unit determines that the license can be activated if a usage number in the housing does not exceed a usable number. Only when the determining unit determines that the license can be activated, the setting unit activates the license to make software usable so that any blade can freely use the software within a limit of the usable number. | 08-22-2013 |
20130221370 | COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - The compound semiconductor device comprises an i-GaN buffer layer | 08-29-2013 |
20130222021 | TRANSMITTING APPARATUS AND TRANSMITTING METHOD - A transmitting apparatus includes a first circuit to which a base clock and a first clock condition are input, the first circuit outputting a first enable signal based on the base clock and the first clock condition; a second circuit to which the base clock and a second clock condition are input, the second circuit outputting a second enable signal based on the base clock and the second clock condition; a first frame processing circuit receiving a first frame input signal and the first enable signal to output a first frame output signal in synchronization with the first enable signal; and a second frame processing circuit receiving a second frame input signal and the second enable signal to output a second frame output signal in synchronization with the second enable signal. | 08-29-2013 |
20130222058 | AMPLIFIER - An amplifier includes an amplifying element that amplifies an input signal; an output terminal that outputs the signal amplified by the amplifying element; a matching circuit disposed in series between the amplifying element and the output terminal, and performing impedance matching; an impedance converter disposed in series between the amplifying element and the matching circuit or between the matching circuit and the output terminal; and a first resonator and a second resonator connected at the ends of the impedance converter. | 08-29-2013 |
20130222177 | MOVING OBJECT TRACKING APPARATUS, AND MOVING OBJECT TRACKING METHOD - A detection information memory stores, for each object, detection information that includes a distance to and a traveling speed of an object for each predetermined timing detected by a radar apparatus which detects detection information on the object, and the radar apparatus detects the detection information by receiving a reflected wave of an irradiated radar wave from the object. A predictor predicts, for each object, the detection information to be newly detected by the radar apparatus from a history of the detection information. A tracker tracks the object by identifying the object which is the target of the detection information newly detected using a result of the predictor; a determiner determines whether the object is a fixed object or a moving object. An output unit outputs the detection information on the object determined to be the moving object by the determiner. | 08-29-2013 |
20130222556 | STEREO PICTURE GENERATING DEVICE, AND STEREO PICTURE GENERATING METHOD - A stereo picture generating device includes: a feature point extracting unit that extracts feature points from a first picture; a tracking unit that calculates coordinate of each point on a second picture corresponding to each of the feature points; a parameter determining unit that determines plane projective transformation coefficients which include at least one coefficient representing a rotational transfer component and at least one coefficient representing a translation component so as to minimize an evaluation value that includes distance between each of transformed feature points, which are obtained by plane-projective-transforming the feature points on the first picture, and the corresponding point on the second picture, and a weighting term having a value depending on the rotational transfer component; and a transforming unit that plane-projective-transforms the first picture by using the plane projective transformation coefficients, to generate a pair of plane-projective-transformed picture and the second picture as a stereo picture. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223010 | SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE, COOLING MECHANISM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE - A semiconductor package includes a substrate with a first surface on which a semiconductor device is mounted and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a loop heat pipe including an evaporator and attached to the second surface of the substrate, wherein the substrate has a groove structure in the second surface, the groove structure being in contact with a porous wick provided in the evaporator. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223027 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD CONNECTION METHOD - An electronic device includes: a casing provided with a first printed circuit board that includes a first connector; a unit inserted into the casing through a housing opening formed in the casing, the unit including a second printed circuit board with a second connector, a pair of guide rails that guide the second connector towards the first connector; a width direction positioning section that is provided to an end portion on the housing opening side of at least one of the guide rails of the pair of guide rails and that positions the second connector in the unit width direction with respect to the first connector; and a top-bottom direction positioning section that is positioned further towards the first connector side than the width direction positioning section and that positions the second connector in the top-bottom direction with respect to the first connector. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223214 | SWITCH DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SWITCHING DEVICE - A switch device includes a relay unit relaying communication data when information processing units included in an information processing apparatus perform communications with external devices; an address learning unit registering ports receiving the communication data in association with addresses indicating transmission sources of the communication data; and a band control unit controlling a bandwidth to be allocated to the communications by setting a first port and a second port of the ports to belong to a same group and by setting the first port and the second port to belong to different groups based on a number of addresses registered by the address learning unit in association with each of the ports. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223248 | PACKET TRANSFER DELAY MEASUREMENT SYSTEM - When measuring a one-way packet transfer delay between first and second measurement devices in a time-asynchronous manner, the first measurement device transmits first packets each containing a first counter value at a time of transmission; and then transmits a second packet containing a second counter value at the time of the transmission. The second measurement device stores the first counter value extracted from each of the first packets, a third counter value at a time of reception, and reception time stamp information; calculates an incremental ratio between the first counter value and the third counter value per unit time; and calculates an expected fourth counter value at the time of the reception based on the second counter value and the incremental ratio, and obtains the transfer delay based on the calculated expected fourth counter value and an actual fourth counter value at the time of the reception. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223254 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A communication control device measures a size of burst data transmitted from a first device through the use of a predetermined protocol in a transport layer. The communication control device selects a protocol ruled by an algorithm with the smallest latency, which is estimated from the measured size of burst data and characteristics of a network, from among plural protocols used in the transport layer. The communication control device terminates the communication of the burst data transmitted through the predetermined protocol from the first device and transmits the burst data to a destination through the use of the selected protocol. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223282 | COEXISTENT WORKING MODE ESTABLISHMENT METHOD, USER EQUIPMENT, BASE STATION AND SYSTEM - The present invention discloses a method for solving the co-existence problem, a base station, user equipment, and system for performing the method. The method for solving the co-existence problem comprises: pre-configuring the information for co-existence working mode by a base station of a first communication system for a user equipment, receiving, by the base station of the first communication system from the user equipment in the first communication system, a mode establishing request for indicating the co-existence problem experienced by the user equipment and providing the assistance information for co-existence working mode in which the user equipment performs a first communication with the base station and performs a second communication with an apparatus in a second communication system which is different from the first communication system in a time-division manner. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223322 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION CONTROLLER, AND BASE STATION - Each of two or more base stations notifies a communication controller of information on a first frequency band that the base station uses for radio communication. Based on the information on the first frequency bands acquired from the two or more base stations, the communication controller selects a second frequency band to be used by the two or more base stations to transmit the data with common content, and notifies the two or more base stations of information on the selected second frequency band. The two or more base stations transmit the data with common content based on the information on the second frequency band acquired from the communication controller. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223328 | RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, RELAY STATION AND MOBILE STATION - In a mobile communication system, a mobile station receives intermittently a channel transmitted by a first or second base station through a relay station. Herein, the relay station, before execution of a handover for switching a connection destination of its own station from the first base station to the second base station, transmits information on the second base station. The mobile station, based on the information on the second base station received from the relay station before the handover, controls a timing for receiving the channel from the relay station after the handover. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223487 | WIRELESS APPARATUS AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a wireless apparatus, a first receiver receives, from a wireless reception apparatus, a transmit beam pattern with better reception quality among transmit beam patterns of a transmitter switched to by a first switching unit. A generation unit generates a transmit beam pattern obtained by rotating a phase of the received transmit beam pattern. A second switching unit switches a transmit beam pattern of the transmitter to the received transmit beam pattern and the generated transmit beam pattern. A second receiver receives, from the wireless reception apparatus, the transmit beam pattern of a combination with better reception quality out of combinations of the switched transmit beam patterns and receive beam patterns switched to by the wireless reception apparatus. A setting unit sets a transmit beam pattern of the transmitter in the transmit beam pattern received by the second receiver. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223526 | IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE CODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING DEVICE, IMAGE CODING DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A method for decoding an image divided into plural blocks includes acquiring decoding information of a decoded block in a decoding target image from a storage unit that stores the decoding information of the decoded block and decoding information of blocks in plural decoded images; selecting a decoded image from the plural decoded images; acquiring decoding information of a corresponding block in the selected decoded image from the storage unit; predicting a division mode, which indicates a division shape of a decoding target block, by using the acquired decoding information of the decoded block and the acquired decoding information of the corresponding block; decoding division mode information, which indicates the division mode of the decoding target block based on coded data, and determining the division mode of the decoding target block based on the predicted division mode and the decoded division mode information. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223842 | OPTICAL SIGNAL TRANSMITTING DEVICE, OPTICAL SIGNAL TRANSMITTING METHOD, FREQUENCY FLUCTUATION SUPPRESSING DEVICE AND FREQUENCY FLUCTUATION SUPPRESSING SYSTEM - An optical signal transmitting device includes direct modulators configured to be driven using electric signals of channels to generate directly-modulated optical signals of channels, a beat light source configured to generate beat light at a specific frequency spacing, subcarrier converters configured to modulate, using the beat light from the beat light source, the directly-modulated optical signals of the channels from the direct modulators to generate optical subcarrier modulation signals of channels, probe light sources configured to generate probe light of channels having frequencies that are different from frequencies of the directly-modulated optical signals of the channels, multiplexers configured to multiplex, for individual channels, the optical subcarrier modulation signals of the channels with the probe light of the channels, and nonlinear optical media configured to perform, for individual channels, optical cross modulation for the optical subcarrier modulation signals and the probe light, which are multiplexed, and transmit processed signals. | 08-29-2013 |
20130225089 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD - A first radio communication apparatus includes receiving antennas, an antenna selection processing unit that selects a transmitting antenna from transmitting antennas included in a second radio communication apparatus, generates a set that includes antenna indexes each indicating each of transmitting antennas, rearranges the antenna indexes in sequence starting from an antenna index indicating the selected transmitting antenna, generates a channel matrix in which a column corresponding to the selected transmitting antenna is located at a top, and a selected-channel matrix composed of the column, multiplies an inverse matrix of the channel matrix by the selected-channel matrix to generate an evaluation matrix, rearranges the antenna indexes in the set according to values of elements in the evaluation matrix, and selects an antenna to be used according to the rearranged antenna indexes, and a transmitting unit that transmits an antenna index indicating the selected antenna to the second radio communication apparatus. | 08-29-2013 |
20130225175 | RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, RELAY STATION, MOBILE STATION, AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a mobile communication system, a relay station connects to a first or second base station, and communicates with a mobile station at a timing corresponding to the destination base station. Before execution of a handover for switching a destination of the relay station from the first base station to the second base station, the relay station transmits a signal regarding the second base station. The mobile station synchronizes with the relay station after execution of the handover, on the basis of the signal regarding the second base station which is received from the relay station before the handover. | 08-29-2013 |
20130225178 | CELL SPECIFYING METHOD, BASE STATION, AND MOBILE STATION - In a cellular mobile communication system that operates in a first state in which UE has not established a connection with eNB and in a second state in which the connection has been established with eNB, the UE transmits cell selection history to the eNB of a second cell when handover from a first cell to the second cell in accordance with second criteria for handover in the second state, the cell selection history containing a history of cell selection performed in accordance with first criteria for cell reselection in the first state. When the UE performs handover from the first cell to the second cell within a period after transition from the first state to the second state, the eNB of the second cell specifies the cell in which the first criteria and the second criteria are not aligned from among the first cell and the second cell. | 08-29-2013 |
20130225248 | MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal includes a first housing having a first space wall forming a first recess-shaped space and a first wiring opening in the first space wall, a second housing having a second space wall forming a second recess-shaped space and a second wiring opening in the second space wall, a swing connecting member disposed in a space between the first recess-shaped space and the second recess-shaped space facing each other, the swing connecting member having a through hole allowing the first recess-shaped space and the second recess-shaped space to be in communication with each other and being configured to swingably move the first housing and the second housing, and a first wiring member passing through the through hole, and having a first fixing end closely connected to the first wiring opening and a second fixing end closely connected to the second wiring opening. | 08-29-2013 |
20130226619 | INPUT SUPPORT DEVICE AND INPUT SUPPORT METHOD - An input support device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an attribute of a first document that is an input target of a user, and acquire a second document corresponding to the acquired attribute from a storage unit storing the attribute and the second document relevant to the attribute; a first determination unit configured to determine whether a sentence example, which is stored beforehand in association with reading information, is included in the second document; and a second determination unit configured to determine a display format of the sentence example to be displayed together with the first document when a character string included in the reading information is input to the first document by the user, based on a determination result of the first determination unit. | 08-29-2013 |
20130226880 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, MEMORY DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A shared memory device transmits information indicating the validity of data to be stored to each information processing apparatus, and acquires information indicating the validity of data that each shared memory device stores. Further, the shared memory device acquires information indicating the on-line state between each information processing device and each shared memory device, and determines whether the multiplexing of the data that the shared memory device stores is guaranteed based on the acquired information. | 08-29-2013 |
20130226969 | DATA ACCESS CONTROL APPARATUS AND DATA ACCESS CONTROL METHOD - A data access control apparatus has a management information table in which identification information of a storage node specified as one to which transmission of a reference request is inhibited and a reference condition are associated with each other. When a reference condition and a reference request are received, a transmission processing unit transmits the received reference condition and a reference request to storage nodes except a storage node associated with the received reference condition in the management information table. A registration processing unit determines, based on a response from each storage node to which the reference request has been transmitted, a storage node in which no data matching the received reference condition is stored, and registers identification information of the determined storage node in the management information table in association with the received reference condition. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227043 | ACCESS RESTRICTION DEVICE, ACCESS RESTRICTION METHOD, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An access restriction device including a processor; and a memory. The processor executes: receiving an email from a transmission source; specifying including analyzing, when a file is attached to the email, information in the file, and specifying a character string from the file; executing including specifying, from a storing unit in which a character string is associated with an access restriction process, an access restriction process that is associated with the character string specified at the specifying the character string, and executing the specified access restriction process on the file; and sending including attaching, instead of the file attached to the email, the file that has been subjected to the access restriction process at the executing to the email, and sending the email to which the file subjected to the access restriction process is attached to a transmission destination of the email. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227049 | DISTRIBUTED CACHE SYSTEM - A disclosed system includes a first computer that stores data, a display apparatus that is capable of reading a user identifier, a second computer, and plural third computers. The second computer includes a data storage unit storing first correlation data to correlate a user identifier with at least one third computer, and a controller that refers to the first correlation data upon detecting an event data, identifies a third computer correlated with a first user identifier included in the event data, and transmits the first user identifier to the identified third computer. Each third computer includes a receiver that receives the first user identifier, a storing unit that obtains from the first computer, and stores data identified based on the received first user identifier, and a controller to transmit data corresponding to a second user identifier, which was received from the display apparatus, based on the second user identifier. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227168 | LOCATION MANAGER, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND LOCATION DESIGN METHOD - A location manager includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor executes a process including extracting a combination of a transfer device and a path by using topology information indicating a relation of connections among transfer devices. The process including calculating a sum of an amount of electric power consumed by the transfer device being included in the combination to store the data and an amount of electric power consumed by transfer devices on a path included in the combination to transfer the data. The process including selecting a combination of which the sum of electric power calculated at the calculating is a minimum sum out of the combinations extracted at the extracting. The process including outputting information indicating the combination selected at the selecting. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227219 | PROCESSOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND ARITHMETIC METHOD - An processor includes a cache memory that temporarily retains data stored in a main storage. The processor includes a processing unit that executes an application by using the data retained in the cache memory. The processor includes a storing unit that stores therein update information indicating data that has been updated by the processing unit within the time period specified by the application executed by the processing unit. The processor includes a write back unit that, when the time period specified by the application ends, writes back, to the main storage from the cache memory, data that is from among the data retained in the cache memory and that is indicated by the update information stored in the storing unit. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227228 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device includes a memory; and a processor that executes a program stored in the memory, wherein the processor executes an operation including: receiving first stream data and second stream data that each include a piece of reception data representing a set of a key and a numerical value, when detecting, from the second stream data, a piece of reception data with the same key as a key of a piece of reception data of the first stream data, obtaining a processing result by adding together numerical values of the pieces of reception data that have the same key, and storing the processing result in the memory. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227333 | FAULT MONITORING DEVICE, FAULT MONITORING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A fault monitoring device includes: a controller that is implemented in a computer and controls the computer; a monitored object operated by the computer; a monitor that monitors a fault of the controller and a fault of the monitored object; and a switcher that alternately switches a monitored target by the monitor. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227357 | MEMORY MODULE REDUNDANCY METHOD, STORAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND DATA PROCESSING DEVICE - A system includes one or more memory modules provided with a plurality of operation blocks having a plurality of memory elements which may be simultaneously operated. The system performs write access concurrently by writing data to two or more selected operation blocks. When a fault is detected in one of the two or more operation blocks, access is performed including the write access to two or more operation blocks excluding the operation block in which the fault is detected. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227534 | SIMULATION APPARATUS, METHOD AND MEDIUM - A code converter | 08-29-2013 |
20130227538 | SECURITY CHIP USED IN A CONTENTS DATA PLAYING DEVICE, UPDATE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND UPDATE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - A security chip is used in a contents data playing device. The security chip includes a storage unit configured to store firmware data including a firmware program, and a firmware update management unit configured to determine whether an update process is to be executed on the firmware data based on a comparison between expiration information set for the firmware data and time information received via a network, in response to a request input to the security chip to acquire a contents key or to decrypt contents data, and to reject the request when the update process is to be executed. The firmware program causes the security chip to function as a contents key acquisition control unit configured to acquire, via the network, the contents key for decrypting the contents data, and a decryption unit configured to decrypt the contents data by using the contents key. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227566 | DATA COLLECTION METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - According to a data collection method, an allocation determination unit detects one or more pairs of virtual machines communicating with each other from virtual machines on the basis of communication data exchanged between the virtual machines. The allocation determination unit selects one of information processing apparatuses, and determines how to reallocate the virtual machines in order that, out of the detected pairs, at least one of paired virtual machines running on a non-selected information processing apparatus runs on the selected information processing apparatus. A control unit reallocates the virtual machines in accordance with the determined reallocation, and controls the selected information processing apparatus so as to collect communication data relayed by the relay unit running on the selected information processing apparatus. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227579 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER PRODUCT, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a computer configured to set respectively a storage location for each value of a common variable among threads of a thread group having write requests to write the values of the common variable of the threads in a given process, from a specific storage location defined in the write requests, to the storage locations respectively set for the threads; store, for each thread of the thread group, a value of the common variable to the storage location set for the thread; and read out in order of execution of the threads of the thread group defined in the given process and when all the threads in the thread group have ended, each value of the common variable stored at the first storing, and in the order of execution, overwrite a value in the specific storage location with each read value of the common variable. | 08-29-2013 |
20130279824 | MEDIAN FILTERING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A median filtering apparatus and related method for finding out a median from 2r+1 input data, which includes 2(r+1) comparators, a counter, a circuit to obtain a minimum, a register, a state machine, and an adder. 2r+1 comparators of the comparators compare input data with a first predetermined value and compare the 2r+1 input data with an output value of the register. The counter counts the number of input data that are not larger than the first predetermined value or the output value of the register of the input data. The circuit finds out a minimum value of the input data that are larger than the first predetermined value or the output value of the register of the input data and a second predetermined value. The remaining one comparator of the 2(r+1) comparators compares the number counted by the counter with “r”. | 10-24-2013 |
20130314604 | COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A computer-readable storage medium storing an image processing program that causes a computer to execute a process includes, synthesizing, for each of frames included in a video image and to be processed, a synthesis image with an image of a synthesis target region existing in the frame by repeatedly executing a calculation using a Poisson's equation on the basis of the image of synthesis target region existing in the frame to be processed and the synthesis image to be replaced with the image of the synthesis target region, and thereby calculating, from an initial value image, a synthesis result image corresponding to a result obtained by synthesizing the synthesis image with the synthesis target region so as to sequentially execute a synthesis process on the frames of the video image; and setting, for each of the frames to be processed, initial values by setting, as the initial value image. | 11-28-2013 |
20140130838 | THERMOELECTRIC CONVERSION MODULE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A p-type semiconductor block is made of a p-type thermoelectric conversion material, and has a pillar portion and a connection portion laterally protruding from the pillar portion. In addition, an n-type semiconductor block is made of an n-type thermoelectric conversion material, and has a pillar portion and a connection portion laterally protruding from the pillar portion. The p-type semiconductor block and the n-type semiconductor block are alternately arranged in such a way that the connection portion of the p-type semiconductor block is connected with the pillar portion of the n-type semiconductor block and the connection portion of the n-type semiconductor block is connected with the pillar portion of the p-type semiconductor block. The connection portions and tip-end portions of the pillar portions are made of a thermoelectric conversion material containing metal powder. | 05-15-2014 |
20140156994 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ACTIVATING COMPUTER - An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit and a processor. The storage unit stores a private key corresponding to a public key stored in a storage apparatus connected to the information processing apparatus through a network. The processor receives first data from the network. The processor decrypts second data included in the first data using the private key. The processor determines whether a result of the decryption is third data. The processor activates the information processing apparatus when the result of the decryption is the third data. | 06-05-2014 |