Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130016627 | NETWORK RELAY NODE DEVICE, NETWORK RELAY METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A network relay node device for relaying communication between a first network and a second network having a protocol different from a protocol of the first network through a switch, the network relay node device includes an identical segment information generation control unit that generates identical segment information for identification of another relay node device belonging to a same segment as a local device in the second network and a loop suppression control unit that suppresses a loop of a communication including the switch by broadcasting a received broadcast frame only to a connection port of the first network if the identical segment information is detected in identification source node information acquired from a header of the broadcast frame when the broadcast frame is received from a connection port of the first network. | 01-17-2013 |
20130016683 | MOBILE USER TERMINAL, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A mobile user terminal, which transmits downlink channel quality information indicating downlink channel quality and an uplink pilot signal to a base station, whereby a carrier frequency used for transmitting the downlink quality information and a carrier frequency used for transmitting the uplink pilot signal are selectable respectively from among a plurality of carrier frequencies assigned to the mobile user terminal; the mobile user terminal includes a radio transmitter, which transmits the downlink quality information and the uplink pilot signal in an intermittent fashion to the base station; and the radio transmitter transmits the downlink quality information and the uplink pilot signal by using a same carrier frequency among the plurality of carrier frequencies or by using adjacent carrier frequencies among the plurality of carrier frequencies, in a period corresponding to a state of intermittent communicate. | 01-17-2013 |
20130016685 | MOBILE EQUIPMENT AND PACKET FILTERING METHOD - Mobile equipment includes a second control unit connected to a plurality of first control units performing control of an application function. The second control unit includes a storage unit, a setting unit, a transmitting unit, and a selecting unit. The storage unit stores selection information and connecting-destination specifying information associating each other. The setting unit sets the connecting-destination specifying information for a connecting-destination connected with the mobile equipment via a connection between the mobile equipment and a communication network. The transmitting unit transmits the connecting-destination specifying information set by the setting unit to the first control unit having the application being an establishment requestor of the connection. The selecting unit selects the connection for transferring user data based on the connecting-destination specifying information of the user data when the user data is received from the first control unit having the application being the establishment requestor of the connection. | 01-17-2013 |
20130019069 | MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR SYSTEM, MEMORY CONTROLLER CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - A multi-core processor system includes a memory controller that includes multiple ports and shared memory that includes physical address spaces divided among the ports. A CPU acquires from a parallel degree information table, the number of CPUs to which software that is to be executed by the multi-core processor system, is to be assigned. After this acquisition, the CPU determines the CPUs to which the software to be executed is to be assigned and sets for each CPU, physical address spaces corresponding to logical address spaces defined by the software to be executed. After this setting, the CPU notifies an address converter of the addresses and notifies the software to be executed of the start of execution. | 01-17-2013 |
20130019137 | ENCODER, DECODER, ENCODING METHOD, AND DECODING METHOD - A decoder that includes a receiving unit that receives a packet containing a new part corresponding to an information bit not yet received and a retransmission part corresponding to an information bit received in past; a combining unit that combines a part of a previously received packet corresponding to the retransmission part with the packet received by the receiving unit; and a new-part decoding unit that decodes the combined packet combined and obtained by the combining unit, and obtains a decoded result of the new part. | 01-17-2013 |
20130021769 | MULTICHIP MODULE, PRINTED WIRING BOARD, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MULTICHIP MODULE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PRINTED WIRING BOARD - A multichip module includes an arithmetic element that is a semiconductor element that executes arithmetic processing and a memory element that is arranged opposite the arithmetic element and that is a semiconductor element that stores therein data. Then, the multichip module includes the arithmetic element mounted thereon and includes a package board that includes, on a surface on which the arithmetic element is mounted, an external terminal that connects another part. Furthermore, the multichip module includes a reinforcing part on a surface at the opposite side from the surface of the package board on which the external terminal and that is arranged such that the reinforcing part covers an area from outside the peripheral portion of the arithmetic element to a predetermined position located on the central side of the package board. | 01-24-2013 |
20130021945 | NODE APPARATUS AND ALTERNATIVE PATH SEARCH METHOD - Anode apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive data from a first node apparatus adjacent to the node apparatus, a transmission source of the data being a second node apparatus; a data generator configured to generate transmission data in which the second node apparatus is specified as a final destination; a transmitter configured to transmit the transmission data to an adjacent node apparatus of the node apparatus other than the first node apparatus; and a decision unit configured to decide that an alternative path for transmitting data via an adjacent node apparatus of the node apparatus other than the first node apparatus does not exist between the node apparatus and the second node apparatus, when the node apparatus receives the transmission data transmitted by the transmitter to all adjacent node apparatuses of the node apparatus other than the first node apparatus. | 01-24-2013 |
20130022002 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A radio communication system wherein one or a consecutive plurality of sub-carriers at certain frequency intervals form sub-carrier groups each of which is assigned to a different user, the radio communication system including a radio communication apparatus; and a terminal configured to receive a notification for identifying control signal positions from the radio communication apparatus, wherein the terminal receives a control signal and a data signal according to the control signal positions identified by the notification. | 01-24-2013 |
20130022005 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR RADIO COMMUNICATIONS - A first radio communication apparatus transmits first and second control signals to a second communication apparatus. The first control signal carries information to be used in communication performed with a first frequency band. The second control signal carries information to be used in communication performed with a second frequency band. The second radio communication apparatus detects these first and second control signals by attempting signal extraction from received signals with common candidates for control signal length. The first radio communication apparatus controls whether to use one frequency band or more than one frequency band to transmit the first and second control signals, based on bandwidths of the first and second frequency bands. | 01-24-2013 |
20130022197 | RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR, ENCRYPTION DEVICE, AND AUTHENTICATION DEVICE - A random number generator includes an exclusive-OR circuit, a random number determiner, and a random number generation instruction inhibitor. The exclusive-OR circuit obtains an exclusive-OR of outputs from a number of digital circuits. The random number determiner determines whether or not an output generated according to an instruction to generate random numbers is a random number for each of the digital circuits. The random number generation instruction inhibitor inhibits an instruction to generate random numbers to be provided to the digital circuits whose output generated according to the instruction is determined to be not a random number by the random number determiner. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024588 | MULTICORE PROCESSOR SYSTEM, COMPUTER PRODUCT, AND CONTROL METHOD - A multicore processor system includes a core configured to detect a change in a state of assignment of a multicore processor; obtain, upon detecting the change in the state of assignment, number of accesses of a common resource shared by the multicore processor by each of process that are assigned to cores of the multicore processor; calculate an access ratio based on the obtained number of accesses; and notify an arbitration circuit of the calculated access ratio, the arbitration circuit arbitrating accesses of the common resource by the multicore processor. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024589 | MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR SYSTEM, COMPUTER PRODUCT, AND CONTROL METHOD - A multi-core processor system includes a given configured to queue an interrupt process of a software interrupt request to the given core, and execute queued processes in the order of queuing at the given core; execute preferentially an interrupt process of a hardware interrupt request to the given core over a process under execution at the given core; determine whether the software interrupt request is a specific software interrupt request; and perform control to preferentially execute the interrupt process without queuing, upon determining that the software interrupt request is the specific software interrupt request. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024865 | MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR SYSTEM, COMPUTER PRODUCT, AND CONTROL METHOD - A multi-core processor system includes a core configured to determine whether a task to be synchronized with a given task is present; identify among cores making up the multi-core processor and upon determining that a task to be synchronized with the given task is present, a core to which no non-synchronous task that is not synchronized with another task has been assigned, and identify among cores making up the multi-core processor and upon determining that a task to be synchronized with the given task is not present, a core to which no synchronous task to be synchronized with another task has been assigned; and send to the identified core, an instruction to start the given task. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024870 | MULTICORE SYSTEM AND ACTIVATING METHOD - A multicore system includes multiple processor cores; a scheduler in each of the processor cores and allocating a process to the processor cores when having a master authority that is an authority to assign processes; and a master controller performing control to repeat until a process to be executed no longer exists, a cycle in which the schedulers transfer the master authority to another processor core after receiving the master authority and before assigning a process to the processor cores, discards the master authority after assigning the process to the processor cores, and enters a state of waiting to receive the master authority. | 01-24-2013 |
20130026851 | POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM, POWER TRANSMITTER, AND POWER RECEIVER - A power supply system includes one or more power transmitters and one or more power receivers: the one or more transmitters transmitting identification information and a power transmitting condition to the one or more receivers, receiving identification information and a power receiving condition from the one or more receivers, wirelessly transmitting power to the one or more receivers on the basis of the power transmitting and receiving conditions, and generating power transmission amount information indicating the amount of the transmitted power; the one or more receivers receiving identification information and a power transmitting condition from the one or more transmitters, transmitting identification information and a power receiving condition to the one or more transmitters, wirelessly receiving power from the one or more transmitters on the basis of the power transmitting and receiving conditions, generating power reception amount information, and transmitting the identification information and the power reception amount information. | 01-31-2013 |
20130028166 | Mobile Wireless Communication System, Access Gateway, Wireless Base Station, And Mobile Wireless Communication Control Method - The present invention discloses a wireless mobile communication system for transferring MBMS data from an access gateway to plural wireless base stations and transmitting the MBMS data from the plural wireless base stations to a wireless mobile station at the same time. The system includes a transferring part included in the access gateway for copying the MBMS data in a number corresponding to the number of the plural wireless base stations, adding a header indicative of data transmission time to the MBMS data, and transferring the MBMS data to the plural wireless base stations; a transmitting part included in each the plural wireless base stations for extracting the data transmission time from the header of the transferred MBMS data, deleting the header from the MBMS data, and transmitting the MBMS data to the wireless mobile station. | 01-31-2013 |
20130028240 | MOBILE USER TERMINAL, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A mobile user terminal, which communicates with a base station in an intermittent fashion, the mobile user terminal includes a radio transmitter which transmits downlink channel quality information indicating downlink channel quality and an uplink pilot signal to a base station in an intermittent fashion; and a transmit time controller which synchronizes transmit time of the downlink quality information and transmit time of the uplink pilot signal relative to each other, such that the downlink quality information and the uplink pilot signal are sent in adjacent different timings in a period corresponding to a state of intermittent communicate. | 01-31-2013 |
20130028241 | METHOD FOR SENDING UPLINK SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL, METHOD FOR ESTIMATING CHANNEL, MOBILE TERMINAL, BASE STATION AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for sending an uplink sounding reference signal (SRS), a method for estimating a channel, a mobile terminal and a base station are provided. The method for sending the uplink SRS includes: processing the uplink SRS with masks to obtain a plurality of uplink SRSs processed by the masks; sending the plurality of uplink SRSs processed by the masks on each of numerous time slots distributed to reference signals. The technical solution is able to improve the capacity of the SRS. | 01-31-2013 |
20130028613 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, RECEPTION APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND RECEPTION METHOD - A transmission apparatus includes a generation unit configured to generate a first data unit including a second data unit, and an addition unit configured to add fault data indicating a fault state of the second data unit to a data portion different from a data portion in which the second data unit is positioned within the first data unit. | 01-31-2013 |
20130030752 | OPERATION CHECK TEST METHOD, PROGRAM AND CLOCK DISTRIBUTION CIRCUIT - A method to perform an operation check test of a phase control circuit of a clock distribution circuit is disclosed that includes shifting one of the phases of the first differential signals and the second differential signals with reference to the other of the phases; obtaining an output data signal of the differential DFF to which the first differential signals and the second differential signals are input, one of the phases being shifted by the shifting; and comparing first values of the plural output data signals with first expected data values, the first values of the plural output data signals being obtained by performing the shifting and the obtaining repeatedly until phase differences of the first differential signals and the second differential signals reach one cycle of the first differential signals and the second differential signals. | 01-31-2013 |
20130031391 | MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR SYSTEM, ELECTRICAL POWER CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - A multi-core processor system includes a core configured to detect that among cores different from a specific core executing a specific process, a given software different from specific software having a function equivalent to the specific process, is under execution; extract, from a database storing required computing capacities for the plural software and upon detecting that a given software is under execution, requirement values indicating the required computing capacity of the specific software and of the given software; judge for each the cores, whether a sum of the required computing capacities of the specific software and the software is at most a computing capacity value of the core; assign the specific software to a core for which the sum of the required computing capacities is judged to be at most the computing capacity value of the core; and suspend the specific core, upon assigning the specific software to the core. | 01-31-2013 |
20130036315 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS PERFORMING PROCESSES IN PARALLEL - An information processing apparatus performing a plurality of processes in parallel includes a plurality of processing units and an adjusting unit configured to determine processing intervals of the processing units on a processing-unit-specific basis to gradually align periods in which the processing units operate. | 02-07-2013 |
20130038282 | POWER RECEPTION APPARATUS AND POWER RECEIVING METHOD - A power reception apparatus includes a plurality of power extraction coils that extract power from a coil being a power supply source, a switch that selects one of the plurality of the power extraction coils and connects the selected power extraction coil to a battery, and a controller that senses a charging state of the battery and changes over the switch. The plurality of the power extraction coils are different from each other in terms of a diameter, the number of turns, or a distance from the coil being the power supply source. | 02-14-2013 |
20130038981 | CAPACITOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CAPACITOR - A method of manufacturing a capacitor includes forming, above a first metal foil, a first dielectric film of a ceramic material containing barium oxide by blowing dry ceramic particles to the first metal foil from a nozzle, forming, in the first dielectric film, a first via conductor connected to the first metal foil and a second via conductor connected to the first metal foil, forming, above the first dielectric film, a first electrode pattern connected to the first via conductor, and patterning the first metal foil to form a second electrode pattern connected to the second via conductor. | 02-14-2013 |
20130039400 | TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, RECEIVING APPARATUS, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A transmitting apparatus includes multiple antennas between which an antenna interval is variable; and a transmitter that transmits a pilot signal using an antenna selected from among the antennas and based on a correlation value representing correlation between the antennas. | 02-14-2013 |
20130039435 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A wireless communication method used by a wireless communication apparatus is disclosed. The wireless communication method transmits and receives control information divided into a second control information containing information related to the demodulation and decoding of traffic channel and a first control information containing information related to the MIMO separation of the second control information. | 02-14-2013 |
20130039486 | CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROCESSING DEVICE AND CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROCESSING METHOD - A cryptographic processing device includes a private key storage unit which stores a private key d for elliptic curve cryptography, a random number generation unit which generates a b-bit random value s, and a processing unit. A bit string D is the private key d or a bit string obtained by modifying the private key d in such a way that a value of a most significant bit is 0, and a relation u=mk+b holds true for a length u of the bit string D, a window size k, and a positive integer m. The processing unit determines a signed k-bit window value w[i] corresponding to each i where 0≦i≦(m−1), a signed b-bit random value s[i] corresponding to each i, and a correction value g. The processing unit determines the above values under a certain constraint condition, while determining each random value s[i] to be +s or −s. | 02-14-2013 |
20130040557 | WIRELESS RELAY DEVICE AND WIRELESS RELAY METHOD - A wireless relay device relays data from a transmitting device to a receiving device by wireless communication. The wireless relay device includes a buffer and a buffer control unit. The buffer temporarily stores relay target data. The buffer control unit controls the buffer, based on comparison of priority of first data received from the transmitting device with priority of second data stored in the buffer, (i) to remove the second data from the buffer and to store the first data in the buffer or (ii) not to store the first data in the buffer. | 02-14-2013 |
20130040691 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - Two or more base stations among a plurality of base stations transmit data of the same content at the same timing. A base station notifies a mobile station of two or more base stations which transmit the data of the same content among the plurality of base stations. The mobile station transmits information indicating reception conditions in the mobile station of radio signals from the base stations notified of, to the base station. According to the information indicating the reception conditions, the base station instructs the mobile station to receive the data of the same content from the base stations. | 02-14-2013 |
20130041793 | FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A financial data processing device generates common data, and thereafter, converts the common data into XBRL-FR format financial statements, and an XBRL-GL format trial balance and an XBRL-GL format itemized statement, which are related to the financial statements, on the basis of a mapping table which indicates a relationship among a template of XBRL-FR format financial statements, a template of an XBRL-GL format trial balance and an XBRL-GL format itemized statement, and areas in which the common items are located on the templates, and stores the XBRL-FR format financial statements, the XBRL-GL format trial balance, and the XBRL-GL format itemized statement in a storage unit. | 02-14-2013 |
20130041794 | FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A first linkage processing unit refers to a correspondence information storage unit and stores a first financial data for the inside of one company which is related to financial data for the outside of the one company in a first storage device in a standard data format. A second linkage processing unit refers to the correspondence information storage unit and generates a second financial data of a data format of a second application used by the one company. A third linkage processing unit refers to the correspondence information storage unit and stores a third financial data outputted from the second application used by the one company in a second storage device in the standard data format as financial data for the outside of the one company. The notification unit notifies an external device of the third financial data stored in the second storage device. | 02-14-2013 |
20130043729 | UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER-SUPPLY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME - An uninterruptible power-supply apparatus has a storage battery including a first electrode and a second electrode, an output cable configured to output a discharge current of the storage battery to an external power line to be a backup target, and a first connection portion configured to externally take out a voltage of the first electrode. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044584 | Data Transfer Method - A data transfer method having a data retransmission function, in which a sending side saves data that was sent in memory, a receiving side uses a transmission confirmation signal to request the sending side to retransmit the data when the data was not properly received, then monitors the elapsed time, and when the data is not retransmitted after the elapsed time has exceeded a set time, uses a transmission confirmation signal again to request that the data be retransmitted, and where in response to that transmission confirmation signal, the sending side retransmits the saved data to the receiving side. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044602 | CELL SELECTION FOR MULTI-CELL MIMO TRANSMISSION - A method for use in selecting a cell or cells, from amongst a set of cells in a cellular wireless network, for coordinated use in multi-cell multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) transmission so as to reduce feedback overhead, each cell of the said set having at least one MIMO channel characteristic which may vary with time at a measurable rate, comprises a cell selection process comprising the steps of: identifying a cell or subset of cells of the said set for which the time variation rate/rates of the said MIMO channel characteristic is/are the slowest of those of the cells in the said set; and selecting a cell or cells for use in multi-cell MIMO transmission from only the cell or subset of cells identified in the identifying step. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044716 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR APERIODICALLY TRANSMITTING SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL - A method and apparatus that includes configuring the parameters of the sounding reference signal for the channel which is to be detected by a user device, in order to allocate the resource of the sounding reference signal for the user device; transmitting the information, which includes the sounding reference signal resource allocated to the user device, to the user device through a high layer signaling; and transmitting an activation signal to the user device through a low layer signaling to activate the user device to transmit the sounding reference signal. Therefore, an activation signal is transmitted to the user device by transmitting a low layer signaling with higher speed, thus the use efficiency of the resource of the sounding reference signal of the system can be improved, and more users can be supported by the system. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044717 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNALS AND PARAMETERS THEREOF, BASE STATION AND MOBILE STATION - A method for transmitting sounding reference signals (SRSs) and parameters thereof, a base station and a mobile station are provided by the present invention. The method for transmitting sounding reference signals includes: according to SRS parameters for one antenna received from a base station, allocating SRS resources for one antenna in a mobile station; according to the received SRS parameters and based on the predetermined relationships between SRS parameters of each antenna in the mobile station, determining SRS parameters of other antennas in the mobile station; according to the determined SRS parameters of the other antennas, allocating SRS resources for the other antennas; and transmitting corresponding SRS signals on the allocated SRS resources via the one antenna and the other antennas respectively. The method and apparatus can save signaling resources in a wireless communication system. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044736 | BASE STATION, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MOBILE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A base station includes a time-division-multiplexer that time-division-multiplexes control signals and data signals; a culling unit that culls from the signal time-division-multiplexed by the time-division-multiplexer, data signals temporally overlapping control signals of a neighboring cell; a transmitting unit that transmits the data signal culled by the culling unit; and a determining unit that determines conditions concerning the culling corresponding to transmission power of a portion temporally overlapping the control signals of the neighboring cell, in the signal transmitted by the transmitting unit. The culling unit culls the data signals based on a result obtained by the determining unit. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044833 | METHOD FOR FEEDING BACK PRECODING MATRIX INFORMATION AND MOBILE STATION THEREOF - A method for feeding back pre-coding matrix information and a mobile station thereof are provided. The method includes: determining multiple kinds of pre-coding matrix information corresponding to multiple multi-input multi-output (MIMO) modes; and feeding back multiple kinds of pre-coding matrix information. The present invention can feedback pre-coding matrix information adapting for multiple multi-input multi-output modes. | 02-21-2013 |
20130045674 | Relay Station, Mobile Station, Wireless Communication System, And Load Distribution Method - A relay station includes a load measuring unit configured to measure a load of the relay station; a load calculating unit configured to calculate, based on the load of the relay station and based on a load of an upstream base station or an upstream relay station directly connected to the relay station, a load reflecting a load of an upstream station; and a reporting unit configured to report the calculated load as load information to a mobile station or a downstream relay station. | 02-21-2013 |
20130047021 | MULTIPLE-CORE PROCESSOR SYSTEM, COMPUTER PRODUCT, AND CONTROL METHOD - A multiple-core processor system includes a memory unit storing the number of time intervals within a time bin, a time interval being a time interval between two consecutive operations; and a processor configured to: update the number of time intervals, specify a time stretch during which the number of time intervals stays above a threshold, and set, based on the number of time intervals, a power supply mode in which the multiple-core processor is supplied with power. | 02-21-2013 |
20130055567 | INTERCONNECTION CARD FOR INSPECTION, MANUFACTURE METHOD FOR INTERCONNECTION CARD, AND INSPECTION METHOD USING INTERCONNECTION CARD - Recesses are formed on one surface of a substrate. A conductive film covers an inner surface of each of the recesses. This conductive film contacts a bump of a semiconductor device to be inspected and is electrically connected to the bump. It is therefore possible to prevent damages of the bump to be caused by contact of a probe pin. | 03-07-2013 |
20130057701 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING - An image processing device includes: an extractor configured to extract a region of interest which includes a point of interest and satisfies a specified condition in a first image frame; a divider configured to divide the region of interest into a first subregion including the point of interest and a second subregion not including the point of interest at a narrow portion of the region of interest; and a specifying unit configured to specify a specified pixel in the first subregion as a point of interest of a second image frame. | 03-07-2013 |
20130058296 | METHOD FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION, WIRELESS STATION, MOBILE TERMINAL, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - There is a provided a wireless communication system in which multiple base station transmit the same data (PDSCH signal) in a coordinated transmission scheme. Each base station controls allocation a wireless resource that one of the remaining base station transmits a signal different from the above same data, such as a control signal or reference signal to a mobile station that is applied the coordinated transmission scheme to a mobile terminal that is different from the mobile station that is applied the coordinated transmission scheme and that is to communicate with the base station. | 03-07-2013 |
20130058320 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - An input unit inputs input data. A priority determination unit determines priority of the data input by the input unit. A speed control unit sets the communication speed of the wireless communication of the data to be output from an output unit according to the priority of the data determined by the priority determination unit, and also, when input of the data is not detected, sets the communication speed of the wireless communication of the data to be output from the output unit to be lower than the communication speed when the input of the data is detected. The output unit outputs output data by the wireless communication at the set communication speed. | 03-07-2013 |
20130058655 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS FOR OPTICAL TRANSPORT NETWORK, AND STAFF CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A transmission apparatus for an optical transport network includes maps client data to a payload of an optical transport unit in order to obtain a higher layer frame generated based on a clock on the optical transport network side, and sends the higher layer frame to the optical transport network. A Cn value indicating an amount of the client data to be mapped to the payload of the optical transport unit is computed based on a counted value, counted using a clock of the client data, of a time period corresponding to the payload of the optical transport unit in the higher layer frame generated using a clock of the optical transport network. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060494 | METHOD OF CALCULATING CURRENT CORRECTION FORMULA FOR POWER STRIP, CURRENT MEASURING METHOD, AND POWER STRIP - A method of calculating a current correction formula may include first measuring voltage values at each of current measuring parts configured to measure currents in socket parts of a power strip in a state in which no current flows in the socket parts, second measuring the voltage values at each of the current measuring parts in a state in which a current flows in one of the socket parts, and calculating a correction formula formed by a inverse matrix of a matrix having as its elements differences between the voltage values measured by the second measuring and the voltage values measured by the first measuring. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060974 | DATA TRANSFERRING APPARATUS AND DATA TRANSFERRING METHOD - A memory stores data generated by a processor and a transferring unit burst transfers the data from the memory unit to a processing unit. Based on an access capability of the processor when accessing the memory, a prescribed value for a burst width and information concerning the time that the processing unit consumes to process the data are set in advance at the data transferring apparatus. When the transferring unit performs data transfer, the time allowed for data transfer is calculated based on the information concerning the time that the processing unit consumes to process the data, and the burst width is determined as a value greater than or equal to the prescribed value for the burst width and is as close as possible to the prescribed value for the burst width within a range in which data transfer can be finished within the allowed time. | 03-07-2013 |
20130063196 | PHASE INTERPOLAR, RECEPTION CIRCUIT AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPRATUS - A third periodic signal is synthesized using a first output signal having a phase corresponding to a first periodic signal and a second output signal having a phase corresponding to the second periodic signal. A value of the third periodic signal is detected at a timing of the phase of the delayed first periodic signal. The value of the third periodic signal detected with the delayed first periodic signal is compared with the value of the third periodic signal detected by the first periodic signal delayed by the different delay amount. The delay amount is obtained for the detected third periodic signal being a maximum or a minimum. In a state of the optimum delay amount, an amplitude of the third periodic signal is adjusted so that the detected value of the third periodic signal falls within a predetermined range. | 03-14-2013 |
20130064203 | TRANSMITTER, RECEIVER, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication system, etc. are provided that can prevent the accuracy of propagation channel estimation from degrading when performing radio communications based on OFDM by using a plurality of carriers each with a predetermined bandwidth. Radio communications based on an OFDM scheme are performed between a transmitter and a receiver by using a carrier with a prescribed bandwidth in which first signals such as reference signals, for example, are arranged at constant subcarrier intervals. The transmitter, when performing communications with the receiver by using a plurality of such carriers, transmits to the receiver an OFDM signal in which the first signals are arranged at predetermined subcarrier intervals across the plurality of carriers. The receiver extracts the first signals from the OFDM signal received from the transmitter. | 03-14-2013 |
20130064555 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, FRAME SYNCHRONIZATION DETECTION APPARATUS, AND FRAME SYNCHRONIZATION DETECTION METHOD - A frame transmitting unit divides a payload area of an upper-layer frame into a plurality of slots, maps a lower-layer frame to one or more of the slots, and transmits the upper-layer frame including connection information that indicates which one or more of the slots the lower-layer frame of a same type is mapped to. The frame synchronization detection unit identifies, as one or more allocated slots, the one or more slots to which the lower-layer frame of the same type is mapped, on the basis of the connection information, and detects the frame synchronization by identifying a frame head signal of the lower-layer frame of the same type that is mapped to the one or more allocated slots. | 03-14-2013 |
20130065519 | RADIO COMMUNICATIONS METHOD, TRANSMITTER, AND RECEIVER - A transmitter that performs radio communications with a receiver in a plurality of types of communications services, the transmitter includes a controller that controls guard intervals of at least any one of a plurality of codes, which are unique to respective cells and correspond to any one of the plurality of types of communications services, so that lengths of guard intervals of the plurality of codes become same; and a transmitting unit that transmits first codes among the plurality of codes using a first band set in a transmission band, and also transmits second codes among the plurality of codes different from the first codes using a second band set in the transmission band different from the first band set. | 03-14-2013 |
20130065626 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AND MOBILE TERMINAL UNIT - A management device includes a managing unit that manages whether a dedicated access slot different from an access slot is assigned to the mobile terminal unit, the access slot being arbitrarily used by a mobile terminal unit when the mobile terminal unit gets random access to a base station unit, a selecting unit that selects a dedicated access slot which has not been assigned among dedicated access slots managed by the managing unit when having received a priority notification indicating that a mobile terminal unit being a communicating destination of the base station unit is a priority terminal given priority for performing communication, and an instructing unit that instructs the base station unit managed by the management device to reserve the dedicated access slot selected by the selecting unit. | 03-14-2013 |
20130066892 | INFORMATION INTEGRATING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - A processing system that implements physical integration, virtual integration, and stream integration by defining meta-information correlating a physical model on an information source side and a logical model on a user-side and by selectively executing push-type information integration of returning to the user-side, an integration result according to information input from the information source side and pull-type information integration of returning to the user-side, an integration result according a query from the user-side. | 03-14-2013 |
20130071106 | OPTICAL RECEIVER - In an optical receiver, a light receiving element receives the optical packet signals and converts the optical packet signals to electrical signals. A bias voltage supply section supplies bias voltage to the light receiving element. A monitoring section monitors an input level of each optical packet signal or each electrical signal and transmits a monitored value to the bias voltage supply section. In addition, the bias voltage supply section temporarily increases the bias voltage according to magnitude of the monitored value after an end of receiving of each optical packet signal. | 03-21-2013 |
20130073281 | NON-SPEECH SECTION DETECTING METHOD AND NON-SPEECH SECTION DETECTING DEVICE - A non-speech section detecting device generating a plurality of frames having a given time length on the basis of sound data obtained by sampling sound, and detecting a non-speech section having a frame not containing voice data based on speech uttered by a person, the device including: a calculating part calculating a bias of a spectrum obtained by converting sound data of each frame into components on a frequency axis; a judging part judging whether the bias is greater than or equal to a given threshold or alternatively smaller than or equal to a given threshold; a counting part counting the number of consecutive frames judged as having a bias greater than or equal to the threshold or alternatively smaller than or equal to the threshold; a count judging part judging whether the obtained number of consecutive frames is greater than or equal to a given value. | 03-21-2013 |
20130075698 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor layer provided over a substrate; an electron transit layer contacting a top of the first semiconductor layer; and a second semiconductor layer contacting a top of the electron transit layer, wherein the electron transit layer has a dual quantum well layer having a structure where a first well layer, an intermediate barrier layer, and a second well layer are sequentially stacked, an energy of a conduction band of the intermediate barrier layer is lower than an energy of conduction band of the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, and a ground level is generated in the first and second well layers, and a first excitation level is generated in the dual quantum well layer. | 03-28-2013 |
20130076428 | LEVEL CONVERTER AND PROCESSOR - A level converter includes a level conversion circuit, which is provided between a reference power supply line having a reference voltage level and a first power supply line coupled to a first power supply outputting a first voltage level, which inputs a first signal and outputs a second signal, the first signal having a first logic level and a second logic level, the second signal having a first logic level and a second logic level; a control signal generating circuit to output a control signal having the reference voltage level when a second power supply outputting the second voltage level is turned off and the first voltage level when the second power supply is turned on; and a coupling circuit to control an electrically connection between the first power supply line and an output node of the level conversion circuit based on the control signal. | 03-28-2013 |
20130077352 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS - A semiconductor device includes a substrate; a first nitride semiconductor layer provided over the substrate and having a nitride-polar surface; a gate electrode provided over the first nitride semiconductor layer; and a semiconductor layer provided on the first nitride semiconductor layer and only under the gate electrode, and exhibiting a polarization. | 03-28-2013 |
20130077516 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a radio communication apparatus, a packet size estimation unit estimates the packet size of a packet transmitted to the radio communication apparatus from a transmission side. A reception quality measurement unit measures reception quality of a received signal to obtain a reception quality measurement value. A code block number estimation unit estimates the numbers of code blocks in one packet using the packet size and the code block sizes for individual operation modes. An operation mode selection control unit recognizes desired qualities with respect to the individual operation modes from the estimated numbers of code blocks. Then, the operation mode selection control unit selects an appropriate operation mode based on a result of comparing the desired qualities with the reception quality measurement value. | 03-28-2013 |
20130077979 | 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 the weighted sum of interaction items of pulses on one or more moments relative to the current moment, to obtain the perturbation quantity produced on a transmission link with a certain length, and rotate the obtained perturbation quantity by a predetermined phase; and an information compensating unit, configured to calculate the difference between the symbol information sequence and the perturbation quantity to obtain a compensated symbol information sequence. With the embodiments of the present invention, the performance of the system, especially the performance of NRZ (Not Return to Zero) code, may be further improved. | 03-28-2013 |
20130083030 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM - A display control apparatus includes a processor that executes a procedure, the procedure including receiving an instruction to display a first component which indicates a process corresponding to a first process type, and controlling a display device to display the first component in accordance with the received instruction and display a second component, which indicates a process corresponding to a second process type, associating with the first component on the basis of an order relationship of the first process type and the second process type. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083046 | DRAWING DEVICE AND DRAWING METHOD - A drawing device includes a distinguish unit for distinguishing figure description information in scene data of each figure in a display screen, for tiles included in the display screen; an aggregation unit for aggregating a data size of the figure description information corresponding to the tiles; an address determination unit for determining a leading address in a memory area for storing the figure description information corresponding to each of the tiles, based on an aggregation result of each tile; and a memory write unit for sequentially writing, in the memory area, the figure description information distinguished as corresponding to the tiles, starting from the leading address determined for each corresponding tile, wherein the address determination unit determines the leading addresses so that the memory areas for storing the figure description information corresponding to the tiles are arranged in a physical address space in an order of drawing the tiles. | 04-04-2013 |
20130084872 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, TERMINAL, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication system includes: at least one base station that forms a plurality of cells of different frequencies such that the cells partially or completely overlap with each other; and a terminal that is capable of recognizing the cells of the different frequencies. The base station determines priority factors of the different frequencies of the cells, and transmits the priority factors to the terminal that has set a cell formed by the base station as a serving cell. The terminal receives the priority factors from the base station forming the serving cell, and selects a cell to be set as the serving cell next from among the cells based on the priority factors. | 04-04-2013 |
20130086086 | INFORMATION GENERATING COMPUTER PRODUCT, APPARATUS, AND METHOD; AND INFORMATION SEARCH COMPUTER PRODUCT, APPARATUS, AND METHOD - A computer-readable recording medium stores a program causing a computer to execute an information generating process that includes tabulating an appearance frequency for each designated word in an object file group in which character strings are described; identifying for each designated word and based on the appearance frequency tabulated for the designated word, a rank in descending order up to a target appearance rate for the designated words; detecting in an object file selected from the object file group, specific designated words among the identified ranks; and generating for each of the detected specific designated words, index information that indicates the presence/absence of the specific designated word in each object file among the object file group. | 04-04-2013 |
20130086227 | RELAY DEVICE, RELAY SYSTEM, AND RELAY METHOD - A relay system for distributing load on a data sending device in data communications among a plurality of devices includes a plurality of devices and a relay device to relay data communications among the devices. The devices each include a transmission unit that sends data, and a reception unit that receives data. The relay device includes a storage unit that stores information identifying relayed data with information identifying the recipient of the data, and a determination unit that, in response to a data acquisition request for predetermined data issued by a predetermined device, determines a device to send the determined data based on information in the storage unit. | 04-04-2013 |
20130086346 | DATA STORAGE APPARATUS - A method for controlling a storage apparatus connectable to a server, the storage apparatus including a first storage area and a second storage area for storing data, the method comprises: copying the data stored in the first storage area into the second storage area; copying data stored in the location of the first storage area addressed by the command to be accessed by the server into the location of the second storage area before execution of the command when the storage apparatus receives a command for accessing data stored in a location of either of the first storage area and second storage area from the server; and executing the command for accessing at least one of the location in the first storage area and the corresponding location in the second storage area. | 04-04-2013 |
20130086584 | CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM - A control device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes a process comprising determining the order of setting of operating conditions which are set to a plurality of virtual machines and make the virtual machines operate, respectively, in accordance with processing dependency between software executed by the plurality of virtual machines and first setting the respective operating conditions of the virtual machines in the setting order at the determining. | 04-04-2013 |
20130087375 | MULTILAYER WIRING SUBSTRATE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF MULTILAYER WIRING SUBSTRATE - There is provided a multilayer wiring substrate that includes a plurality of insulator layers, and electric conductors, the electric conductors and the plurality of insulator layers being configured to be stacked alternately, wherein a plurality of holes are formed from a surface of the multilayer wiring substrate in a thickness direction of the multilayer wiring substrate, the holes being formed leaving at least one of the insulators. | 04-11-2013 |
20130087912 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A semiconductor device, includes: a connection member including a first pad formed on a principal surface thereof; a semiconductor chip including a circuit-formed surface on witch a second pad is formed, the chip mounted on the connection member so that the circuit-formed surface faces the principal surface; and a solder bump that connects the first and second pads and is made of metal containing Bi and Sn, wherein the bump includes a first interface-layer formed adjacent to the second pad, a second interface-layer formed adjacent to the first pad, a first intermediate region formed adjacent to either one of the interface-layers, and a second intermediate region formed adjacent to the other one of the interface-layers and formed adjacent to the first intermediate region; Bi-concentration in the first intermediate region is higher than a Sn-concentration; and a Sn-concentration in the second intermediate region is higher than a Bi-concentration. | 04-11-2013 |
20130088260 | LATCH CIRCUIT, FLIP-FLOP CIRCUIT, AND DIVIDER - A latch circuit switches a differential operation performed by a differential operation circuit including a first logic circuit, a second logic circuit, a third logic circuit, and a fourth logic circuit and a single end operation performed by a single end operation circuit according to a logic level of an inputted selection signal. The latch circuit performs an operation to output an input signal and an inverted input signal without change from a first output terminal and a second output terminal of the latch circuit, respectively, and an operation to set the input signal and the inverted input signal in a hold state in the differential operation and performs an operation to output the input signal from the first output terminal without change and an operation to set the input signal in a hold state in the single end operation, according to a clock signal and an inverted clock signal. | 04-11-2013 |
20130088613 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - A determining unit determines which one of a plurality of divided areas in color distribution a value of an input image single falls within. The plurality of divided areas are defined for each of R, G, and B color components, and the determining unit determines, for each color component, which one of the plurality of divided areas the value of the input image signal falls within. An image correcting unit reads correction coefficients corresponding to the determined divided area for each color component from a correction coefficient storing unit in which correction coefficients are registered for each of the color components and each of the divided areas. The image correcting unit calculates each of R, G, and B output values of an output image signal using the correction coefficients of the individual color components read from the correction coefficient storing unit. | 04-11-2013 |
20130088818 | HOUSING, DOUBLE-SIDED ADHESIVE TAPE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A housing includes a first case and a second case configured to be joined together to make a housing space; and a double-sided adhesive member having a first surface and a second surface, the double-sided adhesive member including an impermeable, elastic base material, and a plurality of binder layers formed on either surface of the base material, the binder layers on the first and second surfaces being bonded to the first and second cases, respectively, wherein an adhesive force between the first case and the first surface of the double-sided adhesive member is greater on an outer side of the first case than on an inner side of the first case, and wherein an adhesive force between the second case and the second surface of the double-sided adhesive member is greater on an inner side of the second case than on an outer side of the second case. | 04-11-2013 |
20130088839 | BOARD MODULE MANUFACTURING METHOD, BOARD MODULE, AND BOARD MODULE ASSEMBLY - There is provided a method of manufacturing a board module which includes attaching a metal particle to a surface of a solder bump, which includes at least a tin component and is mounted on an electrode provided on a first surface of an electric part or a printed circuit board, the metal particle having a higher specific gravity and a higher melting point than the solder bump, making the first surface face up, heating the solder bump to a temperature equal to or higher than the melting point of the solder bump so that the metal particle precipitates in the solder bump, and forming an inter-metal compound layer, which has a higher melting point than a melting point of the solder bump, at an interface between the solder bump and the electrode by using the metal particle, which has precipitated, and the tin component of the solder bump. | 04-11-2013 |
20130090021 | CONNECTION MEMBER, SOCKET MODULE, SOCKET AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CONNECTION MEMBER - A connection member to be inserted into a through-hole of a socket module that is electrically connected between an electronic component and a substrate, the connection member includes: a first end portion that is connected to the electronic component; a second end portion that is connected to the substrate; a plurality of upper flexure portions that correspond to projections of a waveform arranged near the electronic component; and a plurality of lower flexure portions that correspond to projections of the waveform arranged near the substrate; wherein the connection member is a single conductor member with elasticity and is formed in the shape of the waveform. | 04-11-2013 |
20130090128 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, SERVICE-AREA ADJUSTING METHOD, AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - There are provided a communication device, service-area adjusting method, and mobile communication system capable of accurately executing an optimization algorithm on an actual field. An EMS (a communication device) acquires an index value indicating downstream reception quality of a mobile station in a communication area from the mobile station via a base station in the communication area with respect to each mobile station. Then, the EMS determines whether to start or end the execution of arithmetic processing of a transmission parameter of each base station in the communication area by comparing a value based on at least any of average communication quality between the base station and mobile station in the communication area, throughput, and received power, which is obtained based on an index value of each mobile station, with a reference value. | 04-11-2013 |
20130090574 | MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND WALKING POSTURE DIAGNOSTIC METHOD - A mobile terminal device includes a first detection unit that detects a displacement value associated with movement in an up-and-down direction, a second detection unit that detects a displacement value associated with movement or turning in a predetermined direction, a storage unit that stores a locus serving as a reference in relation to a walking posture, a extraction unit that extracts a timing of a predetermined characteristic displacement appearing at every step based on detected upward and downward displacement values at plurality timings, a calculation unit that selects extracted successive walking timings, and calculate a locus caused by walking of the selected walking timings based on a displacement value detected by the second detection unit, and a determination unit that determines whether the calculated locus satisfies the reference of the walking posture stored in the storage unit, whereby, a locus of a walking posture can be efficiently obtained. | 04-11-2013 |
20130090897 | DESIGN SUPPORT APPARATUS, METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A design support apparatus includes a processor, and a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the processor executes a process that includes acquiring first CAD data that indicates a part model that models a part, extracting characteristics of the part model from a plurality of outermost planes of the part model on a plane-by-plane basis, the part model being indicated by the first CAD data, and determining, in the case where the characteristics extracted by the extracting satisfy a certain condition, an outermost plane corresponding to the characteristics as a surface of the part to be mounted on a printed board that is modeled by a printed board model indicated by second CAD data. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091155 | DATA CONVERTING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - A data converting apparatus includes a storage unit that stores encoded meta-definition information, a data converting function, a conversion rule table, and a conversion rule; an input unit that receives input of data to be converted; a detecting unit that uses the encoded meta-definition information to detect metadata codes for a conversion source and a conversion destination for which the conversion rule code matches; a determining unit that determines whether the detected metadata codes match; a specifying unit that, by referring to a conversion rule and based on the determination result at the determining unit, specifies the data converting function, according to the combination of the metadata codes for the conversion source and for the conversion destination; and a converting unit that uses the specified data converting function to convert the data of the conversion source to have a property prescribed by metadata for the conversion destination. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091477 | DESIGN SUPPORT APPARATUS AND DESIGN SUPPORT METHOD - A first generation unit generates, with reference to logical connection information of a semiconductor integrated circuit to be designed, first information indicating logical connection information where a test circuit used for testing the operation of the semiconductor integrated circuit is not to be inserted. A second generation unit generates second information where a test circuit is to be inserted, by excluding the logical connection information indicated by the first information generated by the first generation unit from logical connection information included in test difficulty information whose parameters indicate difficulties of controllability and observability of a signal that propagates in the semiconductor integrated circuit. | 04-11-2013 |
20130092433 | UNDERWATER APPARATUS - There is provided an underwater apparatus that includes a housing including a certain device, a pair of cable couplings including gimbals through which tail cables extends from the device to the outside of the housing pass, and the pair of cable couplings that connect the tail cables passing through the gimbals to a submarine cable, and a connecting holder configured to include gimbal rings fitted to the gimbals and to connect the pair of cable couplings to the housing via the gimbal rings so that the pair of cable coupling is rotatable relative to the housing, the connecting holder including an opening from which the gimbals are introduced toward the gimbal rings, wherein the connecting holder includes notches provided in an edge of the opening and the notches are formed so that the pair of cable coupling is rotatable relative to the housing. | 04-18-2013 |
20130092952 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A transistor which includes an electron transit layer and an electron supply layer which are stacked in a thickness direction of a substrate; an electron transit layer formed over the substrate in parallel to the electron transit layer and the electron supply layer; an anode electrode which forms a Schottky junction with the electron transit layer; and a cathode electrode which forms an ohmic junction with the electron transit layer are provided. The anode electrode is connected to a source of the transistor, and the cathode electrode is connected to a drain of the transistor. | 04-18-2013 |
20130093251 | REGULATOR DEVICE - A regulator device includes: a plurality of regulators that are equipped in parallel between a power input terminal and a power output terminal and converts a power inputted from the power input terminal to output to the power output terminal; a dummy load circuit that is coupled to a power output system different from a power output system to the respective power output terminal of the plurality of regulators; a selector that selects a regulator to carry out an output to the power output terminal and a regulator to carry out an output to the dummy load circuit among the plurality of regulators; and a controller that obtains conversion efficiency characteristic information representing a characteristic of power conversion efficiency relative to a current flowing in the dummy load circuit for the regulator to carry out an output to the dummy load circuit. | 04-18-2013 |
20130093645 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CREATING SETTING INFORMATION - A setting information creating program causes a computer to execute a process of creating first transition information indicating a screen transition process related to a certain program. The setting information creating program cause the computer to execute a process of creating second transition information indicating a transition process related to positional information indicating a screen display position of the certain program. The setting information creating program causes the computer to execute a process of creating setting information for displaying a screen of the program to be changed based on the first transition information at a position corresponding to the positional information to be changed based on the second transition information. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094465 | RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD AND A BASE STATION AND USER TERMINAL THEREOF - A radio communication system where a terminal transmits a data signal to a base station using data transmission band frequencies assigned by the base station, and performs time-division multiplexing of a pilot signal with the data signal and transmits the resulting signal to the base station. Including deciding a pilot transmission band for the user terminal covering the data transmission band of the user terminal by frequency offset; and instructing the user terminal to transmit the pilot signal using the decided pilot transmission band. A CAZAC sequence is used as the pilot signal. The instructing includes calculating a frequency offset amount for the user terminal, and a cyclic shift amount of the CAZAC sequence and the frequency offset amount; instructing the user terminal to perform cyclic shift of the CAZAC sequence by the cyclic shift amount, and perform frequency offset of the pilot transmission band by the frequency offset amount. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094852 | FREQUENCY OFFSET MONITORING DEVICE AND OPTICAL COHERENT RECEIVER - The present invention provides a frequency offset monitoring device and an optical coherent receiver. A low speed frequency offset monitoring device comprises a signal speed lowering section, for lowering the speed of an inputted signal and outputting the speed lowered signal, and a frequency offset monitor, for monitoring frequency offset of the speed lowered signal outputted by the signal speed lowering section. | 04-18-2013 |
20130095767 | RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A first radio communication apparatus includes a controller and a transmitter. The controller determines timing capable of transmitting a control parameter used for a process for establishing connection to a second radio communication apparatus when the connection is not established between the first and second radio communication apparatus. The transmitter transmits a message including data different from the control parameter to the second radio communication apparatus at determined timing. The second radio communication apparatus includes a receiver and a data processing unit. The receiver receives from the first radio communication apparatus the message transmitted at timing at which the first radio communication apparatus is able to transmit the control parameter. The data processing unit extracts data included in the received message. | 04-18-2013 |
20130096464 | SOUND PROCESSING APPARATUS AND BREATHING DETECTION METHOD - A sound processing apparatus comprising a processor configured to convert an input audio signal into a frequency domain signal; calculate similarity of the current frequency domain signal and a previous frequency domain signal; and determine a breathing state of a biological entity indicated by the audio signal, based on the similarity. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097266 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS IMPLEMENTING EDITING MESSAGE - An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives messages, and a control unit that sends an editing message indicating that a reply message responding to a received message received by the receiving unit is being edited, to a sending source of the received message. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097382 | MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR SYSTEM, COMPUTER PRODUCT, AND CONTROL METHOD - A multi-core processor system includes a first processor that among cores of the multi-core processor, identifies other cores having a cache miss-hit rate lower than that of a given core storing a specific program in a cache, based on a task information volume of each core; a control circuit that migrates the specific program from the cache of the given core to a cache of the identified core; and a second processor that, after the specific program is migrated to the cache of the identified core, sets as a write-inhibit area, an area that is of the cache of the identified core and to which the specific program is stored. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097384 | MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR SYSTEM, CACHE COHERENCY CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - A multi-core processor system includes a processor configured to establish coherency of shared data values stored in a cache memory accessed by a multiple cores; detect a first thread executed by a first core among the cores; identify upon detecting the first thread, a second thread under execution by a second core other than the first core and among the cores; determine whether shared data commonly accessed by the first thread and the second thread is present; and stop establishment of coherency for a first cache memory corresponding to the first core and a second cache memory corresponding to the second core, upon determining that no shared data commonly accessed is present. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097389 | MEMORY ACCESS CONTROLLER, MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR SYSTEM, MEMORY ACCESS CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - A memory access controller includes a semiconductor circuit configured to classify into a first group of cores having made an exclusive access request to shared memory and a second group of cores not having made an exclusive access request to the shared memory, multiple cores capable of accessing the shared memory; detect a core having completed the exclusive access among the first group of cores; and send to a core among the first group of cores and standing by for the exclusive access, a notification of release from a standby state, when detecting a core having completed the exclusive access. | 04-18-2013 |
20130098669 | WIRING SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR WIRING SUBSTRATE - A wiring substrate includes: a plate-like base material containing carbon fibers; a wiring layer formed on a surface of the base material; a first via including a first through hole penetrating through the base material, a first resin layer formed on an inner wall of the first through hole and including a second through hole, and a first conductive layer formed on an inner wall of the second through hole; and a second via including a third through hole penetrating through the base material and a second conductive layer formed on an inner wall of the third through hole, wherein an inside diameter of the third through hole is greater than an inside diameter of the second through hole. | 04-25-2013 |
20130099768 | CONTROL CIRCUIT AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A control circuit includes: a first switching device that includes a source, a gate, and a drain; a negative voltage generating circuit that generates, from a pulse width modulation signal that controls the gate of the first switching device, a negative potential voltage which is equal to or smaller than a threshold of the first switching device; a gate control circuit that outputs a signal obtained by shifting a level of the pulse width modulation signal by an amount equal to the negative potential voltage to the gate of the first switching device; a second switching device that is disposed on a side of the drain of the first switching device; and a negative voltage detecting circuit that outputs a signal for turning ON the second switching device upon detecting that the negative potential voltage generated by the negative voltage generating circuit has reached a predetermined negative potential. | 04-25-2013 |
20130099982 | PATCH ANTENNA - There is provided a patch antenna that includes a substrate, a ground electrode placed on the substrate, a first patch configured to be electrically conductive and placed above the ground electrode for transmitting or receiving a first frequency, a second patch configured to be electrically conductive and placed above the first patch for transmitting or receiving a signal of the second frequency, a dielectric member configured to be placed on the ground electrode and support the first patch and the second patch, a first conductor configured to be formed in a cylindrical shape, the first conductor being connected to the first patch and the ground electrode, a second conductor configured to be formed in a cylindrical shape, the second conductor being connected to the second patch and the ground electrode, a first feed line connected to the first patch, and a second feed line connected to the second patch. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100094 | INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM, DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE DRIVE METHOD AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus comprises a display unit capable of continuing a display even after the power is shut off, a short range communication unit for receiving display data provided externally and a display control unit for the received data, while an information display apparatus comprises a storage unit for storing display data and a communication unit for transmitting the display data over to the display apparatus, and further the information display apparatus comprises a mechanical quick release mechanism for mounting the display apparatus onto the own apparatus for example, in order to configure a system, which is capable of detachable attachment, between the display apparatus having no power supply and the information display apparatus, such as a wireless terminal, which sends display data and power to the display apparatus. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100502 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGES - An area designation unit designates a processing area within an input image. An image processing unit performs predetermined processing on the processing area. A marker area detection unit detects a marker area in the input image, the marker area being capable of accommodating a marker that demarcates the processing area. A marking unit determines a position in the marker area for placing the marker, based on priority conditions. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100906 | RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD AND RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A radio communication method for performing radio communication by using a plurality of frequency bands in a first radio communication apparatus and a second radio communication, the method including transmitting to the second radio communication apparatus a first channel state information request corresponding to each of the plurality of frequency band, by the first radio communication apparatus; and transmitting to the first radio communication apparatus an information relating to a channel state for the frequency band specified by the first channel state information request, when the second radio communication apparatus receives the first channel state information request, by the second radio communication apparatus. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100908 | REPORTING METHOD OF TERMINAL BUFFER STATE REPORT (BSR), OBTAINING METHOD FOR OBTAINING BSR FROM BASE STATION, AND CORRESPONDING TERMINAL, BASE STATION, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention provides a reporting method of terminal Buffer State Report (BSR), obtaining method for obtaining the BSR from a base station, and corresponding terminal, base station, communication system. The terminal includes: buffer state index table; at least one extended buffer state index table; index table selector, selecting one of the index table from the said buffer state index table and the said at least one extended buffer state index table; index determination device, determining the index which is corresponding to the data quantity in the said index table according to the data quantity in the terminal buffer; index sender, sending the said index to the base station. | 04-25-2013 |
20130101271 | VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A video processing apparatus is disclosed. An acquisition part acquires category information of video data of a process target. A storage part stores each set of category information by associating extraction information indicating a location in a portion of the video data. A creation part specifies a location used for thumbnail data from the video data of the process target based on the extraction information, which is stored in the storage part and corresponds to the category information acquired by the acquisition part. | 04-25-2013 |
20130102301 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND NODE APPARATUS - A control apparatus controlling an operation state of functions which are included in a node apparatus connected to a network. The control apparatus includes a forecasting part, and a control part. The forecasting part forecasts a maximum traffic amount in a target term in the node apparatus. The control part controls the operation state of the node apparatus to stop functions, other than a function which is demanded to process the maximum traffic amount, in the target term. | 04-25-2013 |
20130102911 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND PULSE RATE CALCULATING METHOD - In an electronic device, a pulse rate measuring unit measures user's pulse rate. For example, the pulse rate measuring unit obtains a change in blood flow from a light passing through a user's fingertip, and measures user's current pulse rate based on it. A pulse rate memory unit has previously stored user's previous pulse rate. A pulse rate calculator calculates the user's pulse rate while changing a ratio of the user's current pulse rate measured by the pulse rate measuring unit to the user's previous pulse rate previously stored in the pulse rate memory unit after starting to measure the user's pulse rate. The user's pulse rate calculated by the pulse rate calculator is displayed as the user's pulse rate on a display unit. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103914 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR SAMPLING DATA - A data sampling apparatus includes a plurality of first-in first-out memories and a processor that executes a procedure. The procedure includes classifying received data signals in accordance with types of the data signals; storing the classified data signals in the corresponding memories; calculating a sampling rate based on a ratio between a total traffic volume of the received data signals per given time and a traffic volume of data signals stored in each of the memories per given time; and sampling the data signals stored in each of the memories based on the corresponding calculated sampling rate. | 04-25-2013 |
20130104008 | Error-Correcting Encoding Apparatus - An apparatus for encoding source data, that includes a first encoder configured to encode the source data to produce first additional data; and a randomizing unit configured to randomize the source data to produce randomized data; and a second encoder configured to encode the randomized data to produce second additional data; and a selector configured to select a number of bits from the first and second additional data to produce first selected data and second selected data, wherein the number of selected bits is selected based upon a data length of an output sequence determined by a transmission frame format, and wherein the data length of the output sequence is variable. | 04-25-2013 |
20130104129 | VIRTUAL-MACHINE CONTROL SYSTEM AND VIRTUAL-MACHINE MOVING METHOD - A virtual-machine control program includes an operational-status inquiry unit that inquires of another machine about a memory usage status of virtual machines realized on another machine; a swapping-target selecting unit that selects a virtual machine capable of being swapped for a virtual machine realized on a machine from among the virtual machines realized on another machine based on information obtained by the operational-status inquiry unit; and a swapping performing unit that swaps the virtual machine realized on the machine for the virtual machine selected by the swapping-target selecting unit. The virtual-machine control program enables to move the virtual machine to another machine without preparing a free space in advance. | 04-25-2013 |
20130113466 | PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE AND POSITION DETECTION METHOD USED THEREIN - A portable terminal device is disclosed that includes a movable part having a display part; an arm part supporting the movable part so that the movable part is rotatable at least ±90° with reference to a rotation center position around a rotation center; and a position detection part detecting the position of the movable part relative to the arm part. The position detection part includes magnets, magnetic sensors detecting the magnetic fields thereof, and a calculation part determining the position of the movable part based on sensor outputs. The magnets are provided in one of the arm part and the movable part so as to be 90° apart from each other around the rotation center. The magnetic sensors are provided in the other one of the arm part and the movable part so as to oppose the corresponding magnets when the movable part is positioned at the rotation center position. | 05-09-2013 |
20130114499 | PILOT SIGNAL TRANSMITTING METHOD, BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION AND CELLULAR SYSTEM TO WHICH THE METHOD IS APPLIED - A transmitting method in a mobile communication system, which has a base and mobile station that performs radio communication with the base station in a cell of a radio communication area formed by the base station, and mixes, allocates unicast data and broadcast/multicast data to subframes in a radio frame, and transmits the radio frame as downstream data from the base station to the mobile station, by the base station, multiplexing cell-specific pilot signals corresponding to the unicast data to a first subframe to where data is allocated, while multiplexing cell-specific pilot signals to a second subframe to where data is allocated, where the number of the cell-specific pilot signals allocated to the second subframe is different from the number of the cell-specific pilot signals allocated to the first subframe; setting a difference between the various start phase of cell-specific pilot signals transmitted in the various subframes. | 05-09-2013 |
20130114722 | VIDEO ENCODING APPARATUS AND VIDEO DECODING APPARATUS - A video encoding apparatus includes: a reference vector deriving unit to derive as a reference vector a vector used when encoding a block that is near a block to be encoded and is included in a region where a field picture to be encoded is subjected to encode; a scaling unit to scale the reference vector based on a temporal distance between the field picture and a first encoded field picture specified by the reference vector and a temporal distance between the field picture and a second encoded field picture specified by a reference index and referenced by the block to be encoded in the field picture to generate a motion prediction vector; and a motion prediction vector correction unit to correct the motion prediction vector using a parity of the field picture, a parity of the first encoded field picture, and a parity of the second encoded field picture. | 05-09-2013 |
20130114746 | DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND TRANSMISSION DEVICE - A data transmission system includes a plurality of signal lines, a signal line determination unit, and a data transmission unit. The plurality of signal lines transmit data transmitted from a transmission-side device to a reception-side device. The signal line determination unit determines which signal line among the signal lines is used to transmit reception adjustment data to the reception-side device. The data transmission unit uses the signal line determined by the signal line determination unit to transmit the reception adjustment data to the reception-side device and uses another signal line to transmit transmission data to the reception-side device. | 05-09-2013 |
20130114750 | CONTROL CHANNEL INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND BASE STATION AND TERMINAL USING THE SAME METHOD - A radio communication system that includes an encoder configured to perform error correction coding for control channel information by a given error correction coding rate; a modulator configured to perform modulation of the error correction coded control channel information for transmission according to a given modulation scheme; and a processing section configured to perform code decimation of the error correction coded control channel information prior to the modulation, the code decimation being different according to whether the Multi Input Multi Output is applied or not. | 05-09-2013 |
20130115950 | AREA DETECTION APPARATUS, AREA DETECTION METHOD AND AREA DETECTION RECORDING MEDIUM - An area detection apparatus includes an acquirer configured to acquire received power values in a plurality of areas from neighboring base stations, an identifier configured to identify an area including a handover point for a mobile station on the basis of the received power values, a calculator configured to calculate communication qualities of the neighboring base stations in the area including the handover point, and a determiner configured to determine whether or not the area including the handover point is an area incapable of communication with the neighboring base stations with a predetermined communication quality on the basis of the communication qualities of the neighboring base stations. | 05-09-2013 |
20130116819 | ESTIMATING APPARATUS, ESTIMATING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - An estimating apparatus includes a processor configured to update a state of a first particle group indicating a state of a mobile body, from a current state to a next state through a simulation that is based on a state equation of the mobile body in a space using a particle filter; measure at each update, a distance between the mobile body and an object in the space; generate at each update, a second particle group indicating a state of a specific area in the space; calculate a level of likelihood for each particle of the first particle group and for each particle of the second particle group, based on the measured distance, the updated first particle group, and the generated second particle group; and identify a position of the mobile body in the space, based on the level of likelihood calculated for each particle. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117294 | TRAIL LOG ANALYSIS SYSTEM, MEDIUM STORING TRAIL LOG ANALYSIS PROGRAM, AND TRAIL LOG ANALYSIS METHOD - A trail log analysis system detects a fraudulent operation from a trail log of an information system, and confirms the correctness of a system action. An information development device generates an information development table from a trail log to be analyzed. The information development table defines a subject (who), an object (what), and an action (what is to be done) as comparison targets, and counts and record an event occurrence number corresponding to an event occurrence time recorded in a trail log for each combination of comparison targets. An accumulation device generates an accumulative information development table by accumulating the information development table corresponding to a trail log recorded previously and up to a time point immediately before the last collected trail log to be analyzed. A comparison device compares the information development table with the accumulative information development table, and outputs a comparison result. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117347 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - A communication apparatus includes a processor configured to access memory of the communication apparatus; communicate with a second apparatus; detect an access request generated by the communication apparatus; determine whether an address of access targeted data indicated in the detected access request is an address allocated to the memory of the communication apparatus; and perform control for selecting and executing based on a determination result, any one among a process of accessing the memory of the communication apparatus based on the access request and a process of communicating with the second apparatus based on the access request. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117447 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROCESS FOR MONITORING COMPUTER, ITS METHOD AND APPARATUS - For each group including a plurality of computers, a monitoring computer includes a storage storing a monitoring path which associates a monitoring-source computer that is an origin of monitoring with at least one computer that is both a monitored target and a monitoring source. When an instruction including specification information specifying a group is given, the monitoring computer references the monitoring path in the storage and distributes a monitoring path related to the group specified by the specification information to each computer belonging to the group specified by the specification information. The monitoring computer makes a request for the monitoring-source computer that is the origin of monitoring in the monitoring path to monitor another computer in conformity with the monitoring path. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117518 | SYSTEM CONTROLLER, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SAVING AND RESTORING DATA IN THE INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A system controller ( | 05-09-2013 |
20130117576 | CONVERTING APPARATUS, CONVERTING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM OF CONVERTING PROGRAM - A converting method includes storing correspondence of each of first-type coded information, included in a first-type coded information group, and one of second-type coded information, included in a second-type coded information group, based on input information, by a processor, and converting, when input data includes the first-type coded information, first-type coded information in the input data into second-type coded information, based on the correspondence. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117596 | METHOD OF ANALYZING A USAGE AMOUNT OF INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - The processing unit calculates usage amount of a program from a used amount of the processing unit and a power amount of the processing unit. The processing unit initializes a performance counter at a start of a execution of the program, calculates power amount of the program from the measured power consumption stored in the storage unit and the number of times of each event counted by the performance counter at a completion of execution of the program, and calculates usage of the program from the usage amount of the processing unit and calculated the power amount. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117720 | COMPUTER PRODUCT FOR SUPPORTING DESIGN AND VERIFICATION OF INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - Design and verification support related to integrated circuits that includes acquiring a first use case diagram representing a function of an object subject to design and verification and an activity diagram representing a processing procedure of the object; analyzing a structure of the activity diagram acquired at the acquiring step; converting the activity diagram to a second use case diagram representing a function of the object, based on the structure analyzed at the analyzing; verifying uniformity of the first use case diagram and the second use case diagram; and outputting a verification result obtained at the verifying uniformity. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117754 | MULTI-CORE SYSTEM AND SCHEDULING METHOD - A multi-core system includes multiple processor cores; a bus connected to the processor cores; multiple peripheral devices accessed by the processor cores via the bus; profile information including information concerning access of the peripheral devices by each task assigned to the processor cores; a monitor that based on the profile information, monitors access requests to the peripheral devices from tasks under execution at the processor cores and prohibits an access request that causes contention at the bus; and a scheduler that when the monitor prohibits an access request that causes contention at the bus, switches to a different task. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117762 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - An information processing apparatus includes a processor that is configured to detect a changeover request in a first mode in which a first OS executes a process that includes a second OS different from the first OS; and change the first mode over to a second mode in which the second OS executes a process that includes the first OS, upon detecting the changeover request. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117765 | MULTICORE PROCESSOR SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION COMPUTER PRODUCT - A multicore processor system is configured to cause among multiple cores, a second core to acquire from a first core that executes a first process, an execution request for a second process and a remaining period from a time of execution of the execution request until an estimated time of completion of the first process; and give notification of a result of the second process from the second core to the first core after an estimated completion time of the first process obtained by adding the remaining period to a start time of the second process. | 05-09-2013 |
20130118003 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING COIL DEVICE - A method of manufacturing a coil device includes inserting planar insulating sheets into a single conductor formed in a solenoidal coil shape from a direction intersecting with a winding axis direction. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120022 | FPGA MOUNTED APPARATUS AND FPGA CONFIGURATION METHOD - There is provided a field programmable gate array (FPGA) mounted apparatus included in a first node of a plurality of nodes connected on a network, the FPGA mounted housing apparatus including a printed circuit board (PCB) on which an FPGA is mounted, and a controller configured to issue a request to acquire configuration data of the FPGA to a second node of the plurality of nodes, and configure the FPGA based on the configuration data acquired from the second node in response to the request. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120062 | ADAPTIVE LINEARIZER WITH NARROWBAND FEEDBACK PATH - An ISI Replica unit is provided, which produces interference components similar to one due to LPF into the output of HPA MODEL unit. An HPA MODEL unit models the characteristic of HPA using the output signal of the predistorter and an error signal obtained by subtracting a feedback signal from the output of the ISI Replica so that the error signal approaches zero. The feedback signal is used after filtration by LPF, thereby including interference components. The error signal obtained by the feedback signal after LPF and the output signal of ISI Replica unit includes few interference components, thereby modeling by the HPA MODEL unit becomes accurate and the linearization performances become better. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120256 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, CONTROL PROGRAM, AND CONTROL METHOD - A control unit changes a display orientation of a display screen according to a tilt direction of a display unit when a display orientation detection unit detects the display orientation of the display screen coincides with, among orientations in which the display screen is allowed to be displayed, an orientation closest to a vertical downward direction in a state where the detected display orientation of the display screen is not changed according to the tilt direction of the display unit. The display orientation detection unit detects the display orientation of the display screen displayed on the display unit. A tilt detection unit detects the tilt direction of the display unit, which displays information, in relation to the vertical downward direction. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121155 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHANGING BETWEEN TRANSMISSION STATES IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A controller for use in a wireless telecommunications system, the telecommunications system including one or more base stations, the one or more base stations being operable to wirelessly transmit data to user equipments in a first transmission state having a first capacity and in a second transmission state having a second, higher, capacity, the one or more base stations also being operable to change between transmission states in response to a transmission state change instruction from the controller, the controller comprising a transmission state management unit operable to apply a threshold mechanism to a value representing current data load, and if the threshold mechanism is satisfied, to issue a transmission state change instruction to change between the two transmission states, wherein a transition point of the threshold mechanism for a transition from the first to the second transmission state is set independently from a transition point for a transition from the second to the first transmission state. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121182 | BASE STATION, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A base station including: a first antenna for a first wireless communication, a second antenna for a second wireless communication, and a processor to receive a request from a registered mobile terminal that is registered with the base station, to communicate with the registered mobile terminal by using the first wireless communication in accordance with the request, and to control a non-registered mobile terminal that is not registered with the base station, so as to communicate with the base station by using the second wireless communication, when the non-registered mobile terminal communicates with the base station by using the first wireless communication and a condition of a communication performed by the base station is not satisfied. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121254 | TIMING ADJUSTMENT METHOD, USER EQUIPMENT, BASE STATION, AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A mobile communication system having a user equipment that performs transmission process having transmission timing adjustment information and a base station that receives a signal sent from the user equipment, the mobile communication system includes, if a timer controlling a term of application of first transmission timing adjustment information expires before transmission of a signal including identification information of the user equipment is performed during a connection process including reception of second transmission timing adjustment information while the user equipment has the first transmission timing adjustment information and performing the connection process to the base station, the user equipment does not transmit the signal. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121285 | CONTROL CHANNEL INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND BASE STATION AND TERMINAL USING THE SAME METHOD - A radio communication system that includes an encoder configured to perform error correction coding for control channel information by a given error correction coding rate and a modulator configured to perform modulation of the error correction coded control channel information for transmission according to a given modulation scheme, code decimation being performed for the error correction coded control channel information prior to the modulation, and the code decimation being different according to whether Multi Input Multi Output is applied or not. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121318 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION FEEDBACK METHOD AND DEVICE - A method for Channel State Information (CSI) feedback in a wireless communication system includes: determining parameters required for the CSI feedback in a first wireless communication system, so that a feedback structure of the first wireless communication system in Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) is based on a feedback structure of a second wireless communication system in the PUCCH; notifying the parameters to a user equipment; transmitting a Channel State Information Reference Symbol (CSI-RS) to the user equipment periodically, so that the user equipment calculates the CSI required to be fed back; and receiving the CSI fed back by the user equipment according to the feedback structure of the first wireless communication system in the PUCCH in response to the CSI-RS, wherein information fed back for each BP is information obtained by jointly encoding optimum subband Channel Quality Information (CQI) with optimum subband Pre-encoding Matrix Information (PMI) in the BP. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121319 | TIMING ADJUSTMENT METHOD, USER EQUIPMENT, BASE STATION, AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A timing adjustment method in a mobile communication system that performs an adjustment of uplink transmission timing by random access between a user equipment and a base station, the timing adjustment method that includes performing transmission having transmission timing adjustment information in the user equipment; allocating a plurality of parameters related to a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource used for communications, between the user equipment and the base station; and if a timer controlling a term of uplink transmission timing adjustment information expires during uplink communications to the base station having the uplink transmission timing adjustment information in the user equipment, releasing only a part of the allocated plurality of parameters related to the PUCCH resource. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121347 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - When time synchronization between communication apparatuses is performed with PTP, a PTP packet storing a time stamp is transmitted/received. At that time, an RTC is provided in a PTP packet generation unit within the communication apparatus. An RTC is also provided in a PTP packet transmission unit. These RTCs are time-synchronized by a hardware operation based on PPS/System CLK. The RTCs of the PTP packet generation unit and the PTP packet transmission unit are time-synchronized, whereby a highly precise time stamp and correction value for a time can be obtained. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121356 | DRIVER CIRCUIT AND OPTICAL TRANSMITTER - An apparatus includes a first input transistor to include a base receiving a drive signal for an object to be driven, a first current source connected to an emitter side of the first input transistor and configured to control a modulation amplitude of a signal flowing to a collector of the first input transistor, a second current source connected to a collector side of the first input transistor and configured to control a biased current of a signal flowing to the collector, a first inductor configured to dispose between the collector and the second current source, and an output element connected between the second current source and the first inductor and configured to output, to the object, a current signal of which the modulation amplitude is controlled by the first current source and the biased current is controlled by the second current source. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121691 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, OPTICAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, SIGNAL CONDITIONING PROGRAM, AND SIGNAL CONDITIONING METHOD - An optical transmission system includes optical transmission apparatuses configured to transmit wavelength-division multiplexed light signals via lightpaths, each of a pair of optical transmission apparatuses includes a conditioning unit configured to adjust the optical intensities of channels included in the wavelength-division multiplexed light signal, and one or more first processors configured to control, based on a conditioning level notified, the conditioning unit; and a managing apparatus configured to manage the pair of the optical transmission apparatuses, the managing apparatus including one or more second processors configured to compute a conditioning level on a basis of system information for respective the pair of optical transmission apparatuses in the optical transmission system. | 05-16-2013 |
20130122844 | NOISE CANCELING CONTROL APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND NOISE CANCELING CONTROL METHOD - A noise canceling control apparatus obtains information about current communication quality of a terminal, obtains a terminal state, obtains canceling parameters and data indicating the degree of a canceling effect from a holding unit configured to make an association among a terminal state, canceling parameters used when a canceling process is executed for a noise, and data indicating the degree of a canceling effect, and to record the terminal state, the canceling parameters, and the data, calculates communication quality when the canceling process is assumed to be executed for the terminal by using the obtained canceling parameters using the information about the current communication quality, and the data indicating the degree of the canceling effect, outputs canceling parameters with which the communication quality is predicted to be obtained, and executes the canceling process for the noise that occurs within the terminal by using the output canceling parameters. | 05-16-2013 |
20130122885 | PARAMETER SETTING APPARATUS AND PARAMETER SETTING METHOD - A parameter setting apparatus includes a memory, and a processor that executes a procedure in the memory, the procedure including, selecting and executes one of a plurality of optimization operations to optimize a control parameter of a mobile communication network in accordance with a common value function, in response to a state variable in each of a plurality of different areas in the mobile communication network, the common value function determining an action value of each optimization operation responsive to the state variable of the mobile communication network, determining a reward responsive to the state variable in each of the plurality of areas, and performing reinforcement learning to update the common value function in response to the reward determined on each area. | 05-16-2013 |
20130122913 | TRANSITION MECHANISM FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT MOBILE OVERLAY NETWORK - The invention relates to a method in a cluster of cells in a communications network comprising switching between a first state, in which a first number of radio stations is active and a second state in which a second, different number of radio stations is active, wherein the second state is intended to provide the same geographic coverage as the first state but a different capacity, and in which the transition between states is carried out using transmission parameter adjustment, which take place in a plurality of radio stations and are co-ordinated in time for these radio stations. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124804 | DATA RESTORATION PROGRAM, DATA RESTORATION APPARATUS, AND DATA RESTORATION METHOD - A computer-readable recording medium stores a program that causes a computer capable of accessing a multicore processor equipped with volatile memories and a plurality of cores accessing the volatile memories, to execute a data restoration process. The data restoration process includes detecting a suspend instruction to any one of the cores in the multicore processor; and restoring, when the suspend instruction is detected, data stored in a volatile memory accessed by a core receiving the suspend instruction, the data being restored in a shared memory accessed by the cores in operation and based on parity data stored in the volatile memories accessed by the cores in operation other than the core receiving the suspend instruction. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124913 | MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - A management device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor executes a process including monitoring an operating state of a target device to be managed as a node of a network to be managed, moving a process executed by the target device to another node on the network, when a sign of failure is detected, as a result of the monitoring, and determining, at activation of the target device, whether there is a process having been moved from the target device to another node, and recalling the moved process from a destination node when there is the process having been moved to the another node. | 05-16-2013 |
20130125071 | CIRCUIT COMPONENT MIGRATION APPARATUS, CIRCUIT COMPONENT MIGRATION PROGRAM, AND CIRCUIT COMPONENT MIGRATION METHOD - An circuit-component-migration-apparatus includes a storage unit that stores correspondence information indicating a circuit component of a migration destination corresponding to a circuit component of a migration source, an identification unit that identifies a circuit component of the migration destination corresponding to a circuit component that is a target to be migrated based on the correspondence information, a comparison unit that compares a shape of a symbol representing the circuit component identified by the identification unit of the migration destination with a shape of a symbol representing the circuit component that is a target to be migrated, and a registration unit that associates the symbol representing the circuit component that is a target to be migrated with the identified circuit component of the migration destination and registers the associated symbol and identified circuit component in component information indicating a circuit component of the migration destination when the shapes are different. | 05-16-2013 |
20130125084 | WIRING-DESIGN SUPPORT DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM FOR WIRING-DESIGN SUPPORT PROGRAM, AND METHOD FOR WIRING-DESIGN SUPPORT - A wiring-design support device supports wiring design of a printed circuit board. The processor executes a process that includes holding, in the memory, wiring information including information relating to a plurality of signal wires to be wired in parallel between two components on the printed circuit board, generating a wiring route illustrating a wiring area where the plurality of signal wires are wired between the two components and displaying the wiring route on a display unit based on the wiring information held in the holding. And the processor generates, upon or after the wiring route generated, a detailed wiring where each of the plurality of signal wires is wired along the wiring route based on the wiring route and a wiring rule included in the wiring information, and displaying the detailed wiring on the display unit along with the wiring route. | 05-16-2013 |
20130125102 | APPLICATION SERVER - In dynamic compilation, timing of compiling is set for each method in accordance with information such as an execution frequency for each method so that methods having a large influence on the execution performance of the entire application program are compiled earlier. Thereby, the balance of execution is optimized between execution by an interpreter and execution based on native codes, and the execution performance immediately after the activation of an application program becomes stable. | 05-16-2013 |
20130125131 | MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR SYSTEM, THREAD CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - A multi-core processor system includes a first core configured to detect a state where a first thread that is allocated to a first core and a second thread that is allocated to a second core access a common resource; calculate, upon detecting the state and based on a first cycle for the first thread to be allocated to the first core and a second cycle for the second thread to be allocated to the second core, a contention cycle for the first and the second threads to cause access contention for the resource; and select a thread allocated at a time before or after the contention cycle of a core to which a given thread that is either the first or the second thread is allocated at the contention cycle; and a second core configured to switch the times at which the given thread and the selected thread are allocated. | 05-16-2013 |
20130126221 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LAYERED CIRCUIT BOARD, LAYERED CIRCUIT BOARD, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - There is provided a manufacturing method of a layered circuit board in which a first board and a second board are layered, the manufacturing. The method includes arranging an adhesive resin sheet on the first board so that one face faces the first board, the adhesive resin sheet including a plurality of variant via holes, an opening area on the one face of each of the plurality of variant via holes being larger than an opening area on the other face, filling the variant via holes with conductive paste, arranging the second board on the other face of the adhesive resin sheet after the filling with the conductive paste, and performing heat press treatment to apply pressure to the adhesive resin sheet in a layering direction of the first board and the second board under heat. | 05-23-2013 |
20130126897 | COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - An electrode ( | 05-23-2013 |
20130127518 | CONTROL CIRCUIT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A control circuit includes: a first switching element having a source, a gate, and a drain; a battery configured to supply a voltage to the gate through a second switching element; a PWM signal generator circuit configured to supply a PWM signal to the gate through a third switching element; and a gate control circuit configured to, under a power-off condition, turn on the second switching element to supply the voltage of the battery to the gate and turns off the third switching element, and configured to under a power-on condition, turn on the third switching element to supply the PWM signal voltage to the gate and turns off the second switching element. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128477 | METHOD OF DETERMINING REINFORCEMENT POSITION OF CIRCUIT SUBSTRATE AND SUBSTRATE ASSEMBLY - A method of determining a reinforcement position of a circuit board includes: setting a numerical model of a circuit board in which an electronic component is mounted in a front surface by bumps, and a reinforcing member is attached to a position corresponding to a bump located in a corner part of the electrical component in a back surface; incorporating information about a stud that is located in a periphery of the electronic component and fixes the circuit board to a chassis of the electronic device; performing a simulation for obtaining values of stresses generated in bumps of corner parts when a force is applied to the electronic component from a back side of the circuit board; and determining an arrangement of the reinforcing member in accordance with a position of the stud based on the values of stresses obtained by the simulation. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128847 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATION, METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RECEIVING DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATION, TERMINAL, BASE STATION AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting downlink control information, a method and a device for receiving downlink control information and a terminal, a base station and a communication system which includes the terminal and the base station. The Resource Indication Values (RIVs) in the Downlink Control Information (DCI) are set to different values based on the function of the DCI to be transmitted according to the embodiment provided, wherein the different scopes of values are corresponding to the different functions of DCI. The different functions may be used as the configuration signaling of Sounding Reference Signal (SRS), or used as the scheduling signaling of Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH). The embodiment provided can distinguish the different downlink control information with the same length using the Resource Indication Value (RIV) in the Downlink Control Information (DCI). | 05-23-2013 |
20130128991 | MOVING IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, MOVING IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, MOVING IMAGE CODING METHOD AND MOVING IMAGE DECODING METHOD - In a decoding apparatus in accordance with H.264, when the POC type is determined as “1” and a recovery point SEI is detected, the maximum frame number MaxFrameNum (or its integral multiple) is set as the initial value of the frame number offset (FrameNumOffset). | 05-23-2013 |
20130129002 | TRANSMISSION CONTROLLING METHOD, SENDER APPARATUS AND RECEIVER APPARATUS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A wireless communication system including a sender apparatus having a plurality of transmitting antennas that performs MIMO transmission of a plurality of data blocks; and a receiver apparatus that receives the plurality of data blocks. The sender apparatus transmits a process number via a control channel different from a data channel to the receiver apparatus, and wherein when the MIMO diversity transmission is performed, the receiver apparatus performs HARQ processing in the received data blocks based on not a process number which prevents the data blocks from competing but the received process number from the sender apparatus. | 05-23-2013 |
20130130006 | EXTERIOR FOR OBJECT AND OBJECT WITH EXTERIOR COATING - An exterior for an object includes: a base portion; an underlying layer disposed over the base portion; and a hard coat layer disposed over the underlying layer, the hard coat layer including a plurality of layers that have different hardnesses and are laminated each other. | 05-23-2013 |
20130130632 | SIGNAL GENERATOR CIRCUIT AND RADIO TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - The disclosed signal generator circuit has a four-phase signal generator circuit generating four-phase signals with a first frequency; an eight-phase signal generator circuit performing ½ frequency division of the four-phase signals to generate eight-phase signals with a second frequency; a first to a fourth harmonic rejection mixer circuits multiplying a first four-phase signal and a second four-phase signal of the four-phase signals by a first to a third eight-phase signals and a third to a fifth eight-phase signals of the eight-phase signals with mutually different combinations; a subtractor subtracting between outputs of the first and the fourth harmonic rejection mixer circuits to generate a first output signal with a third frequency; and an adder adding between outputs of the second and the third harmonic rejection mixer circuits to generate a second output signal with a third frequency whose phase is different from the first output signal by π/2. | 05-23-2013 |
20130130690 | HANDOVER PROCEDURES AND SIGNALLING FOR PLANNED CELL OUTAGE IN WIRELESS CELLULAR NETWORKS - A method of controlling handover in wireless cellular networks of user equipment in a first cell unit which is to be disabled to a second cell unit which is to provide extended coverage for the, or part of the, first cell unit, where the cell unit of the first and second cell units is a cell or a cell sector, including selecting a part of the signal bandwidth or time-frequency resource units, previously designated for use in normal operation by the second cell unit, which does not overlap with that to be used by the first cell unit during the handover; and designating the selected part for use by the user equipment to be handed over from the first cell unit. | 05-23-2013 |
20130130737 | CONTROL STATION, REMOTE STATION, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A control station connected with a plurality of remote stations, the control station being configured to communicate with a terminal via the plural remote stations, includes a memory, and a processor that, when executing a procedure stored in the memory, upon each of the plural remote stations transmitting same data to the terminal according to a transmission power pattern in which transmission power varies in a direction of frequencies or time, receives a group of data of received signal quality that is based on power received by the terminal at frequency or time intervals, and calculates a path loss value for each of the plural remote stations on the basis of a group of transmission power levels at frequency or time intervals for each of the plural remote stations and the group of data of received signal quality received from the terminal. | 05-23-2013 |
20130131886 | BLOWER CONTROL DEVICE, BLOWER CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A blower control device changes a PQ characteristic in a second table so that an operating point (Q | 05-23-2013 |
20130132048 | DESIGN-AIDING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A calculation unit performs statistical analysis of functions used in a software program under development. From the result of this statistical analysis, the calculation unit calculates indicators of possibility that executing a plurality of functions in combination improves power consumption, relative to the case of executing these functions separately, thus producing a table that associates combinations of functions with such indicators. The produced table is stored in a storage unit. A searching unit searches source code of the software program under development to find a source code portion that includes one of the combinations of functions in the stored table. A displaying unit displays the found source code portion in a manner distinguishable from other portions of the source code. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132450 | NODE DETERMINING PROGRAM, NODE DETERMINING APPARATUS, AND NODE DETERMINING METHOD - A computer-readable recording medium storing a program causing a processor to execute an operation, the operation includes associating a mathematical function of which a domain includes a key to uniquely specify data to be stored, with each node; associating an index value indicating an amount of the data, with each node; substituting the key in the mathematical function to calculate a value of the mathematical function; substituting the value of the mathematical function and the index value in a weighting function, of which a domain includes the value of the mathematical function and the index value, and in which a size relationship of values of the weighting function is defined in a range of the weighting function, to calculate a value of the weighting function for every node; determining a node in which the data is to be stored, based on the size relationship; and outputting the node. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132678 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing system has a plurality of nodes which use a snoop cache memory in each of the plurality of nodes. A directory, which maintains a cache coherence of the snoop cache memory of the plurality of nodes, has a first directory and a second directory which has a different format from a format of the first directory and is only used for a shared state. The node searches the first and second directories, and determines the other node to transmit a snoop. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132708 | MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR SYSTEM, COMPUTER PRODUCT, AND CONTROL METHOD - A multi-core processor system includes a first core that is of a multi-core processor and configured to detect preprocessing for access of shared resources by a second core that is of the multi-core processor excluding the first core, when the first core is accessing the shared resources shared by the multi-core processor; and switch a task being executed by the second core to another task upon detecting the preprocessing. | 05-23-2013 |
20130133083 | MEDIATION PROCESSING METHOD, MEDIATION APPARATUS AND SYSTEM - A disclosed mediation apparatus collects data of transactions between a provider holding data of a user and a terminal of the user, for authorizing utilization of the data of the user by a consumer, and stores matching data to determine whether response data received from the provider at next time and subsequent times is substantially the same as the response data previously received and reply data used when sending answer data to the provider into an automatic response data storage unit. Thus, the mediation apparatus automatically respond on behalf of the terminal of the user at the next time and subsequent times. Therefore, it is possible to simplify user operations. | 05-23-2013 |
20130135053 | POWER AMPLIFIER - A power amplifier includes a first matching circuit configured to perform harmonic processing of an input signal, and a second matching circuit configured to perform the harmonic processing of an output signal, the output signal being generated by amplifying a power of the input signal. The power amplifier rotates a phase of output impedance at a matching point of the harmonic included in the generated output signal when the power of the input signal is decreased from a value higher than a certain value to a value lower than the certain value. | 05-30-2013 |
20130136034 | NETWORK DESIGN DEVICE - According to the information about a request bandwidth of a path newly requested between a starting site and an ending site of the requested path and the information about the type of a device candidate which may be provided at each site and the number of ports of each device, an objective function indicating a device cost and a constraint to be considered when the objective function is minimized are set. According to the arithmetic performance of a solver for executing the design, a problem scale corresponding to one path accommodation designing operation is set. Based on the set problem scale, a mathematical programming problem for minimizing the objective function is generated. An accommodation designing process is repeated on a plurality of paths until a solution to the mathematical programming problem is obtained by the solver, and all requested paths are completely designed. | 05-30-2013 |
20130136078 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAPPING OF CONTROL MESSAGES ON THE UN-INTERFACE - An LTE mobile communication system in which relays RN ( | 05-30-2013 |
20130136084 | METHOD, MOBILE STATION AND MULTI-CARRIER COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK RESPONSE SIGNAL - A method and mobile station for transmitting uplink response signal are provided. A method for transmitting uplink response signal in a multi-carrier communication system is provided, in the multi-carrier communication system, each uplink carrier is associated with a group of downlink carriers, the group of downlink carriers are part of all downlink carriers in the multi-carrier communication system. The method includes distributing uplink control channel resource for each downlink carriers associated with an uplink main carrier in the uplink main carrier; according to a response signal state, selecting uplink control channel resource from the distributed uplink control channel resource for transmitting uplink response signal and selecting modulated symbol mapping; and transmitting the uplink response signal by using the selected uplink control channel resource and the modulated symbol mapping. | 05-30-2013 |
20130136136 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING RECEIVED DATA - An apparatus, upon receiving a first data segment, stores, in a processing queue, a data-segment processing request associated with the first data segment. When the data-segment processing request is extracted from the processing queue, the apparatus performs predetermined processing on the first data segment associated with the data-segment processing request to generate a second data segment, and stores the generated second data segment in a reception buffer provided for each of destinations of data segments. The apparatus stores a holding-stop processing request in the processing queue when the second data segment is stored in the reception buffer being empty, and sends all of one or more second data segments stored in the reception buffer, at once, to a destination associated with the reception buffer when the holding-stop processing request is extracted from the processing queue. | 05-30-2013 |
20130136206 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A transmission apparatus in a radio communication system which simultaneously uses a plurality of different radio frequencies to transmit signals. The apparatus includes a radio format setting portion, which is provided for each transmission frequency of the plurality of different radio frequencies and separately sets a radio format of transmission signals for each transmission frequency; and a transmitter, which is provided for each transmission frequency of the plurality of different radio frequencies and transmits signals at each of said transmission frequencies. Each radio format setting portion sets a pilot length of the transmission signals separately for each transmission frequency of the plurality of different radio frequencies. | 05-30-2013 |
20130136296 | DIGITAL WATERMARK EMBEDDING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND DIGITAL WATERMARK DETECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A digital watermark embedding apparatus is disclosed. A first codeword including a bit sequence of digital watermark information is generated. A cyclic shift sequence is generated based on the digital watermark information. A second codeword is generated by cyclically shifting the first codeword based on the generated cyclic shift sequence. The generated second codeword is embedded in contents. | 05-30-2013 |
20130136320 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING AUTHENTICATION PROGRAM, AUTHENTICATION DEVICE, AND AUTHENTICATION METHOD - A computer-readable recording medium storing an authentication program for causing a computer to execute an authentication process, the authentication process includes: extracting a plurality of face information from an image acquired; when the plurality of face information include both first face information registered in authentication information and second face information not registered in the authentication information, registering the second face information in the authentication information; and if new face information extracted from new image is the second face information stored in the authentication information, determining that an authentication for the new face information is successful. | 05-30-2013 |
20130137416 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT STATION, AND METHOD FOR MANAGING - In order to properly expel one or more mobile terminals from a cell that a wireless base station is accommodating, the management station includes at least one processor configured to obtain, for each of the plurality of mobile terminals, speed data indicating a moving speed of the mobile terminal; select one or more mobile terminals each having a moving speed, indicated by the speed data, satisfying a first criterion among the plurality of mobile terminals; and control the wireless base station such that the selected mobile terminals are out of communication with the cell. | 05-30-2013 |
20130137447 | INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE COORDINATION METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROL CHANNEL AND DATA CHANNEL - An inter-cell interference coordination for a control channel where a base station of a first cell receives information, that is needed during allocating control channel resources to each user of a second cell that needs interference coordination, from a base station of the second cell, determines the control channel resources which will be allocated to the users of the second cell that need interference coordination, allocates the control channel resources used by the users of the first cell, judges whether search spaces of the control channel resources that are allocated to the users of the first cell and second cell satisfy an orthogonal requirement, and if not, forbids the users of the first cell to use the control channel resources that are allocated to the users of the first cell. | 05-30-2013 |
20130137453 | TERMINAL CONTROL APPARATUS, MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TERMINAL, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A terminal control apparatus that controls a mobile communication terminal that receives wireless signals at periodical reception times, includes a memory and a processor that estimates a position of the mobile communication terminal at each time including the periodical reception times based on positions identified by the wireless signals, judging whether at least one of the estimated positions is included in a dead zone, based on information indicating the dead zone, calculates, when judged that at least one of the estimated positions is included in the dead zone, at least one time that comes before a time at which the mobile communication terminal enters the dead zone and that comes after one of the periodical reception times before the time at which the mobile communication terminal enters the dead zone, and controls the mobile communication terminal so that the mobile communication terminal receives a wireless signal at the calculated time. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138686 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ARRANGING QUERY - An arrangement device includes an acquisition unit, a specifying unit, and a determination unit. The acquisition unit acquires information representing the number of times of communication between queries executed in a plurality of devices in which the plurality of queries are arranged, the query being used for performing processes when data meets set conditions. The specifying unit specifies a set of queries based on the number of times of communication that is represented by the information acquired by the acquisition unit. The determination unit determines to arrange the set of queries specified by the specifying unit in a same device. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138710 | INDIVIDUAL-SPECIFIC INFORMATION GENERATION APPARATUS AND INDIVIDUAL-SPECIFIC INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD - The generation of individual-specific information having a good reliability and uniqueness is made possible with a little circuit scale. For this purpose, in an individual-specific information generation apparatus, a plurality of digital circuits are in the same circuit configuration. Each of the digital circuits outputs a fixed or a random number output value individually without their output with respect to a certain input being determined unambiguously among the digital circuits. In each of the digital circuit, an order is defined in advance. A random number judgment unit judges whether the output value is a random value or fixed, for each of the plurality of digital circuits. An individual-specific information generation unit generates the individual-specific information based on information of the order defined in the digital circuit judged by the random number judgment unit as having a fixed output value among the plurality of digital circuits and the output value. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138834 | SERVER DEVICE, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND METHOD OF ASSURING DATA ORDER - A stop unit stops transmitting data to a plurality of nodes for every predetermined period. An acquisition unit acquires versions of routing tables, which are updated in accordance with movement of a query, from the plurality of nodes when the transmission of the data is stopped. A comparison unit compares the versions of the routing tables of the plurality of nodes that are acquired. when there is a node in which the routing table of an old version is stored as a result of the comparison, an update unit updates the routing table of the node. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138849 | MULTICORE PROCESSOR SYSTEM, COMPUTER PRODUCT, ASSIGNING METHOD, AND CONTROL METHOD - A multicore processor system includes core configured to detect a process assignment instruction; acquire a remaining time obtained by subtracting a processing time of interrupt processing assigned to an arbitrary core of a multicore processor from a period that is from a calling time of the interrupt processing to an execution time limit of the interrupt processing, upon detecting the process assignment instruction; judge if the remaining time acquired at the acquiring is greater than or equal to a processing time of processing defined to limit an interrupt in the process; and assign the process to the arbitrary core, upon judging that the remaining time is greater than or equal to the processing time of the processing defined to limit an interrupt in the process. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138850 | INTERRUPT CONTROL METHOD AND MULTICORE PROCESSOR SYSTEM - In an interrupt control method of a multicore processor system including cores, a cache coherency mechanism, and a device, a first core detecting an interrupt signal from the device writes into an area prescribing an interrupt flag in the cache memory of the first core, first data indicating detection of the interrupt signal, and notifies the other cores of an execution request for interrupt processing corresponding to the interrupt signal, consequent to the cache coherency mechanism establishing coherency among at least cache memories of the other cores when the first data is written; and a second core different from the first core, maintaining the first data written as the interrupt flag, and notified of the execution request executes the interrupt processing, and writes over the area prescribing the interrupt flag written in the cache memory of the second core, with second data indicating no-detection of the interrupt signal. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138886 | SCHEDULER, MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR SYSTEM, AND SCHEDULING METHOD - A scheduler that causes a given core in a multi-core processor to determine if a priority level of a process that is to be executed by a core of the multi-core processor is greater than or equal to a threshold; save to a cache memory of each core that executes a process having a priority level greater than or equal to the threshold, data that is accessed by the process upon execution; save to a memory area different from the cache memory and to which access is relatively slower, data that is accessed by a process having a priority level not greater than or equal to the threshold; and save the data saved in the memory area, to a cache memory of a requesting core, when the requesting core issues an access request for the data saved in the memory area. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138943 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEM MOUNTED THE SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE - An electronic system has a plurality of semiconductor integrated circuit deices which are connected in series via a single signal line. One semiconductor integrated circuit device of the plurality of semiconductor integrated circuit devices sequentially reads the setting data of each of the plurality of the semiconductor integrated circuit devices from a storage unit, sets the setting data of the one semiconductor integrated circuit device to a functional circuit of the one semiconductor integrated circuit device, and transfers second setting data of another semiconductor integrated circuit device to the another semiconductor integrated circuit device via the single signal line. | 05-30-2013 |
20130139016 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A debug system scans a scan memory element group having a plurality of scan memory elements which are connected in series in a semiconductor integrated circuit device and collects data in the scan memory element group. The semiconductor integrated circuit device has an end code register which is provided between an input terminal and an input side of the scan memory element group and holds an end code, a start code register which is provided between an output terminal and an output side of the scan memory element group and holds a start code, and a scan control circuit which controls shift operations of the scan memory element group, the end code register and the start code register, and outputs scan data to the output terminal. | 05-30-2013 |
20130139538 | ADSORPTION HEAT PUMP - An adsorption heat pump includes: an evaporator configured to evaporate a refrigerant; and an adsorbent heat exchanger provided with an adsorption member configured to adsorb vapor evaporated by the evaporator, and a heat transfer tube in which a heating medium flows. Here, the adsorbent heat exchanger includes a pressing mechanism configured to press and compress the adsorption member depending on a temperature of the heating medium flowing inside the heat transfer tube. | 06-06-2013 |
20130139998 | COOLING SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, AND METHOD FOR COOLING HEATING ELEMENT - A cooling system includes a first cooling part to cool a connecting part of a heating element with a first coolant having an electrical insulating property, the connecting part providing electrical connection between the heating element and a board, and a second cooling part to cool another part of the heating element with a second coolant, said other part being different from the connecting part. | 06-06-2013 |
20130140069 | CONDUCTIVE BONDING MATERIAL, ELECTRONIC COMPONENT, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A conductive bonding material includes: copper particles coated with either gallium or gallium alloy; and either tin particles or tin alloy particles. An electronic component includes: a wiring board having electrode pads; a component mounted on the wiring board and having a plurality of electrodes; a sealing resin covering the component; and a plurality of terminals coupled to a wiring line in the wiring board to an external substrate, wherein the plurality of electrodes being coupled to the electrode pads through a conductive bonding material containing copper particles coated with either gallium or gallium alloy particles and either tin particles or tin alloy particles. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141078 | POWER MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND POWER TEMPERATURE CONVERTER - A power measurement system includes: a power temperature converter attached to a power supply line of an electric instrument and having a temperature changed corresponding to a current flowing through the power supply line; a temperature measurement apparatus configured to measure the temperature of the power temperature converter; and an analyzer configured to analyze power consumed by the electric instrument by using a measurement result of the temperature of the power temperature converter obtained by the temperature measurement apparatus. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141547 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus acquires camera images captured by cameras mounted in a vehicle, specifies a position of each pixel of an image lower than a horizontal line among the acquired camera images on a bottom surface of a virtual projection plane that is a hemisphere of an infinite circle with a planar bottom surface, specifies a position of each pixel of an image higher than the horizontal line on a hemisphere surface of the virtual projection plane, specifies a position of a pixel of each camera images specified on the virtual projection plane on a stereoscopic projection plane, specifies each position on an image frame corresponding to the position of the pixel of each camera images specified on the stereoscopic projection plane based on a predetermined point of view position and renders a value of a pixel of a corresponding camera images at each specified position. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141611 | IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - A memory unit stores as conversion information which is derived based on a correction coefficient which provides, in a predetermined allowable range from a minimum value, a sum of a norm of a difference between a color difference of a correction target color and a target color which is a target of correction of the correction target color and a correction color obtained by correcting the correction target color using the correction coefficient, and a norm of the correction coefficient to which a predetermined weight coefficient is applied. A color correcting unit converts a color of each pixel of an image captured by an image capturing unit based on the conversion information. | 06-06-2013 |
20130142092 | RADIO COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A radio communication terminal includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire property information indicating a property that is used when a data communication route, on which data communication is performed with other radio communication terminals, is determined, a calculator configured to calculate variation of the property by using the acquired property information, and a controller configured to change a determination reference for whether to change the data communication route in response to the calculated variation of the property. | 06-06-2013 |
20130142107 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, RELAY STATION, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - The relay station performs wireless communications with a base station, and a mobile station performs wireless communications with the base station or relay station. The relay station limits reception of a radio signal from the base station at timing at which a radio signal is transmitted to the mobile station. The relay station transmits a message # | 06-06-2013 |
20130142239 | PEAK SUPPRESSOR, RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND PEAK SUPPRESSION METHOD - There is provided a peak suppressor including a first peak position detector to detect a first time when amplitude of a transmission signal changes in a convex manner and exceeds a specific level as a first peak position, a second peak position detector to detect a second time that is different by a predetermined time from the first peak position when the amplitude of the transmission signal exceeds the specific level as a second peak position, a suppression signal generator to generate a suppression signal for suppressing the amplitude of the transmission signal to a value that is equal to or lower than the specific level, based on amplitude and phase of the transmission signal corresponding to the first and second peak positions detected by the first and second peak position detectors, and an adder to add the suppression signal generated by the suppression signal generator to the transmission signal. | 06-06-2013 |
20130142405 | BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION DEVICE, BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION, AND BIOMETRIC INFORMATION REGISTRATION DEVICE - A biometric authentication device including: a biometric information acquiring unit which generates a biometric input image representing user's biometric input information; and a processing unit. The processing unit extracts, for each block obtained by dividing the biometric input image, a local feature representing the geometric feature of the biometric input information; classifies the plurality of blocks into a plurality of groups by blocks with a similar local feature; extracts a second group feature representing feature of biometric input information for each group; calculates the degree of difference between each of registered biometric information and the biometric input information based on a first group feature for each group set for a registered biometric image representing the registered biometric information and the second group feature; selects a prescribed number of registered biometric information based on the degree of the difference; and matches the selected registered biometric information with the biometric input information. | 06-06-2013 |
20130142449 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a reducing unit that reduces an input image chronologically input as moving images and accumulates a reduced image of the input image as a first reduced image in a predetermined memory. The image processing apparatus further includes a generating unit that generates, as a second reduced image, one reduced image from multiple first reduced images accumulated in the memory. The image processing apparatus further includes a smoothing unit that smooths level values of a pixel included in the second reduced image and pixels surrounding the pixel with respect to each of multiple ranges set according to the width of level values of pixels. The image processing apparatus further includes a synthesizing unit that synthesizes multiple range-by-range results of the smoothing on the basis of the input images. The image processing apparatus further includes an output unit that outputs a synthesized image as an output image. | 06-06-2013 |
20130143374 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GROWING GRAPHENE - A catalyst film ( | 06-06-2013 |
20130143544 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL APPARATUS, COMPUTER PRODUCT, AND INCOMING CALL PROCESSING METHOD - A communication terminal apparatus includes a computer configured to receive an incoming call request from a caller device; identify a communication service requested by the caller device, based on the received incoming call request; retrieve from among a plurality of OSs running on the communication terminal apparatus and based on communication services processable by each OS included among the OSs, an OS capable of processing the identified communication service; and allocate the incoming call request to the retrieved OS. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144569 | COMPUTER PRODUCT, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND DATA PROCESSING DEVICE - A computer-readable recording medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a data processing process that includes designating one plane data from a plane data group representing predetermined part data among part data expressed three dimensionally; setting at a position between a plane indicated by the designated plane data and a facing plane that faces the plane and is indicated by plane data other than the designated plane data, a first set plane that faces the plane; setting at a position on an opposite side of the plane from the facing plane, a second set plane that faces the plane; and acquiring projection control information for projecting in a projection direction from any one among the first and second set planes toward the other set plane, a part group located between the first and second set planes and indicated by a part data group among the plural part data. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144577 | MEDIUM RECORDING SIMULATION PROGRAM, SIMULATION METHOD AND SIMULATION APPARATUS - A computer is caused to calculate an interface of a fluid model that expresses the fluid as a collection of particles based on input boundary condition and initial condition, to calculate surface energy of the calculated interface, to calculate a surface tension of the interface based on the calculated surface energy, and to output a state of the fluid for each specified time interval based on the calculated surface tension, so that simulation results are prevented from exhibiting non-physical behaviors. | 06-06-2013 |
20130145111 | MEMORY CONTROL DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR MEMORY CONTROL DEVICE - When the number of memories in memory clusters ( | 06-06-2013 |
20130145233 | MEMORY MODULE AND SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE - A memory module includes a plurality of memory chips stacked on top of one another, each of the plurality of memory chips including a memory cell unit that is divided into a plurality of blocks, and an address scrambling circuit that processes an input address signal and that selects a block to be operated. | 06-06-2013 |
20130145341 | SEMICONDUCTOR CIRCUIT DESIGN SUPPORT TECHNIQUE - A computer readable storage medium stores a semiconductor circuit design support program that causes a computer to execute a process. The process includes identifying wirings connected to a selected cell to be processed from an observation target circuit data storage device storing position data of each cell on a semiconductor chip on which an observation target circuit is implemented for which operations are observed in simulation and data of wirings connected to each cell. The process further includes determining an operational ratio for the selected cell from operational ratios of the identified wirings, reading out position data of the selected cell from the observation target circuit data storage device, and generating and outputting image data in which display data corresponding to the operational ratio of the selected cell is disposed according to the position data of the selected cell on a display area corresponding to the semiconductor chip. | 06-06-2013 |
20130146274 | HOUSING FOR ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - A housing for electronic equipment includes a fan and a plurality of coolant channels in a passage of a cooling fluid introduced by the fan. A passage width defined by a cooling member blocking the passage, the member being one of the plurality of coolant channels closer to the fan, is smaller than a passage width defined by a cooling member blocking the passage, the member being one of the plurality of coolant channels farther away from the fan. | 06-13-2013 |
20130146323 | GASKET AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A gasket includes a first body which is attached to a first member at outside of a gap between a first seal surface formed on the first member and a second seal surface formed on a second member and which includes a reinforcing member; a second body which is extended from the first body to the gap between the first seal surface and the second seal surface; and a protrusion portion which is protruded toward the second seal surface in a state in which the first body is attached to the first member and the second member has not yet been attached to the first member, and is pressed by the second seal surface to closely attach the second body to the first seal surface in a state in which the first body is attached to the first member and the second member is attached to the first member. | 06-13-2013 |
20130146844 | LIGHT DETECTOR AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING LIGHT DETECTOR - A first electrode layer is disposed on a substrate and a first active layer is disposed thereon. The first active layer includes a first barrier layer and a plurality of first quantum dots that are distributed in the first barrier layer and have a band gap narrower than that of the first barrier layer. A second electrode layer is disposed on the first active layer. On the second active layer, a second active layer is disposed. The second active layer includes a second barrier layer and a plurality of second quantum dots that are distributed in the second barrier layer and have a band gap narrower than that of the second barrier layer. A third electrode layer is disposed on the second active layer. The first quantum dots are larger than the second quantum dots. | 06-13-2013 |
20130146889 | COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - An embodiment of a compound semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a nitride compound semiconductor stacked structure formed on or above the substrate; and a gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode formed on or above the compound semiconductor stacked structure. A recess positioning between the gate electrode and the drain electrode in a plan view is formed at a surface of the compound semiconductor stacked structure. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147283 | POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE - A power transmission device includes a first coil and a second coil. The first coil emits a first electromagnetic wave. The second coil is arranged at a position where a center axis of the first coil and a center axis of the second coil are not overlapped to each other and emits a second electromagnetic wave having a strength distribution with a polarity opposite to a polarity of a strength distribution of the first electromagnetic wave. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147333 | INFORMATION TERMINAL APPARATUS AND HINGE UNIT - An information terminal apparatus includes a base plate fixed on the surface of a first housing, having a guide opening formed in the base plate and extended in a direction parallel to the surface of the base plate; and a swing plate including a shaft portion protruding perpendicularly to the surface of the swing plate and engaging with the guide opening, the swing plate being rotatable about the shaft portion with respect to the base plate. The information terminal apparatus further includes a cam mechanism having a cam groove provided on one of the swing plate and the base plate, and a cam pin provided on the other of the swing plate and the base plate, the cam pin engaging with the cam groove, the swing plate being rotatable while sliding in the direction with respect to the base plate when external force is applied to the swing plate. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147549 | AMPLIFIER - An amplifier includes a signal processing circuit configured to generate an orthogonal signal orthogonal to an input signal; a first D/A converter configured to convert the orthogonal signal into a first analog signal; a second D/A converter configured to convert the input signal into a second analog signal; and an analog computing circuit configured to generate a constant envelope signal based on the first analog signal from the first D/A converter and the second analog signal from the second D/A converter. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147561 | DIGITALLY CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR AND DIGITAL PLL INCLUDING THE SAME - A digitally controlled oscillator has a high-order ΔΣ modulator configured to be of at least an order higher than a first order and configured to input a digital control signal and output a pseudorandom digital output signal, a first-order ΔΣ modulator configured to input the pseudorandom digital output signal and generate a control pulse signal including a pulse width corresponding to the pseudorandom digital output signal, a low pass filter configured to pass the a low frequency component of the control pulse signal, and an oscillator configured to generate a high-frequency output signal whose frequency is controlled based on the control pulse signal outputted by the low pass filter and is a frequency corresponding to the digital control signal. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147656 | DETECTION AND RANGING SYSTEM AND ANGLE ESTIMATION METHOD - A detection and ranging system includes: M transmitting sensor elements configured to transmit a probe signal; N receiving sensor elements configured to receive an echo signal generated upon reflection of the probe signal from a target; a matrix generator configured to generate a third matrix by multiplying a first matrix by a second matrix, the first matrix including as diagonal components L received signals obtained from an effective receiving sensor array formed by synthesizing the M transmitting sensor elements and the N receiving sensor elements, the second matrix being formed of P L-dimensional vectors that are linearly independent of each other; and an estimator configured to estimate a direction of arrival of the echo signal from the target according to a pseudo covariance matrix generated by multiplying the third matrix by Hermitian conjugate transposition of the third matrix. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147918 | STEREO IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - There is provided a stereo image generation apparatus which extracts a plurality of sets of feature points from each image of a subject formed in a left-half area and a right-half area captured using a stereo adapter such that feature points in each set correspond to the same one of points on the subject. The apparatus then calculates a set of correction parameters based on the sets of feature points and an evaluation value indicating a degree of likelihood of being correct feature point for a point with respect to a corresponding feature point extracted. For a given feature point of interest extracted from the one of the left-half and right-half areas, the evaluation value is high in a possible shifting area within which image shifting may occur due to distortion caused by the structure of the stereo adapter and the mounting potion error of the stereo adapter. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148235 | MAGNETIC TAPE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MOVEMENT OF MAGNETIC HEAD - A magnetic head is arranged between two reels around which a magnetic tape is wound and contacts one side of the magnetic tape spanned between the two reels. A driver moves the magnetic head. A controller causes the driver to generate a driving force for pressing the magnetic head against the one side of the magnetic tape while keeping the magnetic head in contact with the magnetic tape. It is possible to cause the magnetic head to stably contact the magnetic tape even when the running position of the magnetic tape varies in accordance with the winding state of the magnetic tape around the reel. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148299 | COOLING DEVICE, PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD UNIT, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A cooling device includes: a heat sink and a heat pipe that are connected with each other; a metal plate that is connected with the heat pipe; an elastic member that is provided in the metal plate; and a securing member that is attachable with a printed circuit board on which a beating part is mounted, is able to be secured to the elastic member to be elastically deformed such that the metal plate is pushed to the heating part, and is able to position the metal plate in a state where the securing member is not secured to the elastic member. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148442 | MEMORY CONTROL CIRCUIT AND MEMORY CIRCUIT - A memory circuit includes a plurality of divided memory cell blocks, a write circuit and a read circuit which connect via a pair of bit lines to each of the divided memory cell blocks. The output of write data to one of the bit line of the write circuit is made to be performed by one system. It is possible to achieve an increase of speed by bit lien division while reducing increase in the memory circuit area accompanying the bit line division. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148446 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE - A semiconductor storage device includes a first cell array including a plurality of memory cells that are connected to a first word line and each of which is connected to each member of a first pair of bit lines. The semiconductor storage device also includes a second cell array including a plurality of memory cells that are connected to a second word line and each of which is connected to each member of a second pair of bit lines. The semiconductor storage device further includes a redundant cell array including a plurality of memory cells that are connected to a word line different from the first and the second word lines and each of which is connected to one member of the first pair of bit lines and to one member of the second pair of bit lines. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148507 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA TO A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - An apparatus estimates an influence rate at which transmission of data to a first wireless communication device is influenced by a second wireless communication device that is undetectable by means of carrier sense. The apparatus determines transmission quantity based on the estimated influence rate, and detects a congestion state of the first wireless communication device. The apparatus transmits data to the first wireless communication device according to the determined transmission quantity when congestion for the first wireless communication device is detected. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148552 | BASE STATION AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING COMMUNICATION RESOURCE THEREOF, USER DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A base station communicates with a user device in the mode of time division duplexing based on the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing scheme. The physics transmission resource used for communicating between the station and device is divided into a plurality of continuous frames in the time domain, each containing a plurality of sub-frames. The base station can include: a period determination device, for determining the period of the current frame, composed of a predetermined number of frames in a plurality of frames; a judgment device, for determining whether each sub-frame in the current frame is marked as the first or second state; a communication control device, for permitting the base station to communicate with the user device on the sub-frame when it is in the first state, forbidding communication only concerned with the user device performed by the base station on the sub-frame when it is in the second state. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148562 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, DATA DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS, AND DATA UPDATING METHOD - A wireless communication apparatus including: a memory to store data therein, and a processor to receive a message including setting information concerning settings of a multicast service bearer through which updating data used for updating the data is distributed, to access the multicast service bearer through which the updating data is distributed in accordance with the setting information, to receive the updating data distributed through the multicast service bearer, and to update the data by the updating data. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148600 | CHANNEL STATE FEEDBACK FOR MULTI-CELL MIMO - A method is disclosed which is intended for use in multiple-input multiple-output wireless communication systems which have a plurality of adjacent cells (cell A, cell B, cell C, cell D), each containing one or more base stations which co-operatively transmit signals to, and receive signals transmitted from, a user equipment (UE). The user equipment is operable to feed back to the relevant base station(s) CSI reports relating to channel(s) between the relevant base station(s) and the users, the base stations are operable to adapt signals for transmission to users, based on the fed back channel state information. The method involves the UE being configured to select at least one cell to be the subject of a CSI report, and to send the CSI report with an indication of the subject cell(s). Feedback overhead on the uplink is reduced when many cells co-operate in transmission to the user equipment. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148611 | CHANNEL STATE FEEDBACK FOR MULTI-CELL MIMO - Disclosed is a method for use in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication network in which the network includes a plurality of cells provided by one or more base stations operable to transmit signals on at least one downlink to, and receive signals on at least one uplink from, one or more user equipments. A user equipment feeds back to the network reports on channel state information, CSI, relating to one or more channels between base stations and that user equipment, and base stations adapt downlink signals to user equipments based on the CSI reports, the method including: identifying uplink resources for a user equipment-initiated channel state message; the user equipment judging a need for a user equipment-initiated channel state message based on information not available to the network; and the user equipment sending the user equipment-initiated channel state message to the network using the uplink resources identified. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148757 | WIRELESS TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND WIRELESS TRANSMITTER AND WIRELESS RECEIVER - A wireless transmitter capable of transmitting a data stream to a wireless receiver, the wireless transmitter includes a plurality of transmitting antennas; and a scheduler controls to increase the number of candidate beams selectable for transmitting said data stream depending on the number of data streams to be transmitted from said transmitting antennas becoming small, wherein said beams are formed by predetermined number of the plurality of transmitting antennas. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148849 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - An image processing device that accesses a storage unit that stores a feature point of a recognition-target object, the device includes an obtaining unit mounted with a user and configured to obtain image data in a direction of a field of view of the user; a recognizing unit configured to recognize the recognition-target object included in the image data by extracting a feature point from the image data and associating the extracted feature point and the feature point of the recognition-target object stored in the storage unit with each other; a calculating unit configured to calculate a location change amount of the feature point corresponding to the recognition-target object recognized by the recognizing unit from a plurality of the image data obtained at different times and calculate a motion vector of the recognition-target object from the location change amount; and a determining unit configured to determine a movement. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148850 | USER DETECTING APPARATUS, USER DETECTING MEHTOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING A USER DETECTING PROGRAM - A user detecting apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor that executes a procedure, the procedure including: obtaining a first image and a second image, extracting a user-associated area from the first image according to a given condition, dividing the user-associated area into a plurality of areas, storing a histogram of each of the plurality of areas in the memory, detecting from the second image a corresponding area that corresponds to an area that is one of the plurality of areas and has a first reference histogram according to similarity, and changing a reference histogram used for a third image from the first reference histogram to a second reference histogram. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148967 | DISTORTION COMPENSATOR, OPTICAL RECEIVER, DISTORTION COMPENSATOR AND OPTICAL RECEIVER CONTROLLING METHODS, AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A distortion compensator, an optical receiver and a transmission system including an operation selectively compensating for linear waveform distortion exerted on an optical signal via a plurality of distortion compensators and compensating for nonlinear waveform distortion exerted on the optical signal using nonlinear distortion compensators. | 06-13-2013 |
20130149979 | AMPLIFIER - An amplifier includes a first amplification element configured to amplify a first signal in one of first and second operation classes, a second amplification element configured to amplify a second signal in one of first and second operation classes, a first transmission line through which the amplified first signal is transferred, and a coupler configured to couple the transferred first signal and the amplified second signal, wherein the first amplification element amplifies the first signal in the first operation class and the second amplification element amplifies the second signal in the second operation class, when the first signal and the second signal have a first frequency band, and wherein the first amplification element amplifies the first signal in the second operation class and the second amplification element amplifies the second signal in the first operation class, when the first signal and the second signal have a second frequency band. | 06-13-2013 |
20130150106 | Interference Management In Wireless Communication Networks - A scheme to reduce the problem of radio interference between wireless devices such as MTC devices in a multi-RAT scenario. Wireless devices are configured (S | 06-13-2013 |
20130150743 | HEARTBEAT SIGNAL PROCESSOR AND HEARTBEAT SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A heartbeat signal processor includes a first and second electrodes to obtain a first and second heartbeat signals, a DC voltage calculating unit and an AC amplitude calculating unit to calculate first and second average DC voltage values of direct-current components and first and second average AC amplitude values of alternate-current components in the first and second heartbeat signals, a correlation coefficient calculating unit to calculate a correlation coefficient between the alternate-current components in the first and second heartbeat signals, an amplification factor setting unit to set an amplification factor on the basis of the first and second average DC voltage values, the first and second average AC amplitude values, and the correlation coefficient, and a signal generating unit to generate a differential heartbeat signal by amplifying the first or second heartbeat signal on the basis of the amplification factor and calculating a difference between the first and second heartbeat signals. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151023 | LIBRARY DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING LIBRARY DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR LIBRARY DEVICE CONTROL PROGRAM - A library device having a plurality of processing units that control data access to one or more drive units includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The processor executes collecting state information of each drive unit processed in each of the processing units, predicting a number of drive units in use a certain amount of time later, based on the state information of each drive unit in the processing units, predicting a number of the processing units in demand a certain amount of time later, based on restricting information that indicates the number of the drive units to be controlled by the processing unit and the number of the drive units that has been predicted, and controlling supply of electric power to the processing units, based on the number of the processing units in demand predicted by the predicting of the number of the processing units. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151173 | INTERPROCESSOR COMMUNICATION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM - An interprocessor communication measurement system for an information processing apparatus having a plurality of processors which may send data to the other processors through a plurality of communication channels, includes a socket which is connected with communication channels and electrically connects a processor attached thereto with the communication channels, a measurement node which is attached to the socket in place of the processor and electrically connected with the communication channels, wherein the measurement node includes a routing unit configured to send data destined for any one of the other processors to the one of the other processors through the communication channels and an intercepting unit configured to intercept data sent through the routing unit, and a storing unit configured to store data intercepted by the intercepting unit of the measurement node. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151185 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A previously calibrated 01 alternating data signal from the driver of an output circuit is input to an input circuit. The voltage amplitude of the input signal is measured. The measured voltage amplitude is compared with the output amplitude of a driver, and an error is stored in a memory as a correction value. A phase and the amount of jitter are measured by using a clock with a specified phase and a specified amount of jitter. The measured phase and amount of jitter are compared with a specified phase and a specified amount of jitter, and an error is stored in a memory as a correction value. In a test, the amplitude and amount of jitter of an input signal from an alien IC are measured, and the measured amplitude and amount of jitter are corrected by a correction value stored in the memory. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151213 | DESIGN SUPPORT METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND DESIGN SUPPORT DEVICE - A design support method includes: executing by a computer operations of: moving, in an arbitrary direction, a first particle that is placed at a position in an internal space of a three-dimensional model of a design target and has a diameter of a size; recording a movement trace of the first particle; and calculating a volume of a first spatial region formed by the recorded movement trace. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151586 | MESSAGE DISTRIBUTION SERVER, SIP SERVER, AND MESSAGE DISTRIBUTION METHOD - A message distribution server includes a processor. The processor is configured to receive a first SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) message from an SIP client, obtain an identifier of an SIP server from a header of the first SIP message, identify an SIP server corresponding to the obtained identifier from among a plurality of SIP servers each configured to control a session for the SIP client, and distribute the first SIP message to the identified SIP server. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151686 | MANAGEMENT DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD - A management device includes: a detection portion that detects change of common information based on an update flag set to a changed part of the common information when the common information set to a plurality of switch devices is changed; and an update portion that updates common information set to another switch device by using information on the changed part to which the update flag is set when the detection portion detects the change of the common information, the information on the changed part being included in one switch device. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151771 | DISK ARRAY DEVICE, CONTROL DEVICE AND DATA WRITE METHOD - A disk array device includes: a plurality of disk devices including a strip that stores divided data or a parity; a control device to divide the stripe for each of the plurality of disk devices into the divided data having a size of the strip and write the divided data; and a memory to store new data that corresponds to the divided data stored in the strip, wherein the control device detects whether or not the new data is discrete and performs a first write operation or a second write operation when the new data is discrete. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151808 | ALLOCATION DEVICE, ALLOCATION METHOD AND STORAGE DEVICE - An allocation device includes a memory which stores a program, and a processor which executes, based on the program, a procedure including determining an allocation of partial memory spaces to physical memory spaces included in each of N number of physical memory devices when number of the physical memory devices is changed, the physical memory space allocation determined based on one or more sets of N partial memory spaces, each partial memory space in a set of N partial memory spaces allocated to each of the N physical memory devices. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151809 | ARITHMETIC PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING ARITHMETIC PROCESSING DEVICE - An arithmetic processing device includes: an processing unit configured to execute threads and output a memory request including a virtual address; a buffer configured to register some of address translation pairs stored in a memory, each of the address translation pairs including a virtual address and a physical address; a controller configured to issue requests for obtaining the corresponding address translation pairs to the memory for individual threads when an address translation pair corresponding to the virtual address included in the memory request output from the processing unit is not registered in the buffer; table fetch units configured to obtain the corresponding address translation pairs from the memory for individual threads when the requests for obtaining the corresponding address translation pairs are issued; and a registration controller configured to register one of the obtained address translation pairs in the buffer. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151882 | COMPUTER PRODUCT, CONTROL APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD - A computer-readable recording medium stores a control program causing a processor of a first terminal to execute a process that includes detecting that a remaining battery level of the first terminal has become less than or equal to a first threshold while a task is under execution by the first terminal; suspending execution of the task upon detecting that the remaining battery level of the first terminal has become less than or equal to the first threshold; transmitting identification information of the task to a second terminal upon detecting that the remaining battery level of the first terminal has become less than or equal to the first threshold; receiving from the second terminal and after transmitting the identification information of the task, information related to a potential of executing the task; and transmitting to the second terminal, information corresponding to the information related to the potential of executing the task. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151885 | COMPUTER MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, COMPUTER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND COMPUTER SYSTEM - A service processor is separated into a first management unit which performs a primitive processing such as an access processing of hardware and a computer management device which performs a complex processing such as a monitoring of the hardware. And the computer management device is implemented a virtual machine which performs a hardware control of the plurality of hardware. Thereby, the plurality of service processors is realized by a small number of hardware. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151896 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND TEST METHOD - Based on a seed value held by a managing apparatus for a plurality of information processing apparatuses, the same number of seed values as the total number of times of tests conducted by one or more processing units included in an information processing apparatus are generated so as not to overlap with another information processing apparatus. Then, a processing unit of the one or more processing units generates the same number of test instruction sequences as the number of times of tests performed by the processing unit based on the same number of seed values as the number of times of tests performed by the processing unit among the generated seed values, and executes the generated test instruction sequences. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151909 | SYSTEM CONTROL DEVICE, LOG CONTROL METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - When an error has occurred in one of a plurality of partitions and when an unused area is present in a log area, an information processing device allocates the unused area to the log area of the partition in which the error has occurred and stores a log of the error that has occurred. When an error has occurred in one of the plurality of partitions, when an unused area is not present in a log area, and when a registration count registered in a log area associated with the partition in which the error has occurred exceeds an upper limit, the information processing device allocates, to the log area of the partition in which the error has occurred, the oldest entry in a log area that stores therein error logs the number of which is equal to or greater than an upper limit count that is previously set and stores the log of the error that has occurred. | 06-13-2013 |
20130152048 | TEST METHOD, PROCESSING DEVICE, TEST PROGRAM GENERATION METHOD AND TEST PROGRAM GENERATOR - A test method includes reading out, by a processor, a branch instruction from a storage unit that stores instructions, referring to a branch destination address of the branch instruction in a branch history unit that stores a branch history which links an address of the branch instruction and a branch destination address, reading out first random number data unconstrained by test protocols as the succeeding instruction of the branch instruction from the storage unit when the branch history of the branch instruction is not in the branch history unit, calculating the branch destination address of the branch instruction and executing the first random number data, and invalidating the result of execution of the first random number data when the calculated branch destination address and the address of the random number data differ. | 06-13-2013 |
20130152089 | JOB MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND JOB MANAGEMENT METHOD - A job management apparatus that searches for an available node to which a job is allocatable in an n-dimensional mesh-connected or n-dimensional torus-connected computer network, includes: a one-dimensional search information generating unit that generates one-dimensional search information related to one dimension of n dimensions, which includes a plurality of bits and which indicates, using one-bit information, whether or not the job is allocatable for each of computation nodes belonging to the one dimension; a search information generating unit that generates a search mask pattern with as many bits as corresponds to the plurality of bits, which includes consecutive bits being set to a preset value and corresponding to a size required by the job in the one dimension; and an available node searching unit that searches for the available node by performing, for the one dimension, a preset logic operation with the one-dimensional search information and the search mask pattern. | 06-13-2013 |
20130152111 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DRIVE UNIT, DETECTION CIRCUIT AND CONTROL METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a connector electrically connected to a drive unit in a state where the drive unit is connected to the information processing apparatus, a detector configured to detect an operation performed on a specific button disposed on the drive unit based on a change in a voltage of a specific pin of the connector in a state where the drive unit is connected to the information processing apparatus and an operational voltage is not applied to the drive unit and a power controller configured to start applying the operational voltage to the drive unit via the connector in response to the operation detected by the detector. | 06-13-2013 |
20130153661 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing device includes: a memory that stores a program including a procedure; and a processor that executes the program, the procedure including: acquiring an image including a plurality of pixels, and changing luminance of the pixel that is included in either a high luminance part of a barcode region or a low luminance part the barcode region, the barcode region being set on the image, based on a luminance difference between the high luminance part and the low luminance part. | 06-20-2013 |
20130154082 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes an insulation layer, a first semiconductor element and a second semiconductor element which are disposed within the insulation layer, a frame which has higher thermal conductivity than the insulation layer and surrounds the first semiconductor element and the second semiconductor element via the insulation layer, and a wiring layer which is disposed over the insulation layer and includes an electrode which electrically connects the first semiconductor element and the second semiconductor element. | 06-20-2013 |
20130154102 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND ITS MANUFACTURE METHOD - A support substrate includes a first surface and a second surface located above the level of the first surface. Chips are mounted on the first surface. A first insulating film is disposed over each chip. First conductive plugs are connected to the chip extending through each first insulating film. Filler material made of resin filling a space between chips. Wirings are disposed over the first insulating film and the filler material for interconnecting different chips. The second surface, an upper surface of the first insulating film and an upper surface of the filler material are located at the same level. | 06-20-2013 |
20130154135 | AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEM - An air-conditioning system includes: a first duct through which air discharged from an electronic instrument passes; a water vapor retention chamber; an evaporator configured to be heated by the air passing through the first duct and thereby to generate water vapor inside the water vapor retention chamber; a desiccant rotor including an adsorbent to adsorb moisture and configured to be driven and rotated by a driving unit; a humidification chamber; a second duct configured to feed outdoor air introduced from an outdoor space into the humidification chamber; and a third duct configured to feed the air passing through the humidification chamber into a room where the electronic instrument is installed, wherein a portion of the desiccant rotor is located inside the water vapor retention chamber, and another portion of the desiccant rotor is located inside the humidification chamber. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155055 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A display device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes a process including acquiring user information including a parallax amount, counting the number of users from each piece of the user information and generating a display schedule indicating timing of opening/closing of first and second shutters of each pair of glasses with shutters of each user on the basis of the number of users; adjusting data of a plurality of stereo images, included in image information, each of which includes a pair of a first image and a second image according to a parallax amount of each user included in each piece of the user information, controlling opening/closing of each of the first and second shutters of the each pair of glasses with shutters on the basis of the display schedule, and outputting image information adjusted by the adjustment unit. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155075 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A server device draws a processing result from software into an image memory, detects an update area containing an update between frames in an image, and compresses the image in the update area to a still image by using one of a compression format from among multiple compression formats. The server device identifies a high-frequency change area and compresses the image in the high-frequency change area to a moving image. The server device transmits still image compressed data and moving image compressed data to a client terminal. When the server device ends the compression of the moving image, it attempts to change the compression format of a still image and selects a compression format of a still image based on the result of comparing a compression ratio of still image compressed data in update areas obtained before and after a change in a compression format is attempted. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155200 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE GENERATING DEVICE AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE GENERATING METHOD - A stereoscopic image generating device includes: a brightness calculation unit that, on an image that is photographed using a stereo adapter, obtains the brightness representative value of the first area where neither of two beams from the object is incident; a threshold value determining unit that obtains a threshold value based on the brightness representative value; and an object area extracting unit that extracts two sets of pixels having brightness value higher than the threshold value on the image, as a second area where one of the two beams is incident and a third area where the another of the two beams is incident, and produces a stereoscopic image by a pair of a first partial image that is cut out from the second area, and a second partial image that is cut out from the third area. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155254 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An imaging unit has sensitivity to visible light and infrared light and captures an image. When the distribution of the color of each pixel in the image captured by the imaging unit is calculated, a deriving unit derives a predetermined feature amount indicating the range of the color distribution. An estimating unit estimates a lighting environment during imaging based on the feature amount derived by the deriving unit. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155591 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - There is provided an electronic apparatus which includes a rectangular apparatus body including a display unit, and a battery pack including a battery cell incorporated therein and including a rounded outer shape, wherein the battery pack is mounted on one side of the apparatus body in an arrangement in which the display unit and the battery cell do not overlap with each other. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155612 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT - An electronic device includes: a plurality of slots where a plurality of electronic instruments are mountable; and an electronic instrument inserted in any of the plurality of slots; wherein the electronic instrument includes a flow rate limiting member that protrudes to a side of an adjacent slot where no electronic instrument is mounted and limits a flow rate of cooling air flowing through the adjacent slot. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155761 | MAGNETIC MEMORY DEVICE AND READING METHOD OF MAGNETIC MEMORY DEVICE - A magnetic memory device including a multivalued magnetic memory cell whose electric resistances become first to fourth resistance value when first to fourth information are respectively stored, a first reference cell larger than the first resistance value and smaller than the second resistance value, a second reference cell larger than the second resistance value and smaller than the third resistance value, a third reference cell larger than the third resistance value and smaller than the fourth resistance value, and a read circuit including first to third comparators comparing a signal corresponding to the resistance of the magnetic memory cell and respective signals corresponding to the resistances of the first to third reference cells. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155764 | MAGNETORESISTANCE ELEMENT AND SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A magnetoresistance element includes: a first magnetoresistance subelement including a first free magnetization layer, a first tunnel insulating layer and a first fixed magnetization layer, the first tunnel insulating layer interposed between the first free magnetization layer and the first fixed magnetization layer; and a second magnetoresistance subelement including a second free magnetization layer, a second tunnel insulating layer and a second fixed magnetization layer, the second tunnel insulating layer interposed between the second free magnetization layer and the second fixed magnetization layer, wherein the first and second magnetoresistance subelements are stacked each other, and an order of the first free magnetization layer and the first fixed magnetization layer is opposite to an order of the second free magnetization layer and the second fixed magnetization layer in a thickness direction of the magnetoresistance element. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155987 | Method of Resource Allocation, System and Transmitter - A method of resource allocation, system and transmitter that the method includes scheduling a plurality of receivers by a transmitter according to requests for transmitting uplink data sent by the plurality of receivers, determining, respectively for each of the plurality of receivers, the uplink shared transmission channel resources, the used mapping relation of resources and the final cyclic shift n(DM_RS) for indicating an uplink feedback channel, according to the result of scheduling, a predefined mapping relation of resources, a spare mapping relation of resources and the n(DM_RS) and notifying the plurality of receivers by the transmitter of the determined uplink shared transmission channel resources of the plurality of receivers, the used mapping relation of resources and the final n(DM_RS). | 06-20-2013 |
20130156031 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication apparatus includes a plurality of interface circuits, each interface circuit including a first processor, a plurality of ports, and a first memory configured to store, in each group composed of port of one or more, identification information for the group and identification information for the port belonging to the group, and a switch circuit including, a second processor, a second memory configured to store, in the each group, the identification information for the group and identification information for the interface circuit having port belonging to the group, and a bridge circuit configured to transmit data to the interface circuit. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156100 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The server device draws a processing result from software in an image memory, detects an update area containing an update between frames in the image, performs still image compression, and calculates the compression ratio of still image compressed data in the update area. The server device identifies a high-frequency change area, performs moving image compression, and calculates the compression ratio of moving image compressed data. The server device transmits the still image compressed data and the moving image compressed data. The server device stops the moving image compression based on the result of comparing the compression ratio of the moving image compressed data and a compression ratio of still image compressed data in a previous update area is the update area in a previous frame detected before the start of the moving image compression and has been detected at a position associated with the high-frequency change area. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156122 | WIRELESS TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND WIRELESS TRANSMITTER AND WIRELESS RECEIVER - A wireless transmission method capable of transmitting a data stream between a wireless transmitter having a plurality of transmitting antennas and a wireless receiver, the wireless transmission method includes controlling to increase the number of transmission beams to be formed for transmitting said data stream depending on the number of data streams to be transmitted from said transmitting antennas becoming small, and receiving any one or more transmission beam from said transmission beams by said wireless receiver, wherein said transmission beams are formed by predetermined number of the plurality of transmitting antennas. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156221 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A signal processing apparatus includes an adder that acquires a plurality of input signals from a plurality of microphones and calculates an added value obtained by adding the input signals together, a subtracter that acquires a plurality of input signals from the plurality of microphones and calculates a subtracted value obtained by subtracting one input signal from the other input signal, and a determination unit that determines whether noise is included in the input signals based on the added value and the subtracted value. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156257 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, TAMPERING PREVENTION METHOD, AND TAMPERING DETECTION METHOD - An image processing device includes a frequency calculation part configured to calculate frequency coefficients of an image, a coefficient selection part configured to select plural pairs of the frequency coefficients from the calculated frequency coefficients, a code generation part configured to generate a code based on a comparison result between an absolute value of a difference between the two frequency coefficients of each of the selected pairs and a threshold, and a magnitude relationship between the two frequency coefficients, and a signature generation part configured to encrypt the generated code with a private key to generate a digital signature. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156263 | VERIFICATION METHOD, VERIFICATION DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - A verification device | 06-20-2013 |
20130156269 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes an image generation unit that generates an image to be displayed at a terminal; a moved area detecting unit that detects a moved area in the image; a determining unit that determines whether the moved area includes a changed partial area that is different before and after the movement; an identifying unit that identifies the changed partial area as a frequently-changed area when the changed partial area is changed within a predetermined period of time for a number of times greater than or equal to a threshold; a first transmission unit that transmits image data of the changed partial area not identified as the frequently-changed area to the terminal; a second transmission unit that transmits video data of the frequently-changed area to the terminal; and a third transmission unit that transmits movement and size information of the moved area to the terminal. | 06-20-2013 |
20130157583 | Radio Channel Control Method And Receiving Apparatus - A radio channel control method for controlling, in a radio communication system having a transmitter and a receiver, a radio channel from the transmitter toward the receiver. The method includes receiving a signal transmitted from the transmitter by the receiver, measuring reception quality of the signal, generating information which indicates increment or decrement of the reception quality, and controlling a modulation or coding for the radio channel based on the information. | 06-20-2013 |
20130158683 | JIG SPECIFICATION SUPPORT DEVICE, JIG SPECIFICATION SUPPORT METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A jig specification support device is connected to a database that stores a first identifier which identifies an electronic part to be mounted on a substrate using a mounter device and a second identifier which identifies a jig mounting the electronic part in a corresponding manner. The jig specification support device includes determining whether a total number of electronic parts mounted on one or more jigs mounted on the mounter device is less than the number requested to achieve a plan. The jig specification support device includes a fourth display controlling that, when the total number of electronic parts is less than the number requested to achieve the plan, specifies in the database the second identifier of the jig which is not mounted on the mounter device and is mounting the electronic part. A fourth display controlling emits a LED of the jig having the specified second identifier. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159332 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A collection unit collects attribute information of each of a plurality of electronic devices, and registers the collected attribute information in mounted device information correspondingly to a mounting position of the electronic device in a management system. A determination unit refers to device definition information in which attribute information of each electronic device mounted on the management system is registered correspondingly to a mounting position, determines as a comparison object position a mounting position in which the attribute information registered in the mounted device information is not matched with the attribute information registered in the device definition information and, when a plurality of comparison object positions are present, determines whether the attribute information of the mounted device information corresponding to one comparison object position is matched with the attribute information of the device definition information corresponding to another comparison object position. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159360 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA STORAGE METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a unit to store a partial data constituting a part of a processing target file to be stored on an object storage as a new object on an object storage, and to add object management information containing data extent information indicating a position and a size of the partial data within the processing target file, name information representing an object name of the new object and storage sequence information indicating a storage sequence of the new object to update history information on the processing target file; and a unit to read and output readout target data from the object storage on the basis of the readout target extent information and each object management information in the update history information related to the processing target file. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159393 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes an image generation unit configured to generate an image that is changed according to operation commands received from a terminal and to be displayed at the terminal; a video-coding area determining unit configured to identify, in the image, a video-coding area that is changed within a predetermined period of time for a number of times greater than a first threshold and to be encoded according to a video compression format; an estimation unit configured to estimate a maximum data rate based on a round trip time of the network; a filtering unit configured to thin out the operation commands according to a thin-out rate when the operation commands are of a predetermined type and the estimated maximum data rate is less than a second threshold; and a threshold changing unit configured to change the first threshold based on the thin-out rate. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159397 | COMPUTER PRODUCT, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PARALLEL PROCESSING CONTROL METHOD - A computer-readable recording medium stores a parallel processing control program that causes a connection origin processor to execute a process. The process includes measuring a band between the connection origin apparatus and a connection destination apparatus; calculating, based on the measured band, an execution time period for each execution object for which parallel processing is executable by the connection origin processor in the connection origin apparatus and a connection destination processor in the connection destination apparatus, the execution objects having granularities of the parallel processing that differ from each other; selecting from among the execution objects and based on a length of each calculated execution time period, an execution object to be executed; and setting the selected execution object to be executable by the connection origin processor and the connection destination processor in cooperation with each other. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159514 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND REMOTE MAINTENANCE METHOD - An information processing apparatus may include a first sending unit to send, to a remote maintenance center, virtual domain configuration information indicating configurations of a plurality of virtual domains formed within the information processing apparatus, together with a virtual domain configuration event, and a second sending unit to send, to the remote maintenance center, information of a periodic connection event including a next periodic connection time of each of the plurality of virtual domains, together with a periodic connection event. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159524 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND SESSION CONTROL METHOD - A communication device includes a storage device configured to store plural addresses assigned to the communication device, a user interface device, and a controller, wherein the controller executes processing that accepts an input of a user due to the user interface device, and address switching processing that causes a transmission destination address, used by an opposite device to transmit data to the communication device, to be switched to another address included in the plural addresses in accordance with the session control protocol, in response to the input. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159556 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND COMMAND EXECUTION CONTROL METHOD - A determination unit determines the type of a command received via a communication interface. A counting unit counts, among commands received via the communication interface, the number of commands currently being executed. A control unit performs, when the number of commands currently being executed is less than or equal to a limit value corresponding to the type of a command received via the communication interface, data access to a memory device according to the received command. In addition, the control unit prevents the data access according to the received command when the number of commands currently being executed exceeds the limit value corresponding to the type of the received command. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159557 | STORAGE DEVICE, AND STORAGE DEVICE CONTROL METHOD - A storage device includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes a process comprising: calculating an upper limit value of the number of input/output processings determined based on priority set to an information processing device, a port that is an interface between the information processing device and the storage device and a memory device of the storage device; scheduling an execution order of input/output processings based on the number of input/output processings received from the information processing device and the calculated upper limit value; and executing the input/output processings in the scheduled execution order. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159562 | STORAGE SYSTEM, CONTROL DEVICE, AND STORAGE SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD OF CONTROLLING STORAGE SYSTEM - A storage system includes a disk and a CM. The CM includes a main control unit and a sub control unit that distribute and execute processing in the CM. Further the CM includes a plurality of CAs that receive commands related to the input and the output of the data stored in the disk from a host computer. The main control unit requests the sub control unit to copy dump data of a first CA among the plurality of CAs when detecting abnormality of the first CA while copying dump data of a second CA among the plurality of CAs according to abnormality of the second CA. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159585 | CONTROL SYSTEM AND RELAY APPARATUS - A bus interface receives, via a bus, a control signal for controlling an electronic circuit, and outputs a signal corresponding to the received control signal to the electronic circuit. A signal maintaining circuit maintains the value of the signal to be output from the bus interface to the electronic circuit in accordance with an instruction from a reset control circuit. When the bus becomes unusable due to termination of operations of the control device or the like, the reset control circuit causes the signal maintaining circuit to maintain the value of the output signal to the electronic circuit, and subsequently resets the bus interface so as to restore the bus. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159589 | BUS CONTROL DEVICE AND BUS CONTROL METHOD - A bus control device includes a storing unit that stores therein a threshold related to bus width of a bus that is a transfer path for data, a comparing unit that compares, when the bus width is reduced, the reduced bus width with the threshold stored in the storing unit, and a selecting unit that selects, on the basis of the result of the comparison performed by the comparing unit, an interrupt operation performed on a processor that performs a process related to a reduction of the bus width. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159636 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus includes a directory. Information is registered with the directory in a first format having entries corresponding to data storage areas, respectively. The information indicates a CPU that stores data stored in a data storage area of one information processing part of plural information processing parts or an information processing part having the CPU. The information processing part converts into a second format. The second format is such that an entry registered in such a way that data is not to be used from among the plural entries of the first format is removed and the number of the entries is reduced. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159650 | BACKUP METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A backup method may include discontinuing a process of a working system virtual machine (VM) operating within a physical machine (PM) of a processing apparatus, first duplicating data of a state of the working system VM in a memory of the PM, as a duplicating system VM, second duplicating data of contents of a working system virtual recording medium used to realize the working system VM, in a duplicating system virtual recording medium forming the duplicating system VM, within a storage apparatus of the processing apparatus, and resuming the process of the working system VM, The discontinuing and the first resuming may maintain consistency between the data in the memory and the storage apparatus. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159773 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND OPERATION STATUS MONITORING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a plurality of controller modules capable of performing communications with each other, and a memory included in each controller module to be stored with status information reflecting a status of an error occurring during the communications with other controller modules with respect to the controller module of a communication partner apparatus and/or the controller module of the self-apparatus, wherein, when determining whether or not a fault occurs in a certain controller module in the plurality of controller modules, the controller module different from a determination target controller module determines, based on status information of the determination target controller module that is stored on the memories of two or more controller modules different from the determination target controller module, whether the fault occurs in the determination target controller module. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159790 | FAILURE DETECTION METHOD AND FAILURE DETECTION SYSTEM - A failure detection method executed by a system having a plurality of nodes and detecting failures at an information processing device base on a plurality of types of messages output by the information processing device, the method includes collecting messages belonging to a first set, which is a part of the plurality of types, at a first node; collecting messages belonging to a second set different from the first set, which is a part of the plurality of types, at a second node; generating first failure candidate information based on messages of the type belonging to the first set, collected at the first node; generating second failure candidate information based on messages of the type belonging to the second set, collected at the second node; and detecting failure at the information processing device, based on the first failure candidate information and the second failure candidate information. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159795 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, FAULT INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND FAULT INFORMATION COLLECTION APPARATUS - An integrated circuit includes a fault collection section, and a plurality of modules. Each of the modules includes a fault detection section that detects a fault in the modules, a fault information generation section that generates fault information about the detected fault, a notification section that issues a fault detection notification indicating that a fault is detected to the fault collection section, and a first transmission section that transmits the fault information to the fault collection section. The fault collection section includes a specification section that specifies, based on the fault detection notification, the module from which the fault detection notification has been received first from among the modules, and an acquisition section that acquires the fault information from the module specified by the specification section. | 06-20-2013 |
20130160023 | SCHEDULER, MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR SYSTEM, AND SCHEDULING METHOD - In an embodiment, a scheduler coordinates timings at which cores execute processes, for any two sequential processes to consecutively be executable. The processes are executed in order scheduled by the scheduler by concentrating on a specific core processes obstructing the consecutive execution such as an external interrupt and an internal interrupt. The scheduler does not always cause processes of another application to be executed during all standby time periods while the scheduler determines whether a length of a standby time period is shorter than a predetermined value, and does not cause any process of the other application to be executed when the length is shorter than that. | 06-20-2013 |
20130160974 | LOOP HEAT PIPE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An evaporator of a loop heat pipe includes a case having a liquid flow inlet and a vapor flow outlet, and at least one porous body disposed inside the case and configured to guide liquid-phase working fluid inward of the case. The evaporator further includes a liquid supply duct disposed inside the case and configured to guide the working fluid into the porous body from the liquid flow inlet. The liquid supply duct is made of a material having lower heat conductivity than a material of the case. The working fluid having flowed into the evaporator is prevented from evaporating before reaching the porous body. | 06-27-2013 |
20130161712 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor circuit and a capacitor, the capacitor including: a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor region of the first conductivity type, the second semiconductor region being provided on the first semiconductor region of the first conductivity type and having a higher concentration of a first conductivity type impurity than the first semiconductor region of the first conductivity type, a semiconductor region of a second conductivity type provided on the second semiconductor region of the first conductivity type, a dielectric film provided on the semiconductor region of the second conductivity type, an upper electrode provided on the dielectric film, a first interconnection provided above the semiconductor region of the second conductivity type and electrically connected to the semiconductor region of the second conductivity type, and a second interconnection electrically connected to the upper electrode. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162309 | RECEIVING CIRCUIT - Disclosed is a receiving circuit which includes: a data selection circuit selecting two input data located while placing in between the center phase of one unit interval of a binary input data; a correction circuit correcting the two input data selected by the data selection circuit; a phase detection circuit detecting a phase at which the level of input data changes as a boundary phase in the one unit interval, based on the two input data corrected by the correction circuit; an arithmetic unit calculating the center phase, based on the boundary phase detected by the phase detection circuit; and data decision circuit determining and outputting the level of one of the two input data, based on the center phase and the boundary phase, the correction circuit implements the correction based on a correction value corresponded to the past data level output by the data decision circuit. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162442 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING DATA USING A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CHANNEL - A first apparatus receives, from a second apparatus, a signal including information on first time-periods each associated with an occupancy rate, using a wireless channel. The first time-periods each indicate a time-period during which data are scheduled to be collected by the second apparatus, and the occupancy rate indicates a ratio of a duration-time during which data are actually collected by the second apparatus using the wireless channel, to the each first time-period. The first apparatus, based on the occupancy rate and the received power of the first signal, calculates interference values each indicating a degree of interference caused by a radio wave from the second apparatus during the each first time-period, and acquires, based on the calculated interference values, second time-periods during which data are scheduled to be collected by the first apparatus, and collects data from a node apparatus during the third time-periods using the wireless channel. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162660 | MOBILE TERMINAL INCLUDING STELLAR BODY WATCHING HOOKUP COMMUNICATIONS FUNCTION - A mobile terminal includes a detecting unit that detects a direction of the mobile terminal turned toward a stellar body existence direction; a display processing unit that acquires an image of a specific stellar body corresponding to the detected direction of the mobile terminal and image identification information thereon from a stellar body watching engine and, when any one of a plurality of kinds of information transfer is selected, that controls to display a rendered effect screen corresponding to the selected information transfer and including the image of the specific stellar body; and a transmitting unit that transmits, when the selected information transfer is carried out in a state in which the rendered effect screen is displayed, at least the image identification information or a URL associated with the image identification information along with a content of the selected information transfer. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162987 | EXCITATION LIGHT SOURCE FOR RAMAN AMPLIFICATION, RAMAN AMPLIFIER, AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - An excitation light source, for Raman amplification, includes a polarization beam splitter (PBS) for splitting a laser beam from an excitation laser into two polarization components, and a polarization beam combiner (PBC) for combining the two polarization components, and a time difference generator provided between PBS and PBC. The time difference generator generates a difference in propagation time between the two polarization components. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163109 | MAGNETIC TAPE APPARATUS AND MAGNETIC TAPE APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD - A magnetic tape apparatus includes a first and second suction tubes, each of which couples the blade with an edge part of the roller of the roller guide, the first suction tube having a blade side opening area at a location where air is sucked by the blade during a forward rotation of a motor, a second suction tube having a blade side opening area at a location where air is sucked by the blade during the backward rotation of the motor, a shutter unit to perform opening and closing of the first and second suction tubes, and an opening and closing control unit to control the shutter unit to open the first suction tube during the forward rotation and open the second suction tube during the backward rotation. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163311 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE - A semiconductor storage device comprises a memory cell array having memory cells each configured to hold data, a plurality of N ports, a port selection circuit that selects M (M06-27-2013 | |
20130163356 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF TESTING SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a plurality of memory cells, a plurality of receivers, each of the plurality of receivers being provided for a corresponding one of a plurality of units set by dividing the plurality of memory cells in a unit, and each of the plurality of receivers receiving a test result of the corresponding one of the plurality of units, and a controller that reads out a plurality of test results from the plurality of receivers. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163415 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING A LOAD AMONG A PLURALITY OF COMMUNICATION DEVICES - An apparatus distributes a load among a plurality of communication devices. The apparatus stores a session information management table that stores session information for a request packet in association with one of the plurality of communication devices via which the request packet has been transmitted to the apparatus. The apparatus receives a first response packet in response to a first request packet that has been transmitted via a first communication device included in the plurality of communication devices where the first response packet sharing first session information with the first request packet. The apparatus selects, from among the plurality of communication devices, the first communication device associated with the first session information, by referring to the session information management table, and transmits the first response packet to the selected first communication device. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163455 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication device including: a processor configured to perform a wireless communication protocol including an upper layer and a lower layer, wherein the processor is configured to estimate, based on a round trip time measured at the upper layer in case of carrying out a retransmission control at the lower layer and a time taking for retransmissions at the lower layer, a first estimated round trip time, to estimate, based on the number of times of packet loss at the upper layer in case of carrying out the retransmission control at the lower layer, and the number of times of successful transmission at the upper layer being recovered by the retransmission control, a first estimated packet loss rate, and to obtain, based on the first estimated round trip time and the first estimated packet loss rate, a first estimated throughput in case of not carrying out the retransmission control. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163514 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, A COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - When receiving a hello packet, a node registers information on a control header of the hello packet in a work table. The information on the control header of the hello packet includes a plurality of sets of an address, a destination, and ΣPav of a node. The node stores information, in which a set of an address, a destination, and ΣPav of the own node from the own node to the destination is added to the information on the control header, in the control header of the hello packet and transmits the hello packet. These processes are performed by each node included in an ad-hoc network. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163518 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, AND MOBILE STATION - A method for performing wireless communication includes performing a precoding process beforehand on a plurality of symbols at a base station; performing space block coding on the plurality of symbols at the base station after the precoding process; sending signals from a plurality of antennas of the base station; performing space block decoding on the signals received by a plurality of antennas at a mobile station; performing antenna combination and a deprecoding process on the signals at the mobile station after the signals have undergone the space block decoding; and estimating the plurality of symbols at the mobile station from the signals that have undergone the deprecoding process. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163570 | BASE STATION ON THE BASIS OF ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING SCHEME AND INTERFERENCE COORDINATION METHOD THEREOF - A base station on the basis of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing solution and an interference coordination method thereof are provided. The base station can include an interference estimation unit, which estimates the interference state of each physical resource block according to the feedback information from the user equipment, and in the condition that the interference of the physical resource block is greater than or equal to a first threshold and less than or equal to a second threshold which is greater than the first threshold, the interference of the physical resource block is estimated as medium interference state. The base station can also include an interference coordination request unit, which at least responses the medium interference state estimation to transmit the interference coordination request to one or a plurality of predetermined base stations, wherein interference coordination request includes the information for indicating the interference state of said physical resource block. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163603 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SWITCHING A COMMUNICATION PATH BASED ON DISASTER INFORMATION - A relay apparatus transfers data sent from a user terminal, to an external network, via any one of paths. A notification apparatus receives first disaster information including area information identifying first areas forecast to be affected by an occurrence of a disaster and prediction information storing, in association with each of the first areas, a predicted intensity value indicating a predicted value of an influence degree of the disaster on the each of the first areas. The notification apparatus generates, based on the first disaster information, second disaster information storing the predicted intensity value in association with each of second areas passed through by the paths. The relay apparatus switches the currently-used path to alternative path when it is determined that the predicted intensity value associated with at least one of third areas passed through by the currently-used path is greater than or equal to the predetermined threshold value. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163608 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, PARALLEL COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A communication control device includes a plurality of inputting units to which a packet is inputted a plurality of outputting units to which the packet is outputted a selector that selects an output packet to output from an identical outputting unit among a plurality of conflict packets having the identical outputting unit as a destination, the plurality of conflict packets being selected among a plurality of packets inputted to the plurality of inputting units, based on priority information set in each conflict packet and a processing unit that updates the respective priority information of unselected packets not selected as the output packet by the selector among the plurality of conflict packets based on weighting information in accordance with a packet size. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163820 | SURVEY APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND SURVEY METHOD - A determination unit determines, on images of video data where a road set as a survey target was shot in different times, whether or not the shooting position of the image is within a tolerance value with the shooting position of any of the images as a reference, for each image having a corresponding shooting position. When the shooting position is determined to be within the tolerance value, a creation unit creates screen information of a screen where images that has been determined to be within the tolerance value is displayed in synchronization. Moreover, when the shooting position is determined to be beyond the tolerance value, the creation unit creates screen information of a screen where an image that has been determined to be beyond the tolerance value is undisplayed. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163863 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A processor of an image processing apparatus designates a target region. When an image is divided into a plurality of small regions which are smaller than a target region, the processor calculates a centroid obtained by weighting the central coordinates of each of the plurality of small regions by a likelihood of each of the plurality of the small regions and calculates a covariance matrix that depends on the centroid, the likelihood being based on characteristic value histograms of respective small regions inside and outside the target region. The processor detection unit detects a degree of separation according to a histogram, a likelihood, a centroid, and a covariance matrix. The processor also determines a post-update target region according to a degree of separation. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163958 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process including receiving a setting of an anchor to a subject in an image included in a video; determining whether a movement amount between the subject to which the anchor has been set in a predetermined image in the video and the subject in another image included in the video is greater than or equal to a predetermined value; and storing, in a storage unit, an identifier of the another image that is a determination target, and position information of the anchor, when the movement amount is determined to be greater than or equal to the predetermined value. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163982 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS - A transmission apparatus interconnects a core network for making a communication by forming a connection and a metro network for m a communication by adding an address to data and by executing a forwarding process. The transmission apparatus includes a function of transmitting the data to the connection of the core network, to which an address of the metro network is made to correspond, and transfers the data to the connection of the core network, which is made to correspond to the address added to the data received from the metro network. | 06-27-2013 |
20130164956 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A surface of a connection terminal of an electronic component is covered with a protection layer made of a AgSn alloy. The electronic component is soldered to a connection terminal of a circuit board. | 06-27-2013 |
20130165122 | COMMUNICATION SETTING METHOD, WIRELESS BASE STATION, AND MOBILE STATION - In a mobile communication system in an embodiment, when a handover of a mobile station which is a target of coordinated communications among multiple wireless base stations is detected, at least a part of setting procedure for the coordinated communications (CoMP setting procedure) is executed before completion of the handover. Hence, the coordinated transmission for the mobile station can be resumed earlier after the handover, and any reduction in the communication quality or throughput caused by the resume of the coordinated communication after the handover of the mobile station can be prevented. | 06-27-2013 |
20130165125 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a control apparatus, to control operations with a first base station forming a first radio section and a second base station forming a second radio section which is overlaid with the first radio section and has relatively lower transmission power, a connection change determination unit determines whether to perform connection in response to a connection destination change request from a mobile terminal, a measurement unit measures communication conditions from the first or second base station about all mobile terminals existing in the first radio section, a change value determination unit determines a change value of transmission power of the second base station, a prediction unit predicts communication conditions after transmission power of the second base station is changed based on the change value, and a power change unit changes transmission power of the second base station based on the change value. | 06-27-2013 |
20130165181 | MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE, MEDIUM AND CONTROL METHOD - A mobile terminal device includes a first processor that processes data acquired by a sensor, and a second processor that transmits the data acquired by the sensor to the first processor. The first processor acquires a transmission condition corresponding to state information of the mobile terminal with reference to association information and transmits the transmission condition to the second processor. The association information associates a transmission condition with state information. The transmission condition is a condition for transmitting the data acquired by the sensor from the second processor to the first processor. The second processor transmits the data acquired by the sensor to the first processor in accordance with the transmission condition transmitted by the first processor. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166229 | MAGNETIC PROPERTY ANALYZING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A magnetic property analyzing apparatus includes a first computing unit to perform a magnetic field analysis utilizing a FEM using an average magnetization given with respect to each of elements to which an analyzing target is segmented, and a second computing unit that computes an effective magnetic field acting on each element using a magnetic field computed by the magnetic field analysis, computes magnetization vectors within each element by obtaining a time integral of a LLG equation using the effective magnetic field, and computes an average magnetization for each element by averaging the magnetization vectors. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166230 | MAGNETIC PROPERTY ANALYZING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A magnetic property analyzing apparatus calculates vector potentials of each of elements to which an analyzing target is segmented by meshing, using an average magnetization obtained for each of the elements, and performs a magnetic field analysis of sub-grids arranged along one direction within each of the elements. An average magnetization with respect to each of the elements is calculated by performing a time integral on a LLG (Landau Lifshitz Gilbert) equation using a magnetic field obtained from the magnetic field analysis in order to perform a magnetic property analysis. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166273 | CIRCUIT EMULATION APPARATUS AND CIRCUIT EMULATION METHOD - A circuit emulation apparatus includes an emulator unit configured to emulate an operation of a circuit, a replacement unit configured to replace one or more redundant bits with a predetermined bit pattern when information bits and the one or more redundant bits of read data that is read from a first memory by the circuit are all zeros, and a supply unit configured to supply the information bits and the predetermined bit pattern as the read data to the circuit. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166286 | VOICE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VOICE PROCESSING METHOD - A voice processing apparatus includes: a phase difference calculation unit which calculates for each frequency band a phase difference between first and second frequency signals obtained by applying a time-frequency transform to sounds captured by two voice input units; a detection unit which detects a frequency band for which the percentage of the phase difference falling within a first range that the phase difference can take for a specific sound source direction, the percentage being taken over a predetermined number of frames, does not satisfy a condition corresponding to a sound coming from the direction; a range setting unit which sets, for the detected frequency band, a second range by expanding the first range; and a signal correction unit which makes the amplitude of the first and second frequency signals larger when the phase difference falls within the second range than when the phase difference falls outside the second range. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166615 | CONTINUUM MOTION ANALYSIS METHOD, AND CONTINUUM MOTION ANALYSIS APPARATUS - A computer-readable recording medium has stored therein a communication-path control program causing a computer to execute a process which includes receiving input of data including information of an influence range representing each of continuum particles when the continuum is represented as a particle, and data representing each micro-surface component, which includes information of a normal direction when a fixed boundary is represented as a set of minute regions; calculating a repulsive force of a normal direction of the micro-surface component, which acts on the continuum particle from each of the micro-surface components intersected with the influence range of the continuum particle; calculating a force from the fixed boundary acting on each of the continuum particles by adding the repulsive forces acting on each of the continuum particles from each of the micro-surface components; and analyzing the motion of the continuum, based on the force from the fixed boundary. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166632 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOTTING PROCESSING - The disclosed invention describes an information processing apparatus, including a first processor, and a second processor. The first processor execute a procedure, including: while the second processor executes an image processing, obtaining utilization ratios of the second processor at two or more timings; first determining, by using the obtained utilization ratios, whether or not a predetermined change occurred in the utilization ratios of the second processor; upon determining that the predetermined change occurred, second determining, based on obtained utilization ratios, which processes of a plurality of processes to be executed to display screen data on a client terminal should be allocated to the second processor; and performing a setting to execute the plurality of processes according to a determination result. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166671 | NODE CONTROLLER AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING NODE CONTROLLER - A node controller includes: a reception processor configured to receive a packet and to generate a read request or write data and a write request for requesting to write the write data, according to a destination and a type of the packet; a collected data processor configured to collect the received packet, to generate collected data according to the collected packet, and to generate a collected data write request for requesting to write the collected data; a switch configured to output the write data and the write request received from the reception processor or output the collected data and the collected data write request received from the collected data processor; and a memory controller configured to write the write data to a memory and to write the collected data to the memory in accordance with the collected data write request received from the switch. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166740 | NETWORK EVALUATION DEVICE, METHOD FOR EVALUATING NETWORK, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A network evaluation device evaluates a communication state of an information processing apparatus including a plurality of processors which communicate with one another and which execute a program. The network evaluation device includes: a memory configured to store a network evaluation program; and a processor configured to execute a process based on the network evaluation program in the memory. The process includes: obtaining first communication processing time between the plurality of processors while the plurality of processors are not executing the program; recording the first communication processing time; obtaining second communication processing time between the plurality of processors while the plurality of processors are executing the program; comparing the first communication processing time with the second communication processing time; and outputting a time difference between the first communication processing time and the second communication processing time. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166782 | STORAGE SYSTEM, CONTROLLER MODULE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING STORAGE SYSTEM - A storage-system includes a storage-device, a first-device that controls to transfer data to-and-fro the storage-device and a second-device redundant from the first-device, wherein the first-device includes a processing-device that processes a command related to input-and-output of data stored in the storage-device, a storage-unit that stores, in a correlated manner, the number of commands issued collectively during download of firmware for controlling the processing-device and response delay-time representing time in which a response has been delayed due to the download in a correlated manner, and a control-unit which retrieves the number of issuable commands corresponding to acceptable response-delay-time of the command during download and restricts issue of the command for which an issue request has been newly made if the number of commands being issued is equal to or greater than the retrieved number of issuable commands during the download, when a download request is made. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166814 | COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A program for causing an information processing apparatus to execute a process of a virtual calculator, the process including judging, when a switching of a virtual address space being a processing target of a virtual calculation apparatus occurs, whether or not a there exits physical calculation apparatus in which cache information of a physical address space corresponding to a virtual address space of a switching destination is accumulated; selecting the physical calculation apparatus when there exists a physical calculation apparatus in which the cache information of the physical address space is accumulated, and selecting the physical calculation apparatus in which cache information itself is not accumulated when there exists no physical calculation apparatus in which the cache information is accumulated; and assigning the selected physical calculation apparatus to the virtual calculation apparatus in which the switching of the virtual address space being a processing target has occurred. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166857 | STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING STORAGE DEVICE - A write DMA includes a write unit, a read unit and a parity generation unit. The read unit reads parity data from one of two NAND flashes storing the parity data therein. The parity generation unit generates parity data based on the read parity data and a plurality of stripes obtained by dividing user data. The write unit writes a stripe into any of a plurality of NAND flashes storing stripes therein, and writes generated parity data into the other NAND flash from which parity data is not read. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166858 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING STORAGE APPARATUS - A storage apparatus includes a map CM and CMs. The map CM includes an acquisition unit, an update unit, and a notification unit. When the structure of the storage apparatus is changed, the acquisition unit acquires new map information from each expander or from each expander and each enclosure. Then, the update unit updates the map information stored in a map information table storage unit based on the acquired new map information. The notification unit notifies the acquired new map information to other CMs. The CMs each include an update unit. The update unit updates the map information stored in a map information table storage unit based on the new map information notified by the map CM. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166860 | MEMORY ACCESS CONTROL DEVICE AND COMPUTER SYSTEM - A memory interleaving device accesses a memory in an interleaved manner for changing the number of ways of interleaving during system operation. During a copy which changes a first configuration before changing the number of ways in the interleaving to a second configuration after changing the number of ways in the interleaving, a memory access control device reads the memory in the first configuration before changing the number of ways of the interleaving for an external read request and writes the memory in both of the first configuration before changing the number of ways in the interleaving and the second configuration after changing the number of ways in the interleaving for an external write request. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166861 | DATA STORAGE APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING DATA STORAGE APPARATUS - A compressing unit generates a plurality of types of compressed blocks for each of divided blocks of data, by using a plurality of algorithm executing units. A comparing unit stores, in a storage unit, comparison result information on a compressed block having the smallest size. A writing start determining unit makes a decision to start writing of a write block and compression of a next block, when a quotient obtained by dividing the size of the compressed block that is indicated in the comparison result information by a writing speed is determined to be less than or equal to an elapsed time. A writing unit selects, as a write block, a compressed block having the smallest size among the generated compressed blocks at the time the start decision is made by the writing start determining unit, and writes the selected write block to a block storage unit. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166880 | PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PROCESSING DEVICE - A processing device has an instruction buffer retaining one or more instructions obtained by an instruction fetch request, an instruction execution control unit decoding and executing an instruction, a branch prediction mechanism retaining one or more branch histories including a distance flag indicating a difference between a branch instruction address and a branch destination instruction address and performing a branch prediction of an instruction, and an instruction fetch control unit issuing the instruction fetch request. When a branch prediction result is a branch taken and it is judged based on the distance flag that the instruction fetch request for the branch destination instruction address is included in the instruction fetch requests in a sequential direction which are issued until the branch prediction result is outputted, the control unit causes to output an instruction retained in the instruction buffer without issuing an instruction fetch request for the branch destination instruction address. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166923 | AUTOMATIC VIRTUALIZATION MEDIUM, AUTOMATIC VIRTUALIZATION METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a program for causing a computer to execute an automatic virtualization process includes creating a copy of information stored in a storage unit in a migration source, storing the created copy in a migration destination apparatus; and encrypting the storage unit in the migration source after storing the copy in the migration destination apparatus. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166941 | CALCULATION APPARATUS, CALCULATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR CALCULATION PROGRAM - A calculation method includes calculating, by a processor, a difference between a first value and a second value, the first value being read from a clock counter that counts pulses of a clock signal having a plurality of types of frequencies, supplied to the processor in response to control command to start processing for an unit to be allocated to the processor, the second value being read from the clock counter in response to control command to stop processing. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166953 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING FAILURE - A system includes a first obtaining unit that, when a failure occurs in the system, obtains via a first route failure information held by devices connected with a first processing unit and a second processing unit, respectively through a first route and a second route, a second obtaining unit that obtains the failure information through the second route when the failure information is not able to be obtained by the first obtaining unit, a second failure location estimation unit that estimates a failure causing location based on the failure information obtained by the second obtaining unit, an identification unit that identifies a subject using the failure location estimated by the second failure location estimation unit, and a termination unit that terminates the subject identified by the identification unit. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166973 | STORAGE-MEDIUM DIAGNOSIS DEVICE, STORAGE-MEDIUM DIAGNOSIS METHOD - A storage-medium diagnosis includes a storage unit that stores therein respective diagnosis results of subregions of a storage region of a storage medium; a higher-access executing unit that accesses a region corresponding to access request from a higher-level device, and stores a result of the access as a diagnosis result in the storage unit; a diagnosis-region identifying unit that identifies a diagnosis region to be diagnosed next on the basis of the respective diagnosis results of the subregions stored in the storage unit; and a diagnosis executing unit that accesses and diagnoses the diagnosis region identified by the diagnosis-region identifying unit, and stores a result of the diagnosis in the storage unit. The storage-medium diagnosis can reduce the time used for diagnosis of the storage medium and suppress degradation in performance even during operation. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166978 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An integrated circuit includes a first signal processing circuit in which first combination circuits and scan FFs are connected in an order of a scan FF, a first combination circuit, and a scan FF; a second signal processing circuit including a second combination circuit different from the first combination circuit; a first selection circuit configured to select data from a scan FF on an input side of one first combination circuit or data from an input terminal of the second signal processing circuit, and to output the data to the second combination circuit; and a second selection circuit configured to select data from another first combination circuit different from the one first combination circuit or data from the second combination circuit, and to output the data to the scan FF on an output side of the another first combination circuit. | 06-27-2013 |
20130167101 | WIRING DESIGN APPARATUS AND METHOD - A wiring design apparatus for designing a plurality of wiring lines of a printed circuit board including a plurality of connection posts arranged in a matrix, includes a processor, the processor providing an orthogonal grid including a plurality of rows and columns running over and between the connection posts, providing a plurality of diagonal paths each connecting at least one of the rows with at least one of the columns each running between each of adjacent pairs of the connection posts, and determining a route for each of the wiring lines by exclusively allocating to each of the wiring lines a selected part of the rows, the columns and the paths so that the selected part connects both ends of each of the wiring lines. | 06-27-2013 |
20130167153 | IMFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR DATA TRANSFER - A disclosed method includes: determining whether a value of a load caused by a transfer processing to transmit data received from first processing apparatuses to second processing apparatuses in response to a request from the second processing apparatuses exceeds a threshold; upon determining that the value of the load exceeds the threshold, counting, for each first processing apparatus, the number of second processing apparatuses that request data transmitted by the first processing apparatus; identifying a first processing apparatus that is a transmission source of data transferred in the transfer processing to be allocated to another transfer apparatus of plural transfer apparatuses, based on the counted number; and transmitting a change request requesting that the transfer processing of data transmitted by the identified first processing apparatus is to be allocated to the another transfer apparatus, to a management apparatus managing allocation of the transfer processing for the plural transfer apparatuses. | 06-27-2013 |
20130167206 | STORAGE SYSTEM, METHOD OF CONTROLLING ACCESS TO STORAGE SYSTEM AND COMPUTER SYSTEM - A plurality of servers is connected to a storage system via a network. A control unit in the storage system defines exclusive access groups from an address information of each access interface of the servers, defines logical volumes in which the server is permitted to access for each of the exclusive access groups, and controls the access to the volume of the server by a access list which defines correspondence between the server and the logical volume and the physical volume, which are permitted to access by the server. | 06-27-2013 |
20130169372 | PULSE GENERATOR AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A pulse generator includes an oscillation circuit that generates a burst signal oscillated for ultrawideband band and a generation circuit that generates a trigger signal that causes oscillation by the oscillation circuit to be started. | 07-04-2013 |
20130169417 | RFID TAG READER, RFID TAG READING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR PERFORMING RFID TAG READING PROCESS AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An RFID tag reader is disclosed that includes a signal intensity obtaining part configured to obtain signal intensities of a first RFID tag and a second RFID tag that are read at plural read processes, a read-number obtaining part configured to obtain a number of RFID tags, among the first and the second RFID tags, that are read at the same read process, a processing part configured to weight the signal intensity of the first RFID tag obtained by the signal intensity obtaining part based on the number obtained at the corresponding read process, and a selecting part configured to select a read result of the first RFID tag based on the signal intensity of the first RFID tag weighted by the processing part. | 07-04-2013 |
20130169794 | ROAD SURFACE INSPECTION DEVICE, ROAD SURFACE INSPECTION METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A road surface inspection device detects an abnormal region on a road surface from the road surface on a road image captured by a camera. The road surface inspection device determines whether the detected abnormal region overlaps a trace on the road image, along which the wheels of a patrol car are expected to pass on the road surface. When the abnormal region overlaps the trace of wheels, the road surface inspection device determines whether an acceleration at the measurement time corresponding to the captured time of the road image among the accelerations measured during driving on the road surface by a G-sensor is outside a predetermined range. | 07-04-2013 |
20130170138 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING COOLING UNIT - There is provided an electric device configured to cool a plurality of plug-in units, the electric device including a plurality of slots, each slot configured to install a plug-in unit, a first fan configured to create a current of air for cooling the plug-in units, a first plug-in unit installed into a first slot, and a second plug-in unit including a second fan configured to create a current of air for cooling the first plug-in unit, the second plug-in unit being installed into a second slot adjacent to the first slot, arranged to a side of mounting component of the first plug-in unit. | 07-04-2013 |
20130170397 | MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - A management device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor executes a process including, searching a network for a node that belongs to a management area to which the management device belongs, and creating management information in which the node searched for at the searching is used as a node that is targeted for management. | 07-04-2013 |
20130170504 | ROUTING METHOD AND NODE EQUIPMENT - A routing method performed by node equipment includes: receiving a first frame including a wait number, incrementing the wait number, and storing the incremented wait number as a local wait number; receiving a second frame including a wait number of a destination node equipment, and comparing the wait number in the second frame and the local wait number; transmitting the second frame to an adjacent node equipment having a larger wait number than the local wait number, when the wait number in the second frame is larger than the local wait number; and returning the second frame to a source node equipment of the second frame, when the wait number in the second frame is larger than the local wait number but there is no adjacent node equipment having a larger wait number than the local wait number. | 07-04-2013 |
20130170527 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, BASEBAND PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND RADIO APPARATUS - A radio communication apparatus includes a baseband processing unit and a radio unit. The baseband processing unit transmits, to the radio unit, first data indicating a plurality of candidates for instructions corresponding to a plurality of values to be taken by the control information before obtaining the control information on radio communication. Furthermore, the baseband processing unit transmits, to the radio unit, second data for identifying the instruction corresponding to the value of the obtained control information of the plurality of candidates for instructions, after obtaining the control information. The radio unit performs processing in accordance with the instruction identified by the received second data of the plurality of candidates for instructions indicated by the received first data. | 07-04-2013 |
20130170567 | RECEIVING APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION SYSTEM, AND RESTORATION METHOD - A receiving apparatus, based on received data and previous selection signals corresponding to the received data, selects transfer data from among the received data. A restoration timing is assumed to change from timing D to timing C, whereby the receiving apparatus, when the transition direction of the restoration timing is a reverse direction to the angle advancement direction and a time period of the restoration timing change exceeds a generation cycle of plural timings, produces all valid information of the transfer data as true values. In addition to data at the restoration timings, data that are received after the restoration timing when the generation cycle is judged to be exceeded and that are received at timings that, according to the order of generation, do not exceed the generation cycle, are also restored. | 07-04-2013 |
20130170695 | DIGITAL WATERMARK EMBEDDING APPARATUS, DIGITAL WATERMARK EMBEDDING METHOD, AND DIGITAL WATERMARK DETECTION APPARATUS - A digital watermark embedding apparatus includes an interface unit which acquires video data and digital watermark information, and a processing unit which embeds the digital watermark information into the video data. The processing unit is adapted to: determine the position of a watermark pattern so that the watermark pattern moves with time according to the value of a symbol contained in the digital watermark information within a first moving range that contains at least a portion of a reference region on each image, and so that the average pixel value of the reference region overlapped with the watermark pattern varies in a periodic fashion as the watermark pattern moves; and correct the value of each pixel contained in a region where the reference region and the watermark pattern overlap each other by using the value of a corresponding one of the pixels contained in the watermark pattern. | 07-04-2013 |
20130170701 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM AND ROAD SURFACE SURVEY DEVICE - A road surface survey device specifies a position at which abnormality is detected at one of a position at which abnormality on pavement of a road surface is detected from an image of a road captured by a camera and a position at which abnormality on pavement of a road surface is detected from a change in an acceleration measured when a car runs on the road surface by a G sensor. Further, the road surface survey device derives conditions that abnormality which is not detected at the specified position can be detected, and outputs an instruction of a resurvey for the specified position under the derived conditions. | 07-04-2013 |
20130170807 | SPOT SIZE CONVERTER, OPTICAL TRANSMITTER, OPTICAL RECEIVER, OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SPOT SIZE CONVERTER - The spot size converter includes a first cladding layer, a first core layer and a second core layer arranged side by side on the first cladding layer so as to extend from a first end which receives/outputs light along a direction from the first end toward a second end, a third core layer which is disposed on the first cladding layer between the first and second core layers, is a member different from the first and second core layers, and extends to the second end along the direction from the first end toward the second end, and a second cladding layer disposed on the first, second, and third core layers. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173208 | ROAD SURFACE INSPECTION DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The road surface inspection process includes acquiring, calculating, and determining. The acquiring includes acquiring a deterioration candidate position at which a deterioration candidate of a road surface is detected by a process of detecting an abnormality on the road surface of a road. The calculating includes calculating a frequency at which an acceleration outside an allowable range is measured at the deterioration candidate position by referring to an acceleration at a measurement position corresponding to the deterioration candidate position among the accelerations stored in a driving data storage. The determining includes determining, when the calculated frequency is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value, that the deterioration candidate position at which the frequency is calculated is a position at which the road surface is deteriorated. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173234 | ANTENNA DESIGNING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An antenna designing method, performed by a computer, includes: inputting a first antenna characteristic of an antenna; creating an antenna model that includes the antenna and a matching circuit which is connected to the antenna and is formed by a matching element including parasitic reactance and loss resistance; calculating a second antenna characteristic of the created antenna model by using the first antenna characteristic; determining whether or not the calculated second antenna characteristic satisfies a desired standard value; and displaying a determined result. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173267 | SPEECH RECOGNITION APPARATUS, SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD, AND SPEECH RECOGNITION PROGRAM - A apparatus includes: a storage unit to store a model representing a relationship between a relative time and an occurrence probabilities; a first detection unit to detect first speech period of a first speaker; a second period detection unit to detect second speech period of a second speaker; a unit to calculate a feature value of the first speech period; a detection unit to detect a word using the calculated feature value; an adjustment unit to make an adjustment such that in detecting a word for a reply by the detection unit, the adjustment unit retrieves an occurrence probability corresponding to a relative position of the reply in the second speech period, and adjusts a word score or a detection threshold value for the reply; and a second detection unit to re-detect, using the adjusted word score or the adjusted detection threshold value, the detected word by the detection unit. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173554 | COMPUTER PRODUCT, BACKUP CONTROL METHOD, AND BACKUP CONTROL DEVICE - A computer-readable recording medium stores a program that causes a computer to execute a backup control process that includes transmitting to a controlled device, a backup command to back up target data stored in the controlled device having a backup unit that backs up data while associating the data with identification information of duplicated data that is a copy of the data, and a transmission request to transmit duplicated data of the target data; and storing the duplicated data to a storage unit while associating the duplicated data with the identification information concerning the duplicated data upon receiving the duplicated data and the identification information concerning the duplicated data as a result of transmitting the backup command and the transmission request. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173814 | SESSION ESTABLISHING DEVICE, SESSION ESTABLISHING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A session establishing device includes a storage that stores therein establishment-finished information and under-establishment information in a manner associated with each other with respect to each session used by a terminal unit; an information determining unit that, when having received a session start request from a terminal unit, determines whether under-establishment information corresponding to the session indicates not in the process of establishment when there is a not-yet-established session; an assignment control unit that, when the under-establishment information corresponding to the session indicates not in the process of establishment, assigns the session to the terminal unit which issued the session start request; and an information registering unit that, when the session has been assigned to the terminal unit, registers session identifying information and terminal identifying information in a manner associated with the session and changes content of the under-establishment information corresponding to the session to in the process of establishment. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173867 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS PREVENTION METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes nodes having a first node and a second node each of which includes a processor and a memory in which at least a part of area is set as a shared memory area, and an interconnect that connects the nodes. The first node transmits communication data to be transmitted to the second node by attaching identification information used for accessing a memory in the second node. The second node determines whether or not an access to the shared memory area in the memory in the second node is permitted on the basis of the identification information that is attached to the communication data transmitted from the first node and identification information stored in a storing unit and used for controlling permission to access, from another node, the shared memory area in the memory in the second node. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173877 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE DEVICE - According to an aspect of the present invention, provided is an information processing device including a first storage unit and a processor. The processor sets, in an external device, device identification information of the information processing device. The processor stores a duplicate copy of data stored in the first storage unit in a second storage unit included in the external device. The processor invalidates, in response to an instruction for invalidating data, the data stored in the first storage unit. The processor restores the duplicate copy stored in the second storage unit on the first storage unit at a time of start-up of the information processing device after the invalidation when the external device is connected to the information processing device and the device identification information is set in the external device. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173964 | METHOD OF MANAGING FAILURE, SYSTEM FOR MANAGING FAILURE, FAILURE MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN FAILURE REPRODUCING PROGRAM - A failure management device includes a stored position obtainer that obtains stored position data that represents a position at which failure data is generated by an information processing apparatus when a failure is occurring; a failure data obtainer that obtains the failure data generated by the information processing apparatus from a memory device, communicably connected to the information processing apparatus and the failure management device, on the basis of the stored position data; and a configuration controller that changes, on the basis of the failure data obtained by the failure data obtainer, a configuration of the failure management device so as to conform to that of the information processing apparatus. This configuration makes it possible to easily reproduce the failure occurred in the information processing apparatus and consequently, a reproducing test can be accomplished efficiently. | 07-04-2013 |
20130174020 | INFORMATION ADDING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An apparatus may store, into a file of a storage unit, position information indicating a position on a Web page that is being displayed on a screen of a display unit and specified from an input device, and input information to be added with respect to the position and input from the input device, with respect to the Web page. The apparatus may display the input information stored in the file on the screen in a vicinity of the position when a cursor on the screen of the display unit displaying the Web page enters a predetermined range from the position indicated by the position information. | 07-04-2013 |
20130174064 | COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM AND DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS - A computer is caused to execute a process including obtaining screen information representing a screen, element attribute information associated with the screen information and representing an attribute of an element included in the screen, operation condition information regarding a condition for the element included in the screen to operate, and operation detail information regarding a detail of a process of the element to operate; outputting the screen information associated with the element attribute information as information representing a screen of screen transition information representing a transition relationship between the screens created from the operation condition and the operation detail information; and in setting a simulation execution condition, making a display unit display the element attribute information associated with the screen information corresponding to the screen of a simulation execution target in a selectable manner. | 07-04-2013 |
20130174153 | PLAYBACK APPARATUS AND PLAYBACK METHOD - A playback apparatus includes a storage unit and a processor. The storage unit stores therein, for each of a plurality of playback environments, information indicating suitability for playback of a content in association with an identifier of the content. The processor receives a content via a network. The processor selects a playback environment based on an identifier of the received content and the information stored in the storage unit. The processor starts a first virtual machine that includes the selected playback environment. The first virtual machine is one of a plurality of virtual machines each including a playback environment. The playback environments included in the plurality of virtual machines are different from one another. The processor requests the first virtual machine to play back the received content. | 07-04-2013 |
20130174161 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A hardware thread causes a SleepID register of a WAKEUP signal generation unit to store a SleepID that identifies the hardware thread when suspending a process due to waiting for a process by another CPU. The WAKEUP signal generation unit causes the WAKEUP data register of the WAKEUP signal generation unit to store a SleepID notified by a node when a process that the hardware thread waits ends. The WAKEUP signal generation unit outputs a WAKEUP signal that cancels the stop of the hardware thread to the hardware thread when the SleepIDs of the SleepID register and the WAKEUP data register agree with each other. | 07-04-2013 |
20130174170 | PARALLEL COMPUTER, AND JOB INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD FOR PARALLEL COMPUTER - A parallel computer includes a plurality of calculation nodes and a management node. A calculation node includes a retention control unit that retains job information in a retention unit in association with an identification number, and the management node includes a retention control unit that retains the job information in a retention unit, retains, as a snapshot, job information of the same identification number in a case where the job information of the same identification number about a calculation node is detected in the retention unit. The retention unit of the calculation node includes a retention region enabling retention of job information corresponding to a plurality of periods, and the retention unit of the management node includes a retention region enabling retention of the job information corresponding to the plurality of periods with respect to each of the calculation nodes. | 07-04-2013 |
20130176156 | COMPAPATOR AND ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTOR - A comparator includes: a differential amplifier circuit to operate based on a clock signal and output a first intermediate output and a second intermediate output corresponding to a first input signal and a second input signal respectively; and a differential latch circuit to operate based on the clock signal and vary a state based on the first intermediate output and the second intermediate output, the differential latch circuit having a controllable sensitivity with respect to a state variation of the first intermediate output and the second intermediate output. | 07-11-2013 |
20130176247 | INPUT DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TOUCH POSITION CALCULATION - An input device includes an acquisition unit to acquire touch region information including position coordinates of a plurality of sensors in a touch screen and a sensed value of each sensor, a first calculation unit to calculate a shape of a touch region based on the touch region information, and a second calculation unit to calculate a detected touch position detected as a touch position based on the shape. | 07-11-2013 |
20130176666 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a housing including an opening-portion and an annular-projection provided in the vicinity of the opening-portion from the housing, the annular-projection projecting so as to surround a periphery of the opening-portion, a frame member including a tubular-portion having an outer surface that faces the annular-projection to be fitted with the annular-projection, a top plate exposed from the opening-portion with the tubular-portion fitted with the annular-projection, an extension-portion extending from the outer surface of the tubular-portion, the tubular-portion being expanded toward the annular-projection when a pressing force is applied to a surface of the top plate exposed from the opening-portion with the annular-projection and the tubular-portion fitted with each other, and an O-ring that contacts entire peripheries of the outer surface of the tubular-portion and an inner surface of the annular-projection. | 07-11-2013 |
20130177020 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - Each edge switch counts the number of times that a first-arrival packet of the same packets was received for each port, and after a predetermined time elapsed, a main edge switch that is determined based on the transmission source and destination MAC addresses identifies a port based on the number of times, and registers the identified port in a table of the main edge switch with the transmission source MAC address. On the other hand, a sub-edge switch clears the number of times once after the predetermined time elapsed, and counts the number of times again. After that, when the predetermined time elapsed again, similar to the main edge switch, the sub-edge switch identifies a port based on the number of times, and registers the identified port in a table of the sub-edge switch with the transmission source MAC address. | 07-11-2013 |
20130177103 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN EFFECTIVE CHANNEL AND FEEDBACK INFORMATION - The present invention provides a method and apparatus for determining an effective channel and feedback information. The method for determining an effective channel comprises: selecting more than one basic column vectors for determining a precoding matrix; calculating products of channel row vectors and the basic column vectors; and determining the effective channel or a Hermitian matrix of the effective channel by using the products. It can be seen from above that with the calculation of products of channel row vectors and more than one basic column vectors determining a precoding matrix and determination of an effective channel or Hermitian matrixes of the effective channel by using the products, the equipment is enabled to lower the amount of calculation and the complexity of calculation, lower the power consumption of the equipment and reduce the circuit size needed in performing corresponding processing in determining an effective channel or Hermitian matrixes of the effective channel and in determining channel feedback information. | 07-11-2013 |
20130177109 | SIGNAL DETECTOR, SIGNAL DETECTION METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION TERMINAL APPARATUS - There is provided a signal detector which includes a correlation emphasis unit configured to generate correlation emphasis signals corresponding to the respective fixed intervals, an autocorrelation matrix generation unit configured to generate an autocorrelation matrix, a noise power estimation unit configured to estimate noise power in the correlation emphasis signals, a noise power matrix generation unit configured to generate, a noise power matrix having noise power components, a noise removal unit configured to remove an influence of noise from the autocorrelation matrix, an eigenvalue calculation unit configured to calculate an eigenvalue of the autocorrelation matrix from which the influence of noise has been removed by the noise removal unit, and a signal judgment unit configured to determine whether a signal transmitted from an external apparatus is included in the received signals. | 07-11-2013 |
20130178175 | VOLTAGE STANDING WAVE RATIO DETECTION CIRCUIT - There is provided a voltage standing wave ratio detection circuit which includes a filter that limits a frequency of a transmission wave, a detection circuit that detects a reflected wave of the transmission wave, the transmission wave being reflected from a load connected in a later stage of the filter and having passed through the filter, a storage device that stores correction information on the basis of a reflected wave generated at a time which a reference load has been connected in the later stage of the filter, and an arithmetic circuit that corrects a voltage standing wave ratio calculated on the basis of the reflected wave and the transmission wave by correcting the reflected wave detected by the detection circuit on the basis of the correction information. | 07-11-2013 |
20130178756 | BREATH DETECTION DEVICE AND BREATH DETECTION METHOD - Whether a breath sound is contained in a current frame is determined by using a characteristic that a breath sound is small in autocorrelation and large in cross-correlation. Specifically, a harmonic-wave-structure estimating unit finds autocorrelation on the basis of a frequency spectrum of the current frame. A cross-correlation estimating unit finds cross-correlation between the frequency spectrum of the current frame and a frequency spectrum of a previous frame containing a breath sound. A breath detecting unit compares a value of a constant multiple of a value of the autocorrelation with a value of the cross-correlation, and, when the value of the cross-correlation is larger, determines that a breath sound is contained in the current frame. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179172 | IMAGE REPRODUCING DEVICE, IMAGE REPRODUCING METHOD - An image reproducing device connected to a reproducing unit that reproduces image data includes an extraction unit configured to extract first-condition-satisfying-image data that satisfies a first extraction condition from image data stored in a storage unit; a voice keyword extraction unit configured to extract a keyword that matches a voice input to a voice input unit; and a presentation unit configured to determine, while the first-condition-satisfying-image data is being reproduced by the reproducing unit, a second extraction condition based on a relationship between the first extraction condition applied when extracting the first-condition-satisfying-image data being reproduced and the keyword that has been extracted, and present information pertinent to second-condition-satisfying-image data that satisfies the second extraction condition among the image data stored in the storage unit. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179466 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING SYSTEM - In a data processing method, a storage apparatus stores one or more results of a second process, corresponding to input data sets processed in the past. When a first input data set is designated, a search unit searches the storage apparatus for a result of the second process, corresponding to a second input data set having an overlapping part with the first input data set. A data processing unit acquires a result of the first process, corresponding to differential input data that is included in the second input data set but not included in the first input data set, and generates a result of the second process, corresponding to the first input data set, by removing the effect of the differential input data from the result of the second process found as a result of the search, using the acquired result of the first process. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179470 | TABLE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - When a key of a first record in a first table is entered in a trie tree in which keys of a plurality of records in a second table are entered, a computer generates a third record by using the first record and a second record in the second table. The second record includes the key of the first record. A link to a leaf corresponding to the second record is deleted from an array which stores links to a plurality of leaves of the trie tree corresponding to the records. When a key of a fourth record in the first table is not entered in the trie tree, a fifth record is generated by using the fourth record. Then, a seventh record is generated by using a sixth record in the second table corresponding to a leaf linked by a link remaining in the array. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179530 | ENVIRONMENT CONSTRUCTION APPARATUS AND METHOD, ENVIRONMENT REGISTRATION APPARATUS AND METHOD, ENVIRONMENT SWITCHING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An environment construction apparatus that carries out, in a second system, acquiring a connection permission data of a first storage in a first system that was set in a second storage of the second system; and extracting identification data of a first server in the first system based on the connection permission data of the first storage of the first system, and assigning the extracted identification data of the first server in the first system as identification data stored in a connection section of a second server in the second system. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179564 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a program for causing a computer to execute a digital signature process, wherein the digital signature process includes distributing packets to machines based on session durations according to a communication of the packets in a given duration, and performing verification tests based on the packets distributed to the machines by each of the machines. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179602 | PROCESSING SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND PROCESSING APPARATUS - In a processing system including a processing apparatus, an input/output apparatus and communication apparatuses, the communication apparatus includes: a first instructing unit that issues a configuration change instruction in accordance with set configuration information to the processing apparatus and the input/output apparatus; and a first setting unit that, when an operation change completion notification corresponding to the configuration change instruction is received, sets the configuration information in accordance with a state established after a configuration change, and each of the processing apparatus and the input/output apparatus includes: a second setting unit that sets the configuration information in accordance with the configuration change instruction received from the communication apparatus; a second instructing unit that issues an operation change instruction in accordance with the set configuration information; and a notifying unit that, when the operation change is completed, issues an operation change completion notification to the communication apparatus. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179839 | CONTENTS REPRODUCING DEVICE, CONTENTS REPRODUCING METHOD - A contents reproducing device is connected to a reproduction unit that reproduces contents data. The contents reproducing device includes a storage unit configured to store the contents data; an extraction unit configured to extract condition-satisfying-contents data that satisfies a predetermined extraction condition from the contents data stored in the storage unit, and store information identifying the extracted condition-satisfying-contents data in the storage unit; a reproduction control unit configured to cause the reproduction unit to reproduce the contents data in the storage unit in units of the condition-satisfying-contents data; and a report control unit configured to determine whether non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data that has not been reproduced by the reproduction control unit is present, and to cause a report unit to make a report relevant to the non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data when the non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data is present. | 07-11-2013 |
20130181270 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes a capacitor, the capacitor includes: a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type; a second semiconductor region of the first conductivity type disposed on the first semiconductor region, the second semiconductor region having a higher first-conductivity-type impurity concentration than the first semiconductor region; a third semiconductor region of the first conductivity type disposed on the second semiconductor region, the third semiconductor region including a contact region and having a higher first-conductivity-type impurity concentration than the second semiconductor region; a dielectric film disposed on the third semiconductor region; and an upper electrode disposed on the dielectric film beside the contact region. | 07-18-2013 |
20130181851 | ENCODING METHOD, ENCODING APPARATUS, DECODING METHOD, DECODING APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM - An encoding method includes searching a search target symbol string within a specific range from the end of a symbol string, which has been utilized for encoding, for a match symbol string corresponding to a beginning symbol string of a symbol string to be encoded, encoding the beginning symbol string based on a distance between the match symbol string and the beginning symbol string, and a length of the match symbol string. | 07-18-2013 |
20130181981 | IMAGE DRAWING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND METHOD OF THE SAME - An image drawing apparatus includes a drawing position judging unit configured to judge a figure drawn on the scan line to be processed and extract each of vertexes constituting the judged figure, an vertex information reading unit configured to read vertex information, an image generating unit configured to generate graphics data of the scan line, and a line buffer configured to store the graphics data, wherein the vertex information reading unit includes a cache memory, a cache tag configured to store an address storing the vertex information when the vertex information is stored in the cache memory, and a control unit configured to refer to the cache tag, and read the vertex information from the address of the cache memory when the address is stored, and store the vertex information in the cache memory and store the address in the cache tag when the address is not stored. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182498 | MAGNETIC MEMORY DEVICE AND DATA WRITING METHOD FOR MAGNETIC MEMORY DEVICE - A magnetic memory device including a plurality of memory cells, each of which stores therein 2 | 07-18-2013 |
20130182646 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication system including a transmitting and receiving device that performs communications with the transmitting device, using a radio frame containing control information and data, wherein the transmitting device includes: a first generating unit that generates first control information able to be estimated by the receiving device; a second generating unit that generates second control information used for control of communication from the receiving device to the transmitting device and unable to be estimated by the receiving device; a multiplexing unit that multiplexes the control and data information so that the first control information is allocated in the control information and the second control information is allocated in the data in the radio frame; a transmitting unit a signal multiplexed by the multiplexing unit; the receiving device includes a receiving unit that receives the signal wherein the second control information is allocated in the data from the transmitting device. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182668 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING CARRIER STATE IN CARRIER AGGREGATION SYSTEM, AND USER EQUIPMENT - A method for processing carrier state in a carrier aggregation system and a User Equipment (UE) are provided, so as to avoid the random access failure caused by current deactivation mode of the Secondary Component Carrier (SCC). In one embodiment of the present invention, the method includes: performing a random access on a SCCs pair; stopping or ignoring a deactivation timer of a downlink SCC of the SCCs pair before the random access succeeds. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182720 | FRAME CONCATENATION APPARATUS - A frame concatenation apparatus includes a storage unit to store a plurality of frames to be transmitted, a generation unit to generate a concatenated frame including the plurality of frames read out from the storage unit and serially concatenated, and including frame length information on each frame attached thereto, and an attachment unit to attach information for establishing synchronization with a receiver of the concatenated frame, to the concatenated frame. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182751 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS - There is provided a transmission apparatus which includes a transmitting circuit that receives a bit string in which an input bit string expressed as combination of 0 and 1 is preceded by a 1-bit value 0, computes a difference value between two bits adjacent to each other in the bit string, the difference value being one of among +1, 0, or −1, and sends the computed difference value, and a receiving circuit that stores a 1-bit value with an initial value of 0, receives the difference value +1, 0, or −1 sent by the transmitting circuit, calculates a sum of the received difference value and the stored 1-bit value, outputs, as a value of a receiving signal, 1 if the sum is 1 or more or 0 if the sum is 0 or less, and updates the stored 1-bit value to the value of the output receiving signals. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182854 | AUDIO CODING DEVICE AND METHOD - An audio coding device that uses a first-channel signal, a second-channel signal, and a plurality of channel prediction coefficients included in a code book, according to which predictive coding is performed on a third-channel signal, the first-channel signal, the second-channel signal, and the third-channel signal being included in a plurality of channels of an audio signal, the device includes, a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute, determining a distribution of error defined by a difference between the third-channel signal before predictive coding and the third-channel signal after predictive coding as a given curved surface according to the first-channel signal, the second-channel signal, and the third-channel signal before predictive coding; and calculating channel prediction coefficients, included in the code book. | 07-18-2013 |
20130183896 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus that executes radio communication under a standardized near field radio communication scheme: stores an application correlated with first specific information specific to the application and first category information indicating a standard-defined category; when using the radio communication, broadcasts a search instruction for a counterpart device conforming to the standardized scheme; receives from a responding counterpart device and correlates with an address thereof, second category information indicating a category of the responding counterpart device, and second specific information stored in a data area to extend a standard of the standardized scheme; includes a buffer unit that stores the received information correlated with the address; and identifies in the buffer unit, second category information and second specific information corresponding to the first category information and the first specific information, and using the address correlated with the identified information, identifies a counterpart device. | 07-18-2013 |
20130183918 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - An antenna receives an RF signal and an RF signal at different frequency bands. An oscillator outputs a local oscillator signal at a frequency f | 07-18-2013 |
20130185238 | SPLITTING DEVICE, SPLITTING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A splitting device includes a memory and a processor configured to execute a program including a procedure. The procedure includes: setting a halt condition with a number of point data points to halt equal splitting as to a target region for equal splitting to split equally; splitting the target region for equal splitting, until the number of point data points in the target region for equal splitting is less than the halt condition, by taking the target region for equal splitting, as a region where a point data group exists; setting a region having point data of a number or more according to the halt condition obtained by performing the splitting, to the target region for equal splitting; performing the uniform splitting regarding each region group having less point data than the number according to the halt condition obtained by performing the splitting. | 07-18-2013 |
20130185521 | MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEM AND SCHEDULING METHOD - A multiprocessor system includes a master processor, at least one slave processor, and a synchronization unit. The master processor has a first flag indicating whether the master processor is in a task activation accepting state and a second flag reflective of a flag of a slave processor, iteratively updates the first flag at a frequency based on the volume of tasks processed by the master processor, and activates a task on the master processor or the slave processor based on the first flag and the second flag. Each slave processor has a third flag indicating whether the slave processor is in the task activation accepting state and iteratively updates the third flag at a frequency based on the volume of tasks processed by the slave processor. Tasks are allocated to the slave processor by the master processor. The synchronization unit synchronizes the third flag and the second flag. | 07-18-2013 |
20130185582 | STORAGE APPARATUS, CONTROLLER MODULE, AND STORAGE APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD - A storage apparatus includes first and second controller modules. The first controller module monitors power states of the first and second controller modules. When the monitoring results indicate that the power state of the first controller module is an ON state and the power state of the second controller module is an ON processing state in which an ON process of switching from OFF to ON is being executed, the first controller module maintains the power state of the first controller module upon detection of a power control signal for controlling the power state of the first controller module. | 07-18-2013 |
20130187271 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor device includes a first bump that is located over a surface of a semiconductor element, and is formed on a first bump formation face distanced from a back surface of the semiconductor element at a first distance, and a second bump that is located over the surface of the semiconductor element, and is formed on a second bump formation face distanced from the back surface of the semiconductor element at a second distance being longer than the first distance, the second bump having a diameter larger than a diameter of the first bump. | 07-25-2013 |
20130187293 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE MANUFACTURING APPARATUS - According to this disclosure, a method of manufacturing an electronic device is provided, which includes exposing a top surface of a first electrode of a first electronic component to organic acid, irradiating the top surface of the first electrode exposed to the organic acid with ultraviolet light, and bonding the first electrode and a second electrode of a second electronic component by heating and pressing the first electrode and the second electrode each other. | 07-25-2013 |
20130187627 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND POWER SUPPLY DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes: a lead frame that is composed of a lead and a die stage; a GaN-HEMT that is disposed on the die stage and has a source electrode on a rear surface of the GaN-HEMT, the source electrode being connected to the die stage; and a MOS-FET that is disposed on the die stage and has a drain electrode on a rear surface of the MOS-FET, the drain electrode being connected to the die stage; wherein the source electrode of the GaN-HEMT and the drain electrode of the MOS-FET are cascode-connected with each other via the die stage. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188319 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An electronic device includes: a semiconductor device; a heat-conductive resin, disposed above the semiconductor device, including a heat conductor and a resin; a linear carbon piece, disposed above the heat-conductive resin, to be thermally in contact with the heat conductor; and a heat spreader, disposed above the linear carbon piece, including a depressed portion having the heat-conductive resin. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188481 | NETWORK SYSTEM, OFFLOAD DEVICE, AND OFFLOAD TRAFFIC CONTROL METHOD - A network system includes: a plurality of base stations, each with which a mobile station communicates; a core network to include the plurality of base stations; and a plurality of offload devices, each being arranged between the base station and a node device included in the core network, each to serve as the node device of an anchor point at which traffic to be offloaded is transmitted/received to/from an offload network, and each to serve as the node device of a relay point at which the traffic to be offloaded is relayed between the anchor point and one of the plurality of base stations with which the mobile station is communicating. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188583 | METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE AND BASE STATION DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK RESPONSE SIGNALS - A method for transmitting uplink response signals is provided. In the method, at the terminal device side, the signal which represents whether the transmission block is received correctly is sent in Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) corresponding to the specific transmission block, so that a Base Station (BS) is informed which transmission blocks are received correctly. The base station device side determines that the transmission blocks excluding the transmission blocks which are determined to be received correctly are retransmitted according to the feedback response signals instead of retransmitting all the transmission blocks, thus improving the efficiency of data transmission, reducing the unnecessary retransmission, and benefiting full use of the communication resources. The related terminal device and base station device for implementing the method are also provided. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188595 | RADIO DEVICE, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND RADIO CONTROL METHOD - A radio device including: a processor configured to execute a procedure including a difference calculating process which calculates, when a plurality of transmission symbols are one symbol with different assignment positions of one of a frequency area and a time area, a difference between an assignment position of one reference symbol and an assignment position of another symbol among the plurality of transmission symbols, and a shift process which generates a symbol by shift processing of one of the frequency area and the time area with respect to the reference symbol, which is assigned to the an assignment position and subjected to an orthogonal transform processing, according to the difference; and a transmitter configured to performs transmitting processing based on the reference symbol which is subjected to the orthogonal transform processing and the generated symbol by the shift processing. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188648 | RELAY APPARATUS, RECEPTION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATON SYSTEM - A relay apparatus in a communication system including a transmission apparatus, a reception apparatus, and a plurality of relay apparatuses which include the relay apparatus, including: a receiver configured to receive distributed sequential packets from the transmission apparatus which distributes sequential packets for the reception apparatus among the plurality of relay apparatuses, a memory configured to store distributed sequential packets of the sequential packets in sequential order, the distributed sequential packets are distributed and transmitted to the relay apparatus by the transmission apparatus, and a processor configured to select a discard packet from the distributed sequential packets based on a discard condition, and to add a discard information to a previous packet and to transmit the previous packet, the discard information indicates a sequence number of the discard packet to be discarded, and the previous packet is one of the distributed sequential packets before the discard packet in sequential order. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188654 | FRAME TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A frame transmission system includes a frame transmitter and a frame receiver. The frame transmitter includes a frame fragmentation unit and a reproduction header appending unit. The frame fragmentation unit fragments an input frame and outputs transfer frames when the length of the input frame exceeds a predetermined fragmentation reference frame length, and does not fragment the input frame and outputs the input frame as a transfer frame when the length of the input frame is less than or equal to the fragmentation reference frame length. The reproduction header appending unit appends a reproduction header to the transfer frames outputted from the frame fragmentation unit. Here, the reproduction header being required when the transfer frames are reproduced at a receiving side. The reproduction header appending unit varies the header length of the reproduction header to be appended to the transfer frame, according to the length of the input frame. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188714 | VIDEO IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE, VIDEO IMAGE ENCODING METHOD - A video image encoding device includes a calculation unit for calculating a decoding time of each group including plural blocks; a source encode unit for encoding each of the plural blocks based on the encoding amount of each block controlled based on the decoding time and generating compressed data; and an entropy encode unit for performing an arithmetic encoding process on the compressed data in each block and outputting a bit stream. The entropy encode unit outputs undetermined bits retained by the arithmetic encoding process when all bits corresponding to the compressed data in each group are not output at a time point when the arithmetic encoding process on the compressed data in a predetermined number of blocks in a next group is finished, and the calculation unit shifts the decoding time of each group by a processing time of the predetermined number of blocks. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188750 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING PRECODING MATRIX, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for determining a precoding matrix and a wireless communication system. In data retransmission, when the retransmission rank is less than an initial transmission rank, the transmitting end selects a matrix having a maximum similarity with an initial transmission precoding matrix in spatial direction according to the retransmission rank. In multiple data retransmissions, precoding matrixes for the retransmissions are different from each other and may have a minimum similarity in the spatial direction, but have a maximum similarity with the initial transmission precoding matrix in the spatial direction. Or, the similarity between each retransmission precoding matrix and the initial transmission precoding matrix in the spatial direction progressively decreases. When precoding matrixes (or identity matrixes) are required for the initial transmission, precoding matrixes having the minimum similarity with each other in the spatial direction are selected according to the retransmission rank, and then orderly used in multiple retransmissions. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188799 | AUDIO PROCESSING DEVICE AND AUDIO PROCESSING METHOD - An audio processing device includes a reverb property estimating unit that estimates a reverb property at each frequency on the basis of a first audio signal and a second audio signal representing sounds of the first audio signal output by an audio output unit and collected by an audio input unit, a gain calculating unit that determines an attenuating ratio for a component of the first audio signal at each frequency such that the larger the reverb property at the frequency is, the larger the attenuating ratio for the component at the frequency becomes, and a correcting unit that attenuates the first audio signal at the each frequency in accordance with the attenuating ratio determined for each frequency. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188880 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE ACCUMULATING PROGRAM, METHOD AND APPARATUS - A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute an image accumulating procedure, the procedure includes: specifying a second image similar to a first image that is associated with text information; displaying the second image in an identifiable manner, and the text information on a display device; and storing the text information associated with image information that is related to the second image, based on instruction information that instructs a use of the text information with respect to the second image. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188948 | NONLINEAR ESTIMATING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND RECEIVER - The present invention provides a nonlinear estimating apparatus and method, and a receiver. The nonlinear estimating apparatus includes: an information sequence acquiring unit, configured to acquire a symbol information sequence of the pulse signal inputted by a transmitting side; a perturbation quantity generating unit, configured to calculate the weighted sum of the interaction items of the pulses on one or more moments relative to the current moment, so as to obtain an additive perturbation quantity and a multiplicative perturbation quantity produced on a transmission link with a certain length; and a signal estimating unit, configured to estimating the signal received at a receiving side according to the symbol information sequence, the additive perturbation quantity and the multiplicative perturbation quantity. With the embodiments of the present invention, the accuracy of estimation of nonlinear signals may be further improved. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188955 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION METHOD - There is provided an optical transmission device including: a packet disassembler configured to disassemble a packet into a plurality of signals having a different wavelength; an amplifier configured to amplify, for each of the wavelength, each signal into which the packet is disassembled by the packet disassembler, based on a correction value set for each wavelength; and a multiplexer configured to multiplex the respective signals amplified by the amplifier so as to transmit a packet generated by multiplexing the respective signals. | 07-25-2013 |
20130189950 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE CONTROLLING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE CONTROLLING PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON - An information processing device includes: a communication module that performs wireless communication with another device using unique information included in an electronic card; an acquiring unit that acquires the unique information included in the electronic card; a registering unit that registers the unique information acquired by the acquiring unit in a first memory unit and a second memory unit that is provided in the communication module; a deciding unit that decides whether or not the unique information registered in the first memory unit matches the unique information registered in the second memory unit and the unique information included in the electronic card, respectively; and an activation controlling unit that allows activation of the information processing device when the deciding unit decides that the unique information registered in the first memory unit matches the unique information registered in the second memory unit and the unique information included in the electronic card. | 07-25-2013 |
20130189994 | NETWORK SYSTEM, OFFLOAD DEVICE, AND USER IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION OBTAINING METHOD FOR OFFLOAD DEVICE - A network system includes: a plurality of base stations, each with which a mobile station communicates; a core network to include one or more gateways, each with which the plurality of base stations communicates; a plurality of offload devices, each arranged between the base station and the gateway, each to serve as the gateway of an anchor point at which traffic to be offloaded is transmitted to or received from an offload network, and each to serve as the gateway of a relay point at which the traffic to be offloaded is relayed between the anchor point and one of the plurality of base stations with which the mobile station is communicating; a control station to control the traffic between the mobile station and the gateway; and one or more interception devices, each to intercept the traffic between the control station and the gateway. | 07-25-2013 |
20130190034 | BASE STATION, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A base station including: a transmitter configured to transmit a first radio signal to a first mobile station, a receiver configured to receive a second radio signal, a processor configured to detect a second mobile station communicates with a communication device differing from the base station, based on a third radio signal from the second mobile station which is contained in the second radio signal, the first radio signal interfering with a radio communication between the second mobile station and the communication device, and to decrease transmission power of the first radio signal, on detecting the second mobile station or failing to detect the second mobile station over a first given period or longer. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191094 | WORK CONTENT CREATION APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND WORKFLOW CREATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A work content creation apparatus that carries out: deriving a motion range for a component that moves from animation data representing movement in 3-dimensional space of a component with a component name for work subject to processing, and based on a motion pattern and a motion condition stored in a first storage section, deriving a motion condition relationship to motion pattern of the component in the motion range; based on a correspondence relationship stored in a second storage section, deriving a work name corresponding to the motion condition relationship to motion pattern; and based on a correspondence relationship stored in a third storage section, deriving work content corresponding to the work name and the component name as work content of work performed on the component. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191407 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING SYSTEM MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, DEVICE, AND METHOD - A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a procedure for managing a system that retrieves a image corresponding to a first type specified by a retrieval request received from a terminal device and another image corresponding to a second type associated with the first type, from an image database storing a plurality of images associated with at least a number of a plurality of types, the procedure includes: referring to a learning state representing whether feature values of images corresponding to each of the plurality of the types have been obtained; retrieving an unlearned type in which the feature value has not been obtained, among the plurality of types; specifying an association type associated with the unlearned type; and outputting the unlearned type in accordance with the learning state of the association type. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191423 | IMAGE FILE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image file processing apparatus includes an image generation apparatus that carries out: (a) storing with a table in which identifiers for identifying data representing design values of design elements are associated with data representing design values by each of the design elements of the design object; (b) acquiring image generation data for each of the design elements of the design object based on design data of the design object; and (c) generating image data expressing an image for each of the design elements of the design object based on the image generation data, deriving the identifiers corresponding to design values for the image data based on the table, associating the derived identifiers with the generated image data, and, for each of the design elements of the design object, generating an image file containing the image data and definition data related to the image data. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191731 | DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS - A display control method includes obtaining displaying data, and displaying the displaying data on a display device by a processor, wherein when a displaying element group includes a specific number or more of display elements, the displaying data includes display elements which are included in the display element group and satisfy a specific condition. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191800 | TIMING CONSTRAINT GENERATING SUPPORT APPARATUS AND METHOD OF SUPPORTING GENERATION OF TIMING CONSTRAINT - A timing constraint generating support apparatus includes a propagation unit that propagates, through a wire connecting the logic circuits, timing constraints set for the logic circuits by using circuit information that represents information relating to the logic circuits and connection information that represents information of the wire, a determination unit that determines whether or not a plurality of timing constraints different from each other are propagated through the wire by the propagation unit, and an output unit that outputs information representing that the timing constraints propagated through the wire overlap each other in a case where the plurality of timing constraints different from each other are determined to be propagated through the wire by the determination unit. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191834 | CONTROL METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A method of controlling an information processing device includes selectively switching a first processor for executing a first operating system or a second processor for executing a second operating system to a user interface; storing a data table in which a first application program operating on the first operating system is associated with a second application program operating on the second operating system; sending information pertinent to activation of the first or second application program to a server device; receiving a result of a process from the server device, the process being performed by the server device for associating application programs based on the received information; updating the data table based on the received result; and activating the second application program, which is associated with the first application program being activated in the data table, in a state where the first processor has been switched to the user interface. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191845 | LOAD CONTROL DEVICE AND LOAD CONTROL METHOD - A load control device controlling a load of an executed program includes an arithmetic processing unit configured to execute the program, a load detection unit configured to detect a load factor of the arithmetic processing unit, a load-difference detection unit configured to obtain a difference between a predetermined load factor and the load factor detected by the load detection unit and a load controller configured to control, for a predetermined time, the start or stop of the program executed by the arithmetic processing unit so that the arithmetic processing unit has the predetermined load factor on the basis of the difference detected by the load-difference detection unit. | 07-25-2013 |
20130193016 | STORAGE BODY AND REEL - The storage body includes a tape formed with recess portions that dip in in a thickness direction formed at intervals along the tape length direction and a cover that is superimposed on the tape and closes off openings of the recess portions. The tape is fixed to the tape by intermediate fixing portions and a pair of side fixing portions. The intermediate fixing portions are formed between the mutually adjacent recess portions. The pair of side fixing portions include overlapping portions and connect portions. The overlapping portions are formed at the two tape width direction sides of the intermediate fixing portions so as to overlap with the intermediate fixing portions along the tape length direction. The connect portions are formed with constant width connecting together the respective overlapping portions disposed in lines along the tape length direction. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194038 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND AMPLIFICATION APPARATUS - A signal processing apparatus includes a corrector that corrects a digital signal in accordance with a correction value, a converter that converts the digital signal corrected by the corrector into an analog signal, a sample-and-hold unit that holds an instantaneous value of the analog signal that has been obtained by the converter and that has been amplified by an amplifier for a certain frequency that is smaller than twice a maximum frequency of the analog signal, a digitizer that converts the instantaneous value held by the sample-and-hold unit into a digital value when the digitizer received an operation clock having the certain frequency, and an updater that updates, on the basis of the digital value obtained by the digitizer, the correction value of the corrector such that the correction value becomes a correction value that reduces nonlinear distortion in the analog signal amplified by the amplifier. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194041 | AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD, POWER ADJUSTING DEVICE AND RADIO TRANSMITTING SYSTEM - An automatic gain control device includes: a variable gain adjusting unit, for adjusting an input signal by a variable gain and outputting an adjustment result; an analog-digital converting unit, for performing analog-digital conversion on the adjustment result to obtain an analog-digital conversion result; and a gain determining unit, for determining a distribution status over a predetermined period of time of a maximum or a minimum of the analog-digital conversion result, comparing the distribution status with a first distribution condition, and if the distribution status meets the first distribution condition, then keeping the variable gain unchanged, otherwise changing the variable gain and determining newly a distribution status until the newly determined distribution status meets a second distribution condition which is at least as strict as the first distribution condition. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194047 | CLOCK DISTRIBUTOR AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A clock distributor includes unit circuit parts each including an oscillator, a first element configured to convert output voltage of the oscillator into a current, a second element having a voltage current conversion characteristic of an opposite phase to that of the first element, the second element being feedback connected to the first element and the oscillator, a third element configured to convert output voltage of the oscillator into a current, a fourth element having a voltage current conversion characteristic of an opposite phase to that of the third element, the fourth element being feedback connected to the third element and the oscillator; a wiring part to connect a connection part of the first and second elements of a unit circuit part to a connection part of the third and fourth elements of another unit circuit part; and a synchronization circuit connected to the oscillator of a unit circuit part. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194274 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING A GRAPH GENERATION PROGRAM, GRAPH GENERATING METHOD, AND PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT DEVICE - A computer-readable recording medium storing a program including a procedure, the procedure includes: receiving an instruction for generating a graph regarding production of a product in a chronological manner for each of first unit period and second unit period that is longer than the first unit period; referring to aggregate data on production volumes for individual unit periods, and calculating, based on a production volume for a different unit period having a length that is different from a length of a designated unit period of the first unit period and the second unit period, a different production volume to be obtained by converting the different unit period into the designated unit period; and generating the graph in such a manner that at least the different production volume is indicated for the different unit period that is different from the designated unit period. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194300 | DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM, DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - A display control program causing a processor to execute display control process includes: specifying relationship between a first page screen and a second page screen; allocating the first page screen and the second page screen respectively to a first unit region and a second unit region in one display window in a case that the specified relationship is dependent relationship; and displaying the one display window having the first page screen and the second page screen placed in the first unit region and the second unit region. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194432 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF IMPROVING IMAGE QUALITY OF IMAGED IMAGE - An apparatus includes: an infrared light source configured to emit an infrared light within a specific wavelength band; an imaging element configured to output a color signal which corresponds to an incident light; an optical filter configured to be always inserted into an optical path to the imaging element and attenuate an infrared light with a wavelength outside the specific wavelength band; and a color corrector configured to correct the color signal output from the imaging element and approximate spectral sensitivity characteristics of each color of the imaging element in the specific wavelength band of a wavelength band of an infrared light to human cone characteristics. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194904 | WRITING SYSTEM, WRITING DEVICE, AND WRITING METHOD - A writing-system comprises a first and a second writing-device, and is connected to an information-processor-apparatus that obtains unwritten-data from the first and the second writing-devices when a notification is received, the notification indicating that the unwritten-data is generated while writing data on a recording-medium used by either of the writing-devices, wherein the first writing-device comprises a first writing-unit, when the unwritten-data is generated while writing data on a recording-medium, transmits to the information-processor-apparatus, dummy information for inhibiting the unwritten-data to be obtained by the information-processor-apparatus, and writes the unwritten-data to a memory-unit, the recording-medium and the memory-unit are included in a cartridge accommodated in the first writing-device, and the second writing-device comprises a second writing-unit that writes, on the recording-medium, the unwritten-data stored in the memory-unit when the cartridge is moved from the first writing-device to the second writing-device. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195011 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A wireless communication method includes: detecting, at a wireless communication apparatus, a collision of data transmitted from a plurality of wireless communication terminals during a first period that is in a communication-enabled state; shifting, when the collision has been detected, a second period, which belongs to the same frame as the first period and is in a communication-disabled state, to a communication-enabled state; transmitting, at the wireless communication apparatus, a request to the plurality of wireless communication terminals for retransmission of the data and receiving data transmitted from the plurality of wireless communication terminals in response to the request, using the shifted second period. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195058 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - A wireless communication apparatus communicates with another wireless communication apparatus, using multiple frequency bands. A notifying unit notifies the other wireless communication apparatus of capability information on capability of the wireless communication apparatus to handle in parallel first-length guard intervals and second-length guard intervals. A transmitting unit transmits first data with the first-length guard intervals in a first frequency band and transmits second data with the second-length guard intervals in a second frequency band. A control unit schedules transmission of at least one of the first data and the second data based on the capability information. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195059 | BASE STATION, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING BASE STATION, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A base station that relays data between a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to store a physical address, to transmit data to and receive data from the second information processing apparatus, and upon receiving a request from the second information processing apparatus, the request including a physical address which has been transmitted from the first information processing apparatus to the second information processing apparatus and requesting connection, to permit the first information processing apparatus to transmit data to and receive data from the base station via the second information processing apparatus, based on a result of comparison between the physical address included in the received request and the stored physical address. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195077 | BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND REORDEREING METHOD THEREOF - A mobile station in a communication system for sending packets, to which numbers indicating sequence are attached, from a base station to a mobile station and performing delivery of the packets in order of the sequence number in the mobile station, includes a buffer which stores packets received from both a source base station and a target base station; and a control unit which performs the delivery of the stored packets in order of the sequence number at the handover procedure based on information indicating whether packets which are not sent from the source base station to the mobile station, are forwarded from a source base station to a target base station is set, the information being received from the source base station. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195125 | TRANSMISSION CIRCUIT, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND TRANSMISSION METHOD - Provided is a transmission circuit that includes first and second drive circuits. A first digital signal at a data rate of a predetermined period length is input to the first drive circuit. A second digital signal at the data rate of the predetermined period length shifted by ½ of the predetermined period length relative to the first digital signal is input to second drive circuit. The outputs of the first drive circuit and the second drive circuit are connected. The connected output indicates the maximum level or the minimum level when the value of the first digital signal and the value of the second digital signal are the same. The connected output indicates a level between the maximum level and the minimum level when the value of the first digital signal and the value of the second digital signal are different. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195216 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A communication device includes: a converting part converting a data signal from a non-return-to-zero signal to a return-to-zero signal; a trigger flip-flop inverting an output signal every time the return-to-zero signal changes in one cycle; a first filter outputting a positive pulse and a negative pulse alternately, which indicate existence and absence of the pulse corresponding to a value of the data signal, by removing a low frequency component of an output signal of the trigger flip-flop. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195221 | SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A signal processing system is provided. The signal processing system includes: a peak-to-average ratio (PAPR) reducer that reduces a peak-to-average ratio (PAPR) of an input signal x(n), a clipping noise processing system that generates an equivalent clipping noise signal ε* | 08-01-2013 |
20130195442 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MEASURING DELAY - A transmission device transmits a frame to a correspondent device and receives a frame from the correspondent device. The transmission device includes: a measurement unit configured to perform a delay measurement that measures a period of time from when a frame is transmitted to the correspondent device until when a corresponding frame is received from the correspondent device; and a delay decision unit configured to determine a transmission delay between the transmission device and the correspondent device based on a plurality of target measurement results obtained from a plurality of delay measurements except for at least a first delay measurement among delay measurements performed by the measurement unit. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195453 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND SWITCHING METHOD - A transmission apparatus includes: an assigning unit to assign a number to a group of concatenation information of leading and dependent data which are multicast or broadcast; a retrieval unit to retrieve the concatenation information of the leading data corresponding to the dependent data, the leading and dependent data having the same number; a regeneration unit to regenerate concatenation information of the dependent data in accordance with the concatenation information of the leading data; a storage unit to store switch information of the leading data, the switch information representing a switch which switches output destinations of the leading and dependent data; an information retrieval unit to refer to the storage unit in accordance with leading data information included in the concatenation information of the dependent data so as to retrieve switch information of the dependent data; and a switching unit to switch the output destination of the dependent data. | 08-01-2013 |
20130196642 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A mobile phone, into which a voice call function is embedded, includes a processor that controls the entire mobile phone, and a function DB that stores control content of respective voice processing which is to be performed on a call voice, in association with each call category. In addition, the processor estimates a call category type on the basis of an amount of transmitting voice of current communication content, and reads the control content of the respective voice processing corresponding to the call category type from the function DB. Furthermore, the processor performs the respective voice processing on the call voice being communicated, on the basis of the read control content of the respective voice processing. | 08-01-2013 |
20130196713 | BASE STATION AND METHOD FOR DETECTING DISPLACEMENT OF BASE STATION - A wireless base station includes a storage unit and a processor. The processor transmits to a first wireless terminal a first request for transmitting a first response including first identifiers used to identify a first base stations. The first wireless terminal is capable of receiving a signal from each of the first base stations. The processor receives the first response from the first wireless terminal. The processor stores the first response in the storage unit. The processor transmits to a second wireless terminal a second request for transmitting a second response including second identifiers used to identify second base stations. The second wireless terminal is capable of receiving a signal from each of the second base stations. The processor receives the second response from the second wireless terminal. The processor determines whether the wireless base station has been displaced based on the first identifiers and the second identifiers. | 08-01-2013 |
20130197685 | MEDIUM STORING DIAGRAM GENERATION PROGRAM, DIAGRAM GENERATION METHOD, AND DIAGRAM GENERATION APPARATUS - A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a procedure for generating a diagram, the procedure includes: displaying a first selection screen for displaying at least a date that is on or after a date when a request to generate a diagram is received and that corresponds to a particular day of the week, on an apparatus of a requester; and generating the diagram on the basis of plan data concerning scheduled production volumes on a daily basis for a product, the diagram being configured in such a way that a time bucket for the scheduled production volumes to be displayed is changed from a daily basis to a weekly basis by using a first date selected via the first selection screen as a boundary. | 08-01-2013 |
20130197871 | PREDICTED VALUE CALCULATION METHOD AND DESIGN SUPPORT APPARATUS - A design support apparatus includes an extraction unit that extracts component models having a connection relationship with a position specified inside a predetermined component model, from a plurality of component models that are hollow and are included in the three-dimensional model of a device to be designed, depending on whether each of the plurality of component models satisfies predetermined conditions on cross-sectional areas of the component models, and a calculation unit that calculates a predicted value of the acoustic characteristics of the component models extracted by the extraction unit. | 08-01-2013 |
20130197879 | MOLECULAR DESIGN APPARATUS AND METHOD - A molecular design apparatus is disclosed. Expansion coefficients applied to basis functions are calculated by expanding molecular orbital functions used to draw molecular orbitals based on the molecular structure design data. First molecular orbital data in which the expansion coefficients are corresponded to the basis functions is stored to the storage part. A coefficient threshold is determined for the expansion coefficients of the basis functions by using a drawing threshold which indicates a constant function value, to draw the molecular orbital functions as an isosurface of the constant function value on a screen of a display device. Second molecular orbital data pertinent to the expansion coefficients is stored based on the coefficient threshold to the storage part. | 08-01-2013 |
20130197912 | SPECIFIC CALL DETECTING DEVICE AND SPECIFIC CALL DETECTING METHOD - A specific call detecting device includes: an utterance period detecting unit which detects at least a first utterance period in which the first speaker speaks in a call between a first speaker and a second speaker; an utterance ratio calculating unit which calculates utterance ratio of the first speaker in the call; a voice recognition execution determining unit which determines whether at least one of the first voice of the first speaker and second voice of the second speaker becomes a target of voice recognition or not on the basis of the utterance ratio of the first speaker; a voice recognizing unit which detects a keyword related to a specific call from the voice determined as a target of voice recognition among the first and second voices; and a determining unit which determines whether the call is the specific call or not on the basis of the detected keyword. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198189 | MEDIUM STORING BUDGET DETERMINATION SUPPORT PROGRAM, BUDGET DETERMINATION SUPPORT METHOD, AND BUDGET DETERMINATION SUPPORT APPARATUS - A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a procedure that supports budget determination, the procedure includes: receiving designation of a group that makes up an organization having a hierarchical structure; selecting, between a lower level or a higher level adjacent to a level of the group for which the designation has been received, a level to be referred to when a budget of the group for which the designation has been received is corrected; and correcting the budget relating to the designated group using, among budgets of groups at levels of the organization, a budget of a group belonging to the level to be referred to. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198230 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives an access request for data from one of a plurality of information processing apparatuses in a distributed processing system in which the information processing apparatuses execute a process in a distributed manner, a query issuing unit that issues, when the access request for the data is received by the receiving unit, a query to each of the information processing apparatuses as to whether the data is stored in a page cache managed by an operating system on each of the information processing apparatuses, and a responding unit that makes a response to the access request, the response specifying, as an access destination, an information processing apparatus that has responded to the query issued by the query issuing unit. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198250 | FILE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING FILE SYSTEM - A file system includes a plurality of storage devices to store therein data transmitted from a first node, a plurality of second nodes connected to the first node through a first network, a second network, and a third node. The second network connects each of the plurality of second nodes with at least one of the plurality of storage devices. The second network is different from the first network. The third node manages a location of data, and notifies, in response to an inquiry from the first node, the first node of a location of data specified by the first node. Each of the plurality of second nodes writes, through the second network, same data into a predetermined number of storage devices from among the plurality of storage devices in response to an instruction from the first node. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198270 | DATA SHARING SYSTEM, TERMINAL, AND DATA SHARING METHOD - A data sharing system includes communicable terminals and selects a server-client system in which a first terminal is designated as a server and other terminals are designated as clients, when a sum of estimated time for transferring data to the first terminal from the other terminals, estimated time for performing, by the first terminal, arithmetic processing of the data in the first terminal, and estimated time for transferring arithmetically processed data from the first terminal to the other terminals satisfies a real time restriction, and power estimated to be consumed at a time of performing, by the first terminal, the arithmetic processing of the data in the first terminal is less than power estimated to be consumed at a time of performing the arithmetic processing by the other terminals. The data sharing system selects a peer-to-peer system, when the sum does not satisfy the real time restriction in any terminal. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198310 | CONTROL SYSTEM AND LOG DELIVERY METHOD - Provided is a control system that is provided with a plurality of control devices each of which includes an arithmetic processing device and a storage unit for storing logs of the arithmetic processing device. The control system includes a first generation unit, a second generation unit, and a delivery unit. The first generation unit generates a first log file such that the plurality of logs of the arithmetic processing devices stored in the storage unit of each control device are stored within an upper limit of log capacitance determined based on a total number of the arithmetic processing devices in the control system and in order based on priorities. The second generation unit generates a second log file including a plurality of the first log files of the arithmetic processing devices. The delivery unit delivers the second log file to an external device. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198377 | CONTROL METHOD, CONTROL SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY MEDIUM - A computer-readable, non-transitory medium storing therein an application control program that causes an information processing machine to execute a procedure, the procedure includes, receiving an activation request that requests an activation of a first application of the information processing machine, monitoring another information processing machine that executes a second application corresponding to the first application, and, activating the first application in response to the activation request when a stoppage of an operating system of the another information processing machine is detected. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198390 | COMPUTER PRODUCT, TERMINAL, SERVER, DATA SHARING METHOD, AND DATA DISTRIBUTION METHOD - A computer-readable recording medium stores a data sharing program that causes a processor of a first terminal to execute a process that includes detecting a communication bandwidth used between the first terminal and a second terminal that are communicably connected in an ad-hoc network; comparing the detected communication bandwidth and a bandwidth related to a storage apparatus of the first terminal; determining an operation scheme related to data sharing of data in the storage apparatus of the first terminal and data in a storage apparatus of the second terminal, based on a comparison result obtained at the comparing; notifying the second terminal of the determined operation scheme; and executing a mounting process that enables access of the storage apparatus of the first terminal by the second terminal, based on the determined operation scheme. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198393 | SERVICE BUS SYSTEM, SERVICE BUS DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR ASSURING CONNECTION UNIQUENESS - A service bus system includes: a plurality of first devices each coupled with a client; a plurality of second devices each to perform a service; a first service bus device through which sequences of a session between the first and second devices are communicated, including: a prediction unit to predict one or more other service bus devices through which connection between the first and second devices in a second or later sequence of the session is established; and a transmission unit to transmit information indicating the connection in the first sequence of the session to the one or more other service bus devices predicted; and a second service bus device including: a storage unit to hold the information transmitted from the first service bus device; and a connection unit to establish the connection in the second or later sequence of the session by using the connection information held. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198460 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, MEMORY MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes a process comprising selecting data included in a same file as deletion target data from the memory when deleting the data cached in the memory at the caching from the memory and deleting the deletion target data and the data selected at the selecting, from the memory. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198465 | CONNECTION APPARATUS, STORAGE APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING CONNECTION REQUEST TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROGRAM RECORDED THEREIN - A connection apparatus that connects a plurality of storage units and a controller that establishes connection with the respective storage units in response to a connection request issued from each of the plurality of storage units and accesses the storage units includes a processor; and a memory, wherein the processor transmits a connection request selected based on priority information that represents priority associated with the connection among a plurality of received connection requests to the controller, the priority information being stored in the memory, and changes priority information included in a connection request received from a certain storage unit among the plurality of storage units so that the priority information has higher priority than the priority information included in connection requests received from the other storage units for a period where a connection request is successively received from the certain storage unit and a predetermined condition is satisfied. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198537 | UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER SUPPLY DEVICE AND COMPUTER SYSTEM - An uninterruptible power supply device has a main power source and a backup power source and supplies power to a computer. The uninterruptible power supply device has an output power detection circuit and a control circuit which measures time until a completion of the power-off process of the computer. The control circuit alerts or extends a set time until the power-off according to the measured time. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198570 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND GENERATING APPARATUS - A communication system includes a switch that switches output ports according to an address of transmission data; a storing unit that stores a first set of addresses associated with the switch; a determining unit that determines, when a second set of addresses including in the transmission data a response to which is not received matches the first set of addresses in the storing unit, that there is a failure in the switch associated with the first set of addresses. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198731 | CONTROL APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD - In a control apparatus, a transfer control unit acquires a version number of a program from each of electronic apparatuses, and transfers an update program according to the acquired version number to one or more of the electronic apparatuses. An update control unit acquires, from each of the electronic apparatuses to which the update program has been transferred, information regarding whether the transfer of the update program by the transfer control unit has been completed successfully. Based on the acquired information, the update control unit outputs, to one or more electronic apparatuses for which the transfer of the update program has been completed successfully, an instruction for executing an update process to make a change to the update program transferred by the transfer control unit. | 08-01-2013 |
20130200500 | RESIST PATTERN THICKENING MATERIAL, METHOD FOR FORMING RESIST PATTERN, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The present invention provides a resist pattern thickening material, which can utilize ArF excimer laser light; which, when applied over a resist pattern to be thickened, e.g., in form of lines and spaces pattern, can thicken the resist pattern to be thickened regardless of the size of the resist pattern to be thickened; and which is suited for forming a fine space pattern or the like, exceeding exposure limits. The present invention also provides a process for forming a resist pattern and a process for manufacturing a semiconductor device, wherein the resist pattern thickening material of the present invention is suitably utilized. | 08-08-2013 |
20130200770 | LID OPENING AND CLOSING DEVICE AND STORAGE APPARATUS - A lid opening and closing device includes a first supporting shaft, a guide surface, a second supporting shaft, an opening and closing key supported by the second supporting shaft, an arm member and a lever member, wherein when an insert is not present in a box, a lid is suspended from the first supporting shaft and covers the box and enters a closed state, and when the insert is inserted into the box through an opening, the insert causes the opening and closing key to swing in an insertion direction, an end of an arm member rises along the guide surface in synchronization with the swinging of the opening and closing key, the risen arm member lifts an end of the lever member, and the lid, to which the lever member is secured, swings around the first supporting shaft and enters an open state. | 08-08-2013 |
20130200931 | CIRCUIT DEVICE, FREQUENCY CHANGING CIRCUIT, METHOD OF TESTING CIRCUIT DEVICE, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING FREQUENCY CHANGING CIRCUIT - A circuit device includes a clock generator outputting a clock signal having a first frequency; plural phase controllers inputting the clock signal having the first frequency, and outputting clock signals having the first frequency and having phases advanced or delayed with respect to a phase of the clock signal; a selector inputting the plural clock signals having the first frequency output from the plural phase controllers, sequentially selecting pulses of the plural clock signals, and outputting a clock signal having a second frequency; a pattern generator generating a test pattern based on the clock signal having the second frequency; and a circuit inputting the clock signal having the second frequency and the test pattern generated by the pattern generator, operate based on the clock signal having the second frequency, and outputting operation results. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201580 | VIRTUAL TAPE DEVICE AND CLEANING CONTROL METHOD - A virtual tape device includes a first drive group of virtual tape drives, a first determination unit, and a first instruction unit. The first drive group is assigned to a first information processing apparatus. The first determination unit determines, upon receiving a first cleaning instruction for cleaning a first virtual tape drive included in the first drive group from the first information processing apparatus, whether the first cleaning instruction is to be output to a physical tape device connected to the virtual tape device. The first instruction unit instructs, when the first determination unit determines that the first cleaning instruction is to be output to the physical tape device, a first physical tape drive corresponding to the first virtual tape drive to perform cleaning. The first physical tape drive is included in the physical tape device. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201628 | RADIATOR AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - There is provided a radiator which includes a tank including first and second chambers that are separated from each other, the first and second chambers including first and second openings, respectively, a first tube including first and second ends, the first and second ends communicating with the first and second chambers, respectively, and a second tube being next to the first tube, the second tube including first and second ends communicating with the first and second chambers, respectively, wherein the first chamber includes first and second flow channels that communicate with the first opening, the first and second channels being split so as to sandwich at least part of the second chamber, and the first ends of the first and second tubes sandwich the second ends of the first and second tubes. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201970 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Each node transmits to a destination node a registration packet indicating that a local node is a node to request packet transmission. Each node transmits a packet to the destination node within a transmission time reported from the destination node. The destination node receives a registration packet from each node, and calculates a traffic amount to occur in each path for every path going through an adjacent node that enables direct communication with the destination node. The destination node assigns a transmission time to transmit the packet to the each path based on the calculated traffic amount of each path and reports the assigned transmission time to each node. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201992 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A control unit included in an information processing system determines, on the basis of information indicative of interface units and path information indicative of communication paths through a plurality of relay apparatus, whether or not the number of communication paths for access from the interface units to a node is greater than the number of the interface units. When the number of the communication paths is greater than the number of the interface units, the control unit controls the plurality of relay apparatus so as to block a part of the communication paths. | 08-08-2013 |
20130202248 | OPTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - An optical semiconductor device includes: a waveguide unit which is formed on a semiconductor substrate including a (100) plane and includes a core layer which propagates light; a spot size converting unit which is formed on the semiconductor substrate, is optically connected to the waveguide unit, and converts diameter of light propagated; and a pair of terraces which are formed on the semiconductor substrate and are opposed to each other while sandwiching the spot size converting unit. Interval between opposed units which are opposed to each other while sandwiching the spot size converting unit in the pair of terraces changes, and each of the opposed units includes a part whose orientation tilts to a [0-11] direction with respect to a [011] direction, and position of an upper end of the spot size converting unit is higher than that of an upper end of the waveguide unit. | 08-08-2013 |
20130202315 | OPTICAL TRANSMITTER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING BIAS FOR OPTICAL MODULATOR - An optical transmitter includes a signal generator configured to generate a drive signal from input data, an optical modulator configured to have a voltage-to-light-intensity characteristic in which intensity of output light changes in response to an applied voltage, and to generate a light signal that corresponds to the drive signal, a multiplier configured to multiply the drive signal and an electric signal that is obtained from the light signal; and a control section configured to control, based on output of the multiplier, a bias voltage for the optical modulator. | 08-08-2013 |
20130204941 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING - Nodes at first, second, and third locations have the same first-axis coordinates, while nodes at the first, fourth, and fifth locations have the same second-axis coordinates. First transmission transmits data elements from the node at the first location to nodes at the second and fourth locations, as well as to the node at either the third location or the fifth location. Second transmission transmits data elements from nodes at the second locations to nodes at the first, fourth, and fifth locations. Third transmission transmits data elements from nodes at the third locations to nodes at the first, second, and fourth locations. These three transmissions are performed with each node location selected as the base point on a diagonal line. The nodes execute a data processing operation by using the data elements assigned thereto and the data elements received as a result of the first to third transmissions. | 08-08-2013 |
20130205017 | COMPUTER FAILURE MONITORING METHOD AND DEVICE - Disclosed is a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program that causes a client device to execute a sequence of processing. The sequence of processing includes generating, by a processor, a processing request message by attaching status information including information indicating a status of a first server device stored in a storage part to a processing request addressed to the first server device, transmitting the generated processing request message to the first server device and a second server device monitoring the first server device, and receiving from the first server device a new status information of the first server device. | 08-08-2013 |
20130205048 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An information processing apparatus includes a processing unit configured to issue a read command to a device, a memory configured to store data, and a switching controller configured to connect the processing unit, the memory, and the device. The switching controller includes a command detection circuit configured to detect the read command issued from the processing unit, a command processing circuit configured to process the read command and to output the processed read command, and a pre-read request issuance circuit configured to generate a read request for at least part of data within data specified by the read command and to transmit the read request to the memory. The switching controller receives the part of the data from the memory, and transmits the part of the data to the device. | 08-08-2013 |
20130205081 | VIRTUAL TAPE DEVICE AND TAPE MOUNT CONTROL METHOD - A virtual tape device includes a storage unit, an instruction unit, and a reading unit. The storage unit stores a plurality of logical volumes. The instruction unit receives a request for mounting a specified logical volume from an information processing apparatus. The instruction unit issues a mount instruction to both a physical tape device communicated to the virtual tape device and a virtual device communicated to the virtual tape device when the specified logical volume is not stored in the storage unit. The mount instruction instructs to mount the specified logical volume. The reading unit reads data of the specified logical volume to the storage unit from a device which outputs a mount completion notification first among both of the devices which have received the mount instruction. | 08-08-2013 |
20130205082 | VIRTUAL TAPE DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD OF VIRTUAL TAPE DEVICE - A virtual tape device includes a storage unit, a cache determining unit, a selector, and a cache controller. The storage unit records logical volume information associated with an identifier of a logical volume, an updated time of the logical volume, information indicating whether the logical volume is allocated to a cache, an identifier of a physical volume storing data of the logical volume, and information indicating whether the physical volume are mounted in a physical tape drive. The cache determining unit determines, based on the logical volume information, whether the logical volume exists on the cache, when a request to store the logical volume on the cache is received and the cache does not have an available capacity. The selector selects the logical volume based on the determined result as an off-cache target logical volume. The selected logical volume is off-cached by the cache controller. | 08-08-2013 |
20130205083 | VIRTUAL TAPE DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD OF VIRTUAL TAPE DEVICE - A virtual tape device includes a memory to record logical volume information that includes an identifier of a logical volume, an identifier of a physical volume that stores data of the logical volume, and information that indicates whether the data of the logical volume is cached in a cache unit, in association with each other. A determining unit that, when a copy command to copy data of the logical volume stored in a first physical volume to a second physical volume is received, determines whether a logical volume cached in the cache unit exists among the logical volumes, and a storage control unit that, when it is determined that the logical volume cached in the cache unit exists among the logical volumes, stores the data of the logical volume cached in the cache unit to the second physical volume without reference to an order indicated in the copy command. | 08-08-2013 |
20130205111 | VIRTUAL STORAGE DEVICE, CONTROLLER, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN A CONTROL PROGRAM - A virtual storage device including a releasable region decider that decides whether each of a plurality of management unit regions is a releasable region, being allocated a physical region and being a release candidate region, by referring to management data that associates allocation data representing a state of allocating a physical region to the management unit region and release candidate region data representing whether the management unit region is a release candidate region with each other; a determinator that determines whether the management unit region decided to be the releasable region by the releasable region decider is an all-zero region all data in which are zero; and a releaser that releases allocation of a physical region allocated to the management unit region determined to be the all-zero region by the determinator. This configuration makes it possible to efficiently use the storage region. | 08-08-2013 |
20130205162 | REDUNDANT COMPUTER CONTROL METHOD AND DEVICE - Disclosed is a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program, which causes a computer to execute a sequence of processing. The sequence of processing includes receiving status information by a second server device from a client device, the status information being collected by the client device, and including a status of a first server device and statuses of one or more standby servers configured to operate when the first server device fails, and causing the second server device to operate, when the status information indicates a predetermined first status, as at least one of the first server device and the one or more standby servers in a failure status. | 08-08-2013 |
20130205173 | STORAGE DEVICE, AND STORAGE DEVICE CONTROL METHOD - A storage device, which performs input/output processing on a memory device through a relay apparatus, includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor executes a process including: determining whether or not a cumulative value accumulated according to occurrence of error in the memory device during the input/output processing reaches a predetermined threshold value; comparing when the determined cumulative value is greater than or equal to the threshold value, number of input/output processing on the memory device with number of input/output processing on another memory device mounted on the relay apparatus, and determining whether or not there is a bias; determining when the bias is determined, whether or not a connection status is normal with respect to the relay apparatus; and detaching when it is determined that the connection status of the relay apparatus is normal, the connection to the memory device. | 08-08-2013 |
20130205289 | UPDATE CONTROLLING METHOD FOR FIRMWARE, BASE STATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method comprises selecting from among a plurality of firmware updating procedures, a firmware updating procedure by which a service stopping period that arises, in at least one of communication schemes, from firmware updating in at least one of a common function section and a plurality of individual function sections, the service stopping period being equal to or lower than a predetermined threshold value, and carrying out the selected firmware updating procedure. | 08-08-2013 |
20130205297 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - A system includes a physical machine that controls a virtual machine to execute a processing by using hardware resources of the physical machine, and a management apparatus includes a processor configured to execute: detect a first quantity of the hardware resources used by the virtual machine larger than a specific quantity set based on a second quantity of the hardware resources assigned to the virtual machine in accordance with a first usage fee corresponding to the virtual machine, calculate a second usage fee of the virtual machine based on a third quantity larger than the second quantity, and modify the second quantity to meet with the third quantity when the second usage fee is lower than the first usage fee. | 08-08-2013 |